{"id":16456,"date":"2020-08-07T11:21:52","date_gmt":"2020-08-07T15:21:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.eraarch.ca\/?p=16456"},"modified":"2020-08-07T11:22:56","modified_gmt":"2020-08-07T15:22:56","slug":"pandemic-effect-housing-retrofits-era-architects-for-canadian-architect-magazine","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.eraarch.ca\/2020\/pandemic-effect-housing-retrofits-era-architects-for-canadian-architect-magazine\/","title":{"rendered":"Pandemic effect: ERA Architects for Canadian Architect magazine"},"content":{"rendered":"
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As part of Canadian Architect’s Pandemic Effect series, ERA Architects’ Ya’el Santopinto and Graeme Stewart wrote about how the current pandemic is shining a light on the importance of prioritizing the retrofitting of existing mid-century towers. <\/p>\n
“Canada\u2019s affordable apartment towers are the backbone of its purpose-built rental housing system, representing more than half of all high-rise units in the nation. Legacies of the post-war apartment housing boom <\/span>of the 1960s and 70s, many of these buildings are now a half-century<\/span> old and in need of critical repair. Months of sheltering in place due to <\/span>COVID<\/span>-19 have underscored the inequities of the housing system, and the acute challenges in upgrading this stock are more visible than ever.”<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n