Awards

Urban Design Awards

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Evergreen Brickworks and Toronto Police Services’ 11 Division have just been awarded Toronto Urban Design Awards of Excellence for “Public Buildings in Context.” And both Maple Leaf Gardens and St. James Cathedral Centre won awards of merit. Evergreen Brickworks, what the Jury had to say: “Though chaotic at first glance, the site takes its structure...

Pug Awards: 11 Division!

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ERA is pleased to announce that 11 Division of the of the Toronto Police Services (TPS), a project we worked on with Stantec Architecture, has been honored at the 2013 Pug Awards. It won People’s Choice in the Commercial/Institutional category, and it received the Paul Oberman Award for Adaptive Reuse and Heritage Restoration! This adaptive...

Evergreen Brickworks wins CNU Charter Award

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Evergreen Brick Works was just honoured with a 2013 Congress for New Urbanism (CNU) Charter Award, announced May 29 in Salt Lake City. ERA has been working on this project for several years with project partners including Evergreen, architectsAlliance, DTAH, Diamond Schmitt, and Claude Cormier + Associés, among others. Jurors praised the project for its...

BILD awards to Massey Tower

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The design team for Massey Tower, which includes Hariri Pontarini Architects, ERA Architects, and Cecconi Simone, is pleased to announce that the project was recently honoured with four 2013 BILD Awards: Project of the Year High-rise Design of the Year Best High-rise Sales Office Best Model Suite Central to the project is the conservation and...

CIP award to Tower Renewal

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We are pleased to announce that the Canadian Institute of Planners (CIP) has awarded the Planning Excellence Merit Award for New and Emerging Planning Initiatives to a collection of strategic studies that form part of the Tower Neighbourhood Renewal initiative! Since 2007, the Tower Neighbourhood Renewal initiative has been working to tackle one of the...

Division 11 wins at OAA

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ERA is pleased to announce that Division 11 of the of the Toronto Police Services (TPS), a project we worked on with Stantec Architecture, has been honored with an Award in Design Excellence from the Ontario Association of Architects (OAA)! This adaptive reuse project began when a group of residents of Carlton Village neighbourhood wanted...

Canada Screen Award to NFB’s “Highrise”

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Last week the NFB’s Highrise: One Millionth Tower won a Canada Screen Award for “Original Program Produced for Digital Media, Non-Fiction.” ERA and the Centre for Urban Growth and Renewal (CUG+R) had the pleasure of working with the NFB on this remarkable series, directed by Kat Cizek, which examines the current conditions and future potential...

Zeidler gets Award of Excellence for Union Station

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Congratulations to Zeidler Partnership Architects for winning a Canadian Architect Award of Excellence for their design of the new GO Roof, at Union Station, Toronto. One of Canada’s national historic sites, the station is currently undergoing renovations of the train shed roof covering the passenger platforms and tracks. As heritage consultant on the project, ERA...

Maple Leaf Gardens wins ACO award

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The 2012 awards of the Architectural Conservancy of Ontario (ACO) recognized ERA for our role in the adaptive reuse of Maple Leaf Gardens. This collaboration with Turner Fleischer and BBB Architects brings new contemporary uses to the historic site, which had been closed and shuttered for years. ERA provided heritage consulting throughout the project and...

Four awards at CAHP 2012!

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ERA is proud to announce that the Canadian Association of Heritage Professionals (CAHP) has recently recognized four of our projects at their annual awards: Milton Farmhouse Study for Heritage Planning; North York’s Modernist Architecture (Revisited) for Heritage Communications; Sainte Marie among the Hurons for Heritage Evaluation Document; and Coliseum Complex at Exhibition Place for Preservation...

Certificate of Merit for Urban Design Plans

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We are pleased to announce that the Toronto Avenues and Mid-Rise Buildings Study has been awarded a 2012 National Urban Design Certificate of Merit. This study, conducted for the City of Toronto, was led by Brook McIlroy and included significant contributions from Quadrangle Architects, the Urban Marketing Collaborative, and ERA Architects. The document identifies policy-based...

Evergreen Brickworks film wins Hotdocs award

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Crowd the Schoolhouse, a short film inspired by the evolution and regeneration of the Evergreen Brickworks site (a project in ERA’s portfolio), recently received two awards at the International Documentary Challenge. Each film must be 5 minutes long, filmed within the same five days at the beginning of March, and based on the theme of “cycles.” The entry...

OCAD 2012 Sustainable Design Awards

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ERA is a proud sponsor and juror for the 2012 Sustainable Design awards. Initiated by students at OCAD and Sustainable.to, the awards celebrate student work throughout OCAD’s many faculties. In its second year off the ground, the awards have grown, with ambitions to go National in 2013. Congratulations to the winners and the students who...

Lang Tannery wins not one but two awards!

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ERA was awarded the City of Kitchener Mike Wagner Heritage Award, in the rehabilitation & Adaptive Reuse category for the Lang Tannery Project, shared with Cadan, RAW Design and WalterFedy. Lang Tannery was also awarded a Canadian Urban Institute Brownie Award for the Best Overall Project. see more about the project here

ERA Wins Toronto Urban Design Award

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ERA was awarded a 2011 Toronto Urban Design Award in the Visions and Master Plans category for the Avenues & Mid-Rise Building Study. Congratulation to team lead Brook McIlroy Planning + Urban Design/Pace Architects and project consultants Quadrangle Architects Limited, and Urban Marketing Collaborative. More information related to this project can be found here.

ERA wins a PUG Award!

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ERA, in association with Rounthwaite Dick Hadley Architects, Shoalts and Zaback Architects recieved the Paul Oberman Award for Adaptive Reuse and Heritage Restoration, in the commercial category. The PUG Awards, this year in their 7th edition, are the people’s choice awards for architecture in Toronto. For more on the Bloor Gladstone Library, please click here.

2010 Governor General Awards

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The 2010 Governor General Awards Ceremony – Monday January 31st in Ottawa. Shim-Sutcliffe Architects and ERA Architects will be receiving a medal in architecture for the Corkin Gallery which is located in Toronto’s Distillery District. Shim-Sutcliffe were the design architects and ERA, the heritage architect for this project. To view the full list of the...

2010 Architectural Conservancy of Ontario Awards

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E.R.A. Architects and Shoalts Brothers Construction were awarded the Peter Stokes Award for Restoration from the ACO for the exterior restoration of the Miller House, in Niagara-on-the-Lake. The 1817 house is noted in several of Peter Stokes’ publications for its refined architectural quality and evidence of early 19th-century construction techniques and taste. Now part of...

Allstream Centre and Bloor Gladstone Library Win Heritage Toronto Awards

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The Allstream Centre and the Bloor Gladstone Library were award recipients at the 2010 Heritage Toronto Awards. ERA is the heritage architect for both buildings. Details and a list of this year’s awards is available on Heritage Toronto’s website.

National Urban Design Awards

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The Tower Renewal Opportunities Book was awarded a Special Jury Award in the 2010 National Urban Design Awards, presented by the Royal Architectural Institute of Canada, the Canadian Institute of Planners and the Canadian Society of Landscape Architects. Congratulations to the project team including ERA Architects Inc., the John H. Daniels faculty of Architecture, Landscape...

St. Lawrence Market North Building Design Competition

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Congratulations to Adamson Associates Architects and Rogers Stirk Harbour + Partners on winning the St. Lawrence North Market Design Competition, announced by the City of Toronto on June 7th, 2010. ERA had the pleasure of advising the team on heritage issues. For more information, visit: City of Toronto St. Lawrence Market North Building Design Competition

Celebration of Heritage

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On Wednesday February 24th, at the “Celebration of Heritage” event held in Niagara-on-the-Lake, ERA was awarded the “Peter J. Stokes Heritage Commendation” for the exterior conservation of the 1817 Miller House. Congratulations are extended to the building’s owner Vintage Inns and the project’s contractor Shoalts Brothers Construction, who were also recipients.

Vancouver Matters Wins Design Exchange Award

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Vancouver Matters received an award in the Visual Communications category at this week’s Design Exchange Awards event. The book was also recently awarded at the Alcuin Society’s 27th Annual Awards for Excellence in Book Design in Canada. Photo by Jason Vanderhill

CAHP Awards

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The 2009 Canadian Association of Heritage Professionals Awards were hosted at the Artscape Wychwood Barns on September 25th. ERA was identified as part of the team for the CAHP Award for Environmentally Sustainable Rehabilitation, for the Artscape Wychwood Barns. Congratulations goes out to Sally Gibson for receiving the Heritage Communication Award of Excellence for Distillery...

Urban Design Awards

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On Monday September 21st, the Mayor’s Tower Renewal Opportunities Book was awarded the Toronto Urban Design Award of Excellence in the Vision and Masterplan category. Congratulations go to the full Tower Renewal team, including ERA Architects, The John H. Daniels Faculty of Architecture, Landscape and Design, the City of Toronto, and countless local and international...