Laneway housing
An overview of projects, products and exclusive articles about laneway housing
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 Lanescape Architecture + Construction • Apartments
Symington Laneway House
The Symington Laneway House is a 2-storey infill residence built on a narrow 17' wide lot in Toronto's Junction neighbourhood. At 1,000 sq. ft, the project is now home to the owner who formerly lived in the two-unit house at the front of the property.
Ron Adriano
Ron Adriano
Ron Adriano
Due to the home's proximity to both the public laneway and the main house, an unconventional arrangement of spaces was needed to mitigate privacy concerns. The bright yellow entry door opens up to a den off the laneway, while the kitchen and dining spaces are oriented towards the yard and accessed by sliding doors. Upstairs, the living room overlooks the laneway with a more private view towards West Toronto. The bedroom and bathroom are locat... More
News • News • 22 Jun 2021
Bismarck House engages with its laneway in a challenge to conventional housing typology
One portion of a pair of semi-detached dwellings in Bondi, the Bismarck House by Andrew Burges Architects uses raw materials and sculpted spaces to integrate the house with the garden while at the same time orchestrating social interaction between the public areas of the house and a laneway that runs along the northern boundary of the site.
Peter Bennetts
The ground floor of the houonceived spatially and materially as a continuous garden between the boundary walls of the site. The brick common wall of the semi to the south was exposed and the new laneway edge of the north rebuilt using bricks recycled from the site demolition.
Peter Bennetts
The garden is formed around the central elements of the plan being the kitchen ben... More
Project • By Melodi Zarakol ARCHITECT • Private Houses
Graffiti Laneway House
Inspired by the curvature inherent in most graffiti, this laneway house incorporates curves into its elevations in a playful manner. More