A Toronto Alley Is Reanimated With An Apartment and Studio Pop-up The Burley Friedman Laneway House by LGA Architectural Partners follows a growing trend to bring life back to alleyways...
“Bossy Marble” Meets Memphis Verve in This Sculptural Toronto Home Odami revives a 1930s residence with crisp finishes and curvaceous forms.
Designer and Artist Tom Deacon Goes Back to the Drawing Board to Re-Renovate His Home and Studio You’ve probably sat in one of his office chairs, but his revamped Toronto residence is more about art than ergonomics.
This Home in the Ontario Wilderness Is 12 Miles From the Nearest Powerline An architect designing hospitals in Rwanda first brought sustainability to a lakeside dwelling in Ontario.
Nina Libeskind on Ground Zero, How Architecture Can Help Heal, and Our Political Moment A powerful insider shares insights on building a successful architecture practice through partnership.
Hot to Trot In rural Canada, an architect imports an American typology to create a year-round refuge rooted in the landscape.
A Park
Rises in the Shadow
of a Toronto Highway Parks are popping up in all types of surprising places.
A 1930s Tudor Home Brightens Up in Toronto A Toronto couple remodel their home with a special emphasis on a spacious kitchen and a material-rich bathroom.
An Off-Grid Home That Relies on the Sun and the Wind A rural house in Ontario doesn't fuss around and fits right into the surrounding landscape.
Two Seats Are Better Than One Designer Thom Fougere plays with scale and typology to create playful furniture.
Don’t Let the Sign Fool You, This Old Storefront is a Home A creative couple transforms an old Toronto storefront in Dundas West into a home and studio.
An Art Studio That Would Make Picasso Jealous In Toronto, a painter accustomed to crashing in his studio created an airy artistic haven with both working and living quarters...
These Shop Owners Have a Killer Apartment Right Upstairs A pair of Toronto boutique owners and their architects surpass expectations for above-the-shop living with a renovation that...
Four Friends Joined Forces to Realize This Idyllic Forest Retreat Outside Toronto Two homes combine under one roof in this unique lakeside structure.
Modern Lakeside Retreat Stripped Down to the Basics Two Washington, D.C.–based writers balance life in the city with a low-key vacation spot.
Starry Night: Outdoor Wall Light Installation A celestial light installation illuminates the garage door of a recently renovated Toronto house.
Kitchen Solutions: Smart Storage Design For a Toronto couple with a love of minimalist Japanese architecture, a sleek, storage-packed kitchen was the first priority in...
A Renovated Flat in Moshe Safdie's Habitat '67 A flat renovated by a pair of fashion insiders breathes new life into architect Moshe Safdie's iconic Habitat '67 building.
A Sustainably Built Home in Rural Ontario For this rural Ontario home, building sustainably was less about high-tech gizmos than learning to truly love the land.
Party-Friendly Apartment in Toronto Dr.
Play’s the Thing With ingenuity and plenty of elbow grease, architect John Tong turned an old Toronto dairy into the ultimate family clubhouse.
About a Boat The Houdini-like designers behind this boathouse employed giant steel arches to make the structure disappear from view and in its...
From Brown to Green Toronto designers Peter Fleming and Debbie Adams found a polluted lot and a run-down building—and saw fertile ground for a...
Narrow Modernist Three-Story Home in Toronto Facing tight building codes and an even tighter space, Karen White and David MacNaughtan needed an architect who could turn...
Inside Job Designing an innovative house is a rite of passage for many young architects.
A Floating House on Lake Huron Stands Out By Blending In On the edge of a tiny island accessible only by boat, this buoyant summer home lives the life aquatic.
Scrap House "Repurpose, refurbish, recycle" was the guiding principle for a metals broker in Ontario who harnessed his passion for–and...