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John C. Parkin fonds
AP018
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The John C. Parkin fonds documents the professional career of Toronto-based architect John C. Parkin (1922-1988) at his firms John B. Parkin Associates and Parkin Architects Planners. Most materials in this fonds record 347 architectural projects covering the years 1947-1987. John C. Parkin’s professional involvement in the arts and architecture, his firms’ activities, and his professional achievements are also recorded.
1929-1987
John C. Parkin fonds
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The John C. Parkin fonds documents the professional career of Toronto-based architect John C. Parkin (1922-1988) at his firms John B. Parkin Associates and Parkin Architects Planners. Most materials in this fonds record 347 architectural projects covering the years 1947-1987. John C. Parkin’s professional involvement in the arts and architecture, his firms’ activities, and his professional achievements are also recorded.
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1929-1987
articles
Shifting Shores
Shifting Shores
Kirsten Keller and Feifei Zhou on the dynamic materialities of property-making in Jakarta
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textual records
CAEDM, vol. I, May 1972
ARCH253892
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report: A Community/Airport Economic Development Model. Volume II - Appendices to Volume I. By Jere J. Hinkle of Consad Research Corporation. Prepared for Department of Transportation, Federal Aviation Administration, Office of Environmental Quality. May 1972.
1972
CAEDM, vol. I, May 1972
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ARCH253892
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report: A Community/Airport Economic Development Model. Volume II - Appendices to Volume I. By Jere J. Hinkle of Consad Research Corporation. Prepared for Department of Transportation, Federal Aviation Administration, Office of Environmental Quality. May 1972.
textual records
1972
photographs
ARCH275902
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2 binders - miscellaneous project slides many of which are unlabeled. Includes Roy Thomson Hall and Man in the Community Pavilion, Expo '67, Montreal, the Canadian Pavilion, Expo '70 Osaka, Fintas Town Centre and Sawaber Housing Development.
ca. 1965-1980
Documentation slides for various projects
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ARCH275902
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2 binders - miscellaneous project slides many of which are unlabeled. Includes Roy Thomson Hall and Man in the Community Pavilion, Expo '67, Montreal, the Canadian Pavilion, Expo '70 Osaka, Fintas Town Centre and Sawaber Housing Development.
photographs
ca. 1965-1980
Inside the Sponge
Simmons Hall is an award-winning university dormitory designed by architect Steven Holl on the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) campus in Cambridge. Inspired by the sea sponge and the concept of porosity, the building is radical in structure and ambitious in its program to encourage social interaction. Inside the Sponge is an investigation of Simmons Hall from(...)
Octagonal gallery
10 August 2006 to 19 November 2006
Inside the Sponge
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Simmons Hall is an award-winning university dormitory designed by architect Steven Holl on the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) campus in Cambridge. Inspired by the sea sponge and the concept of porosity, the building is radical in structure and ambitious in its program to encourage social interaction. Inside the Sponge is an investigation of Simmons Hall from(...)
Octagonal gallery
articles
From This Place
From This Place
A conversation between Lukas Burkart (TEN), Daniel Ganz, and Shirana Shahbazi
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Forces of Friction
drawings
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4 presentation panel(s)
DR1995:0213:015-019
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architect's statement, graph, clippings, diagrams, plans, sections, and elevations of air structure projects, including inflatable furniture, surface oil containment, passenger coach, lifting device, community hall and cinema that relates possibly to Circlorama (AP144.S2.D51)
Architect's statement, graph, clippings, diagrams, plans, sections, and elevations
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DR1995:0213:015-019
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architect's statement, graph, clippings, diagrams, plans, sections, and elevations of air structure projects, including inflatable furniture, surface oil containment, passenger coach, lifting device, community hall and cinema that relates possibly to Circlorama (AP144.S2.D51)
drawings
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4 presentation panel(s)
textual records
ARCH258499
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Revue Canadienne d'Urbanisme (1961-1969), revues trimestrielles, publications diverses: ''L'Habitat urbain'' ''The Citizen's Role in Community Planning'' ''La Revue Municipale'' ''Congrès de Sept-Îles: textes des conférences'' ''Journées d'Étude de Trois-Rivières.''
1961-1969
Publications de l'Association Canadienne d'urbanisme
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Revue Canadienne d'Urbanisme (1961-1969), revues trimestrielles, publications diverses: ''L'Habitat urbain'' ''The Citizen's Role in Community Planning'' ''La Revue Municipale'' ''Congrès de Sept-Îles: textes des conférences'' ''Journées d'Étude de Trois-Rivières.''
textual records
1961-1969
DR1987:0433
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- This site plan for Swedenborg Memorial Chapel, El Cerrito, California, shows the elevation of the road leading up from the entrance of the side, including the grading of the site on either side of the road. This drawing also includes a small sketch at the lower right of the parking area on the community terrace.
architecture
10 October 1962
Swedenborg Memorial Chapel, El Cerrito, California: Partial site plan
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DR1987:0433
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- This site plan for Swedenborg Memorial Chapel, El Cerrito, California, shows the elevation of the road leading up from the entrance of the side, including the grading of the site on either side of the road. This drawing also includes a small sketch at the lower right of the parking area on the community terrace.
architecture
Celebrating the opening of the CCAs new building, Canadian Centre for Architecture: Building and Gardens reveals the potential of a museum of architecture as a statement: about the nature of the works it collects and exhibits; about its role in the life of a culture or a city; and about architecture itself. Both the restoration of the nineteenth-century Shaughnessy House(...)
Octagonal gallery
7 May 1989 to 25 March 1990
Canadian Centre for Architecture: Building and Gardens
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Celebrating the opening of the CCAs new building, Canadian Centre for Architecture: Building and Gardens reveals the potential of a museum of architecture as a statement: about the nature of the works it collects and exhibits; about its role in the life of a culture or a city; and about architecture itself. Both the restoration of the nineteenth-century Shaughnessy House(...)
Octagonal gallery