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AP018.S1.1978.PR12
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This project series documents an addition to the Toronto Sun building in downtown Toronto from 1978-1982. The office identified the project number as 7816. From 1973-1975, Parkin Architects Planners designed and constructed the Toronto Sun press plant and office building at 333 King Street East. This project documents an addition to the production area of the original building. This project consisted of a two-storey addition to house the company's mailing facilities on a newly acquired property with a link to the existing press hall. Also included in this project was the addition of a one-storey enclosure for the truck dock, attached to the mail room. The project cost approximately $3.2 million. The project is recorded through drawings and textual materials dating from 1978-1982. The drawings consist of floor plans, landscaping, and volumetric studies while the textual records consist of correspondence and conference reports.
1978-1982
The Toronto Sun Publishing Limited, Press Plant and Office Building, Alteration to Existing Facilities, Toronto (1978)
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AP018.S1.1978.PR12
Description:
This project series documents an addition to the Toronto Sun building in downtown Toronto from 1978-1982. The office identified the project number as 7816. From 1973-1975, Parkin Architects Planners designed and constructed the Toronto Sun press plant and office building at 333 King Street East. This project documents an addition to the production area of the original building. This project consisted of a two-storey addition to house the company's mailing facilities on a newly acquired property with a link to the existing press hall. Also included in this project was the addition of a one-storey enclosure for the truck dock, attached to the mail room. The project cost approximately $3.2 million. The project is recorded through drawings and textual materials dating from 1978-1982. The drawings consist of floor plans, landscaping, and volumetric studies while the textual records consist of correspondence and conference reports.
Project
1978-1982
Project
AP178.S1.1967.PR02
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This project series documents the Monumento ao poeta António Nobre in Leça de Palmeira, Portugal. While the records were held in the office’s archives this project was assigned the number 27/60; in the past the office identified the project as number 117. The office assigned the date 1967 to this project. The project consisted of a sculpture located near the Boa Nova Tea house. The monument was a collaboration between Álvaro Siza and sculptor Barata Feyo. The bronze sculpture included feminine figures and poet António Nobre. It is important to note that another monument for António Nobre was built by Siza in 1980 (see project series AP178.S1.1980.PR04 in this fonds). Documenting this project are sketches, studies, topographic surveys, plans, drawings of lettering and details. Photographs, negatives, and slides document the site, model, inauguration and sculpture. Textual documentation includes a building program, notes and correspondence with the city of Matosinhos.
1967-1980
Monumento ao poeta António Nobre [Monument to the poet António Nobre], Leça da Palmeira, Matosinhos, Portugal (1967)
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AP178.S1.1967.PR02
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This project series documents the Monumento ao poeta António Nobre in Leça de Palmeira, Portugal. While the records were held in the office’s archives this project was assigned the number 27/60; in the past the office identified the project as number 117. The office assigned the date 1967 to this project. The project consisted of a sculpture located near the Boa Nova Tea house. The monument was a collaboration between Álvaro Siza and sculptor Barata Feyo. The bronze sculpture included feminine figures and poet António Nobre. It is important to note that another monument for António Nobre was built by Siza in 1980 (see project series AP178.S1.1980.PR04 in this fonds). Documenting this project are sketches, studies, topographic surveys, plans, drawings of lettering and details. Photographs, negatives, and slides document the site, model, inauguration and sculpture. Textual documentation includes a building program, notes and correspondence with the city of Matosinhos.
Project
1967-1980
photographs
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9 photograph(s)
ARCH269658
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Group consists of various photographs predominantly of Chandigarh, India, including: - A man sitting in front of a rural house - A tree in a field - Women walking in a street - Women and children spinning string in a rural home near Chandigarh - Portrait of a bearded man - Men and children washing oxen in water - Unidentified bas-relief of the sun in concrete - The Secretariat in the Capitol Complex - Open hand bas-relief in concrete
between 1951 and 1965
Various photographs predominantly of Chandigarh, India
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ARCH269658
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Group consists of various photographs predominantly of Chandigarh, India, including: - A man sitting in front of a rural house - A tree in a field - Women walking in a street - Women and children spinning string in a rural home near Chandigarh - Portrait of a bearded man - Men and children washing oxen in water - Unidentified bas-relief of the sun in concrete - The Secretariat in the Capitol Complex - Open hand bas-relief in concrete
photographs
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9 photograph(s)
between 1951 and 1965
textual records
Office records of contacts and employees, correspondence, and correspondence file regarding projects
ARCH273725
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6 files- office records of contacts and employees, Joan Stanley Baker, Allan Bell and Charlotte Gobeil, primarily correspondence; Arthur Erickson Atelier, correspondence file regarding projects in the Middle East; letters of support and verification from Arthur Erickson, Arthur Erickson Architectural Corporation, Vancouver, British Columbia; correspondence regaring the Beijing Opera House design competition and architect Paul Andreu. Also contains Certificates of Practice (2002-2005), Architectural Institute of British Columbia.
1993-2004
Office records of contacts and employees, correspondence, and correspondence file regarding projects
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ARCH273725
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6 files- office records of contacts and employees, Joan Stanley Baker, Allan Bell and Charlotte Gobeil, primarily correspondence; Arthur Erickson Atelier, correspondence file regarding projects in the Middle East; letters of support and verification from Arthur Erickson, Arthur Erickson Architectural Corporation, Vancouver, British Columbia; correspondence regaring the Beijing Opera House design competition and architect Paul Andreu. Also contains Certificates of Practice (2002-2005), Architectural Institute of British Columbia.
textual records
1993-2004
drawings
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20 File
ARCH41278
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assembly hall for Torpedo and Gunnery School, Combined Shops doors, Central Heating Plant doors, mastic and cement bases for hospital, Hospital galley and foyer, hospital x-ray room, windows and doors for Signal A.S.D.I.C. Building, hospital kitchen, galleys for General Office Building, Signal and A.S.D.I.C. Building conversion to barracks, changes to Barracks Building, counters and partitions, Hospital door, concrete column for General Offices, Hospital passage, pump house, fences and gates
Assembly hall for Torpedo and Gunnery School, Combined Shops doors
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ARCH41278
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assembly hall for Torpedo and Gunnery School, Combined Shops doors, Central Heating Plant doors, mastic and cement bases for hospital, Hospital galley and foyer, hospital x-ray room, windows and doors for Signal A.S.D.I.C. Building, hospital kitchen, galleys for General Office Building, Signal and A.S.D.I.C. Building conversion to barracks, changes to Barracks Building, counters and partitions, Hospital door, concrete column for General Offices, Hospital passage, pump house, fences and gates
drawings
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20 File
Project
AP142.S1.D118
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File documents a partly executed project for the construction of single-family residences on ten sites of the Pocono Mountains, Pennsylvania, United States. Two residences were built, one in Timber Trails, on Blue Ox Road and one in Saw Creek Estates. The real estates developers were Robert Hamburger and Harold Yaffe. For the realization of the houses, only local materials and methods of construction were used. Material in this file was produced in 1988. File contains design development drawings, presentation drawings and textual records, including correspondence, an architect's report, sketches and drawings.
1988
Case unifamigliari, Pocono Mountains, Pennsylvania
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AP142.S1.D118
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File documents a partly executed project for the construction of single-family residences on ten sites of the Pocono Mountains, Pennsylvania, United States. Two residences were built, one in Timber Trails, on Blue Ox Road and one in Saw Creek Estates. The real estates developers were Robert Hamburger and Harold Yaffe. For the realization of the houses, only local materials and methods of construction were used. Material in this file was produced in 1988. File contains design development drawings, presentation drawings and textual records, including correspondence, an architect's report, sketches and drawings.
File 118
1988
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AP148.S1.1972.PR01
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Project series documents Poli's research and design work on his major project about a peasant farmer named Zeno from Riparbella. This project, entitled "Zeno, una cultura autosufficiente," was presented at the 1978 Venice Biennale with Superstudio as "La Coscienza di Zeno (Zeno's consciousness)". The project also appears to have some overlap with another research project in which Poli and other members of Superstudio were involved: Culture materiale extraurbane. This involved research and the development of a course in the architecture programme at the University of Florence on research into traditional tools and other aspects of rural material culture. The research work on rural culture was published in the magazine Modo (no.7) in March 1978. The Zeno project reflects a major project in Poli's output, with work beginning on it in 1972 and into 1980. There are numerous narratives at work in this project. There is the narrative of Zeno's relationship to the small house built by his grandfather and in which he was born, and has always lived. Alongside this, is Poli's interest in Zeno's relationship to his tools, his clothes, all the material elements of his life in the only house he has ever known. The fictional narrative that Poli weaves into this project involves an imagined encounter between Zeno and astronaut Buzz Aldrin. Poli's fascination with Zeno's material culture extends into a comparison of these two men and their physical interactions with their worlds: both self-sufficient capsules of a kind. Material in this project includes a large number of drawings and collages depicting different domestic and working spaces and tools in Zeno's life. A number of these drawings feature artefacts, such as cloth pillowcases, metal pieces, and a rope. In addition, the project series includes a number of physical artefacts, such as tools and even Zeno's door. A notable element in this series is an artist book by Poli which features a catalogue or register of elements in Zeno's life, detailing everything about his spaces, his working days, and even the food he eats.
1972-1980
Zeno, una cultura autosufficiente [Zeno, a self-sufficient culture] (1972-1980)
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AP148.S1.1972.PR01
Description:
Project series documents Poli's research and design work on his major project about a peasant farmer named Zeno from Riparbella. This project, entitled "Zeno, una cultura autosufficiente," was presented at the 1978 Venice Biennale with Superstudio as "La Coscienza di Zeno (Zeno's consciousness)". The project also appears to have some overlap with another research project in which Poli and other members of Superstudio were involved: Culture materiale extraurbane. This involved research and the development of a course in the architecture programme at the University of Florence on research into traditional tools and other aspects of rural material culture. The research work on rural culture was published in the magazine Modo (no.7) in March 1978. The Zeno project reflects a major project in Poli's output, with work beginning on it in 1972 and into 1980. There are numerous narratives at work in this project. There is the narrative of Zeno's relationship to the small house built by his grandfather and in which he was born, and has always lived. Alongside this, is Poli's interest in Zeno's relationship to his tools, his clothes, all the material elements of his life in the only house he has ever known. The fictional narrative that Poli weaves into this project involves an imagined encounter between Zeno and astronaut Buzz Aldrin. Poli's fascination with Zeno's material culture extends into a comparison of these two men and their physical interactions with their worlds: both self-sufficient capsules of a kind. Material in this project includes a large number of drawings and collages depicting different domestic and working spaces and tools in Zeno's life. A number of these drawings feature artefacts, such as cloth pillowcases, metal pieces, and a rope. In addition, the project series includes a number of physical artefacts, such as tools and even Zeno's door. A notable element in this series is an artist book by Poli which features a catalogue or register of elements in Zeno's life, detailing everything about his spaces, his working days, and even the food he eats.
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1972-1980
ARCH288571
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This sketchbook includes sketches for the reconstruction of Portal di Riquer in Alcoy, Spain, and for the reconstruction of the Chiado. It also contains sketches of a garden in Seville, people, and furniture, as well as notes for the Housing in Concepción Arenal in Cadiz, Guardiola house in Puerto de Santa Maria, Santo Domingo de Bonaval Park in Santiago de Compostela, Vilanova de Arousa Sport complex, and Olympic Village Meteorological Centre and MOPU delegation headquarters in Barcelona.
August 1989
Sketchbook 292: Texto Baixa - Fac. Arq.ra Jardins-Madrid- Museu Porto II-Cadiz I -Sevilha Jardim Sicilia-Alcoy
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ARCH288571
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This sketchbook includes sketches for the reconstruction of Portal di Riquer in Alcoy, Spain, and for the reconstruction of the Chiado. It also contains sketches of a garden in Seville, people, and furniture, as well as notes for the Housing in Concepción Arenal in Cadiz, Guardiola house in Puerto de Santa Maria, Santo Domingo de Bonaval Park in Santiago de Compostela, Vilanova de Arousa Sport complex, and Olympic Village Meteorological Centre and MOPU delegation headquarters in Barcelona.
Isola and Norzi: Conshelf II
Artists Hilario Isola and Matteo Norzi discuss Jacques Cousteau’s Conshelf II underwater base and their own project Liquid Door, which proposes to revive the dream of living underwater by making Cousteau’s Starfish House inhabitable. Based in New York, Italian-born Hilario Isola and Matteo Norzi have collaborated since 2003, pooling their backgrounds and interests in art(...)
Paul Desmarais Theatre
13 May 2010 , 7pm
Isola and Norzi: Conshelf II
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Artists Hilario Isola and Matteo Norzi discuss Jacques Cousteau’s Conshelf II underwater base and their own project Liquid Door, which proposes to revive the dream of living underwater by making Cousteau’s Starfish House inhabitable. Based in New York, Italian-born Hilario Isola and Matteo Norzi have collaborated since 2003, pooling their backgrounds and interests in art(...)
Paul Desmarais Theatre
archives
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Fonds
Pierre du Prey fonds
AP133
Synopsis:
The Pierre du Prey fonds documents Pierre du Prey’s work as a researcher and writer on the history of architecture. The fonds contains documents related to his work for "The Villas of Pliny: from antiquity to posterity," published in 1994, and a catalog he produced on Ockham Park in Surrey, England. It also documents du Prey's professional activities as an architectural historian, such as his lectures or his attendance to congresses.
1967-2019
Pierre du Prey fonds
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AP133
Synopsis:
The Pierre du Prey fonds documents Pierre du Prey’s work as a researcher and writer on the history of architecture. The fonds contains documents related to his work for "The Villas of Pliny: from antiquity to posterity," published in 1994, and a catalog he produced on Ockham Park in Surrey, England. It also documents du Prey's professional activities as an architectural historian, such as his lectures or his attendance to congresses.
archives
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Fonds
1967-2019