Burns Building

The Burns Building was opened by the Minister of Education in 1976. It was named in honour of Sir Malcolm Burns, Principal of Canterbury Agricultural College 1952-1974 and former Senior Lecturer in Soil Science 1937-1948. Dr Ian Blair's centennial history The Seed They Sowed records that the "name was appropriate, the monument matched the man: it was large and commanded attention from all angles of vision."  Alongside the Hilgendorf Building, it was designed by the architectural firm, Trengrove, Trengrove and Marshall.

Until late 2023, the building housed the Faculty of Agriculture and Life Sciences with offices, laboratories, teaching labs, and one of the largest entomology collections in the Southern Hemisphere. The Waimarie building is a replacement facility for these departments.