Prince-Philip Residence
A young firm updates a midcentury house with a contemporary two-story expansion.
Thellend Fortin Architectes tackled this addition to a single-story, 1960s-era house in the Outremont neighborhood of Montreal in 2014. The house is located on a steeply sloping lot, and architects Louis Thellend and Lisa-Marie Fortin sought to capitalize on those features with a two-story addition that would offer impressive views of the horizon.
Thellend Fortin Architectes designed this two-story addition in the OUtremont neighborhood of Monteal to capture views from the steeply sloping lot.
The architects sited the patio and swimming pool beneath a canopy of mature maple trees, an element that they say makes the site "an oasis in the heart of the city."
The addition was conceived as a "ribbon" that both hugs and runs lateral to the contours of the existing building, offering multiple vantage points from which to admire the surrounding landscape.