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Projects

GoodLot Farmstead Brewing Co.

...from the exterior. Given the barn’s proximity to the road and farmhouse, this was a driving principle for our design work. Most recently, ERA was re-engaged to work with the owners to convert the drive shed into a year-round bottle shop and tasting room — the Oast Barn. Supporting the owners’ eco-forward vision, ERA provided architectural consulting services, coordinating with...

Canada Malting Silo

...closed in 1987 and the property has remained vacant since that time. Currently, the silos are in a state of advanced deterioration requiring remediation and repairs to the concrete structure. It was also determined that the eastern seawall adjacent to the Canada Malting Co. complex was in need of structural remediation. The work on the seawall was completed in 2010....

La Cour d’appel du Québec (Quebec Court of Appeals)

This monumental building in Old Montreal, completed in 1926, was designed by Ernest Cormier, Louis-Auguste Amos, and Charles J. Saxe. Cormier, known for his fine design work and decidedly modern approach to architecture, also designed l’Université de Montréal; St. Michael’s College School, Toronto; the Supreme Court of Canada, Ottawa; and Cormier House, which served fo several years as the Montreal...

Consumer’s Gas Showroom

...framed with steel and cast iron. The building is designated under part IV of the Ontario Heritage Act. The art deco influenced architecture is exceptional for its use of materials and decorative detailing. Dolphin also designed the Postal Delivery Building, which is now the Air Canada Centre. ERA developed a scope of conservation work in conjunction with the owners interior...

View of the entrance to Lawrence Orton apartment Lawrence-Orton

...project includes a new 54-child daycare and adjacent site works to create safer, more inclusive spaces around the tower. Slated for completion by the end of 2019, phase two will bring a state-of-the-art facility to the campus. In the final forthcoming phase of work, the community courtyard and facing community facilities will be reinvisioned and expanded and 100 units of...

Mouth of the Creek Park

...Toronto Public Library, as well as new housing and a public park. ERA is collaborating with Public Work to design a hub of community connectivity that provides amenity to the emerging City Place neighbourhood, extends the cultural landscape of Fort York National Historic Site, and makes legible one of Toronto’s most important heritage landscapes. Renderings are courtesy of PUBLIC WORK....

Wesley Building, CityTV/CTV

...tile exterior. This work involved extensive on-site building analysis and documentation connected to digital schedules to provide a long-term maintenance plan. This phased project was completed over five years. ERA continues to provide consulting services for heritage work. The building was formerly home to CityTV, MuchMusic, and Speaker’s Corner. It is now owned and operated by CTV and Bell Media....

51 Division – Police Headquarters

...building intersect and work together in a “long life, low energy, loose fit” approach to both heritage and sustainability. While the new building meets current energy efficiency standards, the heritage fabric is only partially heated and cooled. This strategy conserves energy and protects the historic masonry, which is left exposed, retaining the site’s historic industrial appearance. Heritage work involved the...

Bridgepoint Health: The Old Don Jail

Completed in 1864, the Old Don Jail was the last work of one of Canada’s most respected early architects, William Thomas, and the largest building project in Toronto’s history at the time. Like much of Thomas’s late work, the jail was conceived in the Renaissance Revival style popular during the mid-1800s which draws inspiration from Italian Renaissance, Baroque, and Mannerist...

Kingston Culture Plan

...organizations, City departments, and other stakeholders and community members. This work included significant stakeholder and community consultation, including one-on-one meetings, focus group meetings, and a series of public workshops. ERA’s role was to articulate a vision for conserving and engaging Kingston’s heritage assets, and to recommend policy direction for built heritage and cultural heritage landscapes. Our work included a review...

Hamilton Museum of Steam & Technology

...Ontario Heritage Trust Easement Agreement. It was the first water pumping station for the City of Hamilton and it remains the most significant group of pre-Confederation pumphouse buildings in Canada. ERA directed conservation work to three of the buildings, including restoration of building 1913’s steel windows and the 45 metre smoke stack, redesigned the exhibit layout in the boiler house...

Historic Camp

This early historic Pointe au Baril cottage was a quintessential cottage type, later expanded to include a tower belvedere and outbuildings scattered over the island’s rock outcroppings. ERA’s design work overhauled the main cottage by reorganizing the living and sleeping spaces through the elimination of an underused second entrance and the addition of a new indoor washroom. A traditional peaked...