Stafford Extension / Williamson Williamson
A soaring ceiling faceted to reflect light within a new second floor space is the transformative element in an addition to a historic home in downtown Toronto.
A soaring ceiling faceted to reflect light within a new second floor space is the transformative element in an addition to a historic home in downtown Toronto.
A wide lot backing onto Ancaster Creek is the site for a intergenerational home for a family and their elderly parents. The house was conceived as two distinct residences, each formed into a linear bar containing the full program of a home.
Discovering a listed historic home in Toronto, virtually intact on the interior as well as the exterior, is rare. Completed in 1892, this semi-detached red brick house on Tranby Avenue is a classic Annex Style home massed in brick and borrowing elements from the Richardson Romanesque.
Architects: Williamson Williamson Project: Grange Triple Double House Construction Manager: Derek Nicholson Inc. Size: 3,500 s.f. Location: Toronto, Ontario, Canada Photography: Bob Gundu Text by Williamson Williamson A corner lot in Toronto’s gritty Chinatown neighbourhood is the site for a multi-unit and multi-generational housing prototype. Stacking a rental unit, a grandparent’s suite, and living spaces
Williamson Williamson have designed Bala Line House in Toronto, Canada. Within many of Toronto’s network of well-preserved ravines and valleys, historic rail lines are occasionally found nestled unused on steep, wooded slopes between the upper plateau of residential fabric and the river valley habitats down below. The now de-commissioned Bala Line rail – once used for