Inclus dans:

• Fonds: Fonds Cornelia Hahn Oberlander, 1936-2021
•    Série(s): Landscape architecture projects, 1947-2018
•      Projet: United Nations Peacekeeping Monument, Ottawa, Ontario (1990-1993), 1990-1993

Personnes et institutions:

• Cornelia Hahn Oberlander (archive creator)
• Cornelia Hahn Oberlander (landscape architect)
• Henriquez & Partners Architects (architectural firm)

Titre:

United Nations Peacekeeping Monument, Ottawa, Ontario (1990-1993)

Date:

1990-1993

Niveau de description archivistique:
Project

Collation:

• 0.07 l.m. of textual records
  40 photographic material
  10 reprographic copies

Présentation du contenu:
Project series documents Cornelia Hahn Oberlander's landscape design for the United Nations Peacekeeping Monument in Ottawa, Ontario. Oberlander worked on this from 1990-1993 with Richard Henriquez & Partners and sculptor Jack Harmon. Together, they won the design competition organized by the National Capital Commission in 1990. The monument is situated between the National Gallery of Canada and the United States Embassy, between St. Patrick Street and Murray Street. The monument consists in three bronze cast figures of peacekeeping soldiers on a granite slab. Oberlander elaborated the planting scheme and designed "an oval grove of twelve oak trees representing Canada's ten provinces and two territories [...]" [1], except Nunavut that was still included in the Northwest Territories at the time. The project was completed in 1993.



Project series contains ten landscape working drawings, including a site plan, landscape sections, planting and grading plans, and an irrigations plan. The project is also documented through textual records, including design competition information documents, competition proposal, correspondence with architects, client and consultants, specifications, financial documents, press about the project and photographs of the construction and the inauguration of the monument.

Source:
[1] Herrington, Susan. Cornelia Hahn Oberlander: Making the Modern Landscape, University of Virginia Press, 2014, 304 pages, p. 171.

Numéro de référence:

AP075.S1.1990.PR03

Mode de classement:
Material in this project series was kept in its original order when it was first processed upon its arrival at CCA.

Localisation:

Ottawa Ontario Canada

Contient:

• AP075.S1.1990.PR03.001, Correspondence for the United Nations Peacekeeping Monument, Ottawa, Ontario, 1990-1992
• AP075.S1.1990.PR03.002, Meetings and site reports for the United Nations Peacekeeping Monument, Ottawa, Ontario, 1991-1992
• AP075.S1.1990.PR03.003, Specifications for the United Nations Peacekeeping Monument, Ottawa, Ontario, 1991
• AP075.S1.1990.PR03.004, Financial documents for the United Nations Peacekeeping Monument, Ottawa, Ontario
• AP075.S1.1990.PR03.005, Photographs of the United Nations Peacekeeping Monument, Ottawa, Ontario, 1992
• AP075.S1.1990.PR03.006, Press on the United Nations Peacekeeping Monument, Ottawa, Ontario, 1990-1992
• AP075.S1.1990.PR03.007, Proposal and competition information for the United Nations Peacekeeping Monument, Ottawa, Ontario, 1990
• AP075.S1.1990.PR03.008, Working drawings for the United Nations Peacekeeping Monument, Ottawa, Ontario, 1991
• AP075.S1.1990.PR03.009, Specifications, design kit, promotional material and project description, United Nations Peacekeeping Monument, Ottawa, Ontario, 1991-1992