{"id":42970,"date":"2013-04-09T21:40:07","date_gmt":"2013-04-10T01:40:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/spacing.ca\/toronto\/?p=42970"},"modified":"2013-04-09T21:42:04","modified_gmt":"2013-04-10T01:42:04","slug":"no-mean-city-a-superkul-renovation-in-hoggs-hollow","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spacing.ca\/toronto\/2013\/04\/09\/no-mean-city-a-superkul-renovation-in-hoggs-hollow\/","title":{"rendered":"NO MEAN CITY: A Superkul renovation in Hoggs Hollow"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Cross-posted from <\/em>No Mean City,<\/em><\/a> Alex’s personal blog on architecture\"\"
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\nLast week in The Globe and Mail I wrote<\/a> about a renovation by Superkul Architect<\/a> that’s notable for what it doesn’t do. In a neighbourhood of great wealth and an incredible landscape – this is the land of deep ravines and new chateaux –\u00a0 the architects and their clients worked with their old, totally undistinguished house and built on its character. Thanks to Superkul’s Andre D’Elia for the interview.<\/p>\n

At one and a half storeys, with a hipped roof, bland finishes and an odd, cut-up floor plan, this house was a generic builder\u2019s house with historical pretensions and no historic value. \u201cThe hipped roof didn\u2019t scare us,\u201d says Mr. D\u2019Elia. \u201cWe asked, \u2018How can we take advantage of all this?\u2019\u201d Indeed, Mr. D\u2019Elia and his partner Meg Graham have learned about the pleasures of working with the constraints of renovation. \u201cSometimes you get quirky spaces,\u201d he says, \u201cand they\u2019re spaces you wouldn\u2019t deliberately design. But you work with them and you can give them an interesting twist.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n

More pictures after the jump.<\/p>\n

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