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Windsor Armouries

...hub as well as music, sculpture, photography, painting and drawing studios. Students also have access to multi-use seminar and break-out rooms. For performances, a music hall that seats 140 has been added. Students that would have been previously segregated by discipline now share a multidisciplinary and multipurpose open space.   The project serves as an excellent example of adaptive reuse...

Yonge and Charles (Shoppers Drug Mart)

Rehabilitated and updated for its continued commercial use, the Shoppers Drug Mart building at Yonge and Charles Streets combines a new timber structure with a renewed and rehabilitated heritage façade. The original Barron’s Grocery building has long been part of an established commercial area in central downtown Toronto. Designed by G.W. Gouinlock for grocer Robert Barron in 1889, the original...

Bombardier Centre for Aerospace and Aviation

...new use, providing an opportunity for students and faculty to interact with the site’s past. This program includes inlays along the exterior perimeter of the building complex that mark the year each component was constructed. Interpretative panels with imagery of iconic da Havilland planes flank the entrance of the building, and the da Havilland sign visible in historic photographs has...

Flag Field

...often associated with playgrounds and sports fields. Each flagpole is underpinned by groundscrew technology, a light-touch alternative to traditional concrete foundations. The use of ground screws in this case is more economical, more time-efficient, and makes a much smaller footprint on the site. ERA Architects provided landscape architectural and project management services for this project, specifically early schematic design and...

Culture of Outports

This initiative by ERA Architects and the Centre for Urban Growth and Renewal (CUG+R), uses research, design, and planning to help support livable communities undergoing economic and cultural change after the decline of the Northern Cod Fishery. The Culture of Outports team uses historical research, field research, and public consultation to assess the built, natural, and “intangible” cultural resources of...

Interior of University College Library from second floor balcony. University College

...tower. Given the historic importance of the building, ERA brought together a team with focused expertise to ensure that, from cultural interpretation and design to technical execution, the renovations were complementary to the existing fabric. University College has a tradition of innovation, now also reflected in its revitalization, expanding use to fulfill the needs of modern students and faculty. Improvements...

MOCA Toronto

...adaptive reuse of 158 Sterling Road allows MOCA Toronto to occupy multiple storeys of the building, while paying homage to Toronto’s industrial past in the Lower Junction Neighbourhood. MOCA’s presence in this growing mixed-use community will contribute to the expansion of downtown Toronto’s collection of galleries, artists, and vibrant creative and cultural spaces. Learn more about MOCA Toronto on the...

Consumer’s Gas Showroom

The Consumer’s Gas building was designed by architect Charles Dolphin and was completed in 1931 as a retail showroom and demonstration kitchen for gas appliances. Its façade incorporates the use of uncommon materials, such as Tyndall stone from Manitoba and cast aluminum. The latter is used in sculptural features including relief panels on both street-facing elevations. The front entrance is...

Allstream Centre / Automotive Building

...restoration was significant and comprehensive involving the principle character defining aspects of the original art deco building, the entire exterior envelope, and the north and south entry lobbies. The result is a new facility that retains all of the qualities of the original combined with a new and vital use within an improved envelope appropriate to a modern convention facility....

Wateridge Village / Village des Riverains: Commemoration Program

...use by Canada Lands and its development partners as a framework for implementing commemoration strategies in the redevelopment, such as park design, street naming, interpretive signage, and community programming. The Commemoration Program responds to Canada Lands’ Participation Agreement with the AOO (2010), the goals of the City of Ottawa’s Official Plan (2020), the former CFB Rockcliffe Community Design Plan and...

Two people standing together in front of a board of photos. Regent Park Interpretation Strategy

...this collaborative community interpretation. The strategy set out a flexible commemoration framework in order to accommodate future perspectives and experiences. The process focused on understanding, and making use of, both community knowledge and individual stories. Ultimately, the commemoration will illuminate the memories, traditions, values, and identities of former, current, and future residents of Regent Park within a rapidly-changing urban landscape....

University of Toronto St. George Campus

...richly-layered campus, which includes some of Toronto’s most prominent buildings and complexes, significant open spaces, and sustained patterns of use. The University, which has played a defining role as the area’s major landowner, initiated a multi-year process to revise the municipal land use plan for the St. George Campus in 2014. Replacing the existing plan from the late 1990s, the...