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The Broadview Hotel: Everything Old is New Again

by ERA Architects

...the facade. The interior renovations will not be completed until spring 2017. The rehabilitation of the exterior of the building reflects the efforts of the project teams to renew the hotel and restore the building to its proper place in Toronto’s historic fabric. The conservation strategy for the site was rehabilitation and restoration, to maintain the key architectural features of...

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Diverse Recognition for ERA for Achievement in the Realms of Architectural Conservancy and Urban Design

by ERA Architects

...Hotel was built in the Romanesque Revival style of architecture, with ornate exterior terracotta panels, decorative arches, and classical columns. The conservation strategy for the site focused on rehabilitation and restoration, in order to maintain the key architectural features of the building while constructing an addition, ensuring it housed street level commercial uses and remained open to the public. Standards...

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TORONTO the GOOD

by ERA Architects

TORONTO THE GOOD: MAY 27th WHEN: Tuesday, May 27th, 2008 starting at 7pm WHERE: Fermenting Cellar, Distillery District HOW MUCH: $10 gets you into the site, plus food • CASH BAR DJs: Track Meet ATTIRE: dress to impress, but not enforced RSVP: email [email protected] WEB: http://www.torontothegood.org Dear Torontonians, The Festival of Architecture and Design is here again, and the folks...

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ERA in Montreal

by Shelley Ludman

...creative spaces. On Saturday, the office was lucky enough to participate in a walking tour of Silo 5. ERA’s Jan Kubanek, who has presented tours as a volunteer guide for Heritage Montreal for many years, led the group through the site, which consists of a series of monumental silos, in the city’s Old Port. (Thank you to Heritage Montreal and...

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Ridgeway workshop

Building for the community, with the community

by ERA Architects

...the redevelopment site, providing participants an opportunity to review and discuss the site’s history, design features and heritage elements. The feedback we received during successive meetings helped identify what was of value to the community. Among other things, residents identified the smokestack – a structure representing the area’s industrial past – as a visual landmark within the neighbourhood and an...

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Ontario Place: Possible futures

by ERA Architects

...amount of parkland and bring year-round use to this site, featuring opportunities to “live, work, and play.” Many of the ideas in the report have great potential, including a recommendation to respect the architecture of the famous Cinesphere and “pods.” ERA supports this position and wishes to advocate further for a detailed heritage assessment of all site architecture and landscaping....

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Culture of Outports _ Burlington design/build

by ERA Architects

...the Burlington community and assisted by a range of craftspeople, ERA led the six architecture students in the design and construction of a small-scale intervention bred from site-specific conditions, drawing upon vernacular building techniques and traditional craft practices, and making use of local materials. More photos from the project are included below, after the jump. To follow the research, design,...

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An Award-Winning Heritage Week

by ERA Architects

...home for the Daniels Faculty of Architecture Landscape and Design, and for the University of Windsor’s School of Creative Arts in the former Windsor Armouries. One Spadina Crescent, Daniels Faculty of Architecture Landscape & Design, Lt Governor’s Ontario Heritage Award of Excellence in Conservation 2018 One Spadina Crescent is one of Toronto’s most prominent architectural sites. The historical building, site...

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The Donald Standard Chemical Building

by ERA Architects

Rural architectural heritage extends beyond farm houses and small towns. Last summer, ERA helped the Architectural Conservancy of Ontario in support of the Green Step Project, an initiative to rehabilitate an abandoned industrial site east of Bancroft as showcase for environmental stewardship, heritage, and building technologies. A Nationally Significant Historical Site built in 1909, the Donald Standard Chemical site represents...

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Immigration and Daily Life in the Ward

by ERA Architects

...site led by Infrastructure Ontario (IO), on behalf of the Ministry of the Attorney General. As part of the heritage interpretation efforts for the site, IO and the City of Toronto developed a partnership to create opportunities to share the artifacts and their stories in four display cases at City Hall. ERA has been pleased to offer expertise in this...

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ACO NextGen Charrette on Mill St.

by Shannon Clayton

...presentations about the historic First Parliament Site by the Ontario Heritage Trust’s Sam Wesley and Laura Hatcher, as well as informative tour of the site led by ERA’s Andrew Pruss and the Distillery District’s Jamie Goad. Each team delivered a five-minute presentation to a panel of judges including Andrew and Jamie, as well as Michael Tocher and Peter Heyblom from...

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Planting for an elevated bioswale in Scarborough

by ERA Architects

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fD6PF5UUGoY On a recent pleasant day in June, ERA joined green roof expert Atom Cianfarani and a group of community youth to plant a nursery in preparation for the future construction of an unusual green-roof shade structure at the East Scarborough Storefront. Over the past year, we have been working with the Storefront, Sustainable.TO, ArchiTEXT, various volunteers, and youth participants...

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