PH1998:0020:094
architecture
late 1920s - early 1930s
architecture
PH1998:0020:121
architecture
1933
architecture
PH1989:0140:006
architecture
ca. 1862
architecture
Toplight: Roof Transparencies from 1760 to 1960 traces the evolution of skylights from their origins at the end of the eighteenth century, when this type of fenestration was first explored in Paris’s new Halle au blé (1763–1782), to James Stirling’s History Faculty Building, University of Cambridge (1963–1968). The exhibition is organized around a series of case studies(...)
Octagonal gallery
23 October 2008 to 15 February 2009
Toplight: Roof Transparencies from 1760 to 1960
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Toplight: Roof Transparencies from 1760 to 1960 traces the evolution of skylights from their origins at the end of the eighteenth century, when this type of fenestration was first explored in Paris’s new Halle au blé (1763–1782), to James Stirling’s History Faculty Building, University of Cambridge (1963–1968). The exhibition is organized around a series of case studies(...)
Octagonal gallery
This exhibition looks at the transformation of Montréal from a nineteenth century merchant city to the metropolis of Canada. It examines the elements that made Montréal a political, social, and economic centre and explores the unique character of its architecture. The exhibition brings together some 350 objects, including drawings from the CCA collection by Montréal(...)
Main galleries
18 March 1998 to 24 May 1998
Montréal Métropole, 1880–1930
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This exhibition looks at the transformation of Montréal from a nineteenth century merchant city to the metropolis of Canada. It examines the elements that made Montréal a political, social, and economic centre and explores the unique character of its architecture. The exhibition brings together some 350 objects, including drawings from the CCA collection by Montréal(...)
Main galleries
Realism and Illusion: Catherine Wagner Photographs the Disney Theme Parks presents a visual essay of the Disney theme parks in Anaheim, Orlando, Tokyo, and Paris. Fascinated by the importance of illusion in the design and layout of the parks, Wagner aspired “to add yet another layer of deception to this already simulated world, our world, where illusion is now more real(...)
Octagonal gallery
17 June 1997 to 28 September 1997
Realism and Illusion: Catherine Wagner Photographs the Disney Theme Parks
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Realism and Illusion: Catherine Wagner Photographs the Disney Theme Parks presents a visual essay of the Disney theme parks in Anaheim, Orlando, Tokyo, and Paris. Fascinated by the importance of illusion in the design and layout of the parks, Wagner aspired “to add yet another layer of deception to this already simulated world, our world, where illusion is now more real(...)
Octagonal gallery
The City Decoded
What if we played to re-imagine Montreal? After decoding the spatial policies linked to the planning of your city, it is your turn to rethink the urban fabric by combining houses, stores, parks, factories and corner stores. Montreal is transformed into a board game and its buildings and roads turned into game pieces. Noise management, sunlight, pollution and mixed-use(...)
The Other Architect
7 February 2016 to 21 February 2016
The City Decoded
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What if we played to re-imagine Montreal? After decoding the spatial policies linked to the planning of your city, it is your turn to rethink the urban fabric by combining houses, stores, parks, factories and corner stores. Montreal is transformed into a board game and its buildings and roads turned into game pieces. Noise management, sunlight, pollution and mixed-use(...)
The Other Architect
Talking Pictures
Sophie Dars and Carlo Menon, Stefano Graziani, and Yasufumi Nakamori present strategies for reimagining and employing visual formats such as the photo essay, the photo novel, and the photo exhibition. The event takes place in the framework of an ongoing CCA research project on the relationship between architecture and photography funded by The Andrew W. Mellon(...)
13 October 2016, 6pm
Talking Pictures
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Sophie Dars and Carlo Menon, Stefano Graziani, and Yasufumi Nakamori present strategies for reimagining and employing visual formats such as the photo essay, the photo novel, and the photo exhibition. The event takes place in the framework of an ongoing CCA research project on the relationship between architecture and photography funded by The Andrew W. Mellon(...)
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AP013.S1.D467
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File documents an executed (?) project for a supermarket in Saint John, New Brunswick. Material in this file was produced in 1956. File contains survey drawings, miscellaneous drawings, structural drawings, working and detail drawings, mechanical and electrical drawings, and textual documents.
1956
Supermarket for Dominion Stores
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AP013.S1.D467
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File documents an executed (?) project for a supermarket in Saint John, New Brunswick. Material in this file was produced in 1956. File contains survey drawings, miscellaneous drawings, structural drawings, working and detail drawings, mechanical and electrical drawings, and textual documents.
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1956
Project
AP013.S2.D602
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File documents an executed (?) project for a pavilion in Lancaster, New Brunswick. Material in this file was produced in 1956. File contains preliminary and working drawings, and miscellaneous drawings.
1956
Ice Cream Pavilion for Sobeys Stores
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AP013.S2.D602
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File documents an executed (?) project for a pavilion in Lancaster, New Brunswick. Material in this file was produced in 1956. File contains preliminary and working drawings, and miscellaneous drawings.
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1956