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RSS FeedsThis North York home caused an uproar when it was built in the ´90s. Now it can be yours for a cool $3 million
(The Star Fashion & Style)

 
 

12 november 2018 21:45:38

 
This North York home caused an uproar when it was built in the ´90s. Now it can be yours for a cool $3 million
(The Star Fashion & Style)
 


One of Toronto’s quirkiest homes, the angular blue property at 1 Bond Ave. that made waves in cookie-cutter Don Mills when it was built in the late ’90s, is on the market. The house, along with its fraternal twin property at 3 Bond Ave., drew the chagrin of neighbours when it was built at the turn of the millennium.“People here are very used to the brick and if you don’t have an asphalt roof and brown brick they think you’re crazy,” recalls architect Zak Ghanim. “Their eyes are used to that.”Real estate agent Nick Bernhard, “was looking for something really very funky” says Ghanim who was hired by Bernhard to design both properties off Leslie St. between Lawrence Ave E. and York Mills Rd.Ghanim, who was born in Egypt, was inspired by the colours found in that country’s architecture, unlike the Canadian suburbs where it’s all “beige, beigey beige, beigey grey, and grey beige.”He wanted to do something “non-traditional” with the wood, concrete and stucco homes “rather than just follow the same stream, whatever you see around you, copy and paste.” But there was “big opposition in the community for the design and shape.”It took a long time to get the plans approved by the then North York’s building department. City inspectors doubted the homes could even be built and dropped in on construction just to double check, the Star reported in 1997.In a 1998 Canadian Press article, one neighbour compared it to “Disneyland going up on the corner.” “People were swearing at me,” Ghanim recalls with a laugh.However, once the homes were built, they slowly came around, he said — even when they were painted bold shades of blue and yellow. “They thought that this would destroy their community. Meanwhile, once it was finished I got so many offers,” Ghanim said.All the media attention at the time didn’t hurt.The ...


 
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