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Sheguiandah First Nation Community Court

...brings together basketball play, new skateboarding ramps, landscape-integrated seating, a fire pit zone, lighting and native plantings. Led by ERA Architects as the Landscape Architect, this dynamic project organized play for all ages and abilities in an integrated landscape right at the centre of the community’s residential zone. The project was in partnership with the Sheguiandah First Nation, MLSE Foundation,...

Art Gallery of Ontario

...West, a composed collage of architectural styles and talent representative of Toronto’s growth and evolution since 1818. It is a part of a cultural community that includes Grange Park, the Ontario College of Art (OCAD) and many local art galleries. ERA worked with Frank Gehry Architects as the Heritage Consultant for the 2002-2009 renovations and expansion of the gallery. http://www.ago.net/...

R.C. Harris Filtration Plant

The R.C. Harris Filtration Plant is a fine example of Depression era public works project at a grand scale. In 1998, these Art Deco buildings, set amidst terraced lawns overlooking Lake Ontario, were designated as a National Historic Civil Engineering Site. E.R.A. was commissioned to develop Heritage Guildelines for future interventions and Heritage Assessment documents as part of a Class...

Windsor Armouries

...well as music, sculpture, photography, painting and drawing studios. Students also have access to multi-use seminar and break-out rooms. For performances, a music hall that seats 140 has been added. Students that would have been previously segregated by discipline now share a multidisciplinary and multipurpose open space. The project serves as an excellent example of adaptive reuse and rehabilitation of...

The Tower Renewal Project

...housing, and urgently needs strategies for rehabilitation and renewal. (Read more about Tower Renewal here: Posted with permission of the publisher of NRU Publishing Inc. Original article first appeared in Novae Res Urbis – Toronto, Vol. 25, No. 29, Friday, July 23, 2021) Since 2007, ERA has been the lead initiator of Tower Renewal. In 2009, ERA formed the Centre...

Sisters of St. Joseph: Taylor House

This building, sited on the east bank of Toronto’s Don River, was constructed in 1885 for John F. Taylor, founder of the Don Valley Brick Works. The building was designed in the Queen Anne style by architect D.B. Dick, and is constructed from local brick on a stone base. Over many years of use, the building had undergone many additions...

View of the entrance to Lawrence Orton apartment Lawrence-Orton

Toronto Community Housing’s Lawrence Orton campus is a 336-unit complex completed in 1969, which houses more than 1,000 residents. It was selected by TCHC for their landmark ‘ReSet’ program which directs comprehensive capital repair and social reinvestment at a campus scale to revitalize the most challenged sites in their portfolio. Since 2014, ERA Architects, in joint venture with SvN Architects...

Dragon Centre Stories

...that sprung up in the Agincourt area in the following years. In October 2019, in anticipation of the mall’s redevelopment, a group of collaborators hosted a commemoration and story-sharing event at the mall. Over 100 people came to remember, honour, and process the pending loss of Dragon Centre and its place in Scarborough’s history. Collaborators included Howard Tam of ThinkFresh...

Stories

People per Hectare _ Installation Documentation

by ERA Architects

...2. 41.5 ppl/ha 1222 people in 29.4 hectares. Don Mills _ Toronto, Canada 3. 43 ppl/ha 2395 people in 56 hectares. Downtown _ St Johns, Canada 4. 79 ppl/ha 4036 people in 51.29 hectares. Wicker Park _ Chicago, USA 5. 84 ppl/ha 2024 people in 24 hectares. Nieuw Sloten_ Amsterdam, The Nederlands 6. 107.4 ppl/ha 5525 people in 51 hectares....

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Flashback Friday: A Jane’s Walk Down Memory Lane

by ERA Architects

...where she first lived when arrived to Toronto, while Dan shared facts and figures about these Toronto sites. Matters of the heart and matters of the city were explored as the Eylons hit up friends’ houses, cafés, and city streets around Clinton Street. Image via JanesWalk.org Jasmine Frolick: Drag Kings In 2014, ERA’s Jasmine Frolick and friend Robyn Visheau teamed...

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The Brick Works _ from academia to practice

by ERA Architects

...was exhausted. Owing to the initiative of Evergreen, the re-imagined complex has now become a vehicle for the propagation of sustainable ideas. Clay is no longer the resource. The Brick Works site itself has become the resource; an amazing landscape and raw space full of opportunity. ERA has been working on the Evergreen Brick Works project for over a decade...

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Creative Space & Urban Stone: Public Talk

by ERA Architects

...and extend the conversation, relating these findings, challenges and opportunities to urban spaces in Toronto and Canada. Report here: https://www.wcmt.org.uk/fellows/reports/creative-space-contemporary-use-stone-urban-spaces A public talk by David F Wilson (UK) in conversation with Brendan Stewart (University of Guelph), co-hosted with the Dry Stone Walling Association of Canada (Dry Stone Canada). REGISTER HERE VIA EVENTBRITE Doors at 6:30pm, Talk begins 7:00pm 625 Church...

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