National Post

We have all seen them or lived next door to them: tiny two-bedroom 1950s bungalows that sooner or later get swallowed up by the wrecking ball to make room for soaring monster homes with big picture windows perfectly positioned above sloping double driveways. Their builders might do their darndest to make them look slightly different -- with a copper dormer here or a stone facade there. But to the untrained eye, most of these homes still look the same. That's what makes architect Warren Grossman's latest project so appealing. The 3,600-square-foot Frank Lloyd Wright-inspired house near Lawrence Avenue West and the Allen Expressway is a welcome sight among the tall, stark, brick builder homes that litter the neighbourhood. In fact, the four-bedroom house on a 45x130-foot lot is set back from the sidewalk just enough that it almost goes unnoticed in a quick drive-by given its gradual rise, its sloped roof, the stone-and-wood textures and street-facing balconies that soften the landscape.