Project
AP018.S1.1962.PR05
Description:
This project series documents the construction of the Toronto-Dominion Bank Building in Toronto in1962. The office identified the project number as 6280. This project consisted of a 56 storey, black steel skyscraper that came to exemplify the age of modernist architecture in Toronto through the introduction of the International Style to the older cityscape. The design of the Toronto-Dominion Bank Centre is almost wholly credited to architect Ludwig Mies van der Rohe. However, John B. Parkin Associates, in joint venture with architecture firm Bregman + Hamann, were the primary architects on the project, with van der Rohe acting as consulting architect. During this era, the Toronto-Dominion Centre included three buildings - two office towers and a single level banking pavilion which was about two-storeys in height. It appears that this project consisted only of the tallest tower, now known as TD Tower, and that the other buildings were completed under different project numbers assigned by the office. The project is recorded through reprographic copies of construction drawings dating from 1966-1968.
1966-1968
Toronto-Dominion Bank Building, Toronto (1962-1967)
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AP018.S1.1962.PR05
Description:
This project series documents the construction of the Toronto-Dominion Bank Building in Toronto in1962. The office identified the project number as 6280. This project consisted of a 56 storey, black steel skyscraper that came to exemplify the age of modernist architecture in Toronto through the introduction of the International Style to the older cityscape. The design of the Toronto-Dominion Bank Centre is almost wholly credited to architect Ludwig Mies van der Rohe. However, John B. Parkin Associates, in joint venture with architecture firm Bregman + Hamann, were the primary architects on the project, with van der Rohe acting as consulting architect. During this era, the Toronto-Dominion Centre included three buildings - two office towers and a single level banking pavilion which was about two-storeys in height. It appears that this project consisted only of the tallest tower, now known as TD Tower, and that the other buildings were completed under different project numbers assigned by the office. The project is recorded through reprographic copies of construction drawings dating from 1966-1968.
Project
1966-1968
articles
3 February 2025
Music and the Cultural Memory of Black Space
Vanessa S Owusu-Piameng on the architecture of resistance
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AP140.S1.SS1.D6.P7.3
architecture
1949-1950
Plan of Town Centre and Community Centre, Newton Aycliffe, England: view of a model
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AP140.S1.SS1.D6.P7.3
architecture
AP140.S1.SS1.D6.P7.4
architecture
1949-1950
Plan of Town Centre and Community Centre, Newton Aycliffe, England: view of a model
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AP140.S1.SS1.D6.P7.4
architecture
AP140.S2.SS4.D7.P3.1
after 10 November 1961
4th Year Design Criticism Schedule - Problem III: Pierson-Saga Science Community at Yale, with notes on verso
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AP140.S2.SS4.D7.P3.1
archives
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Fonds
Douglas C. Simpson fonds
AP076
Synopsis:
The Douglas C. Simpson fonds documents Simpson's 1938 graduation thesis project, residential projects from early in his career in Ottawa, furniture projects, and residential and commercial projects in British Columbia including those by the firm Semmens, Simpson. The fonds is composed primarily of drawings and photographs dating from 1938-1992, with the bulk of the documents ranging from ca. 1940 to ca. 1960.
1938-1992, [predominant ca. 1940-ca. 1960]
Douglas C. Simpson fonds
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AP076
Synopsis:
The Douglas C. Simpson fonds documents Simpson's 1938 graduation thesis project, residential projects from early in his career in Ottawa, furniture projects, and residential and commercial projects in British Columbia including those by the firm Semmens, Simpson. The fonds is composed primarily of drawings and photographs dating from 1938-1992, with the bulk of the documents ranging from ca. 1940 to ca. 1960.
archives
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Fonds
1938-1992, [predominant ca. 1940-ca. 1960]
drawings
ARCH268764
Description:
Contains elevations, plans, sections and site plans. Includes as well two textual documents (specifications). The serial 2G: international architecture review, no. 22, has published or has planned to use the plans in an issue on Abalos & Herreros.
1995
Elevations, plans, sections and site plans
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ARCH268764
Description:
Contains elevations, plans, sections and site plans. Includes as well two textual documents (specifications). The serial 2G: international architecture review, no. 22, has published or has planned to use the plans in an issue on Abalos & Herreros.
drawings
1995
Series
AP032.S3
Description:
This series consists of papers concerning Goldsmith's career as a professor of architecture at I.I.T. and a visiting teacher at Harvard University. The papers include many of his lectures and talks, as well as correspondence and papers related to his participation with committees studying education and his involvement with the Mies van der Rohe Centennial Project. Also included in this series are a collection of over 300 graduate student papers and master theses, for which many Goldsmith was advisor.
1950-1996
Professional Activities - Teaching
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AP032.S3
Description:
This series consists of papers concerning Goldsmith's career as a professor of architecture at I.I.T. and a visiting teacher at Harvard University. The papers include many of his lectures and talks, as well as correspondence and papers related to his participation with committees studying education and his involvement with the Mies van der Rohe Centennial Project. Also included in this series are a collection of over 300 graduate student papers and master theses, for which many Goldsmith was advisor.
Series 3
1950-1996
textual records
ARCH278467
Description:
File's title: A&H 2004 B.1. Conferencias/charlas (administración invitaciones) List of conferences, talks and/or seminars: - College of architecture and landscape architecture (Tucson, Arizona, United States); - Otis College of Art and Design (Los Angeles, California, United States); - 40th International Alvar Aalto Design Seminar (Helsinki, Finland); - Curso de Verano de Arquitectura (Almería, Spain); - III Encuentro de Arquitectura, Urbanismo y Paisajismo tropical (San José, Costa Rica); - La Ciudad Azul, Instituto de Arquitectura tropical (San José, Costa Rica). The documents are in English and Spanish.
2003-2004, 2006
Mostly correspondence regarding conferences, talks and seminars given by Abalos & Herreros
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ARCH278467
Description:
File's title: A&H 2004 B.1. Conferencias/charlas (administración invitaciones) List of conferences, talks and/or seminars: - College of architecture and landscape architecture (Tucson, Arizona, United States); - Otis College of Art and Design (Los Angeles, California, United States); - 40th International Alvar Aalto Design Seminar (Helsinki, Finland); - Curso de Verano de Arquitectura (Almería, Spain); - III Encuentro de Arquitectura, Urbanismo y Paisajismo tropical (San José, Costa Rica); - La Ciudad Azul, Instituto de Arquitectura tropical (San José, Costa Rica). The documents are in English and Spanish.
textual records
2003-2004, 2006
Project
AP149.S1.2004.PR02
Description:
The project series documents Minimum Cost Housing Group's project of a student exchange with universities in Mexico and in the United States to expose the urgent need in urban and sustainable housing in North America. The research project was undertaken in collaboration with the Dalhousie Faculty of Architecture and Planning. The material in this project series was produced between 2004 and 2007 and includes textual records related to the planning of the project, including grant applications, correspondence and project applications.
2004-2007
North American Sustainability, Housing and Community Consortium Student Exchange
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AP149.S1.2004.PR02
Description:
The project series documents Minimum Cost Housing Group's project of a student exchange with universities in Mexico and in the United States to expose the urgent need in urban and sustainable housing in North America. The research project was undertaken in collaboration with the Dalhousie Faculty of Architecture and Planning. The material in this project series was produced between 2004 and 2007 and includes textual records related to the planning of the project, including grant applications, correspondence and project applications.
Project
2004-2007