The CIGI Campus, located in Waterloo, Ontario, is a hub of academic study and policy-based research in global governance and international affairs.

Toronto-based Kuwabara Payne McKenna Blumberg Architects was selected to design the CIGI Campus building in a classic Oxbridge style, complete with an inner courtyard and bell tower.

The art piece highlights significant moments of progress in international governance, with copper markers located on an unseen world map.

[2] The building also incorporates environmentally friendly green roofs, operable windows, energy-efficient in-slab cooling and heating systems, and an underground cistern to collect grey water for landscape irrigation.

Additional occupants on the campus include: Perimeter Institute, Capacity Canada, The Arctic Research Foundation and Innovation Asset Collective.