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DR2012:0012:085:026
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File containing documents in English, including correspondence, notes, waybills, writing drafts, and photocopies of floor plans for the Israel Museum with annotations in graphite, related to the exhibition, Displacements: the work of Melvin Charney. The exhibition included the following artworks: - Un dictionnaire .... illuminations; - The site, les maisons; - The site altered, les maisons de la rue; - Les maisons de la rue Sherbrooke; - Parable series ... clenched fists, greased palms; - Parable series ... with help, gasoline; - Parable no. 22 ... Battery Park City finally starts, New York; - Parable no. 25 ... re: visions of the temple; - The white city revisited ... Tel Aviv; - Origins of the white city ... no. 3, Paris. Original folder inscribed in graphite: ISRAEL MUSEUM / CAT TEXTS 1994-95
1995-1996
Correspondence, notes, waybills, writing drafts, and photocopies of floor plans related to exhibition "Displacements: the work of Melvin Charney"
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DR2012:0012:085:026
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File containing documents in English, including correspondence, notes, waybills, writing drafts, and photocopies of floor plans for the Israel Museum with annotations in graphite, related to the exhibition, Displacements: the work of Melvin Charney. The exhibition included the following artworks: - Un dictionnaire .... illuminations; - The site, les maisons; - The site altered, les maisons de la rue; - Les maisons de la rue Sherbrooke; - Parable series ... clenched fists, greased palms; - Parable series ... with help, gasoline; - Parable no. 22 ... Battery Park City finally starts, New York; - Parable no. 25 ... re: visions of the temple; - The white city revisited ... Tel Aviv; - Origins of the white city ... no. 3, Paris. Original folder inscribed in graphite: ISRAEL MUSEUM / CAT TEXTS 1994-95
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1995-1996
Scouting Skateboard Sites
Skateboarder and landscape architect Mathieu Robichaud takes participants on a guided walk, analysing the skateboarding potential of urban spaces. Robichaud, of the firm Bloom Paysage, specialises in the design of skate parks. Inspired by the exhibition Actions: What You Can Do With the City (2008), the CCA hosts a series of workshops devoted to public actions in urban(...)
11 April 2009
Scouting Skateboard Sites
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Skateboarder and landscape architect Mathieu Robichaud takes participants on a guided walk, analysing the skateboarding potential of urban spaces. Robichaud, of the firm Bloom Paysage, specialises in the design of skate parks. Inspired by the exhibition Actions: What You Can Do With the City (2008), the CCA hosts a series of workshops devoted to public actions in urban(...)
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Gene Summers fonds
AP114
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The Gene Summers fonds documents primarily the later part of Gene Summers' career as an architect, developer, artist and art collector. Summer's early work with the Office of Mies van der Rohe and C.F. Murphy Associates is summarily represented by notes, sketches and photographs.
1957 - 2004
Gene Summers fonds
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AP114
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The Gene Summers fonds documents primarily the later part of Gene Summers' career as an architect, developer, artist and art collector. Summer's early work with the Office of Mies van der Rohe and C.F. Murphy Associates is summarily represented by notes, sketches and photographs.
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1957 - 2004
Project
AP075.S1.1974.PR01
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Project series documents Cornelia Hahn Oberlander's project for the landscape of Robson Square Provincial Government Complex in Vancouver, British Columbia. Oberlander worked on this project in 1974-1982 with architect Arthur Erickson and architect Bing Thom. The project consisted in designing a new provincial civic complex that included a courthouse and provincial government offices. The initial plan consisted in a 55-storey highrise. Arthur Erickson suggested to lay the building on its side and spread it accross three city blocks (known as Block 51, Block 61 and Block 71) and add a green roof to create linear park. Oberlander's ideas for the landscape concept was to create a space accessible for everyone that will be attractive and interesting in all seasons. Her design consisted in a series of pathways, stairs and terraces, mainly situated on Block 61, and rising gradually up to 30 feets above the Robson street level. The design was intented to "encourage pedestrians to cut accross the urban grid". [1] Planters where included to buildings facades to create a hanging garden using hanging plants. The project series contains design development drawings and working drawings for the landscape design, such as landscape plans, landscape sections, elevations and details, grading and irrigation plans, and planting plans. The drawings includes in this project series also comprises plans of the complex buildings used as reference. The majority of the drawings are reprographic copies. The series also comprises five original sketches by Oberlander. The project is also documented through interior and exterior photographs of the building, photographs of the landscape and various views of the completed complex. The project series also includes textual records, including documents related to the plants selection, specifications, financial documents, concept development notes of Oberlander, correspondence with architects, clients and consultants, documentation and research material, and clippings and articles on Robson Square project. Source: [1] Herrington, Susan. Cornelia Hahn Oberlander: Making the Modern Landscape, University of Virginia Press, 2014, 304 pages. p. 123.
1970-1995
Robson Square Provincial Government Complex, Vancouver, British Columbia (1974-1982)
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AP075.S1.1974.PR01
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Project series documents Cornelia Hahn Oberlander's project for the landscape of Robson Square Provincial Government Complex in Vancouver, British Columbia. Oberlander worked on this project in 1974-1982 with architect Arthur Erickson and architect Bing Thom. The project consisted in designing a new provincial civic complex that included a courthouse and provincial government offices. The initial plan consisted in a 55-storey highrise. Arthur Erickson suggested to lay the building on its side and spread it accross three city blocks (known as Block 51, Block 61 and Block 71) and add a green roof to create linear park. Oberlander's ideas for the landscape concept was to create a space accessible for everyone that will be attractive and interesting in all seasons. Her design consisted in a series of pathways, stairs and terraces, mainly situated on Block 61, and rising gradually up to 30 feets above the Robson street level. The design was intented to "encourage pedestrians to cut accross the urban grid". [1] Planters where included to buildings facades to create a hanging garden using hanging plants. The project series contains design development drawings and working drawings for the landscape design, such as landscape plans, landscape sections, elevations and details, grading and irrigation plans, and planting plans. The drawings includes in this project series also comprises plans of the complex buildings used as reference. The majority of the drawings are reprographic copies. The series also comprises five original sketches by Oberlander. The project is also documented through interior and exterior photographs of the building, photographs of the landscape and various views of the completed complex. The project series also includes textual records, including documents related to the plants selection, specifications, financial documents, concept development notes of Oberlander, correspondence with architects, clients and consultants, documentation and research material, and clippings and articles on Robson Square project. Source: [1] Herrington, Susan. Cornelia Hahn Oberlander: Making the Modern Landscape, University of Virginia Press, 2014, 304 pages. p. 123.
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1970-1995
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AP178.S1.2002.PR05
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This project series documents the Parque de Vidago in Vidago, Portugal. While the records were held in the office’s archives this project was assigned the number 49/00. The office assigned the dates 2002-2010 to this project. This project consisted of extensive modifications to the spa resort Parque de Vidago Palace Hotel for owner VMPS - Águas & Turismo, S.A, part of Unicer (now Super Bock Group). The Palace Hotel and its surrounding nature park were originally proposed by King Carlos I at the beginning of the 20th century in order to create a luxurious resort around the famous Vidago mineral springs. In 2006, the resort was temporarily closed for the work to begin. For Siza, this primarily consisted of the construction of a new thermal spa, the conversion of rural buildings into vacation homes, and the building of a new clubhouse for the golf course. These three aspects of the project were divided as three subprojects by the office and have been arranged under AP178.S1.2002.PR05.SS1, AP178.S1.2002.PR05.SS2 and AP178.S1.2002.PR05.SS3, respectively. While the spa and clubhouse were both built, the vacation homes were not realized. The resort reopened in 2010. Several smaller buildings were also realized as part of this project including the Fonte Salus (spring), the Fonte de Vidago (spring) and the Portaria (gatehouse). Materials for these three building are arranged in AP178.S1.2002.PR05.SS1. Also included were several buildings that were not realized such as the Academia de golfe and the Edifício da manutenção (arranged in AP178.S1.2002.PR05.SS3), and the Espaço Serralves (arranged in AP178.S1.2002.PR05.SS1). This project was realized in tandem with another similar project by Siza, the Parque de Pedras Salgadas (AP178.S1.2002.PR06), also owned by Unicer. For this reason, the materials for both projects are mixed together. Files in this project series that contain materials for the Pedras Salgadas project have been identified at the file level.
2002-2012
Parque de Vidago [Vidago Palace], Vidago, Portugal (2002-2010)
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AP178.S1.2002.PR05
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This project series documents the Parque de Vidago in Vidago, Portugal. While the records were held in the office’s archives this project was assigned the number 49/00. The office assigned the dates 2002-2010 to this project. This project consisted of extensive modifications to the spa resort Parque de Vidago Palace Hotel for owner VMPS - Águas & Turismo, S.A, part of Unicer (now Super Bock Group). The Palace Hotel and its surrounding nature park were originally proposed by King Carlos I at the beginning of the 20th century in order to create a luxurious resort around the famous Vidago mineral springs. In 2006, the resort was temporarily closed for the work to begin. For Siza, this primarily consisted of the construction of a new thermal spa, the conversion of rural buildings into vacation homes, and the building of a new clubhouse for the golf course. These three aspects of the project were divided as three subprojects by the office and have been arranged under AP178.S1.2002.PR05.SS1, AP178.S1.2002.PR05.SS2 and AP178.S1.2002.PR05.SS3, respectively. While the spa and clubhouse were both built, the vacation homes were not realized. The resort reopened in 2010. Several smaller buildings were also realized as part of this project including the Fonte Salus (spring), the Fonte de Vidago (spring) and the Portaria (gatehouse). Materials for these three building are arranged in AP178.S1.2002.PR05.SS1. Also included were several buildings that were not realized such as the Academia de golfe and the Edifício da manutenção (arranged in AP178.S1.2002.PR05.SS3), and the Espaço Serralves (arranged in AP178.S1.2002.PR05.SS1). This project was realized in tandem with another similar project by Siza, the Parque de Pedras Salgadas (AP178.S1.2002.PR06), also owned by Unicer. For this reason, the materials for both projects are mixed together. Files in this project series that contain materials for the Pedras Salgadas project have been identified at the file level.
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2002-2012
Gilles Clément
French horticultural engineer and landscape architect Gilles Clément presents his projects and theories in the context of the CCA exhibition Environment: Approaches for Tomorrow (2006). The exhibition proposes a shift in perspective that takes the environment, and not human demands on the environment, as the starting point for reflection. Clément has designed numerous(...)
Paul Desmarais Theatre
19 October 2006
Gilles Clément
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French horticultural engineer and landscape architect Gilles Clément presents his projects and theories in the context of the CCA exhibition Environment: Approaches for Tomorrow (2006). The exhibition proposes a shift in perspective that takes the environment, and not human demands on the environment, as the starting point for reflection. Clément has designed numerous(...)
Paul Desmarais Theatre
Absent Wall: Recalling Gordon Matta-Clark’s Garbage Wall (1970), an installation in the CCA’s Baile Park, is a symbolic structure that evokes Matta-Clark’s interest in recycling, leftover spaces, and alternatives to architectural design. On the occasion of the first Earth Day, Gordon Matta-Clark orchestrated an event at Manhattan’s St. Mark’s Church that took place from(...)
Baile Park
6 May 2004 to 6 September 2004
Absent Wall: Recalling Gordon Matta-Clark’s Garbage Wall (1970)
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Absent Wall: Recalling Gordon Matta-Clark’s Garbage Wall (1970), an installation in the CCA’s Baile Park, is a symbolic structure that evokes Matta-Clark’s interest in recycling, leftover spaces, and alternatives to architectural design. On the occasion of the first Earth Day, Gordon Matta-Clark orchestrated an event at Manhattan’s St. Mark’s Church that took place from(...)
Baile Park
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ARCH167271
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Projet de mur de soutènement de la rue de la Commune 8 photographies couleurs: Vues de la maquette, 10 x 15 cm 2 photographies: Vue du chantier de construction et dessin du projet, jusqu'à 13 x 21 cm 2 exemplaires: Dépliant "Le Faubourg Québec", vol 2, no 1, 1993 et vol 3, no 1, 1994 3 feuillets: Projet "Bay-Adelaide Park" de Baird/Sampson pour Toronto photocopies 3 feuillets: notes manuscrites 2 photocopies: Coupes du mur, 21,5 x 35,5 cm 4 photocopies de photographies: Vues du site, 21,5 x 35,5 cm 1 feuillet: Ordre du jour de la réunion chantier no 1, 28 juillet 1995 1 feuillet: Notes manuscrites par Jacques Rousseau 2 feuillets: Échéanciers, format légal 17 feuillets: Détails de construction d'un mur 5 cartes d'affaire
juin 1995
Projet de mur de soutènement de la rue de la Commune
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ARCH167271
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Projet de mur de soutènement de la rue de la Commune 8 photographies couleurs: Vues de la maquette, 10 x 15 cm 2 photographies: Vue du chantier de construction et dessin du projet, jusqu'à 13 x 21 cm 2 exemplaires: Dépliant "Le Faubourg Québec", vol 2, no 1, 1993 et vol 3, no 1, 1994 3 feuillets: Projet "Bay-Adelaide Park" de Baird/Sampson pour Toronto photocopies 3 feuillets: notes manuscrites 2 photocopies: Coupes du mur, 21,5 x 35,5 cm 4 photocopies de photographies: Vues du site, 21,5 x 35,5 cm 1 feuillet: Ordre du jour de la réunion chantier no 1, 28 juillet 1995 1 feuillet: Notes manuscrites par Jacques Rousseau 2 feuillets: Échéanciers, format légal 17 feuillets: Détails de construction d'un mur 5 cartes d'affaire
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juin 1995
Cedric Price: Mean Time
British architect Cedric Price draws upon the collection of the CCA to develop the complex relationships between time, movement, and space in the built environment. Looking at structures and building elements through the ages, including some of Price’s own projects, Mean Time presents photographs of an ancient Aztec sun dial, a railroad switching yard, a shot tower, and a(...)
Octagonal gallery
19 October 1999 to 27 February 2000
Cedric Price: Mean Time
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British architect Cedric Price draws upon the collection of the CCA to develop the complex relationships between time, movement, and space in the built environment. Looking at structures and building elements through the ages, including some of Price’s own projects, Mean Time presents photographs of an ancient Aztec sun dial, a railroad switching yard, a shot tower, and a(...)
Octagonal gallery
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AP018.S1.1969.PR04
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This project series documents the master plan for the future Art Gallery of Ontario (AGO) expansion projects in Toronto in 1969. The office identified the project number as 69035. This project outlines the complete master plan for future expansions of the gallery. For decades, the AGO, under its previous name, The Art Gallery of Toronto, consisted of the nineteenth century Grange mansion and a gallery to its north. The project shows the growth of the AGO from two small buildings surrounded by parks to a much larger two storey building that would touch Dundas Street to the north, Beverly Street to the West, and McCaul Street and the Ontario College of Art to the East. In total, three stages were proposed in this plan to increase the AGO sevenfold from 32,000 square feet of gallery space to 253,000 square feet. In addition, a parking lot was proposed in the Dundas Street Mall to the east of the gallery. Originally, the stages were known in the documentation as Phases I, II, III, and IA but their names evolved with the project. Each stage was eventually given its own project number by the office and the original master plan documented in this project series changed in size and design over the years. This project contract was originally given to John B. Parkin Associates. However, 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, including presentation boards, dating from 1965-1978. The majority of these are original drawings showing the design planning of the art gallery.
1965-1981
Art Gallery of Ontario, The Master Plan, Toronto (1969)
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AP018.S1.1969.PR04
Description:
This project series documents the master plan for the future Art Gallery of Ontario (AGO) expansion projects in Toronto in 1969. The office identified the project number as 69035. This project outlines the complete master plan for future expansions of the gallery. For decades, the AGO, under its previous name, The Art Gallery of Toronto, consisted of the nineteenth century Grange mansion and a gallery to its north. The project shows the growth of the AGO from two small buildings surrounded by parks to a much larger two storey building that would touch Dundas Street to the north, Beverly Street to the West, and McCaul Street and the Ontario College of Art to the East. In total, three stages were proposed in this plan to increase the AGO sevenfold from 32,000 square feet of gallery space to 253,000 square feet. In addition, a parking lot was proposed in the Dundas Street Mall to the east of the gallery. Originally, the stages were known in the documentation as Phases I, II, III, and IA but their names evolved with the project. Each stage was eventually given its own project number by the office and the original master plan documented in this project series changed in size and design over the years. This project contract was originally given to John B. Parkin Associates. However, 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, including presentation boards, dating from 1965-1978. The majority of these are original drawings showing the design planning of the art gallery.
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1965-1981