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AP018.S1.1979.PR09
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This project series documents the measurement of the Toronto Sun building in downtown Toronto in 1979. The office identified the project number as 7909. From 1973-1975, Parkin Architects Planners designed and constructed the Toronto Sun press plant and office building at 333 King Street East. This project consists of the measurement of that original building to create as built drawings and documentation. The project is recorded through a drawing of the existing roof framing plan dating from around 1979.
circa 1979
The Toronto Sun Publishing Limited, Existing Building, Toronto (1979)
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AP018.S1.1979.PR09
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This project series documents the measurement of the Toronto Sun building in downtown Toronto in 1979. The office identified the project number as 7909. From 1973-1975, Parkin Architects Planners designed and constructed the Toronto Sun press plant and office building at 333 King Street East. This project consists of the measurement of that original building to create as built drawings and documentation. The project is recorded through a drawing of the existing roof framing plan dating from around 1979.
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circa 1979
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AP013.S1.D301
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File documents an executed project for hospital alterations and additions in Saint John, New Brunswick. Material in this file was produced between 1947 and 1953. The majority of the drawings are credited to Henry S. Brenan, architect. File contains index cards, survey drawings, miscellaneous drawings, preliminary and design development drawings, structural drawings, working drawings, detail drawings, mechanical drawings, electrical drawings, photographs, and textual documents. File contains four sub-files: Addition and Alterations to Main Building, Powerhouse, Pavilion Annex, and Saint James Wing.
1947-1953
Alterations and Additions to Lancaster Hospital
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AP013.S1.D301
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File documents an executed project for hospital alterations and additions in Saint John, New Brunswick. Material in this file was produced between 1947 and 1953. The majority of the drawings are credited to Henry S. Brenan, architect. File contains index cards, survey drawings, miscellaneous drawings, preliminary and design development drawings, structural drawings, working drawings, detail drawings, mechanical drawings, electrical drawings, photographs, and textual documents. File contains four sub-files: Addition and Alterations to Main Building, Powerhouse, Pavilion Annex, and Saint James Wing.
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1947-1953
events
Learning from... Astana
Jeffrey Inaba, principal of the Los Angeles-based firm INABA, examines the urban centre and capital city of Kazakhstan, the ninth largest country in the world with a proportionally small population of 16 million people. With its rich oil and natural gas reserves and strategic geographical location, Kazakhstan is poised to experience an economic boom and has already(...)
Paul Desmarais Theatre
19 April 2007 , 7pm
Learning from... Astana
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Jeffrey Inaba, principal of the Los Angeles-based firm INABA, examines the urban centre and capital city of Kazakhstan, the ninth largest country in the world with a proportionally small population of 16 million people. With its rich oil and natural gas reserves and strategic geographical location, Kazakhstan is poised to experience an economic boom and has already(...)
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19 April 2007
7pm
Paul Desmarais Theatre
The three recipients of this years Power Corporation of Canada Award, Lisa Chow (McGill University), Michèle Curtis (Carleton University), and Geneviève Depelteau (University of British Columbia), present the findings of their three-month research residency at the CCA, during which they studied the rise of an environmental consciousness in architecture and landscape(...)
Shaughnessy House
1 September 2016, 6pm
Is the Problem... Still the Environment?
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The three recipients of this years Power Corporation of Canada Award, Lisa Chow (McGill University), Michèle Curtis (Carleton University), and Geneviève Depelteau (University of British Columbia), present the findings of their three-month research residency at the CCA, during which they studied the rise of an environmental consciousness in architecture and landscape(...)
Shaughnessy House
Born out of the Portuguese revolution of 25 April 1974, the Serviço Ambulatório de Apoio Local (Local Ambulatory Support Service) was a pioneering architectural and political experiment designed to address extreme housing shortages and poor living conditions in Portuguese cities. There was not only one SAAL: its initiatives and results varied widely depending on complex(...)
Main galleries
12 May 2015 to 4 October 2015
The SAAL Process: Housing in Portugal 1974–76
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Born out of the Portuguese revolution of 25 April 1974, the Serviço Ambulatório de Apoio Local (Local Ambulatory Support Service) was a pioneering architectural and political experiment designed to address extreme housing shortages and poor living conditions in Portuguese cities. There was not only one SAAL: its initiatives and results varied widely depending on complex(...)
Main galleries
“Today everything is environment,” proclaimed a Montreal newspaper at the beginning of the 1970s. The word “environment” had dominated the discourses and practices of artists, architects, social activists and intellectuals during the previous decade. Visitors of Expo ‘67, the event that galvanized the world’s attention on Montreal, commented the phantasmagorical(...)
Octagonal gallery
19 March 2009 to 23 August 2009
Total Environment: Montréal, 1965-1975
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“Today everything is environment,” proclaimed a Montreal newspaper at the beginning of the 1970s. The word “environment” had dominated the discourses and practices of artists, architects, social activists and intellectuals during the previous decade. Visitors of Expo ‘67, the event that galvanized the world’s attention on Montreal, commented the phantasmagorical(...)
Octagonal gallery
Meditations on Piero presents contemporary sculptures by British/Canadian artist Geoffrey Smedley alongside over thirty rare books from the fifteenth to the eighteenth centuries. The sculptures draw their inspiration from a series of drawings of the human head by the great Italian Renaissance artist Piero della Francesca. The exhibition relates these drawings and(...)
Octagonal gallery
2 May 2001 to 16 September 2001
Meditations on Piero
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Meditations on Piero presents contemporary sculptures by British/Canadian artist Geoffrey Smedley alongside over thirty rare books from the fifteenth to the eighteenth centuries. The sculptures draw their inspiration from a series of drawings of the human head by the great Italian Renaissance artist Piero della Francesca. The exhibition relates these drawings and(...)
Octagonal gallery
textual records
ARCH275453
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Spiral bound reference material, includes: Gooderham & Worts/Triangle Lands, Heritage Asseement; Dalian New Town plan, design and planning consultation, Bing Thom Architects; 1 document containing Simon Fraser Review and Analysis (1988) by Mark N. Wexler, "Ethical Imperatives and Corporate Leadership," (1988) by Kenneth E. Goodpaster, Ruffin Lectures in Business Ethics, University of Virginia and "Values and their Transmission," Report for the Canadian Institute of Advanced Research; Final Canadian Government Participation Expo '70, Osaka.
Reference material related to various projects
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ARCH275453
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Spiral bound reference material, includes: Gooderham & Worts/Triangle Lands, Heritage Asseement; Dalian New Town plan, design and planning consultation, Bing Thom Architects; 1 document containing Simon Fraser Review and Analysis (1988) by Mark N. Wexler, "Ethical Imperatives and Corporate Leadership," (1988) by Kenneth E. Goodpaster, Ruffin Lectures in Business Ethics, University of Virginia and "Values and their Transmission," Report for the Canadian Institute of Advanced Research; Final Canadian Government Participation Expo '70, Osaka.
textual records
graphic materials
DR2021:0053
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Poster issued in recognition of Barry R. Campbell's contribution to the Stichting Realisatie Maison d'Artiste. Shows, plans, elevations and sections for the Maison d'Artiste. The foundation "Stichting Realisatie Maison d'Artiste" was created with the goal of realizing a 1:1 scale model of the "Maison d'Artiste", an unbuilt project designed in 1923 by Theo van Doesburg & Cor van Eesteren. Executive architects for "Maison d'Artiste - 2000" were Victor Veldhuijzen van Zanten & Wessel de Jonge.
2006
Poster dedicated to Barry R. Campbell by the Stichting Realisatie Maison d'Artiste
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DR2021:0053
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Poster issued in recognition of Barry R. Campbell's contribution to the Stichting Realisatie Maison d'Artiste. Shows, plans, elevations and sections for the Maison d'Artiste. The foundation "Stichting Realisatie Maison d'Artiste" was created with the goal of realizing a 1:1 scale model of the "Maison d'Artiste", an unbuilt project designed in 1923 by Theo van Doesburg & Cor van Eesteren. Executive architects for "Maison d'Artiste - 2000" were Victor Veldhuijzen van Zanten & Wessel de Jonge.
graphic materials
2006
drawings, textual records, photographs
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5 file(s)
DR1988:0019:001-005
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Part of a miscellaneous group of visual and textual documents collected by Oswald Mathias Ungers, apparently to represent the work of artists/architects in Die gläserne Kette. Primarily theoretical and visionary in content, this group includes three letters, a page from a letter with drawings for a concert hall, and a photograph of a model of the same concert hall. The letters and photograph were accessioned as received in a beige folder.
circa 1919-1920
Material from Wassili Luckhardt and Hans Luckhardt mostly for Die gläserne Kette
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DR1988:0019:001-005
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Part of a miscellaneous group of visual and textual documents collected by Oswald Mathias Ungers, apparently to represent the work of artists/architects in Die gläserne Kette. Primarily theoretical and visionary in content, this group includes three letters, a page from a letter with drawings for a concert hall, and a photograph of a model of the same concert hall. The letters and photograph were accessioned as received in a beige folder.
drawings, textual records, photographs
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5 file(s)
circa 1919-1920