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TALLINN–TORONTO: The Influence of Estonian Modernism in Shaping Toronto
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...(and protected heritage properties), Jarmo began to explore the link between Estonian trained architects and the building of modern Toronto. Through a series of study tours, he quickly realized that the connection went well beyond Prii and that an entire generation of Estonian emigres practiced, taught, and transformed Toronto. The opening of the exhibition at the Museum of Estonian Architecture...
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2008 Canadian Architect Award of Excellence
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Canadian Architect announced the winners of the 2008 Awards of Excellence. Congratulations goes out to Stantec Architecture and Kuwabara Payne McKenna Blumberg Architects who were the Architects in Joint Venture for Bridgepoint Health. ERA is proud to be part of the design team as heritage consultants....
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North York’s Modernist Favourites, Volume Two.
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...embrace the incoming car – a move reminiscent of the ground level of Le Corbusier’s Villa Savoye. A dark wood roof tilts up to the North, forming clerestory windows that allow light to filter into the building. The rear wall of the house is all glass, opening up to the golf course behind. The house currently has no heritage designation....
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‘Big River Landscape’ wins the National Capital Commission’s Nepean Point Redevelopment design competition
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...space for all peoples. ERA’s team includes: Michael McClelland, Victoria Angel and Brendan Stewart, and as a sub to ERA: Lisa Prosper Heritage Consultant. More from theNational Capital Commission on the ‘Big River Landscape’ scheme: http://ncc-ccn.gc.ca/our-projects/nepean-point-redevelopment/big-river-landscape NCC website announcement: http://ncc-ccn.gc.ca/our-projects/nepean-point-redevelopment Youtube Video of the NCC Public Board of Directors Meeting: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UV_Th_HDRcE – t=01h52m32s Ottawa Citizen article: http://ottawacitizen.com/news/local-news/nepean-point-winner-announced-milestone-meeting-on-lebreton-flats-expected-january CBC Coverage: http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/ottawa/nepean-point-redesign-big-river-landscape-redevelopment-1.4415946...
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Job Shadowing: Architectural Conservancy of Ontario
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...took part in our end-of-week office social. ERA’s Gill Haley goes through a working drawing set with Waterloo Planning student Amy Calder. Special thanks to the ACO NextGen and Amy Barnes for organizing the 2014 Job Shadowing event. It is a wonderful way to support young people in the heritage industry and we feel very privileged to be apart of...
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Big Cities in a ‘small’ Context
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...Princeton University’s Frank and Deborah Popper to discuss with their land-use planning students how Canadian cities address population growth. This conversation prioritizes the sustainability of communities by rooting development in the broader cultural heritage context: recognizing the diversity of people, places and lifestyles which have both shaped and responded to the growth of buildings, streetscapes and communities. The role of...
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ERA wins a PUG Award!
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ERA, in association with Rounthwaite Dick Hadley Architects, Shoalts and Zaback Architects recieved the Paul Oberman Award for Adaptive Reuse and Heritage Restoration, in the commercial category. The PUG Awards, this year in their 7th edition, are the people’s choice awards for architecture in Toronto. For more on the Bloor Gladstone Library, please click here....
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Botwood build: complete
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As part of the Culture of Outports initiative, Andrew Pruss, Alana Young, Jordan Molnar, and Shelley Ludman recently collaborated with six Ryerson architecture students and residents of Botwood, Nfld. to design and build an intervention in the local landscape. The “Viewfinder” is a wood-frame, open-plank pavilion that serves as a shade structure, windbreak, and a frame for significant heritage views...
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Lang Tannery wins not one but two awards!
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ERA was awarded the City of Kitchener Mike Wagner Heritage Award, in the rehabilitation & Adaptive Reuse category for the Lang Tannery Project, shared with Cadan, RAW Design and WalterFedy. Lang Tannery was also awarded a Canadian Urban Institute Brownie Award for the Best Overall Project. see more about the project here...
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More on Found Toronto exhibit
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ERA’s exhibit down at the Harbourfront Centre received some attention recently in the National Post, a mention on Spacing’s blog by Heritage Toronto’s Gary Miedema, and on the blog Her*itage and His*tory. We thought it would be a good time to give readers of the ERA Office Blog a little more background on the exhibit and show off some photos....
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TORONTO – NEW YORK: Design by Example
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...York on Toronto’s modern heritage and Tower Renewal. The panel discussion took place at the Centre for Architecture in as part of a series designed to share ideas and best practices between Toronto and New York. Also on the panel were Leo deSorcy (City of Toronto) and Derek Ballantyne. When: 6:00 PM – 8:00 PM MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 26, 2016 Where:...
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North York Modern in the Standard
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The Toronto Standard discusses North York’s emergence as a modernist heritage hub. Please also have a look at the full publication of ‘North York’s Modernist Architecture Revisited‘, produced by ERA last year....
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