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Selecting and interpreting material within the John C. Parkin fonds at the CCA, Shirley Blumberg offers a portrait of one of the key actors in the modernization of Canadian cities in the 1950s and 1960s and discusses the power of photography and advertising techniques in promoting the agenda of a corporate practice during those years.
April 2022
Find and Tell: Shirley Blumberg on John C. Parkin
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Selecting and interpreting material within the John C. Parkin fonds at the CCA, Shirley Blumberg offers a portrait of one of the key actors in the modernization of Canadian cities in the 1950s and 1960s and discusses the power of photography and advertising techniques in promoting the agenda of a corporate practice during those years.
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April 2022
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The Power of the Image
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AP056
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The Kuwabara Payne McKenna Blumberg fonds documents the architectural projects of the firm from 1984-2003. 125 projects are recorded through drawings, photographs, models, textual records, periodicals and paintings. These projects include built work, proposals and competition entries.
1984-2003
Kuwabara Payne Mckenna Blumberg fonds
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AP056
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The Kuwabara Payne McKenna Blumberg fonds documents the architectural projects of the firm from 1984-2003. 125 projects are recorded through drawings, photographs, models, textual records, periodicals and paintings. These projects include built work, proposals and competition entries.
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1984-2003
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215 pages : color illustrations, plans ; 30 cm
Basel ; Boston : Birkhäuser-Publishers for Architecture, 2004., ©2004
The architecture of Kuwabara, Payne, McKenna, Blumberg / with contributions by Phyllis Lambert, Detlef Mertins, Bruce Mau, Rodolphe el-Khoury.
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215 pages : color illustrations, plans ; 30 cm
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Basel ; Boston : Birkhäuser-Publishers for Architecture, 2004., ©2004
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approximately 49,200 drawings, 131 photographic materials, 71 paintings, 21 models, 2 serials, 0.047 l.m. of textual records, Arranged by series. AP056.S1, Architectural projects.
Kuwabara Payne McKenna Blumberg fonds, 1984-2003.
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approximately 49,200 drawings, 131 photographic materials, 71 paintings, 21 models, 2 serials, 0.047 l.m. of textual records, Arranged by series. AP056.S1, Architectural projects.
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archives
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books
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143 pages : illustrations (chiefly color), color maps ; 25 cm
[San Francisco] : Applied Research and Design Publishing, an imprint of ORO editions, 2019., ©2019
Women [re] build : stories, polemics, futures / preface by Joan Ockman ; editors, Franca Trubiano, Ramona Adlakha, Ramune Bartuskaite.
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143 pages : illustrations (chiefly color), color maps ; 25 cm
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[San Francisco] : Applied Research and Design Publishing, an imprint of ORO editions, 2019., ©2019
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AP056.S1.1996.PR01
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This project series documents the Disney Animation Studios in Toronto in 1996. The office identified the project number as 9611. This project, headed by Shirley Blumberg, appears to have consisted of studios, offices and a theatre located on the 29th and 30th floors of Simcoe Place on Front Street. The project is recorded through drawings dating from on or around 1996. These are mostly originals and consist of sketches, plans, elevations, sections and details.
1996
Disney Animation Studios, Toronto (1996)
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AP056.S1.1996.PR01
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This project series documents the Disney Animation Studios in Toronto in 1996. The office identified the project number as 9611. This project, headed by Shirley Blumberg, appears to have consisted of studios, offices and a theatre located on the 29th and 30th floors of Simcoe Place on Front Street. The project is recorded through drawings dating from on or around 1996. These are mostly originals and consist of sketches, plans, elevations, sections and details.
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1996
books
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336 pages : illustrations (chiefly color), portraits ; 27 cm
New York : Beverly Willis Architecture Foundation : Princeton Architectural Press, [2022], ©2022
The women who changed architecture / edited by Jan Cigliano Hartman ; foreword by Beverly Willis ; introduction by Amale Andraos ; Sarah Allaback, Julie Sinclair Eakin, Katherine Flynn, Laurel Frances Rogers ; with Lori Brown, Doris Cole, Julia Gamolina, Mary McLeod, Victoria Rosner, Margaret Birney Vickery.
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336 pages : illustrations (chiefly color), portraits ; 27 cm
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New York : Beverly Willis Architecture Foundation : Princeton Architectural Press, [2022], ©2022
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AP056.S1.1992.PR07
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This project series documents the renovation to an already existing store for the Oasis Parfumerie in Oakville, Ontario. The firm identified the project number as 9223. The store was formerly occupied by Irene Hill Just Petites Ltd. This project, headed by Bruce Kuwabara and Shirley Blumberg, consisted of 3,000 square feet of retail and service space for the sale of cosmetics, fragrances, environmental products, gifts and spa treatment services. Materials used throughout the store included maple flooring, Piasentina granite floor slabs, and display units of European beech and figured maple veneers. The project is recorded mostly through drawings, including sketch plans, showing variations for the layout of the store, as well as sketches for furnishings and the entrance of the store. Also included are three photographs of the interior of the store.
1992
Oasis Parfumerie, Oakville, Ontario (1992)
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AP056.S1.1992.PR07
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This project series documents the renovation to an already existing store for the Oasis Parfumerie in Oakville, Ontario. The firm identified the project number as 9223. The store was formerly occupied by Irene Hill Just Petites Ltd. This project, headed by Bruce Kuwabara and Shirley Blumberg, consisted of 3,000 square feet of retail and service space for the sale of cosmetics, fragrances, environmental products, gifts and spa treatment services. Materials used throughout the store included maple flooring, Piasentina granite floor slabs, and display units of European beech and figured maple veneers. The project is recorded mostly through drawings, including sketch plans, showing variations for the layout of the store, as well as sketches for furnishings and the entrance of the store. Also included are three photographs of the interior of the store.
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1992