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Ghost wall: casting a heritage façade in concrete
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...final product in glass-fibre reinforced concrete, or GFRC. Segments in storage Mould-making of masonry Silicon mould Gypsum test The final product: GFRC GFRC is light, strong, and renders a high level of detail, showing even the pores and marks of age in the bricks. The new wall will be monochromatic and slightly lighter in tone than the heritage masonry. It...
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Toronto the Good: Great!
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Toronto the Good 2014, our tenth annual public party, was a big success. We had attendance exceeding 1000 people, and, according to accounts, a good time was had by all. Beer and wine flowed, music spun, people danced, and a great deal of urban-minded mingling occurred. ERA has been privileged to host and co-host this party over the years at...
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Breaking down barriers in the landscape: Q&A with Brendan Stewart
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...fascinated by all of them, and the future practice is going to be transdisciplinary. But those challenges exist at a systems-oriented scale that’s encompassed most comprehensively by landscape. That’s what defines landscape: it’s dynamic and four-dimensional. If you’re serious about tackling these big problems, you inevitably arrive at, “Oh, it’s actually a landscape problem and it requires a landscape solution.”...
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ERA in Buffalo
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...Terminal (1977), Cannon Design Inc., an interesting sculptural form. Lafayette Hotel (1904), French Renaissance Style, red brick and glazed terra cotta exterior. Designed by Louise Blanchard Bethune, the first professional female architect in the US. Frank Lloyd Wright’s Martin House Complex (1906), a stunning and early example of the prairie house style. Wood frame and masonry construction faced in Roman...
Read MoreVertical Poverty
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...the United Way Vertical Poverty report as peer reviewer. Similarly, the tower research team at the United Way was a peer reviewer for ERA and planningAlliance’s recent study. Visit the Vertical Poverty website, where you can download the full report and/or the executive summary in PDF format. Read the summary articles in the Globe and Mail, and the Toronto Star....
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Alan Dudeck joins us for a chat
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...revitalize, rather then replace, older buildings. This work was reinforced by the writings of columnists, academics, and advocates such as Jane Jacobs and John Sewell, people who advocated for new, creative and community-based city building. Following this presentation, we all discussed how today’s context compares to the reform period of the 1970s. Alan suggested there is still a need to...
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Dressing The Webster
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...and in relatively poor condition when ERA was brought on to the project,” says Project Manager Emily Collins. “The first step ERA took with the owner was to obtain heritage approval for a restoration scope, including extensive brick remediation. Following this, ERA worked closely with the owners to review and provide input on all exterior alterations proposed to accommodate the...
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ERA leads the conversation of digital transformation at the Beijing Urban and Architecture Biennale
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...team successfully reduced the building’s energy consumption by 70% and greenhouse gas emissions by 94% through design. If you’d like to read a more academic approach to the subject, S. Fai and M. Sydor, “Building Information Modelling and the documentation of architectural heritage: Between the ‘typical’ and the ‘specific’,” 2013 Digital Heritage International Congress (DigitalHeritage), 2013, pp. 731-734, doi: 10.1109/DigitalHeritage.2013.6743828....
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Transformative potential of Tower Renewal: Globe & Mail
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Alex Bozikovic, Toronto-based writer on architecture and design, recently provided an update on Tower Renewal efforts in the GTA. The article describes the uniquely Canadian and Torontonian inventory of high-rise post-war tower apartment neighbourhoods, and recent efforts by local architects, not-for-profits, and city departments to rethink these neighbourhoods. With aging buildings in need of maintenance and energy efficiency upgrades, and...
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Historic farmsteads drive a new rural cultural economy
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...community need. ERA has had the opportunity to work closely with a number of these farmsteads and their owners in recent years. These property owners are looking for innovative adaptive reuse opportunities to help catalyze their local cultural economy by leveraging their heritage asset. ERA engages with these projects using the framework of the Historic Ontario Farmstead. The Historic Ontario...
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The Broadview Hotel’s terracotta panels have a story to tell
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...Medina shale was available. The main product was pressed brick. Moulded and ornamental bricks, roofing tiles and terra cotta were considered a specialty. In 1906 the company was bought by Charles Lewis. He and his brothers focused on fine terra cotta works, the only large company in Canada to do so. Many office buildings and private residences were adorned with...
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Dave LeBlanc for The Globe and Mail: The tower that once topped Toronto shines again
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...8 King East. The building literally glows. “With the shiny windows and the creamy terracotta, it does look like opening day in 1915,” Mr. McGillivray says. “It looks crackin’ from the street,” Mr. Lewis says. When workers return after COVID-19 is done, Mr. Rowe says, they’ll surely do a double take: “What is this building, I’ve never seen it before!”...
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