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dc.coverage.spatialSite: Montréal, Québec, Canadaen_US
dc.coverage.temporal1988 (creation)en_US
dc.creatorCharney, Melvinen_US
dc.date1988en_US
dc.date.accessioned2013-07-11T18:38:08Z
dc.date.available2013-07-11T18:38:08Z
dc.date.issued1988en_US
dc.identifier223774en_US
dc.identifier.otherarchrefid: 539en_US
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/1721.3/132401
dc.descriptionDrawing (found on site), plan of "L'Esplanade"; The CCA Garden restores the urban fabric of an area deeply scarred by mid-20th-century highway engineering. Initiated as part of the Québec government's program for the integration of art and architecture into the landscape, the garden faces the CCA from the south side of boulevard René-Lévesque. This site was granted to the CCA by the City of Montréal in 1986, and the design by Montréal artist-architect Melvin Charney integrates sculpture and public space with remarkable results. At once a garden in the city and a museum in the open air, it evokes the richly diverse history of landscape design and initiates a dialogue between nature, architecture, and the urban fabric. The garden is laid out as a series of narrative episodes - Orchard, Meadow, Arcade (mirror of the Shaughnessy House), Esplanade, Belvedere, and Allegorical Columns - each of which relates to the wider history of architecture as well as to the city that surrounds the site. Source: Canadian Centre for Architecture; http://www.cca.qc.ca (accessed 2/8/2008)en_US
dc.format.mediummetalen_US
dc.rights© Scott Gilchrist, Archivision, Inc.en_US
dc.subjectlandscapesen_US
dc.subjectGardensen_US
dc.subjectModernisten_US
dc.subjectTwentieth centuryen_US
dc.titleCanadian Centre for Architecture Sculpture Gardenen_US
dc.title.alternativeCCA Sculpture Gardenen_US
dc.typeimageen_US
dc.rights.accessLicensed for educational and research use by the MIT community onlyen_US
dc.identifier.vendorcode2A1-CM-JM-AA2en_US
vra.culturalContextCanadianen_US
vra.techniqueconstruction (assembling)en_US
vra.worktypesculpture gardenen_US
dc.contributor.displayMelvin Charney (Canadian landscape architect, born 1935)en_US


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