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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

by admin

...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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A historic laneway coach house

Uncovering the potential of Toronto’s laneways

by ERA Architects

...shown in this photo of Creative Union Network‘s laneway project. Photo: Andrew Snow Photography. Communities and organizations are looking to revitalize laneways for uses beyond housing. The Laneway Project is helping community groups revitalize their alleys through greening and art projects. The non-profit is also leading a study to test the feasibility of a laneway market in Toronto, and their...

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Building Toronto: Archives and Architects Lecture Series

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...McClelland of ERA Architects will explore how academic and popular interest in building types and materials changes over time, and how important it is for archives to support primary research in these new and different areas. * Admission to the series is free, but pre-registration is required for the lecture. Please contact Paul Sharkey at [email protected] for tickets or information....

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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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Albert Jackson’s Story: local students document a history of social injustice spurring a network of community partnerships

by ERA Architects

...institutions generously offered information, photographs, and other support for the book. A Different Publisher and ERA would like to thank the Jackson Family, the Ontario Black History Society, Karolyn Smardz Frost, Patrick Crean, Janet Walters at Toronto’s First Post Office Museum, Chris Bateman at Heritage Toronto, Sandra Foster, Ron Fainfair, and LaShawn Murray. The Story of Albert Jackson was recently...

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ERA at the Drake

by ERA Architects

Toronto Life magazine this month features a little teaser article about the forthcoming expansion to the Drake Hotel, led by ERA. The project has just been officially announced, though we’ve been hard at work behind the scenes for a good long while. Watch this space for more information soon…...

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Illustration as a tool of clarity: Q&A with Daniel Rotsztain 

by Alessandro Tersigni, writer & researcher

...a big communicative impact. That has to do with its reduction of complexity. Every map has an argument embedded in it because it’s necessarily a simplification of reality that directs the viewer’s focus to a particular set of phenomena, which is an approach I’ve tried to transfer to illustration and cultivate for many years. We’re so inundated with information and...

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125th Anniversary of the John H. Daniels Faculty of Architecture, Landscape and Design at U of T

by ERA Architects

...until mid-September. May 30, 11:00am – 5:00pm – Dialogues with a panel discussion including ERA’s Michael McClelland and moderator Graeme Stewart. Location: Architecture Building, 230 College St. May 30, 6:30pm – 9:00pm – Alumni Reception. Location: Royal Ontario Museum, 100 Queen’s Park. *Note: RSVP via eventbrite is required. Click here to view more information. Below is a video featuring Dialogues....

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Trees in Public Space: ERA’s Brendan Stewart Speaks

by admin

...trees can enhance our experience of place. Brendan also inquired into the relevance of these traditions today and how they might shape our ideas about green space here in Toronto. In a preview to the talk, Brendan recently made an appearance on Global’s Morning Show. To register and for more information, please see LEAF’s event page. *Note: This event qualifies...

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Publications & Exhibits

Announcing the Frank Darling Book Project

by David Winterton, senior associate

...to the Seventies, Tower Renewal, and The Ward Uncovered: the Archaeology of Everyday Life. To add to the growing list, ERA Architects has committed to consolidating this research into the Frank Darling Book Project (FDBP) with the goal of publishing a long-overdue monograph on Frank Darling. Sean Blank has joined the ERA team to gather and corroborate archival information, organize it, and write...

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