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Three New Principals and Expanding Leadership at ERA
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...involved in a number of landscape and urban design projects ranging from development and open space master plans to community design led projects. Carolina brings to ERA a hands-on approach in designing new and adaptive reuse of spaces, through her passion for community-centered architecture, inspired by her contact with complex social conditions in Canada and Nicaragua. Under her leadership, participatory...
Read MoreInvesting in the Public Realm: A Joint MITACS Project (by guest blogger Jeff Biggar)
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...features of our cities that we encounter everyday: streets and laneways, parks, squares, and open markets, some of which may be privately owned but publically accessible. Her observation echoes a long line of urban advocates, such as Jan Gehl, Jane Jacobs, and Kevin Lynch who forcefully argue for designing cities that connect streets, buildings, and landscape to form a comprehensive...
Read MoreToronto the Good invades Harbourfront Centre!
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...signings, music, video installations, food and refreshments and more! Wednesday May 26, 2010 Doors Open 6pm Free Admission to the Party Catered Event with Cash Bar York Quay Centre at Harbourfront Centre 235 Queens Quay West For details and itinerary for the night, please visit: Toronto the Good Invades Harbourfront Centre! – ERA Office Blog Toronto the Good – readings.org...
Read MoreThorncliffe Park – Café and Market in the Park
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...nears implementation, it will open up a new set of opportunities for small-scale entrepreneurs like TAG. Watch for upcoming posts throughout September, or come join in the fun from 5:30-8:30pm in R.V. Burgess Park on the following dates: – Saturday, September 3rd * – Saturday, September 10th – Saturday, September 17th – Saturday, September 24th *This event has been relocated...
Read MoreWalking Tour of Yorkville (Part 2)
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...laneways and squares, this walk will explore Yorkville’s public realm and the impact urban revitalization and landscape architecture projects have had on the evolution of this dynamic neighbourhood. The stops on this tour will include the Village of Yorkville Park, the Four Seasons Hotel arrival court and garden and Town Hall Square. This walk will coincide with Doors Open Toronto....
Read MoreJane’s Walk on Jarvis St.
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...example, wishing to encourage creative thinking about public open space, Councillor Wong-Tam invited Occupy Toronto activists to reclaim an underused site in Ward 27. The walk also passed by Allan Gardens, the site for a proposed new design competition supported by ERA. To learn more about this idea, please see our recent post about Friends of Allan Gardens’ “Explore the...
Read MoreMontreal Trend House to be lost?
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...Trend House program was Canada’s answer to the Case Study House program, and Mr. Goodfellow writes: … the national program spanned from 1952 and 1955, and was sponsored by the BC Softwood Lumber Association. All homes were open for public viewing following construction to demonstrate the innovative ways they planned for modern life, used wood products and furnished with modern...
Read MoreOntario Place and the value of cultural heritage sites
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Opened in 1971, Ontario Place was created to be a hub for Torontonians to experience the waterfront and take part in entertainment activities, from the open-air amphitheatre and the Cinesphere, the world’s first permanent IMAX theatre, to the Children’s Village play area and exhibit space. Ontario Place was the embodiment of the province’s economic and cultural prosperity of the time...
Read MoreRevitalizing waterfront sites: Exploring the potential of Ontario Place
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...shared understanding of place if it remained open and in use, its identity has become fractured over time. But what if we focused not on its use or its identity and instead on other established attributes of the site? When it was built in 1971 in response to Montreal’s Expo 67, architect Eberhard Zeidler wanted Ontario Place to reclaim the...
Read MoreERA Has Moved to 625 Church Street
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...has been occupied by a chain of fast food restaurants. The open volume at the base of the building has been partially enclosed as a restaurant terrace. The original entry to 10 St Mary Street boasted exquisite mosaic tile work. (Archives of Ontario) The Site sits on land originally owned by the Buchanan and Elmsley families in the early 19th...
Read MoreWexPOPS: Pop-up Plaza
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...are home to millions of Canadians. Open from July 5th to August 17th at the iconic Wexford Plaza at Lawrence Avenue East and Warden Avenue in Scarborough (the setting of the recent eponymous indie film), WexPOPS is the result of over a year of community consultation, planning, and design work, and a collaboration that involved 19 Master’s of Landscape Architecture...
Read MoreHome on the range
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...cabinetry by Helps Studio is primarily of slab doors lacquered in “Pigeon” by Farrow and Ball, with a butler’s pantry closet and upper cabinets out of rosewood. Containing the fridge, for convenience and to give more visual breadth, the sidewall accommodates a wine rack and counter-height open shelf for cooking oils and salts. Other cabinetry includes a food pantry, pot...
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