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AP018.S1.1976.PR23
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This project series documents the design of the new National Gallery of Canada for a limited architectural competition in Ottawa, Ontario in 1976. The office identified the project number as 7630. This project consisted of designing a new gallery to house Canada's most prized artworks and artefacts in a competition run by Public Works Canada on behalf of National Museums of Canada. The building site was down the street from Canada's parliament buildings, with views of the Ottawa River and across to Quebec. The design submitted by Parkin Architects Planners was highly modular, with cubes turned on an angle making up the majority of the building. The six-storey building design had three floors of galleries, while other levels were to be used for staff, services, and storage. A panel of international architects and representatives anonymously chose Parkin's design as the winner of the competition in early 1977. However, after cited lack of funds, and controversies over the chosen site and the way in which the competition was run, the newly formed Canada Museums Construction Company sought another design and architect for the new National Gallery. The dispute over this decision is recorded in materials from this project series and related project series. Eventually, Parkin did participate in the construction of the National Gallery's final design, but as the minor partner in a joint venture with Moshe Safdie (see materials in project series AP018.S1.1983.PR02 in this fonds for more information). The project is recorded through drawings, including presentation boards, photographs, and textual records dating from 1974-1985. The drawings are a mix of original design drawings and site drawings. The site drawings were prepared for the competitors by Public Works Canada and the National Capital Commission. The drawings prepared by these government agencies are bilingual. The textual records primarily consist of guidelines, specifications, and other information from Public Works Canada to the competitors. The textual documentation also includes financial records and correspondence on the controversy surrounding the competition.
1974-1985
National Gallery of Canada, Limited Architectural Competition, Ottawa, Ontario (1976)
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AP018.S1.1976.PR23
Description:
This project series documents the design of the new National Gallery of Canada for a limited architectural competition in Ottawa, Ontario in 1976. The office identified the project number as 7630. This project consisted of designing a new gallery to house Canada's most prized artworks and artefacts in a competition run by Public Works Canada on behalf of National Museums of Canada. The building site was down the street from Canada's parliament buildings, with views of the Ottawa River and across to Quebec. The design submitted by Parkin Architects Planners was highly modular, with cubes turned on an angle making up the majority of the building. The six-storey building design had three floors of galleries, while other levels were to be used for staff, services, and storage. A panel of international architects and representatives anonymously chose Parkin's design as the winner of the competition in early 1977. However, after cited lack of funds, and controversies over the chosen site and the way in which the competition was run, the newly formed Canada Museums Construction Company sought another design and architect for the new National Gallery. The dispute over this decision is recorded in materials from this project series and related project series. Eventually, Parkin did participate in the construction of the National Gallery's final design, but as the minor partner in a joint venture with Moshe Safdie (see materials in project series AP018.S1.1983.PR02 in this fonds for more information). The project is recorded through drawings, including presentation boards, photographs, and textual records dating from 1974-1985. The drawings are a mix of original design drawings and site drawings. The site drawings were prepared for the competitors by Public Works Canada and the National Capital Commission. The drawings prepared by these government agencies are bilingual. The textual records primarily consist of guidelines, specifications, and other information from Public Works Canada to the competitors. The textual documentation also includes financial records and correspondence on the controversy surrounding the competition.
Project
1974-1985
photographies
ARCH257145
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promotional material (printed on paper) of models, drawings, and existing buildings - Village Lake Louise, West End Scheme (Vancouver), West Seattle Freeway, Yorkdale Subway Station, Museum of Anthroplogy, Macmillan-Bloedel building, M-3 Cite des terrasses, Oppenheimer Lodge, Sawber Housing, Toronto Midtown Terrace, Victoria Inner Harbour Study, Toronto Transit Study, Vancouver Study, Smith House 2, Roy Thomson Hall and Downtown West, Sikh Temple, Shannon Mews
Promotional material for various projects
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ARCH257145
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promotional material (printed on paper) of models, drawings, and existing buildings - Village Lake Louise, West End Scheme (Vancouver), West Seattle Freeway, Yorkdale Subway Station, Museum of Anthroplogy, Macmillan-Bloedel building, M-3 Cite des terrasses, Oppenheimer Lodge, Sawber Housing, Toronto Midtown Terrace, Victoria Inner Harbour Study, Toronto Transit Study, Vancouver Study, Smith House 2, Roy Thomson Hall and Downtown West, Sikh Temple, Shannon Mews
photographies
archives
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Fonds
Fonds Robert Duchesnay
AP115
Résumé:
Le Fonds Robert Duchesnay consiste en une série de photographies montrant les divers structure (principalement des dômes géodésiques) conçus ou influencée par R. Buckminster Fuller. Les photographies, prises par l'artiste et photographe montréalais Robert Duchesnay, ont été créées entre 1985 et 1992.
1985-1992
Fonds Robert Duchesnay
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AP115
Résumé:
Le Fonds Robert Duchesnay consiste en une série de photographies montrant les divers structure (principalement des dômes géodésiques) conçus ou influencée par R. Buckminster Fuller. Les photographies, prises par l'artiste et photographe montréalais Robert Duchesnay, ont été créées entre 1985 et 1992.
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Fonds
1985-1992
documents textuels
ARCH255452
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Files of publicity photographs - Roy Thompson Hall, Sikh Temple, Museum of Anthropology, Dalhouse Law Library, Harold Washington Library Centre model, National Gallery of Canada model, MacMillan Bloedel Building, Yorkdale Subway Station, Filberg House, Bank of Canada, Canadian Pavilion (Osaka), Simon Fraser University, Whistler condominiums (interior), University of Lethbridge, Eppich House, unidentified residental high-rise (perspective drawing dated 1980), file of photoprints of various projects
Projects photographs for promotion
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ARCH255452
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Files of publicity photographs - Roy Thompson Hall, Sikh Temple, Museum of Anthropology, Dalhouse Law Library, Harold Washington Library Centre model, National Gallery of Canada model, MacMillan Bloedel Building, Yorkdale Subway Station, Filberg House, Bank of Canada, Canadian Pavilion (Osaka), Simon Fraser University, Whistler condominiums (interior), University of Lethbridge, Eppich House, unidentified residental high-rise (perspective drawing dated 1980), file of photoprints of various projects
documents textuels
Projet
AP164.S1.1997.D12
Description:
The subseries documents the show-event base “Fabricaciones / Fabrications,” held at the Museu d'Art Contemporani de Barcelona (MACBA) (February 10th to April 20th, 1998). The firm identified this project as number 110. “Fabrications was an innovative exhibition on architecture conceived and produced jointly by MACBA, MoMA, the Wexner Center for the Arts and the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art. The exhibition presented sixteen life-size architectural interventions, four at each participating center, each produced by a team of architects who explored tectonic issues in a broad sense. The four installations presented at Plaça dels Àngels – the square in front of the MACBA building – explored and modified the surfaces that defined this public space. Vicente Gualla (Barcelona) created an intervention on the façade opposite the Museum, which drew attention to the occupation and the population density that was absent from the buildings in the square. Abalos & Herreros (Madrid) acted upon the façade of the MACBA building itself, cladding and decorating its most monumental elements: the tower and the balcony. Riegler Riewe (Graz) worked with the whole of the square, inscribing a broken horizontal line along the perimeter of the public space. Finally, MVRDV (Rotterdam) acted upon the paving through an evocation of a series of different kinds of sports grounds.” (MACBA website) Documenting the exhibition are design development drawings, correspondence, project descriptions, budgets, notes, and reference, graphic and photographic materials.
1996-2002
MACBA [Museu d'Art Contemporani de Barcelona] (1997)
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AP164.S1.1997.D12
Description:
The subseries documents the show-event base “Fabricaciones / Fabrications,” held at the Museu d'Art Contemporani de Barcelona (MACBA) (February 10th to April 20th, 1998). The firm identified this project as number 110. “Fabrications was an innovative exhibition on architecture conceived and produced jointly by MACBA, MoMA, the Wexner Center for the Arts and the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art. The exhibition presented sixteen life-size architectural interventions, four at each participating center, each produced by a team of architects who explored tectonic issues in a broad sense. The four installations presented at Plaça dels Àngels – the square in front of the MACBA building – explored and modified the surfaces that defined this public space. Vicente Gualla (Barcelona) created an intervention on the façade opposite the Museum, which drew attention to the occupation and the population density that was absent from the buildings in the square. Abalos & Herreros (Madrid) acted upon the façade of the MACBA building itself, cladding and decorating its most monumental elements: the tower and the balcony. Riegler Riewe (Graz) worked with the whole of the square, inscribing a broken horizontal line along the perimeter of the public space. Finally, MVRDV (Rotterdam) acted upon the paving through an evocation of a series of different kinds of sports grounds.” (MACBA website) Documenting the exhibition are design development drawings, correspondence, project descriptions, budgets, notes, and reference, graphic and photographic materials.
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1996-2002
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Fonds
Fonds Lars Spuybroek
AP173
Résumé:
The Lars Spuybroek fonds documents the professional practice of architect Lars Spuybroek from his early projects in the 1990s to projects undertaken with his firm NOX from 1995 to 2010. The majority of the documents in the fonds consist of photographic materials, drawings and textual records relating to over 70 projects, such as the H2Oexpo in Neeltje Jans Island, Netherlands (1997), the Maison Folie in Nantes, France (2001) and the D-Tower in Doetinchem, Netherlands (2004).
1980s-2010
Fonds Lars Spuybroek
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AP173
Résumé:
The Lars Spuybroek fonds documents the professional practice of architect Lars Spuybroek from his early projects in the 1990s to projects undertaken with his firm NOX from 1995 to 2010. The majority of the documents in the fonds consist of photographic materials, drawings and textual records relating to over 70 projects, such as the H2Oexpo in Neeltje Jans Island, Netherlands (1997), the Maison Folie in Nantes, France (2001) and the D-Tower in Doetinchem, Netherlands (2004).
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Fonds
1980s-2010
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Fonds
Fonds Chuck Hoberman
AP165
Résumé:
The Chuck Hoberman fonds documents Hoberman’s work in transformable design throughout the first part of his career, from 1980 to 2006, as well as the operations of his company Hoberman Associates Inc. Materials relate to the research and development of design concepts, the patenting of inventions, detailed drawings for certain unfolding structures, the workings and movements of mechanisms, public presentations at fairs and exhibitions, and media coverage.
circa 1980-2006
Fonds Chuck Hoberman
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AP165
Résumé:
The Chuck Hoberman fonds documents Hoberman’s work in transformable design throughout the first part of his career, from 1980 to 2006, as well as the operations of his company Hoberman Associates Inc. Materials relate to the research and development of design concepts, the patenting of inventions, detailed drawings for certain unfolding structures, the workings and movements of mechanisms, public presentations at fairs and exhibitions, and media coverage.
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Fonds
circa 1980-2006
photographies
ARCH280841
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Group consists of various buildings, installations and sculptures in Chandigarh, India. There are photographs of the Museum and Art Gallery (including interior views) in sector 10, the Architects Office in sector 19, the Post Graduate Institute for Medical Research (Hospital P.G.I.) in sector 12, the Cinema in sector 22 and sculpture and memorial including the Tower of Shadows in sector 1. The group also includes photographs of buildings details and buildings in constructions.
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Photographs of various buildings and installations in Chandigarh, India
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ARCH280841
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Group consists of various buildings, installations and sculptures in Chandigarh, India. There are photographs of the Museum and Art Gallery (including interior views) in sector 10, the Architects Office in sector 19, the Post Graduate Institute for Medical Research (Hospital P.G.I.) in sector 12, the Cinema in sector 22 and sculpture and memorial including the Tower of Shadows in sector 1. The group also includes photographs of buildings details and buildings in constructions.
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articles
Les dimensions d’une idée
Forces de friction
16 juin 2025
Forces de friction
DR1994:0144:259
Description:
catalogue of the exhibition 'Another Chance for Housing: Low-Rise Alternatives' held at the Museum of Modern Art, New York, N.Y., June 12-August 19, 1973
1973
Another Chance for Housing: Low-Rise Alternatives
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DR1994:0144:259
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catalogue of the exhibition 'Another Chance for Housing: Low-Rise Alternatives' held at the Museum of Modern Art, New York, N.Y., June 12-August 19, 1973