The Globe and Mail

Where sausage links and salamis once swung, there are now architectural drawings on display in the big window. Inside, where long refrigerated cases squatted, desks made from recycled mahogany doors — where four architects sit hunched over computer screens — are arranged against the wall. In the basement, the meat smokehouse and the old stinky boiler are gone, replaced with a new high-efficiency unit, a radiant heating system, a file storage room and, soon, an employee cappuccino station. Wedged between two similar low-rise 1920s commercial buildings just west of Runnymede Avenue, in the still gritty but slowly gentrifying “Annette Street Village,” husband-and-wife team Mary Ellen Lynch and Steven Comisso's approachable “storefront” practice encourages the passerby peek-in. Welcome to Lynch + Comisso Architects, the friendliest little mom ‘n' pop design shop this side of the Humber River.