The exhibition Robert Burley: The Disappearance of Darkness presents a series of photographs by Canadian artist Robert Burley, documenting the decline of traditional photographic equipment manufacturing brought on by new technologies. Since 2005, digital photographic technology has increasingly displaced its analog predecessor, resulting in a plummeting demand for(...)
Hall cases
11 September 2009 to 15 November 2009
Robert Burley: The Disappearance of Darkness
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The exhibition Robert Burley: The Disappearance of Darkness presents a series of photographs by Canadian artist Robert Burley, documenting the decline of traditional photographic equipment manufacturing brought on by new technologies. Since 2005, digital photographic technology has increasingly displaced its analog predecessor, resulting in a plummeting demand for(...)
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Herzog de Meuron: Archaeology of the Mind presents an exhaustive display of materials from the architects’ archive and from related collections. Referencing a natural history, the exhibition includes study models, books, photographs, toys, fossils, Chinese scholars’ rocks, and significant works of contemporary art, all of which have informed the thinking of the Swiss(...)
Main galleries
23 October 2002 to 6 April 2003
Herzog & de Meuron: Archaeology of the Mind
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Herzog de Meuron: Archaeology of the Mind presents an exhaustive display of materials from the architects’ archive and from related collections. Referencing a natural history, the exhibition includes study models, books, photographs, toys, fossils, Chinese scholars’ rocks, and significant works of contemporary art, all of which have informed the thinking of the Swiss(...)
Main galleries
Naoya Hatakeyama: Scales
The work of Japanese artist Naoya Hatakeyama is concerned largely with the relationship between nature and cities. Comissioned by the CCA, the three series of photographs comprising Scales capture existing architectural models of New York City and Tokyo in a way that challenges notions of scale and the perception of reality. Naoya Hatakeyama: Scales is the fourth and(...)
Octagonal gallery
27 September 2007 to 3 February 2008
Naoya Hatakeyama: Scales
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The work of Japanese artist Naoya Hatakeyama is concerned largely with the relationship between nature and cities. Comissioned by the CCA, the three series of photographs comprising Scales capture existing architectural models of New York City and Tokyo in a way that challenges notions of scale and the perception of reality. Naoya Hatakeyama: Scales is the fourth and(...)
Octagonal gallery
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AP140.S2.SS1.D63
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File documents an executed project for the Performing Arts Centre, Cornell University, in Ithaca, New York. This project was originally planned in two phases, with the second phase to be constructed at a later date, when funding was made available. File also documents an urban design study of the Collegetown area of the City of Ithaca, encompassing the site of the Performing Arts Centre, as well as unexecuted projects for a hotel and student housing, on a site adjacent to the Performing Arts Centre. These projects were part of an urban redevelopment programme for the Collegetown area, centered on the Performing Arts Centre, and instigated by Cornell University, with the City of Ithaca and private developers. Material in this file was produced between 1971 and 1989. File contains reference and measured drawings, conceptual drawings, a large number of design development drawings, as well as several presentation drawings and working drawings for the Performing Arts Centre. File also contains reference and measured drawings, design development and presentation drawings for the Collegetown urban design study. A smaller number of design development drawings depict hotel and student housing projects. Photographic materials include views of study and presentation models by John Donat Photography, photographers Wolfgang Hoyt (Esto Photographics) and Peter Walser, views of the completed Performing Arts Centre by photographer Richard Bryant, as well as views of existing buildings by photographer John Reis for the Collegetown urban study. Textual records are also present in the file. Study and presentation models represent the Performing Arts Centre.
1971-1989
Performing Arts Centre, Cornell University, Ithaca, New York
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AP140.S2.SS1.D63
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File documents an executed project for the Performing Arts Centre, Cornell University, in Ithaca, New York. This project was originally planned in two phases, with the second phase to be constructed at a later date, when funding was made available. File also documents an urban design study of the Collegetown area of the City of Ithaca, encompassing the site of the Performing Arts Centre, as well as unexecuted projects for a hotel and student housing, on a site adjacent to the Performing Arts Centre. These projects were part of an urban redevelopment programme for the Collegetown area, centered on the Performing Arts Centre, and instigated by Cornell University, with the City of Ithaca and private developers. Material in this file was produced between 1971 and 1989. File contains reference and measured drawings, conceptual drawings, a large number of design development drawings, as well as several presentation drawings and working drawings for the Performing Arts Centre. File also contains reference and measured drawings, design development and presentation drawings for the Collegetown urban design study. A smaller number of design development drawings depict hotel and student housing projects. Photographic materials include views of study and presentation models by John Donat Photography, photographers Wolfgang Hoyt (Esto Photographics) and Peter Walser, views of the completed Performing Arts Centre by photographer Richard Bryant, as well as views of existing buildings by photographer John Reis for the Collegetown urban study. Textual records are also present in the file. Study and presentation models represent the Performing Arts Centre.
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1971-1989
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Royal York Hotel Addition
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56P-01: b/w (24,0 x 19,3 cm); Royal York Hotel and Addition, main facades and partial east elevations. Photographer unknown. 56P-02: b/w (17,9 x 23 cm); Royal York Hotel and Addition, Quebec room. Photographer; Neil Newton Photography, Toronto 56P-03: colour (19,2 x 24,0 cm); Royal York Hotel and Addition, Cascade Lounge. Photographer; Neil Newton Photography, Toronto 56P-04: colour (19,2 x 24,0 cm); Royal York Hotel and Addition, Alberta room. Photographer; Neil Newton Photography, Toronto. 56P-05: colour (19,4 x 24,0 cm); Royal York Hotel and Addition, Canadian room. Photographer, unknown. 56P-06: colour (19,2 x 24,0 cm); Royal York Hotel Addition, unknown room. Photographer; Neil Newton Photography, Toronto 56P-07: b/w (19,8 x 24,8 cm); Royal York Hotel Addition, lobby to the Cascade Lounge with wall mural by Joseph Iliu (Montreal). Photographer; Louis Reens, New York, N.Y.
Royal York Hotel Addition
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56P-01: b/w (24,0 x 19,3 cm); Royal York Hotel and Addition, main facades and partial east elevations. Photographer unknown. 56P-02: b/w (17,9 x 23 cm); Royal York Hotel and Addition, Quebec room. Photographer; Neil Newton Photography, Toronto 56P-03: colour (19,2 x 24,0 cm); Royal York Hotel and Addition, Cascade Lounge. Photographer; Neil Newton Photography, Toronto 56P-04: colour (19,2 x 24,0 cm); Royal York Hotel and Addition, Alberta room. Photographer; Neil Newton Photography, Toronto. 56P-05: colour (19,4 x 24,0 cm); Royal York Hotel and Addition, Canadian room. Photographer, unknown. 56P-06: colour (19,2 x 24,0 cm); Royal York Hotel Addition, unknown room. Photographer; Neil Newton Photography, Toronto 56P-07: b/w (19,8 x 24,8 cm); Royal York Hotel Addition, lobby to the Cascade Lounge with wall mural by Joseph Iliu (Montreal). Photographer; Louis Reens, New York, N.Y.
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Photographs - Arcop projects
ARCH187087
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McGill University Centre (Chris F. Payne Photography), Place des Arts (Panda Associates Photography), Place Bonaventure (Michael Drummond, photographer), model for Queen Elizabeth Theatre, sections through Calgary Urban Renewal Area, model of Place des Arts master plan, detail of theatre interior, Public Washroom in Dorval
Photographs - Arcop projects
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McGill University Centre (Chris F. Payne Photography), Place des Arts (Panda Associates Photography), Place Bonaventure (Michael Drummond, photographer), model for Queen Elizabeth Theatre, sections through Calgary Urban Renewal Area, model of Place des Arts master plan, detail of theatre interior, Public Washroom in Dorval
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articles
A Space for a Blended Family
A Space for a Blended Family
Sam Jacob on the role of the home. Photographs by Audrey Wade
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A Social Reset
Learning from... Rome
Filmmaker and photographer Armin Linke reveals the societal changes, cultural complexities, and beauty of contemporary Rome through two short films and architectural photographs from his archives. The first film focuses on a moment of natural choreography as some 100,000 starlings fly against the backdrop of the city of Rome. Linke presents a selection of photographs,(...)
Paul Desmarais Theatre
5 March 2009
Learning from... Rome
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Filmmaker and photographer Armin Linke reveals the societal changes, cultural complexities, and beauty of contemporary Rome through two short films and architectural photographs from his archives. The first film focuses on a moment of natural choreography as some 100,000 starlings fly against the backdrop of the city of Rome. Linke presents a selection of photographs,(...)
Paul Desmarais Theatre
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Remembering Gabor Szilasi
8 June 2026
Remembering Gabor Szilasi
Katie Addleman revisits a CCA commission on three Québec towns
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At the beginning of powered flight, most airplanes required only a stretch of grassy plain 1,500 feet long for take-off and landing, and a converted barn served as both terminal and hangar. Only with the advent of a profitable commercial aviation industry in the late 1920s, some twenty-five years after Wilbur and Orville Wright’s historic flight, did the modern airport(...)
Hall cases
12 June 1990 to 16 September 1990
Airport Origins: Three Projects by Lloyd Wright
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At the beginning of powered flight, most airplanes required only a stretch of grassy plain 1,500 feet long for take-off and landing, and a converted barn served as both terminal and hangar. Only with the advent of a profitable commercial aviation industry in the late 1920s, some twenty-five years after Wilbur and Orville Wright’s historic flight, did the modern airport(...)
Hall cases