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Chongqing Chaotianmen Center

Located on a prominent site at the confluence of the Jialing and Yangtze Rivers, this 9 million-square-foot mixed-use project has a strong presence as the apex of the city's peninsula. The Chaotian Gate ("gate to heaven"?), foremost of the traditional city gates, is a place of both ceremony and commerce. Recalling sailing ships on the river, the project symbolizes both Chongqing's noble trading past and its fast-growing future as one of China's largest modern cities. An ensemble of slender towers contains a mixture of office, residential, and hotel spaces. The towers, arranged in a prow-like arc, imply a great city surging forward. The outer curving glass facades, which face the water to the north, evoke an ancient sailing fleet. The south-facing facades of the interior towers center on the axis of Chaotianmen Plaza, forming stepped gardens that meet the ground. At the base of the towers, an expansive park knits together the greenery from the building facades with gardens, pools, and public circulation. This large landscaped park gently slopes to the north, offering dramatic tower-framed views of the water and more intimate views of the city to the south. Beneath the park level, a podium contains five levels of public space, including retail and cultural facilities as well as land and water transportation hubs. Bridging the center towers at level 45 is a 300-meter-long enclosed glass conservatory that contains hotel public areas and amenities, including an deck that can be enjoyed throughout all seasons of the year. Major thoroughfares feed urban activity from the south as retail streets and grand arcades, fusing the project to the city.

Safdie Architects

Chongqing Villas

Located on a broad hillside site adjacent to Chongqing’s well-known Eling Park, the design for the Eling Residences grows out of and echoes the dramatic natural topography of the site.

The buildings are organized with terracing villa units climbing the rock slopes and stepping up to the crest of the hill where, along the ridge line, two dome-shaped structures overlook the city. The location and organization of the low-rise terraced buildings endows each of the 126 apartments with natural daylight and affords uninterrupted views of the Yuzhong Peninsula and the Yangtze River. Interwoven with the buildings is a lush landscape comprised of cascading gardens, terraces, overlooks, stairs, and promenades for the residents to enjoy.

At the western edge of the site, a prominent 4-story clubhouse stands as a beacon for the project, signifying the entrance to both Eling Park and the development.

The terraces of the hilltop units provide uninterrupted views to the Yangtze River and city beyond. Each terrace serves as an extension of the apartment, maximizing residents’ access to light and air. Planters are integrated along the length of the terraces, and climbing plants will grow up the trellises to provide additional shading.

Safdie Architects

Books

Series consists of research materials, manuscripts, galley proofs, correspondence, photographs, book reviews, and other records related to the preparation and publication of Witold Rynczynski's many books on architecture. It also includes records related to public lectures given by Rybczynski (File 43) and Rynbczynski's author photos (File 47), as well as assorted essays: Public Interest, Wilson Quarterly, Places, New Yorker, Doubletake (File 57).

The publications found in this series include:

  • Stop the Fecal Peril (1977) with Polprasert & McGarry, IDRC/World Bank, Annotated Bibliography: Manuscript & bound draft (File 50)

  • Paper Heroes: Appropriate Technology, Panacea or Pipedream? (1980): Research materials (File 01), Manuscript & Galleys (File 02), Correspondence (File 59), Bound book (File 63)

  • Taming the Tiger: The Struggle to Control Technology (1983): Manuscript (File 03), Correspondence (File 59), Bound book (File 63)

  • Home: A Short History of an Idea (1986): Research materials (File 4), Reviews (File 5), Manuscript & galleys (File 6), Interviews &, Reviews (File 58), Correspondence (File 59), Bound book (File 63)

  • The Most Beautiful House in the World (1989): Manuscript (File 7), Bound uncorrected proof (File 9), Interviews & Reviews (File 58), Bound book (File 63)

  • Waiting for the Weekend (1991): Galleys and manuscript (File 10), Bound uncorrected proof (File 9), Manuscript (File 48), Interviews & Reviews (File 58), Bound book (File 60)

  • Looking Around: A Journey Through Architecture (1992): Manuscript (File 12), Manuscript (File 48), Bound uncorrected proof (File 9), Interviews & Reviews (File 58), Bound book (File 60)

  • A Place for Art: The Architecture of the National Gallery of Canada (1993): Bound book (File 61)

  • City Life: Urban Expectations in a New World (1995): Manuscript (File 2), Bound uncorrected proof (File 9), Bound book (File 63)

  • A Clearing in the Distance: Frederick Law Olmsted and America in the Nineteenth Century (1999): Research materials (Filees 13, 14, 15, 16 & 17), Reviews and illustrations (File 19), Field trip photographs (File 18), Bound book (File 62)

  • One Good Turn: A Natural History of the Screwdriver and the Screw (2000): Research materials (Files 20 & 21), Bound uncorrected proof (File 9), Bound book (File 62)

  • The Look of Architecture (2001): Manuscript & Galleys (File 2), Interviews & Reviews (File 58), Bound book (File 62)

  • The Perfect House: A Journey with the Renaissance Master Andrea Palladio (2002), Research materials, field notes (Files 22 & 23), Manuscripts and galleys (Files 24 & 56), Bound uncorrected proof (File 9), Field trip photographs (File 49), Bound book (File 63)

  • Vizcaya: An American Villa and Its Makers (2006): Bound book (File 61)

  • Last Harvest: How a Cornfield became New Daleville: Real Estate Development in America from George Washington to the Builders of the Twenty-First Century, and Why We Live in Houses Anyway (2007): Manuscript (Files 25, 26, 27, 55 & 8), Bound uncorrected proof (File 9), Research materials, interviews, field notes, chapter by chapter (Files 28 & 29), Bound book (File 63)

  • My Two Polish Grandfathers: And Other Essays on the Imaginative Life (2009): Research materials (File 31), Bound uncorrected proof (File 9), Manuscript, interviews, letters (9 digital files, 674 ps))

  • Makeshift Metropolis: Ideas About Cities (2010): Bound uncorrected proof (File 9), Manuscript, research materials (6 digital files, 179 ps), Bound book (File 62)

  • The Biography of a Building: How Robert Sainsbury and Norman Foster Built a Great Museum (2011): Research materials, interviews, articles. (File 32, 33, 34 & 35), Manuscript, interviews, letters (122 digital files, 2,167 ps)

  • How Architecture Works: A Humanist’s Toolkit (2013): Manuscripts, 5 versions (Files 36 & 37), Bound uncorrected proof (File 09), Manuscript, interviews, letters (53 digital files, 976 ps)

  • Mysteries of the Mall: and Other Essays (2015): Bound uncorrected proof (File 9), Manuscript, interviews, letters (11 digital files, 348 ps), Bound book (Box 61)

  • Now I Sit Me Down: From Klismos to Plastic Chair: A Natural History (2016): Manuscripts, 5 consecutive versions (File 38), Bound uncorrected proof (File 09), Manuscript, interviews, letters (40 digital files, 1,075 ps), Bound book (File 61)

  • Miscellaneous reviews & articles (Files 39, 40, 41, 42 & 11): Interviews, Reviews, Home, Waiting for the Weekend, The Most, - Beautiful House in the World, Looking Around, Look of Architecture (File 58)

Witold Rybczynski Fonds

  • CA CAC CAC 98
  • Fonds
  • 1973-2016, bulk 1973-1993

The fonds contains the professional papers of Canadian-American architect Witold Rybczynski. They comprise textual records including book manuscripts and proofs, research materials, reviews, correspondence, and teaching material, as well as slides and digital files representing his career as an author and educator.

Rybczynski, Witold

Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms, and Explosives Headquarters

  • CA CAC 58-1-557
  • Subseries
  • 1980 - 2015
  • Part of Moshe Safdie

The Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms, and Explosives building serves as the national headquarters for a government agency with the highest security requirements. Located at the intersection of New York and Florida avenues, this building has been a catalyst for urban renewal and rejuvenation in the surrounding district. The program called for general office space, extensive training facilities, an auditorium, and auxiliary services.

Notwithstanding security setback requirements, the complex engages and animates the surrounding street edges. The entrance is positioned across from the new Metro station on the southeast corner; retail facilities line 2nd Street (to the east); and a trellised garden wall defines N Street (to the south). In addition a three-story planted, arcaded crescent contains the site to the north and west, enclosing a 48,500-square-foot internal garden and inconspicuously serving as a security barrier.

Auxiliary elements such as loading docks and an inspection booth are integrated into the overall fabric of buildings and garden walls. The provision of a technical subfloor for the distribution of data and mechanical services allows for maximum flexibility. The office space consists of relatively narrow floor plates surrounding a large atrium, thus affording daylight for all workspaces.

Safdie Architects

Bishan Residential Development (Sky Habitat)

  • CA CAC 58-1-xx
  • Subseries
  • between 2011 and 2015
  • Part of Moshe Safdie

Located in the neighborhood of Bishan, a residential area in the suburban heartland of Singapore, this 38-story residential complex explores the balance of high-density living with humanistic concepts of community, landscape, gardens, and daylight.

Breaking down the scale of typical singular tower residential development, the community-based solution of Sky Habitat is a three-dimensional matrix of homes with private terraces, balconies, and common gardens, bringing landscape into the air and maintaining porosity on the skyline. The complex's strong stepped form recalls the community texture of ancient hillside developments and provides for lush vertical greenery, multiple orientations relative to the sun, naturally ventilated units, and generous views, all without compromising planning or structural efficiency.

Three bridging sky gardens link the two stepping towers and create a series of interconnected streets, gardens, and terraces in the air, which provide a variety of areas for common recreation and congregation. As a result, the overall mass is porous and open, allowing breezes to flow through and daylight to penetrate deep into the structure. The stepping geometry allows every residence multiple orientations and a private outdoor space, resulting in a more humane and delicate urban fabric.

At the ground plane, above a sunken parking podium, more than 70 percent of the site is developed into a series of lush gardens, which offer additional outdoor event areas, swimming pools, a tennis court, and walking paths.

Safdie Architects

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

Touchlines Slide-Transparency Binder

The file is a binder. The binder contains thirteen pages of slide-transparencies. Some of the slides are annotated with an order schema.

The file also includes a UPS parcel shipping order dated October 11th 2012. The order states that that the contents of the parcel are pictures of Harold Spence-Sales slides and other materials.

The order was sent to 815 Sherbrook Street West Montreal; McGill's School of Urban Planning. The person who received the package was Dr. Raphael Fischler.

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