Office Building, 1500 Don Mills Road, North York, Ontario (1976)

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People:

John Cresswell Parkin (archive creator)

Title:

Office Building, 1500 Don Mills Road, North York, Ontario (1976)

Date:

1974-1983

Level of archival description:
Project

Extent and medium:

Approximately 1917 drawings (including 1507 reprographic copies)
273 photographic materials
2.377 l.m. of textual records
1 mounted work of art

Scope and content:
This project series documents the design and construction of an office building and planning for additional projects in North York, Ontario from 1976-1983. The office identified the project number as 7626.
The project consisted of a ten storey office building located at 1500 Don Mills Road with approximately 250,000 square feet of space. Owned and commissioned by Marathon Realty, the majority of the building's space was designed for rental. The ground floor of the building was to host retail spaces and a connection to local transit. The project was divided into two phases. Phase I was the construction of this office building and Phase II was the construction of an additional office building and a parking structure on the same property. Under this project number, only Phase I was realized, with the additional buildings receiving their own project numbers from the office later on.
The project is recorded through drawings, construction progress photographs, textual records and a mounted work of art dating from 1974-1983. The textual records include correspondence, site reports, tests and inspections, meeting minutes and reports, specifications, tenders documents, detail planning records, change orders, supplementary instructions and financial records. Also included is an article written by John C. Parkin for Canadian Architect on the development of the property, which previously hosted his own offices until their demolition before the start of this project (see box AP018.S1.1976.PR19.025). Box AP018.S1.1976.PR19.025 contains an index to the textual records, which was created by the office.

Reference number:

AP018.S1.1976.PR19

Arrangement:
Materials in this project series have been compiled from different accessions and/or arranged by material type.

Conditions governing reproduction:

Jennifer A.C. Parkin holds copyright for materials in file AP018.S1.1976.PR19.025 (Folders 05-20). Permission must be sought from copyright holder before reproductions can be made.

Location:

North York Toronto Ontario Canada

Related units of description:

File AP018.S1.1982.PR07.004 (folder 07) in this fonds also contains photo negatives for this project. Records for related projects are also included in this fonds, see: AP018.S1.1978.PR16, Access and Sign Studies of Imperial Oil Property, North York, Ontario; AP018.S1.1978.PR17, Office Building, 1500 Don Mills Road, Signs and Graphics, North York, Ontario; AP018.S1.1980.PR01, Parking Structure, 1500 Don Mills Road, North York, Ontario; AP018.S1.1981.PR07, Office Building, Phase II, 1500 Don Mills Road, North York, Ontario.

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