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Military infrastructure designation, UK

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...was designated by English Heritage. “Cavitation” is the formation and collapse of bubbles, a process which marine designers attempted to minimize in order to reduce propeller erosion and underwater noise (particularly important for submarines in wartime). A cavitation tunnel is similar in function to a wind tunnel, but filled with water for hydrodynamic testing. No. 2 Cavitation Tunnel was built...

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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

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...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

...of new and existing materials.   Jordan Molnar’s project experience is both broad and deep, including heritage conservation, adaptive-reuse, and renovations/additions. He compliments his architecture portfolio with interests in small community development through Culture of Outports and Small, participating in community feasibility studies, community workshops and design-build projects.   Samantha Irvine oversees projects that impact culturally significant buildings, neighbourhoods and...

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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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ERA is on the move.

ERA Has Moved to 625 Church Street

by ERA Architects

...century. In 1848 Captain John Elmsley donated part of his land to St. Michael’s College and St. Basil’s Church and began subdividing the property, naming local streets after his favourite saints. Many of the buildings that presently occupy the block bounded by Yonge, St. Mary, St. Nicholas and Charles streets were constructed during the latter half of the 19th and...

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2006 CUI Brownie Awards

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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

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...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

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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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Championing resiliency this Earth Day

by ERA Architects

...can help to bolster many communities’ move from resource-based to creative economies. ERA’s work with historic infrastructure to find new uses for their spaces has spurred place-based economies. At the Distillery District, we transformed a brownfield site into an arts and culture hub, driven by below-market rents for artists’ studios. Our work at Cambium Farms in Caledon has adapted a...

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Lime Mortars for Traditionally Constructed Brickwork

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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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Centre for Urban Growth and Renewal

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...well as those of partners, collaborators and, increasingly, work unique to CUG+R as it continues to expand and evolve. CUG+R also works in collaboration with the Cities Centre at the University of Toronto; an umbrella organization that combines researchers from the University’s urban focused faculties to engage in projects that affect positive change in the Toronto region and urban Canada....

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