Snider House
Built in 1828, the Snider House is North Toronto’s oldest surviving structure. Once surrounded by pastures and farmland, the farming cottage has seen the city encroach and now sits within a residential neighbourhood just west of Yonge Street. Tasked with a reimagining and addition to the historic structure, Giannone Petricone have designed a home with the intention of lasting another 200 years.
Photography of the project took place over the summer and fall of 2024 with the goals of creating a set of images suitable for editorial use, and also a series of more idiosyncratic photographs as a record of particular architectural, material and spatial moments within the project.
The project was featured as Architectural Records May 2025 House of the Month.
Architect:
Giannone Petricone Associates
Styling:
Suzanne Dimma
Location:
Toronto, Canada
“While the property of Duplex Avenue runs perpendicular to the road, the masonry box of the house itself is skewed slightly towards Yonge Street.
This prompted the idea to address this misalignment with the new addition… The blending of new and old is an exercise in juxtaposition, where the formal/axial design of the heritage home in front will be adjusted with the organic form and modern materiality of the rear addition..”
— Giannone Petricone Associates
