Part of:

People:

Kuwabara Payne Mckenna Blumberg Architects (archive creator)
Barton Myers Associates, Architects & Planners (architectural firm)
Kuwabara Payne Mckenna Blumberg Architects (architectural firm)

Title:

Art Gallery of Ontario, Phase 3, Toronto (1988-1993)

Date:

1986-1992

Level of archival description:
Project

Extent and medium:

3,374 drawings (including reprographic copies)
2 photographic materials
0.001 l.m. of textual records

Scope and content:
This project series documents renovations and additions to the Art Gallery of Ontario in Toronto from 1988-1993. The office identified the project number as 18703.
This project, known as Phase 3, built upon two other major expansion projects to the art gallery, Phase I and Phase II, that were completed by the architecture firm Parkin Architects Planners in the 1970s. Phase 3 was the winning entry for a limited competition won by KPMB, with Thomas Payne as partner-in-charge, in joint venture with the firm of Barton Myers Inc. This project consisted of 100,000 square feet of additions to the building including a prints and drawings study centre, a reference library and administrative offices in the southwest corner and new vaulted galleries, a tower and pyramidal arrival hall along Dundas Street. The Dundas Street elevation was transformed by these additions and brick facades were added. A new double height sculpture atrium, connected to the Victorian Grange mansion, was also added. This project also included 190,000 square feet of renovations to the existing building including changes to galleries, circulation, vaults, staff areas, the restaurant, bookstore and volunteer shop. The goal of these changes was to create a more coherent design between old and new parts of the building and to reinforce the role of art galleries in contemporary life by increasing the scale of the building and creating new spaces for interaction and participation. This project won the Canadian Architect Award of Excellence in 1988.
The project is recorded through drawings, photographic materials and accompanying notes dating from 1986-1992. The drawings include site plans and surveys, sketches, plans, elevations, sections, perspectives, details, studies, axonometric drawings, furnishing and structural drawings and some presentation drawings.

Reference number:

AP056.S1.1988.PR09

Arrangement:
Materials in this project series have been compiled from multiple accessions and some have been arranged by material type.

Location:

Toronto Ontario Canada