Project
AP075.S1.1970.PR04
Description:
Project series documents Cornelia Hahn Oberlander's project for a play area project for Queen Mary School in Vancouver, British Columbia in 1968. The project series contains correspondence and design development drawings.
1968-1970
Queen Mary School, Vancouver, British Columbia (1970)
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AP075.S1.1970.PR04
Description:
Project series documents Cornelia Hahn Oberlander's project for a play area project for Queen Mary School in Vancouver, British Columbia in 1968. The project series contains correspondence and design development drawings.
Project
1968-1970
textual records
AP075.S3.SS2.041
Description:
Original folder entitled: "PLAY: DR. H.N. MacCORKINDALE ELEM., VANCOUVER, B.C.".
1969
Correspondence about consultant service for creative playground of the DR. H.N. MacCorkindale Elementary School, Vancouver
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AP075.S3.SS2.041
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Original folder entitled: "PLAY: DR. H.N. MacCORKINDALE ELEM., VANCOUVER, B.C.".
textual records
1969
textual records
AP075.S3.SS2.048
Description:
Original folder entitled: "PLAY: RAYONIER OF CANADA LTD. SEWELL INLET, B.C.".
1971
Consultant service request for design of a playground in Sewell Inlet, British Columbia
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AP075.S3.SS2.048
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Original folder entitled: "PLAY: RAYONIER OF CANADA LTD. SEWELL INLET, B.C.".
textual records
1971
Project
AP075.S1.1969.PR01
Description:
Project series documents Cornelia Hahn Oberlander's landscape project for Acadia Park at the University of British Columbia, in Vancouver, British Columbia. Oberlander worked on this project in 1969. The project consisted in design the landscape master plan and the play area for the Acadia Married Student Housing complex, which included in kindergarten. Oberlander preserved the forest edge of the site and even included some of the mature trees present on the site by suspending rope swings to their trunks. The play area also reused ancient trees as play structures, and a wobble walk made of logs ends of various heights. The project series contains design development drawings, including a proposed landscape master plan and landscape plans, and also working drawings, such as elevations and details of the playground structures and benches. The project is also documented through photographs of the playground and correspondence with clients. Source: [1] Herrington, Susan. Cornelia Hahn Oberlander: Making the Modern Landscape, University of Virginia Press, 2014, 304 pages.
1966-1971
Acadia Park, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, British Columbia (1969)
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AP075.S1.1969.PR01
Description:
Project series documents Cornelia Hahn Oberlander's landscape project for Acadia Park at the University of British Columbia, in Vancouver, British Columbia. Oberlander worked on this project in 1969. The project consisted in design the landscape master plan and the play area for the Acadia Married Student Housing complex, which included in kindergarten. Oberlander preserved the forest edge of the site and even included some of the mature trees present on the site by suspending rope swings to their trunks. The play area also reused ancient trees as play structures, and a wobble walk made of logs ends of various heights. The project series contains design development drawings, including a proposed landscape master plan and landscape plans, and also working drawings, such as elevations and details of the playground structures and benches. The project is also documented through photographs of the playground and correspondence with clients. Source: [1] Herrington, Susan. Cornelia Hahn Oberlander: Making the Modern Landscape, University of Virginia Press, 2014, 304 pages.
Project
1966-1971
Project
AP075.S1.1973.PR01
Description:
Project series documents Cornelia Hahn Oberlander's project for a proposed playground at the corner of West 38th Street and Hudson Street in Vancouver, British Columbia. Oberlander worked in this project from 1973-1975. This project was not realized. Oberlander's landscape design consisted in a central mound covered in grass, surrounded by tree logs, with swings on top, and two lower grass mounds on the Southeast corner of the playground with other play installations for creative play. The project series contains four sketches, including two digitatized layout sketches, two presentation drawings, a preliminary site plan, a site plan, a topographic survey.
1973-2005
Playground, 38th and Hudson Streets, Vancouver, British Columbia (1973)
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AP075.S1.1973.PR01
Description:
Project series documents Cornelia Hahn Oberlander's project for a proposed playground at the corner of West 38th Street and Hudson Street in Vancouver, British Columbia. Oberlander worked in this project from 1973-1975. This project was not realized. Oberlander's landscape design consisted in a central mound covered in grass, surrounded by tree logs, with swings on top, and two lower grass mounds on the Southeast corner of the playground with other play installations for creative play. The project series contains four sketches, including two digitatized layout sketches, two presentation drawings, a preliminary site plan, a site plan, a topographic survey.
Project
1973-2005
textual records
AP075.S1.1979.PR02.008
Description:
Original folder entitled "PLAY SPACES / Victoria General H. 1981 / CORRESPONDENCE / RESEARCH".
1980
Correspondence and research, Victoria General Hospital, Victoria, British Columbia
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AP075.S1.1979.PR02.008
Description:
Original folder entitled "PLAY SPACES / Victoria General H. 1981 / CORRESPONDENCE / RESEARCH".
textual records
1980
textual records
Cornelia Hahn Oberlander participation to the Board of Parks and Public Recreation of Vancouver
AP075.S3.SS1.021
Description:
Original folder entitled: "PLAY - BOARD OF PARKS & PUBLIC RECREATION, VANCOUVER, B.C.".
1970-1971
Cornelia Hahn Oberlander participation to the Board of Parks and Public Recreation of Vancouver
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AP075.S3.SS1.021
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Original folder entitled: "PLAY - BOARD OF PARKS & PUBLIC RECREATION, VANCOUVER, B.C.".
textual records
1970-1971
articles
Toys Shape Minds no. 16
Let us assure you
log cabins, Log Cabin Play-House, toys, architectural toys, Potential Architecture, Lincoln Logs
16 September 2016
Let us assure you
drawings
AP075.S4.SS1.042
Description:
Original folder entitled "PLAY MISCELLANEOUS / NOT DATED". Group separated in two folders.
1960s-1980s
Collected documentation for children playgrounds projects
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AP075.S4.SS1.042
Description:
Original folder entitled "PLAY MISCELLANEOUS / NOT DATED". Group separated in two folders.
drawings
1960s-1980s
drawings
AP075.S4.SS1.041
Description:
Original folder entitled "DETAILS: CHILDREN'S PLAY AREA'S". Group separated in two folders.
1970s
Details of installations for various playgrounds by Cornelia Hahn Oberlander
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AP075.S4.SS1.041
Description:
Original folder entitled "DETAILS: CHILDREN'S PLAY AREA'S". Group separated in two folders.
drawings
1970s