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Urban Springtime: Toronto Tower Renewal
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ABOUT THE PLANNED AND LIVED CITY. Monday, 16 March 2015. The bulk of these buildings are now aging mid-century apartment towers. They account for nearly a third of the total housing stock. About 90 percent of Toronto’s 1.200 apartment buildings are for-profit, privately-owned rentals. " Distributed among several large companies, as well as an assortment of small to very small ‘mom and pop’ type owners. Many of these estates serve an important function for those at the bottom of the housing market. In...
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Investing in the Public Realm: A Joint MITACS Project (by guest blogger Jeff Biggar) | ERA Architects
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Investing in the Public Realm: A Joint MITACS Project (by guest blogger Jeff Biggar). Investing in the Public Realm: A Joint MITACS Project (by guest blogger Jeff Biggar). When Toronto councillors and staff direct money into the street, it does the city a service. City advocate, Annabel Vaughn, observes that the public realm is what we understand. When we walk around the city, we see the first six stories of a building, and the rest is out of sight. View a previous post with more information here. This b...
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Portfolio | ERA Architects
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The Museum of Contemporary Art Toronto Canada at 158 Sterling Road. The Museum of Contemporary Art Toronto Canada (formerly the Museum of Contemporary Canadian Art – MoCCA) has been a…. The Drake Devonshire Inn is located in the pastoral Prince Edward County town of Wellington, Ontario. ERA…. ERA, alongside Brook McIlroy, planningAlliance, City of Toronto, and others, received the 2015 Canadian Institute of Planners…. Government Conference Centre (GCC). Thomas G. Elgie House at 262 Bessborough Drive.
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Metropolis: Tower Renewal Key to Toronto’s Liveability | ERA Architects
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Metropolis: Tower Renewal Key to Toronto’s Liveability. Metropolis: Tower Renewal Key to Toronto’s Liveability. This month’s issue of Metropolis Magazine. Ranks Toronto #1 globally for liveability; it is in good company with Tokyo and Helsinki, numbers two and three respectively. The feature article, written by Toronto Star columnist Christer Hume, outlines Toronto’s many virtues and points to Tower Renewal. Posted by Bissy Waariyo. July 14, 2015. EU Research for Tower Renewal →.
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ERA Architects: Tower Neighbourhood Renewal | After Empirical Urbanism
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ERA Architects: Tower Neighbourhood Renewal. ERA’s Graeme Stewart is participating in the weekend symposium After Empirical Urbanism at U of T, Friday Feb. 27 to Sunday Mar. 1. The three-day symposium is organized by faculty members of the John H. Daniels Faculty of Architecture, Landscape and Design, including Dean Richard Sommer, Michael Piper, Ultan Byrne, Roberto Damiani, and Mauricio Quiros. Active neighbourhoods invite: A talk and design charrette. Arrival City: Bookclub and Webinar. Gallery –...
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ERA Architects: Tower Neighbourhood Renewal | New initiative w/ Evergreen CityWorks & Derek Ballantyne
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ERA Architects: Tower Neighbourhood Renewal. New initiative w/ Evergreen CityWorks & Derek Ballantyne. As announced recently in the Evergreen CityWorks’. The Centre for Urban Growth and Renewal. Is teaming up with Evergreen CityWorks. And Derek Ballantyne (CEO, Community Forward Fund) to engage in new initiatives in Tower Renewal. The purpose of this. Below, please see more detail on the new initiative, as published in Intersection, v1n1:. By Graeme Stewart and Derek Ballantyne. Mixed-use infill structur...
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ERA Architects: Tower Neighbourhood Renewal | Graeme Stewart to speak in Chicago, Apr. 9
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ERA Architects: Tower Neighbourhood Renewal. Graeme Stewart to speak in Chicago, Apr. 9. On April 9, ERA’s Graeme Stewart will be speaking at the Great Cities Institute. Chicago. The talk, entitled “Tower Blocks, Modern Suburbs, and 21st Century Urbanism in Toronto,” will review recent developments in Toronto’s Tower Neighbourhood Renewal initiative. If you are interested in attending the talk, please see the UIC’s Great Cities Institute website. The community that could: Ideas from the Storefront. Galle...
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ERA Architects: Tower Neighbourhood Renewal | Active Neighbourhoods Canada – UPDATE
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ERA Architects: Tower Neighbourhood Renewal. Active Neighbourhoods Canada – UPDATE. In March, ERA’s Graeme Stewart. With University of Toronto Professor Paul Hess, provided the keynotes to the Active Neighbourhoods Canada. ANC) project forum, which is focused on Toronto’s Thorncliffe Park and Flemingdon Park neighbourhoods. See our previous post here. NFB’s final chapter, Universe Within: Digital Lives in the Global Highrise. Arrival City: Webinar Now Available. By: Bissy Waariyo Date: 04-23-2015. More a...
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ERA Architects: Tower Neighbourhood Renewal | Arrival City: Bookclub and Webinar
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ERA Architects: Tower Neighbourhood Renewal. Arrival City: Bookclub and Webinar. ERA’s Graeme Stewart is pleased to be participating in a webinar presented by Cities of Migration. And Centre for City Ecology. As part of their Citybuilders Bookclub. Is a discussion of the large-scale migrations occurring today of populations across the world from rural to urban settings. This final migration represents a time of massive change that has huge cultural, economic, and political implications for the world.
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ERA Architects: Tower Neighbourhood Renewal | Toronto Star: Tower Renewal a “Big Idea”
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ERA Architects: Tower Neighbourhood Renewal. Toronto Star: Tower Renewal a “Big Idea”. The Toronto Star’s ongoing “Big Ideas” series shares ideas from Toronto planners, architects, and creative thinkers on how to make the city a better place. Recently The Star’s urban affairs columnist Christopher Hume chatted with ERA’s Graeme Stewart about various issues and initiatives surrounding the Tower Renewal project. To read this web chat, please go to thestar.com. Photo: Jesse Colin Jackson. Cities Centre, Uni...
