Interesting Buildings and Houses

July 11, 2025

The Grand House

I saw this cool house when visiting Cambridge, and of course, I felt obligated to do some research!

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June 20, 2025

Architecture on Berryman Street

Toronto's Berryman Street has an interesting mix of architectural styles

June 5, 2025

An interesting Contemporary Style house in London

This very interesting house with a contemporary design was built here in London (South of downtown) just a few years ago, to replace an older house that had been condemned. Just had to stop by to see how it looked 😃
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May 29, 2025

Two Sculptural Style Houses

I stopped by to see these sculptural style houses in North York while visiting there last weekend - both houses are next to each other. They certainly are eye catching!
Sculptural style houses often have bold geometries and use unconventional materials.

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May 22, 2025

Trullo Houses

Have you ever heard of a Trullo house? They are traditional dry stone huts with a conical roof, located in Southeast Italy. I found a few real estate listings of them, looks like they're mostly in the 200,000-700,000 euro range ($312,000-$1.1 million CAD)

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April 3, 2025

The Wood Cake House

Here's another wonderfully eccentric Toronto property, known as the Wood Cake House. It's located at 473 Clinton Street.

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March 20, 2025

Apartment Condominiums in PEI

I got into one of my curious moods again (it happens all the time!), and was thinking, I wonder if there are high end apartment condominiums in PEI?
Turns out there are - here are two condo buildings in Charlottetown, with 2 bedroom, 2 bathroom apartments currently for sale …
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Feb. 20, 2025

Lustron Houses

Have you ever heard of Lustron houses? These photos display 4 of the approximately 2500 of them that were built in the US after World War II. These prefabricated homes were made from enameled steel, and were considered to be extremely durable, and low maintenance (they didn't even have to …

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Jan. 30, 2025

Erin Mills Town Centre Development Plans

I recently read about these development plans for Mississauga's Erin Mills Town Centre (the mall with the cool glass sphere on top).
They're planning on converting parts of the parking area, along with some of the exterior retails buildings, into a large mixed use community, including the addition of …
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Jan. 16, 2025

Another unusually decorated Toronto house

Time for another unusually decorated house in Toronto - I suppose I'll eventually run out of them, but this won't be the last one 😀This one is at 550 Manning Ave, SW of Bloor/Bathurst

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