Brickworks

Weiss Architecture + Urbanism’s light-filled Shudell House imaginatively addresses aging-in-place design issues while negotiating the ‘bowling alley’ dimensions of typical residential lots in older parts of Toronto. David Whittaker Birdhouse Media David Whittaker Its owners are a travel writer and a retired buffalo rancher with two young children at home and one older child living independently. The couple wanted an easily adaptable home, suitable for their kids’ evolving stages of life and their own long-range needs. From the outset they knew they also wanted a laneway house that could at some point become a caregiver’s residence. (For information about this auxiliary dwelling, please see Weiss... More