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The Ward: A new book, coming 2015
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...the north, was Toronto’s earliest significant immigrant enclave, from the late 19th to the mid 20th century. With Jewish, Irish, Italian, Chinese, African, and a number other cultures living side by side in great density, the Ward has incredibly rich cultural stories for Toronto. These stories are often overlooked, however, because in the early 1950s the people of the Ward...
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Affordability and resiliency: Renewing Toronto’s towers
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...more than 40 per cent of tower households in the city are considered low-income, up from 25 per cent in 1981. As the housing crisis continues to mount, it’s only imaginable that this number continues to rise. Maintaining these largely privately-owned buildings to ensure their continued affordability is a vital and necessary part of improving Toronto’s housing ecosystem. ERA’s Tower...
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North York’s Modernist Architecture
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...The update – available here as a PDF file – includes the complete 46 page original document, new essays by the aforementioned panelists, and current photographs of a number of the featured buildings. Dave LeBlanc also wrote an article in the Globe and Mail about the forum and the republication of the document, which is available on the Globe’s website....
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Yonge St.: development, heritage, and change
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...new projects. So much so, in a number of cases, that the new design can end up playing “second fiddle” to the heritage fabric. This type of development will be seen more and more along the city’s historic Yonge St., which will see big changes over the next several years. To read Dave’s article, please visit the Globe & Mail...
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Peter Dickinson
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...the article for some great images, and pick up the book to learn more about just how influential Dickinson was in shaping our modern city. Spread from ‘Peter Dickinson‘, published by Dominion Modern, showing the lobby of the O’Keefe Centre and a number of Dickinson’s early sketches from 1957. Top photograph from the City of Toronto Archives. Fonds 1257, f1257_s1057_it0815....
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The Future of the Glass Tower?
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...York and more than seven times the number in Shanghai. Given the prominence of this building form and the relevance to our city, this talk will explore the future of the glass tower in Toronto. Graeme’s presentation will review two Toronto tower booms, first the concrete slab apartment tower boom of our post-war years, and second the boom of glass...
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ERA Presents at TCLF Second Wave of Modernism III: Leading with Landscape
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...Rosenberg & Studio and Mayor John Tory set the tone for the days’ discussion. Charles Birnbaum, founder and president of TCLF, followed by asking: How do we measure success in this second wave? Who can manage change? How can we be sure that heritage and first-rate modernist design co-exist within our physical landscapes? Guild Park & Gardens. A number of...
Read MoreToronto to Detroit
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...revitalization at several scales, from community gardens to large-scale economic reinvestment. Organizations such as the Detroit Creative Corridor Center (DC3) and the Detroit Economic Growth Commission are rethinking the city step by step. The result is a burgeoning arts community, an increasing number of interesting adaptive reuse projects in formerly abandoned buildings, and important improvements to infrastructure and the public...
Read MoreProposed Heritage Policies in the ‘Toronto Official Plan’ Review
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...review of the draft policies and is proposing a number of significant amendments, in order to enhance their clarity and transparency, and eliminate potential redundancies. The amendments are also intended to make explicit the strong connection that exists between heritage conservation and sustainable development, and the critical contribution that cultural heritage makes to the character and livability of Toronto’s neighbourhoods....
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Announcing the Frank Darling Book Project
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...Bank of Commerce, Vancouver. (Photo: Jason King Architect) Bank of Montreal, Toronto. (Photo: David Winterton) As part of its mission to uncover and share new tangents in urban history at the vanguard of heritage theory, ERA has collaboratively published or been instrumental in the production of a number of books, such as Concrete Toronto: A Guide to Concrete Architecture from the Fifties...
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We’re off to Botwood, Nfld.
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As part of the Culture of Outports initiative, ERA’s Andrew Pruss, Alana Young, and Jordan Molnar are heading to Botwood Newfoundland from Feb. 15 to 22. Together with a group of Ryerson Architecture students, we’ll be collaborating with the community on a number of events, as well as the design and construction of an intervention in the local landscape. Botwood,...
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One Spadina Crescent: When All is Finally Revealedβ¦β¦.
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...Presbyterian Church bought the land and commissioned architects James Smith & John Gemmell to build Knox College. Having been adapted over the years to a number of different uses, the structure survives today as a fine example of Gothic Revival architecture, with a heritage designation (designated under Part IV of the Ontario Heritage Act on March 17, 1976). Beginning in...
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