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Heritage Toronto Awards Announced

by ERA Architects

Photo Credit: Marcus Mitanis After much awaited anticipation, Heritage Toronto held its awards ceremony on Tuesday, October 13th, 2015. The event was held at the Koerner Hall in Toronto and was hosted by the host of CBC Radio’s Fresh Air, Mary Ito. This year’s Kilbourn Lecturer was Rahul K. Bhardwaj, President and CEO of the Toronto Foundation. The awards ceremony...

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United Way AGM: Graeme Stewart’s Keynote Address

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...block communities through research, policy change, and real action. The kickstart this strategy, the Untied Way Toronto has announced $800,000 in community investment in Tower Neighbourhood Renewal to be rolled out of the next two years. For more information on this exciting funding announcement and Tower Renewal, see the following articles in the Toronto Star, and Globe and Mail.  ...

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One Year of ‘The Signs That Define Toronto’ 

by Kurt Kraler

...Concordia University (Photo: Kurt Kraler) Later in the summer, Vancouver civic historian, author and heritage consultant John Atkin presented to the ERA office his work on restoring historic signs. The office heard about the importance of neon signs in illuminating Vancouver’s main commercial streets as well as his recent work on the infamous Ho Ho Restaurant neon sign in Vancouver’s...

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Historic Modern

by ERA Architects

...latent resources, the buildings and landscapes of the recent past are now prime for reconsideration. As they move well beyond the years of their life expectancy, the bricolers for this generation need to rethink, react to, interrogate, exploit, and most important, understand these buildings and landscapes in order to reconsider their initial ideals and to fully explore these inherited opportunities....

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The Star’s Big Ideas: GTA’s future in high-rise suburbs

by ERA Architects

...green loan funds to finance retrofits and green infrastructures. Most important, though, is vision and new focus. For example: direct planned transit investment to service Apartment Neighbourhoods; create a policy framework to remove barriers and attract new investment; work with communities to design local initiatives that are supported and development-ready. With the right approach, the GTA can evolve into a...

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Maple Leaf Gardens _ Heritage Interpretation Plan

by ERA Architects

Alexandra Studio Fonds; 1257, series 1057, item 4737 Built in 1931, Maple Leaf Gardens quickly became a social and cultural hub in the city, and it is no overstatement to say that the wide variety of events held there over the ensuing decades influenced the cultural development of the nation. Best known as the home of the Toronto Maple Leafs...

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La Cour d’appel du Québec

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...Québec is a late and particularly modern take on Beaux-Arts neoclassicism, and is notable for its giant order columns along Notre-Dame Street, its semi-circular entrance porch, its projecting cornice, and its fine stone masonry. ERA and Kubanek Architecte are proud to be overseeing heritage conservation work in the interior entrance hall, including repair and restoration of travertine and marble finishes....

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Yonge St.: development, heritage, and change

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Michael McClelland on Yonge; photo Dave LeBlanc Recently Dave LeBlanc of the The Globe & Mail featured ERA Principal Michael McClelland in an article about heritage architecture and new development on Toronto’s Yonge St. In the article, Michael explains an increasingly Toronto-specific approach to heritage conservation where historic architecture is incorporated creatively by developers as integral to the design of...

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Peter Dickinson

by ERA Architects

The O’Keefe Centre for Performing Arts, 1960. In the vein of raising awareness for Toronto’s modernist legacy, BlogTO has a good little feature on Peter Dickinson (1925-1961) inspired by the recent monograph authoured by John Martins-Manteiga and published by Dominion Modern. Born in England and educated at the AA, Dickinson immigrated to Canada in 1950. He immediately began working with...

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299 Queen St. W

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In December of 2007 ERA completed the terracotta restoration of 299 Queen Street West, the home of Canada’s MuchMusic. Undertaken in four phases over five years, the project included new structural steel work, repair of the terracotta tiles, and the installation of new precast elements....

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Jane’s Walk Yorkville, Sat. May 4th

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...sustainable? Growing from a mixed industrial and suburban area in the 1830s, to the hub of bohemian culture for famous Canadian writers and activists including Margaret Atwood and Neil Young in the 1960s, Yorkville began to take on the cultural and commercial landscape of today in the 1980s with the arrival of internationally renowned designers, high-end shops, cafes, galleries, and...

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76 Howard Street’s Moving Day – Video Update

by ERA Architects

https://youtu.be/EcUNyv_N_2w It’s one thing to pack and move house, and quite another to move a house! William Whitehead House, at the ripe old age of 130 years, was relocated under exacting circumstances to allow for the development of 1000 condos units in the St. Jamestown neighourhood. The team at ERA was on hand to supervise and document the process as...

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