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East Scarborough Storefront East Scarborough Storefront

...the graphics and logo for the court. Other features include a kitchen garden with a patio and grapevine trellis. The community centre also received funding from the MLSE “Team Up” Foundation to design and build an outdoor, multi-purpose sports court. The MLSE/Jumpstart Sports Court is a former parking lot converted for use as multi-functional area for basketball, soccer, performances, and...

The Selby front facade The Selby

The Gooderham Mansion is a landmark building on the corner of Sherbourne and Selby Streets in Toronto’s St. Jamestown neighbourhood. Now a mixed-use space, the top two floors of the building are used as amenity space for The Selby, a purpose-built rental tower developed by Tricon Capital. The ground and basement floors house a restaurant and retail space. Built in...

Mirvish and Gehry on King St. West

For this project, sited on King near John St. in Toronto’s entertainment district, David Mirvish and Frank Gehry propose a three-building residential and mixed-use complex including OCAD University’s “Princess of Wales Centre for Visual Arts,” as well as a new public art gallery. The new gallery will make available for the first time David Mirvish’s unique collection of large-scale modern...

Mirvish Village

...a collaborative project team led by Westbank and Henriquez Partners Architects, who set out to reinterpret and extend the history and character of the site in a mixed-use redevelopment. Historic buildings and their uses are echoed in the new development, including the bazaar-like quality of Honest Ed’s in the new Market, the narrow 19th and 20th century store frontages on...

Sisters of St. Joseph: Taylor House

This building, sited on the east bank of Toronto’s Don River, was constructed in 1885 for John F. Taylor, founder of the Don Valley Brick Works. The building was designed in the Queen Anne style by architect D.B. Dick, and is constructed from local brick on a stone base. Over many years of use, the building had undergone many additions...

Alma College Square

This significant and historic property is situated on the former grounds of Alma College, an important Victorian-era private girls’ school in St Thomas, Ontario. The College, although cherished by the community and its many alumnae, was closed in the 1980s and the property, along with its fine Gothic Revival building and rustic ravine amphitheatre, was sold. After years of neglect...

Five Corners

...mixed use loft development. Five Corners is a designated heritage property. ERA wrote a Cultural Heritage Adjacency Impact Statement, Heritage Impact Statement, Conservation Plan and assisted in drafting the Heritage Easement Agreement for the site. Work included preparing to dismantle and reconstruct the façade of the warehouse building at 6 Church Street, which had originally been constructed on wooden foundations....

Guild Park Columns Guild Park and Gardens

...an important destination for family-friendly, passive recreation, and trail use by a broader catchment area. In 2014, ERA Architects and The Planning Partnership were retained by the City of Toronto to create a Management Plan for the site, providing a comprehensive strategy to help guide the protection, restoration and enhancement of the special character of the site. The report included...

Casey House Ramp: 9 Huntley St.

...gentle slope and guardrail height required by law. The new ramp uses a varying array of posts that plays on the aesthetic of the porch rail of Casey House. This design allows a degree of transparency to the heritage fabric behind, and allows dappled sunlight to reach the House’s garden, which is landscaped with aromatic plants and flagstone stepping stones....

Canadian Lesbian and Gay Archives

The Canadian Lesbian and Gay Archives acquired the Jared Sessions House from the Toronto Children’s Aid Society, to be renovated for use as their permanent headquarters. The house was built in 1859-60, and is listed on the City of Toronto’s inventory of heritage properties. ERA developed a conservation strategy for the building, allowing it to be adapted to the requirements...

University of Toronto: Landscape of Landmark Quality

...College Circle lawn. The HIA includes complex heritage policy review integrating the University’s current secondary plan update process. Through analysis of the site’s historic context and its patterns of use, circulation, and space, ERA’s assessment of the Landmark Project highlights the design strategy as a sensitive, contemporary response to the area’s role as a ceremonial landscape that predates the automobile....

Convocation Hall

...distinctive shallow dome remains in use throughout the year as a lecture hall for university courses. While the design of the Hall is said to be based on that of the Sorbonne Theatre in Paris, the origins of the rotunda form with its oculus can be traced to the Pantheon in Rome. In the centennial year of the Hall, ERA...