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Canada’s Ken Soble Tower certified as world’s largest residential Passive House EnerPHit retrofit
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...Hamilton have shown great leadership and we congratulate them on this tremendous achievement,” said Chris Ballard, CEO, Passive House Canada. To meet the rigorous Passive House standards, a dynamic team specializing in apartment retrofits was brought together. This included prime consultant ERA Architects, a Toronto-based architecture firm known for its deep expertise in low-carbon retrofits and the force behind the...
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Michael McClelland at the Getty: Toronto Towers
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...different demographics that occur today. The evaluation of heritage resources has always relied on an appreciation of the resource by a community, and it is the community that gives the cultural resource its significance. The provincial criteria for establishing cultural value repeatedly emphasizes value based on its relevance to a community. But traditionally the community interested in heritage has not...
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TSA’s Urban Affairs Forum, “Generosity by Design”
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...Helena Grdadolnik from Workshop Architecture “To be generous is to balance” Finally, ERA’s Philip Evans moved the conversation outside of the urban realm to rural communities, speaking about the Culture of Outports and small programs he has been running since 2010 (cultureofsmall.com). small aims to identify methods to help rural communities transition from natural resource-based economies to diversified, cultural resource-based...
Read MoreParkdale’s coat of arms — for 10 years
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...tree near the top; the scales of justice symbolized the barrister James B. Davis; a book for bookseller Charles Frankish; a bull’s head for butcher Joseph Norwich; and a quill for the local bookkeeper Udney A. Walker. And just like the massive opposition to the 1998 megacity creation, the annexation of Parkdale created a lot of debate. After the votes...
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Vancouver Matters Wins Design Exchange Award
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Vancouver Matters received an award in the Visual Communications category at this week’s Design Exchange Awards event. The book was also recently awarded at the Alcuin Society’s 27th Annual Awards for Excellence in Book Design in Canada. Photo by Jason Vanderhill...
Read MoreWallpaper Review
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The Concrete Toronto Book has made it to the Wallpaper website. Please see below for the link to the full http://www.wallpaper.com/architecture/book-concrete-toronto/2118...
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Arrival City: Bookclub and Webinar, Mar 13
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ERA’s Graeme Stewart is pleased to be participating in a webinar presented by Cities of Migration and Centre for City Ecology as part of their Citybuilders Bookclub. The Bookclub is global in reach, aiming to foster a deeper understanding of how cities work, and brings together a diverse group of thinkers and writers from around the world to weigh in...
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The 34th Annual Heritage Toronto Awards
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...Portico (William Greer Architectural Conservation & Craftsmanship Award) Concrete Toronto: A Guide Book to Concrete Architecture from the Fifties to the Seventies (Book category) “What Lies Beneath” Newspaper Series by Scott Weir (Media category) The 34th Annual Heritage Toronto Awards will take place Monday October 27, 2008 at the Carlu. For more information visit the Heritage Toronto website at http://www.heritagetoronto.org....
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WexPOPS: Pop-up Plaza
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WexPOPS is a pilot of the plazaPOPS project, an initiative spearheaded by Daniel Rotsztain, aka The Urban Geographer, and Brendan Stewart (OALA, CAHP), professor of landscape architecture at the University of Guelph, and former Associate at ERA Architects. In an interview supporting his recent book Palaces for the People: How Social Infrastructure can help fight Inequality, Polarization and the Decline...
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Found Toronto Installation in the News
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...city, on a massive scale, letting the public see the Victorian city that was in order to see how the old Toronto connects to contemporary Toronto. Other contributors include Goldsmith Borgal & Company Architects and Taylor Hazell Architects. And if photography excites you, documentary shooter Peter Sibbald’s photo series and essay, Elegy for a Stolen Land, is a real treat....
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Birnbaum on Toronto’s landscapes
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...to advocate and educate – to make more public the critical discussion about design decisions in the public realm. The talk and panel discussion, which included Janet Rosenberg, Harold Madi, and ERA’s Michael McClelland, was also a chance to explore the agenda for the 2015 TCLF international conference to be held in, and focus on, Toronto. Is it possible, for...
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The new Standard
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...communities with different landowners, asking whether we can take down some fences, rezone for mixed use, introduce some modest demonstration projects regarding community development and building upgrade. Then we can make these new ideas viral, the new status quo. Over the long term, this can provide real opportunities for a more sustainable and livable city-region. These buildings aren´t going anywhere,...
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