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A new look for ERAarch.ca

by ERA Architects

...reorganize the content. You’ll find it easier to navigate and quickly land on the projects and information you (and our admirers) are looking for. And we’ve built it to respond to whichever type of device you’re using. We’ll soon be adding a French-language version of the website to support of our clients and offices in Québec and Ottawa, vous le...

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Maple Leaf Gardens – A National Historic Site

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...Gardens as a National Historic Site. In June of 2006 the Historic Sites and Monuments Board of Canada met to consider the building’s national significance and recommended its designation. This June we are happy to announce that the Minister of the Environment recently designated Maple Leaf Gardens a National Historic Site. Stay tuned for information on the plaque unveiling ceremony....

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United Way AGM: Graeme Stewart’s Keynote Address

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...block communities through research, policy change, and real action. The kickstart this strategy, the Untied Way Toronto has announced $800,000 in community investment in Tower Neighbourhood Renewal to be rolled out of the next two years. For more information on this exciting funding announcement and Tower Renewal, see the following articles in the Toronto Star, and Globe and Mail.  ...

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Rapid Response at Harbourfront Centre

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...below: “The installation brings you inside the operations centre of an ecological monitoring network for oil sands development along the Athabasca River. The centre acts as the central nervous system: gathering, coordinating, and disseminating the information required to have informed regional, national, and global discussions about the implications of this extreme resource development project.” For more on this and other...

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Accessibility & Heritage Conservation

by ERA Architects

...a small sliver of the stairs remains, which creates an ongoing dialogue on improving accessibility. After reviewing these ERA projects, the students got the chance to apply their knowledge. They conducted their own accessibility audits and conservation assessments on the two historic sites and will use this information to produce a feasibility report as their final project. This hands-on learning...

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John Street Square _ Competition Winner Announced

by ERA Architects

...Entertainment District Business Improvement Association, and is an element of the proposed John Street Cultural Corridor. ERA developed the idea for the John Street Cultural Corridor in a 2003 cultural mapping study produced for the City of Toronto, entitled ‘Canada’s Urban Waterfront; Waterfront Culture and Heritage Infrastructure Plan‘. For more information, please see Christopher Hume’s article in today’s Toronto Star....

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Holcim Award to 1 Spadina Cresc.

by ERA Architects

...most clearly expressed in the sequence of spaces at the intersection of the ‘new’ and the ‘old’. Additionally, the jury greatly respects the efforts undertaken to integrate environmental principles in the development of the design, without falling into the pitfalls and clichés of ‘sustainability’. On the contrary, new standards for architecture are confidently brought to the fore.” For more information...

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Rountable: Toronto’s Suburbs

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...to Toronto’s suburbs. Other participants include: Pamela Blais, Metropole Consultants Leo Desorcy, Urban Design, City of Toronto John van Nostrand, planningAlliance Laurie Payne, Toronto Community Housing, and Leona Savoie, Hullmark Developments Interested parties are welcome; please see the City’s website for more information. September 30, 2013 City Hall, Committee Room 2 100 Queen Street West 9:30 am – 12:30 pm...

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ERA Celebrates Project Wins at the 2016 Heritage Toronto Awards Ceremony

by ERA Architects

Heritage Toronto held its annual awards ceremony on Monday, October 17th, 2016. The event was held at the Isabel Bader Theatre, Victoria College, University of Toronto and was hosted by the former host of CBC Radio’s Fresh Air, Mary Ito. This year’s Kilbourn Lecturer was Dr. Steven High, Professor of History at Concordia University. The awards ceremony was preceded by...

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A historic laneway coach house

Uncovering the potential of Toronto’s laneways

by ERA Architects

...structures are most prevalent. Approximately 10 per cent – or nearly 30 km – of Toronto’s laneways are entirely within or along the boundaries of areas designated under the Ontario Heritage Act as Heritage Conservation Districts. These are the places where historic coach houses are most prevalent. This Beaconsfield laneway suite by Creative Union Network is an adaptive reuse project of a...

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Building Toronto: Archives and Architects Lecture Series

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February 27, 2008 – Thursday March 6 7pm – 9pm City of Toronto Archives 255 Spadina Road Stephen Otto and Michael McClelland The Importance of Archives Historian Stephen Otto will address the challenges that archives face while trying to stay ahead of the collecting curve with respect to architectural records, and will suggest some strategies for acquiring the best of...

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Health, zoning and urban design: Two new reports released

by ERA Architects

...policy frameworks to enable positive neigjhbourhood change moving forward. Toward Healthy Apartment Neighbourhoods, developed with Toronto Public Health, assesses Toronto’s apartment neighbourhoods in relation to eight key health themes, and develops a series of specific design strategies for more healthy, better served, and complete apartment communities across the city. For more information and to download the reports, please visit cugr.ca....

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