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Respectful Rehabilitation

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...past year ERA Principal Michael McClelland was a guest lecturer at Simon Fraser University. His lectures on Respectful Rehabilitation included “Rehabilitation and New Design – The Royal Ontario Museum and the Art Gallery of Ontario” and “Balancing Heritage Conservation in the Private Sector: A Case Study of the Distillery District in Toronto”. They can now be viewed online at www.sfu.ca/city/city_pgm_videos.htm...

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WexPOPS: Pop-up Plaza

by ERA Architects

...a public life study, modelled on methodologies pioneered by Gehl Architects, and is also studying the impact on parking and local business activity. The Rotman students, guided by Prof. Rafael Gomez, prepared a background study that informed the research design. Project findings will be published later this year in an exit report, but already, many working in the urban design,...

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Toronto the Good: A Jane’s Walk Launch Party

by ERA Architects

...a full time staff of one, a few part-time seasonal staff, and the rest is entirely volunteer-run. We are thrilled to support the Launch of this year’s festival and to celebrate the contribution of these incredible community-building volunteers among fellow architects, designers, thinkers, and urban-minded people. The Jane’s Walk festival is May 6-8, 2016. After the party, we hope to...

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Download North York’s Modernist Architecture Revisited

by ERA Architects

...additional notable buildings built between 1945 and 1981 in North York. Also included is a proposed heritage policy strategy, biographies of several prominent architects, and an essay on North York’s modernist beginnings. Please note that North York’s Modernist Architecture Revisited includes over 300 photographs, and the PDF is quite large. At 32mb, the file may take some time to download....

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Oleleshwa Primary School phase 1 Complete

by ERA Architects

Last week ERA’s Alec Ring and his collegue Karl Sarkis, who recently left ERA to complete his Masters, gave us an update on the construction progress of their inspiring design project for Oleleshwa Primary School in the village of Ewaso Ngiro, Kenya. While in Kenya in the spring of 2010 Alec and Karl, working with funding organization Harambee 4 Humanity,...

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Fundraiser for School in Kenya

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...classrooms have been constructed. With more than 200 students already attending these two classrooms, however, there is a huge demand for additional space to be constructed. All proceeds from the fundraiser are going directly to the continued construction of Oleleshwa Primary School. The event took place January 24th, 2013, from 6:30-9:30pm at the Shamba space, 48 Yonge Street, #1200.  ...

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Download North York’s Modernist Architecture Revisited

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...200 buildings from the original inventory plus additional notable North York buildings built between 1945 and 1981. Also included is a proposed heritage policy strategy, biographies of several prominent architects, and an essay on North York’s modernist beginnings. Please note that North York’s Modernist Architecture Revisited includes over 300 photographs and the PDF is quite large. At 32mb, the file...

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

by ERA Architects

...modernism. Exhibition and Symposium in fall of 2017 at Toronto’s Tartu College with ERA’s Graeme Stewart as presenter. These exhibitions, and forthcoming book, are a result of years of research by Tallinn Architecture Centre archivist Jarmo Kauge. Following with curiosity the rise in cult status of Estonian-Canadian Uno Prii, whose large cannon of whimsically optimistic modernism have become local icons...

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‘Big River Landscape’ wins the National Capital Commission’s Nepean Point Redevelopment design competition

by ERA Architects

...as an inclusive public place, the design seeks to give a voice to various actors and histories, each one connected to Nepean Point in a meaningful way: the land, the river, First Nations, the Parliamentary and Federal landscape of the capital, artists, visitors experiencing the site, and all Canadians. ‘Big River Landscape’ envisions a significant new public destination, contributing to...

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ERA Principal Graeme Stewart addresses a crowd in front of Ken Soble Tower alongside MP Adam Vaughan during the May 21, 2019 National Housing Strategy announcement.

Affordable, High Efficiency Tower Living

by ERA Architects

...Passive House tower in Canada. The project recently received $10 million in federal funding which will help transform the tower and set the standard for industry-wide, ultra-low energy retrofits needed to maintain thousands of apartments across Canada. Built in 1967, the Ken Soble Tower is one of the oldest high-rise multi-residential towers in CityHousing Hamilton’s portfolio. However, the 18-storey post-war...

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A Sense of ‘History in the Making’ for a Toronto Residence

by ERA Architects

...principle, the article commends the thoughtful approach used by the designers: from the handling of material additions that blend seamlessly with the original structure, to the reinstatement of key circulation elements in the revised layouts; all aspects of approach result in uniform flow and spatial harmony. Read the feature in Issue 44 of Rue Magazine: http://www.ruemag.com/magazine/issue/issue-forty-four#132 Project profile: https://www.eraarch.ca/project/summerhill-house/  ...

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Wall of books of many sizes and ages
Ideas & Issues

Diving Into the ERA Library—Part 1 

by ERA Architects

...Betty Kennedy (MacMillan of Canada, 1979)  In 1979, to mark the 25th anniversary of Hurricane Hazel’s destructive force on Toronto, journalist and broadcaster Betty Kennedy released the book “Hurricane Hazel”, which tracks the storm over the course of days and it rips through the Caribbean, the States, and over Lake Ontario and catches local meteorologists by surprise.   Brampton, An Illustrated...

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