Laneway dwelling
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Project • By Weiss Architecture & Urbanism • Private Houses
Pocket Laneway House
Clad in shiny corrugated galvalume, Pocket Laneway House rises up and over a carport, propped aloft partly by a v-configured steel column on helical piers. This structure’s eye-catching, treehouse-like massing is anything but arbitrary: by making minimal contact with the ground, the residence preserves the root health of a mature maple tree on this constrained site.
Birdhouse Media
Birdhouse Media
Birdhouse Media
David Whittaker
David Whittaker
The owners are a travel writer and a recently retired buffalo rancher, with two young children at home and one older child living independently. The couple originally selected Weiss Architecture + Urbanism to design their Toronto home, which occupies the street-f... More
Project • By Lanescape Architecture + Construction • Apartments
Norwood Park Laneway Homes
The Norwood Park Laneway Homes are a set of three laneway houses built as a collaboration between neighbours. The homes are designed to present as a cohesive whole with details that create variation across the three homes.
Ron Adriano
Ron Adriano
Ron Adriano
Home A is approximately 1000sqft while Home B and Home C are each approximately 1,500sqft. The homes feature 2-3 bedrooms and 2.5 baths. Uniquely situated on a laneway that abuts a public park, each design focuses on maximizing parkside views. The ground floors host bedrooms and bathrooms which are nested around a central corridor with ample storage space.
Ron Adriano
Ron Adriano
To enhance privacy while maintaining daylight, bedrooms facing the laneway... More
Project • By studio203 architects • Housing
Studio Reuss
GADIGAL COUNTRY. A compact secondary dwelling above a new carport set amidst Glebe’s prime Heritage buildings as a contemporary interpretation of Reuss Street’s simple historic stable forms.
The brief for a “granny flat” in its literal meaning evolved over the course of the project into flexible small-scale living. Plus a steel-framed awning and exterior joinery to the rear of the existing home.
David Haseler
A simple material palette of Cemintel Barestone with matching Colorbond roof and Danpalon walling to the rear keeps focus on the form of the surrounding historic stables. The modern, non-traditional garage-top studio envelope together with the proposed 2 1/2 storey height and uncovered historic pipe... More