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Lisa Prosper, ERA, and cultural landscapes
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...originally from Ottawa but spent much of my youth in Toronto. I eventually moved back to Ottawa to study cultural landscapes with Julian Smith at Carleton University and received an MA in Heritage Conservation. I spent my early career in heritage exploring how cultural landscapes are interpreted in the World Heritage context through the lens of Indigenous worldviews. I went...
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Revitalizing waterfront sites: Exploring the potential of Ontario Place
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...to Docomomo’s International Register. Ontario Place faced countless pressures and changes in its history, from the closure of the beloved forum for what would become the Budweiser Stage, to its eventual closure in 2012. Now, close to ten years later, Ontario Place is at yet another crossroads. In 2019, the World Monuments Fund named Ontario Place on its World Monuments...
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Append & tweak: Rethinking heritage in our suburbs
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An article by ERA associate Joey Giaimo was recently published in the latest APT Bulletin of the Association for Preservation Technology International. The article, “Append & Tweak: An Approach for Preserving the Evolving Suburban Landscape,” asks us to re-evaluate how we regard and manage heritage resources in suburban contexts, and argues for a cultural landscape approach as we move forward....
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Nothing is Impossible: NXT City defines its strategies for city-building through an inspirational presentation at ERA
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...more meaningful dialogue. The NXT City Talks are small-scale panels with a ‘how to’ approach to project development. The secret warehouse parties offer an opportunity for the community at large to connect and celebrate all that is exciting and ground-breaking in the Toronto region and beyond. To gain more insight on NXT City visit: https://nxtcity.ca/ Photos courtesy of Nicky Brunn-Meyer...
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Tower Renewal crash course, update on “Showcase”
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...the challenges and opportunities faced today by its aging tower neighbourhoods, and exciting new developments in City zoning and Tower Renewal activities. One of the latest developments discussed by this webinar is the formation of the Tower Renewal Partnership and its mandate to create on-the-ground, real-world showcase projects to demonstrate how tower neighbourhoods can take practical advantage of new zoning...
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The Millionth Tower Teaser Trailer
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At the Toronto the Good party last week, the National Film Board screened a teaser trailer for the upcoming Millionth Tower documentary. The Millionth Tower is the latest installment in the Highrise project, which looks at the experience of living in post war concrete towers around the world. As a part of the Millonth Tower, ERA has been working with...
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Polychrome brickwork
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Following up with more masonry-related topics in honour of an upcoming visit by our friend Gerard Lynch, today’s post is on a distinctive masonry tradition used internationally: polychrome brickwork, the use of usually two, but sometimes three, colours of brick, generally red with buff accents (but the opposite in the image above). Except for a few very early examples such...
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The city as garden
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Recently ERA’s Brendan Stewart gave a talk at Toronto’s Metro Hall, sponsored by LEAF and Park People, on the design potential of trees in cities. After setting the context of modern landscape design, beginning with André Le Nôtre’s French tradition and William Kent’s English tradition, the talk moved on to survey several interesting historical and international projects, including… from Landscape...
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Urban Design Awards
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...team included: Joe Lobko Architect Inc., du Toit Architects Limited, ERA Architects Inc., Stantec Consulting, Blackwell Bowick Partnership Limited, Michael Dixon-University of Guelph, BA Group, Leber Rubes Inc., Gottschalk + Ash International, The Dalton Company Ltd. Another honourable mention was awarded to Transformation AGO located at 317 Dundas Street West. The project team included: Gehry International, and ERA Architects Inc....
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ERA leads the conversation of digital transformation at the Beijing Urban and Architecture Biennale
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...Urban Renewal: BIM and Adaptive Reuse online forum organized by the Beijing Institute of Architectural Design. Curated and hosted by two architects in New York and in Beijing, the 3 hour, highly condensed international panel discussion brought over 1100 international online participants to investigate the relationship between BIM and adaptive reuse projects. Six internationally renowned architectural practices from four different...
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Hamilton‘s Durand Built Heritage Inventory project paper has been published by the ISPRS
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...and Angela Garvey have written a paper on the project’s digital workflow, which they presented at the CIPA International Biennial Symposium in Ottawa this fall. The International Society for Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing has recently published their paper. Link to Hamilton City Council recommendations: https://www.hamilton.ca/city-planning/heritage-properties/hamilton-built-heritage-inventory-process Link to CIPA International Biennial Symposium: http://www.cipaottawa.org/ For access to the published paper, click here....
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Dave LeBlanc for The Globe and Mail: The tower that once topped Toronto shines again
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...architect David E. Winterton in a 2015 issue of the Journal of the Society for the Study of Architecture in Canada, “the north shore of Lake Ontario had a new metropolitan skyline, an architecturally hybrid vertical expression of Toronto’s New World prosperity … fairly – and fittingly – described as a half-Edwardian and half-Beaux-Arts concoction.” Heady stuff. But, around the...
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