1975 Legislative Area Plan In 1975, Project Planning Associates of Toronto was commissioned by the Province of Saskatchewan to prepare a Master Plan for the Legislative Grounds during a time of great growth expectations. The plan is reminiscent of a Business Park, organized on two axis intersecting at a meadow surrounded on three sides by buildings, only one of which has been constructed to date. The South Mall is once again shown as an outdoor space, defined by landscape, but now terminated at each end. Both axes, the South Mall and a new east-west mall, are flanked by parkland opening out to the lake on one side, and a more or less continuous building frontage on the other, facing Albert Street and 23rd Avenue. The north termination of the legislative axis is a large conservatory or winter garden attached to the rear of the Legislative Building, while the south termination is the meadow. This arrangement means the building entrances face an internal roadway and the parking lots it connects, while the other side faces the park. The scope of the plan, occupying as it does all of the area from Albert to Broad Street reverts to that shown in the Yamasaki Plans. By this time, the old Campion College grounds south of 23rd Avenue had been incorporated into Wascana Centre. A new energy plant is proposed in this location, relatively central to the final disposition of buildings proposed over the 50 years of the plan (of which over two-thirds have now past). In order to make room for all this development, the existing hospital building is shown removed some time after 1995. The Nursery is also to make way for new office buildings.
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Section through the Legislative Building and Proposed Conservatory
WASCANA CENTRE