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The Allenby, to the Roxy, to the Allenby
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With the historic marquee now back in place, the Allenby has been catching a good bit of attention recently. From Christopher Hume’s piece Tim does its bit on the Danforth, in the Toronto Star: Cleaned up and nicely restored, the Allenby looks better than it has in years. The 1930s art deco movie house is no masterpiece, but it has...
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Illustration as a tool of clarity: Q&A with Daniel Rotsztain
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...shoulder. AT: How does heritage fit into your approach to urbanism and city-building? DR: I’m most interested in heritage conversation that’s about living culture, as opposed to built form. I guess that’s sort of the frontier of the field. For example, take any beloved bookshop. Of course we love the old quality of stacked books and rickety shelves. That’s a...
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On mapping
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...are the representational issues between the map and the place on the ground; the real place to which the map corresponds. The map is a selective recording of some specific data. The reader must connect the dots between the data, and find the correspondence that tells her more about that place. Beyond the simplest of storylines the reader’s own experience...
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62 – 64 Charles Street: The Lost Craft of Tuck-pointing Returns
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...honoured last fall with a 2017 CAHP Award of Excellence —Materials, Craftsmanship and Construction. ERA is continuing to feature this technique prominently through work on the Selby Hotel at 592 Sherbourne, which is set to be completed in the summer. For more information: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zxPc6_2R-Hc Article by Dave LeBlanc in the Globe and Mail: https://www.theglobeandmail.com/real-estate/toronto/the-lost-art-of-tuckpointing-reborn-intoronto/article37802073/ Related content: https://www.eraarch.ca/2017/capitalizing-on-heritage-awarding-conservation-materials-craftsmanship-and-construction/ https://www.eraarch.ca/2017/era-learns-the-fine-art-of-tuckpointing-from-a-melbourne-based-master/ https://www.eraarch.ca/2012/tuckpointing-a-note-on-detail/ ...
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New Visions for Social Housing in Canadian Architect Magazine
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...the 1930s. In this piece she reaches out to a group of design leaders from Toronto and Vancouver to discuss how to develop an approach that integrates design, policy and social development by cultivating trust, engagement and collaboration with communities to build social housing for a new generation. The group consisted of: Michael Gellar: Vancouver based Architect, Planner and Real...
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Remnants of Mid-Century Toronto
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Spacing’s new book celebrates Toronto’s mid-century architecture, from landmark buildings like City Hall to unique elements of the time, such as the zig-zag roofs that can be spotted atop many of the city’s churches. Edited by Spacing’s creative director Matthew Blackett and with photography by Vik Pahwa, much of the writing in the book has been provided by ERA staff....
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Concrete Toronto on spacing.ca
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ERA is pleased to announce that this summer spacing.ca will be republishing several articles from our book, Concrete Toronto: a guidebook to concrete architecture from the fifties to the seventies. The book, published by Coach House Books in 2007, reconsiders Toronto’s large inventory of concrete buildings and infrastructure from the perspective of a diverse group architects, city planners, academics, historians,...
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Archaeology in The Ward: A New Exhibit
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...ERA Architects is no stranger to the histories related to The Ward—Michael McClelland and Tatum Taylor helped to literally write the book. As heritage professionals and editors of ‘The Ward: The Life and Loss of Toronto’s First Immigrant Neighbourhood’ (Coach House Books, 2015), they were well positioned to approach the exhibition project with a comprehensive understanding of the site context...
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Montreal Trend House to be lost?
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...mortar. But we don’t, and that’s why we’re on the verge of losing the Montreal Trend House in suburban Beaconsfield, Que. For more information on the Montreal Trend House, or to support the cause, please visit the Montreal Trend House website established by Michael Goodfellow. Beaconsfield City Council is set to vote on the issue on February 21st, 2011. The...
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Baist’s Detroit
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...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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Three New Principals and Expanding Leadership at ERA
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...newest Principals at ERA. Victoria heads up our Ottawa office and is a practice lead, with expertise in cultural landscape analysis and values-based conservation planning. An art historian with a graduate degree in heritage conservation, Victoria has experience in the private, public, and academic sectors. Jan leads our Montreal office and specializes in adaptive reuse, preservation and restoration projects. With 20 years...
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Breaking down barriers in the landscape: Q&A with Brendan Stewart
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...I studied at UC Berkeley, which was a kind of outdoor laboratory, like all places that have an incredibly rich history in the landscape discipline. I went there specifically because I was interested in community-based work and the social, cultural, and participatory factors of design. But I also developed this deep interest in design history and understanding more about particular...
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