PH1978:0148
architecture, topographic
1976
Panoramic view of four small houses on a prairie, North Dakota, United States
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PH1978:0148
architecture, topographic
Toplight: Roof Transparencies from 1760 to 1960 traces the evolution of skylights from their origins at the end of the eighteenth century, when this type of fenestration was first explored in Paris’s new Halle au blé (1763–1782), to James Stirling’s History Faculty Building, University of Cambridge (1963–1968). The exhibition is organized around a series of case studies(...)
Octagonal gallery
23 October 2008 to 15 February 2009
Toplight: Roof Transparencies from 1760 to 1960
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Toplight: Roof Transparencies from 1760 to 1960 traces the evolution of skylights from their origins at the end of the eighteenth century, when this type of fenestration was first explored in Paris’s new Halle au blé (1763–1782), to James Stirling’s History Faculty Building, University of Cambridge (1963–1968). The exhibition is organized around a series of case studies(...)
Octagonal gallery
drawings
DR1986:0767:141 R/V
architecture, engineering
after 1889
drawings
after 1889
architecture, engineering
The New Spirit: Modern Architecture in Vancouver, 1938–1963 looks at key buildings and projects from an exhilarating epoch in Vancouver’s history through design drawings, period photographs, furniture, and decoration. In the years following the Second World War, Vancouver emerged as a city with a particularly vital and progressive architectural culture, adapting the(...)
Main galleries
5 March 1997 to 25 May 1997
The New Spirit: Modern Architecture in Vancouver, 1938-1963
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The New Spirit: Modern Architecture in Vancouver, 1938–1963 looks at key buildings and projects from an exhilarating epoch in Vancouver’s history through design drawings, period photographs, furniture, and decoration. In the years following the Second World War, Vancouver emerged as a city with a particularly vital and progressive architectural culture, adapting the(...)
Main galleries
PH1985:0426:059
architecture, topographic
between 1857 and 1877
architecture, topographic
PH1982:0843
architecture
between 1856 and 1858
architecture
PH1982:0849
architecture
between 1856 and 1858
architecture
Project
Zoetermeer Houses
AP143.S4.D84
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File documents the unexecuted project for Zoetermeer Houses, Netherlands. Material in this file was produced between 1989 and 1993. File includes design development and presentation drawings, as well as study models and textual records. Drawings include reprographic copies, and ink, graphite, and transfer type on translucent paper works. Textual records include a bound building programme, project directories, project information, contract and billing, correspondence, meeting minutes, notes, and expenses.
1989-1993
Zoetermeer Houses
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AP143.S4.D84
Description:
File documents the unexecuted project for Zoetermeer Houses, Netherlands. Material in this file was produced between 1989 and 1993. File includes design development and presentation drawings, as well as study models and textual records. Drawings include reprographic copies, and ink, graphite, and transfer type on translucent paper works. Textual records include a bound building programme, project directories, project information, contract and billing, correspondence, meeting minutes, notes, and expenses.
File 84
1989-1993
Project
AP148.S1.1988.PR01
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Project series comprises drawings, sketches and a project description for a 1988 competition entitled "La casa concorso più bella di architettura del mundo." Project materials include numerous drawings, including plans, sections, and a planimetry, as well as a brief project report by Poli, and correspondence from the competition organisers.
1988
Ideas competition, La casa più bella di architettura del mondo [The most beautiful house in the world] (1988)
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AP148.S1.1988.PR01
Description:
Project series comprises drawings, sketches and a project description for a 1988 competition entitled "La casa concorso più bella di architettura del mundo." Project materials include numerous drawings, including plans, sections, and a planimetry, as well as a brief project report by Poli, and correspondence from the competition organisers.
Project
1988
DR1974:0002:002:039
architecture
printed after 26 May 1852
architecture