drawings
DR2012:0012:047:024
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Includes design development and elevation drawings for the Canadian Tribute to Human Rights monument, Ottawa, Ontario, 1986-1990. One drawing is titled "Study/perspective view seen from Elgin Street ceremonial route".
1986-1990
Design development and elevation drawings, The Canadian tribute to human rights
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DR2012:0012:047:024
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Includes design development and elevation drawings for the Canadian Tribute to Human Rights monument, Ottawa, Ontario, 1986-1990. One drawing is titled "Study/perspective view seen from Elgin Street ceremonial route".
drawings
1986-1990
DR1966:0001:039
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- This sketch elevation of the tomb of Urban VIII shows a sculpture of the pope seated on a throne, which stands on a pedestal above his sarcophagus. The monument is set in a semi-circular niche between two columns.
architecture, interior design
ca. 1764
Sketch elevation of Bernini's tomb of Urban VIII, St. Peter's, Rome
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DR1966:0001:039
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- This sketch elevation of the tomb of Urban VIII shows a sculpture of the pope seated on a throne, which stands on a pedestal above his sarcophagus. The monument is set in a semi-circular niche between two columns.
architecture, interior design
textual records
DR2012:0012:074:005
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Assorted documents in English and French, including correspondence related to the following: - Montreal Museum of Fine Arts; - Melvin Charney's membership in Le regoupement des artistes en arts visuels du Québec; - Royal Canadian Navy monument.
2009-2012
Correspondence related to Melvin Charney's projects, collaborations, and membership
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DR2012:0012:074:005
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Assorted documents in English and French, including correspondence related to the following: - Montreal Museum of Fine Arts; - Melvin Charney's membership in Le regoupement des artistes en arts visuels du Québec; - Royal Canadian Navy monument.
textual records
2009-2012
photographs
DR2012:0015:024:005
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File containing a colour printout of a map of Montreal in 1761 on coated paper, and the following photographic materials: - the CCA garden (1 chromogenic colour print, 1 gelatin silver print); - Monument 30: monument to the dormitory barracks (1 gelatin silver print); - Complexe Desjardins (1 black-and-white printout on coated paper). Materials possibly gathered for inclusion in Louis Martin's 2013 book, On architecture: Melvin Charney: a critical anthology. Original folder inscribed in graphite: CURRENT MC ANTHO – BOOK PHOTOS TO CHECK
1987
Reference photographic materials possibly used for book by Louis Martin on Melvin Charney
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DR2012:0015:024:005
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File containing a colour printout of a map of Montreal in 1761 on coated paper, and the following photographic materials: - the CCA garden (1 chromogenic colour print, 1 gelatin silver print); - Monument 30: monument to the dormitory barracks (1 gelatin silver print); - Complexe Desjardins (1 black-and-white printout on coated paper). Materials possibly gathered for inclusion in Louis Martin's 2013 book, On architecture: Melvin Charney: a critical anthology. Original folder inscribed in graphite: CURRENT MC ANTHO – BOOK PHOTOS TO CHECK
photographs
1987
photographs
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16 album(s)
PH1986:0900.01-16
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The 16 albums PH1986:0900.01-.16 comprises 849 photographs and 34 prints of works by Michel Roux-Spitz. The majority of the photographs show projects in Paris and Lyon, France, although Versailles and Fontainebleau, France, Brussels, Belgium, and Rome, Italy also feature. Amongst others, the photographs include views of La Croix-Rousse train station, Villa Weitz, Église Saint-François d'Assise, Salle des Fêtes De La Croix-Rousse, Banque Libre, Manufactures de Glaces de Saint-Gobain, and a housing project in Lyon; Les Galeries Lafayette, Boutique Roger Bal, the atelier de Monsieur Roger Bal, Bijouterie Kepta, a post-office, the Ford Building, Bibliothèque Nationale, Hôtel Roland Bonaparte, and various other buildings in Paris; The Bibliothèque Nationale in Versailles; and other furniture, interiors, fountains, monuments, tombs, vases, models and studies.
architecture, interior design, ornament, sculpture
1920-1936
Albums of photographs of projects by Michel Roux-Spitz
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PH1986:0900.01-16
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The 16 albums PH1986:0900.01-.16 comprises 849 photographs and 34 prints of works by Michel Roux-Spitz. The majority of the photographs show projects in Paris and Lyon, France, although Versailles and Fontainebleau, France, Brussels, Belgium, and Rome, Italy also feature. Amongst others, the photographs include views of La Croix-Rousse train station, Villa Weitz, Église Saint-François d'Assise, Salle des Fêtes De La Croix-Rousse, Banque Libre, Manufactures de Glaces de Saint-Gobain, and a housing project in Lyon; Les Galeries Lafayette, Boutique Roger Bal, the atelier de Monsieur Roger Bal, Bijouterie Kepta, a post-office, the Ford Building, Bibliothèque Nationale, Hôtel Roland Bonaparte, and various other buildings in Paris; The Bibliothèque Nationale in Versailles; and other furniture, interiors, fountains, monuments, tombs, vases, models and studies.
photographs
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16 album(s)
1920-1936
architecture, interior design, ornament, sculpture
textual records
ARCH258486
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Correspondance, incluant des procès-verbaux, et des brouillons de codes, relatifs à la Comité du Code du bâtiment, à la Comité du Monument Laurier, à la Sous-comité des Expositions et des Congrès, et à la Comité du chalet de l'île Sainte-Hélène.
1943-1969
Correspondance, incluant des procès-verbaux, et des brouillons de codes de divers comités de la Ville de Montréal
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ARCH258486
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Correspondance, incluant des procès-verbaux, et des brouillons de codes, relatifs à la Comité du Code du bâtiment, à la Comité du Monument Laurier, à la Sous-comité des Expositions et des Congrès, et à la Comité du chalet de l'île Sainte-Hélène.
textual records
1943-1969
photographs
ARCH280815
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Group consists of model for various memorials in Chandigarh, India, including the Tower of Shadows, the Martyr's Memorial and the Open Hand Monument in sector 1, designed by Le Corbusier. There are also photographs of the Ranjit Singh Memorial.
1952-c.1970
Photographs of model for memorial in Chandigarh, India
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ARCH280815
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Group consists of model for various memorials in Chandigarh, India, including the Tower of Shadows, the Martyr's Memorial and the Open Hand Monument in sector 1, designed by Le Corbusier. There are also photographs of the Ranjit Singh Memorial.
photographs
1952-c.1970
DR1966:0001:024:001-003
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- This elevation is for the tomb of Benedict XIV. The monument is set in a semi-circular niche and follows the type of papal tomb established by Bernini, with a sculpture of the standing pope raised on a pedestal above a doorway and allegorical sculptures to either side. The two flaps show variant designs for the lower portion of the monument. On flap 1 the putti are placed beside the the virtue on the left. On flap 2 the drapery above the doorway is more pronounced and the virtue on the right is almost nude. The virtues are seated rather than standing.
architecture, interior design
1763
Elevation for the tomb of Benedict XIV, Rome
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DR1966:0001:024:001-003
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- This elevation is for the tomb of Benedict XIV. The monument is set in a semi-circular niche and follows the type of papal tomb established by Bernini, with a sculpture of the standing pope raised on a pedestal above a doorway and allegorical sculptures to either side. The two flaps show variant designs for the lower portion of the monument. On flap 1 the putti are placed beside the the virtue on the left. On flap 2 the drapery above the doorway is more pronounced and the virtue on the right is almost nude. The virtues are seated rather than standing.
architecture, interior design
PH2025:0003:007
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Sheet includes eight images of various buildings along Halifax's Barrington Street. Depicted are the Henry house, Sterling Hotel, the Hart House, the Renner-Carney House, St. Matthew`s Church, and the Sebastopol Monument at the Old Burying Ground.
1984-1994 (printed 2020)
Plate 7: Barrington Street, Halifax (4 of 4), from the portfolio A Nova Scotia Archive
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PH2025:0003:007
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Sheet includes eight images of various buildings along Halifax's Barrington Street. Depicted are the Henry house, Sterling Hotel, the Hart House, the Renner-Carney House, St. Matthew`s Church, and the Sebastopol Monument at the Old Burying Ground.
View at the Lesser Obelisk
DR1982:0096:015
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- A view of the garden as seen from Queen Caroline's Monument and looking toward the Rotunda across a rectangular pond. - The marbled and leather-edged portfolio in which the prints were acquired is stored separately in a solander box (size IV).
architecture, landscape architecture, topographic
designed 1733-1738
View at the Lesser Obelisk
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DR1982:0096:015
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- A view of the garden as seen from Queen Caroline's Monument and looking toward the Rotunda across a rectangular pond. - The marbled and leather-edged portfolio in which the prints were acquired is stored separately in a solander box (size IV).
architecture, landscape architecture, topographic