Project
AP164.S1.2004.D14
Description:
The project series documents the public commission for the construction of basic apartments for young people. The firm was invited along with three other architects/offices to propose and expose four prototypes during the Construmat show. The prototype was roughly built, but was then destroyed. The firm identified this project as number 195. Documenting the project are conceptual and presentation drawings, digital, photographic and reference materials, correspondence, project descriptions, reports, and clippings.
2003-2006, predominant 2004-2005
APTM Construmat, Barcelona, Spain (2004)
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AP164.S1.2004.D14
Description:
The project series documents the public commission for the construction of basic apartments for young people. The firm was invited along with three other architects/offices to propose and expose four prototypes during the Construmat show. The prototype was roughly built, but was then destroyed. The firm identified this project as number 195. Documenting the project are conceptual and presentation drawings, digital, photographic and reference materials, correspondence, project descriptions, reports, and clippings.
Project
2003-2006, predominant 2004-2005
Project
AP046.S1.1983.PR02
Description:
This project documents Rose’s involvement with the design phase of the Old Port of Montreal Master Plan, Montréal, Québec and consists mainly of sketches, studies and presentation drawings for the redevelopment project with very few as built or architectural plans. The project materials reflect a Romantic design aesthetic and landscape development through numerous architectural design drawings for public amenities such as park benches, pedestrian walkways, various lighting sources, pavilions and fountains. This project also includes some of Rose’s submissions to the Faubourg Quebec development project which ran concurrent with the Old Port project. For the redevelopment of the Old Port of Montréal, Master Plan, Rose worked with the following firms: Cardinal Hardy e Associes, Chan Krieger & Associates, and Jodoin Lamarre Pratt. Rose was awarded a Progressive Architecture Urban Design Award (1992) and a Prix d’excellence for Urban Design from the Ordre des architectes du Québec (1993) for the realization of this urban project. The textual records in this project include budgets, correspondence, consultation documents, and intra office communiques as well as extensive research material on the history of the Old Port of Montreal including reproductions of historical photographs. The photographs in this project largely reflect the condition of the Old Port and Rue de la Commune prior to redevelopment and were used for reference and in presentation materials.
1983-1992
Old Port of Montreal Master Plan, Montréal, Québec
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AP046.S1.1983.PR02
Description:
This project documents Rose’s involvement with the design phase of the Old Port of Montreal Master Plan, Montréal, Québec and consists mainly of sketches, studies and presentation drawings for the redevelopment project with very few as built or architectural plans. The project materials reflect a Romantic design aesthetic and landscape development through numerous architectural design drawings for public amenities such as park benches, pedestrian walkways, various lighting sources, pavilions and fountains. This project also includes some of Rose’s submissions to the Faubourg Quebec development project which ran concurrent with the Old Port project. For the redevelopment of the Old Port of Montréal, Master Plan, Rose worked with the following firms: Cardinal Hardy e Associes, Chan Krieger & Associates, and Jodoin Lamarre Pratt. Rose was awarded a Progressive Architecture Urban Design Award (1992) and a Prix d’excellence for Urban Design from the Ordre des architectes du Québec (1993) for the realization of this urban project. The textual records in this project include budgets, correspondence, consultation documents, and intra office communiques as well as extensive research material on the history of the Old Port of Montreal including reproductions of historical photographs. The photographs in this project largely reflect the condition of the Old Port and Rue de la Commune prior to redevelopment and were used for reference and in presentation materials.
Project
1983-1992
Series
AP184.S1
Description:
Series 1, Three Dimensional Trading Floor, 1990 - 2009, relates to Asymptote Architecture’s design of a virtualized NYSE Trading Floor that visualized real-time numerical and statistical data. This series includes textual, born-digital, and audiovisual components, as well as digital artefacts, and chiefly dates from 1997 to 2002. The intent of the New York Stock Exchange Three Dimensional Trading Floor (3DTF) was to detect suspicious trading activity, track the impact of global news events on the market and potentially predict a crash before it happened. In order to achieve this technically, Asymptote worked with Silicon Graphics Incorporated (SGI) RealityEngine hardware which had been built specifically for these visualization-intensive applications. They also worked with Softimage and Alias software for modeling, rendering and animating, and VRML (Virtual Reality Markup Language) and Macromedia Flash in order to integrate real-time data into a navigable three-dimensional environment. The main elements of the virtual environment include posts, containers, and back wall. The two container types, Index Container (IC) and Group Container (GC), allow for visualization and comparison of stock histories and behaviors. The posts display stock information, corresponding heat maps on floors, and alerts. The back wall integrates live news broadcasts. Materials in this series are largely digital and primarily include still raster images and video demonstrating 3DTF functionality. There is also a small body of CAD material in Maya, Alias, Microstation, and Form-Z formats. Other digital materials include Virtual Reality Markup Language (VRML) files, HTML files, Silicon Graphics Images databases, research material, press kits, presentations, and handout files. The textual records are largely materials that were handed out at presentation meetings for each phase of the project. These typically illustrate major virtual components of 3DTF, like the heat maps and posts, and overlap significantly with the related digital files. There is also one VHS tape which compiles nearly twenty minutes of animated renderings. Finally, this series includes 43 CDs. The CDs were processed and are included as part of the digital records; the CDs themselves were kept in instances where they may have artefactual value, especially if they were visually interesting or informationally important.
1990-2009
Three Dimensional Trading Floor
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AP184.S1
Description:
Series 1, Three Dimensional Trading Floor, 1990 - 2009, relates to Asymptote Architecture’s design of a virtualized NYSE Trading Floor that visualized real-time numerical and statistical data. This series includes textual, born-digital, and audiovisual components, as well as digital artefacts, and chiefly dates from 1997 to 2002. The intent of the New York Stock Exchange Three Dimensional Trading Floor (3DTF) was to detect suspicious trading activity, track the impact of global news events on the market and potentially predict a crash before it happened. In order to achieve this technically, Asymptote worked with Silicon Graphics Incorporated (SGI) RealityEngine hardware which had been built specifically for these visualization-intensive applications. They also worked with Softimage and Alias software for modeling, rendering and animating, and VRML (Virtual Reality Markup Language) and Macromedia Flash in order to integrate real-time data into a navigable three-dimensional environment. The main elements of the virtual environment include posts, containers, and back wall. The two container types, Index Container (IC) and Group Container (GC), allow for visualization and comparison of stock histories and behaviors. The posts display stock information, corresponding heat maps on floors, and alerts. The back wall integrates live news broadcasts. Materials in this series are largely digital and primarily include still raster images and video demonstrating 3DTF functionality. There is also a small body of CAD material in Maya, Alias, Microstation, and Form-Z formats. Other digital materials include Virtual Reality Markup Language (VRML) files, HTML files, Silicon Graphics Images databases, research material, press kits, presentations, and handout files. The textual records are largely materials that were handed out at presentation meetings for each phase of the project. These typically illustrate major virtual components of 3DTF, like the heat maps and posts, and overlap significantly with the related digital files. There is also one VHS tape which compiles nearly twenty minutes of animated renderings. Finally, this series includes 43 CDs. The CDs were processed and are included as part of the digital records; the CDs themselves were kept in instances where they may have artefactual value, especially if they were visually interesting or informationally important.
Series
1990-2009
Sub-series
Office Records
AP140.S2.SS10
Description:
Sub-series documents office records and events of the successive firms of Stirling and Gowan; James Stirling; James Stirling and Partner; James Stirling, Michael Wilford, and Associates; and Michael Wilford and Partners. Sub-series includes records for the London, England and Stuttgart, Germany offices. Material in this sub-series was produced between 1957 and probably 2003. Sub-series contains textual records, including personal office correspondence for James Stirling and Michael Wilford, printed materials, and clippings. Sub-series also includes posters, prints and some photographs, including several mounted for office display, mostly relating to James Stirling lectures, and to exhibitions and projects by the firm, as well as artefacts, including sculptures of James Stirling.
circa 1957-2003
Office Records
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AP140.S2.SS10
Description:
Sub-series documents office records and events of the successive firms of Stirling and Gowan; James Stirling; James Stirling and Partner; James Stirling, Michael Wilford, and Associates; and Michael Wilford and Partners. Sub-series includes records for the London, England and Stuttgart, Germany offices. Material in this sub-series was produced between 1957 and probably 2003. Sub-series contains textual records, including personal office correspondence for James Stirling and Michael Wilford, printed materials, and clippings. Sub-series also includes posters, prints and some photographs, including several mounted for office display, mostly relating to James Stirling lectures, and to exhibitions and projects by the firm, as well as artefacts, including sculptures of James Stirling.
Sub-Series 10
circa 1957-2003
Project
AP164.S1.2002.D6
Description:
The project series documents the remodeling of La Paloma recycling plant for urban waste in Madrid, Spain. The firm identified this project as number 150. Abalos & Herreros worked either with or for Fomento de construcciones y contratas, S.A., FIRSA, Inversiones Riojaras S.A. and Consercie de Aguas y Residuos de La Rioja. Documenting the projects are presentation and design development drawings, photographic and reference materials, project descriptions, correspondence, and presentation documents.
2001-2002
Recualificación de la planta de compostaje La Paloma, Valdemingómez, Madrid, Spain (2002)
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AP164.S1.2002.D6
Description:
The project series documents the remodeling of La Paloma recycling plant for urban waste in Madrid, Spain. The firm identified this project as number 150. Abalos & Herreros worked either with or for Fomento de construcciones y contratas, S.A., FIRSA, Inversiones Riojaras S.A. and Consercie de Aguas y Residuos de La Rioja. Documenting the projects are presentation and design development drawings, photographic and reference materials, project descriptions, correspondence, and presentation documents.
Project
2001-2002
PH1988:0435:035
Description:
The object was formerly numbered PH1988:0438.05:069, however the print was not related to the rest of the material, which was views of the construction of the Swanley Bypass in England, and was likely placed in with objects in this record by mistake when it was acquired in 1988. This single object was moved to the group record PH1988:0435:001-035 because it bore the same stamps on verso as some of the other objects in this group and was given its new object number (PH1988:0435:035).
July 1, 1966
View of road construction, United Kingdom
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PH1988:0435:035
Description:
The object was formerly numbered PH1988:0438.05:069, however the print was not related to the rest of the material, which was views of the construction of the Swanley Bypass in England, and was likely placed in with objects in this record by mistake when it was acquired in 1988. This single object was moved to the group record PH1988:0435:001-035 because it bore the same stamps on verso as some of the other objects in this group and was given its new object number (PH1988:0435:035).
archives
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Fonds
Stelco fonds
AP017
Synopsis:
The Stelco fonds, 1902-1982, documents the buildings of the Steel Company of Canada’s two Montréal sites, located on Notre-Dame street in Little Burgundy and in Saint-Henri. The fond is composed of drawings showing site plans and elevations.
1902-1982
Stelco fonds
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AP017
Synopsis:
The Stelco fonds, 1902-1982, documents the buildings of the Steel Company of Canada’s two Montréal sites, located on Notre-Dame street in Little Burgundy and in Saint-Henri. The fond is composed of drawings showing site plans and elevations.
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Fonds
1902-1982
Project
AP178.S1.1990.PR09
Description:
The project series documents the Recuperação do Restaurante Pai Ramiro in Porto, Portugal. While the records were held in the office’s archives this project was assigned the number 19/90. The office assigned the dates 1990-1994 for this project. This project consists of a design for the restaurant Pai Ramiro in an existing eighteenth-century home. The restaurant was to have a capacity of 36 people, with a waiting bar, kitchen, storage spaces and a second-floor terrace. The building program proposed a bar area flooded in natural light from windows that revealed a backyard garden. The installation of air conditioning, a fire detection system and ventilation systems were also proposed. This project was not built. The project is recorded through drawings, photographic materials and some textual records dating from 1989-1995. The drawings include sketches, plans, elevations, sections, perspectives, details and framing drawings, while the photographic materials largely document the exisiting building. The textual records consist of correspondence, permit and supplier documentation, and the electrical program.
1989-1995
Recuperação do Restaurante Pai Ramiro [Pai Ramiro restaurant renovations], Porto, Portugal (1990-1994)
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AP178.S1.1990.PR09
Description:
The project series documents the Recuperação do Restaurante Pai Ramiro in Porto, Portugal. While the records were held in the office’s archives this project was assigned the number 19/90. The office assigned the dates 1990-1994 for this project. This project consists of a design for the restaurant Pai Ramiro in an existing eighteenth-century home. The restaurant was to have a capacity of 36 people, with a waiting bar, kitchen, storage spaces and a second-floor terrace. The building program proposed a bar area flooded in natural light from windows that revealed a backyard garden. The installation of air conditioning, a fire detection system and ventilation systems were also proposed. This project was not built. The project is recorded through drawings, photographic materials and some textual records dating from 1989-1995. The drawings include sketches, plans, elevations, sections, perspectives, details and framing drawings, while the photographic materials largely document the exisiting building. The textual records consist of correspondence, permit and supplier documentation, and the electrical program.
Project
1989-1995
Project
AP018.S1.1978.PR10
Description:
This project series documents an addition to the Toronto Sun building in downtown Toronto from 1978-1980. The office identified the project number as 7816. From 1973-1975, Parkin Architects Planners designed and constructed the Toronto Sun press plant and office building at 333 King Street East. This project documents an office addition made to the original building. This consisted of the addition of three floors to the existing three-storey structure. The top floor, the sixth, was the main focus of this project and included the executive suite with offices, a boardroom, a sunroom, and a private cafeteria. The project is recorded through drawings and textual materials dating from 1979-1982. Most drawings are reprographic copies arranged within the textual materials. The textual records consist of correspondence, site and meeting reports, financial records, change orders, contractor and consultancy records, supplementary instructions, specifications, tender documents, schedules, interoffice letters, a project notebook and project agendas. File AP018.S1.1978.PR10.002 contains an index to the textual records, which was created by the office.
1979-1982
The Toronto Sun Publishing Limited, Press Plant and Office Building, Office Addition, Toronto, Ontario (1978)
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AP018.S1.1978.PR10
Description:
This project series documents an addition to the Toronto Sun building in downtown Toronto from 1978-1980. The office identified the project number as 7816. From 1973-1975, Parkin Architects Planners designed and constructed the Toronto Sun press plant and office building at 333 King Street East. This project documents an office addition made to the original building. This consisted of the addition of three floors to the existing three-storey structure. The top floor, the sixth, was the main focus of this project and included the executive suite with offices, a boardroom, a sunroom, and a private cafeteria. The project is recorded through drawings and textual materials dating from 1979-1982. Most drawings are reprographic copies arranged within the textual materials. The textual records consist of correspondence, site and meeting reports, financial records, change orders, contractor and consultancy records, supplementary instructions, specifications, tender documents, schedules, interoffice letters, a project notebook and project agendas. File AP018.S1.1978.PR10.002 contains an index to the textual records, which was created by the office.
Project
1979-1982
Project
AP018.S1.1976.PR11
Description:
This project series documents the offices of Goldfarb Consultants Ltd. in North York, Ontario in 1976. The office identified the project number as 7616. Located on Yonge Street, this project consisted of a five-storey office building with three levels of underground parking. It is not evident from the project materials if this project was ever realized. The project is recorded through annotated reprographic copies of site plan and sections dating from 1976.
1976
Goldfarb Consultants Ltd., Office Building, North York, Ontario (1976)
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AP018.S1.1976.PR11
Description:
This project series documents the offices of Goldfarb Consultants Ltd. in North York, Ontario in 1976. The office identified the project number as 7616. Located on Yonge Street, this project consisted of a five-storey office building with three levels of underground parking. It is not evident from the project materials if this project was ever realized. The project is recorded through annotated reprographic copies of site plan and sections dating from 1976.
Project
1976