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Bridgepoint wins two PUGs

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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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Landscape symposium: Toronto 2015

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During a visit to Toronto this May, Charles Birnbaum, founder of The Cultural Landscape Foundation (TCLF), announced that his organization will be holding a 2015 landscape architecture symposium in Toronto. Set just prior to the Toronto Pan Am Games of 2015, the symposium is perfectly timed to coincide with the completion of several new landscape projects in the city. It...

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2006 CUI Brownie Awards

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Congratulations to Evergreen at the Brick Works, this year’s recipient of the Heritage and Adaptive Re-use Brownie Award from the Canadian Urban Institute....

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New Approaches to Old Housing

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...actually exploring the nuts and bolts of land-use planning, building codes, zoning, taxation and other barriers that have made Tower Renewal effective,” adds Santopinto. Featured as one of the books designers should read in 2019, we are thrilled to have been included in Architectural Design Magazine’s “Housing as Intervention” Issue 4, Volume 88. Guest post by Andrew Cohrs for the Tower Renewal Partnership....

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ERA leads the conversation of digital transformation at the Beijing Urban and Architecture Biennale

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...Urban Renewal: BIM and Adaptive Reuse online forum organized by the Beijing Institute of Architectural Design. Curated and hosted by two architects in New York and in Beijing, the 3 hour, highly condensed international panel discussion brought over 1100 international online participants to investigate the relationship between BIM and adaptive reuse projects. Six internationally renowned architectural practices from four different...

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Evergreen Brickworks wins CNU Charter Award

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Evergreen Brick Works was just honoured with a 2013 Congress for New Urbanism (CNU) Charter Award, announced May 29 in Salt Lake City. ERA has been working on this project for several years with project partners including Evergreen, architectsAlliance, DTAH, Diamond Schmitt, and Claude Cormier + Associés, among others. Jurors praised the project for its innovative reuse of a challenging...

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Cambium Farms barn and silo

Historic farmsteads drive a new rural cultural economy

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...wanted to push their site’s potential beyond a seasonal single use. In order to serve a larger market, and draw a variety of users, they needed to upgrade a few key aspects of the site. ERA considered how we could achieve the programmatic upgrades required while conserving and capitalizing on the cultural heritage value of the existing farmstead configuration. Two...

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Repurposed junk: A chicken coop

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...here than it was in the city: Now we have the garage, the barn, the shed, the back of the lot…. But the idea of turning waste into usefulness (central to the practice of farming as we see it) percolates into all manner of rural living, and provides a close and satisfying connection to our practice, whether working in the...

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Heritage Toronto Awards Announced

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...years or more. The jury considers such things as the quality of craftsmanship, appropriateness of materials, and the use of sound conservation principles, as well as how well the project meets current needs while maintaining the integrity of the original design vision. Award of Excellence: Little Trinity Church Annex, 403 King Street East (LARGE PROJECT) Commissioned by: Little Trinity Anglican...

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Accessibility & Heritage Conservation

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...a small sliver of the stairs remains, which creates an ongoing dialogue on improving accessibility. After reviewing these ERA projects, the students got the chance to apply their knowledge. They conducted their own accessibility audits and conservation assessments on the two historic sites and will use this information to produce a feasibility report as their final project. This hands-on learning...

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ERA Celebrates Project Wins at the 2016 Heritage Toronto Awards Ceremony

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...be a part of four awarded recipient teams and two honourable mentions. The following projects were recognized: Award of Excellence: The Ward: The Life and Loss of Toronto’s First Immigrant Neighbourhood Editors: John Lorinc, Michael McClelland, Ellen Scheinberg & Tatum Taylor Publisher: Coach House Books Award of Excellence: The Don Jail Commissioned by: Bridgepoint Active Healthcare Planning, Design and Compliance...

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ACO NextGen Charrette on Mill St.

by Shannon Clayton

...thinc design. The winning team demonstrated a comprehensive approach that utilized the various skillsets of the team members. The open space incorporated a pedestrian path along the historic rail line to connect to surrounding pedestrian and park networks. The scheme also involved the adaptive reuse of the existing heritage building to a market and exhibition space at grade, with artist...

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