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University of Toronto: Landscape of Landmark Quality

...College Circle lawn. The HIA includes complex heritage policy review integrating the University’s current secondary plan update process. Through analysis of the site’s historic context and its patterns of use, circulation, and space, ERA’s assessment of the Landmark Project highlights the design strategy as a sensitive, contemporary response to the area’s role as a ceremonial landscape that predates the automobile....

Kingston Culture Plan

...organizations, City departments, and other stakeholders and community members. This work included significant stakeholder and community consultation, including one-on-one meetings, focus group meetings, and a series of public workshops. ERA’s role was to articulate a vision for conserving and engaging Kingston’s heritage assets, and to recommend policy direction for built heritage and cultural heritage landscapes. Our work included a review...

Victoria University in the University of Toronto

...independent land holdings. Victoria University’s lands encompass academic, administrative and residential spaces, as well as cultural, commercial and retail amenities for the city at large. Taken together, they are one of Toronto’s most prominent collections of buildings and landscape from every era since the late 19th century. The scope of ERA’s services included research, analysis, internal design and strategy, city...

Historic Camp

...dormer was introduced into the main space to bathe it in natural light and provide cross ventilation for summer cooling. The resulting improved and comfortable summer cottage takes better advantage of its setting and the scenic views from it. ERA also designed a nearby sleeping cabin (bunkie) that embraces long westerly views. This off-the-grid solar-powered compound incorporates all modern conveniences....

Grosse Pointe Estate

...had fallen victim to the foreclosure crisis of 2008 and was abandoned, stripped, and vandalized when, in 2015, our client purchased it with its significant deferred maintenance as well as the more willful damage. ERA was asked to provide architectural design services and conservation consultation to make the building better serve the needs of their family. This effort focused on...

Our Yukon Heritage Reserves: Management Priorities Report

...Rush industrial sites, and World War Two-era infrastructure projects. Over time, the Heritage Reserves have received varying levels of investment and management. In 2022, the Government of Yukon engaged ERA to study 16 Heritage Reserve sites, and develop a prioritization framework for their management moving forward. The project was delivered in three phases. The first phase consisted of information gathering,...

Barronsbrae visible atop the rocky crag and nestled among pines. Barronsbrae Cottage

...a stone fireplace, while making necessary modern improvements. The distinctive central gabled volume was stabilized and restored, and a new, more durable steel roof installed to better withstand Georgian Bay’s violent weather. The outer ring of adjacent rooms was rebuilt to stabilize the venerable wood and stone structure and provide more lofty modern spaces for contemporary lifestyles. The interior layout...

render of a brick single family house from the street South Rosedale Residence

This property is situated in Toronto’s historic South Rosedale Heritage Conservation District. ERA worked with the owner to design a replacement house that better complemented the streetscape, architectural forms and materiality of the neighbourhood. Taking important architectural cues from nearby Romanesque Revival and Queen Anne residences and carefully analyzing eaves lines, roof forms and fenestration, the architectural expression is a...

People Per Hectare

Density is one of the key tools currently used for planning cities. Architects, planners, and policy makers all use density as a calibration of the city. We want to make our cities better, more vital, more full of possibilities. As our cities change, we want to propose change intelligently. To change intelligently, we need to understand density. For the ERA...

Defining the Public Realm Plan

...“spine” of Lakeshore Blvd. and Kingston Rd., which together link communities and landscapes all the way from Etobicoke to Scarborough. The report concludes with a series of recommendations for integrating heritage and development along Toronto’s waterfront in service of a more vibrant, more valued, and better utilized cultural landscape and the lake. View a PDF of “Defining the Public Realm.”...

Consumer’s Gas Showroom

...renewal to accommodate a new full building tenant. The conservation work included the restoration of clad marble pilasters using photographic evidence, repair of exterior stone and the introduction of flashings to better protect the facade, repair of steel windows with doubled glazing added, repair of the feature clock mounted on the sculpture of an eagle facing Yonge street, double glazing...

Joy Oil Gas Station

...Part IV of the Ontario Heritage Act. It was built in a miniature chateau style, with distinctive circular tower and conical roof to create an easily recognizable corporate image. ERA prepared the station and service building for relocation from their original site to the south side of Lake Shore Boulevard for adaptive reuse to better serve the popular recreation area....