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Exterior of Phillips House Phillips House: North York General Hospital

After remaining unused for many years, Phillips House now has a new life as North York General Hospital’s centre that provides outpatient mental health care for children and adolescents. The property is located north of the hospital at Sheppard and Leslie. Industryous Photography While the house and grounds, designed by Mathers and Haldenby Architects and Edwin Kay, Landscape Architect was...

Lang Tannery

...c. 1896 and 1956. The Lang Tannery complex is a significant landmark. It reflects Kitchener’s industrial history of vernacular industrial design, an intimate relationship to the Lang family and the industrial development of the city of Kitchener. The project included the rehabilitation of Lang Tanning Co., a site as a mixed-use heritage precinct featuring, light industrial, commercial and office uses....

Child and Parent Resource Institute

...the property are listed on the Ontario Heritage Properties Database, as well as the City of London inventory of heritage properties. In early 2010, the Ontario Realty Corporation engaged a consultant team lead by Planning Alliance to undertake an Optimal Use Study. As the heritage consultant on the team, ERA prepared a Heritage Report which summarized and provided an evaluation...

Hermant Building: 19 Dundas Square

The Hermant Building at 19 Dundas Square, designed by Bond & Smith Architects in 1913, is an early and excellent surviving example of terracotta cladding in Toronto. When it was completed, this 10-storey building was the tallest in the city, and a significant landmark. The Hermant Building originally housed the headquarters of Imperial Optical which at one time controlled over...

Hermant Building: 21 Dundas Square

The Hermant Building at 21 Dundas Square was designed by Benjamin Brown in 1929. Benjamin Brown is historically significant as the first practicing Jewish architect in Toronto. The 15-storey art-deco-inspired building is a significant landmark at Dundas Square. As part of a 40-storey mixed-use redevelopment designed by Diamond Schmidt, ERA has been working as heritage architects on both 19 and...

People Per Hectare

Density is one of the key tools currently used for planning cities. Architects, planners, and policy makers all use density as a calibration of the city. We want to make our cities better, more vital, more full of possibilities. As our cities change, we want to propose change intelligently. To change intelligently, we need to understand density. For the ERA...

Silver Birches

...were upgraded and made comfortable and robust for 21st century use they retained their historic character. ERA led the restoration and design work with support from a local firm. ERA developed plans, details and selected sympathetic material finishes for the buildings. ERA coordinated consultants, met regularly with the owner and the project team, and reviewed construction progress to ensure the...

Spirit of Sir John A.

Confederation Park was opened in 1967 to mark the centenary of Canada’s confederation, on the site of the disused CPR rail yard and the earlier Market Battery fortification. Locomotive CPR 1095 (named, “The Spirit of Sir John A.” on occasion of the centenary) was built by the Canadian Locomotive Company Ltd., in Kingston, in 1913, and has been located in...

The Drake Hotel Annex Project

The Drake Hotel is a cultural landmark within Toronto’s Art and Design District. In 2001, the original 1890’s building at Beaconsfield and Queen Street West was reinvented into a unique mixed-use hub where sleeping, dining, nightlife, concerts, retail, and art events collide. Continuing on this success, the Drake Hotel is growing to include the storefront buildings at 1140-1148 Queen Street...

Deda’s Cottage

This Pointe au Baril Island cottage has been in the same family since its construction in 1923. The owners were keen to install an off-grid solar electrical system and improving comfort while preserving the original cottage character and its beloved features. A new addition follows the material palette and architectural format of the original building, while providing a brighter and...

photo of a large stone house taken from an angle, surrounded by trees Hamilton House

Working with the young and savvy family, ERA designed a functional addition and associated alterations to the Stockbroker Tudor house. Built in 1937, modifications to the registered historic home needed to blend seamlessly blend with the Tudor exterior and the clients’ clear and established vision for the interior. Centered around a large kosher kitchen, the addition solves the clients’ complex...

East Scarborough Storefront East Scarborough Storefront

This collaborative project empowered local Scarborough residents to transform previously under-utilized land into a dynamic campus of community spaces. The East Scarborough Storefront (ESS) is a community centre offering multiple supports and services to the diverse communities of East Scarborough. It was widely celebrated as a model for positive city-building in Toronto’s inner suburbs. In November of 2010, ERA began...