The Student Union Building (SUB), now called the UBC Life Building, and the Nest are the student community cornerstone of the UBC campus. The AMS Image Collection has many photographs of both buildings that have served to document the day to day activities of student life in and around the buildings. For this weeks blogpost I have browsed through the photos and have curated short visual history of both of the student buildings. The old SUB had a lot of character to it which really shines in some of these older photographs. Comparatively, the new sleek design of the Nest and the amount of effort that went into its construction is very apparent when viewing the construction photographs compared to the finished building. To learn more about this history of the UBC student spaces, please visit the UBC wiki here: https://wiki.ubc.ca/Student_Union_Building.

The SUB

SUB Construction

Ballroom dancing

SUB Lower Level South Side Extension Construction

SUB Lower Level South Side Extension Ribbon Cutting Ceremony (Chestnutt, Glenna; Frank, Dave; Busza, Eva; Mercer, Jonathan)

SUB South Side Expansion Opening Day

Staff at the SUB Business Office

SUB Knoll

SUB Council Chambers (Room 206)

SUB Courtyard

AMS Information and Confectionery, and AMS Box Office

Lickety Split (McMillan, Sue)

The Moon in the SUB

the SUB Delly (McMillan, Sue)

SUB Thunderbird Shop

SUB Partyroom

SUB Concourse looking South

CITR radio

SUB Listening Lounge

SUB Second Floor South foyer

SUB Bowling Alley

SUB Arcade