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PechaKucha: Tower Renewal 101

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...in and around Toronto’s Tower Neighbourhoods. PechaKucha is a simple presentation genre where presenters speak about 20 images for 20 seconds each. The method was devised by Tokyo-based architects Klein-Dytham as a way to facilitate dialog and idea generation between architects, designers, and other creative thinkers. To see other presentations, please visit pechakucha.org. For more on Tower Renewal, visit towerrenewal.com...

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Transformation of the Automotive Building

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ERA are the heritage consultants for the re-adaptation of the Automotive Building at Exhibition Place. A recent article in the Star by James MacNevin considers the new direction for this heritage building. The full article can be found below: The reinvention of an auto palace – thestar.com...

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Botwood build: complete

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...of the locale. It is intended as a focal point for community engagement, a landmark to stimulate activity in the community, and a steppingstone toward the cultivation of future cultural and economic opportunities. Located on the popular Killick Island Walking Trail, the Viewfinder, frames views of historic crash sites of the Excalibur and the Canso, as well as of a...

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The Turn of the Screw

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DVxT Theatre Company presents a site-specific performance of Henry James’s hauntingly beautiful glimpse into the ultimate source of evil: the human mind. Performed throughout the Campbell House Museum – mixing candlelight, sound and video DVxT brings this ghostly gothic mystery to life. For more information please go to the following site: DVxT Theatre Company Richard Ouzounian’s preview article in The...

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Allstream Centre Opens

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The Allstream Centre at Exhibition Place officially opened last week and the project was recently reviewed by the Toronto Star’s Christopher Hume. The article can be found at the following link: Revamp of Ex’s Automotive Building Glorious – thestar.com...

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TORONTO – NEW YORK: Design by Example

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https://vimeo.com/185808071 “A new platform by which designers of these two great cities may share innovations and best practices with the common goal of enhancing the build environment.”- Mary Rusz This September, at the invitation of the AIA New York Housing and Planning and Urban Design Committees, ERA’s Michael McClelland, Graeme Stewart and Ya’el Santopinto participated in a panel in New...

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The Life-Sized City focuses a lens on Toronto’s urban landscape, celebrating the heroes who are making the city more livable

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Host Mikael Colville-Andersen covers feel-good stories from local community-driven initiatives to government-funded transit and harbour front enhancement projects. The city is promoted as diverse, personable and multi-faceted. This collection of stories is what defines Toronto as a livable city, one whose population growth continues to outpace all others in North America. At the 28.20-minute mark ERA Principal Graeme Stewart introduces...

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ERA to Port Union, Nfld. mid-June

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...Elijah, and Karl from Ryerson University, all of whom will be participating in the 2013 Community Build. The team, led by ERA’s Andrew Pruss and Alana Young, will visit the communities of Trinity Bay North municipality, including Catalina, Little Catalina, Melrose, and Port Union, with this year’s the main build site located in Port Union. Founded by Sir William Ford...

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The Millionth Tower

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The Millionth Tower web-based documentary has launched! This weekend the project was featured on the highly-respected Wired.com site, and is already making significant waves re-imagining the way emerging web-based technologies can help to tell highly personal stories in our increasingly connected world. We are all very proud to have been involved – please see the making-of mini-documentary embedded above, and...

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Graeme Stewart interviewed on The Urbanist

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Monocle Radio recently interviewed ERA’s Graeme Stewart on The Urbanist, a weekly program on the people and ideas that shape urban life. In this week’s edition, Andrew Tuck speaks with Graeme about Toronto’s modernist legacy and the Tower Renewal program. You can listen to this interview online at Monocle.com #61....

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ERA in Nfld.: Update

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This week in Trinity Bay North, Newfoundland, the 2013 Culture of Outports project got a great start on its community build process. The community is fantastic and we’re having a great time. In its first week the team has toured the local landscape and architecture extensively, held several community engagement meetings, mounted a historical slide show in the street, and...

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Flashback Friday: A Jane’s Walk Down Memory Lane

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ERA loves the Jane’s Walk festival. Not only do the walks encourage citizens to share stories, explore communities, and connect with neighbours, they also provide platforms for discussing important urban, suburban, and rural issues that affect communities across the world. The Jane’s Walk festival is a global event that is celebrated in over 200 cities, and we’re excited that it’s...

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