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Tafelmusik to revitalize home venue

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The Tafelmusik Baroque Orchestra and Chamber Choir has just announced a $3 million revitalization project to improve its home venue at Trinity-St Paul’s in Toronto. ERA Architects is pleased to be working with Tafelmusik to raise the standards of the venue and transform its acoustics. Trinity-St. Paul’s, designed by Edmund Burke and Henry Langley and completed in 1889, is a...

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A new look for ERAarch.ca

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We’re happy to share the new look for our website ERAarch.ca. Over the years, the range of work we’ve tackled and the expertise we’ve developed has expanded to the point where we felt our web site wasn’t properly reflecting what makes ERA unique. Over the course of the last year, we worked to refresh the look of the site and...

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Awards for Don Jail, Taylor House, and Gemini!

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On October 3, 2014, in Charlottetown, PEI, the Canadian Association of Heritage Professionals (CAHP) and Heritage Canada The National Trust (HCNT) announced their annual winners. ERA was privileged to work on three of the awarded projects. The Don Jail was awarded an HCNT Ecclesiastical Cornerstone Award for Adaptive Reuse. This award recognizes “projects that demonstrate excellence in the conservation of...

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United Way AGM: Graeme Stewart’s Keynote Address

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...Poverty, which focuses much-needed attention on poverty, equity, and quality-of-life issues experienced by residents of high-rise housing. We continue to work together with the City of Toronto and other partners to achieve positive change in Toronto’s hundreds of tower block communities through research, policy change, and real action. The kickstart this strategy, the Untied Way Toronto has announced $800,000 in...

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Allstream Centre _ restoration photographs

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A few very quick photographs from the restoration of the former Automotive Building north lobby. This part of the project included the removal of a number of unsympathetic modern additions, and a significant regrading of the original floor slope to accommodate contemporary universal accessibility requirements. Extensive metal work and finishes were also replicated or restored (including the amazing pendant light...

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299 Queen St. W

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In December of 2007 ERA completed the terracotta restoration of 299 Queen Street West, the home of Canada’s MuchMusic. Undertaken in four phases over five years, the project included new structural steel work, repair of the terracotta tiles, and the installation of new precast elements....

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After you left, they took it apart

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Buffalo photographer Chris Mottalini has produced an astoundingly beautiful and poignant set of images from now-demolished Paul Rudolph homes in Connecticut, Rhode Island, and Florida. The images speak for themselves: In Chris’ own words: My intent was to pay homage to Paul Rudolph and his work, as well as the more abstract and elusive qualities of architecture – decay, destruction,...

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Innovation and the public realm

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...provides an opportunity to support independent research, while bridging the gap between the knowledge and expertise of academia and the practical challenge planners and architects encounter. The program provides an opportunity for graduate students to work alongside a firm, in a way that provides mutual benefit to both parties. ERA is committed to nurturing expertise through research and experiential learning,...

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ERA at the Drake

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Toronto Life magazine this month features a little teaser article about the forthcoming expansion to the Drake Hotel, led by ERA. The project has just been officially announced, though we’ve been hard at work behind the scenes for a good long while. Watch this space for more information soon…...

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Michael McClelland on the Panel: Discussions on Art and Nature in Public Space

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...An Enduring Wilderness. These images celebrate Toronto’s urban wilderness as spaces of celebration and reward, entwined in a strategy for ‘maintaining and communicating their ecological and civic function’. The show was curated by Carla Garnet, is on until May 26th and open to the public at John B. Aird Gallery, 900 Bay Street as part of the Contact Photography Festival....

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Heritage Toronto – Poster Design Finalists

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If you missed seeing the Heritage Toronto 2008 Poster Design finalists at the Toronto the Good party you can view the work at the Urbanscape Architectural Gallery which is located at 2959 Dundas St.W The opening reception is this Friday June 20 from 6:00pm to 9:00pm...

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Toronto to Detroit

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...research like ERA’s weekend trip, we hope to begin to re-forge important cultural links between Toronto, Windsor, and Detroit. Thanks to Kim and Matt Clayson for welcoming us to their home, and to all the warm people of Detroit…. See you at d’Mongo’s! For more amazing photos from our Detroit trip, please see the work of our friend Arv Slabosevicius....

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