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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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Innovation and the public realm

by ERA Architects

...the City of Toronto to create a connected public realm surrounding key cultural institutions and landscapes in the city. These include the “Cultural Institutions in the Public Realm,” “Defining the Public Realm: Waterfront Culture and Heritage Infrastructure Plan,” and “Growing Opportunities: Investing in, revitalizing, and sustaining Allan Gardens“ reports. Coming soon: The full final report and research highlights. Stay tuned…...

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Illustration as a tool of clarity: Q&A with Daniel Rotsztain 

by Alessandro Tersigni, writer & researcher

...ERA collaborator Brendan Stewart since 2018.   ERA writer-researcher Alessandro Tersigni chatted with Daniel about illustration as a form of visual commentary, conserving heritage uses, and the complexities of Toronto’s suburbs.   Alessandro Tersigni: Why do you think illustration is important at a place like ERA and how will you channel that as Artist-in-Residence?  Daniel Rotsztain: A clear diagram or illustration has...

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Certificate of Merit for Urban Design Plans

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...from Quadrangle Architects, the Urban Marketing Collaborative, and ERA Architects. The document identifies policy-based opportunities to re-urbanize Toronto’s avenues in the pursuit of well-designed, vibrant neighbourhoods. The National Urban Design Awards are administered by Architecture Canada RAIC, the Canadian Institute of Planners, and the Canadian Society of Landscape Architects. Thanks to all of the above and congratulations to our colleagues....

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Royal Victoria Hospital, circa 1917, showing the entry procession and multiple buildings up the incline of Mount Royal.
Project Updates

A New Life for the Former Royal Victoria Hospital in Montréal

by ERA Architects

...Canada.   (photo: James Brittain) Following the relocation of the McGill University Health Centre (MUHC) to the Glen site in 2015, the Royal Victoria Hospital lost almost all its functions and has been sitting mostly vacant since. In 2018, the Quebec government mandated the Société québécoise des infrastructures (SQI) to lead the adaptive re-use initiative for the complex. The latter has...

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125th Anniversary of the John H. Daniels Faculty of Architecture, Landscape and Design at U of T

by ERA Architects

...– Eric Arthur Gallery Exhibition. Location: Architecture Building, 230 College St. *Note: the exhibition will run until mid-September. May 30, 11:00am – 5:00pm – Dialogues with a panel discussion including ERA’s Michael McClelland and moderator Graeme Stewart. Location: Architecture Building, 230 College St. May 30, 6:30pm – 9:00pm – Alumni Reception. Location: Royal Ontario Museum, 100 Queen’s Park. *Note: RSVP...

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ERA’s Graeme Stewart and Ya’el Santopinto named to the RAIC’s College of Fellows

by ERA Architects

ERA is thrilled to announce that Graeme Stewart and Ya’el Santopinto have been named to the Royal Architectural Institute of Canada (RAIC)’s College of Fellows. This well-deserved honour is in recognition of outstanding achievement in architecture, and distinguished service to the profession and community. From the RAIC’s citations: Graeme’s career to date has largely focused on a single issue facing...

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Community Engagement

Eat More Scarborough Food Tour 

by ERA Staff

Scarborough has long been a landing place for newcomers to Toronto. People from all over the world come to this sprawling borough to get a foothold and find community in a new megacity — often far from home in every sense of the word.  One of the ways people find that foothold and community is through food: it’s a way...

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Workshopping Ideas for the Upcoming Bell Island Build

by ERA Architects

...than 40 years after the last mine on the island closed. Miners aboard the man tram. Photo from Bell Island Mining History. CoO’s Community Builds allow us to work with the community to explore and express the adaptive reuse of cultural heritage through architectural design. Through this, we not only bring together small communities across Canada, but architectural communities as...

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Parkwood in the news

by ERA Architects

Dave LeBlanc has an excellent article in the Globe and Mail today about one of our favorite projects, the Parkwood National Historic Site. Parkwood National Historic Site was built in 1916 as the home of the late R. S. McLaughlin, founder of General Motors Canada. The building, designed by prominent Toronto architects Darling and Pearson, now serves as a historic...

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Metro Morning on Tower Renewal

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Matt Galloway with Priti from the NBF’s HIGHRISE, Image Courtesy of the National Film Board of Canada This week CBC’s Metro Morning is taking to the Kipling strip north of Finch to talk tower renewal, in an area of aging concrete towers that were typical all across Toronto during the early 1950s and ’60s. On Wednesday, February 15th Graeme Stewart...

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