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
drawings, textual records, photographs
DR1999:0488
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documents include 8 negatives, competition data, associates, consultants, interior, laser, publication, historic places inventory, guide books and catalogues, site plan for Dallas Convention Center, acoustics, lighting, trade catalogues, geotechnical information, food service, trade catalogue, construction cost, electrical, heating ventilation air conditioning, correspondence, court/legal documents (complaints), agreements, contracts, financial records, color, floor plans
Negatives, competition data, associates, consultants, interior, laser, publication
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DR1999:0488
Description:
documents include 8 negatives, competition data, associates, consultants, interior, laser, publication, historic places inventory, guide books and catalogues, site plan for Dallas Convention Center, acoustics, lighting, trade catalogues, geotechnical information, food service, trade catalogue, construction cost, electrical, heating ventilation air conditioning, correspondence, court/legal documents (complaints), agreements, contracts, financial records, color, floor plans
drawings, textual records, photographs
DR1988:0437:017
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- This etching shows a fireworks construction or macchina in the form of a triumphal arch which is raised on a basement and flanked by two columns. Inside the arch is a statue of the Roger, the first Norman King of the Two Sicilies, while the top of the arch is crowned by the arms of the current King of the two Sicilies, Charles Bourbon.
temporary architecture
printed 1751
Etching of Posi's design for the "prima macchina" of 1751
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DR1988:0437:017
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- This etching shows a fireworks construction or macchina in the form of a triumphal arch which is raised on a basement and flanked by two columns. Inside the arch is a statue of the Roger, the first Norman King of the Two Sicilies, while the top of the arch is crowned by the arms of the current King of the two Sicilies, Charles Bourbon.
temporary architecture
archives
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Collection
CI007
Synopsis:
The Ludwig Mies van der Rohe and his students collection documents Mies's work as an architect, a designer and a consulting architect, between 1918 and 1981, as well as the work of his students at the Illinois Institute of Technology in Chicago, between 1938 and 1943. The collection is focussed on Mies's architectural projects and exhibition designs, mainly in Germany and in the United States.
1918-2000
Ludwig Mies van der Rohe and his students collection
CI007
Synopsis:
The Ludwig Mies van der Rohe and his students collection documents Mies's work as an architect, a designer and a consulting architect, between 1918 and 1981, as well as the work of his students at the Illinois Institute of Technology in Chicago, between 1938 and 1943. The collection is focussed on Mies's architectural projects and exhibition designs, mainly in Germany and in the United States.
archives
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Collection institutionnelle
1918-2000
drawings
ARCH268699
June 3, 1941
drawings
June 3, 1941
drawings
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2 reprographic copy(ies)
A site plan and a plan of the Saint-Auban factory for the Urbanization of Saint-Auban, France
ARCH268700
July 2, 1941
drawings
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2 reprographic copy(ies)
July 2, 1941
drawings
ARCH268701
January 15, 1941
drawings
January 15, 1941
drawings
ARCH268702
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Details of frame for an unidentified building.
ca. 1941
Details of a frame for an unidentified project
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ARCH268702
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Details of frame for an unidentified building.
drawings
ca. 1941
drawings
Quantity:
2 reprographic copy(ies)
ARCH268703
May 1942
drawings
Quantity:
2 reprographic copy(ies)
May 1942
drawings
ARCH268709
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An elevation and a plan for the project of an unidentified villa in Europe.
ca. 1945
Plan for an unidentified villa in Europe
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ARCH268709
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An elevation and a plan for the project of an unidentified villa in Europe.
drawings
ca. 1945