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Peter Dickinson
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...the article for some great images, and pick up the book to learn more about just how influential Dickinson was in shaping our modern city. Spread from ‘Peter Dickinson‘, published by Dominion Modern, showing the lobby of the O’Keefe Centre and a number of Dickinson’s early sketches from 1957. Top photograph from the City of Toronto Archives. Fonds 1257, f1257_s1057_it0815....
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The Future of the Glass Tower?
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...York and more than seven times the number in Shanghai. Given the prominence of this building form and the relevance to our city, this talk will explore the future of the glass tower in Toronto. Graeme’s presentation will review two Toronto tower booms, first the concrete slab apartment tower boom of our post-war years, and second the boom of glass...
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ERA Presents at TCLF Second Wave of Modernism III: Leading with Landscape
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...Rosenberg & Studio and Mayor John Tory set the tone for the days’ discussion. Charles Birnbaum, founder and president of TCLF, followed by asking: How do we measure success in this second wave? Who can manage change? How can we be sure that heritage and first-rate modernist design co-exist within our physical landscapes? Guild Park & Gardens. A number of...
Read MoreToronto to Detroit
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...revitalization at several scales, from community gardens to large-scale economic reinvestment. Organizations such as the Detroit Creative Corridor Center (DC3) and the Detroit Economic Growth Commission are rethinking the city step by step. The result is a burgeoning arts community, an increasing number of interesting adaptive reuse projects in formerly abandoned buildings, and important improvements to infrastructure and the public...
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Allan Gardens Harvest Festival
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...located in the Allan Gardens neighbourhood, to plan the day. Building Roots, an offshoot of Food Forward, brought together a number of urban agriculture groups to share their work with festivalgoers. Lining the park’s paths, information tables offered demonstrations of composts for worms, kits for growing garlic, packets of basil and radishes seeds, and a range of information on guerilla...
Read MoreProposed Heritage Policies in the ‘Toronto Official Plan’ Review
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...review of the draft policies and is proposing a number of significant amendments, in order to enhance their clarity and transparency, and eliminate potential redundancies. The amendments are also intended to make explicit the strong connection that exists between heritage conservation and sustainable development, and the critical contribution that cultural heritage makes to the character and livability of Toronto’s neighbourhoods....
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Announcing the Frank Darling Book Project
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...Bank of Commerce, Vancouver. (Photo: Jason King Architect) Bank of Montreal, Toronto. (Photo: David Winterton) As part of its mission to uncover and share new tangents in urban history at the vanguard of heritage theory, ERA has collaboratively published or been instrumental in the production of a number of books, such as Concrete Toronto: A Guide to Concrete Architecture from the Fifties...
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We’re off to Botwood, Nfld.
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As part of the Culture of Outports initiative, ERA’s Andrew Pruss, Alana Young, and Jordan Molnar are heading to Botwood Newfoundland from Feb. 15 to 22. Together with a group of Ryerson Architecture students, we’ll be collaborating with the community on a number of events, as well as the design and construction of an intervention in the local landscape. Botwood,...
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One Spadina Crescent: When All is Finally Revealed…….
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...Presbyterian Church bought the land and commissioned architects James Smith & John Gemmell to build Knox College. Having been adapted over the years to a number of different uses, the structure survives today as a fine example of Gothic Revival architecture, with a heritage designation (designated under Part IV of the Ontario Heritage Act on March 17, 1976). Beginning in...
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Missed Connections
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...best submitted messages. Many were un-printably raunchy, an unfortunate number were self-promotional, and there were even a few entirely inappropriate solicitations of employment (sorry, “up-and-coming Architect – looking 4 a intro job“). If you think you’re the person mentioned, please contact us at [email protected] and we can forward your reply to the original author. “You – tall, dark & handsome....
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Women in Architecture: A Seminar Presented by Building Equity in Architecture, Toronto (BEAT)
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...as a prelude to International Women’s Day, which falls on March 8th. Given the findings of recent surveys that show a decrease in the percentage of women who study architecture versus those who are currently practicing, and the number of firm partners and principals who are women, the seminar’s mandate was: 1. To provide insight into the professional histories of...
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Micallef: Canada’s identity, modernist architecture
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...our residences, universities, schools, malls, factories, and corporate headquarters, Canada is a nation stitched together with modernist fabric. Every urban area, it seems, has its share of brutalist concrete slab towers, curtain-glass minimalist icons, geodesic domes, and long elegant bungalows with exaggerated eaves. Though we might call out a small number of masterpieces as worthy of our attention, Canada in...
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