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Tower Renewal Action Forum

by ERA Architects

Canada faces a growing housing affordability crisis. Now is the time for coordinated action to build a future around more complete, resilient, and affordable cities – and Tower Renewal is a strategy for realizing this change. Postwar apartment towers are the backbone of Canada’s purpose-built rental stock, and provide affordable housing to millions of Canadians. On October 5th, 2017, international...

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An Award-Winning Heritage Week

by ERA Architects

...conservation in Canada. Senate of Canada Building (GCC), 2019. Senate of Canada Building (GCC), 2019. Senate of Canada Building (GCC), 2019. On Friday, February 22, ERA’s Michael McClelland, Andrew Pruss, and Doug de Gannes were invited to Queen’s Park for the Lieutenant Governor’s Ontario Heritage Awards and received the Award of Excellence in Conservation for One Spadina Crescent, the new...

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Concrete Ideas

by admin

...futures in the Toronto context. Congratulations to Pina and the publication team on a wonderful and beautiful book. Read about Concrete Ideas in a John Bentley Mays review in the Globe and Mail here. Concrete Ideas: Material to Shape a City will be available for order online at Amazon.ca soon. For more on concrete, Concrete Toronto can be found here....

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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....

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New Vision Church Preaches to the Converted as β€˜The Music Hall’ (with new video link)

by ERA Architects

...attend. Please come with your ideas for transformation! The schedule for the evening: 5:00pm – Doors open 5:15pm – Welcome and prayer offering, organ fanfare and showcase by Shawn Grenke 5:25pm – Greetings from City Econ. Dev. Director Glen Norton and Ward Councilor Jason Farr 5:45pm – Violin performance by Lance Ouellette 6:15pm – Hamilton Community Choir performance 6:40pm –...

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Respectful Rehabilitation

by admin

...past year ERA Principal Michael McClelland was a guest lecturer at Simon Fraser University. His lectures on Respectful Rehabilitation included “Rehabilitation and New Design – The Royal Ontario Museum and the Art Gallery of Ontario” and “Balancing Heritage Conservation in the Private Sector: A Case Study of the Distillery District in Toronto”. They can now be viewed online at www.sfu.ca/city/city_pgm_videos.htm...

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The Signs That Define Toronto: A new book from ERA and SpacingΒ 

by Kurt Kraler

...of the life of the city than buildings and architectural styles ever could.  We’ll explore the advances in the signage technology of commercial businesses over the years in chronological order, beginning with the fascia and projecting signs of the 19th century, followed by the sprawling hand-painted billboards of the E.L. Ruddy Company that covered blank side walls across the city....

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Historic Modern

by ERA Architects

Modern buildings are funny things. Their proliferation has been accepted as the common typology for city forms, yet they are often perceived as a banal insertion to the city’s skyline and an impediment towards a richer public realm. Following a recent talk at Heritage Canada’s annual conference on the adaptability of modern buildings, I was asked about the possibility (if...

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ERA Presents at TCLF Second Wave of Modernism III: Leading with Landscape

by ERA Architects

...visitors) to various parks, memorials, historic neighbourhoods and world-class waterfront centres. ERA led tours of University Avenue, Osgoode Hall Gardens, Guild Park & Gardens, Allan Gardens, and Gooderham & Worts Distillery Complex, located in the historic Distillery District. Gooderham & Worts Distillery Complex. Image Credit: Charles Birnbaum We look forward to see how conversations brought forward by the TCLF conference...

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Re-imagining Prairie Grain Elevators (by guest blogger Ali Piwowar)

by ERA Architects

...prairies—in the cupola at the top. The interventions are intended to enhance the juxtaposition of the vertical elevator within the vast horizontal landscape. The adapted architecture of the grain elevator will generate social interaction that promotes co-operation, strengthens community, and ultimately creates sustainable, vibrant prairie communities. For more information on the project and to read the full thesis, visit www.apiwowar.com....

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ERA in Montreal

by Shelley Ludman

...the Canada Lands Company for making this tour possible.) Following the tour, the group relaxed on the other side of the canal, enjoying the view of the setting sun on the silos. Sunday morning, the group met up in the neighbourhood of La Petite Patrie for a brunch feast, with fresh pastries and local produce from the nearby Jean-Talon Market....

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Rendez-Vous Maestria: The Restoration of the GCC’s Suspended Ceilings

by ERA Architects

...multi-day event hosted by the Conseil des métiers d’art du Québec. From December 1st to 4th, expertise in craft and built heritage will be celebrated by curators, artisans, designers, architects and the public as they convene to exchange ideas, renew knowledge and showcase innovations in traditional techniques and current practices. Link to GCC: https://www.eraarch.ca/project/government-conference-centre/ Link to Rendez-Vous Maestria: https://www.metiersdart.ca/en/maestria-show  ...

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