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Closing the Gap
It’s no secret that Toronto is a city in desperate need of housing. Specifically, diverse and affordable housing fit between single-family detached homes and high-rise apartment buildings. To revive the city’s “missing middle,” local architecture gro
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Colour coding
Though beautifully executed, the home’s neutral palette of white-oak panelling and limestone felt too quiet for the new homeowner who sought a symphony of style, colour, and texture. “The overall feeling she had in mind was personal,” says Chan, who
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Portal House
It’s not a riddle, but rather the design brief that architecture and art studio SVIMA accepted when renovating a Toronto couple’s small post-war home in Eglinton West. After living in the house for a decade, the owners, Troy and Amelie and son Ben, w

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