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Oleleshwa Primary School construction update

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Alec has arrived in Kenya, where he is taking a few weeks away from ERA in order to oversee the construction of his design for the Oleleshua Primary School in Ewaso Ngiro. It looks as though work is sprinting ahead, with the entire community pitching in. For more updates, be sure and visit the project blog at Harambee for Humanity....

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Found Toronto Installation in the News

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...city, on a massive scale, letting the public see the Victorian city that was in order to see how the old Toronto connects to contemporary Toronto. Other contributors include Goldsmith Borgal & Company Architects and Taylor Hazell Architects. And if photography excites you, documentary shooter Peter Sibbald’s photo series and essay, Elegy for a Stolen Land, is a real treat....

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Architect Registration

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Congratulations to Robyn Huether and Jan Kubanek for receiving their architect registrations. Robyn is registered with the Ontario Association of Architects (OAA). Jan is registered with the Order of Architects of Quebec (OAQ)....

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Inspiring City Builders of Tomorrow: ERA & Jane’s Walk

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...Central Technical School, where they shared research strategies, made connections between Toronto and students’ places of origin, and inspired conversation about students’ interests. After a presentation by Jasmine on how to access online information from the Toronto Archives, the students broke into small groups to decide upon stops in the walking tour they wanted to create and research. Three classroom...

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Ridgeway workshop

Building for the community, with the community

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...a resident of a tower retrofit or a visitor to a museum, at the centre of our planning and project development. While human-centred design includes making sure the needs and behaviours of people are understood in order to make the most impact, it also ensures the community is part of the project’s development from the outset. The transformation of an...

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A Delicious Thanks from the Church of the Redeemer!

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...of the bell and restoring the stained glass windows facing Bloor Street. The interior project included a number of accessibility upgrades, such as the installation of a new wheelchair lift and renovations to the chancel and the nave in order to provide barrier-free access to all members of the congregation. A delicious cake celebrating the restoration efforts was presented after...

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Admit One

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A handful of ERAers paid their dues this year (both literally and metaphorically), and attended the OAA admissions course. The OBC, the Construction Lien Act, and a number of other essential components of professional practice were presented and absorbed in short order. A necessary marathon, which brings us all one step closer to accreditation. Get it done, team....

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Oleleshwa Primary School, Ewaso Ngiro, Kenya

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...set up in the town of Gravenhurst, Ontario in order to finance this project. Traditional Maasai Enkaji (house) near the school grounds. Some of the students who will attend the new primary school. The presentation looked at the culture of the Maasai people, their traditionally nomadic way of life, their architecture, and a proposal for the new school and school...

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Preparing for Toronto the Good party

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...identifying their preferred location (see photos above and below). The only catch is that the map shows buildings and green spaces, but no street names. It forces people to look at the map in a different manner — in order to find your desired spot you need to understand Toronto in a deeper way by being able to recognize the...

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Canada Hair Cloth

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ERA is currently working with DSAI to convert the former Canada Hair Cloth factory in St. Catharines, ON, into Brock University’s new school for the performing arts. We’ve been down to site a few times to survey the conditions of the existing buildings – the oldest of which dates to 1888 – in order to cost and direct the restoration...

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Birnbaum on Toronto’s landscapes

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...brought a useful third-party perspective to some of the issues faced by Toronto’s designed landscapes. Themes included: the necessity of better understanding the natural and cultural contexts surrounding landscape in order to preserve, maintain, or appropriately change them; the need to elevate landscape design discourse beyond just budget and practicality, and towards the creation of “authentic places”; and the need...

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Military infrastructure designation, UK

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...was designated by English Heritage. “Cavitation” is the formation and collapse of bubbles, a process which marine designers attempted to minimize in order to reduce propeller erosion and underwater noise (particularly important for submarines in wartime). A cavitation tunnel is similar in function to a wind tunnel, but filled with water for hydrodynamic testing. No. 2 Cavitation Tunnel was built...

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