Dalhousie

Fenwick is Halifax’s tallest (and ugliest, I will add) building. As evidenced in the pictures, Dalhousie is an otherwise classically beautiful campus. Vines cling to the cracks in old stone buildings, while old Victorian homes make for unconventional administrative and Professorial offices. One might half-expect to see a tweed-clad Robin Williams clamor eccentrically toward his next poetry class. To feed the stereotype even further, you will see the campus is "complete" with (barf) frat houses.

When the original construction company building Fenwick declared bankruptcy in 1971, Dalhousie purchased the half-completed building for a debatable bargain. The basement of Fenwick houses the School of Human Communication Disorders (SHCD). The 33 stories stacked above SHCD are student residences. It is a well-known fact that the building sways ominously in high winds: “Halifax building regulations stipulated a maximum sway of eight inches in eighty mile-per-hour winds; Fenwick got in under the wire at a five-inch sway.” Equally dubious is the empty swimming pool situated on the rooftop; should this pool ever be filled with water, Fenwick would surely collapse.