Undulating Compact Home in Hong Kong Defines Spatial Harmony and Provides Ingenious Storage Solutions with ‘Horizontal’ Cabinetry
Adrian Chan Design and Research Office
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Kevin Mak
Undulating Compact Home in Hong Kong Defines Spatial Harmony and Provides Ingenious Storage Solutions with ‘Horizontal’ Cabinetry
Adrian Chan Design and Research Office
Photo credit:
Kevin Mak
Undulating Compact Home in Hong Kong Defines Spatial Harmony and Provides Ingenious Storage Solutions with ‘Horizontal’ Cabinetry
Adrian Chan Design and Research Office
Photo credit:
Kevin Mak
Undulating Compact Home in Hong Kong Defines Spatial Harmony and Provides Ingenious Storage Solutions with ‘Horizontal’ Cabinetry
Adrian Chan Design and Research Office
Photo credit:
Kevin Mak
Undulating Compact Home in Hong Kong Defines Spatial Harmony and Provides Ingenious Storage Solutions with ‘Horizontal’ Cabinetry
Adrian Chan Design and Research Office
Photo credit:
Kevin Mak
Undulating Compact Home in Hong Kong Defines Spatial Harmony and Provides Ingenious Storage Solutions with ‘Horizontal’ Cabinetry
Adrian Chan Design and Research Office
Photo credit:
Kevin Mak
Undulating Compact Home in Hong Kong Defines Spatial Harmony and Provides Ingenious Storage Solutions with ‘Horizontal’ Cabinetry
Adrian Chan Design and Research Office
Photo credit:
Kevin Mak
A Fresh Face in a Familiar Place: Summerhill Family Home Blends Contemporary Living with Neighborhood Charm
Barbora Vokac Taylor Architect Inc.
An urban home re-designed to support a less formal and more family-focused contemporary life, thoughtfully detailed to cradle the everyday.
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Doublespace Photography
A Fresh Face in a Familiar Place: Summerhill Family Home Blends Contemporary Living with Neighborhood Charm
Barbora Vokac Taylor Architect Inc.
Located in the Summerhill area of Toronto, the property is both urban yet also private and discreet.
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Doublespace Photography
A Fresh Face in a Familiar Place: Summerhill Family Home Blends Contemporary Living with Neighborhood Charm
Barbora Vokac Taylor Architect Inc.
The rear elevation features a sculpturalweathering steel screen – offering an expressive focus from the back garden.
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Doublespace Photography
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A Fresh Face in a Familiar Place: Summerhill Family Home Blends Contemporary Living with Neighborhood Charm
Barbora Vokac Taylor Architect Inc.
The garage sits disguised as the back wall of the dining pavilion, integrating quietly into the transformed rear garden.
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Doublespace Photography
A Fresh Face in a Familiar Place: Summerhill Family Home Blends Contemporary Living with Neighborhood Charm
Barbora Vokac Taylor Architect Inc.
Thoughtfully detailed custom cabinetry is, at times, a feature of a space adding texture and interest to a muted room. At other moments, it is a quiet backdrop to the family’s art collection and contemporary furnishings which add an energy and vibrancy that reflect the spirit of the family’s taste and lifestyle.
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Doublespace Photography
A Fresh Face in a Familiar Place: Summerhill Family Home Blends Contemporary Living with Neighborhood Charm
Barbora Vokac Taylor Architect Inc.
“Having a sense of the spaces beyond expands the feeling of compact rooms and avoids the feeling of spatial confinement that can be common in the narrower lots of the city.”
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Doublespace Photography
A Fresh Face in a Familiar Place: Summerhill Family Home Blends Contemporary Living with Neighborhood Charm
Barbora Vokac Taylor Architect Inc.
The spaces flow seamlessly from one to the next – accommodating activities in the space to spill over and overlap.
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Doublespace Photography
A Fresh Face in a Familiar Place: Summerhill Family Home Blends Contemporary Living with Neighborhood Charm
Barbora Vokac Taylor Architect Inc.
“It was critical to keep visual connections between the spaces, but also to define physical separations,” explains Ms. Vokac Taylor.
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Doublespace Photography
A Fresh Face in a Familiar Place: Summerhill Family Home Blends Contemporary Living with Neighborhood Charm
Barbora Vokac Taylor Architect Inc.
Art - Left: Jessica Eaton, MLL 04 v.03 Right: Kristine Moran, Black and White Wave. Curated by Pearl Rowe
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Jules Lee
A Fresh Face in a Familiar Place: Summerhill Family Home Blends Contemporary Living with Neighborhood Charm
Barbora Vokac Taylor Architect Inc.
The existing wood-burning masonry fireplace and chimney were preserved, updated and refined with a new surround and marble bench.
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Doublespace Photography
A Fresh Face in a Familiar Place: Summerhill Family Home Blends Contemporary Living with Neighborhood Charm
Barbora Vokac Taylor Architect Inc.
The young family forms the heart of a large, blended, and multigenerational extended family. They often host informal gatherings for family and friends.
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Doublespace Photography
A Fresh Face in a Familiar Place: Summerhill Family Home Blends Contemporary Living with Neighborhood Charm
Barbora Vokac Taylor Architect Inc.
Millwork and framed views strategically divide the spaces, creating distinct rooms without isolating them.
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Doublespace Photography
A Fresh Face in a Familiar Place: Summerhill Family Home Blends Contemporary Living with Neighborhood Charm
Barbora Vokac Taylor Architect Inc.
"The vision was to design the spaces to spill out and over into one another, and to use layered elements to define the spaces". Art by Rebecca Ward, Shift. Curated by Pearl Rowe.
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Jules Lee
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