Project
AP056.S1.1988.PR10
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This project series documents the design and construction of the Reisman-Jenkinson residence and studio located at 92 Westwood Lane in Richmond Hill, Ontario from 1988-1991. The office identified the project number as 8813. This project consisted of a house and an attached studio with split-face concrete block exteriors for sculptor Stephen Jenkinson and writer Dolly Reisman. The house was divided into four wings, referred to in the documentation as Building A, Building B, Building C, and Building D. Building A was the studio at the front of the property, which had a distinctive marquis roof made of metal that fanned into a skylight. Building B, the main living area, was a loft-style building that included the kitchen, dining room, living room and conservatory on the ground floor and an office and storage spaces in the basement. This building was marked by large glass walls at the front of the property and a pyramid-shaped skylight above the kitchen. Building C extended towards the back of the property and was considered the sleeping wing, housing bedrooms at the ground floor and a playroom in the basement. Finally, Building D, which sat on the back corner of Building C, was the master bedroom and included a gym at the basement level. Buildings B, C, and D created a semi circle whose interior contained an exterior courtyard and gardens. Multiple schemes were investigated for this project, including different layouts of the basements and the ground floor of Building C. The project is recorded through original drawings, textual records and photographs dating from 1988-1991. The drawings document the design and construction of the home and include plans, sections, elevations, axonometric drawings and perspectives of interiors, exteriors and furnishings. Also present are structural, electrical and mechanical drawings issued for construction. Textual records are included to support the drawings. The photographs show the completed home.
1988-1991
Reisman-Jenkinson House, Richmond Hill, Ontario (1988-1991)
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AP056.S1.1988.PR10
Description:
This project series documents the design and construction of the Reisman-Jenkinson residence and studio located at 92 Westwood Lane in Richmond Hill, Ontario from 1988-1991. The office identified the project number as 8813. This project consisted of a house and an attached studio with split-face concrete block exteriors for sculptor Stephen Jenkinson and writer Dolly Reisman. The house was divided into four wings, referred to in the documentation as Building A, Building B, Building C, and Building D. Building A was the studio at the front of the property, which had a distinctive marquis roof made of metal that fanned into a skylight. Building B, the main living area, was a loft-style building that included the kitchen, dining room, living room and conservatory on the ground floor and an office and storage spaces in the basement. This building was marked by large glass walls at the front of the property and a pyramid-shaped skylight above the kitchen. Building C extended towards the back of the property and was considered the sleeping wing, housing bedrooms at the ground floor and a playroom in the basement. Finally, Building D, which sat on the back corner of Building C, was the master bedroom and included a gym at the basement level. Buildings B, C, and D created a semi circle whose interior contained an exterior courtyard and gardens. Multiple schemes were investigated for this project, including different layouts of the basements and the ground floor of Building C. The project is recorded through original drawings, textual records and photographs dating from 1988-1991. The drawings document the design and construction of the home and include plans, sections, elevations, axonometric drawings and perspectives of interiors, exteriors and furnishings. Also present are structural, electrical and mechanical drawings issued for construction. Textual records are included to support the drawings. The photographs show the completed home.
Project
1988-1991
Project
AP018.S1.1974.PR17
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This project series documents renovations to the Minaki Lodge in Minaki, Ontario from 1974-1977. The office identified the project number as 7422. The Minaki Lodge, owned by the Government of Ontario at the time of this project, was located on the banks of the Winnipeg River and was originally built in 1914 by the Grand Trunk Pacific Railway. The site included an X-shaped main lodge, a motor lodge and power house, a ski chalet and Holst Point on a nearby island. This project, which was phase I of the work, consisted of renovations to the main lodge including a complete reimagining of the interior layouts and the addition of a new convention hall and approximately 200 new guest rooms. This project mainly consisted of work on the interior layouts, while work for the additions continued under a new project number assigned by the office (see project series AP018.S1.1974.PR18 in this fonds). Drawings in this project series include drawings of the building before this project, at several points in its history. Originals and reprographic copies from 1945 were prepared by architect John Schofield for the Canadian National Railways. Reprographic copies of drawings dating from 1925-1930 were prepared by the Canadian National Railways. Reprographic copies from 1972 were prepared by architect Jack M. Ross. The project is recorded through drawings, photographs and textual records dating primarily from 1974-1977. There are originals of drawings from 1925-1926 prepared by the Canadian National Railways for a different project. The photographs show the building before this project commenced. The textual records include correspondence, conference and site reports, interoffice letters, consultancy files, zoning documentation, financial records, tender documents, change orders, design notes, specifications and supplementary instructions.
1974-1977
Minaki Lodge, Renovations, Minaki, Ontario (1974-1977)
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AP018.S1.1974.PR17
Description:
This project series documents renovations to the Minaki Lodge in Minaki, Ontario from 1974-1977. The office identified the project number as 7422. The Minaki Lodge, owned by the Government of Ontario at the time of this project, was located on the banks of the Winnipeg River and was originally built in 1914 by the Grand Trunk Pacific Railway. The site included an X-shaped main lodge, a motor lodge and power house, a ski chalet and Holst Point on a nearby island. This project, which was phase I of the work, consisted of renovations to the main lodge including a complete reimagining of the interior layouts and the addition of a new convention hall and approximately 200 new guest rooms. This project mainly consisted of work on the interior layouts, while work for the additions continued under a new project number assigned by the office (see project series AP018.S1.1974.PR18 in this fonds). Drawings in this project series include drawings of the building before this project, at several points in its history. Originals and reprographic copies from 1945 were prepared by architect John Schofield for the Canadian National Railways. Reprographic copies of drawings dating from 1925-1930 were prepared by the Canadian National Railways. Reprographic copies from 1972 were prepared by architect Jack M. Ross. The project is recorded through drawings, photographs and textual records dating primarily from 1974-1977. There are originals of drawings from 1925-1926 prepared by the Canadian National Railways for a different project. The photographs show the building before this project commenced. The textual records include correspondence, conference and site reports, interoffice letters, consultancy files, zoning documentation, financial records, tender documents, change orders, design notes, specifications and supplementary instructions.
Project
1974-1977
Project
AP018.S1.1974.PR22
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This project series documents the design and construction of the medical clinic building at the Etobicoke General Hospital site in Etobicoke, Ontario from 1974-1980. The office identified the project number as 7428. At the same time that Parkin Architects Planners was constructing the Etobicoke General Hospital, they began working on this project, an adjacent medical clinic that would be attached to the hospital via tunnel. This project consisted of an 80 suite medical centre with a proposed space of 65,000 square feet including the building’s basement. The building shared architectural unity with the neighbouring hospital but was built at a distance in order to allow for future expansions of the hospital. In the project materials, the building is also referred to as the Professional Building. A prominent part of this project was design work for the radiology department in the clinic. It should be noted when viewing textual records and drawings in this project series that many are entitled Rexdale Radiological Services Limited. This project originally began under a different project number assigned by the office, but was built under this project number after the building's location was changed. This original project is also described in the fonds (see project series AP018.S1.1972.PR14). The project is recorded through drawings, photographs and textual records dating from 1974-1980. A large part of the drawings show site plans, but elevations, sections, details and floor plans are also included. The photographs track the construction progress of the project. The textual records include correspondence, meeting minutes and reports, specifications, tender documents, change orders, supplementary instructions, design records, site reports and detail planning records. Box AP018.S1.1974.PR22.009 contains an index to the textual records, which was created by the office.
1974-1980
Etobicoke General Hospital, Medical Clinic Building, Etobicoke Ontario (1974-1980)
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AP018.S1.1974.PR22
Description:
This project series documents the design and construction of the medical clinic building at the Etobicoke General Hospital site in Etobicoke, Ontario from 1974-1980. The office identified the project number as 7428. At the same time that Parkin Architects Planners was constructing the Etobicoke General Hospital, they began working on this project, an adjacent medical clinic that would be attached to the hospital via tunnel. This project consisted of an 80 suite medical centre with a proposed space of 65,000 square feet including the building’s basement. The building shared architectural unity with the neighbouring hospital but was built at a distance in order to allow for future expansions of the hospital. In the project materials, the building is also referred to as the Professional Building. A prominent part of this project was design work for the radiology department in the clinic. It should be noted when viewing textual records and drawings in this project series that many are entitled Rexdale Radiological Services Limited. This project originally began under a different project number assigned by the office, but was built under this project number after the building's location was changed. This original project is also described in the fonds (see project series AP018.S1.1972.PR14). The project is recorded through drawings, photographs and textual records dating from 1974-1980. A large part of the drawings show site plans, but elevations, sections, details and floor plans are also included. The photographs track the construction progress of the project. The textual records include correspondence, meeting minutes and reports, specifications, tender documents, change orders, supplementary instructions, design records, site reports and detail planning records. Box AP018.S1.1974.PR22.009 contains an index to the textual records, which was created by the office.
Project
1974-1980
Project
AP075.S1.1983.PR01
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Project series documents Cornelia Hahn Oberlander's design for the interior and exterior landscape of National Gallery of Canada in Ottawa. Oberlander worked on this project from 1983-1995 with architects Moshe Safdie and John C. Parkin. Oberlander's overall concept for the landscaping was based on the building organizational pattern of a city. She created "a pathway system that connected the front of the National Gallery to Nepean Point behind the gallery." [1] Oberlander landscape design includes the design of three exterior area and a courtyard. Each space is design in relations to the art displayed in the immediate indoor gallery: the Taiga Garden "flanks the gallery's interior glass-and-concrete collonade that leads to the Canadian and Aboriginal Art galleries." [2]; the Minimalist Courtyard relates to the modern art collection gallery; the zigzag-shaped pathway passes between the National War Museum and the new gallery; and interior courtyard links the restored ninetheeth-century Rideau Chapel relocated inside the National Gallery and provides and church-like atmosphere. The project series contains textual records, including specifications, correspondence, documentation, financial documents, plant lists, press clippings about the project, and Oberlander's concept development notes. The project is also recorded through photographic materials, such as slides and photographs of the construction of the building and the landscape work and the photographs of the completed project. The project series also includes conceptual drawings, design develepment drawings, working drawings and presentation drawings, including landscape plans, planting plans, grading and irrigation plans and building plans used as reference. Source: [1] Herrington, Susan. Cornelia Hahn Oberlander: Making the Modern Landscape, University of Virginia Press, 2014, 304 pages, p. 165. [2] Herrington, Susan. Cornelia Hahn Oberlander: Making the Modern Landscape, University of Virginia Press, 2014, 304 pages, p. 166.
1983-2005
National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa, Ontario (1983-1990)
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AP075.S1.1983.PR01
Description:
Project series documents Cornelia Hahn Oberlander's design for the interior and exterior landscape of National Gallery of Canada in Ottawa. Oberlander worked on this project from 1983-1995 with architects Moshe Safdie and John C. Parkin. Oberlander's overall concept for the landscaping was based on the building organizational pattern of a city. She created "a pathway system that connected the front of the National Gallery to Nepean Point behind the gallery." [1] Oberlander landscape design includes the design of three exterior area and a courtyard. Each space is design in relations to the art displayed in the immediate indoor gallery: the Taiga Garden "flanks the gallery's interior glass-and-concrete collonade that leads to the Canadian and Aboriginal Art galleries." [2]; the Minimalist Courtyard relates to the modern art collection gallery; the zigzag-shaped pathway passes between the National War Museum and the new gallery; and interior courtyard links the restored ninetheeth-century Rideau Chapel relocated inside the National Gallery and provides and church-like atmosphere. The project series contains textual records, including specifications, correspondence, documentation, financial documents, plant lists, press clippings about the project, and Oberlander's concept development notes. The project is also recorded through photographic materials, such as slides and photographs of the construction of the building and the landscape work and the photographs of the completed project. The project series also includes conceptual drawings, design develepment drawings, working drawings and presentation drawings, including landscape plans, planting plans, grading and irrigation plans and building plans used as reference. Source: [1] Herrington, Susan. Cornelia Hahn Oberlander: Making the Modern Landscape, University of Virginia Press, 2014, 304 pages, p. 165. [2] Herrington, Susan. Cornelia Hahn Oberlander: Making the Modern Landscape, University of Virginia Press, 2014, 304 pages, p. 166.
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1983-2005
Project
AP198.S1.1997.PR01
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Project records document OCEAN North’s design for their competition entry for the Töölö Football Stadium in Helsinki in 1997. The project was titled Open Arena by OCEAN North. The site for the football stadium was in the Töölö neighbourhood, between a park area including the Helsinki Olympic Stadium, and a residential area. OCEAN North’s entry was a building that would integrate with its natural surroundings while being able to accommodate a variety of activities and events. The structure for Open Arena has three topological surfaces. The first provides stadium access to the players and the public, and includes services such as restaurant, cafeteria, and bars. Its shape aims to integrate with the natural landscape. The second contains the audience seating areas, including VIP and press areas, and aimed to arrange the audience as if it was loosely dispersed on a hillside. The third topological surface consists of the roof. The Töölö Football Stadium marks the introduction of the Channelling Systems process, defining building’s integration to its surroundings and distributing functions across the structure. Records show different stages of the design process and include two digitized photographs of Plexiglas sections that were used to physically explore the design. Digital files are grouped under categories such as Board images, Board lay-out, Graft, Sections, Siteplans, digital model images, scanned plans and site images. This last directory contains digitized photographs of the grounds surrounding the Helsinki Olympic Stadium. All drawings are vector or raster images of the whole or parts of the structure, with some including the identifications of the structure’s parts. Project records also include preliminary or working plans. Most were drawn to scale on paper and some were printed from CAD drawings. They chiefly reflect the design work to define the surfaces and shapes of the stadium’s structure. Source: Ateljé Sotamaa. “Portfolio: Open Arena”. http://portfolio.sotamaa.net/Open-Arena accessed in February 2018.
1997
Open Arena – Töölö Football Stadium, international competition entry
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AP198.S1.1997.PR01
Description:
Project records document OCEAN North’s design for their competition entry for the Töölö Football Stadium in Helsinki in 1997. The project was titled Open Arena by OCEAN North. The site for the football stadium was in the Töölö neighbourhood, between a park area including the Helsinki Olympic Stadium, and a residential area. OCEAN North’s entry was a building that would integrate with its natural surroundings while being able to accommodate a variety of activities and events. The structure for Open Arena has three topological surfaces. The first provides stadium access to the players and the public, and includes services such as restaurant, cafeteria, and bars. Its shape aims to integrate with the natural landscape. The second contains the audience seating areas, including VIP and press areas, and aimed to arrange the audience as if it was loosely dispersed on a hillside. The third topological surface consists of the roof. The Töölö Football Stadium marks the introduction of the Channelling Systems process, defining building’s integration to its surroundings and distributing functions across the structure. Records show different stages of the design process and include two digitized photographs of Plexiglas sections that were used to physically explore the design. Digital files are grouped under categories such as Board images, Board lay-out, Graft, Sections, Siteplans, digital model images, scanned plans and site images. This last directory contains digitized photographs of the grounds surrounding the Helsinki Olympic Stadium. All drawings are vector or raster images of the whole or parts of the structure, with some including the identifications of the structure’s parts. Project records also include preliminary or working plans. Most were drawn to scale on paper and some were printed from CAD drawings. They chiefly reflect the design work to define the surfaces and shapes of the stadium’s structure. Source: Ateljé Sotamaa. “Portfolio: Open Arena”. http://portfolio.sotamaa.net/Open-Arena accessed in February 2018.
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1997
photographs
AP140.S2.SS7.D1.P3
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view of interior of office and personnel including James Stirling and Michael Wilford, views of cake representing James Stirling dated 1984, group portrait of office football team dated 1973, view of James Stirling and Michael Wilford in Salford dated 1992, views of the Bund Deutscher Architekten, Baden-Württemberg, Hugo-Häring-Preis award ceremony in Manhheim in 1988, view of opening of Performing Arts Centre, Cornell University, view of James Stirling and Michael Wilford by photographer Geoff Beeckman, and views of events and visits at various locations
1973-1992
Views of events and visits at various locations
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AP140.S2.SS7.D1.P3
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view of interior of office and personnel including James Stirling and Michael Wilford, views of cake representing James Stirling dated 1984, group portrait of office football team dated 1973, view of James Stirling and Michael Wilford in Salford dated 1992, views of the Bund Deutscher Architekten, Baden-Württemberg, Hugo-Häring-Preis award ceremony in Manhheim in 1988, view of opening of Performing Arts Centre, Cornell University, view of James Stirling and Michael Wilford by photographer Geoff Beeckman, and views of events and visits at various locations
photographs
1973-1992
photographs
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5 photograph(s)
DR1994:0014:006:001-005
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- Photographs DR1994:0014:006:001-005 are copy prints made by the photographic studios Hedrich-Blessing or Williams & Meyer Co.. Among the inscriptions on the verso of each print are the negative numbers of each print as follows: DR1994:0014:006:001 (Hedrich-Blessing negative 10070); DR1994:0014:006:002 (Williams & Meyer Co. negative 3929-D); DR1994:0014:006:003 (Williams & Meyer Co. negative 3929-B); DR1994:0014:006:004 (Williams & Meyer Co. negative 3929-F); and DR1994:0014:006:005 (Hedrich-Blessing negative 9691-S).
architecture, exhibition design, interior design
negatives exposed between 1938 and 1969
Photograph of a plan and exterior and interior views of a Single-Story House, part of the Dwelling of Our Time Exhibit at the Berlin Building Exhibition of 1931, Germany
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DR1994:0014:006:001-005
Description:
- Photographs DR1994:0014:006:001-005 are copy prints made by the photographic studios Hedrich-Blessing or Williams & Meyer Co.. Among the inscriptions on the verso of each print are the negative numbers of each print as follows: DR1994:0014:006:001 (Hedrich-Blessing negative 10070); DR1994:0014:006:002 (Williams & Meyer Co. negative 3929-D); DR1994:0014:006:003 (Williams & Meyer Co. negative 3929-B); DR1994:0014:006:004 (Williams & Meyer Co. negative 3929-F); and DR1994:0014:006:005 (Hedrich-Blessing negative 9691-S).
photographs
Quantity:
5 photograph(s)
negatives exposed between 1938 and 1969
architecture, exhibition design, interior design
photographs
ARCH275184
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5 documentation binders filed under "Education" containing presentation photographs, slides and negatives for: Simon Fraser University, theatre, married students' residence, womens' residence, classroom block; University of British Columbia, faculty club addition and alterations; Champlain Heights Elementary School; Technical University, Saudi Arabia; Textile School, North Carolina State University; Biological Sciences Unit 2, University of California; Clinical Sciences Building, University of California; Washington State University, Downtown Campus. Also includes digital prints, some project information sheets, copies of plans, printed material and newspaper clippings related to the projects.
1 October 1990
Presentation slides, project information sheets, plans and paper clippings for various education buildings projects
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ARCH275184
Description:
5 documentation binders filed under "Education" containing presentation photographs, slides and negatives for: Simon Fraser University, theatre, married students' residence, womens' residence, classroom block; University of British Columbia, faculty club addition and alterations; Champlain Heights Elementary School; Technical University, Saudi Arabia; Textile School, North Carolina State University; Biological Sciences Unit 2, University of California; Clinical Sciences Building, University of California; Washington State University, Downtown Campus. Also includes digital prints, some project information sheets, copies of plans, printed material and newspaper clippings related to the projects.
photographs
1 October 1990
textual records
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30 file
ARCH242705
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Individual Presentations, Correspondence, etc.: Sylviane Agacinski Silvia Arango Akira Asada & Arata Isozaki Beatriz Colomina Alberto Rafael Codiviola & Mauricio Virgens Elizabeth Diller (texts & 2 negatives) Peter Eisenman Jean Franco German Garcia Elizabeth Grosz Fredric Jameson Glenda Kapstein Guillermo Kuitca Jorge Francisco Liernur Greg Lynn Brian Massumi Paulo Mendes da Rocha Masao Miyoshi Enrique Norten Marta Oyhanarte Fernado Pérez Oyarzun John Rajchman Renato Rizzi Armando Silva (texts & 10 photographs) Ignasi de Solà-Morales Justo Solsona Jesus Tenreiro Ben van Berkel Alberto Varas Alejandro Zaera-Polo
1995-1997
Individual Presentations, Correspondence, etc.
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ARCH242705
Description:
Individual Presentations, Correspondence, etc.: Sylviane Agacinski Silvia Arango Akira Asada & Arata Isozaki Beatriz Colomina Alberto Rafael Codiviola & Mauricio Virgens Elizabeth Diller (texts & 2 negatives) Peter Eisenman Jean Franco German Garcia Elizabeth Grosz Fredric Jameson Glenda Kapstein Guillermo Kuitca Jorge Francisco Liernur Greg Lynn Brian Massumi Paulo Mendes da Rocha Masao Miyoshi Enrique Norten Marta Oyhanarte Fernado Pérez Oyarzun John Rajchman Renato Rizzi Armando Silva (texts & 10 photographs) Ignasi de Solà-Morales Justo Solsona Jesus Tenreiro Ben van Berkel Alberto Varas Alejandro Zaera-Polo
textual records
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30 file
1995-1997
Letters 1975
PHCON2002:0016:003
Description:
Binder documents Gordon Matta-Clark's personal and professional correspondence predominantly from 1975, a period when he was actively involved in many cut building projects. Documents related to the following realized and unrealized projects are included: Anarchitecture (1973-1974); A W-Hole House (1973), Column Drop (undated); Conical Intersect (1975); Day's End (1975), Doors on all 4's (1975); Fresh Air Cart (1972); and Splitting (1974). Documentation on projects by other artists, including Matta-Clark's brother John Sebastian Matta, are also included. Binder contains photographs and textual records.
1971-1976
Letters 1975
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PHCON2002:0016:003
Description:
Binder documents Gordon Matta-Clark's personal and professional correspondence predominantly from 1975, a period when he was actively involved in many cut building projects. Documents related to the following realized and unrealized projects are included: Anarchitecture (1973-1974); A W-Hole House (1973), Column Drop (undated); Conical Intersect (1975); Day's End (1975), Doors on all 4's (1975); Fresh Air Cart (1972); and Splitting (1974). Documentation on projects by other artists, including Matta-Clark's brother John Sebastian Matta, are also included. Binder contains photographs and textual records.
1971-1976