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Article Files
AP116.S3.SS13.D1
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File documents the editorial activities in the production of The Dimensions of Play: Ways of Thinking Architecture and the City, issue 12 of ANY magazine (November/December). Material in file was produced in 1995. File contains drafts, articles, transcripts, and correspondence.
1995
Article Files
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AP116.S3.SS13.D1
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File documents the editorial activities in the production of The Dimensions of Play: Ways of Thinking Architecture and the City, issue 12 of ANY magazine (November/December). Material in file was produced in 1995. File contains drafts, articles, transcripts, and correspondence.
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1995
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AP075.S1.1972.PR01
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Project series documents Cornelia Hahn Oberlander's project of a play area project for Almonte Children's Creative Centre in Almonte, Ontario, in 1972. The project series contains press clippings of the project, design development drawings and a presentation drawing.
1972-1973
Almonte Children's Creative Centre, Almonte, Ontario (1972)
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AP075.S1.1972.PR01
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Project series documents Cornelia Hahn Oberlander's project of a play area project for Almonte Children's Creative Centre in Almonte, Ontario, in 1972. The project series contains press clippings of the project, design development drawings and a presentation drawing.
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1972-1973
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AP075.S1.1958.PR01
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This project series documents Cornelia Hahn Oberlander's play area project for Earl's Court Children's Home in Vancouver. The project series contains a list of plants, conceptual drawings, design development drawings, two working drawings, and two presentation drawings.
1958
Earl's Court Children's Home, St. Clair Gardens, Vancouver, British Columbia (1958)
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AP075.S1.1958.PR01
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This project series documents Cornelia Hahn Oberlander's play area project for Earl's Court Children's Home in Vancouver. The project series contains a list of plants, conceptual drawings, design development drawings, two working drawings, and two presentation drawings.
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1958
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AP075.S1.1997.PR01
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Project series documents Cornelia Hahn Oberlander's landscape project for a play area for Burquest Synagogue and Community School in Port Coquitlam, British Columbia. The project series includes research material, including a video recording, correspondence, photographs, design development drawing and presentation drawings.
1997-1998
Burquest Synagogue and Community School, Port Coquitlam, British Columbia (1997)
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AP075.S1.1997.PR01
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Project series documents Cornelia Hahn Oberlander's landscape project for a play area for Burquest Synagogue and Community School in Port Coquitlam, British Columbia. The project series includes research material, including a video recording, correspondence, photographs, design development drawing and presentation drawings.
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1997-1998
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AP075.S1.1950.PR02
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This project series documents Cornelia Hahn Oberlander's design for a small neighbourhood park for the John Hay Association at the corner of Marshall Street and Wharton Street in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. The park is now known as Gold Star Park. Oberlander worked on this project in 1950 while working for the Citizen's Council on City Planning (CCCP) as community planner. The playground includes a circular play area on concrete pavement with a sandbox in the middle, and a quiet area with seatting separated from the play area by large shade trees. The project series contains only a landscape plan of the playground. Source: Herrington, Susan. Cornelia Hahn Oberlander: Making the Modern Landscape, University of Virginia Press, 2014, 304 pages.
1950
Small Neighbourhood Park, John Hay Neighbourhood Association, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (1950)
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AP075.S1.1950.PR02
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This project series documents Cornelia Hahn Oberlander's design for a small neighbourhood park for the John Hay Association at the corner of Marshall Street and Wharton Street in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. The park is now known as Gold Star Park. Oberlander worked on this project in 1950 while working for the Citizen's Council on City Planning (CCCP) as community planner. The playground includes a circular play area on concrete pavement with a sandbox in the middle, and a quiet area with seatting separated from the play area by large shade trees. The project series contains only a landscape plan of the playground. Source: Herrington, Susan. Cornelia Hahn Oberlander: Making the Modern Landscape, University of Virginia Press, 2014, 304 pages.
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1950
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AP075.S1.1965.PR01.005
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Original folder entitled "CCC - EXPO '67 corresp. 1966 / EXPO 67 / CHILDREN'S CREATIVE / PLAY CENTRE".
1965-1966
Correspondence, Children's Creative Centre Playground, Canadian Federal Pavilion, Expo '67, Montréal, Québec
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AP075.S1.1965.PR01.005
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Original folder entitled "CCC - EXPO '67 corresp. 1966 / EXPO 67 / CHILDREN'S CREATIVE / PLAY CENTRE".
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1965-1966
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Industry catalogues
AP075.S3.SS4
Description:
Sub-series contains Cornelia Hahn Oberlander's suppliers catalogues and leaflets used in her office for ordering suppliers or as reference for her landscape projects. It includes catalogues for plants and seeds, site furnishings, playground structures and play props, supplies for plantings or for green roofs.
1980-2018
Industry catalogues
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AP075.S3.SS4
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Sub-series contains Cornelia Hahn Oberlander's suppliers catalogues and leaflets used in her office for ordering suppliers or as reference for her landscape projects. It includes catalogues for plants and seeds, site furnishings, playground structures and play props, supplies for plantings or for green roofs.
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1980-2018
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AP075.S1.1994.PR02
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Project series documents Cornelia Hahn Oberlander's project of a playground for the Talmud Torah School on West 26th Avenue, in Vancouver, in British Columbia. Oberlander worked on this project in 1994. The playground included a garden with apple trees at the north side of the site, a central play area with sand pits and play installation, small canal with a wooden bridge and two grass mounds with trees. The project series contains sketches, design development drawings, including a proposed landscape plan, landscape plans, landscape details, and site plans. The project is also documented through photographs of the playground once completed, specifications, plant lists, correspondence, including correspondence with client, meeting notes and site reports, financial documents and press clippings on the project.
1970-1996
Talmud Torah School Playground, Vancouver, British Columbia (1994-1996)
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AP075.S1.1994.PR02
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Project series documents Cornelia Hahn Oberlander's project of a playground for the Talmud Torah School on West 26th Avenue, in Vancouver, in British Columbia. Oberlander worked on this project in 1994. The playground included a garden with apple trees at the north side of the site, a central play area with sand pits and play installation, small canal with a wooden bridge and two grass mounds with trees. The project series contains sketches, design development drawings, including a proposed landscape plan, landscape plans, landscape details, and site plans. The project is also documented through photographs of the playground once completed, specifications, plant lists, correspondence, including correspondence with client, meeting notes and site reports, financial documents and press clippings on the project.
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1970-1996
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AP075.S1.2013.PR01
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Project series documents Cornelia Hahn Oberlander's work as consulting landscape architect for the Ecole Pauline-Johnson playground, located at the corner of Jefferson Street and 21st Street, in West Vancouver, British Columbia. Oberlander worked on this project in 2013-2015 with Susan Herrington as consulting landscape architect and the landscape architectural firm Atelier Anonymus, Landscape. The project consisted in re-imagining and re-designing the school playground to create a creative play environment. Oberlander's proposal included a logs and rocks creative play area, a seating area, and replanting of trees at the end of the playground on the 21st Street side. The project series contains a landscape sketch of the playground by Oberlander, project proposals by the team, correspondence with architects, consultants and contractors, documentation and research material and press.
Ecole Pauline-Johnson, West Vancouver, British Columbia (2013-2015)
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AP075.S1.2013.PR01
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Project series documents Cornelia Hahn Oberlander's work as consulting landscape architect for the Ecole Pauline-Johnson playground, located at the corner of Jefferson Street and 21st Street, in West Vancouver, British Columbia. Oberlander worked on this project in 2013-2015 with Susan Herrington as consulting landscape architect and the landscape architectural firm Atelier Anonymus, Landscape. The project consisted in re-imagining and re-designing the school playground to create a creative play environment. Oberlander's proposal included a logs and rocks creative play area, a seating area, and replanting of trees at the end of the playground on the 21st Street side. The project series contains a landscape sketch of the playground by Oberlander, project proposals by the team, correspondence with architects, consultants and contractors, documentation and research material and press.
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AP075.S1.1954.PR01.004
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Brochure "A New Dimension in Playground Planning!" produced by the Creative Playthings. Original folder entitled "PLAY - PHILADELPHIA".
circa 1954
Brochure on playgrounds with reproductions of landscape plans, Recreational area, 18th and Bigler Streets, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
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AP075.S1.1954.PR01.004
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Brochure "A New Dimension in Playground Planning!" produced by the Creative Playthings. Original folder entitled "PLAY - PHILADELPHIA".
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circa 1954