Projet
AP018.S1.1964.PR07
Description:
This project series documents the Donwood Foundations Hospital and Rehabilitation Centre in North York, Ontario from 1964-1966. The office identified the project number as 6418. This project consisted of a four level building, with brick and steel fascia exteriors, that served as an alcohol and addiction treatment hospital. Surrounded by wooded landscapes and overlooking the Don River and ravine, the L-shaped building was 42,000 square feet in size. The building's interiors were designed to exude warmth, friendship and inclusion through the use of warm wood finishes and colourful carpeting and upholstery. The hospital included 49 patient beds, an auditorium, a lounge with balcony, and therapy rooms. The project is recorded through a presentation board of an exterior photograph and reprographic copies of drawings dating from 1966. The drawings consist of construction plans, elevations, sections, details, layouts, and structural, mechanical and electrical drawings.
1966
Donwood Foundation Hospital and Rehabilitation Centre, North York, Ontario (1964-1966)
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AP018.S1.1964.PR07
Description:
This project series documents the Donwood Foundations Hospital and Rehabilitation Centre in North York, Ontario from 1964-1966. The office identified the project number as 6418. This project consisted of a four level building, with brick and steel fascia exteriors, that served as an alcohol and addiction treatment hospital. Surrounded by wooded landscapes and overlooking the Don River and ravine, the L-shaped building was 42,000 square feet in size. The building's interiors were designed to exude warmth, friendship and inclusion through the use of warm wood finishes and colourful carpeting and upholstery. The hospital included 49 patient beds, an auditorium, a lounge with balcony, and therapy rooms. The project is recorded through a presentation board of an exterior photograph and reprographic copies of drawings dating from 1966. The drawings consist of construction plans, elevations, sections, details, layouts, and structural, mechanical and electrical drawings.
Project
1966
Projet
AP018.S1.1980.PR15
Description:
This project series documents additions and alterations to the Beaverbrook Art Gallery in Fredericton, New Brunswick from 1981-1986. The office identified this project as 8018. The Beaverbrook Art Gallery, located beside the St. John River, was designed by Neil Stewart in 1956. The additions and alterations to the original design consisted of the addition of an east wing to the existing structure as well as upgrades to mechanical and electrical systems. A feasibility study was conducted and two schemes were proposed for the project. The project is recorded through textual records, drawings, and site and construction photographs. The feasibility study is recorded through reprographic copies of drawings. The textual records show client correspondence, site planning, contractor and consultant work, construction and associated shop drawings. Textual documents also record a lawsuit brought against the firm by project consultants ADI Limited following construction.
1980-1986
Beaverbrook Art Gallery, Additions and Alterations, Fredericton, New Brunswick (1980-1983)
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AP018.S1.1980.PR15
Description:
This project series documents additions and alterations to the Beaverbrook Art Gallery in Fredericton, New Brunswick from 1981-1986. The office identified this project as 8018. The Beaverbrook Art Gallery, located beside the St. John River, was designed by Neil Stewart in 1956. The additions and alterations to the original design consisted of the addition of an east wing to the existing structure as well as upgrades to mechanical and electrical systems. A feasibility study was conducted and two schemes were proposed for the project. The project is recorded through textual records, drawings, and site and construction photographs. The feasibility study is recorded through reprographic copies of drawings. The textual records show client correspondence, site planning, contractor and consultant work, construction and associated shop drawings. Textual documents also record a lawsuit brought against the firm by project consultants ADI Limited following construction.
Project
1980-1986
Sous-série
AP032.S1.SS4.D6
Description:
Files ARCH219102-ARCH219120 are documents relating to various personal and professional activities (c.1961-1977). Includes notebooks, travel journals, correspondence, clippings, Oakland Bay Bridge booklet, Federal Building at N.Y. World's Fair brochure, F.L. Wright talk (1930), notes and sketches, photographs of bridges and rural buildings, postcards, periodicals, ephemera. Files ARCH254834-ARCH254880 are papers relating to personal business interests such as real estate, investments, taxes, as well as institutions and associations like the Chicago Arts Club, the AIA, the Illinois Institute of Technology, MOMA and the Guggenheim Museum. Documents include Goldsmith's entry in Who's Who, correspondence, medical reports, memos and notes, brochures and booklets on artists and exhibitions, periodicals and clippings. Architectural material includes an address by N.A. Owings, Presidential Design Awards 1984, T.Y. Lin, and documents concerning the call for proposals for the San Francisco main library, and a project for Athens College in Greece.
1964-1991
Personal and Business Documents
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AP032.S1.SS4.D6
Description:
Files ARCH219102-ARCH219120 are documents relating to various personal and professional activities (c.1961-1977). Includes notebooks, travel journals, correspondence, clippings, Oakland Bay Bridge booklet, Federal Building at N.Y. World's Fair brochure, F.L. Wright talk (1930), notes and sketches, photographs of bridges and rural buildings, postcards, periodicals, ephemera. Files ARCH254834-ARCH254880 are papers relating to personal business interests such as real estate, investments, taxes, as well as institutions and associations like the Chicago Arts Club, the AIA, the Illinois Institute of Technology, MOMA and the Guggenheim Museum. Documents include Goldsmith's entry in Who's Who, correspondence, medical reports, memos and notes, brochures and booklets on artists and exhibitions, periodicals and clippings. Architectural material includes an address by N.A. Owings, Presidential Design Awards 1984, T.Y. Lin, and documents concerning the call for proposals for the San Francisco main library, and a project for Athens College in Greece.
File 6
1964-1991
Projet
AP075.S1.1984.PR03
Description:
Project series documents Cornelia Hahn Oberlander's landscape project for Terminal City Tower for the private club Terminal City Club located between West Hastings Street and Cordova Street in Vancouver, British Columbia. Oberlander worked on this project in 1984 with Charles Bentall architects. The project consisted in designing the landscape for a plaza situated between the Terminal City Tower and the Vancouver Club next door, linking West Hastings Street and Cordova Street. She also worked on the landscape design for a rock garden on the terrace roof of the first floor of the building. The project series contains two plantings sketches and four design development drawings, including a ground floor planting plan with plant list, and a floor plan showing the rock garden. The project is also documented through textual records, including correspondence with client, Oberlander's notes, a plant list, a some photographs.
1984
Terminal City Tower, Vancouver, British Columbia (1984)
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AP075.S1.1984.PR03
Description:
Project series documents Cornelia Hahn Oberlander's landscape project for Terminal City Tower for the private club Terminal City Club located between West Hastings Street and Cordova Street in Vancouver, British Columbia. Oberlander worked on this project in 1984 with Charles Bentall architects. The project consisted in designing the landscape for a plaza situated between the Terminal City Tower and the Vancouver Club next door, linking West Hastings Street and Cordova Street. She also worked on the landscape design for a rock garden on the terrace roof of the first floor of the building. The project series contains two plantings sketches and four design development drawings, including a ground floor planting plan with plant list, and a floor plan showing the rock garden. The project is also documented through textual records, including correspondence with client, Oberlander's notes, a plant list, a some photographs.
Project
1984
Projet
AP075.S1.1991.PR02
Description:
Project series documents Cornelia Hahn Oberlander’s landscape project for Campus Commons and Amphitheatre, University of the Cariboo on McGill Road in Kamloops, British Columbia. Oberlander worked on this project in 1991-1993 with architectural firm Downs Archambault & Partners. The landscape design included tree planting for the stairs leading to the amphitheatre and planting around plaza and paved pathways connecting the new campus buildings. The university is now known as the Thompson Rivers University after a merging with the BC Open University in 2005. The project series contains design development drawings, including landscape concept plans, details and planting plans, presentation drawings, including elevations and sections, and working drawings, such as irrigation plans, site plans, planting plans and details. The project is also documented through concept notes by Oberlander, proposals, correspondence with architects and clients, specifications, including landscape specifications, and also photographs of the landscaping.
1990-1994
Campus Commons and Amphitheatre, University of the Cariboo, Kamloops, British Columbia (1991-1994)
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AP075.S1.1991.PR02
Description:
Project series documents Cornelia Hahn Oberlander’s landscape project for Campus Commons and Amphitheatre, University of the Cariboo on McGill Road in Kamloops, British Columbia. Oberlander worked on this project in 1991-1993 with architectural firm Downs Archambault & Partners. The landscape design included tree planting for the stairs leading to the amphitheatre and planting around plaza and paved pathways connecting the new campus buildings. The university is now known as the Thompson Rivers University after a merging with the BC Open University in 2005. The project series contains design development drawings, including landscape concept plans, details and planting plans, presentation drawings, including elevations and sections, and working drawings, such as irrigation plans, site plans, planting plans and details. The project is also documented through concept notes by Oberlander, proposals, correspondence with architects and clients, specifications, including landscape specifications, and also photographs of the landscaping.
Project
1990-1994
Projet
AP075.S1.1991.PR04
Description:
Project series documents Cornelia Hahn Oberlander's landscape project for Student Housing at Simon Fraser University in Burnaby, British Columbia. Oberlander worked on this project from 1991-1993 with architectural firm Matsuzaki Wright Architects. The landscape concept consisted in including the student housing building in a native woodland setting. Oberlander integrated the building with the existing woodland by adding native trees around the building and the access pathways and drives. The project series contains design development drawings, including landscape concept plans, and landscape plans, and working drawings, such as grading plans, planting plans and landscape sections. It also contains construction drawings for the building used as reference. The project is also documented through textual records, such as concept notes by Oberlander, correspondence, including correspondence with architects, clients and consultants, reports and studies on the site, specifications, financial documents, and photographs of the landscaping.
1991-1993
Student Housing, Simon Fraser University, Burnaby, British Columbia (1991-1993)
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AP075.S1.1991.PR04
Description:
Project series documents Cornelia Hahn Oberlander's landscape project for Student Housing at Simon Fraser University in Burnaby, British Columbia. Oberlander worked on this project from 1991-1993 with architectural firm Matsuzaki Wright Architects. The landscape concept consisted in including the student housing building in a native woodland setting. Oberlander integrated the building with the existing woodland by adding native trees around the building and the access pathways and drives. The project series contains design development drawings, including landscape concept plans, and landscape plans, and working drawings, such as grading plans, planting plans and landscape sections. It also contains construction drawings for the building used as reference. The project is also documented through textual records, such as concept notes by Oberlander, correspondence, including correspondence with architects, clients and consultants, reports and studies on the site, specifications, financial documents, and photographs of the landscaping.
Project
1991-1993
Projet
AP075.S1.1982.PR03
Description:
Project series documents Cornelia Hahn Oberlander's landscape project for Hwang Residence in Vancouver. Oberlander starts working on this project in 1980 with architect Arthur Erickson. The project consists in the design of a two-storey residence and a garden inspired by asian gardens. The house itself is situated "at the far end of the site to maximize the size of the main garden and its southern exposure." [1] The garden includes a water basin floating under one side of the building, so that the family room, kitchen and dining room windows and decks give directly over the water basin. The project series contains correspondence, concept notes, specifications. promotional material on the project, a planting plan and photographs of the garden and the residence. Source: [1] Herrington, Susan. Cornelia Hahn Oberlander: Making the Modern Landscape, University of Virginia Press, 2014, 304 pages, p. 90.
1980-1984
Hwang Residence, Vancouver, British Columbia (1882)
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AP075.S1.1982.PR03
Description:
Project series documents Cornelia Hahn Oberlander's landscape project for Hwang Residence in Vancouver. Oberlander starts working on this project in 1980 with architect Arthur Erickson. The project consists in the design of a two-storey residence and a garden inspired by asian gardens. The house itself is situated "at the far end of the site to maximize the size of the main garden and its southern exposure." [1] The garden includes a water basin floating under one side of the building, so that the family room, kitchen and dining room windows and decks give directly over the water basin. The project series contains correspondence, concept notes, specifications. promotional material on the project, a planting plan and photographs of the garden and the residence. Source: [1] Herrington, Susan. Cornelia Hahn Oberlander: Making the Modern Landscape, University of Virginia Press, 2014, 304 pages, p. 90.
Project
1980-1984
Projet
AP178.S1.1976.PR02
Description:
This project series documents the Parcelas 191 e 192 in Porto, Portugal. While the records were held in the office’s archives this project was assigned the number 34/70. The office assigned the date 1976 for this project. The Comissariado para a Renovação Urbana da Área de Ribeira/Barredo was an organization responsible for the rehabilitation of the historic district of Porto. Alvaro Siza was selected to study the area and to propose architectural solutions for the Mercado da Ribeira (see project series AP178.S1.1976.PR01 in this fonds) Parcelas 191 e 192, and Largo da Lada (see project series AP178.S1.1976.PR03 in this fonds). For this project, Siza worked on two houses. Special attention was paid to the windows. This project was realized. Drawings include studies, elevations, sections and working drawings. Textual materials include project documentation. Photographic materials include photographs of drawings.
1962-1974
Parcelas 191 e 192 [Plots 191 and 192], Porto, Portugal (1976)
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AP178.S1.1976.PR02
Description:
This project series documents the Parcelas 191 e 192 in Porto, Portugal. While the records were held in the office’s archives this project was assigned the number 34/70. The office assigned the date 1976 for this project. The Comissariado para a Renovação Urbana da Área de Ribeira/Barredo was an organization responsible for the rehabilitation of the historic district of Porto. Alvaro Siza was selected to study the area and to propose architectural solutions for the Mercado da Ribeira (see project series AP178.S1.1976.PR01 in this fonds) Parcelas 191 e 192, and Largo da Lada (see project series AP178.S1.1976.PR03 in this fonds). For this project, Siza worked on two houses. Special attention was paid to the windows. This project was realized. Drawings include studies, elevations, sections and working drawings. Textual materials include project documentation. Photographic materials include photographs of drawings.
Project
1962-1974
Projet
AP178.S1.1986.PR02
Description:
This project series documents the Parque Urbano in Salemi, Italy. While the records were held in the office’s archives this project was assigned the number 41/80. The office assigned the date 1986 to this project. The project files document a competition for the Salemi urban park. The park was supposed to create a link between the oldest and newest parts of town. The park included two entrances, a new water line, a fence, a path that embraces the topography of the site, a path that links the new town and the Cappuccini Convent, a belvedere and a water pathway. It also contained a terrace with a theater, bar and skating ring. The project was not realized. Documenting this project are studies and site plans. Textual material includes competition documentation and correspondence. Photographs and negatives document the project site.
1984-1987
Parque Urbano [Urban park], Salemi, Italy (1986)
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AP178.S1.1986.PR02
Description:
This project series documents the Parque Urbano in Salemi, Italy. While the records were held in the office’s archives this project was assigned the number 41/80. The office assigned the date 1986 to this project. The project files document a competition for the Salemi urban park. The park was supposed to create a link between the oldest and newest parts of town. The park included two entrances, a new water line, a fence, a path that embraces the topography of the site, a path that links the new town and the Cappuccini Convent, a belvedere and a water pathway. It also contained a terrace with a theater, bar and skating ring. The project was not realized. Documenting this project are studies and site plans. Textual material includes competition documentation and correspondence. Photographs and negatives document the project site.
Project
1984-1987
Projet
AP178.S1.1988.PR01
Description:
This project series documents the Centro Cultural de la Defensa in Madrid, Spain. While the records were held in the office’s archives this project was assigned the number 50/80. The office assigned the date 1988 to this project. An architectural competition was held for the construction of a cultural center and museum for the Ministry of Defense. Seven architects were invited for the first phase of the competition. Four architects, including Fancisco Javier Sainz de Oiza, Lluis Clotet Ballus, Juan Navarro Baldeweg, and Álvaro Siza were selected for the second and final phase. The L-shaped building proposed by Siza included a museum, library, archives, research center, auditoriums, restaurants and bookstores. Siza won the competition but the building was not realized. Documenting this project are sketches, presentation drawings and photographs of model. Textual materials include project documentation, correspondence and articles on the competition.
1988-1990
Centro Cultural de la Defensa - 1º Fase - 2º Fase [La Defensa Cultural Centre, first and second phases], Madrid, Spain (1988)
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AP178.S1.1988.PR01
Description:
This project series documents the Centro Cultural de la Defensa in Madrid, Spain. While the records were held in the office’s archives this project was assigned the number 50/80. The office assigned the date 1988 to this project. An architectural competition was held for the construction of a cultural center and museum for the Ministry of Defense. Seven architects were invited for the first phase of the competition. Four architects, including Fancisco Javier Sainz de Oiza, Lluis Clotet Ballus, Juan Navarro Baldeweg, and Álvaro Siza were selected for the second and final phase. The L-shaped building proposed by Siza included a museum, library, archives, research center, auditoriums, restaurants and bookstores. Siza won the competition but the building was not realized. Documenting this project are sketches, presentation drawings and photographs of model. Textual materials include project documentation, correspondence and articles on the competition.
Project
1988-1990