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ERA Architects

Projects

Wesley Building, CityTV/CTV

...tile exterior. This work involved extensive on-site building analysis and documentation connected to digital schedules to provide a long-term maintenance plan. This phased project was completed over five years. ERA continues to provide consulting services for heritage work. The building was formerly home to CityTV, MuchMusic, and Speaker’s Corner. It is now owned and operated by CTV and Bell Media....

Wateridge Village / Village des Riverains: Commemoration Program

In partnership with the Algonquins of Ontario (AOO), Canada Lands Company (Canada Lands) is developing a new mixed-use urban community east of Ottawa’s downtown core. Now called Wateridge Village/Village des Riverains, the 310-acre site is on unceded Algonquin traditional territory, located on the former Rockcliffe Airbase, and near surrounding francophone neighbourhoods. ERA was engaged to develop a Commemoration Program for...

51 Division – Police Headquarters

...building intersect and work together in a “long life, low energy, loose fit” approach to both heritage and sustainability. While the new building meets current energy efficiency standards, the heritage fabric is only partially heated and cooled. This strategy conserves energy and protects the historic masonry, which is left exposed, retaining the site’s historic industrial appearance. Heritage work involved the...

Coronation park Coronation Park

...features, and providing a contemporary interpretation that reflected and honoured the historic intent of the park design. This work included interpretive signage, featuring a new wayfinding map and new granite markers aimed to increase the legibility of the commemorative landscape. Landscape upgrades, including new paths, seating, and low-maintenance planting were integrated throughout the site, while remaining complementary to the historic...

Photo of cottage Off-Grid Island Cottage

This family had summered at Pointe au Baril for decades, enjoying much of this Georgian Bay island. On a ruggedly beautiful site with expansive lake views, ERA designed a simple set of airy spaces that responded to the landscape, while leaving a light ecological footprint in this new, off-the-grid cottage. Living spaces are cool and open with exposed rafters and...

Bridgepoint Health: The Old Don Jail

...architecture. The heavily rusticated stone and imposing masonry structure—symbolically appropriate for its purpose—remained in excellent condition right up to its closure as a functioning jail in 1977. In 2013, a conservation and adaptive reuse project was completed to preserve the site’s heritage while providing new administrative offices for Bridgepoint Active Healthcare. ERA advised Bridgepoint prior to the purchase of the...

Canadian Film Centre, Windfields

The Canadian Film Centre is located on a 1930’s neo-Georgian estate of one of Canada’s leading businessmen, the late E.P. Taylor. The estate comprises many buildings including a gatehouse, stables and gardener’s cottage set in a formalized landscape. The cultural significance of the site and associated buildings relates to the continued progression of the Canadian business elite from the Victorian...

Algonquin Great Camp

This vast lakefront site with an ensemble of historic log buildings was reconstituted as a family compound after an intervening period as a children’s camp. ERA refurbished the interior of the main lodge to highlight its expressive log construction details. The staircase’s intricately detailed log work gives the cottage a rustic, ranch-like feel, and complements the exposed log beams on...

Chiefswood Museum

Built in 1853, Chiefswood was the childhood home of E. Pauline Johnson, renowned Canadian poet and performer. A National Historic Site, ERA provided full architectural services for the phased restoration of the interior and exterior of the house and the reconstruction of the wood-clad kitchen wing, in accordance with a conservation plan developed with Parks Canada. An interpretive program for...

Caledon Log Cabin Restoration

Underneath layers of siding, on what appeared as a forgotten agricultural outbuilding, hid a 150-year-old log cabin. ERA was hired to assess the viability of restoring the existing structure and reimagine it into a private artist studio hideaway nestled into a rustic landscape estate. To better understand the heritage of the site and the structure ERA prepared a Cultural Heritage...

Senate of Canada Building

...with prime consultants DSA-KWC Architects in a joint venture, and with John Cooke and Associates as structural engineers. As part of this multidisciplinary team, ERA was involved in all project phases from schematic design through site review and construction administration. The project scope included the full rehabilitation of the exterior and interior of the building. Ottawa’s Union Station (right) opened...

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....