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AP075.S1.1990.PR03
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Project series documents Cornelia Hahn Oberlander's landscape design for the United Nations Peacekeeping Monument in Ottawa, Ontario. Oberlander worked on this from 1990-1993 with Richard Henriquez & Partners and sculptor Jack Harmon. Together, they won the design competition organized by the National Capital Commission in 1990. The monument is situated between the National Gallery of Canada and the United States Embassy, between St. Patrick Street and Murray Street. The monument consists in three bronze cast figures of peacekeeping soldiers on a granite slab. Oberlander elaborated the planting scheme and designed "an oval grove of twelve oak trees representing Canada's ten provinces and two territories [...]" [1], except Nunavut that was still included in the Northwest Territories at the time. The project was completed in 1993. Project series contains ten landscape working drawings, including a site plan, landscape sections, planting and grading plans, and an irrigations plan. The project is also documented through textual records, including design competition information documents, competition proposal, correspondence with architects, client and consultants, specifications, financial documents, press about the project and photographs of the construction and the inauguration of the monument. Source: [1] Herrington, Susan. Cornelia Hahn Oberlander: Making the Modern Landscape, University of Virginia Press, 2014, 304 pages, p. 171.
1990-1993
United Nations Peacekeeping Monument, Ottawa, Ontario (1990-1993)
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AP075.S1.1990.PR03
Description:
Project series documents Cornelia Hahn Oberlander's landscape design for the United Nations Peacekeeping Monument in Ottawa, Ontario. Oberlander worked on this from 1990-1993 with Richard Henriquez & Partners and sculptor Jack Harmon. Together, they won the design competition organized by the National Capital Commission in 1990. The monument is situated between the National Gallery of Canada and the United States Embassy, between St. Patrick Street and Murray Street. The monument consists in three bronze cast figures of peacekeeping soldiers on a granite slab. Oberlander elaborated the planting scheme and designed "an oval grove of twelve oak trees representing Canada's ten provinces and two territories [...]" [1], except Nunavut that was still included in the Northwest Territories at the time. The project was completed in 1993. Project series contains ten landscape working drawings, including a site plan, landscape sections, planting and grading plans, and an irrigations plan. The project is also documented through textual records, including design competition information documents, competition proposal, correspondence with architects, client and consultants, specifications, financial documents, press about the project and photographs of the construction and the inauguration of the monument. Source: [1] Herrington, Susan. Cornelia Hahn Oberlander: Making the Modern Landscape, University of Virginia Press, 2014, 304 pages, p. 171.
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1990-1993
textual records
A selection of prints
ARCH277013
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"24 Sketches by Scott L. Danielson," with an inscription by the artist to Arthur Erickson and a reference book on plants with an inscription and note from a friend of Erickson's.
1971-1976
A selection of prints
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ARCH277013
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"24 Sketches by Scott L. Danielson," with an inscription by the artist to Arthur Erickson and a reference book on plants with an inscription and note from a friend of Erickson's.
textual records
1971-1976
drawings
DR1983:0556
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- This plan for a new approach to the stables at Kinmel Park, shows new and existing plants and buildings and explaining the necessary gradients and radii of the proposed approaches.
architecture, landscape architecture
1862
KINMEL PARK - No.1 / GROUND PLAN OF PROPOSED NEW STABLE APPROACH - ETC. / MAY 1862
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DR1983:0556
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- This plan for a new approach to the stables at Kinmel Park, shows new and existing plants and buildings and explaining the necessary gradients and radii of the proposed approaches.
drawings
1862
architecture, landscape architecture
textual records, photographs
AP075.S1.1974.PR01.002
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Also contains financial documents and insurances related documents, plants list, press clippings on the project and some sketches. Original folder entitled "Robson Square '92 to '94".
1984-1995
Photographs and correspondence, Robson Square Provincial Government Complex, Vancouver, British Columbia
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AP075.S1.1974.PR01.002
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Also contains financial documents and insurances related documents, plants list, press clippings on the project and some sketches. Original folder entitled "Robson Square '92 to '94".
textual records, photographs
1984-1995
Project
AP207.S1.2017.PR02
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The project series documents "Architecture Forgiven by Nature", an installation design by Pettena in 2017. The installation consists of an old water tower at the top of a hill in Brufa, covered with a metal grill. The intention is for plants to grow from the grill and hide the tower behind vegetation. The installation also included a staircase hidden behind the metal grill to give access to the top of the tower, so it could be used as a belvedere. "An additional function therefore joins the usual one, as nature helps to integrate a banal architecture into the landscape while also changing it into a place of consciousness and better understanding of both the environment and the art world." [1] The project is also known as "Torre di Brufa". The project series contains a drawing, printouts of digital renderings, plans of the structure surrounding the water tower, and video of Pettena showing the model of the tower. Source: [1] Gianni Pettena website, https://www.giannipettena.it/italiano/opere-1/nat-tower-in-brufa-2017/ (last accessed 28 January 2020)
2006-2017
Architecture Forgiven by Nature (2017)
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AP207.S1.2017.PR02
Description:
The project series documents "Architecture Forgiven by Nature", an installation design by Pettena in 2017. The installation consists of an old water tower at the top of a hill in Brufa, covered with a metal grill. The intention is for plants to grow from the grill and hide the tower behind vegetation. The installation also included a staircase hidden behind the metal grill to give access to the top of the tower, so it could be used as a belvedere. "An additional function therefore joins the usual one, as nature helps to integrate a banal architecture into the landscape while also changing it into a place of consciousness and better understanding of both the environment and the art world." [1] The project is also known as "Torre di Brufa". The project series contains a drawing, printouts of digital renderings, plans of the structure surrounding the water tower, and video of Pettena showing the model of the tower. Source: [1] Gianni Pettena website, https://www.giannipettena.it/italiano/opere-1/nat-tower-in-brufa-2017/ (last accessed 28 January 2020)
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2006-2017
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AP075.S1.1983.PR02
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Project series documents Cornelia Hahn Oberlander's landscape project for the Canadian Chancery on Pennsylvania Avenue, in Washington D.C. Oberlander worked in this project from 1983-1989 with architect Arthur Erickson. Oberlander and Erickson received the National Landscape Award for the project landscape design. The design included a paved courtyard accessible through Pennsylvania Avenue and John Marshall Place Park. Oberlanded connected the park, designed by landscape architect Carol L. Johnson in 1983, to the Chancery site by adding a paving area in place of the closed street separating the two blocks. A terraced façade featuring a hanging garden with trees and roses was design as a way of extending the John Marshall Park up to the roof of the building. The project series contains sketches and working drawings for the landscaping, including planting plans, irrigation plans, planters details, sections and planters irrigation plans, and architectural plans provided for reference use. It also contains photographs of the building and the courtyard landscaping. The project is also documented through textual records, including concept notes by Oberlander, correspondence with clients, architects, suppliers and consultants, specifications, meetings notes, financial documents, promotional material and articles on the project. Source: Herrington, Susan. Cornelia Hahn Oberlander: Making the Modern Landscape, University of Virginia Press, 2014, 304 pages.
1983-1990
Canadian Chancery, Washington D.C. (1983-1990)
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AP075.S1.1983.PR02
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Project series documents Cornelia Hahn Oberlander's landscape project for the Canadian Chancery on Pennsylvania Avenue, in Washington D.C. Oberlander worked in this project from 1983-1989 with architect Arthur Erickson. Oberlander and Erickson received the National Landscape Award for the project landscape design. The design included a paved courtyard accessible through Pennsylvania Avenue and John Marshall Place Park. Oberlanded connected the park, designed by landscape architect Carol L. Johnson in 1983, to the Chancery site by adding a paving area in place of the closed street separating the two blocks. A terraced façade featuring a hanging garden with trees and roses was design as a way of extending the John Marshall Park up to the roof of the building. The project series contains sketches and working drawings for the landscaping, including planting plans, irrigation plans, planters details, sections and planters irrigation plans, and architectural plans provided for reference use. It also contains photographs of the building and the courtyard landscaping. The project is also documented through textual records, including concept notes by Oberlander, correspondence with clients, architects, suppliers and consultants, specifications, meetings notes, financial documents, promotional material and articles on the project. Source: Herrington, Susan. Cornelia Hahn Oberlander: Making the Modern Landscape, University of Virginia Press, 2014, 304 pages.
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1983-1990
DR1994:0014:016
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- This photograph is of 19 photographic exhibition panels showing Tugendhat House (Brno, Czech Republic) [3 panels]; Pabellón Mies van der Rohe (Barcelona, Spain) [3 panels]; Promontory Apartment Building (Chicago, Ill.) [2 panels]; 860 and 880 Lake Shore Drive Apartments (Chicago, Ill.) [2 panels]; model for Cantor Commercial Center Office Building (Indianapolis, Indiana) [1 panel]; model for Cantor Drive-in Restaurant (Indianapolis, Indiana) [1 panel]; and various Illinois Institute of Technology (Chicago, Illinois) buildings including the Boiler Plant [2 panels], Minerals and Metals Research Building [1 panel]; unidentified views [2 panels]; and perspective drawings for unidentified buildings [2 panels].
architecture, exhibition design
negative exposed between 1949 and 1969
View of exhibition panels showing various projects by Mies van der Rohe
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DR1994:0014:016
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- This photograph is of 19 photographic exhibition panels showing Tugendhat House (Brno, Czech Republic) [3 panels]; Pabellón Mies van der Rohe (Barcelona, Spain) [3 panels]; Promontory Apartment Building (Chicago, Ill.) [2 panels]; 860 and 880 Lake Shore Drive Apartments (Chicago, Ill.) [2 panels]; model for Cantor Commercial Center Office Building (Indianapolis, Indiana) [1 panel]; model for Cantor Drive-in Restaurant (Indianapolis, Indiana) [1 panel]; and various Illinois Institute of Technology (Chicago, Illinois) buildings including the Boiler Plant [2 panels], Minerals and Metals Research Building [1 panel]; unidentified views [2 panels]; and perspective drawings for unidentified buildings [2 panels].
architecture, exhibition design
drawings
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23 File
Landscaping designs
ARCH255047
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landscaping designs; one original landscaping sketch; Bank of Canada Landscape Presentation (van der Meulen and Associates Ltd., landscape architects), floor plans and details, information on plants
1978
Landscaping designs
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ARCH255047
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landscaping designs; one original landscaping sketch; Bank of Canada Landscape Presentation (van der Meulen and Associates Ltd., landscape architects), floor plans and details, information on plants
drawings
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23 File
1978
articles
5,000 Species of Trees
forest, deforestation, ecosystem, coffee, plantation, colonialism, extraction, Minas Gerais, Belo Horizonte
8 September 2025
Project
AP151.S1.D3
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File documents an executed project for a parish house and cloister and for parking and planting for the Wayfarers' Chapel. The project for the Parish House and Cloister was part of the 1947 conception ffor the Chapel and was the third unit of construction, after the chapel proper and the campanile. In its conception, this project consisted of a cloister, cloister garden, and a community house, later renamed the parish house. The concept as it was developed between 1954 and 1957 resulted in the construction of the parish house and cloister; the cloister garden was developed separately at a later date, ca. 1959 (DR1987:0698). Material in the file was produced between 1953 and 1959. File contains conceptual, design and design development drawings with a few presentation and technical drawings.
[1953]-1959
Wayfarers' Chapel Parish House and Cloister
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AP151.S1.D3
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File documents an executed project for a parish house and cloister and for parking and planting for the Wayfarers' Chapel. The project for the Parish House and Cloister was part of the 1947 conception ffor the Chapel and was the third unit of construction, after the chapel proper and the campanile. In its conception, this project consisted of a cloister, cloister garden, and a community house, later renamed the parish house. The concept as it was developed between 1954 and 1957 resulted in the construction of the parish house and cloister; the cloister garden was developed separately at a later date, ca. 1959 (DR1987:0698). Material in the file was produced between 1953 and 1959. File contains conceptual, design and design development drawings with a few presentation and technical drawings.
File 3
[1953]-1959