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Evergreen Brickworks wins CNU Charter Award

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Evergreen Brick Works was just honoured with a 2013 Congress for New Urbanism (CNU) Charter Award, announced May 29 in Salt Lake City. ERA has been working on this project for several years with project partners including Evergreen, architectsAlliance, DTAH, Diamond Schmitt, and Claude Cormier + Associés, among others. Jurors praised the project for its innovative reuse of a challenging...

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Ken Soble Tower, a white-clad 18-storey tower viewed from a vantage at ground level and looking high up into the sky.
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Canada’s Ken Soble Tower certified as world’s largest residential Passive House EnerPHit retrofit

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...the Passive House high-performance building standard. EnerPHit is the Passive House standard for retrofit projects. Passive House is recognized internationally as the optimal way to build healthy, climate-resilient, affordable, and energy-efficient residential, institutional, and commercial buildings through all stages of design, construction, and livability. We facilitate the adoption of the Passive House Standard through our advocacy work, education program, and...

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Append & tweak: Rethinking heritage in our suburbs

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...within a bounded geography and then prescribing limitations to preserve them in their current state. Adopting a cultural landscape approach, however, can offer a more nuanced, flexible approach that attempts to document a larger range of resources, from culture, to natural resources, to heritage landscapes. As a case study, the article looks at Mississauga’s Lakeview neighbourhood, which was used as...

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Iron man: Meet Joe Orsi

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...conservation of historic buildings. Over the years, he has established a reputation as one of the UK’s leading authorities in the conservation of historic buildings, with a special interest in conservation of metals, lime based finishes, and product research. Today, he sits on the Technical Advisory Board of the Society for the Protection of Ancient Buildings and consults internationally. At...

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Three New Principals and Expanding Leadership at ERA

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...housing retrofit and the adaptive reuse of existing buildings. Ya’el is ERA’s lead Tower Renewal Architect, overseeing a team of specialists to execute complex, holistic and resilient energy retrofits on post-war apartment towers across the region.  SENIOR ASSOCIATES  In our Toronto office, we’re pleased to introduce Alexis Cohen, Douglas DeGannes, Dan Eylon, Jessie Grebenc, Samantha Irvine, Daniel Lewis, Ryan Love,...

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TALLINN–TORONTO: The Influence of Estonian Modernism in Shaping Toronto

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...modernism. Exhibition and Symposium in fall of 2017 at Toronto’s Tartu College with ERA’s Graeme Stewart as presenter. These exhibitions, and forthcoming book, are a result of years of research by Tallinn Architecture Centre archivist Jarmo Kauge. Following with curiosity the rise in cult status of Estonian-Canadian Uno Prii, whose large cannon of whimsically optimistic modernism have become local icons...

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Toronto the Good 2017

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...a future around more complete, resilient, and affordable cities. Tower Renewal is a strategy for realizing this change. We hope you will join us at the Evergreen Brick Works on October 5th, 2017, in celebration of the Tower Renewal Partnership’s accomplishments at this year’s event. Join us for hors d’ourves, cash bar, and a lively crowd of people passionate about...

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Alois Riegl and the Modern Cult of the Monument

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...this patina, and the incomplete, fragmentary ruin which expresses the passage of time. This leads to an explicit recognition of the value of the fragment, which in turn became a fundamental construct of modern critical thought – as explored and expanded by Warberg, Benjamin, Adorno, etc. and through the collage-art of Picasso, and into multiple, shifting view-points of cubism, etc....

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Fairfield and DuBois

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...Architects, and designed buildings across North American, including theatres in New York and Alberta, and university buildings at Trent, Toronto, and Lakehead University. He died in 1994. Macy DuBois founded DuBois, Plumb and Associates in 1975 with his second wife, Helga Plumb. He was an Honorary Fellow of the Architectural Institute of America, a member and past president of the...

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

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...and supports the many practices that are involved in the design, construction, operation and management of a built asset.” Unlike traditional building design, BIM incorporates information beyond the 3 primary dimensions (width, height, and depth), by including data regarding time, costs, asset management, sustainability, and more, allowing a quantitative and qualitative understanding of building components, manufacturers’ details, and more throughout...

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The Honest Ed’s Project: A Contemporary Intangible Heritage Project – Guest Blog by Jay Pitter

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...times, felt like I was the one being “interviewed”. When satisfied by my responses, he opened up his wallet. I leaned in, intrigued. He produced a black and white photo of a much younger man. “This is me, the only holocaust survivor in my entire family,” he said. I forgot to breathe, but he didn’t notice. He was too busy...

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In-House Experts: Heritage Mortars 101 & Heritage Interiors

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...session series. First up, ERA Associate Jessie Grebenc gave a talk on ‘Heritage Mortars 101’ as part of the Wednesday Design Forum series. The presentation led in with the philosophical decision-making process required to conserve a building. More thoroughly, it defined mortar, its components, uses and evolution, how to determine its age based on set analytical criteria and the related...

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