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Landscape symposium: Toronto 2015

by admin

...use needs to be reexamined and championed if we wish them to continue to add value to our public realm. We thank Charles for his time in Toronto and look forward enthusiastically to participating in the TCLF Symposium! To learn more about Charles’s visit, please see our blog. Also: Check out Charles’s writing on Toronto’s landscapes in The Huffington Post....

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Michael McClelland joins TCLF Stewardship Council

by ERA Architects

...abroad for the recognition and protection of cultural landscapes. ERA is becoming increasingly involved in landscape architecture and consulting on cultural landscapes, and is pleased to be participating in the 2015 TCLF conference to be held in Toronto. Read Michael McClelland’s writing on landscape… “Cultural Landscapes in the City,” ICOMOS Congress, Sept 2005 “Preserving Modern Landscape Architecture II,” Spacemaker Press,...

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

by ERA Architects

...funder and then a communications and public engagement director before earning a graduate degree at York University’s Faculty of Environmental Studies. Her work is focused on inclusive stakeholder engagement, placemaking and city-building initiatives. She has been a guest lecturer at the University of Toronto and York University, and was recently a faculty member at the University of Guelph-Humber. Her writing...

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Storefronts and urban evolution: Q&A with Shannon Clayton 

by Alessandro Tersigni

This week ERA is exploring the history and design of storefront architecture. To understand the origins, evolution, and future of this iconic feature of commercial buildings, ERA writer-researcher Alessandro Tersigni sat down with Shannon Clayton, the firm’s resident storefront expert. Shannon has worked on many conservation projects involving the design of new storefronts for commercial heritage buildings in Toronto, including...

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The community that could: The Storefront shares its story

by ERA Architects

Recently the East Scarborough Storefront published a report documenting a number of aspects of their path to neighbourhood renewal. Since the Storefront’s approach has proven so successful, this report is very valuable for other communities interested in making some positive changes to the neighbourhood. Since the late 1990s, the East Scarborough Storefront has been facilitating community-driven services and initiatives to...

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Designed landscapes: Ground Magazine

by ERA Architects

...conservation, and argues that designed landscapes need more sensitive conservation tools, professional advocacy, and public education. With better tools and heightened awareness, McClelland writes, we can prevent the degradation and devaluation that so often occurs in landscape situations, and begin to champion these spaces as important cultural resources for our cities and communities. View the full issue of Ground online....

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The new Standard

by ERA Architects

Graeme is featured on the cover of the brand new Toronto Standard online daily news portal, with an extensive interview covering the Tower Neighbourhood Renewal initiative. This is a 20-year project. We’re talking about a huge number of buildings, hundreds of neighbourhoods and over a million [residents]. It’s about a gradual process of improvement. For now, it’s working in specific...

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The Ward: A new book, UPDATE

by ERA Architects

...the finest contemporary Canadian writers with practitioners from digital media and other art forms. Tickets for the festival are available online through Eventbrite. May 7, 6:30pm – The festival begins with an Opening Pub Night celebrating contemporary cultural production. Location: CSI Annex 720 Bathurst St., Toronto. May 10, 7:00pm – 9:00pm – Hosted by Gerry Flahive, the closing panel of...

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Refreshing Allan Gardens

by ERA Architects

...of Spacing Magazine online or at your local newsstand outlet. To learn more about the Allan Gardens Refresh – a vision document produced by FOAG in partnership with the City of Toronto Parks, Forestry & Recreation Division – visit friendsofallangardens.ca Allan Gardens feature image courtesy of Brent Wagler. Workshop image curtesy of ERA Architects. Spacing cover image courtesy of spacing...

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Port Union Community Build

by ERA Architects

...for welcoming us into your communities, and making this project a great success. We wish you well and look forward to continuing initiatives! For more on the history of Port Union, and lots of information and images documenting our two-week residency, please see the Culture of Outports website. Recent Press: Globe & Mail, CBC Radio, CBC News Online, Ryerson News...

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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

...and journalists. A number of Concrete Toronto articles will be republished as an online supplement to Spacing Magazine’s summer issue “Toronto Modernism: Stop the Hate!” 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...

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