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Proposed Heritage Policies in the ‘Toronto Official Plan’ Review

by admin

...address regulatory and process issues rather than goals and objectives, They don’t significantly advance us beyond the status quo, and They show no sense of strategic implementation. Simply stated, why do we want to protect heritage resources? With an awareness of what we are not doing well, how can we do it better? The adoption of new Official Plan Heritage...

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Publications & Exhibits

Announcing the Frank Darling Book Project

by David Winterton, senior associate

...with different uses than originally designed for. Sometimes, we assist with restoring or converting them. Additionally, the prodigious output—over 300 known projects across the country—and the types of projects erected for the establishment of the time—the chartered banks, universities, hospitals, and clubs —make Darling & Pearson among the most important and prominent firms ever to practice in Canada. Frank Darling...

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We’re off to Botwood, Nfld.

by ERA Architects

As part of the Culture of Outports initiative, ERA’s Andrew Pruss, Alana Young, and Jordan Molnar are heading to Botwood Newfoundland from Feb. 15 to 22. Together with a group of Ryerson Architecture students, we’ll be collaborating with the community on a number of events, as well as the design and construction of an intervention in the local landscape. Botwood,...

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One Spadina Crescent: When All is Finally Revealed…….

by ERA Architects

...new context of the building is captured in an insightful piece in the Globe and Mail by Dave LeBlanc, including a few words from Michael McClelland (see link below). The site was originally designed as a garden feature for the Baldwin family, who owned the Spadina park lot that extended from Queen Street West to Bloor. In the 1870s, the...

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Missed Connections

by ERA Architects

...best submitted messages. Many were un-printably raunchy, an unfortunate number were self-promotional, and there were even a few entirely inappropriate solicitations of employment (sorry, “up-and-coming Architect – looking 4 a intro job“). If you think you’re the person mentioned, please contact us at [email protected] and we can forward your reply to the original author. “You – tall, dark & handsome....

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Women in Architecture: A Seminar Presented by Building Equity in Architecture, Toronto (BEAT)

by ERA Architects

Last Saturday, March 4th, as part of its third annual seminar, BEAT featured ERA Project Manager Amy Norris as part of a program of female architects, landscape architects, and interior designers based in Toronto. The panel spoke to students, recent graduates and young practitioners about their professional experiences working in and establishing design practices in Toronto in industries that presents...

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Micallef: Canada’s identity, modernist architecture

by ERA Architects

...our residences, universities, schools, malls, factories, and corporate headquarters, Canada is a nation stitched together with modernist fabric. Every urban area, it seems, has its share of brutalist concrete slab towers, curtain-glass minimalist icons, geodesic domes, and long elegant bungalows with exaggerated eaves. Though we might call out a small number of masterpieces as worthy of our attention, Canada in...

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