Between Summer 2022 and Spring 2023, the Tower Renewal Partnership, CMHC, United Way and Woodgreen convened a Legacy Housing Retrofit Advisory Group to advance policy and action toward…

The Ken Soble Tower Transformation will modernize 146 units of affordable seniors’ housing, while reinvigorating community spaces and outdoor gathering areas, planning for aging-in-place and barrier-free living, and…

The Centre for Urban Growth + Renewal has released a new “Field Guide” designed to assist apartment owners, the construction industry and apartment residents navigate retrofit construction projects…

The Tower Renewal Partnership has put together a quick and easy-to-read reference guide or “primer” to Tower Renewal including an introduction to high rise retrofits in Canada, a…

In the spring of 2020, the Tower Renewal Partnership completed CMHC-funded research examining the opportunity and challenges of utilizing existing Tower in the Park sites for the creation of…

In January 2020, the Tower Renewal Partnership completed CMHC-funded research identifying product, skill and technological gaps in the Canadian retrofit market and industry. The report outlines key opportunities…

In August 2019, the Tower Renewal Partnership (TRP) conducted new analysis on incenting nation-wide comprehensive tower retrofits.In particular, tax incentives were modelled and evaluated to understand how they…

In July, the Tower Renewal Partnership (“TRP”)  released Tower Renewal and Retrofit Finance in support of the Canadian Mortgage and Housing Corporation’s interest in encouraging the retrofit and…

Growth and Resiliency in Tower in the Park Sites Across the GGH describes the challenges of Tower Renewal and energy retrofitting from a policy and built form perspective and…

Graeme Stewart’s article on the RAC Zone tells the context of the new zone and its possibilities for changing the tower landscape, removing barriers and steps towards more complete, resilient communities across Toronto.

Postwar towers – apartment buildings built before 1985 – make up most of the purpose-built rental stock across the country with almost 800,000 households calling these apartments home.…

An overview of some of the factors, solutions and challenges in achieving winter and summer comfort through tower retrofit, and considerations for the development of comprehensive retrofit standards.

Different sites are identified to indicate the actors and interventions required to broadly facilitate Tower Renewal, with more public support required for the revitalization of housing assets in isolated areas.

This instrument could be a key tool for private, public and non-profit owners to improve the quality and energy performance of their buildings, while maintaining the long-term affordability of this housing supply.

The Kreditanstalt fur Wiederaufbau (KfW) is a federal German bank created to facilitate post-war reconstruction. Today it provides key financial support for both new build and retrofit prospects to meet climate change goals.

Elise Hug (Tower Renewal Office, City of Toronto), Jason Thorne (CUG+R, planningAlliance), and ERA’s Graeme Stewart explore the opportunities of the proposed zoning framework, next steps for implementation, and research and policy initiatives moving forward.

A varied perspective of the global phenomenon of post-war mass housing through the lens of ‘documentation’ and ‘conservation’. Articles explore the tower block legacies of France, Russia, Brazil, Singapore, as well as Toronto.

A follow up to the findings of the Poverty by Postal Code 2: Vertical Poverty (2011) report by the Centre for Urban Growth and Renewal (CUG+R) and United Way Toronto.

This report was commissioned by Toronto Public Health in 2011 to examine design tools for improved community health outcomes in Toronto’s hundreds of apartment neighborhoods.

The volume includes articles by Graeme Stewart focused on examining the state of concrete tower blocks internationally and exploring their potential architectural and urban futures in the Toronto context.

Much of the mythology surrounding Toronto is focused on a “city of neighbourhoods”, yet what is of equal interest is the completeness with which it accepted the modern project prior to this point.

In 2008 the City of Toronto initiated its Tower Neighborhood Renewal program. Recognizing that such a large-scale renewal amounts to a 20-year program, this paper provides an update on current progress.

Analysis of this housing resource and examination of its future role in our growing region.

A compilation of research conducted over the past several years by the University of Toronto and E.R.A. Architects. It examines the origin of Toronto’s modern planned apartment communities, and their future potential in a green and equitable city.

Featured in “GreenTOpia: Towards a Sustainable Toronto”, this article by Graeme Stewart, looks at the contentious relationship between Toronto and its postwar high-rise apartments.

Co-Published by ERA Architects and Coach House Books, Concrete Toronto: A Guidebook to Concrete Architecture from the Fifties to the Seventies, examines Toronto’s remarkable collection of modern concrete heritage:…

Though the vastness of Toronto’s suburbs is often bemoaned as unplanned sprawl, their shape tells a different story. Containing extensive parks and protected natural systems, transit infrastructure, industrial…

The Mayor’s Office of the City of Toronto, along with a growing list of partners including the Clinton Foundation, E.R.A. Architects, CMHC and the University of Toronto have…