File contains 6 drawings (3 site plans, 3 exterior perspectives), ink on bond, as well as 22 photographic prints of model. The medium density and medium rise residential community was planned for approximately 5,000 people in 900 units for average income families. The units were further subdivided into nine neighbourhood clusters containing 20 dwelling units sharing the circulation space and community facilities, such as schools, mosques, shops, recreation and open spaces. This density resulted in a stepped back building form that is eight storeys in height. The A-frame space provides a shaded and naturally ventilated inner street for community facilities in a richly landscaped setting. The project was not executed; the design and documentation were not completed

File consists of 23 drawings (1 site plan, 13 plans, 2 sections, 1 elevation, 3 exterior perspectives, 1 detail: furniture, equipment; 2 combination drawings: 1 plan I section, 1 section I elevation I detail) and 1 slide photograph of exterior. The Interim Headquarters was designed to increase the Saudi Arabian Ministry of Foreign Affairs space (12,000 m2) in Jeddah, prior to the Ministry's relocation to the capital, Riyadh. The concept for the Interim Headquarters was developed in the context of a programming and master plan study for the Ministry's Jeddah site as a whole, and on a long-range organization and management study for the Ministry. The Jeddah master plan study recommended the refurbishing of the existing headquarters, to preserve its historical and cultural value, and the continued use of the site to serve as the Jeddah Branch of the Ministry after the planned move to Riyadh. In order to complete the facility in the shortest possible time, the building was designed as a simple rectangular volume with a very regular structural grid. The building 'skin' received special design attention, to achieve the objective of a high quality 'background' building, which would not detract from the historic old Headquarters building in the centre of the site. The Interim Headquarters consists of a two-storey office block sitting on a solid base, which emerges out of the sloping site. The upper part of the glazed 'box' is surrounded with wood lattice screens, which simultaneously provide solar shading, hide unsightly mechanical equipment, and establish a visual relationship to the residential buildings of old Jeddah. Subsequent to the completion of the Ministry's new headquarters complex in Riyadh, the Interim Headquarters has continued to serve as the Ministry's Jeddah Branch, as planned.

File includes 39 drawings (29 plans, 4 sections, 3 exterior perspectives, 2 interior perspectives, 1 circulation diagram) and 3 photographs (1 aerial view of site, 2 prints of site model). The hotel I residential complex in the city of Medina is a modified version of the Sawaber project. It is simpler in form, connecting the stepped blocks at the top. The site is irregular in shape filled with vegetation and trellis-covered parking. The project incorporated an existing mosque and turned the souk-like street into a grand lobby, a shopping concourse for the hotel and a community place for the apartments.

File includes 38 drawings: (25 plans, 5 sections, 4 elevations, 2 exterior perspectives, 2 details: glazing.) and 7 photographs (3 prints of model, 4 contact sheets with 47 images total. The Investment Authority site lies directly opposite a series of broad gardens and is very prominent in its visibility. As such the project was to be a significant contributor to the urban design of the city, and the building's proportions and its relationship to the street were important criteria. The design for the new headquarters for the Abu Dhabi Investment Authority was prepared in 1978 in response to an International Invited Design Competition. The site for this project was on the Abu Dhabi "Corniche" albeit at that time in its infancy. The Corniche today is a splendid 10 km Avenue of high quality development and lush tropical gardens with lovely promenades along the sea front. In order to provide a distinctive column-free "banking hall" it was decided to suspend the building from its core walls and columns. This allowed the ground floor to be completely column free and facilitated the design of interior/exterior relationships between the banking hall and the site landscaping. A raised banking hall provided a podium housing below grade parking and improved views to the sea across the Corniche. The structural effect of the building coupled with the tall slender proportions of the glazing created a sense of lightness and gracefulness particularly important to this owner.

File includes 2 drawings (1 site plan, 1 section) and 1 photograph slide of model. This project was a limited design competition. The twin towered headquarters building was commissioned for a major international financial organization. The design incorporates both mirrored double glazed curtain walls for offices, and reflective glass blocks and walls for the service core and major circulation spaces.

File includes 13 drawings (1 site plan, 7 plans, 2 sections, 2 elevations; 1 combination drawing: 1 section/elevation), 2 presentation boards (1 site plan, 1 plan I perspective), and 35 prints of model. The Air Defense Headquarters houses the Office of the Commander of the Air Defense Forces and his assistants, Research and Development, the Directorate of Planning Projects, Public Relations, the Finance, Military and Civilian Personnel Departments, to name a few. In addition, the Headquarters incorporates a mosque, barracks and a mess hall into its scheme. The site is approximately 4 hectares with walls bermed on all sides. This prevents water drainage into the Headquarters, as well as acting as a security wall. The site is divided into three zones: a service zone; a transitional zone, formally landscaped to create an appropriate entry for the Headquarter Building; and the platform zone, on which the building sits. A central spine divides the site in a north-south orientation, which also acts as an artery for all the shared facilities. The 20 250 m2 building is a limestone-clad stepped pyramid, taking full advantage of the desert light. Its height was restricted by the flight path of a nearby airport and consequently the gardens and entrance are below grade level. The roof is also stepped in form, a concrete shield sheltering an inner landscaped garden, which all administrative offices face.

File includes 1 site plan, 1 presentation board (title block with prints of model and drawing of site plan), and 5 photographic prints of model. The Government of Kuwait initiated the development plan for a new town envisioned as a major urban centre. The Fintas Centre was to accommodate retail and commercial office space, as well as focus on clinics, cinemas, recreation, parking, a botanical garden, and a market, serving a population of 500 000. The site was a vacant rectangular superblock approximately 1 hectare, situated between the Fahaheel Expressway and the As Safar Motorway. It is west of the existing town of Fintas. Some traditional housing exists on the eastern edge of the Fintas superb lock. The mall is wrapped in a wall of parking garages simulating a walled city. There are four gates at the cardinal points: two of which enter low rise office buildings; one a conservatory surrounded by a hotel, library and theatre; and one on a bridge which links the east and the west sides of the centre.

Files includes 411 drawings, 23 presentation boards, and 10 photographs. The A1 Kharj RSAF Complex provides facilities for the King Faisal Air Force Academy and Tactical Airlift squadrons that were stationed at Riyadh airport. The Complex was intended to become the central maintenance and supply depot for the RSAF. The site is in close proximity to the Damman-Riyadh railway and the AI Kharj-Haradh road which are the main arteries for transportation. The total area required for the plan is 52.3 hectares. Function was the governing principle for the design. Common academic facilities are clustered on the central uppermost plaza under the shading structures of the water towers. The residential blocks are oriented toward the richly landscaped side courts. The King Faisal Air Force Academy itself is a sand-coloured stepped pyramid, a form that is economical for the desert and accommodates a village density. The Academy is designed for 1,500 students and 300 faculty. The three colleges, along with their supporting religious, command, housing, recreational, athletic and support services, are contained in one large multi-levelled structure.

File contains 17 drawings (8 plans, 9 exterior perspectives) and 381 photographs (368 slides [173 of drawings, 114 of model, 81 miscellaneous] 13 prints of model). The King Abdulaziz University interspersed academic facilities with residential compounds in a layout respecting traditional settlement patterns. The men's campus is separate from the women's campus on a 260 hectare site. The site is undeveloped and is a continuation of the Jeddah Coastal Plain, 6 km east of Jeddah's downtown core. The University locale is separated from the city's core by an existing airport and an existing residential area to the east. The university was designed to accommodate 17,000 students, 2,000 faculty, and 5,800 support staff. In addition to the academic facilities, the university has a mosque, a museum, an aquarium, an auditorium, and botanical gardens as cultural amenities to enrich the city. A central open space spine connects the east and the west sides of the entrance area through a linear system of landscaped and building-enclosed courtyards.

File contains 17 drawings (4 site plans, 7 exterior perspectives, 6 sketches), 3 photographic prints of model in two frames, and one island scheme model. The Abu Nuwas Project is situated south of the town centre and across from the Tigris River from the presidential palace. The district is known as a recreational area. The urban master plan called for a 3 km section on the bank of the river to be extended into Baghdad's main concourse. The existing Abu Nuwas district was to be preserved and consolidated with the addition of squares, gates, and arcades. The final scheme positioned an island intersecting a new bridge proposed by the government. This man-made island would contain a history museum, a performing arts complex, a national library, an arts school, an aquarium, theme gardens, and terraced displays of scientific devices, such as water wheels, wind mills, observatories, and clocks

File includes 1 photograph print of mode. The SANCST Science Halls were conceived as a demonstration centre showing the development of science within the Muslim world, and making science accessible to all. The 125 hectare site was 12 km north of the Riyadh centre core. The entry was to be through a large semi-circular plaza from which both the Headquarters Building and the Science Halls could be accessed. The Headquarters Building possesses a strong central axis and the Science Halls are located near the far end of the site. The latter is set on an oblique angle giving it dual orientation. It also uses a strong system of Islamic geometric ordering, superimposition and the rotation of the basic square. The Science Halls have a traditional introverted character and the building mass sits on the Arabic landscape like a finite object, particularly in its use of natural materials. The exterior cladding is a warm colour of horizontally stratified Riyadh limestone with varying band depths. The important features of the Science Halls are the arrival plaza and its orientation, the souk street circulation, the laboratories, the demonstration theatres, the formal gardens, the traditional riverbed gardens, and the medicinal herb gardens.

File includes 604 drawings, 33 presentation boards, 150 photographs, and 1 model of the entrance gate. The Islamic University of Madinah is distinguished both by its religious location and by the fact that it represents a centre for the collection, preservation, and dissemination of Islamic heritage. It is situated at the Al-Madinah Al-Munawarah, an oasis town surrounded by the desert and the rocky mountains. The valleys are the source of its water supply. The 120 hectare site also incorporates existing buildings. The university campus is characterized by the integration of teaching and living spaces organized around a hierarchy of courts. The Mosque and Faculties occupy the centre of the campus. Low buildings, not exceeding four storeys, maintain a human scale. The main gate faces the City of Madinah and the axes of the buildings are aligned to acknowledge the religiously significant Qibla in Makkah. The prominent arrival court is landscaped with water fountains and gardens as a forecourt to the main Mosque. The residential buildings are clustered, as are the Faculty buildings, housing about 2 000 students in nine-person dwelling units. Covered pedestrian walkways link the facilities beyond the campus core, such as the sports facilities, faculty housing, and commercial districts. The architectural style is based on Islamic forms: simple massing, grouping buildings around courtyards, and orientation of individual components within buildings towards courtyards, which are a source of natural light, air, and visual relief. Courtyards, arcades around courtyards, and gateways to individual buildings are the repetitive elements found throughout the campus.

File includes 10 photograph slides of model. The Al Falah Trust, in Makkah, commissioned a limited design competition for a boys' private school to accommodate 1 000 male students. It was the client's intention that the Makkah School would provide a model for the planning and design of two or three schools in different cities in Saudi Arabia. There were four main design objectives for the school: to support and enhance the progressive educational approach of the Al Falah Trust; to establish a clear physical identity for the school that reflects both its noble traditions and high academic ideals; to provide modem teaching facilities that include the latest technology, laboratories, and computer and audio visual aids; and to incorporate the traditional Islamic spatial concepts and motifs with particular respect and sympathy for the Mogul Islamic forms, while reflecting the spirit of the traditional architecture of the Hejaz in general and of Makkah in particular. The site was planned with an introverted form, with buildings extending right up to the limited site boundaries. Within the relatively opaque exterior walls, a series of courtyards were created, around which were located the main functional components and building masses. A colonnade was cut into the ground floor of most buildings to provide shade and soften the interior-exterior transition. Small domes or cupolas were used to give emphasis to a number of major elements of the complex including the entrances to each of the main buildings. The three main academic components - an elementary, secondary, and high school - were complemented by a 1 000-seat auditorium with backstage areas, a gymnasium and swimming pool complex, a central administration unit, a mosque, ancillary play fields, and parking. In addition to the school (19 500 m2), the project also included substantial commercial and residential development (10 400 m2) located along the major road that formed the site boundary on the north. This development both protected the school from extraneous traffic noise and provided it with a revenue source.

File consists of 17 drawings (1 site plan, 6 plans, 2 sections, 3 elevations, 3 exterior perspectives, 1 aerial view of site; 1 combination drawing: 1 plan I section) and 19 photographs (2 prints of model and 17 slides of model). The Hamma Government Complex was a colonial vision for Algiers following the spirit of Haussmann's Paris. The project included new buildings for the Assemblée Populaire, the Palais des Congrès, an imposing square, the National Library, and a hotel. The Hamma site sits in a privileged location due to its accessibility to transportation arteries, railroads, and future subways. The monumental group of government buildings terminate the capital's axis on a 10 hectare site. It is entered through a 12 storey triumphal arch building housing the Assemblée and the Congrès. Leading into the main square, the hotel and the library are connected to a botanical garden beyond.

File includes 15 drawings (10 plans, 1 section, 3 elevations; 1 combination drawing with 1 plan, section, detail), 105 photographs (40 prints: 24 of model, 16 miscellaneous; 65 negatives: 30 of model, 33 site), and 1 model of the building. The Etisalat Head Office Building in Abu Dhabi serves as the headquarters of the Emirates Telecommunications Corporation and provides a symbol for the corporation in Abu Dhabi and throughout the United Arab Emirates. The project was the winner of a Limited Design Competition conducted in 1985. It is composed of transmission facilities, branch office and head office functions, and public activities, all located on a prominent corner site in Abu Dhabi. The plan of the project responds to the corner site by directly addressing the traffic circle. By selecting a tower plan form, it also provides the office functions with good views of the adjacent gardens, the city, and sea to the north. A unique curtain wall system provides solar protection by a facetted arrangement of alternating opaque and vision panels, which give the façade its geometric pattern. At the project's summit is the radome, which houses the telecommunications/microwave functions. It is a unique solution to the problem of visually controlling the multitude of dishes and aerials required of Etisalat, recalling the traditional forms of Islamic design in a refreshing manner. This feature of the project has now become the identifying "image" of the Corporation in the Emirates. It was nominated for the Aga Khan Award in 1995.

File includes:- 190 Drawings: 4 site plans, 51 plans, 20 sections, 3 8 elevations, 3 6 exterior perspectives, 11 interior perspectives, 5 diagrammatic sketches, 1 aerial view, 22 details: floor patterns, general patterns, elevations, dome geometry; 2 combination drawings: 1 plan I section, 1 plan I elevation- 78 Photographs: 61 prints of model, 17 miscellaneousBuilding on the success of the Abu Dhabi project, the client, the Emirates Telecommunications Corporation, requested a design for its Dubai site. It would be a variation on the themes developed for Abu Dhabi. The functions were to be virtually the same but on a substantially larger site than that of Abu Dhabi. The site provided in Dubai was near the Dubai Creek opposite the Sheraton Hotel in a zone scheduled for future development of major buildings. As the first in this zone, Etisalat sought to address a future visual corridor to the creek and to the other major cultural buildings. The scheme developed into a 16 storey office tower with a facetted curtain wall similar to that of the Abu Dhabi plan but with curved core walls on the east and west faces. The principal materials included granite, green tinted glass and painted aluminum. The project also utilized a radome and the combination of the curvatures of the rotunda. The walls of the tower and the radome, together with the stepped forms of the parking building, have created a most interesting play of forms, finding great favour with both the users and the Dubai citizens alike.

FIle consists of 87 drawings and 20 photographs prepared for Sheik Aid bin Naraya, Minister of Education, United Arab Emirates. The competition design prepared for this proposed University, in the oasis city of AI Ain in the United Arab Emirates, sought to provide a modem interpretation of the historical principles of Islamic design. The project was conceived as an axial plan with crossing axes at the entries to the various faculties, achieving their own specific identity. Particularly important was the need to weave the existing buildings of the University into the plan. An architectural vocabulary was developed as a reinterpretation of "desert" architecture, whereby walls were conceived massively in nature with small punched openings to admit light. Such walls protected the inner spaces from the harsh surrounding environment and these spaces were to be enriched in a variety of ways. Spaces were conceived in a hierarchical manner by means of size and finish material. Courtyards, some internalized and climate controlled, became the focus of the architecture, and were protected from the environment by high walls and overhead trellises. Each courtyard was provided with a decorative water feature and appropriate landscaping. In keeping with most Islamic buildings, particular emphasis was placed on the internal nature of space, doorways, passages, and gates to each space. The major entrance to the project is approached directly by the main axis where an enveloping semicircular administration building accepts visitors and dignitaries. The axial plan is broken only by the various "prayer" spaces, or Mosques, which turn in the direction of Mecca. Particularly important to the project were the series of gates at the axial entry points, giving the project its outward architectural richness.

Subseries contains project reports for Erickson's Middle East architectural projects.

This subseries includes documents such as vertical files, exhibition catalogues, competition jury reports, information about the architectural firm , project proposals, and correspondence, well as an interview with Erickson on audio cassette. Multiple exhibition catalogues found in the series describe Erickson's projects, including Architecture in Process: Arthur Erickson Selected Works (1985) and Arthur Erickson: Selected Projects, 1971-1985. Other items detail the operations and projects of Arthur Erickson Architects, including a spiral-bound book about the firm and credentials for the design of the Open University of Iran.

File includes two student projects by Erickson:- 28.1 Office Building, [Montreal, Canada] :9 Drawings: 5 plans, 1 section, 2 elevations, 1 exterior perspective.Drawing support: 9 pencil on mayfair paper- 28.2 An Arts Centre for Vancouver, Vancouver, Canada :8 Drawings: 4 plans, 1 elevation; 3 combination drawings: 1 plan I section, 2 section I elevationDrawing Support: 8 ink and watercolour on linen.

Includes 9 drawings: 4 plans, 1 exterior perspective, 2 details: model; 2 combination drawings: 2 section I elevation. The site for the new Embassy of the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia is to occupy a prominent triangular corner in Canada's National Capital at Sussex Drive and Boteler St., with views over the Ottawa River and the distant Laurentians. The program called for three diplomatic functions: the Chancery, the Consulate and the Official Residence. Security of the functions was to be of the highest order, but also invisible, allowing the project to speak only of its graceful stately intent. The project developed the concept of perpendicular axes, one parallel to Sussex and the other at right angles to it leading into the complex. The first axis divides the major rooms of both the Chancery and the Residence. They are three storey masses with a two storey residential wing, along the ceremonial Sussex façade. The second axis assembles the entrance, the Ambassador's offices, and the Consulate building, terminating with splendid views over the Ottawa River. Along the Sussex Drive façade, a grand lawn with accompanying gardens is screened from the street by an open yet highly secure screen. The architectural vocabulary sought to create a language reflective both of the Islamic nature of Saudi Arabia and its presence in Canada's Capital. Hence the project was carefully proportioned in the Islamic genre, as well as developed with the mansard roof theme that is prevalent in Ottawa. Utilizing both stone walls and decorative screens, the project was to create harmony between the two nations in symbolic form.

Exhibition materials include 3 identical posters (exterior perspectives) for an exhibition entitled: "Arthur Erickson: Selected Projects 1971-85."

Miscellaneous Project Files

Miscellaneous Project Files

Requirements, Reports, and Campus Consortium Legal Documents

Specifications Report Volume II

Miscellaneous Reports

Telexes, Faxes

J. Pepper files

Files 5 to 9

Project File Binders

Specification Reports

Promo, PMT negatives

Project Information Description

Project Information Planning

Reports

Planning Reports

CCCL Files

Information Reports

2 Rolls of Drawings (ink/mylar)

1 Roll of Drawings (ink/mylar)

4 Rolls of Drawings

2 Rolls of Drawings

g 1 Roll of Drawings

1 Final Architectural Set of Drawings

5 Rolls of Drawings

5 Rolls of Drawings

2 Rolls of Drawings

2 Rolls of Drawings

1 Roll of Drawings

2 Rolls of Drawings (ink/mylar)

4 Rolls of Drawings

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Photo Proofs, 8 Binders, 1 Box

Project File, Accounting, Iraq Files

Reports

Correspondence

Project Files, Expense Report Kuala Lumpur, Purchase Orders, Construction Development

Project Files 1 of 4

Project Files 2 of 4

Files

Files

Data, Planning, Road Inventory

Complete Development Plans, Housing Report, Utility Description

Photos 1 of 3

Photos 2 of 3

Photos 3 of 3

Reports, Blueprints

Parcellation, Master Plan, Specs, Developer Briefs, Proposal

Technical Briefs, Specs, Infrastructure, Building Systems, Implementation

Master Plan Update, Schematic Design, Detailed Analysis

Parcellation, Detail Analysis, Technical Briefs, Implementation, Schematic Design, Infrastructure

Model Photos, Implementation, Schematic Design, Parcellation

Regional Park Plan, Infrastructure

Technical Briefs, Specs, Parcellation, Implementation, Developer Briefs 116-102

Building System, Detailed Analysis

Architecture Specs, Volume I-IV

Design Report (Phase I, II, ill) - Concept Papers, Project Planning Report 116-105

Riyadh Conference Transcripts, Original Concept Papers, Original Report ((Phase I, II, III), Original Facility Review Negatives/PMTs for Final Report, Correspondence re Final Report

Reports (Phase I, II, III), Context Report, NCSU Planning Report, Interim Report, Final Report

Project and Site Development, Schematic Design, Development Study, Book, Development Study (Parts A, B, C)

Negatives

Negatives

Project File

Project File

Specs

Original Summary Report

Drawing Cabinet (ink/mylar)

Rolls of Drawings

Drawings

Drawings

Plans (1: 1 000), Sectors 1-6, Existing and Proposed Buildings, Final Master Plan (1:2500), Grid (1:1000)

Site Plans, Presentation Drawings VIII (1981)

Priority Project Summary, Graphic Maps (1:5000), Plans (1: 1000), Sectors 1-6

Drawings

Negatives; Site Plan Negatives

Plans, Sections, Studies

Exhibition Design/Build Documents, Reductions, Print Sets

Original Drawings

Site Details, Original Drawings

Topographical Drawings, Shopping Complex

Planning and Infrastructure Negatives

Model

2/2 Model

1/2 Model

Reports

Original Mylar Sketches (1/6), Presentation Drawings, Planning, Concept Diagrams, Surveys

Original Mylar Sketches (2/6)

Original Mylar Sketches (3/6)

Original Mylar Sketches (4/6)

Original Mylar Sketches (5/6)

Original Mylar Sketches (6/6)

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