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The Star’s Big Ideas: GTA’s future in high-rise suburbs

by ERA Architects

Throughout the first part of 2014, the Toronto Star is running a series called “Big Ideas“, asking Torontonians to think big about the future of the region. What type of Toronto do we want to create in the years to come? For our contribution to this series, we discuss Tower Renewal as the key to...

Gemini House in the Globe

by ERA Architects

In a recent article in the Globe & Mail, Dave LeBlanc explains how Gemini House provides a new, sustainable model for heritage homes. The Gemini NTED approach, developed by U of T’s Kim Pressnail and Ryerson’s Russell Richman, is a new way to engineer low-energy housing. The idea is to put a box within a...

Graeme Stewart interviewed on The Urbanist

by ERA Architects

Monocle Radio recently interviewed ERA’s Graeme Stewart on The Urbanist, a weekly program on the people and ideas that shape urban life. In this week’s edition, Andrew Tuck speaks with Graeme about Toronto’s modernist legacy and the Tower Renewal program. You can listen to this interview online at Monocle.com #61.

Monocle covers Tower Renewal

by ERA Architects

In the 2012 Quality of Life Issue of Monocle Magazine, ERA’s Graeme Stewart fields a few questions on Toronto’s Tower Renewal Project from Christopher Frey, Monocle correspondent and former Chief Editor for Toronto Standard. To find out more about this issue, see Monocle v.6, no. 55. An article in the Toronto Standard about Toronto’s absence from the Quality of...

Revitalizing Ontario Place: ERA’s Lara Herald on CBC

by ERA Architects

Lara Herald, a project landscape architect at ERA, was recently invited to speak with Matt Galloway on CBC’s Metro Morning regarding the future of Toronto’s Ontario Place. A cluster of three artificial islands on Toronto’s waterfront, Ontario Place was launched in 1971 as an affordable and varied summer destination. Its attractions have over time included...

Metro Morning on Tower Renewal

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Matt Galloway with Priti from the NBF’s HIGHRISE, Image Courtesy of the National Film Board of Canada This week CBC’s Metro Morning is taking to the Kipling strip north of Finch to talk tower renewal, in an area of aging concrete towers that were typical all across Toronto during the early 1950s and ’60s. On...

Maple Leaf Gardens grand (re)opening

by ERA Architects

One half of the adaptive reuse of the Gardens is now open! People even lined up over night to be first into the new flagship Loblaws store. Public interest has been at a frenzy, and there is a lot of press about the event; Globe and Mail, CityNews, National Post, etc. A more thorough collection...

Tower Renewal + NFB feature on Metro Morning

by ERA Architects

This week Graeme Stewart discussed ERA’s ongoing work related to Tower Renewal and working with the NFB of their film documentary with the metro morning team. You can listen to his interview in full here.

North York Modern in the Standard

by ERA Architects

The Toronto Standard discusses North York’s emergence as a modernist heritage hub. Please also have a look at the full publication of ‘North York’s Modernist Architecture Revisited‘, produced by ERA last year.

Tar Creek Supergrid in the Standard

by ERA Architects

Amy, one of ERA’s latest recruits, was recently featured in the Toronto Standard. Her Master’s thesis (completed with Clint Langevin) was a large-scale, radical proposal to utilize toxic sites in North America for future ecologically-oriented development. The full description of the project makes for a very interesting read.

Four awards for ERA at CAHP Awards ceremony

by admin

ERA were the recipient of four awards at this year’s Canadian Association of Heritage Professionals award ceremony in Victoria. Joey took the trip out west to receive the awards on behalf of the office. The awards are as follows; Preservation of a heritage building, award of merit Sharon Temple Craftsmanship award of merit Allenby Theatre...

Alana, NOW

by ERA Architects

Alana was featured in NOW Magazine this week, in the special career insert. She discussed her training, why she is excited to be working with ERA, and what it’s like to study and practice architecture in what is still a largely male dominated industry. *photograph from NOW Magazine

Toronto Heritage and Paul Oberman

by ERA Architects

Following the recent Toronto Heritage Awards, Bert Archer published an article in the Toronto Standard that questions the common usage of the word ‘heritage’, and pays tribute to the late Paul Oberman. The kind of work Oberman did is known as adaptive reuse, and its widespread practice here sets Toronto apart from most cities in...

New Bloor

by ERA Architects

Marcus Gee has an article in the Globe today discussing the public realm improvements to the ‘Mink Mile’ along Bloor: The sidewalks have been widened by four feet to accommodate the bustling street life of Canada’s ritziest retail strip. The tired concrete of the old sidewalks has been replaced by Quebec-quarried granite paving stones of...

Yonge Street

by ERA Architects

Michael is currently featured on the Yonge Street website, where he discusses postwar Toronto architecture. Usually, even when people like a building, that initial appreciation declines and it continues to fall for several decades. After 40 years, it hits an all-time low. But if a building can survive past that 40-year period, then there will...

The new Standard

by ERA Architects

Graeme is featured on the cover of the brand new Toronto Standard online daily news portal, with an extensive interview covering the Tower Neighbourhood Renewal initiative. This is a 20-year project. We’re talking about a huge number of buildings, hundreds of neighbourhoods and over a million [residents]. It’s about a gradual process of improvement. For...

Headspace

by ERA Architects

Michael was recently interviewed for Spacing Magazine, as a part of their Headspace series highlighting “how Toronto can become a more engaged, accessible, sustainable city”. Spacing: Why are heritage buildings important? McClelland: People tend not to have a clear classification of “heritage” but if you consider cities like Montreal and London, they each have a...

Reel Revival: Danforth theatre restoration boosts neighbourhood

by admin

To read Dave Leblanc’s article featured in the Globe and Mail please go to: Reel Revival: Danforth theatre restoration boosts neighbourhood – The Globe and Mail Photo taken by Dave Leblanc

10 reasons the GTA, not just downtown Toronto, is getting better all the time

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The Mayor’s Tower Renewal project was included in a list of notable GTA projects in a recent article by Toronto Star columnist Christopher Hume. To read the full article please follow this link: 10 reasons the GTA, not just downtown Toronto, is getting better all the time – thestar.com

King Edward Hotel condo conversion receives top marks.

by ERA Architects

Christopher Hume, in his Toronto Star Condo Critic column, has given the ongoing King Eddy condo conversion project an ‘A’ grade. Though it was a social and business centre of Edwardian Toronto; for decades it never quite fitted in as anything more than the Grande Dame of King St. In the 21st century, that’s all...

Two Sheds

by ERA Architects

Completed just before he joined ERA, one of Joey Giaimo’s projects is featured in the July issue of Canadian Architect. Bred from his Masters thesis work at UBC, which considered residual or underutilized space in the city and how it could be redesigned in ways not typically considered to connect with adjacent spaces, Giaimo proposed...

King Edward Hotel in the Globe & Mail

by ERA Architects

Dave Leblanc had an article on the redevelopment of the King Edward Hotel in yesterdays Globe and Mail. The hotel – ventilation, colonnades and all – opened in May 1903 and was advertised as “absolutely fire-proof” (built of steel and concrete) to calm guests fearful of staying on upper floors. It had everything: Women-only areas...

Allstream Centre Opens

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The Allstream Centre at Exhibition Place officially opened last week and the project was recently reviewed by the Toronto Star’s Christopher Hume. The article can be found at the following link: Revamp of Ex’s Automotive Building Glorious – thestar.com

Transformation of the Automotive Building

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ERA are the heritage consultants for the re-adaptation of the Automotive Building at Exhibition Place. A recent article in the Star by James MacNevin considers the new direction for this heritage building. The full article can be found below: The reinvention of an auto palace – thestar.com

Abbey Lofts Critiqued in Toronto Star

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ERA’s conversion project for the Abbey Lofts, located on 384 Sunnyside Avenue, was recently featured in the Toronto Star in a review by columnist Christopher Hume. The full article from Saturday August 8th can be found here: Quiet, domestic and lowrise Roncesvalles – thestar.com