Item is the Winter 2000 issue, which features announcements of the Faculty's accreditation; a $2 million refurbishment campaign; and faculty and student events, publications and accomplishments.
Item is the Summer 2002 newsletter of the Faculty of Architecture and Planning, which includes a construction announcement; faculty profiles of Frank Palermo and Richard Kroeker; and alumni profiles of Beaton Sheppard (BArch 68) and Jill Bambury (BArch 82).
Item is the Winter 2002 newsletter of the Faculty of Architecture and Planning, which includes an announcement of their new name; faculty profiles of Professors Grant Wanzel, Niall Savage, and Jill Grant; a profile of Koski, Solomon & Ruthven (KSR) Architects; an alumni profile of Barry Johns (BArch 72); and an invitation to recruit.
Item is a copy of Dalhousie: The Alumni Magazine (Vol. 20, No. 2), the official periodical of the Dalhousie Alumni Association, published three times a year. The issue features stories about architecture students from Botswana; Thomas Mason (BA '86) and the Spallation Neutron Source in Oak Ridge, Tennessee; and guitarists Dale Kavanagh (BMus. '84) and Douglas Reach (BMus. '76).
Item is a Christmas and New Year card from J. Philip Dumaresq & Associates Architects, Engineers & Planners of Halifax, Nova Scotia. The front of the card features a drawing of the Sir Charles Tupper Medical Building at Dalhousie University, the Centennial Confederation project for the Province of Nova Scotia.
Item is a newsletter featuring a story about architecture students designing a playground structure for the George Dixon Centre; notes on faculty; appointment notes, publication notes; and past and upcoming events.
File comprises a set of architectural plans for the Killam Library, undated and labelled 4B REV. Drawings include a site plan, south elevation, and complete set of floor plans. The basement and main floor plans indicate the square footage of each working area (e.g., mechanical, circulation, administration).
File comprises a set of plans for the second, third, fourth and fifth floors of the Killam Library, mounted on presentation board with acetate overlays indicating space usages by reference to an unknown key-plan that includes numbers 1-11.
File contains 14 hand-drawn and coloured design sketches of rooms or areas in the Killam Library, including: main lobby, south; main lobby, north; entrance lobby; circulation desk; corridor; auditorium; exhibition area; special collections; study carrel; administration area; reserve reading area; lounge; staff dining room; and staff lounge. Fabric, wallpaper, carpet and other textile swatches are adhered to the presentation board.
Item is an undated blackline print, hand-coloured in pencil, of a drawing of the south elevation of the proposed Killam Library building. The drawing is marked 4B REV (revision) and illustrates two alternate facades, A and B. Folder also contains an early drawing of the exterior in relation to the other buildings on campus.
File contains 11 pages of blueline prints of hand-drawn working designs for Killam Library furnishings, labelled F-100 though F-110, which include initial and revised plans (elevations and section drawings) for: cataloguer and bibliographer's work units; card catalogue units; consultation tables; newspaper storage units; display cases; atlas stands; file tubs; and dictionary stands. Annotations with dates include revisions based on requests by librarians.
File contains 2 pages of blackline prints of working designs for a display unit and book cases for the planned Kipling Room in the Killam Library. The drawings include elevations and section details, are stamped "preliminary," numbered S-8 and S-8, and dated 31 March 1969. The Kipling Room ended up remaining in the O.E. Smith wing of the Macdonald Library; it is possible that these furniture plans were used instead for the Morse Room, which was located behind the MacMechan Auditorium.
File contains 3 pages of blueline prints of floor plans for a library at Dalhousie University, drawn by C.D. Davison & Company, the architectural firm that designed Dalhousie's Student Union Building in 1967. Undated and stamped "preliminary," the plans indicate a library with three floors. The drawings for floors 2 and 3 are annotated with potential seating and/or stack capacity for social sciences, humanities, rare books, graduate students, research and audio visual users, as well as conceptual drawings of study carrels and audio visual booths.
Item consists of a pamphlet offprint of an article by Douglas Shadbolt titled "A development plan, Dalhousie University : Student project at the School of Architecture, Nova Scotia Technical College, Halifax, N.S.", which appeared the June 1965 issue of the Royal Architectural Institute of Canada Journal (RAIC), pages 49-52. Also includes a "with the compliments of Douglas Shadbolt" insert laid in.
