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Irving Grossman

by ERA Architects

...Concept’ of vehicular traffic separation. Diagram from Norbert Schoenauer, McGill University. Edgeley in the Village, 1967 Mr. Grossman commenced private practice in 1954, and designed many major urban renewal and large scale planning works in Toronto. His Sultan Street studio was a vibrant heart of Toronto’s artistic and cultural scene in the nineteen sixties. Buildings to his credit include Edgeley...

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Celebrating Claude Cormier 

by Alessandro Tersigni, writer & researcher

...of our fully realized joint projects too—Evergreen Brick Works, the L Tower, and The Well being just a few examples. Claude’s contributions to the 21st-century urban Canadian experience can’t be understated. The places he designed, and the perspectives and impulses he imbued them with, will continue to electrify our sense of cities for centuries to come. A longtime friend and...

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Military infrastructure designation, UK

by ERA Architects

...46 retains its original steel-framed windows. The Tunnel is located at the former Admiralty Experimental Works where ship model research has been carried out for around 125 years. While operational, the Tunnel was a part of this research process, which has been directly responsible for the design of every British Armed Forces vessel. The Tunnel has now been designated for...

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Fiction and Intervention

by ERA Architects

...wonderful flash animations in the Architecture at Harbourfront Gallery, as a part of the ongoing Neighbourhood Maverick show. The animations illustrate vacant sites on the verge of development, and play with memories of the site’s former uses. Neighbourhood Maverick runs until June 11, 2011. Have a look at the rest of Luke‘s portfolio for more beautifully haunting, architecturally themed works....

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ERA Steps Back in Time

by ERA Architects

...great grandparents that dates back at least 150 years.   Sydney Martin’s very old microwave. She even has a cookbook complete with a microwaved rack of lamb recipe. Tatum Taylor’s grandfather’s set of architectural drafting tools. Philip Evans has this bright red and yellow 1961 lawn mower. Lindsay Reid has a set of tools in her workshop from her grandfather…...

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Our Expanding Leadership Team

by ERA Architects

...they bring to their work, their individual perspectives on city-building and cultural planning, and the professional expertise they offer our clients and their colleagues at ERA. Congratulations to all!   Alexis Cohen is trained as an architectural historian and brings her research background to a range of heritage planning projects at ERA. She works collaboratively with complex project teams using...

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Tower Renewal Action Forum

by ERA Architects

...at home and abroad, focused on housing transformation, neighbourhood resilience, and the maintenance of affordability in our apartment tower neighbourhoods. The Tower Renewal Action Forum took place on Thursday, October 5th at the Evergreen Brick Works. For more information, including the event speakers and program, please visit: http://towerrenewal.com/initiatives/tower-renewal-action-forum-2017/ To learn more about the Tower Renewal Partnership, please visit: http://towerrenewal.com/about-us/  ...

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ERA is on the move.

ERA Has Moved to 625 Church Street

by ERA Architects

...shopfront properties at 710-718 Yonge Street first appear on Fire Insurance Plans in 1912. The portion of the Site at the corner of St. Mary and St. Nicholas Streets was originally residential, but primary source documents show automotive uses began in the early 20th century and continued until the 1940s. In the 1920s the Holden Vulcanizing Works and Johnson Motors...

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2006 CUI Brownie Awards

by admin

Congratulations to Evergreen at the Brick Works, this year’s recipient of the Heritage and Adaptive Re-use Brownie Award from the Canadian Urban Institute....

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Start Small: Placemaking & Cultural Economies

by ERA Architects

...communities are shaped by their unique cultural landscapes. Small-scale, place-based businesses and organizations are essential to this culture, and to the evolution and adaptation of these communities. small is an organization that works to support this evolution by bringing together cultural economic drivers; those visionary entrepreneurs, organizers and agitators who leverage the unique place-based cultural assets in their communities to...

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Urban Design Awards

by admin

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 from the original industrial buildings,...

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Lime Mortars for Traditionally Constructed Brickwork

by ERA Architects

ERA, in cooperation with Historic Restoration Inc., hosted one- and two-day workshops for Heritage Professionals and Masons, titled Lime Mortars for Traditionally Constructed Brickwork, lead by Dr. Gerard Lynch. The workshops, held at the Evergreen Brick Works, included both theoretical and practical components, and covered such topics as; binders in historic mortar, historic forms of joining and pointing, re-pointing historic...

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