This exhibition looks at the transformation of Montréal from a nineteenth century merchant city to the metropolis of Canada. It examines the elements that made Montréal a political, social, and economic centre and explores the unique character of its architecture. The exhibition brings together some 350 objects, including drawings from the CCA collection by Montréal(...)
Main galleries
18 March 1998 to 24 May 1998
Montréal Métropole, 1880–1930
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This exhibition looks at the transformation of Montréal from a nineteenth century merchant city to the metropolis of Canada. It examines the elements that made Montréal a political, social, and economic centre and explores the unique character of its architecture. The exhibition brings together some 350 objects, including drawings from the CCA collection by Montréal(...)
Main galleries
drawings
ARCH258790
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plans and details for a scultpture at Warden Woods Mall, Scarborough, and an elevation for a mural, Mercantile Bank of Canada, Toronto (Silvio Russo, designer)
1981
Plans and details for a scultpture at Warden Woods Mall
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ARCH258790
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plans and details for a scultpture at Warden Woods Mall, Scarborough, and an elevation for a mural, Mercantile Bank of Canada, Toronto (Silvio Russo, designer)
drawings
1981
textual records
ARCH241959
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day-to-day financial records of Anyone Corporation including files of account statements and cheque stubs and envelopes of passed cheques and bank statements.
Day-to-day financial records of Anyone Corporation
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ARCH241959
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day-to-day financial records of Anyone Corporation including files of account statements and cheque stubs and envelopes of passed cheques and bank statements.
textual records
drawings
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13 working drawing(s)
ARCH252919
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mechanical rooms and 41st-floor plans, sections looking east, main roof plan, core plans, observation facility details (Royal Bank of Canada Building)
1960-1962
Mechanical rooms and 41st-floor plans, sections looking east
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ARCH252919
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mechanical rooms and 41st-floor plans, sections looking east, main roof plan, core plans, observation facility details (Royal Bank of Canada Building)
drawings
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13 working drawing(s)
1960-1962
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AP060.S3.D22
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Le dossier documente le projet pour une succursale de la Banque de Montréal à Brockville, Ontario. Il contient des dessins produits entre 1959 et 1960.
1959-1960
Banque de Montréal à Brockville
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AP060.S3.D22
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Le dossier documente le projet pour une succursale de la Banque de Montréal à Brockville, Ontario. Il contient des dessins produits entre 1959 et 1960.
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1959-1960
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AP178.S1.2003.PR02
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This project series documents the Recupero del Palazzo Donnaregina / Museu de Arte Contemporâneo in Napoli, Italy. While the records were held in the office’s archives this project was assigned the number 55/00. The office assigned the date 2003 for this project. The Palazzo Donnaregina was built during the 19th century and served multiple functions during his history, including a bank and a school of administration. In 2001, the building was abandoned after a flood. In 2005, the Campania Regional Government bought the building and leased it to the Fondazione Donnaregina per le arti contemporane. Àlvaro Siza and the Studio DAZ-Dumontet Antonini Zaske were selected to renovate and repurpose the builsing into a contemporary art museum. The museum included exhibition halls, a library, a bookshop, and a mediatheque. The project was realized. Documenting this project are sketches, studies, design development drawings, plans, and details. Textual material includes project documentation, catalogs from suppliers, and correspondence. Photographic material documents Siza's visits, project site, and construction work.
2003-2006
Recupero del Palazzo Donnaregina, Museu de Arte Contem. [Restoration of the Palazzo Donnaregina, Museum of contemporary Art], Naples, Italy (2003)
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AP178.S1.2003.PR02
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This project series documents the Recupero del Palazzo Donnaregina / Museu de Arte Contemporâneo in Napoli, Italy. While the records were held in the office’s archives this project was assigned the number 55/00. The office assigned the date 2003 for this project. The Palazzo Donnaregina was built during the 19th century and served multiple functions during his history, including a bank and a school of administration. In 2001, the building was abandoned after a flood. In 2005, the Campania Regional Government bought the building and leased it to the Fondazione Donnaregina per le arti contemporane. Àlvaro Siza and the Studio DAZ-Dumontet Antonini Zaske were selected to renovate and repurpose the builsing into a contemporary art museum. The museum included exhibition halls, a library, a bookshop, and a mediatheque. The project was realized. Documenting this project are sketches, studies, design development drawings, plans, and details. Textual material includes project documentation, catalogs from suppliers, and correspondence. Photographic material documents Siza's visits, project site, and construction work.
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2003-2006
A super-library combining five national collections in one building, Paris’s National Library of France was the final Grands travaux of President François Mitterrand. Initially commissioned to house all French production of words, images, and sounds since 1945, its architectural competition captured the confusion and variety of architectural thinking in 1989. OMA’s(...)
Octagonal gallery
15 May 2012 to 9 September 2012
Très Grande Bibliothèque (Very Big Library)
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A super-library combining five national collections in one building, Paris’s National Library of France was the final Grands travaux of President François Mitterrand. Initially commissioned to house all French production of words, images, and sounds since 1945, its architectural competition captured the confusion and variety of architectural thinking in 1989. OMA’s(...)
Octagonal gallery
textual records
ARCH256923
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23 folders - Workman's Compensation Board, unemployment insurance, accounts receivable, financial statements, Roy Thomson Hall budgets, misc. reconciliations, Gulf Bank payments, employment standards
1972-1986
Workman's Compensation Board, unemployment insurance, financial statements
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ARCH256923
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23 folders - Workman's Compensation Board, unemployment insurance, accounts receivable, financial statements, Roy Thomson Hall budgets, misc. reconciliations, Gulf Bank payments, employment standards
textual records
1972-1986
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AP018.S1.1974.PR17
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This project series documents renovations to the Minaki Lodge in Minaki, Ontario from 1974-1977. The office identified the project number as 7422. The Minaki Lodge, owned by the Government of Ontario at the time of this project, was located on the banks of the Winnipeg River and was originally built in 1914 by the Grand Trunk Pacific Railway. The site included an X-shaped main lodge, a motor lodge and power house, a ski chalet and Holst Point on a nearby island. This project, which was phase I of the work, consisted of renovations to the main lodge including a complete reimagining of the interior layouts and the addition of a new convention hall and approximately 200 new guest rooms. This project mainly consisted of work on the interior layouts, while work for the additions continued under a new project number assigned by the office (see project series AP018.S1.1974.PR18 in this fonds). Drawings in this project series include drawings of the building before this project, at several points in its history. Originals and reprographic copies from 1945 were prepared by architect John Schofield for the Canadian National Railways. Reprographic copies of drawings dating from 1925-1930 were prepared by the Canadian National Railways. Reprographic copies from 1972 were prepared by architect Jack M. Ross. The project is recorded through drawings, photographs and textual records dating primarily from 1974-1977. There are originals of drawings from 1925-1926 prepared by the Canadian National Railways for a different project. The photographs show the building before this project commenced. The textual records include correspondence, conference and site reports, interoffice letters, consultancy files, zoning documentation, financial records, tender documents, change orders, design notes, specifications and supplementary instructions.
1974-1977
Minaki Lodge, Renovations, Minaki, Ontario (1974-1977)
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AP018.S1.1974.PR17
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This project series documents renovations to the Minaki Lodge in Minaki, Ontario from 1974-1977. The office identified the project number as 7422. The Minaki Lodge, owned by the Government of Ontario at the time of this project, was located on the banks of the Winnipeg River and was originally built in 1914 by the Grand Trunk Pacific Railway. The site included an X-shaped main lodge, a motor lodge and power house, a ski chalet and Holst Point on a nearby island. This project, which was phase I of the work, consisted of renovations to the main lodge including a complete reimagining of the interior layouts and the addition of a new convention hall and approximately 200 new guest rooms. This project mainly consisted of work on the interior layouts, while work for the additions continued under a new project number assigned by the office (see project series AP018.S1.1974.PR18 in this fonds). Drawings in this project series include drawings of the building before this project, at several points in its history. Originals and reprographic copies from 1945 were prepared by architect John Schofield for the Canadian National Railways. Reprographic copies of drawings dating from 1925-1930 were prepared by the Canadian National Railways. Reprographic copies from 1972 were prepared by architect Jack M. Ross. The project is recorded through drawings, photographs and textual records dating primarily from 1974-1977. There are originals of drawings from 1925-1926 prepared by the Canadian National Railways for a different project. The photographs show the building before this project commenced. The textual records include correspondence, conference and site reports, interoffice letters, consultancy files, zoning documentation, financial records, tender documents, change orders, design notes, specifications and supplementary instructions.
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1974-1977
drawings, photographs
ARCH270904
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Contains site plans, elevations, views of the area and 2 textual records entitled "Design Parameters for Competition Site" and "South Bank Masterplan Urban Design Strategy".
2001
Portfolio containing printouts and textual records from the project of Southbank Centre, London, England
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ARCH270904
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Contains site plans, elevations, views of the area and 2 textual records entitled "Design Parameters for Competition Site" and "South Bank Masterplan Urban Design Strategy".
drawings, photographs
2001