Project
AP075.S1.1995.PR03
Description:
Project series documents Cornelia Hahn Oberlander's landscape project for the Chen Residence located on Drummond Drive, in Vancouver, British Columbia. Oberlander worked on this project in 1996 with architect Arthur Erickson and architectural firm Nick Milkovich Architects, who designed the residence. The project consisted in designing a woodland garden with a paved driveway, with trees planted along, leading to a parved front yard. The project serie contains design development drawings, including a planting plan, landscape plans, grading plans and planting plans, and presentation drawings. The project is also documented through landscape specifications, correspondence, concept notes by Oberlander, plant lists, meeting notes, financial documents and photographs of the construction of the residence and the landscaping work.
1995-1998
Chen Residence, Vancouver, British Columbia (1995-1998)
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AP075.S1.1995.PR03
Description:
Project series documents Cornelia Hahn Oberlander's landscape project for the Chen Residence located on Drummond Drive, in Vancouver, British Columbia. Oberlander worked on this project in 1996 with architect Arthur Erickson and architectural firm Nick Milkovich Architects, who designed the residence. The project consisted in designing a woodland garden with a paved driveway, with trees planted along, leading to a parved front yard. The project serie contains design development drawings, including a planting plan, landscape plans, grading plans and planting plans, and presentation drawings. The project is also documented through landscape specifications, correspondence, concept notes by Oberlander, plant lists, meeting notes, financial documents and photographs of the construction of the residence and the landscaping work.
Project
1995-1998
Project
AP075.S1.1994.PR02
Description:
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
Description:
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
Project
AP075.S1.1988.PR03
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Project series documents Cornelia Hahn Oberlander's landscape project for Les Terraces, an apartment tower located on Bellevue Avenue in West Vancouver, British Columbia. Oberlander worked on this project in 1988-1991 with architectural firm Matsuzaki Wright Architects. The project consisted in a landscape design for the looped drive and parking area in front of the appartment building entrance. The project series contains sketches, design development drawings, including proposed landscape designs, preliminary landscape plans, planting plans, and working drawings, such as irrigation plans, landscape plans and details for trellis, and building plans used as reference. The project series also comprises concept notes by Oberlander, correspondence with client and architects, minutes of meetings, financial document, landscape specifications and plant lists.
1988-1992
Les Terraces, West Vancouver, British Columbia (1988)
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AP075.S1.1988.PR03
Description:
Project series documents Cornelia Hahn Oberlander's landscape project for Les Terraces, an apartment tower located on Bellevue Avenue in West Vancouver, British Columbia. Oberlander worked on this project in 1988-1991 with architectural firm Matsuzaki Wright Architects. The project consisted in a landscape design for the looped drive and parking area in front of the appartment building entrance. The project series contains sketches, design development drawings, including proposed landscape designs, preliminary landscape plans, planting plans, and working drawings, such as irrigation plans, landscape plans and details for trellis, and building plans used as reference. The project series also comprises concept notes by Oberlander, correspondence with client and architects, minutes of meetings, financial document, landscape specifications and plant lists.
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1988-1992
Project
AP018.S1.1979.PR07
Description:
This project series documents an addition made to the press hall of the Toronto Sun building in downtown Toronto in 1979. The office identified the project number as 7907. From 1973-1975, Parkin Architects Planners designed and constructed the Toronto Sun press plant and office building at 333 King Street East. This project consisted of adding 7 new presses to press line no. 2 in that building, which in turn required construction of a new mezzanine at the perimeter of the presses. The drawings consist largely of reprographic copies of details and floor plans. The textual records include correspondence, conference reports, site reports, financial records, supplementary instructions, change orders and interoffice letters.
1976-1982
The Toronto Sun Publishing Limited, Press Plant and Office Building, Press Line No. 2 Addition, Toronto (1979)
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AP018.S1.1979.PR07
Description:
This project series documents an addition made to the press hall of the Toronto Sun building in downtown Toronto in 1979. The office identified the project number as 7907. From 1973-1975, Parkin Architects Planners designed and constructed the Toronto Sun press plant and office building at 333 King Street East. This project consisted of adding 7 new presses to press line no. 2 in that building, which in turn required construction of a new mezzanine at the perimeter of the presses. The drawings consist largely of reprographic copies of details and floor plans. The textual records include correspondence, conference reports, site reports, financial records, supplementary instructions, change orders and interoffice letters.
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1976-1982
Project
AP018.S1.1976.PR12
Description:
This project series documents the extension of the mezzanine level of the Toronto Sun building in downtown Toronto in 1976. The office identified the project number as 7617. This project consisted of the extension of the mezzanine floor in the roll storage area of the building's press plant and alterations done to the second floor washrooms and press hall locker. Parkin Architects Planners had designed and constructed the original Toronto Sun building at 333 King Street East from 1973-1975. The project is recorded through drawings and textual records dating from 1976-1977. Most of the drawings are originals and consist of plans, sections and details. The textual records primarily include conference reports and correspondence.
1976-1977
The Toronto Sun Publishing Limited, Press Plant and Office Building, Extension of Mezzanine Floor, Toronto (1976)
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AP018.S1.1976.PR12
Description:
This project series documents the extension of the mezzanine level of the Toronto Sun building in downtown Toronto in 1976. The office identified the project number as 7617. This project consisted of the extension of the mezzanine floor in the roll storage area of the building's press plant and alterations done to the second floor washrooms and press hall locker. Parkin Architects Planners had designed and constructed the original Toronto Sun building at 333 King Street East from 1973-1975. The project is recorded through drawings and textual records dating from 1976-1977. Most of the drawings are originals and consist of plans, sections and details. The textual records primarily include conference reports and correspondence.
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1976-1977
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AP018.S1.1970.PR01
Description:
This project series documents an addition to the IBM headquarters building in North York, Ontario from 1970-1971. The office identified the project number as 70002. This project consisted of an expansion to the north-west corner of the U-shaped building, which was located on top of a ravine at 1150 Eglington Avenue East, on the same property as the IBM plant. The planning for this addition had already commenced when the original building's construction began by Parkin Architects Planners in 1965 (see project series AP018.S1.1965.PR03 described in this fonds). The project is recorded through reprographic copies of drawings dating from 1970, which consist of construction sets of architectural, structural, electrical and mechanical drawings.
1970
IBM Headquarters Building, Addition, North York, Ontario (1970-1971)
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AP018.S1.1970.PR01
Description:
This project series documents an addition to the IBM headquarters building in North York, Ontario from 1970-1971. The office identified the project number as 70002. This project consisted of an expansion to the north-west corner of the U-shaped building, which was located on top of a ravine at 1150 Eglington Avenue East, on the same property as the IBM plant. The planning for this addition had already commenced when the original building's construction began by Parkin Architects Planners in 1965 (see project series AP018.S1.1965.PR03 described in this fonds). The project is recorded through reprographic copies of drawings dating from 1970, which consist of construction sets of architectural, structural, electrical and mechanical drawings.
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1970
DR1987:0531 R/V
Description:
- The floor plan on this sheet of drawings for Wayfarers' Chapel, Palos Verdes, California, was developed on the equilateral parallelogram grid which is ruled on the verso. The grid unit is inscribed on several orthographic drawings (eg. DR1987:0530) and is described by Lloyd Wright in the architect's statement (DR1987:0869:011:009). The plan includes the chapel, vestry and part of the cloister. The cross section includes a sketch of one of the wall planters.
architecture
between 1946 and 1950
Wayfarers' Chapel, Palos Verdes, California: Plan for chapel and campanile developed on an equilateral parallelogram grid and two sections through the chapel
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DR1987:0531 R/V
Description:
- The floor plan on this sheet of drawings for Wayfarers' Chapel, Palos Verdes, California, was developed on the equilateral parallelogram grid which is ruled on the verso. The grid unit is inscribed on several orthographic drawings (eg. DR1987:0530) and is described by Lloyd Wright in the architect's statement (DR1987:0869:011:009). The plan includes the chapel, vestry and part of the cloister. The cross section includes a sketch of one of the wall planters.
architecture
archives
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Fonds
Myron Goldsmith fonds
AP032
Synopsis:
The Myron Goldsmith fonds consists primarily of 30.4 metres of textual documents, including notebooks, research and reading notes, travel journals, documentation files, correspondence, sketchbooks and personal and office papers. There are also 2,800 original drawings and prints, 10,000 photographs and slides, and 5 architectural models. The material ranges in date from c.1933 to 1996. In shedding light on Goldsmith's student years and working career, the fonds' rich collection of documents also provides material on activities in the architectural profession, architectural education, and architectural and engineering theory and building techniques through the 1940s to the 1990s.
1933-1996
Myron Goldsmith fonds
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AP032
Synopsis:
The Myron Goldsmith fonds consists primarily of 30.4 metres of textual documents, including notebooks, research and reading notes, travel journals, documentation files, correspondence, sketchbooks and personal and office papers. There are also 2,800 original drawings and prints, 10,000 photographs and slides, and 5 architectural models. The material ranges in date from c.1933 to 1996. In shedding light on Goldsmith's student years and working career, the fonds' rich collection of documents also provides material on activities in the architectural profession, architectural education, and architectural and engineering theory and building techniques through the 1940s to the 1990s.
archives
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Fonds
1933-1996
drawings
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20 File
ARCH41278
Description:
assembly hall for Torpedo and Gunnery School, Combined Shops doors, Central Heating Plant doors, mastic and cement bases for hospital, Hospital galley and foyer, hospital x-ray room, windows and doors for Signal A.S.D.I.C. Building, hospital kitchen, galleys for General Office Building, Signal and A.S.D.I.C. Building conversion to barracks, changes to Barracks Building, counters and partitions, Hospital door, concrete column for General Offices, Hospital passage, pump house, fences and gates
Assembly hall for Torpedo and Gunnery School, Combined Shops doors
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ARCH41278
Description:
assembly hall for Torpedo and Gunnery School, Combined Shops doors, Central Heating Plant doors, mastic and cement bases for hospital, Hospital galley and foyer, hospital x-ray room, windows and doors for Signal A.S.D.I.C. Building, hospital kitchen, galleys for General Office Building, Signal and A.S.D.I.C. Building conversion to barracks, changes to Barracks Building, counters and partitions, Hospital door, concrete column for General Offices, Hospital passage, pump house, fences and gates
drawings
Quantity:
20 File
Project
AP075.S1.1953.PR02
Description:
This project series documents Cornelia Hahn Oberlander's project for the garden of Dr. and Mrs. S. Friedman residence, a split-level house designed by Fred Lasserre, at the corner of Chancellor Boulevard and Queensland Road in Vancouver, British Columbia. Oberlander worked on this project in 1953. The project was one of the first residence garden designs by Oberlander in Vancouver. Oberlander was hired to create a landscape for a triangle-shaped site with a steep slope. The project series contains a list of plants for the garden, reference drawings, and a survey plan for the lot, as well as design development and working drawings, and two photographs. Source: Herrington, Susan. Cornelia Hahn Oberlander: Making the Modern Landscape, University of Virginia Press, 2014, 304 pages.
1952-1966
Dr. and Mrs. S. Friedman Garden, Vancouver, British Columbia (1953-1966)
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AP075.S1.1953.PR02
Description:
This project series documents Cornelia Hahn Oberlander's project for the garden of Dr. and Mrs. S. Friedman residence, a split-level house designed by Fred Lasserre, at the corner of Chancellor Boulevard and Queensland Road in Vancouver, British Columbia. Oberlander worked on this project in 1953. The project was one of the first residence garden designs by Oberlander in Vancouver. Oberlander was hired to create a landscape for a triangle-shaped site with a steep slope. The project series contains a list of plants for the garden, reference drawings, and a survey plan for the lot, as well as design development and working drawings, and two photographs. Source: Herrington, Susan. Cornelia Hahn Oberlander: Making the Modern Landscape, University of Virginia Press, 2014, 304 pages.
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1952-1966