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Urban Governance: A Joint MITACS Project ( by guest blogger Jeff Biggar)

by ERA Architects

...civic commons as a collection of shared assets (parks, libraries, public markets, etc) that enable connections and foster a better sense of community. Importantly, private support from foundations and business allowed this project to happen. This type of partnership is inspiring. We are not experiencing the ‘end of public space’ as we know it, but rather public space is being...

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Shipbuilding in NFLD: a book

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ERA’s Philip Evans and grandfather Calvin Evans are about to launch Master Shipbuilders of Newfoundland and Labrador, Vol I, a detailed account of one of maritime Canada’s oldest traditions. The book, published by Breakwater Books, will be launched at 3:30 on Sat. Sept. 14 at the St. John’s Chapters. Philip and Calvin Evans will be present for an informal discussion...

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The Lost Craft of Tuck Pointing

by ERA Architects

...damaged brick edges in order to finish flush with the wall face. Over this is a narrow ribbon of fine, vernally white or cream coloured pointing material of well-sifted lime mixed with fine silica sand. This is skillfully applied or ‘tucked’ onto the regular grooved centres of the prepared joints and precisely trimmed to size. Walking through neighbourhoods such as...

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Cambium Farms barn and silo

Historic farmsteads drive a new rural cultural economy

by ERA Architects

...community need. ERA has had the opportunity to work closely with a number of these farmsteads and their owners in recent years. These property owners are looking for innovative adaptive reuse opportunities to help catalyze their local cultural economy by leveraging their heritage asset. ERA engages with these projects using the framework of the Historic Ontario Farmstead. The Historic Ontario...

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Headspace

by ERA Architects

...buildings are an important component of that. Another concern is that you can lose much of your city’s culture if you lose what’s already been built. Older buildings, such as those in downtown Toronto, provide fairly inexpensive rental space allowing for cultural communities to flourish. If you demolish an older building and put up a new one, the tax rate...

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The Future Ridgeway Community Court

by ERA Architects

...summarized below, took place Wednesday, October 28th. This is a historic image of the community. The site of the future multi-sports court in the Colonial Terrace community was originally part of the small village of Snider’s Corner named after an early settler, David Snider. The township was eventually annexed by Mississauga in 1974 with the current housing being built in...

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Affordability and resiliency: Renewing Toronto’s towers

by ERA Architects

...encourage broad investment in the improvement of private apartment towers while maintaining rents at affordable levels. The recommendations emphasized the importance of acting swiftly when it comes to retrofitting these towers. They include: incentivizing higher levels of affordability and accessibility, accelerating tower renewal with a retrofit program and more. Watch the presentation below, and for the full list of recommendations,...

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La Cour d’appel du QuΓ©bec

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ERA and Kubanek Architecte are pleased to announce a collaboration with the Société immobilière du Québec on heritage conservation work at the Cour d’appel du Québec in Montreal. The monumental building, located on Notre Dame St. E. in Old Montreal, was designed by Ernest Cormier, Louis-Auguste Amos and Charles J. Saxe, and completed in 1926. Cormier, known for his fine...

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Nothing is Impossible: NXT City defines its strategies for city-building through an inspirational presentation at ERA

by ERA Architects

...on methods of reshaping the city in delightful, unexpected ways. The various platforms compliment and reinforce their objective: the NXT City Prize was initiated as an opportunity to encourage and reward thought leadership on relevant topics. Teams are invited to submit proposals for jury review based solely on the quality of the idea. The NXT City Symposium promotes itself as...

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The top of 8 King Street East pre-construction.

Dave LeBlanc for The Globe and Mail: The tower that once topped Toronto shines again

by ERA Architects

...8 King East. The building literally glows. “With the shiny windows and the creamy terracotta, it does look like opening day in 1915,” Mr. McGillivray says. “It looks crackin’ from the street,” Mr. Lewis says. When workers return after COVID-19 is done, Mr. Rowe says, they’ll surely do a double take: “What is this building, I’ve never seen it before!”...

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Community Art Project at the Riverdale Hub

by ERA Architects

...and investment. ERA has been consulting the Riverdale Hub on how to achieve community revitalization objectives through strategic analysis, administration, communication, and design. The project requires the collaboration of a wide range of community stakeholders, local artists, municipal staff, and volunteers. It is a collaborative process where diversity, flexibility and inclusiveness are vital to its success and one of many...

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Concrete Ideas

by admin

...futures in the Toronto context. Congratulations to Pina and the publication team on a wonderful and beautiful book. Read about Concrete Ideas in a John Bentley Mays review in the Globe and Mail here. Concrete Ideas: Material to Shape a City will be available for order online at Amazon.ca soon. For more on concrete, Concrete Toronto can be found here....

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