Inclus dans:

• Fonds: John C. Parkin fonds, 1929-1987
•    Série(s): Architectural projects, 1945-1986
•      Projet: Ontario Congress and Trade Centre, Toronto (1978-1981), 1976-1981

Personnes et institutions:

• John Cresswell Parkin (archive creator)

Titre:

Ontario Congress and Trade Centre, Toronto (1978-1981)

Date:

1976-1981

Niveau de description archivistique:
Project

Collation:

• Approximately 117 drawings (including 84 reprographic copies)
  21 photographs
  0.58 l.m. of textual records

Présentation du contenu:
This project series documents the Ontario Congress and Trade Centre in Toronto from 1978-1980. The office identified the project number as 7807.

This project consisted of the investigation of building a congress and trade centre on Front Street West. The project proposed a 519,500 square foot building with a 200,000 square foot exhibition hall that could be divided for smaller events. The building would also contain a multiuse hall, theatres, meeting rooms, offices, food and beverage facilities, and a 1300 car parking area. The project was proposed to cost around $73 million. The project is also referred to as the Toronto Convention Centre or Ontario Convention Centre. The majority of the textual documentation shows the controversial debate over whether the centre should be built, including numerous press clippings that highlight the issue. It should be noted that Congress Centre and Convention Centre are used interchangeably in the materials. Eventually, this project contract was given to another architectural firm and today is known as the Metropolitan Toronto Convention Centre.

The project is recorded through drawings and textual records dating from 1976-1981. The drawings largely show designs for the proposed building and site plans. The textual records include correspondence, meeting minutes, interoffice memos, project proposals, feasibility reports, press clippings on the project and on other convention centres, research documentation on other convention centres, documentation on a proposed hotel to be built on the centre and promotional materials.

Numéro de référence:

AP018.S1.1978.PR05

Mode de classement:
Material from this project series have been kept in their original order and/or arranged by material type.

Localisation:

Toronto Metropolitan Area Ontario Canada

Sources complémentaires:

• Records for related projects are also included in this fonds, see: AP018.S1.1972.PR02, Convention Centre for Metropolitan Toronto, Feasibility Study, Toronto.

Contient:

• AP018.S1.1978.PR05.001, Floor plans, sections and elevation, Ontario Congress and Trade Centre, Toronto, 1978
• AP018.S1.1978.PR05.002, Site plan, Ontario Congress and Trade Centre, Toronto, 1978
• AP018.S1.1978.PR05.003, Perspective, Ontario Congress and Trade Centre, Toronto, 1980
• AP018.S1.1978.PR05.004, Site plans, Ontario Congress and Trade Centre, Toronto, 1978
• AP018.S1.1978.PR05.005, Perspective, Ontario Congress and Trade Centre, Toronto, circa 1978
• AP018.S1.1978.PR05.006, Sketches, Ontario Congress and Trade Centre, Toronto, circa 1978
• AP018.S1.1978.PR05.007, Property data maps prepared by the City of Toronto, Ontario Congress and Trade Centre, Toronto, 1976
• AP018.S1.1978.PR05.008, Sketches, Ontario Congress and Trade Centre, Toronto, circa 1978
• AP018.S1.1978.PR05.009, Site and floor plans, sections and elevations, Ontario Congress and Trade Centre, Toronto, 1978
• AP018.S1.1978.PR05.010, Site plan schemes, Ontario Congress and Trade Centre, Toronto, circa 1978
• AP018.S1.1978.PR05.011, Project documentation, Ontario Congress and Trade Centre, Toronto, 1976-1981
• AP018.S1.1978.PR05.012, Project documentation, Ontario Congress and Trade Centre, Toronto, 1976-1981
• AP018.S1.1978.PR05.013, Site selection records and economic report, Ontario Congress and Trade Centre, Toronto, 1977-1979