The last one is a condo right?
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Unique Houses in Toronto
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LowPolygon
Senior Member
this is sort of the opposite of unique. what's unique is the simple juxtaposition: two houses--two eras. both, in their way, 'average' and 'standard' homes, designed and built at very low cost. except 'average' for us means gigantism and kitschy overreach. in any case, further proof that EIFS is the new Insulbrick...
location: Ossington, north of College
location: Ossington, north of College
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CityPlaceN1
Senior Member
Eifs?
flar
Active Member
Those stucco Bridle Path mansions are so cheesy I'm embarrassed for the owners. They remind me of the new old buildings around downtown Oakville.
Mustapha
Senior Member
this is sort of the opposite of unique. what's unique is the simple juxtaposition: two houses--two eras. both, in their way, 'average' and 'standard' homes, designed and built at very low cost. except 'average' for us means gigantism and kitschy overreach. in any case, further proof that EIFS is the new Insulbrick...
location: Ossington, north of College
These two homeowners, they'll be pals for sure. Sharing wine and good times, sitting in each others backyards. Maybe the guy in the smaller place will invite the guy in the bigger place to go golfing together. Maybe the guy in the bigger house will give the little house guy a directorship on his company board. The possibilities for cross-class socializing are endless.
LowPolygon
Senior Member
uhm, not sure what is marvelous about them. in any event, i can think of many people who wouldn't be caught dead living in either....
OttoSchloss
Active Member
I think he means the houses overall. Not the brick siding eyesore and the monolith beside it.
urbandreamer
recession proof
2 August 2009 photo update
Re my post #82:
Update on the house off Chaplin:
Re my post #82:
Update on the house off Chaplin:
Uncle Teddy
Senior Member
Love it!
casaguy
Senior Member
On Old Mill Drive, next to the Humber River. I've always admired these two homes that appear to be built into the side of a hill.
Conrad Black
Senior Member
I like them both.
urbandreamer
recession proof
I spotted another sorta cool/sorta typical Toronto contemporary home under construction on Hewitt Avenue, just west of Roncevalles, today.
junctionist
Senior Member
That is nice. But these contemporary houses are starting to get predictable like rock when bands started playing songs with about three chords. Some rounding and use of unusual cladding like titanium would be good. The problem is that there's just so little contemporary residential architecture out there. Just a rectangular composition with some strips of wood is a relief.
condovo
Senior Member
Very nice. Lovely brick. The wood will look better as it ages. The cornices/overhands are a little too heavy though IMO. Thanks for the pics.
Urban Shocker
Doyenne
Well, there aren't many vacant lots available in the old city to build new houses on. But gutting and renovating existing homes usually involves adapting them to how people live by introducing less formal living spaces. Separate dining rooms and parlours, small windows, narrow hallways, enclosed stairways and all the other features of the pre-Modern age are replaced by bigger windows, skylights and more light, and less formal living spaces with flow between them. The condos being designed by our better firms are quite similar to these house renos - and the architects doing them adopt the same Modernist principles of clarity and adaptability.
What's interesting about that contemporary house at Avenue Road and Chaplin Crescent is that it's designed by fauxmeister Richard Wengle, according to the Kilbarry Hill website - so he can behave himself when he wants to.