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Port Union Community Build

by ERA Architects

...Ryan Giuricich, Mitchell May, Elijah Sabadlan, and Karl Sarkis to the Trinity Bay North communities of Catalina, Little Catalina, Melrose, and Port Union. The team proposed design interventions in all four communities, and succeeded in constructing a project to completion in Port Union. The Port Union design is known as Foundation Square, and is located at the central waterfront location...

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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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Concrete Toronto on spacing.ca

by ERA Architects

...The magazine advocates taking a closer look at our modernist heritage, and asks that we reevaluate and learn to take care of it as our city matures. To view this series, go to spacing.ca. To buy the book, please visit Coach House Books. Free: Download a poster of 52 Concrete Buildings (33 MB, 50 x 25″, see lower-res image below)....

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Shipbuilding in NFLD: a book

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...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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Architecture and value

by ERA Architects

...the range of what we think of as architecture, Michael’s talk asks, What should architects do? According to him, they shouldn’t only make buildings, but conduct research, engage the public, study the world, respond to changing values, and… throw parties. To read Spacing Ottawa’s review of the talk, see Spacing online. Or, watch the video of the slide presentation below:...

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Jane Jacobs Prize to Graeme Stewart & Sabina Ali

by ERA Architects

...the diverse aspects of city life.” Graeme has been awarded the prize for his years of work towards Tower Renewal in Toronto. ERA and the Centre for Urban Growth and Renewal have been collaborating on Tower Renewal initiatives with the City, United Way Toronto, Toronto Public Health, Scarborough East Storefront, Thorncliffe Park, University of Toronto, National Film Board, and other...

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University of Toronto’s Landscape of Landmark Quality Design Competition

by ERA Architects

The University of Toronto put forward an eight-week intensive Landscape of Landmark Quality Innovative Design Competition to revitalize the historic landscapes of St. George campus. These major public spaces include King’s College Circle, Hart House Circle, the Sir Daniel Wilson Quadrangle, Back Campus, and Tower Road. Following a qualification stage, four teams were selected to prepare design proposals. A public...

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Heritage Masonry with Dr. Gerard Lynch, May 13 to 22

by ERA Architects

Masons, heritage professionals, architects, historians, and all interested parties: We invite you to join us for a new installment of Dr. Gerard Lynch’s extraordinary courses in brickwork, May 13 to 22 at Evergreen Brickworks, Toronto. Learn from scholar and master mason Gerard Lynch about traditional limes and mortars, traditional binders, historical forms of pointing and jointing, causes of failure in...

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New Vision Church Preaches to the Converted as โ€˜The Music Hallโ€™ (with new video link)

by ERA Architects

...money for newcomer/refugee youth as a part of Hamilton’s Supercrawl festival, headlined by The National, with performances by Kevin Drew, Hayden, JUNO Fest 2015, with musical guests including Joel Plaskett, Jenn Grant, and Mo Kenney, and a folk-rock performance by musician Terra Lightfoot. There is also an upcoming concert on November 18th with acclaimed Canadian singer-songwriter Daniel Lanois, with tickets...

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Yonge St.: development, heritage, and change

by ERA Architects

...projects. So much so, in a number of cases, that the new design can end up playing “second fiddle” to the heritage fabric. This type of development will be seen more and more along the city’s historic Yonge St., which will see big changes over the next several years. To read Dave’s article, please visit the Globe & Mail online....

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Irwin House: Floating in mid-air

by ERA Architects

...(Jablonsky Ast), geostructural engineers (Isherwood), and building movers (Laurie McCulloch). The moving of houses, always a methodical and careful process, is a practice that occurs more often than most people realize, and has a history dating back to at least the 1700s. In this case, the building could only move about six inches per minute and took almost three days...

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2021: Honours & Awards at ERA

by ERA Architects

...floor levels and stone walkways, a new elevator tower providing centralized vertical circulation, and the provision of concealed accessible hardware into historic door assemblies. Kennedy Collegiate, Windsor ON Windsor Built Heritage Awards Heritage Conservation The Honourable W. C. Kennedy Collegiate, designed by Architects Cameron & Ralston and constructed c.1929, had needed large-scale repairs for some time. The Greater Essex County...

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