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Toronto Heritage and Paul Oberman
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Following the recent Toronto Heritage Awards, Bert Archer published an article in the Toronto Standard that questions the common usage of the word ‘heritage’, and pays tribute to the late Paul Oberman. The kind of work Oberman did is known as adaptive reuse, and its widespread practice here sets Toronto apart from most cities in the world in its ability...
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Toronto the Good: A Jane’s Walk Launch Party
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...that everyone should try! ” – Miranda, Archaeologist at ERA A true grassroots festival, Jane’s Walk originated in Toronto when friends of the late Jane Jacobs wanted to start something to honor her memory. It has since spread to over 200 cities around the world from Tokyo to Sao Paulo to Cape Town. There is a small project office with...
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Tower Neighbourhood Renewal article in the APT International
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ERA is featured in the summer edition of the International Journal for the Association for Preservation Technology (APT), in an article examining the Tower Neighbourhood Renewal initiative. From the introduction: In 2008 the City of Toronto initiated its Tower Neighborhood Renewal program. The program looks at the significant impact of post–World War II construction in the city and proposes a...
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The Millionth Tower
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The Millionth Tower web-based documentary has launched! This weekend the project was featured on the highly-respected Wired.com site, and is already making significant waves re-imagining the way emerging web-based technologies can help to tell highly personal stories in our increasingly connected world. We are all very proud to have been involved – please see the making-of mini-documentary embedded above, and...
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Canada Screen Award to NFB’s “Highrise”
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...the world. For One Millionth Tower, the team worked with residents of the Kipling Towers Neighbourhood in northwest Toronto, to understand the opportunities and challenges of the neighbourhood, and to dream big about the neighbourhood’s future. These ideas were then interpreted and brought to life by animators, web designers, and the residents themselves. Congrats to Kat, the NFB, and Toronto’s...
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Letters to the Mayor: An outlet for expressions on city-building set amidst a developmental blank canvas
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PARTISANS and Storefront for Art and Architecture present ‘Letters to the Mayor’ during the EDIT Festival, which challenges visitors to consider how we can make the world a better place. EDIT also brings life back to the abandoned Unilever Detergent factory in Toronto’s Port Lands, a 150,000sqft abandoned factory set on 60-acres of brownfield. This area will be reimagined as...
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Kensington Market Lofts Presents a Gateway of Colour to the Neighbourhood
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...could speak to the building’s important context within Kensington Market. An Te Liu’s concept for the colour configuration was based a pattern depicting the neighbourhood’s historic diversity, the distribution of the colours being drawn from an analysis of the percentage of those present in the world’s national flags. The significance of the approach is that the material sits comfortably within...
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Dressing The Webster
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...his graphic design work—using colour gradients to present design possibilities—and turned it into a mapping exercise, pulling elements from the existing, physical world. “I liked it because it does produce a very clear visual of these thumbnailed colours on the streetscape. When appropriate, we plan to use this approach a lot more often,” Carl says. The result is something that...
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RAC Zoning Approved for 500 Sites
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...Neighbourhoods found throughout Toronto’s inner suburbs (and beyond) to emerge as integrated, vibrant, and diverse community hubs. Opportunities enabled by the RAC Zone, from Toronto and around the world. As described by Planning and Growth Management Committee Chair Councillor Peter Milczyn: “This is a change that 10-15 years from now we will look back and say ‘this transformed Toronto’.” Yet...
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Heritage Masonry with Gerard Lynch
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...Guilds of London Institute (LCG). He is a former Head lecturer of Trowel Trades at Bedford College, pioneering a revival of gauged brickwork, in which he is considered the world’s leading authority, and other almost forgotten traditional craft skills. He is affectionately known by the historic term, ‘The Red Mason’. For more information or to register, please see Willowbank’s website....
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Kensington Market Lofts Presents a Gateway of Colour to the Neighbourhood
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...of the percentage of colours present in the world’s national flags. The significance of the approach is that the material sits comfortably within its bohemian context. It was important to pursue a strategy that did not feel out of place with the vibrant coloured awnings and shops spilling out onto the street. The project has embodied its physical location, facing...
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Lime Mortars for Traditionally Constructed Brickwork
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...brickwork including colour washing, and tuck pointing. Dr. Lynch is an internationally acclaimed and highly respected historic brickwork consultant, master bricklayer, educator and author. He is considered the world’s leading authority of gauge brickwork, and affectionately known by the historic term ‘The Red Mason.” As quoted in a Toronto Star article covering the workshop, Dr. Lynch explained: “We were taught...
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