Based in Toronto and Ottawa, covering all of Canada
My designs help you re-act positively with your site and give you a sense of freedom and mobility .................... a place that makes you feel warm and is inviting to the senses surrounding you withbeauty.
We employ environmentally-friendly practices in efficiency of design, materials and systems.
The influence of the primer American architect Frank Lloyd Wright and his Prairie Style, is self evident in my designs.
Current projects:
A single family custom home in London, Ontario:
A single family custom home in Ottawa, now in the final phase of construction:
Project 1:
A house and studio for myself in Uxbridge, Ontario , Front View
A low profile and unassuming ultra-modern structure that blends with and appreciates its surroundings.
A country dwelling featuring a courtyard, an indoor garden and an double sided fireplace. This house is Composed in white stucco exterior with gray trim.
Project 2:
House for a private client in Toronto, Ontario, Front Detail
A large bungalow to be built on a fashionable drive in Toronto. The side porch, extends the house into its site and provides an indoor/outdoor space. The two-sided fireplace is a common feature in most of these houses and it is placed inside the house which keeps the heat inside, rather than having it on an exterior wall, which will waste energy to the outside. More beautiful and moreefficient.
Designed to be built in white stucco and continuous gray sill/trim, also featuring an indoor garden and large glass windows.
Project 3:
A house for Mr. Nikoo in Toronto, Ontario, Front Detail
A house on a corner lot with privacy and simple luxury with an open plan and two sided fireplace in the living/dining area.
Designed to have white stucco with continuous gray sill/trim exterior. A composition with multi-level flat and low hip roofs that extends to the landscape and make the house blend with it.
Project 4:
House for Mr. M. Cerquozzi in Nepean, Ontario, Front Detail
A country house to be constructed with a natural earth berm on the north or front side, to protect against cold northern winds in the winter and celestial windows that will allow cool breezes in during summer .
This house is built with red brick and white stucco with continuous concrete sill/trim.
Project 5:
House for Mr. B. Cerquozzi, Ottawa, Ontario, Front Detail
Many of the features which have since characterized my designs, originated in this house.
Although, the eaves became wider and the roof slopes became lower to give houses a sense of shelter and associate them with their site as an essential part of nature.
The exterior of this house,is in white brick with continuous gray sill/trim and red clay roof.
Project 6:
House for a private client in Ontario, Front Detail
A two storey house with a carport and a also a garage at the back. Featuring, in addition to having an open house like my other house designs, planters penetrating the house to bring nature in and an indoor Japanese style garden. Designed to be built in modern gray brick and smooth white stucco with gray continuous concretesill/trim.
Project 7:
Persia House Proposal in Toronto, Ontario, Front Perspective
A good time place! ......................... with its two banquet halls on the first floor and a restaurant and a night club on the second floor, and also plenty of outdoor space as well. Spaces flow through the ground floor to the terraces and to the outdoor gardens. This building is to be used and visited by all who love art and culture ................. A destination in the Toronto area.
The ultra-modern design is inspired by the ancient pre-Islamic architecture of Persia (modern day Iran), specifically the magnificent complex of palaces and administration buildings at Persepolis, the ancient capital of Persia .................................... which was destroyed by Alexander.
The building also features four functional wind towers, that are inspired by traditional Persian architecture, where the wind is directed downward onto a fountain pool where it is naturally cooled and carried through the entire building. Thus not only providing a pleasant and natural cooling breeze, but also reducing operational costs and environmental foot print of the structure.
Project 8:
A stable for twenty horses, Ottawa, Ontario, Front Perspective
A carefully and lovingly designed horse barn/stable ........................... with the primary concern being the comfort and happiness of the horses who are its occupants. Large stalls, individual outdoor paddocks and state-of-the-art ventilation, heating, cooling and lighting systems and concepts, which areall focused on the health and well being of the horse. The owner is also a beneficiary as a direct result.
Project 9:
A house for Mr. P. B. Morrissey in London Ontario, several views and plans
A generously sized one storey house on a 75 acre lot, featuring generous and openly planned, living and dining spaces that flow to the outside patio, a Japanese style interior garden and an open fireplace
Project 10: House proposal for a corner lot in Toronto, Ontario, Side Detail
A house to be built on a corner lot in a in the Etobicoke area of Toronto.
This ultra-modernhouse is on a corner lot in a fashionable neighbourhood and will stand out for its modernness and strong stance and character.
It features a roof terrace and composed of white stucco, continuous gray sill/trim and flat roof.
Project 11:
A house for a private client in Toronto, Ontario, Side Detail
A modern prairie style house that works out and takes advantage of this generous urban corner lot.
Designed to be built in white stucco and continuous gray sill/trim
Project 12:
A house for Mr. G. Cerquozzi in Ottawa, Ontario, Front Perspective
This house is designed to be built in red brick, white stucco and continuous gray sill/trim.
Project 13:
A low-rise condo. building in Ottawa, Ontario
A modern condo. building in red brick, white stucco and gray continuous sill/trim and featuring a common roof terrace.
Project 14:
House for Mr. S. Erickson in Toronto, Ontario, Front Detail
A uniquesolution to a unique design problem for a unique client. The client asked for an ultra-modern house in black and white only, inside and outside.
The house is only twenty feet wide in a fashionable area of Toronto, designed to be built in modernblack brick-stone, white stucco and gray sill/trim in a minimalistic composition.
Project 15:
Unitarian Church proposal in Ottawa, Ontario, Front Detail
A small and intimate church designed to lift the human spirit by keeping close to earth rather that belittling humans by tall peaks and celestial decoration, which has been the tradition of church design for the most part.
The design features a barrel-vault ceiling/roof to create a peaceful space required for spiritual contemplation.
The exterior finish is white stucco with continuous grey sill/trim and numerous inner-penetrating planters, functioning as representative of Nature and The Creator.
