Issue 2, 2019: Small Spaces, Smart Solutions

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Spring Fever
What is your name? David Agnew What have you done for us lately? One of the great perks of being a copy editor is that even while I’m working, I get to learn about new subjects every day. Sometimes it’s architecture and design, and other times it’s f
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Headlight
Kate MacNeill, the dynamo talent behind Concord Custom Lighting, a new Toronto design and manufacturing studio, got her start cutting, bending, threading and welding custom luminaires at Commute Home. “At that stage,” she says, “I had no experience w
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Food Dept.
You could call the secret sauce behind Casa La Palma’s distinctive aesthetic “Memories of Mid-century Modern.” The characteristic blond wood is there in the form of chairs, walls and a bar, and the lines are all either straight or balletically curved
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Urban Update
B+H Architects’ SickKids Patient Support Centre (PSC) could be the hit medical drama of the season. The 22-storey building at the corner of Elm and Elizabeth streets will feature an undulating, transparent facade with an attention-grabbing blue-ribbo
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Room to Bloom
Imagine a romantic walk down a pier on a summer’s eve – in your own backyard. Joel Loblaw’s landscape studio crafted just that for a Summerhill home, with its clever transformation of an expired in-ground pool into a tranquil cottage escape. A knotty
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Art Is
WHEN LAWRENCE BLAIRS started looking for a property in 2016, he sought both a private gallery and a place to live. He settled on a ground-floor condominium a block from his mid-century art and design store, Atomic Design on Queen West. At 65 square m
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A Couple Pushes Minimalism To Its Extreme In A Truly Tiny House
Chris Hanz and Leslie Moreiro live by the motto “Less is more.” So much so that they named their French bulldog “Rohe,” after Ludwig Mies van der Rohe, the architect who famously adopted the phrase. Sticking to a minimalist lifestyle is a smart solut
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Street Smarts
With Toronto’s stock of detached homes in short supply, laneway houses are an enticing alternative to condo living – and thanks to recent changes in city zoning laws, building one is now within reach of many more homeowners. Your laneway dream house,
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Know Your Angles
Ingrid and Nesmith Chingcuanco aren’t the type to fret about a wall colour or agonize over a dozen sofas before settling. Function is the couple’s shared desire in a home. So after buying their first condo, they arrived at their new Bay Street high-r
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The Story Of Studioac And The Suite Transition
When entrepreneur Andrew Peek and interior designer Stefanie Koerner – then affiancéd – bought their loft conversion in 2018, they loved its sky-high, wood-planked ceilings and rough-hewn columns and beams. However, they didn’t love the corner unit’s
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Touring The Tiny Wonders Under Construction At Hariri Pontarini Architects
Inside the model shop at the Leslieville office of Hariri Pontarini Architects (HPA) is a whole world in miniature. Downsized renditions of the firm’s greatest hits – the wavy condo tower at One Bloor, the shell-like Bahá’í Temple in Chile – rest lik
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