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Capitalizing on Heritage / Awarding Conservation: Materials, Craftsmanship and Construction

by ERA Architects

...part of the award-winning team for the National Trust for Canada Ecclesiastical Insurance Cornerstone Award of Excellence in Adaptive Use/Rehabilitation for the heritage conservation of Eva’s Phoenix, in a supporting role for LGA Architects. The building is a new facility that is transforming the lives of Toronto’s homeless youth in the west-end of the city. Conference website: http://www.apti.org/index.php?src=gendocs&ref=2017conference&category=2017 Annual Conference...

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TORONTO the GOOD

by admin

...presented by ERA Architects, Spacing Magazine, ‘murmur’, and the Toronto Society of Architects! Keep May 15th open in your calendars for another great night of celebration. For details go to http://www.torontothegood.org/ We have good reason to celebrate as ERA has announced the creation of 5 new Associate positions, including Scott Weir, Lindsay Reid, Philip Evans, Andrew Pruss and Robyn Huether....

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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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2008 Holcim Awards

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The Evergreen Brick Works received an acknowledgement prize at the 2008 Holcim Awards for sustainable construction. Please follow the link below for more information. http://www.holcimfoundation.org/T796/A08NA-AckC.htm...

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Grant Whatmough 1921-1999

by ERA Architects

ERA is currently studying the above house by Grant Whatmough, designed for Canadian Homes and Gardens managing editor Gerald Maccabe in 1956. The Maccabe house is an example of the many early modernist ‘gems’ which are only now being rediscovered in the suburbs around the Greater Toronto Area. Born in Toronto, Whatmough served in the Royal Canadian Air Force and...

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1960s Canada: An interview with Vincent Massey Tovell

by ERA Architects

...to go to Montreal and actually wander around. Some of the Canadian buildings were in themselves landmarks. Real landmarks! Arthur Erickson did one. The federal building was done by Colin Vaughan. And Grossman’s News and Administration building. The centennial itself was huge. Of course with Expo, but also there were celebrations right across the country. The government decided to put...

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From Past to Page: Uncovering the Ward

by ERA Architects

...series of books (CoachHouse Press). Exhibit space at Toronto City Hall, curated and designed by ERA Architects, 2017. The Ward Cabaret at Luminato, 2018. “History is a verb. The passage of time is a constant. But what we seek to preserve from our past and what we choose to cast away has always been a selective process often informed by...

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Alois Riegl and the Modern Cult of the Monument

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Will and Michael teamed up to present a very brief introduction to the writings of Alois Riegl at Friday Social Hour this week. Alois Riegl (1858-1905) was an Austrian art-historian and philosopher. In 1903 he published (in German) a seminal article titled The Modern Cult of the Monument: Its Character and Its Origin, outlining the competing values to be considered...

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Maple Leaf Gardens _ Heritage Interpretation Plan

by ERA Architects

...series of moments and stories distributed throughout both new owner spaces. In doing our research and combing through the mountains of audio/visual content associated with the building from the past eighty years, we’ve come across some pretty amusing photographs. This is one of our favorites, found at the City of Toronto Archives. Who is … The Legionnaire Mystery Man?  ...

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Workshopping Ideas for the Upcoming Bell Island Build

by ERA Architects

...than 40 years after the last mine on the island closed. Miners aboard the man tram. Photo from Bell Island Mining History. CoO’s Community Builds allow us to work with the community to explore and express the adaptive reuse of cultural heritage through architectural design. Through this, we not only bring together small communities across Canada, but architectural communities as...

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Portrait of William Greer, facing the camera in 3/4 position, his left hand pensively at his chin.

Bill Greer (1925–2023)

by Michael McClelland, principal

...exploring ‘what good one man could do on behalf of humanity’.  That altruism appears again and again in Bill’s work. Whether Bill knew it or not I was observing his every move.  I saw that an architect could work with grace and gentleness.  An architect could listen to others and through persuasion, collaboration, and insight, provide direction.  Architecture has always...

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Three New Principals and Expanding Leadership at ERA

by ERA Architects

...Shelley Ludman, Janice Quieta, and David Winterton as Senior Associates.   Alexis works collaboratively with complex project teams using historical research and analysis to inform the conservation of evolving urban environments. Alexis manages a wide-range of heritage projects involving extensive historic research, planning studies, commemoration strategies, and public consultation.  Douglas is engaged in a number of ERA’s significant conservation and restoration projects....

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