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Escarpment House
Firm LocationToronto, Canada
Companyarchitects—Alliance
Lead ArchitectPeter Clewes
Design TeamGerry Lang
Escarpment House revisits a fundamental strategy of modernist architecture: the precise deployment of a minimal palette of stone, glass and metal to make a statement about the relationship of building to context. Inserting a singular built form into an extraordinary landscape encourages contemplation, and allows one to appreciate both more clearly. The house is rendered in a restrained palette of locally quarried Algonquin limestone, honed and cleft-finished, narrow anodized aluminum fascia, and fully glazed walls that merge interior and exterior space and frame views through the house.