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AP018.S1.1975.PR08
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This project series documents the design and planning for the third stage of the expansion of the Art Gallery of Ontario (AGO) in Toronto in 1975. The office identified the project number as 7515. This proposed project conceived the further expansion of the AGO after the completion of Stage I and Stage II, which began in 1969 and 1972 respectively. Stage III would build upon completed areas of the building to enlarge gallery, office, performance, and activity spaces. Among the proposed spaces were the satirical art gallery, a Canadian sculpture gallery, a staff lounge, and the enlargement of the library. The largest addition would be to the south of the gallery, directly west of the Grange mansion. The project would also include continuation of exterior walls and masking of the mechanical penthouse on top of the gallery. At the beginning of December 1975, the AGO suddenly asked Parkin Architects Planners to halt design work on the Stage III expansion, citing a lack of financial stability as the cause. However, conversation between the AGO and Parkin on resuming the project continued for years after. It should be noted that while AGO project contracts were originally given to John B. Parkin Associates, John C. Parkin continued the project under his new firm, Parkin Architects Planners, after parting ways with partner John B. Parkin in 1971. The project is recorded through drawings and textual records dating from 1973-1976. The drawings show preliminary ideas and design work for the project, while the textual records consist of correspondence and meeting minutes.
1973-1976
Art Gallery of Ontario, Stage III Expansion, Toronto (1975-1976)
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AP018.S1.1975.PR08
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This project series documents the design and planning for the third stage of the expansion of the Art Gallery of Ontario (AGO) in Toronto in 1975. The office identified the project number as 7515. This proposed project conceived the further expansion of the AGO after the completion of Stage I and Stage II, which began in 1969 and 1972 respectively. Stage III would build upon completed areas of the building to enlarge gallery, office, performance, and activity spaces. Among the proposed spaces were the satirical art gallery, a Canadian sculpture gallery, a staff lounge, and the enlargement of the library. The largest addition would be to the south of the gallery, directly west of the Grange mansion. The project would also include continuation of exterior walls and masking of the mechanical penthouse on top of the gallery. At the beginning of December 1975, the AGO suddenly asked Parkin Architects Planners to halt design work on the Stage III expansion, citing a lack of financial stability as the cause. However, conversation between the AGO and Parkin on resuming the project continued for years after. It should be noted that while AGO project contracts were originally given to John B. Parkin Associates, John C. Parkin continued the project under his new firm, Parkin Architects Planners, after parting ways with partner John B. Parkin in 1971. The project is recorded through drawings and textual records dating from 1973-1976. The drawings show preliminary ideas and design work for the project, while the textual records consist of correspondence and meeting minutes.
Project
1973-1976
Hubert Damisch, 2003-2004 CCA Mellon Senior Fellow, examines Blur – the cloud building created by New York architects Diller + Scofidio on lake Neuchâtel in Switzerland, which is the most recent and radical expression of the desire for fluidity and evanescence in architecture – and the consequences that it might have on the future of structural thought. Damisch examines(...)
Paul Desmarais Theatre
8 May 2003
Hubert Damisch: “Effacer l’architecture?”
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Hubert Damisch, 2003-2004 CCA Mellon Senior Fellow, examines Blur – the cloud building created by New York architects Diller + Scofidio on lake Neuchâtel in Switzerland, which is the most recent and radical expression of the desire for fluidity and evanescence in architecture – and the consequences that it might have on the future of structural thought. Damisch examines(...)
Paul Desmarais Theatre
Building Knowledge
This lecture discusses a range of projects from Anupama Kundoo’s practice, research, and teaching. In these distinct but complementary areas of her work, she attempts to build collective knowledge in collaboration with engineers, masons, craftsmen, infrastructure providers, residents, material suppliers, and all other stakeholders involved in constructing and occupying(...)
Paul-Desmarais Theatre
16 April 2015 , 6pm
Building Knowledge
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This lecture discusses a range of projects from Anupama Kundoo’s practice, research, and teaching. In these distinct but complementary areas of her work, she attempts to build collective knowledge in collaboration with engineers, masons, craftsmen, infrastructure providers, residents, material suppliers, and all other stakeholders involved in constructing and occupying(...)
Paul-Desmarais Theatre
Seemingly common activities such as walking, playing, recycling, and gardening are pushed beyond their usual definition by the international architects, artists, and collectives featured in the exhibition. Their actions push against accepted norms of behaviour in cities, at times even challenging legal limitations. The individuals and groups employ a range of approaches(...)
Main galleries
26 November 2008 to 19 April 2009
Actions: What You Can Do With the City
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Seemingly common activities such as walking, playing, recycling, and gardening are pushed beyond their usual definition by the international architects, artists, and collectives featured in the exhibition. Their actions push against accepted norms of behaviour in cities, at times even challenging legal limitations. The individuals and groups employ a range of approaches(...)
Main galleries
Chandigarh houses, Volume 1
ARCH264812
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Presentation album containing plans, elevations and sections for various dwellings in Chandigarh, India, as conceived by Pierre Jeanneret and the Architects’ Office. Many plans are signed by Pierre Jeanneret. Album contains plans for the following house types: - House Type 2.J. (Minister’s House) - House Type 3F-C. - House Type 4D - House Type 3JB - House Type 5 J’A’ - House Type 6D - House Type 6.J. - House Type 6.JB. - House Type 7F - House Type 7.S. - House Type 9J - House Type 10 P - House Type 12.J.C. - House Type 14D - House Type 14J - Standard design for 10 Marla - Standard design for 5 Marla - P.U.C. House Type V - P.U.C. House Type VI - P.U.C. House Type VII - P.U.C. House Type VIII-A
circa 1959
Chandigarh houses, Volume 1
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ARCH264812
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Presentation album containing plans, elevations and sections for various dwellings in Chandigarh, India, as conceived by Pierre Jeanneret and the Architects’ Office. Many plans are signed by Pierre Jeanneret. Album contains plans for the following house types: - House Type 2.J. (Minister’s House) - House Type 3F-C. - House Type 4D - House Type 3JB - House Type 5 J’A’ - House Type 6D - House Type 6.J. - House Type 6.JB. - House Type 7F - House Type 7.S. - House Type 9J - House Type 10 P - House Type 12.J.C. - House Type 14D - House Type 14J - Standard design for 10 Marla - Standard design for 5 Marla - P.U.C. House Type V - P.U.C. House Type VI - P.U.C. House Type VII - P.U.C. House Type VIII-A
Chandigarh houses, Volume 1
ARCH285211
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Presentation album containing plans, elevations and sections for various dwellings in Chandigarh, India, as conceived by Pierre Jeanneret and the Architects’ Office. Many plans are signed by Pierre Jeanneret. Album contains plans for the following house types: - House Type 2.J. (Minister’s House) - House Type 3F-C. - House Type 4D - House Type 3JB - House Type 5 J’A’ - House Type 6D - House Type 6.J. - House Type 6.JB. - House Type 7F - House Type 7.S. - House Type 9J - House Type 10 P - House Type 12.J.C. - House Type 14D - House Type 14J - Standard design for 10 Marla - Standard design for 5 Marla - P.U.C. House Type V - P.U.C. House Type VI - P.U.C. House Type VII - P.U.C. House Type VIII-A
circa 1959
Chandigarh houses, Volume 1
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ARCH285211
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Presentation album containing plans, elevations and sections for various dwellings in Chandigarh, India, as conceived by Pierre Jeanneret and the Architects’ Office. Many plans are signed by Pierre Jeanneret. Album contains plans for the following house types: - House Type 2.J. (Minister’s House) - House Type 3F-C. - House Type 4D - House Type 3JB - House Type 5 J’A’ - House Type 6D - House Type 6.J. - House Type 6.JB. - House Type 7F - House Type 7.S. - House Type 9J - House Type 10 P - House Type 12.J.C. - House Type 14D - House Type 14J - Standard design for 10 Marla - Standard design for 5 Marla - P.U.C. House Type V - P.U.C. House Type VI - P.U.C. House Type VII - P.U.C. House Type VIII-A
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Bernard Tschumi fonds
AP214
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The Bernard Tschumi fonds, dating from approximately 1965-2015, documents the professional activities of Bernard Tschumi including Tschumi’s career in academia and his professional practice as an architect through approximately 75 projects dating from the late 1980s to 2012.
circa 1964-2015
Bernard Tschumi fonds
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AP214
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The Bernard Tschumi fonds, dating from approximately 1965-2015, documents the professional activities of Bernard Tschumi including Tschumi’s career in academia and his professional practice as an architect through approximately 75 projects dating from the late 1980s to 2012.
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circa 1964-2015
As the Earth’s climate reaches a state of constant instability, there is growing awareness of how global warming can affect human rights and increase social strife. Less attention has been paid to the ways in which political violence and human rights abuses, from past and present, constitute driving factors in the transformations of the global environment and climate.(...)
Paul Demarais Theatre
1 December 2016, 6pm
In the Frontiers of Climate Change (Toward a Politics of Nonhuman Rights)
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As the Earth’s climate reaches a state of constant instability, there is growing awareness of how global warming can affect human rights and increase social strife. Less attention has been paid to the ways in which political violence and human rights abuses, from past and present, constitute driving factors in the transformations of the global environment and climate.(...)
Paul Demarais Theatre
drawings, photographs
DR2012:0012:069:002
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Portfolio containing documents in English (predominant) and French, including conceptual drawings, photographic prints, reference materials, reprographic copies of artworks and architectural drawings (including elevations, sections, site plans), and a map related to the following projects: - Mont-Royal Metro Station (6 reprographic copies); - Canadian Government pavillion, World Expo, Osaka Japan (4 reprographic copies); - Unknown project(s); - Curé Grenier School, Notre-Dame des Laurentides, Quebec; - Clowes Memorial Hall, Butler University, Indianapolis, Indiana (2 reprographic copies); - The Museum of Art, Science and Industry, Bridgeport, Connecticut (5 reprographic copies); - U.C.C. building, Montreal (12 reprographic copies); As well as: - Schwarzenbach residence (J. M. Johansen, architect) (20 reprographic copies).
1959-1967
Portfolio of Melvin Charney's early professional work
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DR2012:0012:069:002
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Portfolio containing documents in English (predominant) and French, including conceptual drawings, photographic prints, reference materials, reprographic copies of artworks and architectural drawings (including elevations, sections, site plans), and a map related to the following projects: - Mont-Royal Metro Station (6 reprographic copies); - Canadian Government pavillion, World Expo, Osaka Japan (4 reprographic copies); - Unknown project(s); - Curé Grenier School, Notre-Dame des Laurentides, Quebec; - Clowes Memorial Hall, Butler University, Indianapolis, Indiana (2 reprographic copies); - The Museum of Art, Science and Industry, Bridgeport, Connecticut (5 reprographic copies); - U.C.C. building, Montreal (12 reprographic copies); As well as: - Schwarzenbach residence (J. M. Johansen, architect) (20 reprographic copies).
drawings, photographs
1959-1967
photographs
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12 photograph(s)
ARCH269447
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Group consists of photographs of Pierre Jeanneret and others at Chandigarh, India, including photographs of Jeet Malhotra and a child using the boat designed by Pierre Jeanneret at Chandigarh Lake in 1960, Jeet Malhotra with Nehru in 1954 or with Le Corbusier at the Secretariat in construction in 1958. There are also photographs of Pierre Jeanneret with Nehry and other government officials in 1956 or with his architects' team in 1960 and 1961. The group also includes a photograph of Jane Drew and Maxwell Fry at Chandigarh in 1951 and a photograph of Jacqueline Jeanneret and her family at Punjab Garden in 1964.
between 1951 and 1964
Photographs of Pierre Jeanneret and others at Chandigarh, India
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ARCH269447
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Group consists of photographs of Pierre Jeanneret and others at Chandigarh, India, including photographs of Jeet Malhotra and a child using the boat designed by Pierre Jeanneret at Chandigarh Lake in 1960, Jeet Malhotra with Nehru in 1954 or with Le Corbusier at the Secretariat in construction in 1958. There are also photographs of Pierre Jeanneret with Nehry and other government officials in 1956 or with his architects' team in 1960 and 1961. The group also includes a photograph of Jane Drew and Maxwell Fry at Chandigarh in 1951 and a photograph of Jacqueline Jeanneret and her family at Punjab Garden in 1964.
photographs
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12 photograph(s)
between 1951 and 1964