Project
AP178.S1.1995.PR04
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This project series documents the Estudo Urbanístico da Lagoinha in Belo Horizonte, Brazil. While the records were held in the office’s archives this project was assigned the number 63/90. The office assigned the date 1995 to this project. The project consisted of an urban study for the area of Lagoinha in Belo Horizonte. The program was based on the idea of improving living conditions for residents in the area and to adapt the urban plan to residents' everyday activities. It included alterations to the infrastructure and the public spaces in order to stimulate cultural activities and the economy of Bairro Lagoinha. In the building program, a particular emphasis was placed on the dialogue between the people and the architects. Documenting this project are studies and plans. Textual materials include project documentation and correspondence. Photo albums and negatives document the project site.
1994-1998
Estudo Urbanístico da Lagoinha [Urban plan for Lagoinha], Belo Horizonte, Brazil (1995)
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AP178.S1.1995.PR04
Description:
This project series documents the Estudo Urbanístico da Lagoinha in Belo Horizonte, Brazil. While the records were held in the office’s archives this project was assigned the number 63/90. The office assigned the date 1995 to this project. The project consisted of an urban study for the area of Lagoinha in Belo Horizonte. The program was based on the idea of improving living conditions for residents in the area and to adapt the urban plan to residents' everyday activities. It included alterations to the infrastructure and the public spaces in order to stimulate cultural activities and the economy of Bairro Lagoinha. In the building program, a particular emphasis was placed on the dialogue between the people and the architects. Documenting this project are studies and plans. Textual materials include project documentation and correspondence. Photo albums and negatives document the project site.
Project
1994-1998
This roundtable brings together multidisciplinary scholars from media and film studies, design, and visual culture to explore modernity in China during the 1950s and 1960s through the lens of material production and spatial transformation. Centered on the intensification of productivity in industry and land use, the discussion considers how object-making and(...)
Ying Qian, Weixian Pan, Jennifer Altehenger, Joshua Neves, How Modern, GEM Lab, Concordia
19 February 2026, 6pm to 8pm
Discussion: Revolutionary Matter
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This roundtable brings together multidisciplinary scholars from media and film studies, design, and visual culture to explore modernity in China during the 1950s and 1960s through the lens of material production and spatial transformation. Centered on the intensification of productivity in industry and land use, the discussion considers how object-making and(...)
Ying Qian, Weixian Pan, Jennifer Altehenger, Joshua Neves, How Modern, GEM Lab, Concordia
No Parks?
Are parks bad? These quarantined bits of land and water speak to a confused desire for some kind of “nature”—and they might be good for our health—but do they also serve to excuse our continued bad behaviour? Parks are not innocent. City parks are real estate assets and urban “amenities” created by planners, landscape architects, hydrological engineers, police(...)
25 May 2017
No Parks?
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Are parks bad? These quarantined bits of land and water speak to a confused desire for some kind of “nature”—and they might be good for our health—but do they also serve to excuse our continued bad behaviour? Parks are not innocent. City parks are real estate assets and urban “amenities” created by planners, landscape architects, hydrological engineers, police(...)
drawings
ARCH261058
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Bound ''Report 3.10 Infrastructure: Superblock and Centre water supply, irrigation, salt water, electricity and telephones'' - plans and site plans.
1980
Superblock and Centre water supply, irrigation, salt water, electricity and telephones
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ARCH261058
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Bound ''Report 3.10 Infrastructure: Superblock and Centre water supply, irrigation, salt water, electricity and telephones'' - plans and site plans.
drawings
1980
drawings
ARCH260779
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Site plans, site information, community plan (Discovery Parks Incorporated), infrastructure plan, topographical map, concept plans, sun and shadow studies.
1980
Site plans, site information, community plan (Discovery Parks Incorporated)
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ARCH260779
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Site plans, site information, community plan (Discovery Parks Incorporated), infrastructure plan, topographical map, concept plans, sun and shadow studies.
drawings
1980
archives
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Fonds
Office dA project records
AP179
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The Office dA project records, 1991-2007, document the firm’s work on the Casa La Roca, Witte Arts Center, and Tongxian Arts Center projects. All three projects involved the use of traditional and locally-sourced materials, such as brick and terracotta block, to create continuous surfaces that appear structural despite remaining an architectural effect in the skin of the building. The archive consists of approximately 8362 digital files (8.5 GB), 1461 drawings and reproductions, four models and approximately 40 model pieces, as well as photographic materials, textual records and ephemera.
1991-2007
Office dA project records
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AP179
Synopsis:
The Office dA project records, 1991-2007, document the firm’s work on the Casa La Roca, Witte Arts Center, and Tongxian Arts Center projects. All three projects involved the use of traditional and locally-sourced materials, such as brick and terracotta block, to create continuous surfaces that appear structural despite remaining an architectural effect in the skin of the building. The archive consists of approximately 8362 digital files (8.5 GB), 1461 drawings and reproductions, four models and approximately 40 model pieces, as well as photographic materials, textual records and ephemera.
archives
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Fonds
1991-2007
Project
AP164.S1.2003.D9
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The project series documents Abalos & Herreros’ competition entry organised by the Cabinet of Andalucia for the underground in Málaga, Spain. The firm identified this project as number 172. “The stations are the masterpieces of the interaction between the peasant and the new infrastructure. […] A diversity of additive materials – combinations opaque or luminous, translucent or transparent, vegetal or aerial – make of [Abalos & Herreros’] proposal an elaborate sting operation that can adaptate [sic] to every imaginable circumstances looking for an agreement of highest coincidence between underground stations and the surface. The building and finishing coincidence between underground stations and the surface. The building and finishing system not only pretends [sic] an unitary image for all the underground web, but also constitutes itself an orientation code, an indicator for movement, a locator of accesses and a resource of orientation in town.” (ARCH270975). The firm worked with Mike Schlaich and Schlaich Bergermann und Partner (Stuttgart). Documenting the project are conceptual drawings, correspondence, specifications, cartographic and digital materials.
2002-2003
Metro de Málaga, Spain, (2003)
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AP164.S1.2003.D9
Description:
The project series documents Abalos & Herreros’ competition entry organised by the Cabinet of Andalucia for the underground in Málaga, Spain. The firm identified this project as number 172. “The stations are the masterpieces of the interaction between the peasant and the new infrastructure. […] A diversity of additive materials – combinations opaque or luminous, translucent or transparent, vegetal or aerial – make of [Abalos & Herreros’] proposal an elaborate sting operation that can adaptate [sic] to every imaginable circumstances looking for an agreement of highest coincidence between underground stations and the surface. The building and finishing coincidence between underground stations and the surface. The building and finishing system not only pretends [sic] an unitary image for all the underground web, but also constitutes itself an orientation code, an indicator for movement, a locator of accesses and a resource of orientation in town.” (ARCH270975). The firm worked with Mike Schlaich and Schlaich Bergermann und Partner (Stuttgart). Documenting the project are conceptual drawings, correspondence, specifications, cartographic and digital materials.
Project
2002-2003
drawings
ARCH261333
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Design development drawings - architectural, structural, mechanical plans and details, site survey and site infrastructure plans and details (Underwood McLellan Limited, consulting engineers and planners).
1981
Design development drawings - architectural, structural
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ARCH261333
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Design development drawings - architectural, structural, mechanical plans and details, site survey and site infrastructure plans and details (Underwood McLellan Limited, consulting engineers and planners).
drawings
1981
textual records
Master Plan update
ARCH257659
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6 files - Master Plan update, 3.1 Centre Parcellation, 3.2 Devloper Briefs, 3.4 Specification, Fintas Centre Parcellation, First Phase Design & Regional and Area Infrastructure
circa 1947-2002
Master Plan update
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ARCH257659
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6 files - Master Plan update, 3.1 Centre Parcellation, 3.2 Devloper Briefs, 3.4 Specification, Fintas Centre Parcellation, First Phase Design & Regional and Area Infrastructure
textual records
circa 1947-2002
Project
AP129.S1.D3
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La série de projet documente le projet de Jean Ouellet avec la firme Ouellet Architectes associés pour le Complexe Desjardins à Montréal, Québec, pour Place Desjardins Inc. et en collaboration avec La Société La Haye. Le projet débute en 1962-1971 avec un projet d'exploration et une étude de faisabilité, suivi d'une phase de développement et de réalisation entre 1971-1976. Les travaux de construction débutent en mai 1972 jusqu'à l'inauguration en avril 1976. La série de projet est constituée de documents graphiques, photographiques et textuels, ainsi que de dessins relatifs au Complexe Desjardins. Organisme de gérance : Janin Construction Limitée Urbaniste et architecte principal : La Société La Haye et Ouellet Architectes associés : - Infrastructure et basilaire : Longpré, archand, Goudreau - Tours à bureaux : Blouin, Blouin, Gauthier, Guité, Roy - Hôtel : Ouellet et Reeves Roger D'Astous, architecte consultant Ingénieurs-conseils : - Charpente et fondations : La Société CLT - Mécanique et électricité : Pageau, Morel, Bouthillette, Parizeau
1964-2002
Complexe Desjardins, Montréal, Québec
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AP129.S1.D3
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La série de projet documente le projet de Jean Ouellet avec la firme Ouellet Architectes associés pour le Complexe Desjardins à Montréal, Québec, pour Place Desjardins Inc. et en collaboration avec La Société La Haye. Le projet débute en 1962-1971 avec un projet d'exploration et une étude de faisabilité, suivi d'une phase de développement et de réalisation entre 1971-1976. Les travaux de construction débutent en mai 1972 jusqu'à l'inauguration en avril 1976. La série de projet est constituée de documents graphiques, photographiques et textuels, ainsi que de dessins relatifs au Complexe Desjardins. Organisme de gérance : Janin Construction Limitée Urbaniste et architecte principal : La Société La Haye et Ouellet Architectes associés : - Infrastructure et basilaire : Longpré, archand, Goudreau - Tours à bureaux : Blouin, Blouin, Gauthier, Guité, Roy - Hôtel : Ouellet et Reeves Roger D'Astous, architecte consultant Ingénieurs-conseils : - Charpente et fondations : La Société CLT - Mécanique et électricité : Pageau, Morel, Bouthillette, Parizeau
Dossier 3
1964-2002