Outdoor Landscape

Loyola's outdoor landscape is receiving special attention for the first time in many decades.

Concordia commissioned a detailed tree inventory of the Loyola Campus in 2000. There are plans for ongoing monitoring and the planting of more trees, working in tandem with the City of Montreal. Summer plantings will continue including the People's Potato organic vegetable garden.

Walkways and parking facilities have been reorganized or reconfigured to accommodate new and renovated buildings and changing pedestrian circulation patterns.

Some landscaping work started in 2000 with the layout of a new parking area close to the Jesuit Residence. It continued in 2003 in the west courtyard created by the construction of the Richard J. Renaud Science Complex.

The impressive bronze outdoor sculpture The Emergence of the Chief by Dave McGary was installed in October 2005 in the courtyard area framed by the science complex and the Communications Studies and Journalism Building.