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Housing redevelopment in Avenham, Preston, England, United Kingdom
circa 1957-1963
File 18
File documents an executed public housing project in Preston, Lancashire, England, United Kingdom. Material in this file was produced between 1957 and 1963, and probably after.
File contains presentation drawings, photographic materials, and textual records.
Material in this project series was likely kept in its original order when it was first processed upon its arrival at CCA.
Preston Lancashire England United Kingdom
Documents are in English and German.
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site plan, plan oblique for the site layout, typical floor plans for the three-storey terraces, typical floor plan for the four-storey terrace, floor plans for the two-storey houses, and a sectional oblique for the three-storey terrace
5 presentation drawing(s)
Graphite and ink on translucent paper
sheet (smallest): 34 x 47 cm sheet (largest): 59 x 47 cm
James Stirling/Michael Wilford fonds
Collection Centre Canadien d'Architecture/
Canadian Centre for Architecture, Montréal
140-0444
Objects that have been catalogued:
views of presentation drawings and of furnished plans (which are not otherwise present in the project documents) for the flats, maisonettes, and houses; also includes a view of a typescript text by W. Somerset Maugham on Charlie Chaplin
1 photograph(s)
Gelatin silver prints
James Stirling/Michael Wilford fonds
Collection Centre Canadien d'Architecture/
Canadian Centre for Architecture, Montréal
140-0445
1 photograph(s)
Gelatin silver prints
photographic materials: 0.04 l.m.
James Stirling/Michael Wilford fonds
Collection Centre Canadien d'Architecture/
Canadian Centre for Architecture, Montréal
140-0446
Objects that have been catalogued:
views and details of the completed project, the building site, and of a model that is not otherwise present in the project documents
1 photograph(s)
Gelatin silver prints
James Stirling/Michael Wilford fonds
Collection Centre Canadien d'Architecture/
Canadian Centre for Architecture, Montréal
140-0447
Objects that have been catalogued:
11 photograph(s)
Gelatin silver prints
sheets: 31 x 31 cm
James Stirling/Michael Wilford fonds
Collection Centre Canadien d'Architecture/
Canadian Centre for Architecture, Montréal
140-0409
views of a presentation drawing, of the completed project, of a typescript text by W. Somerset Maugham on Charlie Chaplin, of a typescript statement on the project by Stirling and Gowan (which is not otherwise present in the project documents), and of a painting by Laurence Stephen Lowry
10 photograph(s)
Gelatin silver prints
sheets: 41 x 41 cm
James Stirling/Michael Wilford fonds
Collection Centre Canadien d'Architecture/
Canadian Centre for Architecture, Montréal
140-0451
Objects that have been catalogued:
18 photograph(s)
Gelatin silver prints
sheets: 41 x 41 cm
James Stirling/Michael Wilford fonds
Collection Centre Canadien d'Architecture/
Canadian Centre for Architecture, Montréal
140-0452
Objects that have been catalogued:
exterior and interior views of the completed project, views of presentation drawings, of a typescript text by W. Somerset Maugham on Charlie Chaplin, of a typescript statement on the project by Stirling and Gowan (which is not otherwise present in the project documents), and of several paintings by Laurence Stephen Lowry; also includes views of an incomplete set of working drawings (which are not otherwise present in the project documents), showing diagrammatic and detailed site plans, floor plans (including furnished plans for a bed sitting unit in a ten-storey point block by Lyons, Israel, and Ellis, situated to the north of the site) and elevations for the three and four-storey terraces and the two-storey houses
1 negative(s)
James Stirling/Michael Wilford fonds
Collection Centre Canadien d'Architecture/
Canadian Centre for Architecture, Montréal
140-0448
1 negative(s)
James Stirling/Michael Wilford fonds
Collection Centre Canadien d'Architecture/
Canadian Centre for Architecture, Montréal
140-0449
1 negative(s)
James Stirling/Michael Wilford fonds
Collection Centre Canadien d'Architecture/
Canadian Centre for Architecture, Montréal
140-0450
One clipping of an article titled "Frankly, Do You Think This Is Worth a Prize?" by Shirley Conran from the 'Daily Mail' newspaper, dated 18 October 1963. The article discusses the awarding of the 1963 Good Housing Competition Prize to Stirling and Gowan, and Lyons, Israel, and Ellis for the housing redevelopment at Avenham, Preston. Includes a clipping from an unidentified journal or book.
2 clipping(s)
sheet (smallest): 14 x 14 cm sheet (largest): 27 x 15 cm
James Stirling/Michael Wilford fonds
Collection Centre Canadien d'Architecture/
Canadian Centre for Architecture, Montréal
140-0453
Objects that have been catalogued:
1 certificate(s)
sheet: 32 x 26 cm
James Stirling/Michael Wilford fonds
Collection Centre Canadien d'Architecture/
Canadian Centre for Architecture, Montréal
140-0454
typescript of the architects' statement explaining the concept of the project with an addendum describing the site
1 architect's statement(s)
Typescript and black ink
sheets: 26 x 21 cm
James Stirling/Michael Wilford fonds
Collection Centre Canadien d'Architecture/
Canadian Centre for Architecture, Montréal
140-0510
1 negative(s)
photographic materials: 0,01 l.m.
James Stirling/Michael Wilford fonds
Collection Centre Canadien d'Architecture/
Canadian Centre for Architecture, Montréal;
Legs de la famille Stirling/
Bequest of the Stirling family
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