Heating and Cooling Plant (University of Regina)

The Heating and Cooling Plant embodies the successful marriage of sophisticated structural design, contemporary materials, adaptation of plan and section to function, and expressive form that was the goal of the best of modern architecture.

The Heating and Cooling Plant caught national and international attention because it was "unique but also functional", as Trevor Boddy remarks: "very simple conception but powerful".

[10] It is the only structure from Saskatchewan included in the Historic Sites and Monuments Board of Canada publication Built Heritage of the Modern Era,[8] and lauded by critics of architecture.

[11] Ian Chodikoff considers the Plant to be the architect's masterpiece: "The building's understated exuberance is articulated through an elegant construction of site-cast concrete, a stunning counterpoint to its prairie landscape and a monument to powerful and everlasting architecture that supports research and education.

Bernard Flaman identifies similarities between the Plant and two other works by Wiens built in the 1960s, namely the John Nugent Studio and the Silton Chapel, despite their "radically different" purposes and being formally and materially unique, exhibiting "strong, simple forms" and "ignoring modernism's dogmatic side and the dictum of flat roofs".