As the turn of the 21st century, scientific knowledge, increasingly more powerful in its creative and technological capabilities, has begun to address critical issues concerning the future of our planet and all living things inhabiting it. Ethics has quickly become crucial to all scientific research and its applications in the world. For an academic science building, a learning center in which education and research coexist, the inextricable link between theory and practice necessarily encompasses philosophical questionings. This special permeable link "favours" openness to the community and to the world "outside" enabling existing new relationship between the nature of the building itself and its physical and symbolic role in the campus. More importantly this new rapport acknowledges and encourages a necessary dialogue between scientific research and the public at large. Concordia University's new Loyola Campus Science Complex has the opportunity to meet great challenges not only as an innovative teaching facility but also as a unique student center in a very special campus setting. Its specific sitting enables the possibility of creating a particular public place, a "garden" that can permeate inside and through the building "activating" scientific activity within and external dialogue with the campus, helping to unify and strengthen Loyola community life and spirit.
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