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Defining the Public Realm Plan

...on Toronto’s waterfront, the natural and cultural corridors connecting Toronto to the Lake, and the opportunities available along the “spine” of Lakeshore Blvd. and Kingston Rd., which together link communities and landscapes all the way from Etobicoke to Scarborough. The report concludes with a series of recommendations for integrating heritage and development along Toronto’s waterfront in service of a more...

Joy Oil Gas Station

...Part IV of the Ontario Heritage Act. It was built in a miniature chateau style, with distinctive circular tower and conical roof to create an easily recognizable corporate image. ERA prepared the station and service building for relocation from their original site to the south side of Lake Shore Boulevard for adaptive reuse to better serve the popular recreation area....

View of the entrance to Lawrence Orton apartment Lawrence-Orton

...with community input, framed a long-term strategy for campus renewal, including building revitalization, community space upgrades, landscape and public space enhancements, and community service partnerships. Building from this masterplan, ERA supported TCHC in securing funding streams from various levels of government to execute the project in multiple phases. Phase One, now complete, included the comprehensive retrofit of the 236-unit apartment...

Allstream Centre / Automotive Building

...convention centre, including a 45,000 square feet ballroom, 20 multipurpose conference rooms as well as associated pre-function and support spaces. The interior work proposed a ground floor layout that was similar to its original configuration, though with new functional spaces. The design focused on restoring the qualities and features of the original Art Deco building in the service of the...

Coronation park Coronation Park

Coronation Park is a six-hectare, culturally significant park at the foot of the historic Fort York area. The park is a living memorial, with the groves of silver maples commemorating the service and sacrifice of Canada’s military in World War I. At over 70 years old, the original design intent of the park had begun to fade from view. Original...

Casey House

...“home”. Accessibility solutions, structural modifications, complex building service distribution, and healthcare standards were integrated in a thoughtful manner that preserves the character of the historic building. ERA’s expertise in heritage conservation and adaptive reuse was brought to peel back the layers of alterations and unsympathetic treatments from the building to painstakingly restore what had been lost integrate stringent hospital requirements....

Mnjikaning Fish Weirs

Mnjikaning Fish Weirs is the largest and best-preserved wooden fish weirs known in eastern North America, in use from approximately 3,300 B.C. “Mnjikaning” is an Ojibway word meaning “the place of the fish fence”, which is located at the narrows between Lake Simcoe and Lake Couchiching. Mnjinkaning Fish Weirs is a National Historic Site. Fish have been harvested here continuously...

Arial view of Booth Street Booth Street Redevelopment Master Plan

Ottawa’s Booth Street Complex — bordered by Booth, Norman, Rochester, and Orangeville streets in Little Italy — was acquired in 2012 by Canada Lands Company from the federal government. The conditions of the transfer required that best efforts be made to conserve the heritage character of the former federal heritage buildings, and that the spirit of the designations be incorporated...

Greenhouse at the Parkwood Estate National Historic Site. Parkwood Estate National Historic Site: Greenhouse Conservation

...existing conditions in previously inaccessible areas prior to dismantling and salvage work. Due to the condition of the greenhouses, it was determined that the best strategy was to dismantle, repair, and reconstruct them. This allowed for the repair of obscured and inaccessible elements and the provision of protective coatings on the metal components. A variety of custom wood, glass, and...

The Tower Renewal Project

...Partnership (TRP), a multisectoral collaboration including Maytree, Evergreen, United Way Toronto & York Region and DKGI. TRP works to establish a framework through which Tower Renewal can be scaled across Canada, by supporting public and private stakeholder itineraries, conducting applied research, convening core stakeholders, and implementing demonstration projects. TRP also brings together best practices in energy retrofit, planning policy, green...

Concrete Toronto

...a bold celebration of the city’s best structures, part guide book, part historical document, replete with archive imagery and contemporary musing on subjects like Uno Prii’s sculptural tower blocks and Viljo Revell’s City Hall.’– Wallpaper*’ This fat little volume argues forcefully and effectively for a fresh appreciation of Toronto’s built heritage in concrete … a rich and useful gathering of...

Hamilton Downtown Built Heritage Inventory

The Downtown Built Heritage Inventory (DBHI) is a pilot project that proposes a new, Hamilton-specific methodology to understand, characterize, and map Hamilton’s downtown heritage resources. Inspired by emerging international best practices in heritage planning, this methodology aligns with the Ontario Heritage Act and Planning Act, but also utilizes other strategies for evaluating historic resources, such as the “historic context statement.”...