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Oleleshwa Primary School, Ewaso Ngiro, Kenya
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...grounds. Feedback on the design portion of the presentation focused on two key areas of the project, the first being the constructability of the proposed classrooms, and the second being how to respectfully integrate the new site plan and building into the existing and lost cultural heritage of the Maasai people. Site terrain. The primary school project is to be...
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St. Lawrence Market North Building Design Competition
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Congratulations to Adamson Associates Architects and Rogers Stirk Harbour + Partners on winning the St. Lawrence North Market Design Competition, announced by the City of Toronto on June 7th, 2010. ERA had the pleasure of advising the team on heritage issues. For more information, visit: City of Toronto St. Lawrence Market North Building Design Competition...
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Don Valley Brick Works
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...of their Building Restoration Technician Program. Professor John Jensen, an experienced heritage mason, provided us with a hands-on demonstration of various types of mortar batching including: lime putty and sand; hydrated lime, sand and water; and a pre-bagged Dubois mix which has hydraulic lime. Each mortar has it’s own unique characteristics, and we were able to explore each in turn....
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Ontario Place: Possible futures
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...amount of parkland and bring year-round use to this site, featuring opportunities to “live, work, and play.” Many of the ideas in the report have great potential, including a recommendation to respect the architecture of the famous Cinesphere and “pods.” ERA supports this position and wishes to advocate further for a detailed heritage assessment of all site architecture and landscaping....
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CIP award to Tower Renewal
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...Apartment Neighbourhoods to allow for new investment and new uses in these areas throughout the city, as well as a process of strategic community investment. The Tower Neighbourhood Renewal initiative has also been recognized with a Canadian Association of Heritage Practitioners Award of Excellence, a Toronto Urban Design Award of Excellence, and a National Urban Design Award for Sustainable Development....
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Undoing the Gardens
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...sports complex. ERA is involved as the Heritage Architect for the project; consulting throughout the schematic- and design-development processes, and we will soon begin restoring the exterior masonry envelope. update: The large vertical windows on the north and south elevations have now been unblocked (for the first time in ~70 years), and interior demolition is nearing completion. All photographs by...
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Silo 5 in Old Montreal
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This summer and fall, as part of Heritage Montreal’s Architectours program, ERA’s Jan Kubanek presented four walking tours of Silo 5, a monumental grain elevator complex at the mouth of the Lachine Canal in Old Montreal. The Silo 5 complex encompasses three separate buildings: Elevator B, dating to 1906 and built of steel plates; the Old Annex, built of reinforced...
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Canadian Architect Award of Excellence awarded to the New Vic transformation project at McGill University
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ERA is excited to announce that the New Vic transformation project at McGill University in Montreal was awarded a 2023 Canadian Architect Award of Excellence! As heritage architect on the project, ERA has been working with Diamond Schmitt and Lemay Michaud to restore and adapt the 130-year-old former Royal Victoria Hospital building into a state-of-the-art education and research centre specializing...
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North York’s Modernist Architecture Forum
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...the importance of modernist buildings, and many that were featured found their way onto the City’s Inventory of Heritage Properties. The updated document – available exclusively at the forum – will include the original in addition to new essays by the featured panelists and current photographs of a number of these buildings. Tuesday, October 27th 2009 Council Chamber, North York...
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The Settler’s Dream
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...originally a peninsula, only gaining island status with the construction of the Murray Canal in the late 1880s, fully 100 years after settlement by United Empire Loyalists, mercenaries, and other immigrants from (predominantly) the United States, Germany, and the Netherlands. The information above was taken from The Settler’s Dream, the local authority on the built heritage of the County. To...
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Concrete Toronto on spacing.ca
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...and journalists. A number of Concrete Toronto articles will be republished as an online supplement to Spacing Magazine’s summer issue “Toronto Modernism: Stop the Hate!” The magazine advocates taking a closer look at our modernist heritage, and asks that we reevaluate and learn to take care of it as our city matures. To view this series, go to spacing.ca. To...
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We’re celebrating: June 7th at Fort York
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...Willowbank, and Senior Heritage Planner, ERA; Josh Thorpe MVS, Communication Manager; and Julie Tyndorf BURPl, Planner. We also have several professional development successes to announce: Joey Giaimo is now a licensed Architect, having received his seal at the beginning of 2012; and Brendan Stewart is now a licensed Landscape Architect, having received his seal at the end of 2011. Amy...
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