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Hamma Government Complex (Assemblée Populaire Nationale, Palais des Congrès, Bibliothèque nationale)

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.

Office Building to Accommodate Postal Station B

Includes 1 perspective, 21 plans, 1 section, 3 elevations, 1 plan/elev./sect., 7 details (stone, marble, night lobby, sub-basement, rear counter, lettering, window, lavatories, penthouse, exterior walls, stair landings, elevator lobby, schedules, floors 3-10, furnace stack) for post office. Gustave Beault, F.R.A.I.C., Chief Architect of the Dept. of Public Works Canada was Associate Architect. Includes working and detail drawings for a two-storey building on the same site and with the same floor plans. The building was possibly completed in two phases.

War Memorial Park

Memorial park and monument; stone.
2 survey drawings: site plan, landscape
1 working drawing: plan, section

Westmount War Memorial

Memorial monument; stone.
1 survey drawing: site plan
1 sketch drawing: site plan
4 development drawings: lettering, elevations
3 working drawings: plan, elevations, sections
8 detail drawings: reinforcement, pedestal, lettering, marble blocks, ornament

Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Interim Headquarters

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.

Imperial War Graves Plot

Memorial monument; stone.
4 development drawings: plan, elevations of crosses, fence
3 working drawings: plots, plan, section
8 detail drawings: lettering, foundations, plan, ironwork (including cross, gates, railing)
3 photographs: 3 finished exteriors
1 file folder: clipping

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