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Gander International Airport Lounge

by ERA Architects

...it best: With the advent of jet fuel, stopovers became unnecessary; in the 1960’s, traffic slowed to a trickle. (These days, traveling to Gander, population 9,650, is itself like going back in time; Air Canada only flies there on tiny twin-turboprop planes.) Perfectly preserved, the terminal is a time capsule from the heady days when travel was exotic and airports...

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Jane’s Walk on Jarvis St.

by ERA Architects

...House, Canada’s first stand-alone HIV/AIDS treatment centre. This institution, founded in part by activist and writer June Callwood in 1988, will be undergoing extensive redevelopment to create a new home with a strong presence on Jarvis. Throughout the course of the walk, three distinct building styles were revealed: early park lots and remaining estate homes; earlier town lots granted to...

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Art of the Danforth, on the Roxy

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...of its level of detailing and scale in relation to the adjacent commercial properties. Work is scheduled to be complete by Summer 2010, including restoration of the glass (previously vitrolite) ground floor exterior lobby and ticket booth. The Art Moderne masonry street façade and windows are complete. The Allenby Theatre’s new life as a Tim Hortons is sure to aid...

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Residents and Small artists gather at the opening of Laskay's Gate

Celebrating Laskay through Memory’s Gate

by ERA Architects

...work to life: Stuart Chan, Jasmine Frolick, Max Yuristy, Carl Shura and Heather Campbell. Learn more about Small, a initiative developed by ERA that works with rural and remote communities across Canada to express their unique cultural values, whether that be through artistic installations like Memory’s Gate, or with the revitalization of local main streets and creation of visionary masterplans. ...

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R.L. Hearn Generating Station

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...as a large courtyard which frames the massive stack against the backdrop of the lake, and bringing a channel of water directly through the reconfigured building. The proposed central courtyard would provide a prime stage for large-scale civic gatherings. Will MacIvor Though not exactly in keeping with the Parks Canada Standards and Guidelines for the Conservation of Historic Places, this...

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Append & tweak: Rethinking heritage in our suburbs

by ERA Architects

...farmland until it began to be developed in the early 1900s. In 2005, Mississauga completed the only cultural-landscape inventory in Canada, a strategy that will help to manage both heritage and change in Lakeview. The inventory identifies and recognizes a wide range of resources in the neighbourhood, from its agricultural and military histories, to its evolving cultural heritage and demographic...

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Our Expanding Leadership Team

by ERA Architects

...of new and existing materials.   Jordan Molnar’s project experience is both broad and deep, including heritage conservation, adaptive-reuse, and renovations/additions. He compliments his architecture portfolio with interests in small community development through Culture of Outports and Small, participating in community feasibility studies, community workshops and design-build projects.   Samantha Irvine oversees projects that impact culturally significant buildings, neighbourhoods and...

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Remembrance Day @ the Brampton Cenotaph

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...residents from the area gathered on the reclaimed land of the old Etobicoke Creek to witness the unveiling of the Cenotaph by Lord Willingdon, then Governor General of Canada. With the help of proper heritage conservation, 83 years from now the Brampton Cenotaph will continue to remind people of the symbols expressed in the granite monument’s roman ornamentation: Service, Sacrifice,...

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Bridgepoint wins two PUGs

by ERA Architects

Bridgepoint Active Healthcare has won two PUG awards this year: Best Commercial + Institutional Building in Toronto, and the Paul Oberman Adaptive Reuse and Heritage Restoration Award. As part of the redevelopment of the site, the Old Don Jail was rehabilitated to function as the administrative building for Bridgepoint Hospital. Completed in 1864, the Don Jail was Toronto’s largest building...

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Kipling Community Build

by ERA Architects

...and what is possible now? Above photograph by Jaime Hogge, courtesy of The National Film Board of Canada Images by ERA Architects, as part of ongoing collaboration with the NFB and the NFB residents working group for HIGHRISE series Planning is currently underway renewed landscape plan, including a children’s play area and playground, to be completed this year. To help...

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Zeidler gets Award of Excellence for Union Station

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Congratulations to Zeidler Partnership Architects for winning a Canadian Architect Award of Excellence for their design of the new GO Roof, at Union Station, Toronto. One of Canada’s national historic sites, the station is currently undergoing renovations of the train shed roof covering the passenger platforms and tracks. As heritage consultant on the project, ERA worked with Zeidler Partnership and...

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Heritage and Democracy Workshop: Registration Now Open!

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Friday May 6 2016, 9am-5pm Heritage and Democracy: Bringing Heritage out of History and into the City $12 STUDENTS $15 MEMBERS $20 GENERAL All Jane’s Walks are free and open to the public Heritage and Democracy: Bringing Heritage out of History and into the City is a one-day workshop presented by ICOMOS Canadathe Canadian committee of the International...

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