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Super-cool captains of their own urban ship

The Globe and Mail

While cool, 30 storeys can't hold a candle to three. Standing on a third-floor balcony, shoulder-to-shoulder with the streetlights and hydro poles, you own the street: The super-cool captain of an urban ship steering through a sea of asphalt. Well, that's what it's like where Dundas West curves and coolly slices the top off of Roncesvalles Avenue, anyway, because that's where you'll find superkül inc., architect. Once a beauty parlour, more recently a shabby two-storey domicile with heavy drapes in the window, 2208 Dundas St. West has been made over into sleek, three-storey proof - with balconies - that small, "underutilized" buildings can do double-duty as live/work units.