Affordable, High Efficiency Tower Living
ERA is thrilled to be leading the rehabilitation of the Ken Soble Tower which will bring affordable housing options to the city of Hamilton as the first retrofit Passive House tower in Canada.…
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Accessibility & Heritage Conservation
How do we integrate universal accessibility with heritage conservation principles? ERA explored this topic in a two-day workshop at the Willowbank School in Niagara. ERA Associates Daniel Lewis and Douglas de Gannes worked…
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An Award-Winning Heritage Week
This past week, amidst annual #HeritageWeek events, ERA was proud to receive honours from both the City…
New Approaches to Old Housing
For the past decade, Tower Renewal has been defined by research, policy design and action. Through multi-sectoral…
Tower Renewal Solutions on CBC Radio
As aging apartment buildings begin to contribute to the housing crisis, (exposed this week in the infrastructure…
Immigration and Daily Life in the Ward
We are very excited to announce the latest installation of the ‘Armoury Street Dig’ series of exhibits…
Heritage at Home
ERA Associate and Architectural Conservation Lead, Jan Kubanek, has managed and consulted on immense, complex projects like…
ERA at Passive House Canada Conference
Last week, ERA’s Graeme Stewart and Ya’el Santopinto joined City Housing Hamilton CEO Tom Hunter to present…
Our Growing Leadership Team
As ERA continues to grow and evolve, the Executives and Associates are very pleased to welcome Sydney…
Toronto Set in Stone
A guest article by Brendan Stewart—Assistant Professor, Landscape Architecture, University of Guelph
Stone plays an outsized role…
From Past to Page: Uncovering the Ward
In 2015, ‘The Ward—The Life and Loss of Toronto’s First Immigrant Neighbourhood’ was published, documenting the area…
Creative Space & Urban Stone: Public Talk
Stone is the most fundamental material but over the last 50 years its creative use has declined…
TALLINN–TORONTO: The Influence of Estonian Modernism in Shaping Toronto
This spring, the exhibition To The New World: Estonian Architects in Toronto launched at the Museum of…
ERA Has Moved to 625 Church Street
For two decades, we have called 10 St Mary Street our home, an eight storey modernist office…