This house sets a high bar for refined spaces and spatial inventiveness. With luck, those qualities will carry through the next generation of big buildings in the city
A generation ago, some of Toronto’s most creative architects worked to build houses in the weed-filled back laneways of the old city. These strips of underused land – lined with rotting garages and the odd workshop – seemed fertile territory for design innovation.broadly legalized laneway houses in 2018
The Wilkinsons live with their three teenagers in the Roncesvalles neighbourhood. Their four-bedroom, 2,200-square-foot dwelling occupies the back of a 30-foot-wide lot. From the street, you can look down the driveway to see a dormer and a wall of Toronto red brick – but as you approach, you see that the wall has an irregular pattern in which bricks stretch outward at 30- or 60-degree angles.
They bought the property – an old house with a large garage – while planning a new home for their blended family. The lot was wide and deep enough to accommodate a sizable new dwelling. “They were willing to move to the back,” their architect explains, “but with this arrangement, you still feel like you have a front door. You’re not ancillary to the regular houses on the street.”
But the key to its success is the arrangement of spaces. It’s a sort of architectural magic trick to fit a sizable dwelling into a tight lot. Then came the architects. Among them, the young couple Brigitte Shim and Howard Sutcliffe – today some of the most decorated architects in the country – completed. It is a tightly detailed house that, like the Roncesvalles project, plays a form of three-dimensional chess. Ms. Williamson knows it well; she worked for years at Shim-Sutcliffe Architects.
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