#This renovated Toronto loft has an iconic archway

#This renovated Toronto loft has an iconic archway

“The condo started feeling like nobody else could have possibly lived here but me” (Photography by Andrew Snow.) Anila Akram grew up in Toronto’s Leslieville neighbourhood, where she rode the Green Line with friends and ate at multicultural restaurants like Maha’s Brunch. In 2016, Akram, by then a brand manager, was scouring the Toronto real…

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#This funky Fort Erie home is an architectural gem

#This funky Fort Erie home is an architectural gem

Architect Paul Kariouk found a way to engineer a lake view, even though the house isn’t on the shoreline (Photography courtesy of Dave Edward) From the outside, the Bower House could pass for a submarine with a periscope peering outward as interpreted by Pablo Picasso. From another angle, it resembles an inquisitive robot. Whatever it…

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#This .1-million retrofuturistic dome home is an inhabitable EPCOT

#This $2.1-million retrofuturistic dome home is an inhabitable EPCOT

The owners spent 25 years renovating the space to accentuate the home’s spherical shape (Photography courtesy of Conrad Rowsell and Dianne Weir-Rowsell) The legendary American renaissance man R. Buckminster Fuller was responsible for a few futuristic architectural ideas, one of which was the geodesic dome, an ultra-strong spherical structure composed of small interlocking triangles. Most…

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