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The RAC Zone

...Councillor Peter Milczyn: “This is a change that 10-15 years from now we will look back and say ‘this transformed Toronto’.” Yet the zone’s approval is just the start. While the RAC zone removes significant barriers to community social enterprise and positive neighbourhood investment, the next step is for landlords, residents, and communities to bring this potential to life. A...

The Distillery District

...of the building with a passive voice, but instead requires a strategic intervention, drawing out its latent qualities and giving it renewed meaning. Delivered with impeccable detailing, the project distinguishes between the old and the new – a well-rehearsed genre – but here brings the two into seamless and inventive cohesion.” “The contemporary insertion is careful and clever, creating a...

Art Gallery of Ontario

The Art Gallery of Ontario (AGO) is an important cultural institution both locally for the City of Toronto and internationally as one of Canada’s most important cultural showplaces. The AGO is one of Toronto’s foremost institutions and has a rich historical and architectural background. Since its inception nearly 100 years ago, the Gallery has undergone many significant and distinct additions...

Sainte-Marie among the Hurons

One of the earliest European settlements in the Province of Ontario, Sainte Marie among the Hurons is a site of national heritage significance and international interest. The challenge of assembling a conservation plan for three fireplace ruins at this important historic site offered an opportunity to approach conservation by first asking how to best interpret and present these artifacts to...

Dragon Centre Stories

...that sprung up in the Agincourt area in the following years. In October 2019, in anticipation of the mall’s redevelopment, a group of collaborators hosted a commemoration and story-sharing event at the mall. Over 100 people came to remember, honour, and process the pending loss of Dragon Centre and its place in Scarborough’s history. Collaborators included Howard Tam of ThinkFresh...

Crystal Ballroom - King Edward Hotel Crystal Ballroom – King Edward Hotel

...washrooms. In total, the interior renovations totalled approximately 14,000 square-feet. Although damaged by 50 years of use, the majority of the neo-Classical plasterwork in the Ballroom remained in relatively sound condition, and ERA was able to retain it in place with selective repairs. The wood wainscoting had also been badly damaged over the years and was replicated, with new enclosures...

Loblaws Groceteria at West Block

Opened in 1928 as the office headquarters and warehouse for Loblaws Groceterias Ltd, the building was designed in the Art Moderne style, with brick-and-stone details incorporating repetitive vertical elements, terminating in decorative limestone caps at the parapet, to counteract the long and low building mass. The site was chosen to take advantage of the freight rail tracks running immediately to...

night photo of hotel in 2016 King Edward Hotel

...in the large light wells. In 2013, ERA was engaged in a multi-phase, multi-year conservation project to repair the full height of the masonry walls and perimeter of the hotel to insure a further 50 years of life. ERA has also overseen the refurbishment of 300 guest suites, as well as the grand public spaces at the ground and 2nd...

The Roxy Theatre

...landmark building on Danforth Avenue because of its level of Art Moderne detailing and scale in relation to the adjacent commercial properties. Effectively the Allenby was a stimulus building in the economic development of the Danforth near Greenwood Avenue. It was chosen for designation under Part IV of the Ontario Heritage Act as a representative example of the style of...

Hoarding Suggestions

...park was a cherished public space and a landmark within the city. In 1963 – 50 years prior to the exhibition – the Parks Department placed a suggestion box in Allan Gardens. It turned out that Torontonians were full of ideas for how to improve the park. In 2013, the Hoarding Suggestions team found their suggestions, neatly transcribed by a...

Allstream Centre / Automotive Building

The Automotive Building was constructed in 1929 as a venue for the exhibition of new automobiles. This use continued until the 1960s, however, over the years various unsympathetic renovations occurred and after 80 years the building had became outdated and was no longer in demand as an exhibition space. The new project involved rehabilitating the building into a conference and...

St. James’ Cathedral Centre

St. James’ Parish House, as it was originally known, is an important piece of the St. James’ Cathedral campus, one of the defining historical properties of Toronto’s old town. The Parish House, completed in 1909, was designed by well-known Toronto architects Darling and Pearson, and is an excellent example of Neo-Gothic style. The Diocesan Centre, adjoined to the east, was...