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Exhibitions
AP075.S2
Description:
This series documents exhibitions that exhibited Cornelia Hahn Oberlander's work as well as exhibitions for which Oberlander was a guest curator. Materials in this series range from the mid 1990s to the mid 2000s. The series includes records for "Art and Design Canada 2000" at the Royal Canadian Academy of Arts where some of Oberlander’s landscape projects were exhibited and records for an exhibition at the Vancouver Art Gallery for which Oberlander was a guest curator. The series includes predominantly administrative records for the planning of the exhibitions, including correspondence, contracts, and panels that were exhibited.
1994-2007
Exhibitions
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AP075.S2
Description:
This series documents exhibitions that exhibited Cornelia Hahn Oberlander's work as well as exhibitions for which Oberlander was a guest curator. Materials in this series range from the mid 1990s to the mid 2000s. The series includes records for "Art and Design Canada 2000" at the Royal Canadian Academy of Arts where some of Oberlander’s landscape projects were exhibited and records for an exhibition at the Vancouver Art Gallery for which Oberlander was a guest curator. The series includes predominantly administrative records for the planning of the exhibitions, including correspondence, contracts, and panels that were exhibited.
Series
1994-2007
Projet
AP178.S1.1972.PR03
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This project series documents the Banco Pinto & Sotto Mayor in Régua, Portugal. While the records were held in the office’s archives this project was assigned the number 9/70. In the past the office identified the project as number 130-B. The office assigned the dates 1972-1973 to this project. The project files document renovations to the Pinto & Sotto Mayor bank in Régua. Construction work included the demolition and reconstruction of the façade and the staircase. It also included important modifications to the structure of the building. Documenting this project are sketches, studies, project documentation and correspondence.
1972-1974
Banco Pinto & Sotto Mayor [Pinto & Sotto Mayor bank agency], Régua, Portugal (1972-1973)
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AP178.S1.1972.PR03
Description:
This project series documents the Banco Pinto & Sotto Mayor in Régua, Portugal. While the records were held in the office’s archives this project was assigned the number 9/70. In the past the office identified the project as number 130-B. The office assigned the dates 1972-1973 to this project. The project files document renovations to the Pinto & Sotto Mayor bank in Régua. Construction work included the demolition and reconstruction of the façade and the staircase. It also included important modifications to the structure of the building. Documenting this project are sketches, studies, project documentation and correspondence.
Project
1972-1974
dessins
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25 File
ARCH44751
Description:
floor plans; Building "A", vestibule, copper flashed sill, canopy, elevator shaft, nurses' station; Building "B", altar and lecturn; Building "C", floor plan, toilet, dark room plumbing and ventilation, electrical revisions, altar and lecturn, steel sash, housing for louvres and air intake vents; fire hydrants for all buildings; exhaust fan, metal partition for existing buildings, proposed entrance canopy and mechanical work
Building "A", Building "B", Building "C"
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ARCH44751
Description:
floor plans; Building "A", vestibule, copper flashed sill, canopy, elevator shaft, nurses' station; Building "B", altar and lecturn; Building "C", floor plan, toilet, dark room plumbing and ventilation, electrical revisions, altar and lecturn, steel sash, housing for louvres and air intake vents; fire hydrants for all buildings; exhaust fan, metal partition for existing buildings, proposed entrance canopy and mechanical work
dessins
Quantité:
25 File
Projet
AP075.S1.1992.PR02
Description:
Project series documents Cornelia Hahn Oberlander's landscape project for the restoration of grounds at the Museum of Anthropology of the University of British Columbia. Orberlander worked on this project in 1997 with architect Arthur Erickson. This project was undertaken in preparation for the Asia Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) meeting, held at the museum in the same year, to restore and improve conditions of the original landscape plan designed by Cornelia Hahn Oberlander between 1975 and 1977. The project series includes sketches, design development drawings, including site plans with Oberlander's annotations of the restoration to be done, grading plans, and landscape plans showing existing conditions, presentation drawings of the proposed improvements, and reference working drawings. The project is also documented through photographic material, including photographs of the landscaping before the improvement work and and photographs of the landscaping and the museum. The project series also comprises textual records, such as a proposal, concept notes by Oberlander, correspondence, including correspondence with clients, consultants and contractors, meetings notes, and specifications.
1992-2004
Museum of Anthropology landscape restoration, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, British Columbia (1992-1997)
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AP075.S1.1992.PR02
Description:
Project series documents Cornelia Hahn Oberlander's landscape project for the restoration of grounds at the Museum of Anthropology of the University of British Columbia. Orberlander worked on this project in 1997 with architect Arthur Erickson. This project was undertaken in preparation for the Asia Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) meeting, held at the museum in the same year, to restore and improve conditions of the original landscape plan designed by Cornelia Hahn Oberlander between 1975 and 1977. The project series includes sketches, design development drawings, including site plans with Oberlander's annotations of the restoration to be done, grading plans, and landscape plans showing existing conditions, presentation drawings of the proposed improvements, and reference working drawings. The project is also documented through photographic material, including photographs of the landscaping before the improvement work and and photographs of the landscaping and the museum. The project series also comprises textual records, such as a proposal, concept notes by Oberlander, correspondence, including correspondence with clients, consultants and contractors, meetings notes, and specifications.
Project
1992-2004
Projet
AP075.S1.2007.PR01
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Project series documents Cornelia Hahn Oberlander's project for the green roof of the Wong Residence on Quadra Island, off the eastern cost of Vancouver, in the Strait of Georgia. Oberlander worked in this project in the second half of the 2000s. The residence was built in a thick and old-growth forest and "Oberlander designed the rooftop landscape as an experimental extansion of this forest system" [1] The project consists in a three landscaped roofs, with a bridge linking a larger platform to two smaller roofs by a glass bridge. The project series contains correspondence, including correspondence with client, contractors and suppliers, project descriptions and digital photographs of the plant selection and planting work. The project is also documents through studies and sketches, such as sun movements studies and preliminary landscape sketches, and also roof plans used as reference. Source: [1] Herrington, Susan. Cornelia Hahn Oberlander: Making the Modern Landscape, University of Virginia Press, 2014, 304 pages, p. 96.
2007-2008
Wong Residence, Quadra Island, British Columbia (circa 2007)
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AP075.S1.2007.PR01
Description:
Project series documents Cornelia Hahn Oberlander's project for the green roof of the Wong Residence on Quadra Island, off the eastern cost of Vancouver, in the Strait of Georgia. Oberlander worked in this project in the second half of the 2000s. The residence was built in a thick and old-growth forest and "Oberlander designed the rooftop landscape as an experimental extansion of this forest system" [1] The project consists in a three landscaped roofs, with a bridge linking a larger platform to two smaller roofs by a glass bridge. The project series contains correspondence, including correspondence with client, contractors and suppliers, project descriptions and digital photographs of the plant selection and planting work. The project is also documents through studies and sketches, such as sun movements studies and preliminary landscape sketches, and also roof plans used as reference. Source: [1] Herrington, Susan. Cornelia Hahn Oberlander: Making the Modern Landscape, University of Virginia Press, 2014, 304 pages, p. 96.
Project
2007-2008
né numérique
AP177.S2.001
Description:
This file consists of the digital working files that were kept by David Ruy following his work for RUR Architecture on the Kansai-kan project. Ruy transferred the records as part of azip file to the CCA. Original directory name: "kansai (ruy)". Most common file formats: form*Z Project File, Drawing Exchange Format, JPEG File Interchange Format, Plain Text File, Raw JPEG Stream.
1996-2015
David Ruy digital working files of the Kansai-kan of the National Diet Library
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AP177.S2.001
Description:
This file consists of the digital working files that were kept by David Ruy following his work for RUR Architecture on the Kansai-kan project. Ruy transferred the records as part of azip file to the CCA. Original directory name: "kansai (ruy)". Most common file formats: form*Z Project File, Drawing Exchange Format, JPEG File Interchange Format, Plain Text File, Raw JPEG Stream.
né numérique
1996-2015
DR1987:0270
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- This sheet of details for the cornice for the Imperial Hotel, Tokyo, was used to work out the decorative treatment of the underside of the cornice. The drawings include small freehand sketches and several larger mechanical drawings with extensive freehand additions. The l.r. drawing, an axonometric view for the corner of the cornice as seen from below, is rendered with coloured pencil and graphite in a few areas.
architecture
1914 or 1915
Cornice details for the Imperial Hotel, Tokyo
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DR1987:0270
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- This sheet of details for the cornice for the Imperial Hotel, Tokyo, was used to work out the decorative treatment of the underside of the cornice. The drawings include small freehand sketches and several larger mechanical drawings with extensive freehand additions. The l.r. drawing, an axonometric view for the corner of the cornice as seen from below, is rendered with coloured pencil and graphite in a few areas.
architecture
Projet
AP144.S2.D22
Description:
File documents alterations to the showroom and offices of Thomas Green & Son Limited, at New Surrey Works, on Southwark Street, in London, England. The proposal reflects Prices’ objective "to provide maximum flexibility for the display of product", by the use of movable screens, stands, canopies, and a lighting system of adjustable spotlights. The project includes a new reception room and office, and renovations to existing offices. Future construction phases for this project include work on the entrance façade and door, and company signage. A preliminary sketch for an illuminated mural on a showroom wall is fabricated from wheels manufactured by the company. Material in this file was produced between 1958 and 1959. File contains design development drawings and textual records.
1958-1959
Showroom for Thomas Green & Son Limited
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AP144.S2.D22
Description:
File documents alterations to the showroom and offices of Thomas Green & Son Limited, at New Surrey Works, on Southwark Street, in London, England. The proposal reflects Prices’ objective "to provide maximum flexibility for the display of product", by the use of movable screens, stands, canopies, and a lighting system of adjustable spotlights. The project includes a new reception room and office, and renovations to existing offices. Future construction phases for this project include work on the entrance façade and door, and company signage. A preliminary sketch for an illuminated mural on a showroom wall is fabricated from wheels manufactured by the company. Material in this file was produced between 1958 and 1959. File contains design development drawings and textual records.
File 22
1958-1959
Projet
AP206.S1.1982.PR31
Description:
This project series documents consulting work in the Jharia Coalfields in Jharia, India for the National Thermal Power Corporation, likely sometime in the 1980s or 1990s. The project consisted of reporting on ways to curtail the environmental impacts of the coalfields, but it is not clear if the suggestions were ever implemented.[1] The project is recorded through drawings of an area map and location plans of the coalfields, probably dating from around the 1980s-1990s. [1] Vikramaditya Prakash, One Continuous Line: Art, Architecture and Urbanism of Aditya Prakash (Ahmedabad, India: Mapin Publishing Pvt. Ltd., 2019), 224.
circa 1980s-1990s
Jharia Coalfields, Jharia, India (circa 1980s-1990s)
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AP206.S1.1982.PR31
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This project series documents consulting work in the Jharia Coalfields in Jharia, India for the National Thermal Power Corporation, likely sometime in the 1980s or 1990s. The project consisted of reporting on ways to curtail the environmental impacts of the coalfields, but it is not clear if the suggestions were ever implemented.[1] The project is recorded through drawings of an area map and location plans of the coalfields, probably dating from around the 1980s-1990s. [1] Vikramaditya Prakash, One Continuous Line: Art, Architecture and Urbanism of Aditya Prakash (Ahmedabad, India: Mapin Publishing Pvt. Ltd., 2019), 224.
Project
circa 1980s-1990s
Sous-série
AP207.S2.SS14
Description:
The sub-series documents the unrealized project of an exhibition curated by Pettena on the work of American architect James Wines for the Venice Biennale of 2000. The exhibition was planned as an installation created by Wines to be placed on a small boat moored in the canal near the Venice Biennale site. The sub-series contains research material on James Wines, including publications. The sub-series also contains correspondence regarding the planning of the exhibition, including correspondence with Wines, exhibition site photographs and plans, and preliminary designs and drawings. This sub-series contains harmful materials including violent and racist imagery.
1999-2000
Exhibition on James Wines at the Venice Biennale (2000)
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AP207.S2.SS14
Description:
The sub-series documents the unrealized project of an exhibition curated by Pettena on the work of American architect James Wines for the Venice Biennale of 2000. The exhibition was planned as an installation created by Wines to be placed on a small boat moored in the canal near the Venice Biennale site. The sub-series contains research material on James Wines, including publications. The sub-series also contains correspondence regarding the planning of the exhibition, including correspondence with Wines, exhibition site photographs and plans, and preliminary designs and drawings. This sub-series contains harmful materials including violent and racist imagery.
Subseries
1999-2000