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When Crazy Gets Creative

by ERA Architects

...The objective of the exercise was to define the space we were in, how it’s used and how it has evolved. The teams discussed various perspectives before creating two intricate webs. The communication and designs that resulted made for an interesting collaborative experience. For more information visit: http://www.crazydames.com/ U of T News article: https://www.utoronto.ca/news/these-crazy-dames-want-us-rethink-way-we-engage-city All photographs courtesy of Crazy Dames....

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Michael McClelland at the Getty: Toronto Towers

by ERA Architects

...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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ACO Awards to Don Jail and Taylor House

by ERA Architects

...restoring many of its features and creating interpretive new solutions where restoration wasn’t feasible. Learn more about this project in our online portfolio. Bridgepoint won the Paul Oberman Award for Adaptive Reuse, which aims to recognize “projects that highlight and incorporate significant heritage structures in fitting and imaginative ways, thereby conserving them for future use and enjoyment.” The Don Jail...

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ERA leads the conversation of digital transformation at the Beijing Urban and Architecture Biennale

by ERA Architects

...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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Shipbuilding in NFLD: a book

by admin

...every builder on record from every corner of the province. Impeccably researched and contextualized, Calvin Evans’s Master Shipbuilders of Newfoundland and Labrador offers an indispensable addition to the story of our past. If you are in St. John’s, please join the authors for the launch, or if you’d like to order a copy online, please go to Breakwater Books.  ...

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Concrete Ideas

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...futures in the Toronto context. Congratulations to Pina and the publication team on a wonderful and beautiful book. Read about Concrete Ideas in a John Bentley Mays review in the Globe and Mail here. Concrete Ideas: Material to Shape a City will be available for order online at Amazon.ca soon. For more on concrete, Concrete Toronto can be found here....

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Graeme Stewart interviewed on The Urbanist

by ERA Architects

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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New Vision Church Preaches to the Converted as ‘The Music Hall’ (with new video link)

by ERA Architects

...5:25pm – Greetings from City Econ. Dev. Director Glen Norton and Ward Councilor Jason Farr 5:45pm – Violin performance by Lance Ouellette 6:15pm – Hamilton Community Choir performance 6:40pm – Words from music industry spokesperson 6:45pm – Performance by Steve Strongman 7:00pm – Wrap-up Check out Rev. Ian Sloan’s interview with host Doug Farraway on Cable 14’s City Matters: https://cable14now.com/video-on-demand/video/?videoId=2287...

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Respectful Rehabilitation

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...past year ERA Principal Michael McClelland was a guest lecturer at Simon Fraser University. His lectures on Respectful Rehabilitation included “Rehabilitation and New Design – The Royal Ontario Museum and the Art Gallery of Ontario” and “Balancing Heritage Conservation in the Private Sector: A Case Study of the Distillery District in Toronto”. They can now be viewed online at www.sfu.ca/city/city_pgm_videos.htm...

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The Signs That Define Toronto: A new book from ERA and Spacing 

by Kurt Kraler

...of the life of the city than buildings and architectural styles ever could.  We’ll explore the advances in the signage technology of commercial businesses over the years in chronological order, beginning with the fascia and projecting signs of the 19th century, followed by the sprawling hand-painted billboards of the E.L. Ruddy Company that covered blank side walls across the city....

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Marble Madness

by ERA Architects

[Unfortunately, not this kind of Marble Madness] A number of ERAers got together to do a group order of reclaimed Carrara marble from First Canadian Place. All 45,000 2′ x 4′ marble panels are currently being removed from the tower, and will soon be replaced by larger glass panels. A slick animation of the process is available here. The reclaimed...

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Historic Modern

by ERA Architects

...City, Colin Rowe and Fred Koetter critiqued the city of modern architecture against the built conditions of the traditional city. With the adeptness of the ‘bricoler’, Rowe and Koetter state that these early city builders had the ingenuity to maneuver within and around the city’s built forms and spaces in order to complement and integrate with their surroundings. Referring to...

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