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The new Standard

by ERA Architects

Graeme is featured on the cover of the brand new Toronto Standard online daily news portal, with an extensive interview covering the Tower Neighbourhood Renewal initiative. This is a 20-year project. We’re talking about a huge number of buildings, hundreds of neighbourhoods and over a million [residents]. It’s about a gradual process of improvement. For now, it’s working in specific...

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An Award-Winning Heritage Week

by ERA Architects

...the creative arts. The project serves as an excellent example of adaptive reuse and rehabilitation of existing heritage buildings, connecting the city to its cultural past while instigating urban renewal. Windsor Armouries, University of Windsor School of Creative Arts, 2018. Windsor Armouries, University of Windsor School of Creative Arts, 2018. Windsor Armouries, University of Windsor School of Creative Arts, 2018....

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Three rows of thumbnail image squares show the overall colour palette of neighbouring buildings on a streetscape

Dressing The Webster

by ERA Architects

...heritage of the District. To demonstrate this Carl Shura, ERA graphic designer, took a walk.  “The core argument was the colour needed to have precedent in the neighbourhood,” Carl says. “So I went out and walked those few blocks, taking photos at every stop along the way. I also pulled up Google Street View, just to check in on the...

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From Past to Page: Uncovering the Ward

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...series of books (CoachHouse Press). Exhibit space at Toronto City Hall, curated and designed by ERA Architects, 2017. The Ward Cabaret at Luminato, 2018. “History is a verb. The passage of time is a constant. But what we seek to preserve from our past and what we choose to cast away has always been a selective process often informed by...

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Project Updates

Celebrating community-led design with Gordonridge

by ERA Architects

...plot in the court. By the time the court opened late last year, the community were both co-designers and co-owners of the new space. It’s a process that for us is a remarkable and exciting endeavour. We’re thrilled the neighbourhood feels the same! Gordonridge Representative: Nichola shares her perspective on the process. from MLSE Foundation on Vimeo. We are patiently...

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Birnbaum on Toronto’s landscapes

by ERA Architects

On Wed. May 21, Charles Birnbaum from The Cultural Landscape Foundation (TCLF) spoke at Toronto’s Arts and Letters Club. This “Inside the Planner’s Studio” event was sponsored by the City of Toronto and attended by City staff in Parks, Urban Design, and Planning, as well as numerous professionals in architecture and landscape design. Charles introduced the work of TCLF and...

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‘Girls Can Too’ Provides Participants with Hands-On Learning Opportunities

by ERA Architects

...diagrams, cross sections and 3D perspective drawings of a building onsite, incorporating the terms and techniques they learned during the tour. ERA was happy to contribute to an initiative that increases inclusivity. There was equal excitement in witnessing the energy and fresh perspectives the participants contributed to the design challenges they addressed over the course of the summer.    ...

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Our Expanding Leadership Team

by ERA Architects

...landscapes. She is committed to creating opportunities for historic buildings to enrich urban life. Her perspective is informed by the uncommon combination of a legal background and experience in both heritage conservation and community planning.   Shelley Ludman has been involved in significant conservation and adaptive re-use projects within the cities of Montreal and Toronto, including additions to existing heritage...

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Concrete Toronto on spacing.ca

by ERA Architects

...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 buy the book, please visit Coach House Books. Free: Download a poster of 52 Concrete Buildings (33 MB, 50 x 25″, see lower-res image below)....

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Revitalizing Ontario Place: ERA’s Lara Herald on CBC

by ERA Architects

...the intriguing idea of opening new discourses with not just the water, but with a long, nuanced history of settlement on the shores of the Great Lakes. If you are curious, please Listen to the Podcast (the segment starts with John Tory at approx. 8 min. 50 sec.). Or, read an earlier ERA post on Ontario Place quoting Michael McClelland....

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Jane’s Walk Yorkville, Sat. May 4th

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...taking in the unique sights of heritage buildings including the Yorkville Public Library, Heliconian Hall, and the award-winning Village of Yorkville Park. Note: Michael will participate in a second Yorkville walk Sat. May 25th, with President of the Cultural Landscape Foundation Charles A. Birnbaum. For more info, please see the Jane’s Walk website for both walk one and walk two....

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TALLINN–TORONTO: The Influence of Estonian Modernism in Shaping Toronto

by ERA Architects

...Architecture. Toronto in Estonian: Section of exhibition at the Museum of Estonian Architecture. For more on on Toronto’s Estonian modernism, the works of Prii and other Estonian Canadian architects feature strongly in both Concrete Toronto https://www.eraarch.ca/project/concrete-toronto/ (ERA / Coach House) and the Concrete Toronto Map https://bluecrowmedia.com/collections/architecture-maps/products/concrete-toronto-map (ERA / Bluecrow Media). Also see an article by the Globe & Mail’s Dave...

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