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Hudson Valley House

This stately 1850’s farmhouse in New York’s Hudson Valley was fully restored and updated in 2021. ERA worked closely with the owners to design a contemporary addition to the historic house, while ensuring that the architectural prominence of the original was preserved. The addition is connected by a glazed link, allowing views to penetrate through to the bucolic landscape beyond...

The Tower Renewal Project

...housing, and urgently needs strategies for rehabilitation and renewal. (Read more about Tower Renewal here: Posted with permission of the publisher of NRU Publishing Inc. Original article first appeared in Novae Res Urbis – Toronto, Vol. 25, No. 29, Friday, July 23, 2021) Since 2007, ERA has been the lead initiator of Tower Renewal. In 2009, ERA formed the Centre...

Stories

collage of award-winning projects

2021: Honours & Awards at ERA

by ERA Architects

As the days get colder and we head into the final days of 2021, ERA is looking back at the recognition and awards we’ve received this year for some very deserving projects, alongside some fantastic teams who are looking forward and building our cities and communities into tomorrow. The highlights from 2021 cover a range of work from heritage conservation,...

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Publications & Exhibits

One Year of ‘The Signs That Define Toronto’ 

by Kurt Kraler

...a preview of what was contained within the book’s pages. Long-time Toronto enthusiast Rob Shostak, had his costume — a re-creation of the iconic Honest Ed’s sign — on display on a mannequin for selfies, complete with miniature twinkling lights and hand painted pants inspired by sign painters Wayne Reuben and Doug Kerr.  Throughout the night, El Mocambo director Mike...

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The Future Ridgeway Community Court

by ERA Architects

...a sense of accomplishment at all the wonderful suggestions offered throughout the night. Everyone was encouraged to keep brainstorming ideas and posting them to Instagram using the #RidgewayCourt hashtag. To follow the progress of the upcoming Ridgeway Community Court, follow the hashtag on Instagram, Twitter, and Facebook. Also keep an eye on MLSE and Erin Mills Youth Centre Twitter accounts....

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Temporary, but Impactful: Michael McClelland Discusses New Creative Project Initiatives at The Drake Hotel

by ERA Architects

...discussion about the value of temporary projects at The Drake Hotel Underground. The event takes place on the evening of March 23rd, and features STACKT founder Matt Rubinoff, Layne Hinton + Rui Pimenta from in/future and Michael McClelland from ERA Architects + the Portlands Project. Be part of the conversation animating Toronto’s public spaces! For more information: https://www.instagram.com/nxtcity/ https://twitter.com/nxtcityprize  ...

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The View from Bonavista

by ERA Architects

...artists. The Culture of Outports team is in Bonavista now, hosting our first community conversation and absorbing the beauty and unique cultural heritage of the town. As in all Culture of Outports projects, we will be working with the community to understand and express the unique quality of place which fosters and sustains a livable community. Follow us here: https://www.instagram.com/cultureofoutports/...

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WexPOPS: Pop-up Plaza

by ERA Architects

...number of local businesses who supported the initiative in various ways including the Kirakou family — the owners of the Wexford Restaurant, and the entire plaza — who are generously hosting the project. Funded by Parks People’s Public Space Incubator Grant, generously supported by Ken and Eti Greenberg and the Balsam Foundation, as well as the City of Toronto’s BIA...

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Urban Form and Social Energy of the City- the University of Waterloo focuses on isolation in Toronto’s mature suburbs

by ERA Architects

...housing and transforming tower neighbourhoods throughout the Toronto Region. Alongside Ya’el were Martine August from the University of Waterloo Planning and George Baird from the University of Toronto, Daniels Faculty of Architecture, Landscape and Design with Adrian Blackwell as Moderator. For more information, visit the University’s event page here. Header image courtesy of the University of Waterloo Architecture’s Instagram account....

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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

...27, 2021 Although it’s one of the smaller photographs accompanying the July, 1915 Construction magazine article, it speaks much louder than those showcasing luxurious banking interiors, sculpted friezes, or Corinthian columns marching along Yonge and King streets. About six men, wearing suits and moustaches – and no doubt clutching cigars or brandy snifters – cluster and converse behind the thin...

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Royal Victoria Hospital, circa 1917, showing the entry procession and multiple buildings up the incline of Mount Royal.
Project Updates

A New Life for the Former Royal Victoria Hospital in Montréal

by ERA Architects

...Michaud Architects — in collaboration with Claude Cormier and associates, l’Enclume, Arup, Cima +, Pageau Morel and associates, and Bouthillette Parizeau — aims to rehabilitate the oldest part of the complex and convert it into a research, teaching, and learning hub for McGill University.  The Royal Victoria Hospital, founded in 1893, was designed by the London architect Henry Saxon Snell...

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Ken Soble Tower, a white-clad 18-storey tower viewed from a vantage at ground level and looking high up into the sky.
News & Events

Canada’s Ken Soble Tower certified as world’s largest residential Passive House EnerPHit retrofit

by ERA Architects

One of the first of its kind in North America, the 18-storey affordable seniors tower serves as a model for low-carbon, resilient future January 19, 2022 (Hamilton, ON) – ERA Architects (ERA) and PCL Construction (PCL) announce the Ken Soble Tower in Hamilton, Canada, has become the world’s largest residential building retrofitted to the Passive House standard — achieving the...

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