Personnes et institutions:
- Cedric Price (architect)
- J. Lyons and Company Limited (client)
- Frank Newby (engineer)
- Felix J. Samuely & Partners (engineering firm)
- Stephen Mullin (assistant)
- Sol Cornberg (consultant)
- Douglas Smith (quantity surveyors)
- Baker, Wilkins & Smith (quantity surveyors)
- Keith Harrison (consultant)
- Raymond Spottiswoode (consultant)
- Sandy Brown (consultant)
- Aerofilms and Aero Pictorial Ltd. (photographers)
- Magna Models Ltd (model maker)
- Cedric Price (archive creator)
Titre:
O.C.H. Feasibility Study
Date:
1927-1967, predominant 1965-1966
Niveau de description archivistique:
File 59
Collation:
- 159 drawings
148 reprographic copies
7 panels
0.26 l.m. of textual records
0.03 l.m. of photographic material
Présentation du contenu:
File documents a feasibility study commissioned by J. Lyons Co. Ltd for the conversion of the Oxford Corner House, in London, England, United Kingdom, into a combined information, education and skill centre. The unrealized project was to include a 'self-pace public skill and information hive' with facilities for conferences, teaching, exhibitions, computer use, planetarium, audio-visual library, and public eating areas. The project included a movable floor system and projection screens. Reference material includes plans and details of London Electric Railway subway line, alterations to Oxford Street Corner House by J. Lyons and Co. Ltd., field notes, photographs and photomontages of site. Conceptual diagrammatic plans explore designs for the organization of activities. Charts show variables, including number of people, monitors/screens, and study carrels; circulation patterns; and maximization of viewing capacity. Preliminary presentation boards illustrate project feasibility and include photographs of model and existing conditions. Design development drawings include floor plans, plans exploring the relationships between various activities, analysis of building volumes and networks, comparative plans showing main structural grid, sections, diagrammatic sections for public activity areas, axonometric drawings of roof, perspectives of projection screens and moveable floor system, progress charts, and diagrams and graphs of communication and travel modes, routes, and time into central London from outlying areas. Some material in this file was published in Price, Cedric. 'Cedric Price-Works II' (London: Architectural Press, 1984), 11, 54, 112; Landau, Royston. 'New Directions in British Architecture'. New York: George Braziller, 1968. 108-111; and 'Self-Pace Public Skill and Information Hive.' 'Architectural Design'. (May 1968), 237-239. Material in this file was produced between 1927 and 1967, but predominantly between 1965 and 1966.
Group DR1995:0224:001-013 contains reference drawings attributed to London Transport Architect's Department and J. Lyons & Company Limited Architect's Office. Group DR1995:0224:333-341 contains drawings attributed to Richard Sutcliffe Limited, Felix J. Samuely & Partners, and G.E.C. (Process Engineering) Ltd.
File contains conceptual drawings, consultant drawings, design development drawings, presentation drawings, presentation panels, reference drawings, photographic material, and textual records.
Numéro de référence:
AP144.S2.D59
Mode de classement:
Materials in this series were kept in the original order in which they were received.
Localisation:
London
Greater London
Angleterre
Royaume-Uni
Langue et écriture des documents:
Sources complémentaires:
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For additional materials related to this project, see files DR2004:0036, DR1995:0236:534:009 and DR1995:0300:001-008 in this fonds.
Files DR2004:0091 and DR1995:0224:342 in this project series contain textual materials related to another project series, AP144.S2.D46, Fun Palace.
Contient:
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DR2004:0091, Views of floor plans, diagrams of regional electronic communication network and internal communication system
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DR2004:0092, Views of drawings, including section, perspective, and diagrams, views of building exteriors and street
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DR2004:0093, Reprographic copies of drawings with architect's statement, possibly as part of a publication
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DR1995:0224:001-013, Plans, sections, and details of Tottenham Road Station and Oxford Street Corner House
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DR1995:0224:014-029, Aerial view, views at street level, and exterior views of Oxford Corner House
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DR1995:0224:030-040, Schematic diagrams over exterior views of Oxford Corner House
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DR1995:0224:041-056, Schematic plans of projection screen, television monitor
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DR1995:0224:057-072, Schematic plans, sections, and tables, some with annotations
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DR1995:0224:073-088, Plans, sections, site plan, details, perspective and axonometric sketches
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DR1995:0224:089-092, Exterior views of Oxford Corner House and view of model
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DR1995:0224:093-095, Views of model and reprographic copies of aerial views of 3 locations possibly not related to this project
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DR1995:0224:096-113, Site plan, plans, sections, and axonometric drawings showing volumetric analysis
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DR1995:0224:114-131, Sections and plans of projection areas, movable floors
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DR1995:0224:132-149, Diagrammatic section, elevations, plans with grids, section with grids, charts, tables, and details showing escalators
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DR1995:0224:150-169, Communications diagram, diagrammatic plans and sections of escalators and projection screens
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DR1995:0224:170-189, Conceptual sketch plans, site plans, diagrams, charts
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DR1995:0224:190-209, Conceptual sketches, plans, sketch section, plans and sections of stairwells
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DR1995:0224:210-226, Sketches, sections, plans of proposals, possibly intended for presentation
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DR1995:0224:227-253, Site plans, sections, plans, some with annotations, progress charts, axonometric drawing of roof, and section with grid
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DR1995:0224:254-273, Sketch plans with annotations, axonometric drawing and plans showing viewing areas
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DR1995:0224:274-293, Axonometric drawing and sketches of roof, diagrammatic sections, communication diagrams, and sketch plans of proposal
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DR1995:0224:294-313, Diagrammatic sections, charts and graphs showing pollution
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DR1995:0224:314-332, Elevations, exterior axonometric drawings, site plan
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DR1995:0224:333-341, Structural plans and sections, elevations showing escalators, and axonometric drawings of movable floor system
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DR1995:0224:342-491, Photographs, correspondence, trade catalogues, brochures
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DR1995:0224:492-521, Drawings, correspondence, specifications, contract document
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DR1995:0224:522-531, Extracts from feasibility report and cost prediction report
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DR1995:0224:532-621, Interim report including drawings, and binders containing final feasibility study
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DR1995:0224:622-641, Clippings, multiple copies of quantity survey as included in the final feasibility study