1/12/2024 0 Comments Live work store house![]() ![]() These suites are well suited t o artists, designers, small business and anyone who needs a distinctive work address, with living quarters above. While the building will turn its most animated face to Dundas Street West, featuring a mix of high-ceilinged retail shops at grade, located along the quiet laneway to the rear of the building, with south facing frontage, will be the 2-storey live-work units. Southeast corner of DUKE Condos, designed by Quadrangle Architects for TAS Street view of Live-Work units at DUKE Condos, image courtesy of TAS The seven-storey structure will add 85 condos to the area plus 2 town homes and 5 laneway live-work units aimed at creative entrepreneurs. One of the newest is DUKE Condos, a mid-rise residential development designed by Quadrangle Architects for TAS in the retro Junction neighbourhood. There are a number of facilities designed and built especially with a live-work purpose in Toronto’s building stock. It describes a new take on an old idea.Įxample of a 2-storey Live-Work unit at DUKE Condos, image courtesy of TAS Although many live-work spaces are marketed specifically towards retaining local, professional artists, the set-up gives greater opportunity to entrepreneurial residents. The stable, sequential career paths of a few decades ago are far less common, and a growing number of people work from home, facilitated by technology and online connectivity. With the recession many have shifted to self-employment, but more than that, the norms have changed. This trend seems to fit well with our changing economy. While commercial loft space-retrofitted with the necessary utilities-has always been a hot commodity amongst the creative community, the advent of live-work space has made the concept of living close to one’s work even more appealing, and-as developers realize-marketable. People have been living and working under one roof for centuries think shopkeepers with their dwellings upstairs! Artists have built on that paradigm, transforming warehouses to accommodate the amenities of a home as well as open studio space to create and store finished artwork securely. The graphic, cartoon-like character of the facade communicates its live/work function with the relief of a naive office block stacked above the apex of a pitched roof.įor more inspiring live/work spaces explore our Collections Page.From a historical perspective, there is nothing groundbreaking about the live-work model. Renovated by Piero Portaluppi in the 1930s, the nineteenth-century neo-Classical palazzo home of Italian architect Mario Bellini is oriented around his extensive library. Largely confined to a mezzanine, the collection expands over a scaffold-like structure that surrounds the staircase and runs through the centre of the house.Ĭompleted in 2002, Blue House was a home and studio-office space for former FAT Architect Sean Griffiths. Intended as a multi-purpose space, the ground floor housed a working studio with a movable integrated desk and storage unit that could be transferred to different areas within the space depending on the studios needs. Awarded the prestigious RIBA Manser Medal, the house was described as an ‘urban sanctuary’ with a beautifully sculptural form. Throughout their lives the studio was interchangeably used as a base for their design practice, a guest suite and home office.ĭesigned by architect Carl Turner as his own elegant home and studio, Slip House was sold by The Modern House in 2014. Playful interiors with primary colours distinguished living areas from the more formal employee studio.Įames House became the couples’ creative studio and residence from 1949 until Charles’ death in 1978 and Ray’s death in 1988. Originally designed as a Case Study House, the space is divided between two separate structures which defined their public and private purpose but allowed for flexibility. Dow used distinct aesthetics and colour palettes to clearly define the domestic and professional space. Dow designed this home and studio to house his own practice in 1933. Known for his association with Frank Lloyd Wright, architect Alden B. Adapted into a home and studio with an L-shaped office space, the design embodied his approach to architecture as “the art of organising space”. ![]() As we head back to work, we’re thinking about spaces that inspire and six architects who found the secret to the ultimate live/work environment.īelgian architect Renaat Braem built this home for himself and his wife, graphic artist Els Severin, in 1958. ![]()
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