The Globe and Mail

Standing beside the newly poured concrete lap pool with my back to the spreading city parcelled in grids below, I don't need to squint at David Daniels's new home to see it. Clearly, it is a mini-Maple Leaf Gardens. Built in 1935 on a promontory in the neighbourhood of South Hill, the 8,000-square-foot house was designed by Toronto architect Mackenzie Waters for major-general Donald M. Hogarth, an MPP who later became a mining executive. Four years before, Mr. Waters had worked as associate architect with the Montreal firm of Ross & Macdonald on the much-beloved hockey shrine, and it's obvious that he took something away from that experience. Pointing to the restrained but rhythmic facade and buff brick banding that smacks of its cousin on Carlton Street, Mr. Daniels remarks: "I call this whole project 'The echo of deco.'"