Project
Museum of Anthropology, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, British Columbia (1975-1977)
AP075.S1.1975.PR01
Description:
Project series documents Cornelia Hahn Oberlander's project for the grounds of the Museum of Anthropology located on the northern end of the University of British Columbia campus. Oberlander worked on this project from 1975-1976 with architect Arthur Erickson. The project was completed in 1976. Due to the location of museum on the Northwest Coast First Nations site, the building was designed to evoke a First Nations longhouse. Oberlander concept for the landscaping was inspired by the Northwest Coast First Nations culture. It initally included a reflecting pool to represent the coastal inlet and an ethnobotanically significant selection of plants. However some features from the original design, such as the reflecting pool and some of the indegenious planting, weren't realized until the mid-2000s. The shield the site from the noise of the busy NW Marine Drive, located next to the grounds, Oberlander included "a series of large mounds planted with Haida seed mix". [1] The project series contains reprographic copies of working drawings, including landscape plans, landscape sections and details, grading and irrigation plans, planting plans, and site plans. The project is also documented through textual records, including specification, correspondence with architects and clients, inspection reports, and some handwritten notes by Oberlander. The project series also comprises photographs of the museum site.
1974-1976
Museum of Anthropology, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, British Columbia (1975-1977)
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AP075.S1.1975.PR01
Description:
Project series documents Cornelia Hahn Oberlander's project for the grounds of the Museum of Anthropology located on the northern end of the University of British Columbia campus. Oberlander worked on this project from 1975-1976 with architect Arthur Erickson. The project was completed in 1976. Due to the location of museum on the Northwest Coast First Nations site, the building was designed to evoke a First Nations longhouse. Oberlander concept for the landscaping was inspired by the Northwest Coast First Nations culture. It initally included a reflecting pool to represent the coastal inlet and an ethnobotanically significant selection of plants. However some features from the original design, such as the reflecting pool and some of the indegenious planting, weren't realized until the mid-2000s. The shield the site from the noise of the busy NW Marine Drive, located next to the grounds, Oberlander included "a series of large mounds planted with Haida seed mix". [1] The project series contains reprographic copies of working drawings, including landscape plans, landscape sections and details, grading and irrigation plans, planting plans, and site plans. The project is also documented through textual records, including specification, correspondence with architects and clients, inspection reports, and some handwritten notes by Oberlander. The project series also comprises photographs of the museum site.
Project
1974-1976
drawings
AR1996:1001:377
Description:
section and plan of the 2nd floor museum and "Adoration Nocturne" showing sprinklers; Dominion Sprinkler Co. Ltd. for Notre-Dame de Montréal
March 1960
Section and plan of the 2nd floor museum and "Adoration Nocturne" showing sprinklers
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AR1996:1001:377
Description:
section and plan of the 2nd floor museum and "Adoration Nocturne" showing sprinklers; Dominion Sprinkler Co. Ltd. for Notre-Dame de Montréal
drawings
March 1960
ARCH402390
1967
DR1999:0074.001.001
1995
Isometric for The New National Museum of Korea, Seoul, South Korea
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DR1999:0074.001.001
ARCH278982
1961
Presentation drawing for the Museum of Knowledge, Sector 1, Chandigarh, India
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ARCH278982
textual records
AP075.S3.SS2.133
2011
Proposal for the University of British Columbia Beaty Biodiversity Museum, Vancouver
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AP075.S3.SS2.133
textual records
2011
Project
AP056.S1.1995.PR01
Description:
This project series documents a competition entry for the Korean American Museum of Art and Cultural Centre in Los Angeles in 1995. The office identified the project number as 9501. Headed by Bruce Kuwabara, this project proposed a three-storey building with a tall rotunda as its focal point at the corner of Olympic Boulevard and Irolo Street. The design included spaces for galleries, offices, studios, a library, an outdoor terrace that wrapped the rotunda's exterior, and a large theatre that spanned the three-storey height. Traditional Korean gardens were to make up a large part of the museum's outdoor space. This project was never built. The project is recorded through original drawings dating from on or around 1995 that consist of sketches, presentation drawings, plans, elevations, sections, perspectives and axonometric drawings.
1995
Korean American Museum of Art and Cultural Center Competition, Los Angeles (1995)
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AP056.S1.1995.PR01
Description:
This project series documents a competition entry for the Korean American Museum of Art and Cultural Centre in Los Angeles in 1995. The office identified the project number as 9501. Headed by Bruce Kuwabara, this project proposed a three-storey building with a tall rotunda as its focal point at the corner of Olympic Boulevard and Irolo Street. The design included spaces for galleries, offices, studios, a library, an outdoor terrace that wrapped the rotunda's exterior, and a large theatre that spanned the three-storey height. Traditional Korean gardens were to make up a large part of the museum's outdoor space. This project was never built. The project is recorded through original drawings dating from on or around 1995 that consist of sketches, presentation drawings, plans, elevations, sections, perspectives and axonometric drawings.
Project
1995
AP140.S2.SS1.D58.P4.1
1979-1985
Arthur M. Sackler Museum, Cambridge, Massachusetts: sketch plans and axonometrics
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AP140.S2.SS1.D58.P4.1
DR1993:0082
5 October 1883 ?
Natural History Museum / New Western Lodge: Plans, elevations and section
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DR1993:0082
ARCH288996
circa 1970s