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Children's World, Petit Monde, Le Monde des Enfants
Expo '67, La Ronde - Children's World , Petit Monde, Le Monde des Enfants // 33
File
195 drawings
10 photographs
cm of textual records
File consists of 195 drawings:
Folder 1 includes 6 programmatic phase (4 pencil on vellum, 2 prints)
Folder 2 includes 11 design development drawing ( 8 marker on trace, 1 marker on vellum, 2 prints), 3 working drawings, 22 concept drawings, 3 design development drawings, 11 shop drawings, 1 site plan, 1 planting plan, 1 perspective rendering (13 prints, 1 pencil on sepia, 1 colour pencil on vellum, 2 pencil on vellum, 1 ink on vellum, 15 marker on trace, 7 pencil on trace, 1 ink on trace, 1 marker on vellum)
Folder 3 includes 20 design development drawings
Folder 4 includes 36 working drawings
Folder 5 includes 40 working drawings
Folder 6 includes 39 mechanical, electrical and structural drawings, 1 working drawing, 1 print of S. and C. Dolesch, graphic art concrete wall design.
File also consists of 1 project box with 29 project files (specifications, correspondence, progress reports, estimates, minutes of meetings, 10 photographs).
The project includes plans for a restaurant, a puppet theater, and several children's rides including an antique merry-go round. A principle attraction of the La Ronde section of Expo '67, on the east side of Île Ste-Hélène, this project has had great success in entertaining small children for over 35 years.