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Pershing Square Design Competition

File includes 28 drawings (25 design sketches, 3 final competition renderings, 24 marker on trace, 1 print, 1 marker on print, 2 ink on vellum) and a project file (competition brief, sketches, plan of existing square).

Le Plateau Marquette

55 drawings:1 existing city plan, 10 preliminary sketches, 13 design development drawings, 31 design development sketches1 print, 5 marker and ink on trace, 5 ink on vellum, 1 marker on mylar, 10 ink and marker on sepia, 33 marker on trace38 x 61cm, 108 x 117cm36 drawings: cadastral plan, 32 preliminary sketches, 3 final presentation drawings16 marker on trace,16 pencil or marker on photocopy paper, 3 ink on vellum43 x 28cm 2 aerial photographsOriginal report Aménagement d'une place publique, première des trois etapes. 54 sheets.11 project files( specifications, correspondence, reports, 13 negatives, soil reports, traffic studies, minutes of meetings)

La Cité International de Montréal

File consists of 17 drawings (including 2 final competition drawings, 1 exterior perspective, 14 preliminary sketches) along with 7 pages of text (no project files). Most of the drawings are by Norbert Schoenauer.

Harold Spence-Sales Fonds

  • CA CAC 97
  • Fonds
  • Approximately 1939 - 2005, 2009, 2012

The Harold Spence-Sales fonds at McGill’s Canadian Architecture Collection primarily contains project records related to Harold Spence-Sales' career as an architect and urban planner. The bulk of the records pertain to projects that Harold Spence-Sales worked on as well as corresponding financial, administrative and office records.

The fond heavily documents projects that Harold Spence-Sales worked on during the 1970s-1980s in British Columbia and in Quebec during the 1940s-1960s. Other projects that Harold Spence-Sales worked on across Canada and internationally appear intermittently throughout the fonds. The Oromocto community planning project that Harold Spence-Sales worked on from 1955-1958 in New Brunswick is particularly well documented. Harold Spence-Sales designed Oromocto to be a military town. Before He transformed Oromocto into a military town it was a defunct 19th century shipbuilding town. The Oromocto project is considered one of Harold Spence-Sales most important urban-town planning projects.

Apart from administrative, office and project records, the fonds also contains records that relate to Harold Spence-Sales professional activities outside of his work as an architect and urban planner. For example, awards and honors that he received and records related to his involvement in architectural and urban planning associations. Additional professional activities include: his involvement in creating exhibitions, curating architectural-themed magazines and periodicals as well as copies of publications that he worked on solo and in collaboration with John Bland.

The fonds also contains fourteen boxes of Harold Spence-Sales personal records. The personal records primarily cover Harold Spence-Sales interest in art, creative pursuits, family activities, family genealogy, personal finances, last will and testaments as well as his decline in health and his death. Within the fourteen boxes that have been cataloged as personal records, there are also materials related to Harold Spence-Sales professional activities. For example, awards that Harold Spence-Sales received and records related to exhibitions and artistic projects that he worked on.

Spence-Sales, Harold, 1907-2004

Fowler Lines

File consists of 9 drawings, including 1 title page, 2 exterior perspectives, 6 preliminary drawings, and 6 project files (correspondence, contract, report).

Complex Guy Favreau

File consists of 146 drawings, including 98 preliminary drawings, 47 design development drawings, 1 presentation drawing, and 11 slides, as well as 5 project files (correspondence, minutes of meetings)

John Schreiber/Ron Williams Architects, Landscape Architects

Columbus Center

  • CA CAC 58-1-400
  • Subseries
  • between 1985 and 1987
  • Part of Moshe Safdie

Columbus Center, a winning proposal for the redevelopment of the New York Coliseum site, is situated on four acres at Columbus Circle, adjacent to Central Park. The project incorporates offices, residences, a hotel, a retail center, and a cinema complex. The offices include the headquarters of Salomon Brothers and a sophisticated trading center.

The organization of the complex and its network of public spaces are designed to reinforce the civic image of Columbus Circle and to enhance the street's public life. Set back in a V-shape, two towers surround a 190-foot garden atrium. The towers' separation highlights the central axis of 59th Street and admits a generous amount of light into each floor. The two towers are structurally independent but share horizontal forces through regularly spaced five-story braces. The towers, one 62 and the other 69 stories in height, connect by a bridge at the 39th level and rest on a base that encloses a four-story garden atrium. A great public galleria follows the curve of Columbus Circle.

Secondary tower-like facets comparable in scale to the apartment towers along Central Park West form a transition between the urban scale of the Upper West Side and Midtown. Setbacks in the two main towers accommodate five-story greenhouses that provide an amenity for the office workers and create a strong visual connection with Central Park.

Work on the center was halted due to the financial downturn and the withdrawal of Salomon Brothers.
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Safdie Architects

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