Sink or Swim
What would a city look like if its infrastructure was waterproof, buoyant and–why not!–amphibious? Given the anticipated rise of sea level at a global scale, the connection between the city and water in all its iterations–oceans, rivers, canals, waterways–is subject to change in the coming years. Montreal will be the playground of this creative laboratory of prototypes(...)
February 2017 to March 2017
Sink or Swim
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What would a city look like if its infrastructure was waterproof, buoyant and–why not!–amphibious? Given the anticipated rise of sea level at a global scale, the connection between the city and water in all its iterations–oceans, rivers, canals, waterways–is subject to change in the coming years. Montreal will be the playground of this creative laboratory of prototypes(...)
drawings
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21 presentation drawing(s)
DR1995:0188:241-261
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presentation drawings, possibly some for publication, including table of electrical and mechanical needs, perspective sketches, plans, sections with annotations, schematic sections of basic units and control systems for the Pilot Project, exterior perspective, plan, sections, axonometric drawings showing thermal and acoustic systems, site plan at Mill Meads, exterior views, structural details, site plan and flow chart for the Camden Town proposal, and site plans for a children's playground at Stratford E.15
Presentation drawings, possibly some for publication
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DR1995:0188:241-261
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presentation drawings, possibly some for publication, including table of electrical and mechanical needs, perspective sketches, plans, sections with annotations, schematic sections of basic units and control systems for the Pilot Project, exterior perspective, plan, sections, axonometric drawings showing thermal and acoustic systems, site plan at Mill Meads, exterior views, structural details, site plan and flow chart for the Camden Town proposal, and site plans for a children's playground at Stratford E.15
drawings
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21 presentation drawing(s)
photographs
ARCH269121
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Group consists of photographs of everyday life in Chandigarh, India, predominantly of streets markets. There is a photograph of the shopping area Shop-Cum-Flats II and a photograph of a street market in sector 23. There is also a photograph of inhabitants in front on the Cinema in sector 17 (designed by Pierre Jeanneret) and a photograph of another street market in sector 22. The group also includes a photograph of children playing on a playground with Houses Type 13-J in background.
ca. 1967-1979
Photographs of street markets in Chandigarh, India
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Group consists of photographs of everyday life in Chandigarh, India, predominantly of streets markets. There is a photograph of the shopping area Shop-Cum-Flats II and a photograph of a street market in sector 23. There is also a photograph of inhabitants in front on the Cinema in sector 17 (designed by Pierre Jeanneret) and a photograph of another street market in sector 22. The group also includes a photograph of children playing on a playground with Houses Type 13-J in background.
photographs
ca. 1967-1979
Project
AP178.S1.1983.PR02
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The project series documents the 1983 design entry for the competition of the Prinz-Albrecht-Palais Monument to Gestapo victims. While the records were held in the office’s archives this project was assigned the number 18/80. The office assigned the date 1983 for this project. This project was submitted to the International Architectural Exhibition Berlin competition (International Bauaustellung, IBA, circa 1979-1987), an urban renewal strategy for West Berlin, Germany. Siza had previously submitted four other projects to this competition: the Görtlitzer Bad swimming pool, Block 70 and 89 (Fränkelufer residential complex), Bonjour Tristesse (Block 121), and Block 11-12. He would also submit a design proposal to the IBA competition for the Kulturforum. According to the documentation from the IBA competition, entries for the memorial were to include a pedestrian walkway that cut through the memorial parallel to Schöneberger strasse leading to Kochstrasse. Entries were also to include a playground and along Stresemann strasse there was to be the addition of a two storey building and a corner building. Other requested components included a parking lot and a partial reconstruction of the Fine Arts School. Documenting the design proposal are conceptual and design development drawings, including studies, a site axonometric drawing, ground plan, site plan and north, south, and east elevations. Also included is textual documentation on the competition as well as correspondence from IBA officials such as Marion Wilbert. Photographic materials consist of slides of plans, sections and elevations.
1983-1984
Monumento às vítimas da Gestapo [Monument to Gestapo victims], Prinz-Albrecht-Palais, Berlin, Germany (1983)
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AP178.S1.1983.PR02
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The project series documents the 1983 design entry for the competition of the Prinz-Albrecht-Palais Monument to Gestapo victims. While the records were held in the office’s archives this project was assigned the number 18/80. The office assigned the date 1983 for this project. This project was submitted to the International Architectural Exhibition Berlin competition (International Bauaustellung, IBA, circa 1979-1987), an urban renewal strategy for West Berlin, Germany. Siza had previously submitted four other projects to this competition: the Görtlitzer Bad swimming pool, Block 70 and 89 (Fränkelufer residential complex), Bonjour Tristesse (Block 121), and Block 11-12. He would also submit a design proposal to the IBA competition for the Kulturforum. According to the documentation from the IBA competition, entries for the memorial were to include a pedestrian walkway that cut through the memorial parallel to Schöneberger strasse leading to Kochstrasse. Entries were also to include a playground and along Stresemann strasse there was to be the addition of a two storey building and a corner building. Other requested components included a parking lot and a partial reconstruction of the Fine Arts School. Documenting the design proposal are conceptual and design development drawings, including studies, a site axonometric drawing, ground plan, site plan and north, south, and east elevations. Also included is textual documentation on the competition as well as correspondence from IBA officials such as Marion Wilbert. Photographic materials consist of slides of plans, sections and elevations.
Project
1983-1984
Learning from... Dubai
Yasser Elsheshtawy presents the second lecture in the series Learning From… the Middle East.Whether presented as a playground for the super-rich, a land of unabashed consumerism, or an exemplary case study for capitalist exploitation – such portrayals ultimately suggest a one-sided dimension of the city of Dubai. The talk will examine the spaces of the everyday, the(...)
Paul-Desmarais Theatre
29 September 2011 , 7PM
Learning from... Dubai
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Yasser Elsheshtawy presents the second lecture in the series Learning From… the Middle East.Whether presented as a playground for the super-rich, a land of unabashed consumerism, or an exemplary case study for capitalist exploitation – such portrayals ultimately suggest a one-sided dimension of the city of Dubai. The talk will examine the spaces of the everyday, the(...)
Paul-Desmarais Theatre
textual records
Awards and certificates to Cornelia Hahn Oberlander from architecture and landscape associations
AP075.S3.SS3.013
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Contains: . Merit in design award from the Canadian Society of Lanscape Architects (CSLA) for the North Shore Neighbourhood House Playground in 1969 . Honour award and Merit award from the Canadian Society of Lanscape Architects (CSLA) for the Canthedral Place in 1992 . Certificat of life membership to the British Columbia Society of Lanscape Architects in 2001 . Lifetime Achivement Award from the Canadian Society of Lanscape Architects (CSLA) in 2006 . Honor Award from the New York Chapter of the American Society of Lanscape Architects (ASLA) for the New York Time Building Lobby Garden in New York in 2010
1969-2010
Awards and certificates to Cornelia Hahn Oberlander from architecture and landscape associations
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AP075.S3.SS3.013
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Contains: . Merit in design award from the Canadian Society of Lanscape Architects (CSLA) for the North Shore Neighbourhood House Playground in 1969 . Honour award and Merit award from the Canadian Society of Lanscape Architects (CSLA) for the Canthedral Place in 1992 . Certificat of life membership to the British Columbia Society of Lanscape Architects in 2001 . Lifetime Achivement Award from the Canadian Society of Lanscape Architects (CSLA) in 2006 . Honor Award from the New York Chapter of the American Society of Lanscape Architects (ASLA) for the New York Time Building Lobby Garden in New York in 2010
textual records
1969-2010
Project
AP075.S1.2008.PR02
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Project series documents Cornelia Hahn Oberlander's project for the Inuvik School, later known as East Three School, in Inuvik, Northwest Territories. The project consisted in the landscape design and a playground design for the new school replacing the Sir Alexander MacKenzie elementary school and the Samuel Herne Secondary School. Oberlander worked on this project from 2008 to 2012 with architects Pin/Taylor. During her design process, Oberlander consulted the teachers, parents, staff and students on ways to express their culture in the landscape design. She also had to adapt her design to the extreme climate of the region. Oberlander located the play court at the angle of the two buildings of the elementary school and the secondary school, to shelter it from the wind, and allowing small children to play outside. The plant selection was made by "harvesting local site and surrounding area for plant material" [1] and was also inspired by traditional cuisine. The project was completed in 2012. The project series also includes some documents related to a project possibly unrealized of the Jim Koe Park also in Inuvik, near the school. The project series contains design development drawings and working drawings, such as planting plans, irrigation plans, grading plans, landscape sections, and site plans. The drawings also includes sets of building plans used as reference. The project is also documented through correspondence, including with architects, suppliers, and consultants, specifications, scope of work, schematic design and design reports from architectural firm, minutes of meetings, and research material. Source: [1] Herrington, Susan. Cornelia Hahn Oberlander: Making the Modern Landscape, University of Virginia Press, 2014, 304 pages, p. 197.
1999-2014
Inuvik School, Inuvik, Northwest Territories (2008)
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AP075.S1.2008.PR02
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Project series documents Cornelia Hahn Oberlander's project for the Inuvik School, later known as East Three School, in Inuvik, Northwest Territories. The project consisted in the landscape design and a playground design for the new school replacing the Sir Alexander MacKenzie elementary school and the Samuel Herne Secondary School. Oberlander worked on this project from 2008 to 2012 with architects Pin/Taylor. During her design process, Oberlander consulted the teachers, parents, staff and students on ways to express their culture in the landscape design. She also had to adapt her design to the extreme climate of the region. Oberlander located the play court at the angle of the two buildings of the elementary school and the secondary school, to shelter it from the wind, and allowing small children to play outside. The plant selection was made by "harvesting local site and surrounding area for plant material" [1] and was also inspired by traditional cuisine. The project was completed in 2012. The project series also includes some documents related to a project possibly unrealized of the Jim Koe Park also in Inuvik, near the school. The project series contains design development drawings and working drawings, such as planting plans, irrigation plans, grading plans, landscape sections, and site plans. The drawings also includes sets of building plans used as reference. The project is also documented through correspondence, including with architects, suppliers, and consultants, specifications, scope of work, schematic design and design reports from architectural firm, minutes of meetings, and research material. Source: [1] Herrington, Susan. Cornelia Hahn Oberlander: Making the Modern Landscape, University of Virginia Press, 2014, 304 pages, p. 197.
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1999-2014
drawings, textual records
DR1995:0188:526-705
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correspondence, architect's statement, proposals, building programme for Fun Palace Project, drafts of promotional material, clippings, report on Camden Pilot project, report on Fun Palace Project, notes on circulation, access, and systems, meeting notes, notes, minute of meetings of the Cybernetics Committee, draft articles with annotations, memoranda, draft survey, drafts and sketches of Fun Palace booklet, publications, cost estimate, sketch axonometric of service tower, brochures, questionnaires, certificate of incorporation for the Fun Palace, trust deeds, planning papers, application forms and site drawings of Children's Playground dated 1974, report on land redevelopment, and includes course outline dated 1980 for the Architectural Association
Correspondence, architect's statement, proposals, building programme for Fun Palace Project
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DR1995:0188:526-705
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correspondence, architect's statement, proposals, building programme for Fun Palace Project, drafts of promotional material, clippings, report on Camden Pilot project, report on Fun Palace Project, notes on circulation, access, and systems, meeting notes, notes, minute of meetings of the Cybernetics Committee, draft articles with annotations, memoranda, draft survey, drafts and sketches of Fun Palace booklet, publications, cost estimate, sketch axonometric of service tower, brochures, questionnaires, certificate of incorporation for the Fun Palace, trust deeds, planning papers, application forms and site drawings of Children's Playground dated 1974, report on land redevelopment, and includes course outline dated 1980 for the Architectural Association
drawings, textual records
textual records
AP075.S3.SS2.149
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This box contains professional correspondence, organized in chronological order, from 1958-1993, with a bulk of documents dated from 1978-1993. This correspondence contains chiefly letters related to publishing in landscape architecture publications, correspondence with schools of architecture and landscape architects associations, such as the Canadian Society of Landscape Architects, about membership or attendance to events. It also comprises correspondence related to research on play and playgrounds, collaboration with organizations for children education, research and involvement in sustainable development. It also contains correspondence with city planning committees or other governmental institutions related to projects or consultation in landscape design, and letters of reference or offer of services. This correspondence also comprises a few letters related to Oberlander's projects such as Children's Creative Centre Playground at Expo '67 in Montréal, University of British Columbia Faculty Club additions (which includes correspondence with Arthur Erickson), the Museum of Anthropology. It includes mainly letters of congratulations or comments for her design.
1958-1993
Professional correspondence from 1958-1993
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AP075.S3.SS2.149
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This box contains professional correspondence, organized in chronological order, from 1958-1993, with a bulk of documents dated from 1978-1993. This correspondence contains chiefly letters related to publishing in landscape architecture publications, correspondence with schools of architecture and landscape architects associations, such as the Canadian Society of Landscape Architects, about membership or attendance to events. It also comprises correspondence related to research on play and playgrounds, collaboration with organizations for children education, research and involvement in sustainable development. It also contains correspondence with city planning committees or other governmental institutions related to projects or consultation in landscape design, and letters of reference or offer of services. This correspondence also comprises a few letters related to Oberlander's projects such as Children's Creative Centre Playground at Expo '67 in Montréal, University of British Columbia Faculty Club additions (which includes correspondence with Arthur Erickson), the Museum of Anthropology. It includes mainly letters of congratulations or comments for her design.
textual records
1958-1993
articles
The Spirit of Cornelia
Cornelia Hahn Oberlander, Martien de Vletter, landscape, play, playground, restoration, Robson Square, green roofs, garden, environment
25 May 2021