To our clients and colleagues during the COVID-19 pandemic

Dear Clients and Colleagues, Arising from the continued spread of COVID-19, the World Health Organization’s ‘global pandemic’ declaration, the State of Emergency called for the Province of Ontario and health emergency declaration by…

Senate of Canada Building receives international recognition with 2020 Civic Trust Award

The Senate of Canada Building has been awarded a 2020 Civic Trust Award, the longest-running international awards program recognizing outstanding architecture, planning and design in the built environment. The award was given to…

Affordability and resiliency: Renewing Toronto’s towers

Photo courtesy Jesse Colin Jackson Over time, Canada’s aging mid-century towers have become the backbone of the…

Residents and Small artists gather at the opening of Laskay's Gate

Celebrating Laskay through Memory’s Gate

Public art has the ability to represent and celebrate the identity of a place. As an architecture…

The Ward Cabaret: The sound of Toronto’s first cross-cultural community

Cultural heritage is influenced and shaped by communities and their histories. In Toronto, this means much of…

Ontario Place and the value of cultural heritage sites

Opened in 1971, Ontario Place was created to be a hub for Torontonians to experience the waterfront…

Building for the community, with the community

As an architecture firm with values rooted in how we collectively shape and build better cities and…

Announcing Founding Principal Edwin Rowse’s retirement from ERA Architects Inc.

One of ERA’s two founding principals, Edwin Rowse, is retiring as of October 1. Edwin and Michael…

Uncovering the potential of Toronto’s laneways

Toronto’s laneways are having a moment. For decades, these alleyways were an underused, often neglected, space in…

WexPOPS: Pop-up Plaza

WexPOPS is a pilot of the plazaPOPS project, an initiative spearheaded by Daniel Rotsztain, aka The Urban…

ERA Principal Graeme Stewart addresses a crowd in front of Ken Soble Tower alongside MP Adam Vaughan during the May 21, 2019 National Housing Strategy announcement.

Affordable, High Efficiency Tower Living

ERA is thrilled to be leading the rehabilitation of the Ken Soble Tower which will bring affordable…

Accessibility & Heritage Conservation

How do we integrate universal accessibility with heritage conservation principles? ERA explored this topic in a two-day…

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…

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