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The Suburbs
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...Jerome Markson, 1967 The remaining houses from this period of experimentation are in a variety of states of repair; some, such as the residence at 78 The Bridle Path are being renovated and given a new lease on life, while a small handful look as good today as they did when they were built. As the neighbourhood continues to evolve,...
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TCLF Presents, Second Wave of Modernism III: Leading with Landscape Conference
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...new models for public/private financing and management are emerging? Here is a look at the exciting Event Calendar! May 21, 5:00pm – 7:00pm – Opening Reception. Location: Gardiner Museum, 111 Queens Park. May 22, 8:30am – 5:00pm – Second Wave of Modernism III: Leading with Landscape conference. Location: Isabel Bader Theatre, 93 Charles St. W. May 22, 6:30pm – 11:00pm...
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We’re celebrating: June 7th at Fort York
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When: Thursday, June 7th, 6:30–11pm; Where: Fort York, Toronto; How much: Free Entry, Cash Bar Each year we get together with Toronto Society of Architects, Spacing Magazine, and other partners to hold our Toronto the Good event, a chance to mingle, chat, and compare notes about what has been and what will come to be. This year we return to...
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Collaborate with entropy
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...the long warehouse building, and these empty voids were then leased to artists and designers who were able to construct their own studios. The presentation concluded with a projection to one or two local sites of interest, a good discussion about the realistic potentials for these types of civic projects in our North American culture, and an identification of opportunities...
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Urban Governance: A Joint MITACS Project ( by guest blogger Jeff Biggar)
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...of Allan Gardens, as a local example, are working toward a new kind of partnership model with the city in order to fundraise and ultimately revitalize the heritage park through new capital and programming investments. In an era of decreased public spending, maximizing existing people and resources is a good place to start. The report calls on leaders to mobilize...
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Fundraiser for School in Kenya
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ERA Architects was recently pleased to sponsor an evening of drinks and hors d’oeuvres to raise funds for the construction of a school in Kenya. Alec Ring (from our office) and his colleague Karl Sarkis have volunteered a good portion of their time over the last four years to design, fund-raise for, and construct Oleleshwa Primary School through the...
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Heritage Masonry with Dr. Gerard Lynch, May 13 to 22
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Masons, heritage professionals, architects, historians, and all interested parties: We invite you to join us for a new installment of Dr. Gerard Lynch’s extraordinary courses in brickwork, May 13 to 22 at Evergreen Brickworks, Toronto. Learn from scholar and master mason Gerard Lynch about traditional limes and mortars, traditional binders, historical forms of pointing and jointing, causes of failure in...
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Public space: Two from our library
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...Press, 2013 Gehl and Svarre work at the Danish firm Gehl Architects / Urban Quality consultants. Beginning in 1960s, Gehl was looking for a way to understand cities at the human scale, by observing people’s activities empirically rather than making assumptions about “good design.” This book presents an interdisciplinary approach to the study of the interaction of people and urban...
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Repurposed junk: A chicken coop
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“To invent, you need a good imagination and a pile of junk” –Thomas Edison. One thing that attracted us to rural living was a sort of environmental frugality: You try to figure out how to accomplish what needs doing with what you’ve managed to save. (This notion applies to the practice of heritage conservation as well.) Hoarding is admittedly easier...
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Brick work
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...differences between the 1860’s style and 1880’s style. They also demonstrated typical kinds of deterioration to clay bricks, different mortar mixes of the era, what sandblasted brick looks like, how to recognize step cracks, the different stages of spalling, etc. A good primer for new employees, and a great way to pass along years of experience in a hands-on setting....
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Uncovering the potential of Toronto’s laneways
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...former carriage house in historic Toronto. It’s a prime example of the kinds of opportunities available to reimagine and restore heritage elements in HCDs. Photo: Andrew Snow Photography. Distilling the essential built form of coach houses may be a good starting point for designing laneway housing in Toronto’s historic neighbourhoods. “Laneway Suites” says City of Toronto planner Graig Uens, “allow...
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Peter Dickinson
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The O’Keefe Centre for Performing Arts, 1960. In the vein of raising awareness for Toronto’s modernist legacy, BlogTO has a good little feature on Peter Dickinson (1925-1961) inspired by the recent monograph authoured by John Martins-Manteiga and published by Dominion Modern. Born in England and educated at the AA, Dickinson immigrated to Canada in 1950. He immediately began working with...
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