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Toronto the Good Celebrates the City’s Parks & Trees

by ERA Architects

...cash bar, and a lively crowd of people passionate about design and democracy in Toronto. Admission is free but registration is required. This year’s event will also include a silent auction featuring this scenic photograph taken by the talented artist, Robert Burley. When: Friday, May 22nd, 2015, 6:30pm – 11:00pm. Where: The Fermenting Cellar in the Distillery District. Guest Appearances...

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Preparing for Toronto the Good party

by ERA Architects

...the inaugural event, we’ve added other partners like the Toronto Society of Architects, Wireless Toronto, and Heritage Toronto and made the event one of the most popular during the Festival of Architecture and Design held each May. The event has been hosted once at Fort York and three other times at the Fermenting Cellar in the Distillery District. We are...

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R.L. Hearn Generating Station

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...Toronto, known for adaptive reuse of industrial buildings such as the Brickworks, Wychwood Barns and Distillery District, is lending its weight to a movement to reuse the Hearn. Read the full article ‘Proposal calls for three rinks in Hearn plant‘ A map of Toronto highlighting the downtown core and the site of the R.L. Hearn Generating Station. Will MacIvor Situated...

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TCLF Presents, Second Wave of Modernism III: Leading with Landscape Conference

by ERA Architects

...new models for public/private financing and management are emerging? Here is a look at the exciting Event Calendar! May 21, 5:00pm – 7:00pm – Opening Reception. Location: Gardiner Museum, 111 Queens Park. May 22, 8:30am – 5:00pm – Second Wave of Modernism III: Leading with Landscape conference. Location: Isabel Bader Theatre, 93 Charles St. W. May 22, 6:30pm – 11:00pm...

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Toronto the Good: Great!

by ERA Architects

...thanks to Sonya Tytor and Julie Tyndorf, Dave Meslin and all the people from RaBIT, DJ Elijah Walsh (the Unknown Funk Hero), photographer Catherine Mombourquette, Astley Gilbert Printers, Spacing Magazine, the Fermenting Cellar and the Distillery District, the OPPI, and mayoral candidates Morgan Baskin, Olivia Chow, Mark Cidade, Mathew Crack, Ari Goldkind, Klim Khomenko, Michael Nicula, Lee Romanov, Sketchy the...

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Respectful Rehabilitation

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...past year ERA Principal Michael McClelland was a guest lecturer at Simon Fraser University. His lectures on Respectful Rehabilitation included “Rehabilitation and New Design – The Royal Ontario Museum and the Art Gallery of Ontario” and “Balancing Heritage Conservation in the Private Sector: A Case Study of the Distillery District in Toronto”. They can now be viewed online at www.sfu.ca/city/city_pgm_videos.htm...

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2006 Ontario WoodWORKS Awards

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ERA is pleased to announce that The Ojibway Club in Pointe au Baril, Ontario was the recipient of this year’s Wood Council Heritage Award. Also recognized was the Boiler House Restaurant at the Distillery District, this year’s commercial recipient of the Council’s Wood Design Award. Congratulations to all of this year’s winners!...

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Championing resiliency this Earth Day

by ERA Architects

...can help to bolster many communities’ move from resource-based to creative economies. ERA’s work with historic infrastructure to find new uses for their spaces has spurred place-based economies. At the Distillery District, we transformed a brownfield site into an arts and culture hub, driven by below-market rents for artists’ studios. Our work at Cambium Farms in Caledon has adapted a...

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Heritage Toronto 2017 Award Nominations and Great Architectural Heritage Bus Tour

by ERA Architects

The 2017 Heritage Toronto award nominations are now listed on the organization’s website. ERA is pleased to share that the firm is represented through three projects in the following categories: Public History Award Howard Street House Move Creators: David Dworkind, Filmmaker and Timelapse Devin Lund, Timelapse Producers: Rafi Younger, Lanterra Developments Ltd. Scott Weir, ERA Architects William Greer Architectural Conservation...

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TORONTO the GOOD

by ERA Architects

TORONTO THE GOOD: MAY 27th WHEN: Tuesday, May 27th, 2008 starting at 7pm WHERE: Fermenting Cellar, Distillery District HOW MUCH: $10 gets you into the site, plus food • CASH BAR DJs: Track Meet ATTIRE: dress to impress, but not enforced RSVP: email [email protected] WEB: http://www.torontothegood.org Dear Torontonians, The Festival of Architecture and Design is here again, and the folks...

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Announcing Founding Principal Edwin Rowse’s retirement from ERA Architects Inc.

by ERA Architects

...group of principals. Edwin’s remarkable capacity to combine finely detailed architectural, historical and technical considerations — whether for conservation or adaptive reuse projects — became a driving inspiration behind many of ERA’s projects, from the Distillery District in Toronto to national historic sites such as Parkwood Estate and Ruthven Park, to Trinity St. Paul’s Church for Tafelmusik, and to Ottawa’s...

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TALLINN–TORONTO: The Influence of Estonian Modernism in Shaping Toronto

by ERA Architects

...Architecture. Toronto in Estonian: Section of exhibition at the Museum of Estonian Architecture. For more on on Toronto’s Estonian modernism, the works of Prii and other Estonian Canadian architects feature strongly in both Concrete Toronto https://www.eraarch.ca/project/concrete-toronto/ (ERA / Coach House) and the Concrete Toronto Map https://bluecrowmedia.com/collections/architecture-maps/products/concrete-toronto-map (ERA / Bluecrow Media). Also see an article by the Globe & Mail’s Dave...

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