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Jack Klein and Henry Sears
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...which they were awarded the OAA award for Excellence in Residential Design. Sears and Klein were awarded a Massey Medal for the Don Valley Woods project, and completed a number of notable private residences at 54 Blue Forest Drive, 16 and 18 Bitteroot Drive, and 17 Beaver Valley Road. Henry Sears was inducted into the RAIC College of Fellows in...
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The Final Ridgeway Community Courts Workshop
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...will feature a community board to advertise events, games, and other fun activities for the neighbourhood. It will also have bike racks, a shed for supplies, and two beautiful youth designed murals that will showcase the community’s unique identity, and create a gateway into the park. Management of the court will be community-led. A number of youth jobs will be...
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Preparing for Toronto the Good party
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...phone number and have that text projected onto the wall within a few seconds (see photo below). The messages can be provocative, poetic, and, um, immature. Of course, things get a little silly the later the night goes, thanks to the wine and the folks from Mill Street Brewery. We are now preparing for the 2009 edition of Toronto The...
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Ontario Place in docomomoUS
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...intricate weaving of landforms with canals and lagoons. Over the years, the site was altered a number of times, which obscured the clarity of the original design. In 2012 the Province of Ontario partially closed the site and announced a major redevelopment project to be completed by 2017. The Ministry of Culture, Tourism and Sport has since conducted a heritage...
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The new Standard
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Graeme is featured on the cover of the brand new Toronto Standard online daily news portal, with an extensive interview covering the Tower Neighbourhood Renewal initiative. This is a 20-year project. We’re talking about a huge number of buildings, hundreds of neighbourhoods and over a million [residents]. It’s about a gradual process of improvement. For now, it’s working in specific...
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Fairfield and DuBois
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...Robert Fairfield and Macy DuBois, both in partnership and alone, were responsible for a number of significant projects in Toronto and southern Ontario, including New College at the University of Toronto and the Massey Medal finalist Central Technical School Art Centre. New College at the University of Toronto, 1969 Robert Fairfield won awards of excellence from the Ontario Association of...
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Culture hums under the hood
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Scott recently visited his native Detroit, and wrote an article showcasing a number of Motor City’s emerging cultural assets. The article; “Detroit: Culture hums under the hood“, is featured in today’s Globe and Mail Travel section. Congratulations Scott – great work!...
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New opportunities through zoning reform: Your feedback needed
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Photo: Jesse Colin Jackson The City of Toronto wants to bring more vitality and convenience to its Apartment Neighbourhoods. In March and April, a number of public consultations will be held to incorporate the ideas of community members. A new zoning type, “Residential Apartment Commercial” (RAC), has been created to provide more amenities and more usable public space in selected...
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Wellbeing Toronto
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The City of Toronto has just launched ‘Wellbeing Toronto‘, which, in their own words, is: a new web-based measurement and visualization tool that helps evaluate community wellbeing across the city’s 140 neighbourhoods. Using geographic information software, Wellbeing Toronto allows you to select, combine and weight the significance of a number of indicators that monitor neighbourhood wellness. The results appear instantly...
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The Ward: A new book, UPDATE
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ERA is excited to announce our new book all about Toronto’s St. John’s Ward. The Ward: The Life and Loss of Toronto’s First Immigrant Neighbourhood, launches May 20th. See our previous post here. A number of events lead up to this exhilarating new release. The Ward will be presented in the Pages UnBound Festival, an annual mixed media festival combining...
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Marble Madness
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[Unfortunately, not this kind of Marble Madness] A number of ERAers got together to do a group order of reclaimed Carrara marble from First Canadian Place. All 45,000 2′ x 4′ marble panels are currently being removed from the tower, and will soon be replaced by larger glass panels. A slick animation of the process is available here. The reclaimed...
Read MoreFiction and Intervention
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Artist Luke Painter has a number of 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...
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