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...and ongoing story collection through the Dragon Centre Stories website, intersects with and draws from a web of academic research, artistic investigation, professional practice, and deep personal connections to the mall. In the field of heritage conservation, Dragon Centre is helping us consider the scales at which we need to think and collaborate to understand cultural heritage in the suburbs...
...The Program is grounded in story collection and research which generated an understanding of the lands as experienced by Algonquin, military, and francophone communities over time. The personal and ancestral stories of these communities are summarized in the document to inspire and inform commemoration strategies as well as the ongoing reconnection between Algonquin peoples and the oral traditions, including stories...
The Ken Soble Tower Transformation is a ground-breaking project rehabilitating a post-war apartment tower in Hamilton, Ontario. The achieved goal meets Passive House standards to reduce greenhouse gas emissions by a staggering 94% and lays the groundwork for industry-wide, ultra-low energy retrofits needed to maintain and upgrade thousands of apartments across Canada. “Ultra-low energy retrofits that maintain affordability are not...
...and understanding of Regent Park’s cultural heritage value, including its planning history, built form, and community identity. The strategy outlines tools such as signage, a scale model installation, building outline markers, and a digital story collection to illustrate the reoccurring themes and stories born out of this collaborative community interpretation. The strategy set out a flexible commemoration framework in order...
...transit (LRT) line that will run across Eglinton Avenue between Kennedy Station and Mount Dennis (Weston Road). The Crosstown project is the largest transit expansion in Toronto history, requiring an 8.4 billion (2010$) investment from the Ontario government. The EGLINGTONconnects report is a holistic approach that includes LRT, bicycle lanes, and more extensive landscaping into the corridor, along with land...
The town of Halton Hills is a layered landscape of small and large urban settlements and crossroads communities, rural agricultural landscapes, river valleys and hills, with the Niagara Escarpment running through its northwestern corner. Nestled between the urban municipalities of Milton to the south and Brampton to the east, Halton Hills is a town on the cusp of change, much...
...Tower, brings the viewer inside the lives of six tower residents, sharing stories of their present experience, the One Millionth Tower showcases the bold ideas that residents have in re-imagining what their neighbourhood could become in the future. Through a series of directed workshops, the residents focus on the potential of the apartment site, surrounding landscape, and larger neighbourhood, with...
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Conference Proceedings (Videos) from TCLF: Second Wave of Modernism III
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...Friday May 22nd. It was attended by 430 conference delegates from Canada and around the world, including a significant contingent of City of Toronto staff from various departments. TCLF has put together a series of videos from the outstanding conference for public access. Individual speaker presentations can be accessed here. You can read our review of the conference here. ...
Read MoreBreaking down barriers in the landscape: Q&A with Brendan Stewart
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Continuing our efforts to engage with landscape in foundational and innovative ways, ERA welcomes long-time collaborator Brendan Stewart back to the firm as a Senior Advisor on landscape practice. Brendan brings years of experience in landscape discourse and architecture from across the sectors of academia, industry, and nonprofit grassroots initiatives. Having studied with Randy Hester at the University of California,...
Read MoreRegent Park’s Commemoration Strategy
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...tell about Regent Park? And how should those stories be told? ERA offered examples of types of stories that could be told, including such ideas as individual and family stories to neighbourhood evolution stories. Following the first meeting, ERA collected examples of residents’ stories through a postcard campaign, interviews, and a website. A postcard from the postcard campaign. The second...
Read MoreDragon Centre Stories: Perspectives on Multi-Cultural Retail and Suburban Cultural Heritage
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...T); Myseum of Toronto; Camille Bégin, who works at Heritage Toronto, and who has, as an independent researcher, written about the mall, the developers, Shiupong, and ERA Architects. The event and ongoing story collection through the Dragon Centre Stories website, intersects with and draws from a web of academic research, artistic investigation, professional practice, and deep personal connections to...
Read MoreOne Year of ‘The Signs That Define Toronto’
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...features the hidden stories of signmakers with short documentary videos and images with text descriptions. Matt often organizes walking tours of the refurbished signs that are on display in the hallways of the Communications Studies and Journalism building. Signs on display include the geometric “S” from the Steinberg supermarket sign, the cursive open channel letter sign from Monkland Taverne, as...
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