University of Calgary Campus

The University of Calgary offers a wide range of residences on campus as a significant proportion of undergraduate students reside on the campus.

The residence buildings on campus house 2200 students, situated in eight buildings named after mountains in the Canadian Rockies. 

The two traditional buildings are Rundle Hall and Kananaskis Hal and were built in the early 1960s when the university relocated to its present campus. Five newer buildings named Glacier, Olympus, Norquay, Brewster, and Castle Halls were built prior to the 1988 Winter Olympics as the athletes’ Olympic 

Village. However, each issmaller than the traditional buildings, being three or four stories tall and housing 10 to 30 students on each floor. One of the newest, Cascade Hall, is five stories and is the third largest residence building, its floors being able to house more students. 

The newest six buildings are all designed in the style of apartments with a hallway on each floor with sets of rooms that can accommodate up to four people each. This is in contrast to the traditional buildings which have hallways on each floor, each having rooms accommodating two, along with a common area at the centre of the building on each floor.

 Yamnuska Hall opens September 2011 to upper year, international, and transfer students. The two and three bedroom suites are designed to ensure that students experience residence life by sharing space, but also ensures that each student has a private room.

A new building, Dr. Fok Ying Tun International House houses 200 international students, instructors and conference attendees. In addition, a new residence for first year undergraduate students is due to be completed in 2011. 

Construction of the new residence at the University of Calgary broke ground Friday, May 15, 2009. This is part of the university's $1.5 billion capital program. With the completion of this new building, the number of beds on campus will increase to 3000.

Efforts are being made to preserve green space wherever possible, which includes retaining the green belt fronting 24 Avenue N.W. and transplanting five mature oak trees to the front of the Dr. Fok Ying Tung International House this fall. A new site landscape plan is also being prepared, which involves planting replacement trees and creating additional recreational green space on the grounds of the new residence