drawings, textual records
AP018.S1.1974.PR09.003
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This is a box containing sketches, details, colour schedule including colour samples, specifications, change orders, inspection reports, correspondence, documentation on furnishings, minutes of meeting for site meetings, documentation for trees and plants, and notebooks.
1978-1980
Working files, sketches, details, and project documentation, Toronto Humane Society, New Building, Toronto
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AP018.S1.1974.PR09.003
Description:
This is a box containing sketches, details, colour schedule including colour samples, specifications, change orders, inspection reports, correspondence, documentation on furnishings, minutes of meeting for site meetings, documentation for trees and plants, and notebooks.
drawings, textual records
1978-1980
Project
Liu Centre for Global Studies, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, British Columbia (1992)
AP075.S1.1992.PR05
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Project series documents Cornelia Hahn Oberlander's landscape project for the Liu Centre for Global Studies at University of British Columbia, Vancouver. Oberlander worked on this project in 1994 with architect Arthur Erickson and architectural firm Aitken Wreglesworth Associates. The overwall concept for the project was to design an environmentally responsible building and landscape. Situated at the north edge of a mature costal forest, the main concern of the landscape design was to avoid effecting the existing woodland. Oberlander preserved all existing mature trees on the site and used only native plants and grasses. The design of the building was also though to minimize any impact on the surrounding forest, by avoiding machineries on site or pruning of existing trees. The project also included a green roof, also design by Oberlander. The project was completed in 2000. The project series includes sketches, design development drawings, including landscape plans, landscape details and planting plans, working drawings, such as planting plans and details for the green roof, and working drawings for the building used as reference. The project series also comprises a proposal, concept notes by Oberlander, correspondence with clients, architects and consultants, meetings notes, financial documents, specifications and some promotional material and press clippings on the building. The project is also documented through photographs of landscaping work.
1992-2009
Liu Centre for Global Studies, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, British Columbia (1992)
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AP075.S1.1992.PR05
Description:
Project series documents Cornelia Hahn Oberlander's landscape project for the Liu Centre for Global Studies at University of British Columbia, Vancouver. Oberlander worked on this project in 1994 with architect Arthur Erickson and architectural firm Aitken Wreglesworth Associates. The overwall concept for the project was to design an environmentally responsible building and landscape. Situated at the north edge of a mature costal forest, the main concern of the landscape design was to avoid effecting the existing woodland. Oberlander preserved all existing mature trees on the site and used only native plants and grasses. The design of the building was also though to minimize any impact on the surrounding forest, by avoiding machineries on site or pruning of existing trees. The project also included a green roof, also design by Oberlander. The project was completed in 2000. The project series includes sketches, design development drawings, including landscape plans, landscape details and planting plans, working drawings, such as planting plans and details for the green roof, and working drawings for the building used as reference. The project series also comprises a proposal, concept notes by Oberlander, correspondence with clients, architects and consultants, meetings notes, financial documents, specifications and some promotional material and press clippings on the building. The project is also documented through photographs of landscaping work.
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1992-2009
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AP075.S1.1952.PR03
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This project series documents Cornelia Hahn Oberlander's project for the garden of Mr. & Mrs. W. A. Rahill's private residence in Feasterville, Pennsylvania. The residence is located in Bryn Gweled Homesteads, a small cooperative community in Upper Southampton Township. Oberlander worked on this project from 1952-1953. The garden design consists of a meadow area and a play area on the front lawn of the house. The play area, surrounded by trees and strubs, includes a badminton field and a vegetable patch. This project series only contains a presentation drawing for the landscape design with a plant list.
1952-1953
Garden of Mr. & Mrs. W. A. Rahill, Feasterville, Pennsylvania (1952-1953)
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AP075.S1.1952.PR03
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This project series documents Cornelia Hahn Oberlander's project for the garden of Mr. & Mrs. W. A. Rahill's private residence in Feasterville, Pennsylvania. The residence is located in Bryn Gweled Homesteads, a small cooperative community in Upper Southampton Township. Oberlander worked on this project from 1952-1953. The garden design consists of a meadow area and a play area on the front lawn of the house. The play area, surrounded by trees and strubs, includes a badminton field and a vegetable patch. This project series only contains a presentation drawing for the landscape design with a plant list.
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1952-1953
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AP164.S1.1997.D4
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The project series documents the design of the “Green House” for Mariano Maqueda and Olga Montón, in Pozuelo de Alarcón, in the Community of Madrid, Spain. The firm identified this project as number 103. “The project is located in a typical bit of middle-class suburbia, in which low-density housing, wasteland, amenities and clumps of pine trees intermingle, giving form to the idea of an urban existence that is in contact with nature. [Abalos & Herreros] decided to be extremely direct and to stress this aspiration by using gardening techniques. In fact, the house as a whole can be understood as an example of a giant ars-topiaria, an idea that is not at odds with the fact that it will be lived in by a landscape architect. The sloping topography is taken advantage of to build a house that has continuity with the natural environment, avoiding differentiation between the house and the terrain: the whole house is garden and the whole garden is house. The project is, then, a topological mechanism for arranging and modeling the land so as to increase and to obtain maximum enjoyment from the landscape’s weaker stimuli: the pine trees, the near-by stream, the setting of the sun over the skyline of Madrid from the house’s highest point… Natural views and artificial views: a green machine.” (ARCH270971) Documenting the project are conceptual, design development and working drawings, forms, invoices and contracts.
1995-1999, predominant 1997-1998
Casa Verde, Pozuelo de Alarcón, Madrid, Spain (1997)
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AP164.S1.1997.D4
Description:
The project series documents the design of the “Green House” for Mariano Maqueda and Olga Montón, in Pozuelo de Alarcón, in the Community of Madrid, Spain. The firm identified this project as number 103. “The project is located in a typical bit of middle-class suburbia, in which low-density housing, wasteland, amenities and clumps of pine trees intermingle, giving form to the idea of an urban existence that is in contact with nature. [Abalos & Herreros] decided to be extremely direct and to stress this aspiration by using gardening techniques. In fact, the house as a whole can be understood as an example of a giant ars-topiaria, an idea that is not at odds with the fact that it will be lived in by a landscape architect. The sloping topography is taken advantage of to build a house that has continuity with the natural environment, avoiding differentiation between the house and the terrain: the whole house is garden and the whole garden is house. The project is, then, a topological mechanism for arranging and modeling the land so as to increase and to obtain maximum enjoyment from the landscape’s weaker stimuli: the pine trees, the near-by stream, the setting of the sun over the skyline of Madrid from the house’s highest point… Natural views and artificial views: a green machine.” (ARCH270971) Documenting the project are conceptual, design development and working drawings, forms, invoices and contracts.
Project
1995-1999, predominant 1997-1998
textual records
Photocopies of a title page and stills from "Springday movie" from the publication Nummer Zwei
PHCON2002:0016:002:020
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Photocopies include a title page with the text "Gordon Matta-Clark/Carmen "springday movie" 8 mm/15 min." and two pages with film stills. Film stills include images of trees and the soles of feet.
1971
Photocopies of a title page and stills from "Springday movie" from the publication Nummer Zwei
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PHCON2002:0016:002:020
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Photocopies include a title page with the text "Gordon Matta-Clark/Carmen "springday movie" 8 mm/15 min." and two pages with film stills. Film stills include images of trees and the soles of feet.
textual records
1971
Project
AP075.S1.1954.PR02
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This project series documents Cornelia Hahn Oberlander's project for the landscaping of Powell River Mill, a pulp mill and paper mill located in the town of Powell River, British Columbia. Cornelia Hahn Oberlander worked on this project in 1954. The project consisted of a landscape design for the whole site of the Powell River Company which included the addition of lawn, paved areas, and planting deciduous trees allong pathways to connect the buildings and the docks. The project series contains three general landscape plans with a list of plants, a plant layout and grading plan, and a plan for the parking area.
1954
Powell River Mill, Power River, British Columbia (1954)
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AP075.S1.1954.PR02
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This project series documents Cornelia Hahn Oberlander's project for the landscaping of Powell River Mill, a pulp mill and paper mill located in the town of Powell River, British Columbia. Cornelia Hahn Oberlander worked on this project in 1954. The project consisted of a landscape design for the whole site of the Powell River Company which included the addition of lawn, paved areas, and planting deciduous trees allong pathways to connect the buildings and the docks. The project series contains three general landscape plans with a list of plants, a plant layout and grading plan, and a plan for the parking area.
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1954
DR1988:0437:038
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- This etching for a fireworks construction or macchina is in the form of a two-storey garden pavilion flanked by four obelisks. The representation includes trees and two fountains in the background and a herd of oxen in the foreground.
temporary architecture
printed 1769
Etching of Posi's design for the "prima macchina" of 1769
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DR1988:0437:038
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- This etching for a fireworks construction or macchina is in the form of a two-storey garden pavilion flanked by four obelisks. The representation includes trees and two fountains in the background and a herd of oxen in the foreground.
temporary architecture
drawings
DR2012:0011:009-009
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Ring binder containing notes and sketches related to the following events, locations, and/or projects: - American city series; - CCA garden; - Cities on the move; - Saigon; - Cities on the move, Kansas; - One size fits all series; - Trees; - Sherbrooke.
2001-2003
Notes and sketches by Melvin Charney on his later works
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DR2012:0011:009-009
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Ring binder containing notes and sketches related to the following events, locations, and/or projects: - American city series; - CCA garden; - Cities on the move; - Saigon; - Cities on the move, Kansas; - One size fits all series; - Trees; - Sherbrooke.
drawings
2001-2003
Project
AP075.S1.1956.PR07
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This project series documents Cornelia Hahn Oberlander’s landscape project for a small play area on Little Mountain, a 127 metres high mountain in the central part of Vancouver, British Columbia. Oberlander worked on this project in 1956. The park is now known as Queen Elizabeth Park. Oberlander’s landscape design for the play area consists of rectangular-shaped playground covered in asphalt surrounded by a retaining wall lined with crabapple trees on one side and creosoted woodstrips on the other. The play area includes with a sand box and swings. The project series contains only the orginal and the reprographic copy of a plan of the play area.
1956
Little Mountain Play Area, Vancouver, British Columbia (1956)
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AP075.S1.1956.PR07
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This project series documents Cornelia Hahn Oberlander’s landscape project for a small play area on Little Mountain, a 127 metres high mountain in the central part of Vancouver, British Columbia. Oberlander worked on this project in 1956. The park is now known as Queen Elizabeth Park. Oberlander’s landscape design for the play area consists of rectangular-shaped playground covered in asphalt surrounded by a retaining wall lined with crabapple trees on one side and creosoted woodstrips on the other. The play area includes with a sand box and swings. The project series contains only the orginal and the reprographic copy of a plan of the play area.
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1956
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AP075.S1.2001.PR04
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Project series documents Cornelia Hahn Oberlander's landscape project for the Sourkes Lewin Residence on Wells Hill Avenue, in Toronto. Oberlander worked on this project in 2001. Oberlander's landscape design included the addition of an enclosed courtyard with cobbles paving at the northwest side of the property, and adding planting of bulbs, groundcover and trees in front of the house and on the southeast side of the property. The project series contains sketches and design development drawings, such as a landscape plan with plant list, planting plans, and site plans. The project is also documented through correspondence with client, financial documents, plant lists, and photographs of the existing landscaping.
2001
Sourkes Lewin Residence, Toronto, Ontario (2001)
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AP075.S1.2001.PR04
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Project series documents Cornelia Hahn Oberlander's landscape project for the Sourkes Lewin Residence on Wells Hill Avenue, in Toronto. Oberlander worked on this project in 2001. Oberlander's landscape design included the addition of an enclosed courtyard with cobbles paving at the northwest side of the property, and adding planting of bulbs, groundcover and trees in front of the house and on the southeast side of the property. The project series contains sketches and design development drawings, such as a landscape plan with plant list, planting plans, and site plans. The project is also documented through correspondence with client, financial documents, plant lists, and photographs of the existing landscaping.
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2001