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Charrette: Healthy Corner Stores

by ERA Architects

...their potential as local destinations and meeting places for a broader range of products and services through encouraging store expansion, and outdoor sales and display. These new projects are complemented by other initiatives promoted by THP, United Way, and the RAC Zone, including the Mobile Food Bus, a service that brings fresh produce to a number of neighbourhoods that otherwise...

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Heritage Toronto 2017 Award Nominations and Great Architectural Heritage Bus Tour

by ERA Architects

...of heritage building exploration through their Great Architectural Bus Tour, set to take place on September 9th from 10:00am – 3:00pm. The tour begins at 10-12 Market Street and will feature a selection of past Heritage Toronto Architectural Conservation and Craftsmanship Award recipients, including ERA projects: Don Jail, Imperial Plaza and the Distillery District. Tickets are currently on sale here....

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Concrete Toronto Music

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...and contemporary musicians get brutalist on iconic city buildings Sunday June 1 2-5pm Ontario Science Centre 770 Don Mills Rd *Free with admission to OSC Or purchase tickets: $20 regular/15$ member INCLUDING SCHOOL BUS RIDE from Music Gallery (meet at 12:45pm) Advance tickets available at: http://www.ticketweb.ca More info: http://www.musicgallery.org Presented by the Music Gallery as part of the soundaXis festival...

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Preparing for Toronto the Good party

by ERA Architects

...the inaugural event, we’ve added other partners like the Toronto Society of Architects, Wireless Toronto, and Heritage Toronto and made the event one of the most popular during the Festival of Architecture and Design held each May. The event has been hosted once at Fort York and three other times at the Fermenting Cellar in the Distillery District. We are...

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Project Updates

Celebrating community-led design with Gordonridge

by ERA Architects

...fresh air. Courtesy of MLSE. Photo: Neil Ta The Gordonridge Commmunity Multi-Sport Court demonstrates the power of investment in communities, allowing residents of all ages to gather, exercise, play and continue to build local support networks so vital to our thriving cities and neighbourhoods. MLSE Foundation has pulled together more great content, including the video above, over on their website....

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United Way AGM: Graeme Stewart’s Keynote Address

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On Thursday, June 21, ERA’s Graeme Stewart addressed United Way’s AGM as keynote speaker. In 2010, ERA and CUG+R published Tower Neighbourhood Renewal in the Greater Golden Horseshoe, which looks at a broad range of historical trends, planning issues, sustainability concerns, social needs, and opportunity for renewal in and around Toronto’s tower block neighbourhoods. In 2011, United Way published Vertical...

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The 34th Annual Heritage Toronto Awards

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We are pleased to announce that the Heritage Toronto Board has selected the following ERA projects as finalists in the upcoming 34th Annual Heritage Toronto Awards. Wesley Building at 299 Queen Street West (William Greer Architectural Conservation & Craftsmanship Award) Regal Road Public School Portico (William Greer Architectural Conservation & Craftsmanship Award) Concrete Toronto: A Guide Book to Concrete Architecture...

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34th Annual Heritage Toronto Awards

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...an Award of Excellence for the Wesley Building (299 Queen Street West). ERA also received an honourable mention for the Regal Road School Portico project. Concrete Toronto received an Award of Excellence in the book category. Scott Weir was honoured with an Award of Merit for his “What Lies Beneath” series, that was featured in the National Post, Post Homes....

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Community Engagement

Eat More Scarborough Food Tour 

by ERA Staff

...Alexis Cohen, who helped organize the trip. “It has many neighbourhoods, many areas, all of which have a cultural life. And, in the heritage field, it’s important to explore the neighbourhoods that might get less attention than the downtown core — to better understand and recognize the cultural heritage of these places.”  While Cohen says Scarborough’s lack of transit accessibility...

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Newfoundland field research (by guest blogger Kathryn Douthart)

by ERA Architects

...work: first, community engagement that goes well beyond a typical workshop or facilitated feedback session; second, the flexibility to look at both the physical artefacts of a community and the intangible heritage which shaped the area and will compliment its future development; and third, an understanding of the inter-relationship of physical forms, intangible resources, geographical setting, cultural and economic factors,...

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News & Events

Three New Principals and Expanding Leadership at ERA

by ERA Architects

...includes a focus on built heritage, commemoration, public history, social histories, and BIPOC and Indigenous contexts.  Adam is a designer and intern architect with a strong interest in materials, community, health and the natural environment.  His passion for architecture environmental science is complimented by intensive on-site experience and research in landscape restoration and contemporary, traditional, and natural building practices.   ...

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Attend Ryerson Planning Expo, March 23

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...Spearn, Chief Development Officer, Toronto Community Housing Corporation; City of Toronto Councillor Kristyn Wong-Tam, Michael Shapcott, Director of Affordable Housing and Social Innovation at the Wellesley Institute, and many others. Ryerson is making a number of tickets available to students from other institutions as well as members of the public. To attend, please register for the event. See you there!...

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