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358 - United States of America = Etats Unis d'Amérique

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File

Date:

[1963-1967]

Reference:

R869, RG71M 912024, Volume number: 868--874, Microfilm reel number: M-1548--M-1549, File number: 358

File no. (creator):

358

Type of material:

Architectural and technical drawings

Found in:

Archives / Collections and Fonds

Item ID number:

5010507

Context of this record:

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Canadian Corporation for the 1967 World Exhibition fonds

Department of Installations

Architectural Designs and Drawings for Expo 67

Key Plan Area 3 - Ile Sainte-Hélène (Reference No. 300-399)

358 - United States of America = Etats Unis d'Amérique
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Record information – Details
Date(s):

[1963-1967]

Place of creation:

Canada

Extent:

130 architectural drawings

Language of material:

English

Added language of material:

English, French
Additional name(s):

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Architect: Eber, George F., 1923-1995

Architect: Cambridge Seven Associates, Inc. fl. 1966-1967

Architect: Fuller, R. Buckminster (Richard Buckminster), 1895-1983

Architect: Fuller & Sadao Inc

Architect: Geometrics Inc

Architect: Sadao, Shoji, 1927-
Finding aid no.:

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71-22

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General note:

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This file contains architectural and design drawings of the United States pavilion which was built and designed for Expo 67. This was intended as a temporary foreign government-sponsored pavilion located in Expo Area: Ile Sainte-Hélène. The pavilion's structure was a geodesic dome and it consisted of four multi-level exhibit platforms and concourses, the highest of which was reached by the longest escalotor constructed at the time. The building theme was "Creative America" designed by the "Cambridge Seven" and featured displays of American innovations in art and technology. The owner/contracting body of the structure was the United States Information Agency, Washington D.C. The design architects were R. Buckminster Fuller, Fuller & Sadao Inc., and Geometrics Inc., Cambridge, Massachusetts (Dome); Cambridge Seven Associates Inc., Cambridge, Massachusetts (Interior); the local associate architect was George F. Eber, Montreal. Project Type: National and Private Participants = Participants nationaux et privés. Ownership of the pavilion was transferred to the City of Montreal on January 31, 1968; it operated as a public attraction until 1976 when the building was damaged by a fire that broke out during maintenance. In 1990, Environment Canada signed an agreement with the City of Montreal to transform the structure into a Biosphere which officially opened on June 5, 1995.

Formatted contents note:

Project No. 3-25.

Availability of other formats note:

Some drawings for this structure were microfilmed in 1968 and can be found on microfilm reel M-1548, frames I1--I20, and reel M-1549, frames I21--I196.

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M-1548 : Copy no. 3
M-1548 : Copy no. 1
M-1548 : Copy no. 4
M-1548 : Copy no. 2
M-1549 : Copy no. 2
M-1549 : Copy no. 4
M-1549 : Copy no. 3
M-1549 : Copy no. 1

Source:

Government

Former archival reference no.:

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RG71M 912024
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Architectural: technical drawings

[Consultation90 Open]

Volume [R869] 868--874

[Consultation 90 Open]

Microfilm reel [R869] M-1548--M-1549

[Consultation 90 Open]

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Copyright : The rights to reproduce the drawings and specifications herewith following are owned by R. Buckminster-Fuller, U.S.A. and Canadian associate architect George Eber, Montreal. Drawings are not to be duplicated without the written consent of the firm which produced them. This is applicable to both original drawings and microfilm; Credit Library and Archives Canada.

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Date modified:: 2024-07-24