Bill Brown leads participants on a guided tour through Montréal’s underground city, pointing out the locations of surveillance cameras and discussing the role of surveillance in public space. Brown is a member of Surveillance Camera Players, a New York City-based group that maps surveillance cameras in urban spaces. In conjunction with the exhibition Actions: What You Can(...)
Complexe Desjardins
21 February 2009
Discovering the Unmonitored Underground City
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Bill Brown leads participants on a guided tour through Montréal’s underground city, pointing out the locations of surveillance cameras and discussing the role of surveillance in public space. Brown is a member of Surveillance Camera Players, a New York City-based group that maps surveillance cameras in urban spaces. In conjunction with the exhibition Actions: What You Can(...)
Complexe Desjardins
When the Canadian Centre for Architecture building was conceived and designed as an addition to the nineteenth-century Shaughnessy House, it also became an addition to the CCA’s extensive collection. Accordingly, the inaugural exhibitions in the new building in 1989 included a display on the Building and Gardens. The CCA, which plays an influential role in furthering(...)
Hall cases
22 April 2015 to 30 November 2015
The CCA in Photographs, 1987–2015
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When the Canadian Centre for Architecture building was conceived and designed as an addition to the nineteenth-century Shaughnessy House, it also became an addition to the CCA’s extensive collection. Accordingly, the inaugural exhibitions in the new building in 1989 included a display on the Building and Gardens. The CCA, which plays an influential role in furthering(...)
Hall cases
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Administrative records
DR1999:0501
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documents include 6 plexiglass samples, filing index, directory, project information, site, consultants, zoning, maps, program, sprinklers, budget, consultants: architectural, technical, cost, public relations, schedule, transcriptions, transmittals, specifications, photograph, publications/articles, colour, samples, drawings, blueprints, CAD
Administrative records
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DR1999:0501
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documents include 6 plexiglass samples, filing index, directory, project information, site, consultants, zoning, maps, program, sprinklers, budget, consultants: architectural, technical, cost, public relations, schedule, transcriptions, transmittals, specifications, photograph, publications/articles, colour, samples, drawings, blueprints, CAD
textual records
textual records
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AP173.S2.2008.D1
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Series documents Lars Spuybroek's project for the invited competition for the Horse and Sound in Heusden, Netherlands, a public artwork for the City of Heusden. Material in this series was produced around 2008. The series contains a reprographic copy of a presentation drawing. This project may also include digital design material, which has yet to be processed and which will available for consultation in 2017.
ca. 2008
Horse and Sound, Heusden, Netherlands (2008)
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AP173.S2.2008.D1
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Series documents Lars Spuybroek's project for the invited competition for the Horse and Sound in Heusden, Netherlands, a public artwork for the City of Heusden. Material in this series was produced around 2008. The series contains a reprographic copy of a presentation drawing. This project may also include digital design material, which has yet to be processed and which will available for consultation in 2017.
textual records
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Project
ca. 2008
textual records
Awards and addresses
ARCH255595
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6 files of awards and addresses - French Academie d'Architecture grande medaille d'or; R.A.I.C gold medal and receiving speech; Cosmos Club - AIA talk; Chicago lecture on cities; Massey Hall public presentation speeches
1984
Awards and addresses
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6 files of awards and addresses - French Academie d'Architecture grande medaille d'or; R.A.I.C gold medal and receiving speech; Cosmos Club - AIA talk; Chicago lecture on cities; Massey Hall public presentation speeches
textual records
1984
Project
Waterfront Centre
AP022.S1.1980.PR12
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File documents a mixed-use development consisting of a glass-vaulted galleria between two office towers, public spaces, and three above-grade and below-grade retail levels, underground parking, Pier B-C, Vancouver, British Columbia. File contains survey drawings, design development drawings, presentation drawings, presentation panels, textual records (includes photographs) and slides.
1980-1983
Waterfront Centre
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AP022.S1.1980.PR12
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File documents a mixed-use development consisting of a glass-vaulted galleria between two office towers, public spaces, and three above-grade and below-grade retail levels, underground parking, Pier B-C, Vancouver, British Columbia. File contains survey drawings, design development drawings, presentation drawings, presentation panels, textual records (includes photographs) and slides.
Project
1980-1983
textual records
DR2012:0012:099:006
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File containing documents in English, including correspondence, notes and posters related to Melvin Charney's planned public lecture at the AKA Artist-Run Centre in Saskatoon. Original folder inscribed in graphite: AKA GALLERY
1986-1988
Correspondence of Melvin Charney related to lecture at the AKA Artist-Run Centre
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DR2012:0012:099:006
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File containing documents in English, including correspondence, notes and posters related to Melvin Charney's planned public lecture at the AKA Artist-Run Centre in Saskatoon. Original folder inscribed in graphite: AKA GALLERY
textual records
1986-1988
books
DR2001:0042
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Published on the occasion of the dedication of the General Motors Technical Center, May 16, 1956.
1956
Where Today Meets Tomorrow: General Motors Technical Center
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DR2001:0042
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Published on the occasion of the dedication of the General Motors Technical Center, May 16, 1956.
books
1956
Project
AP164.S1.2000.D4
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The project series documents a landscaping competition in 2002 where the firm proposed their evaluation for the transformation of the old recycling facilities for solid residues in Madrid into an urban public space. The firm identified this project as number 128. Abalos & Herreros worked in collaboration with Urbaser and F.C.C. Documenting the project are conceptual, presentation, studies, project descriptions, reference, digital and graphic materials.
2000
Jardines Valdemingómez, Madrid, Spain (2000)
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AP164.S1.2000.D4
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The project series documents a landscaping competition in 2002 where the firm proposed their evaluation for the transformation of the old recycling facilities for solid residues in Madrid into an urban public space. The firm identified this project as number 128. Abalos & Herreros worked in collaboration with Urbaser and F.C.C. Documenting the project are conceptual, presentation, studies, project descriptions, reference, digital and graphic materials.
Project
2000
textual records
ARCH256847
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correspondence files - AE schedules, internal corresp., suppliers, trade catalogs, insurance files, RAIC annual reports and bulletins, Royal Canadian Academy of Arts, telexes, Ontario Association of Architecture, Institute for Research on Public Policy.
1980-1983
Correspondence files - AE schedules, internal corresp
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ARCH256847
Description:
correspondence files - AE schedules, internal corresp., suppliers, trade catalogs, insurance files, RAIC annual reports and bulletins, Royal Canadian Academy of Arts, telexes, Ontario Association of Architecture, Institute for Research on Public Policy.
textual records
1980-1983