Institutional
Ordered by project date from most recent to oldest
Proposal for an emblematic addition to the Laval School of Architecture, located within the Vieux-Seminaire, Quebec City. 2011
Contemporary architects can address history in one of two ways, either by exclusion or inclusion.
Exclusion would suggest that history represents the other, the not-modern,…
Royal Canadian Military Institute 2011
This project involved the heritage conservation of the Royal Canadian Military Institute on Toronto’s University Avenue. Built in 1907, expanded in 1912, 1935 and renovated…
Sisters of St. Joseph
Built in 1885 for John F. Taylor, a local landowner, this property sits atop the east bank of the Don valley. The building was designed…
Brampton Heritage Theatre 2011
The Heritage Theatre, formally the Capital Theatre, has a long history within the city of Brampton. Built in 1923 to feature silent movies and then…
East Scarborough Storefront 2011
The East Scarborough Storefront is a community agency offering support to people in the neglected tower neighbourhoods of Toronto. Containing a community kitchen and garden,…
Stanley Barracks 2011
The Stanley Barracks is the sole remaining structure of the New Fort at York erected in 1841 by the British Army. The New Fort consisted…
Trinity St. Paul’s United Church
Trinity-St. Paul’s United Church was formed over 120 years ago, following the merging of St. Paul’s Avenue Road United Church and Trinity United Church. Completed…
Sainte-Marie Among the Hurons 2011
ERA was retained to prepare a master plan to protect the remains of three 17th century stone fireplaces at Sainte-Marie among the Hurons Mission, National…
The Drake Hotel Annex Project
The Drake Hotel is a cultural landmark within Toronto’s Art and Design District. In 2001, the original 1890’s building at Beaconsfield and Queen Street West…
Sheppard Estate
The Sheppard Estate includes a collection of four buildings located in the Sheppard’s Bush Conservation Area in Aurora. The Residence and outbuildings were built in…
Munk School of Global Affairs
The Munk School for Global Affairs at the University of Toronto is an interdisciplinary academic centre on global issues that integrates research with teaching and…
The Grange
The Grange is an estate once owned by Toronto’s prominent Boulton family, and currently incorporated as part of the Art Gallery of Ontario. Following the…
Allandale Station 2011
Allandale Station is located along the southeastern edge of the city of Barrie, Ontario. Designed by the Detroit architectural firm of Spier and Rohns for…
Sony Centre
The Sony Centre is a modernist concert hall built in 1959-60 and designed by Toronto architect Earle C. Morgan and Peter Dickinson of Page +…
Osgoode Hall
Located in downtown Toronto, Osgoode Hall is a National Historic Site, which has been the centre of legal activity in Ontario for more than 170…
Sharon Temple
Sharon Temple National Historic Site is the centrepiece of a group of buildings built by the Children of Peace, an offshoot of the Quakers. The…
Auchmar Estate
Auchmar Estate was built by Isaac Buchanan, a prominent economist and politician, between 1852 and 1854 on a private estate on 86 acres on the…
Canadian Film Centre, Windfields
The Canadian Film Centre is located on a 1930’s neo-Georgian estate of one of Canada’s leading businessmen, the late E.P. Taylor. The estate comprises many…
Whitchurch-Stouffville Museum
The Whitchurch-Stouffville Museum – located on Woodbine Avenue north of Bloomington Road – is a grouping of small heritage buildings in a grassy landscape, dedicated…
Union Station Train Shed
The Union Station Train Shed, designed by A.R. Ketterson the Toronto Terminals Railway Assistant Bridge Engineer, was built in 1929-30. The design was a variation…
Hamilton Museum of Steam & Technology
The Museum, a National Historic Site and a Civil and Power Engineering Landmark, was designed by Thomas Coltrin Keefer and built by the City of…
Maple Leaf Gardens
Recognized as a National Historic Site, Maple Leaf Gardens served as a continuous hub of civic life for the past 80 years. The Gardens was…
Rotman School of Management
Located along the central spine of the University of Toronto’s St. George Campus, the Rotman School of Management is expanding from its current premises at…
Bridgepoint Health – The Don Jail
The Don Jail is in a remarkable state of preservation. Its continuous use as a jail and few renovations and have it as an excellent…
Soldiers’ Tower
Soldiers’ Tower commemorates the 1,200 University of Toronto students who served during World War I. Designed by architects Sproatt and Rolph, construction began in…
Spirit of Sir John A.
Confederation Park was opened in 1967 to mark the centenary of Canada’s confederation, on the site of the disused CPR railyard and the earlier Market…
5 St. Joseph
The 5 St. Joseph Street project involves the conservation, adaptive re-use and integration of ten existing buildings on the corner of Yonge Street and St.…
Massey Mausoleum, in Mount Pleasant Cemetary 2010
The Massey Mausoleum was built in 1891 in Mount Pleasant Cemetary, as the resting place of the prominent Massey family of Toronto. The design was…
Canada Malting Silo 2010
The Canada Maltings Co. is a former industrial complex located at the foot of Bathurst Quay in Toronto. The site consists of two large silo…
Allstream Centre 2010
The Automotive building was constructed in 1929 as a venue for the exhibition of new automobiles. This use continued until the 1960’s, however, over the…
Evergreen Brick Works 2010
Founded in 1889, the Don Valley Brick Works became the largest and most significant brick manufacturer in Canada. Relying on locally extracted clay, shale and…
Art Gallery of Ontario 2009
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…
Dundurn National Historic Site 2009
Dundurn National Historic Site is a prominent historic house in Hamilton, dating from 1835. This Regency style mansion was built as the home of Sir…
Sudbury Court House 2009
ERA provided research and consultation on the heritage resources that could be affected by the proposed alterations and additions, designed by Castellan James Architects, to…
Victoria Memorial Square 2009
Victoria Memorial Square is the City of Toronto’s first European cemetery. It was created in 1783 by Lieutenant Governor John Graves Simcoe shortly after the…
Artscape Wychwood Barns 2008
The Artscape Wychwood Barns is located on the southwest corner of Wychwood and Benson Avenues, near St. Clair Avenue. A collection of street car barns…
Cambridge City Hall 2008
Built in 1857 and designed by H.B. Sinclair, Cambridge City Hall is a fine example of Italianate public design and is an important heritage landmark.…
Ruthven Park National Historic Site 2008
The Ruthven Park National Historic Site consists of one of Canada’s finest Greek Revival mansions and 1478 acres of property along the Grand River. ERA…
The Asylum Wall 2008
The Asylum Wall borders the site of the Centre for Addiction and Mental Health at 1001 Queen Street West. Originally built in 1861, the Asylum…
The Kerr Log House 2007
The Kerr Log House is one of few remaining two-storey log houses in Southern Ontario. Built around 1845 by the Kerr family, early settlers of…
Royal Ontario Museum 2007
The Royal Ontario Museum is a national cultural and architectural landmark, and is designated under Part IV of the Ontario Heritage Act by the City…
St. Lawrence Hall 2007
St. Lawrence Hall was completed in 1850. Designed by William Thomas, it was established to provide a venue for social gatherings in the city. The…
University of Toronto, Department of Economics 2007
The William Crowther House was built in 1889 by a Toronto merchant, who occupied it until 1927. The house was built in the Queen Anne…
Whitehern Museum 2007
A National Historic Site, Whitehern Historic House and Garden is the former estate of the prominent McQuesten family of Hamilton, Ontario. Built in 1848, this…
Convocation Hall 2006
Designed by the Toronto firm of Darling & Pearson, the University of Toronto’s Convocation Hall opened in 1907 and has since become a city landmark…
Parkwood National Historic Site 2006
Parkwood National Historic Site was built in 1916 as the home of the late R. S. McLaughlin, founder of General Motors Canada. The building, designed…
Bloor Gladstone Library 2005
The construction of the Chapman & McGiffin designed public library, formerly known as the Dovercourt Branch, began in 1912. The official branch opening was on…
Casey House 2005
Commissioned by clothing manufacturer William R. Johnston, the residences at 571 Jarvis Street and 119 Isabella Street were built in 1875 on the basis of…
Eglinton St. George’s United Church 2005
St. George’s United Church was designed by architects Langley and Howland and built in 1924. An addition was built in 1932 designed by J.…
King Edward Precinct Study 2005
The residential buildings within the King Edward precinct of Ottawa were constructed between 1880 and 1921. A large number of these structures has been identified…
Little Trinity Church 2005
Dating from 1843, Little Trinity is one of the oldest surviving brick churches in Toronto. This polychrome Gothic Revival church was badly damaged by fire…
Union Station 2005
Union Station is recognized under the Railway Stations Protection Act as a nationally significant heritage building and is selected by the City of Toronto as…
51 Division – Police Headquarters 2004
Consumers Gas Station A, designed by Bond & Smith and completed in 1898, is now home to Toronto Police Services 51 Division headquarters. The building…
Canadian Lesbian and Gay Archives 2004
The Canadian Lesbian and Gay Archives acquired the Jared Sessions House from the Toronto Children’s Aid Society, to be renovated for use as their permanent…
Dundas Street Centre United Church 2003
This large, handsome brick and stone Romanesque Revival Style church, with three towers and matching Sunday School was erected in 1895. In the 1930s the…
Heaslip House, the G. Raymond Chang School of Continuing Education 2003
The building at 297 Victoria Street was constructed as O’Keefe House, the administrative headquarters for O’Keefe Breweries, in 1939. O’Keefe House was designed by the…
R.C. Harris Filtration Plant 2002
The R.C. Harris Filtration Plant is a fine example of Depression era public works project at a grand scale. In 1998, these Art Deco buildings,…
St. Martin-in-the-Fields Anglican Church 2002
St. Martin in-the-Fields Anglican Church (circa 1905) is a well preserved example of the Arts & Craft style. Located in the southwest corner of The…
Todmorden Mills Museum 2001
Todmorden Mills is a small mid-nineteenth century industrial complex located in the Don Valley. A designated heritage site, the mill and residential buildings operate as…
Cultural Facilities Database 2001
Cultural facilities are a tangible representation of Toronto’s past, present and future potential to serve the cultural needs of diverse communities. In the downtown, cultural…
Chiefswood Museum 2001
Built in 1853, Chiefswood was the childhood home of E. Pauline Johnson, renowned Canadian poet and performer. A National Historic Site, ERA provided full architectural…
Old St. Thomas Churchyard 2000
The Old St. Thomas Anglican Church yard contains the elaborate funeral box monument of the Chisholm family, who were early settlers in the area. Vandalism…
Church of the Epiphany 2000
Formerly known as New St. Paul’s, this robust Gothic Revival church was designed by prominent Detroit architect Gordon W. Lloyd in 1887. Built on an…
Mnjikaning Fish Weirs 1999
Mnjikaning Fish Weirs is the largest and best-preserved wooden fish weirs known in eastern North America, in use from approximately 3300 B.C. “Mnjikaning” is an…
Direct Energy Centre 1997
The principal project created new exhibition halls, and incorporated the existing stone and brick Coliseum Complex, dating from 1922-26.
ERA directed the restoration and reconstruction…
Colborne Lodge 1996
Built in 1836, Colborne Lodge is listed on Toronto’s inventory of heritage properties.It is an early example of the regency cottage in Ontario. Chimney repair,…