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Snider House
Toronto, Canada
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Other Projects by Giannone Petricone Associates Inc. Architects
Snider House
Toronto, Canada
Type
STATUS
Built
YEAR
2025
SIZE
5000 sqft - 10,000 sqft
Snider House offers an inspiring example of how a historic home can be both preserved and transformed, balancing respect for its heritage with a vision for contemporary family living.
Originally built in 1828, Snider House is the oldest surviving building in North Toronto. Despite nearly two centuries of additions and alterations, the home’s exterior had survived largely intact and the house is heritage protected. To accommodate a young family’s dynamic lifestyle, Giannone Petricone Associates (GPA) developed an innovative design that establishes a dialogue between past and present.
Conceived as a layered composition, the building’s new elements respond to, rather than replicate, the existing structure. The hodgepodge of past additions were cleared, the centre-hall plan reinstated at the front of the house, and the street-facing heritage façade was meticulously restored. By contrast, the back of the house releases the heritage structure from its formal symmetry, giving way to a two-storey undulating glass addition that weaves through the masonry, introducing contemporary geometry, lightness, and fluidity.
Through establishing an architectural language that feels both rooted in time and forward-looking, GPA recontextualizes this important landmark for a new era, enabling a notable piece of Toronto’s built heritage to thrive into the future.
Originally built in 1828, Snider House is the oldest surviving building in North Toronto. Despite nearly two centuries of additions and alterations, the home’s exterior had survived largely intact and the house is heritage protected. To accommodate a young family’s dynamic lifestyle, Giannone Petricone Associates (GPA) developed an innovative design that establishes a dialogue between past and present.
Conceived as a layered composition, the building’s new elements respond to, rather than replicate, the existing structure. The hodgepodge of past additions were cleared, the centre-hall plan reinstated at the front of the house, and the street-facing heritage façade was meticulously restored. By contrast, the back of the house releases the heritage structure from its formal symmetry, giving way to a two-storey undulating glass addition that weaves through the masonry, introducing contemporary geometry, lightness, and fluidity.
Through establishing an architectural language that feels both rooted in time and forward-looking, GPA recontextualizes this important landmark for a new era, enabling a notable piece of Toronto’s built heritage to thrive into the future.
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