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Though perhaps not exactly in-line with the Ministry of Culture’s Ontario Heritage Tool Kit procedures or the guidelines set forth in the Burra Charter, these temporary masonry repairs in Bocchignano, Italy are a series of wonderfully playful gestures. photographs via Jan Vormann ps: How do you write a spec for Lego?...

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an image of leather shoes recovered from the Armoury Street excavation is superimposed on top of a Goad's Insurance Map, detailing the site area and context of Centre Avenue and Armoury Street in historic St John's Ward.

Archaeology in The Ward: A New Exhibit

by ERA Architects

...site includes one of the largest archaeological collections of 19th and early 20th-century shoes ever unearthed in Canada, most too fragile to display but documented by photographs and reproduction tools. Other artifacts on display include tools commonly used by tailors and seamstresses in the period: straight pins, buttons made of ceramic and glass, thimbles, wooden spools, and bodkins. In the...

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Baist’s Detroit

by ERA Architects

...in One Volume, Compiled and Published from Official Records, Private Plans and Actual Surveys”, by G. Wm. Baist, Surveyor and Map Publisher, 1896, and a second smaller printed version from 1916. Open, the larger book measures 22” x 36”, and consists of 29 linen backed hand coloured lithographs mapping all areas of Detroit at that time. These books were heavily...

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Window and door openings

by ERA Architects

...element correctly, and how these elements can help to locate a building within a specific historical period. The presentation also included a brief tour of some architectural wonders in his hometown of Detroit, MI – many of which are currently for sale at rock-bottom prices. More images from Scott’s extensive catalogue of architectural photographs are available on his Flickr page....

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