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Eglinton Crosstown Study

...a team that includes Brook McIlroy, planningAlliance, and Public Work, among others, in planning and designing the corridor as it prepares to be transformed. For its part, ERA has examined Eglinton’s historical growth, its diverse neighbourhoods, and its unique urban forms, in order to make recommendations on how the corridor’s heritage can inform positive growth and evolution for its future....

Yonge and Charles (Shoppers Drug Mart)

Rehabilitated and updated for its continued commercial use, the Shoppers Drug Mart building at Yonge and Charles Streets combines a new timber structure with a renewed and rehabilitated heritage façade. The original Barron’s Grocery building has long been part of an established commercial area in central downtown Toronto. Designed by G.W. Gouinlock for grocer Robert Barron in 1889, the original...

A view at night under the Macdonald Block buildings at 900 Bay St. Macdonald Block

...the development of rehabilitation details. ERA then developed a series of comprehensive performance specifications to form the basis of design for a design-build team selection process in order to be executed under the Alternative Delivery Model. ERA will continue its role during the implementation phase through compliance review over the coming years. Learn more about the project from Infrastructure Ontario...

Bloor Gladstone Library

The Chapman & McGiffin designed public library, formerly known as the Dovercourt Branch, was opened in 1913 and renamed the Bloor and Gladstone Public Library in 1938. It was intended to serve a community at Bloor Street and Dovercourt Road and was the first Toronto Public Library branch to be entirely financed by the City of Toronto. The building was...

University of Toronto Scarborough Campus map University of Toronto: Scarborough Campus

In 2015, a new Secondary Plan was developed for the University of Toronto Scarborough Campus. As a sub-consultant on the planning team led by Urban Strategies, ERA undertook a Cultural Heritage Resource Assessment in order to identify and assess cultural heritage resources, including the buildings, views and open spaces, in accordance with the Ontario Heritage Act. Based on a comprehensive...

Caledon Log Cabin Restoration

...of the building and provide a new habitable basement level. The logs were then reassembled in their original order with new windows and modern chinking refilling the gaps between. The interior was fitted out with modern and chic finishes, a new fireplace, and a second floor loft. ERA collaborated with Mazen Studio on the interior architecture. The work was overseen...

Morden House Captain G.E. Morden House

...windows that are a centrepiece of the structure’s principal facade. The building underwent many changes over the decades, including an expanded building footprint with a two-and-a-half storey rear addition, a large sunroom, a wrap-around front porch and a wood-framed guest house. ERA’s involvement began with identifying the original structure, and subsequently describing the removal of all later additions in order...

Paradise Theatre

...the inspired interior led by Solid Design, is a testament to the level of commitment the project team had to celebrating the original building and its heritage attributes. Ernesto DiStefano Thanks to its careful conservation, and inclusive and accessible programming, Paradise is once again a space for the community to gather and celebrate. For more about Paradise visit paradiseonbloor.com  ...

Sheguiandah First Nation Community Court

...the NBA and the Toronto Raptors. https://www.eraarch.ca/wp-content/uploads/2023/10/2.mp4   Through ERA’s unique collaborative design approach, ERA worked with local youth leaders to develop a court design that meets the needs of the community while reflecting the values and unique identity of the Sheguiandah First Nation. This included assisting the community through an artist selection process that brought Anishinaabe artist Emily Kewageshing...

Imperial Plaza

...on the ground floor. The entrance hall remains publicly accessible during business hours, and visible at all hours. Alterations to the building were completed using materials and finishes to match existing, so that changes in appearance are minimal and subtle when viewed from the street and comply with the Standards and Guidelines for the Conservation of Historic Places in Canada....

8 King Street East

Following the Great Fire of 1904, the intersection of King and Yonge streets became the site of Toronto’s first modern skyscraper ensemble – a collection of buildings which inalterably changed the skyline and image of the city. With the CPR building (south-east corner) completed 1913, and the Dominion Building (south-west corner) completed 1914, the Royal Bank of Canada (north-east corner)...

Hamilton Museum of Steam & Technology

...Ontario Heritage Trust Easement Agreement. It was the first water pumping station for the City of Hamilton and it remains the most significant group of pre-Confederation pumphouse buildings in Canada. ERA directed conservation work to three of the buildings, including restoration of building 1913’s steel windows and the 45 metre smoke stack, redesigned the exhibit layout in the boiler house...