A house with a gabled roof is the most elemental of architectural forms. But a newly remodeled residence in Toronto by Anya Moryoussef Architect puts a strange new face on this familiar shape: its front is an enigmatic composition of staggered windows in a field of white brick, capped with a dormer that presents a blank face to the street.
“It is familiar, yet also unfamiliar and a bit uncanny,” Anya Moryoussef says of the project, which she’s dubbed the Blind Dormer House. The 2,200-square-foot project is a “cultural probe,” she says, into our ideas about home and their architectural expression.
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