Firma completes home and museum for artist Charles Pachter
An extension made of blue corrugated metal panels has been added to a laneway house in Toronto's Chinatown neighbourhood to create a new museum and residence for the Canadian artist Charles Pachter.
Charles Pachter is a Canadian artist, known for his paintings of moose, landscapes and Queen Elizabeth. The artist wanted to renovate an existing studio, which occupies an industrial lot in Toronto's Chinatown.
Firma created the extension for Canadian painter Charles Pachter
The artist commissioned local architect Lia Maston of Firma for the renovation and extension. Firma, which Maston founded in 2014, focuses on revitalising laneway houses in Toronto.
"Pachter purchased the lot, which included a one-storey warehouse in the rear, in 1996 and used the existing space as an intimate event space for launches and fundraisers, dubbed the Moose Factory," said Firma. It forms a residence and a museum for the artist
The intervention was completed in October 2022 and added two storeys to the back of the property to create a 7,800 square-foot space (725 square metres). The building contains the artist's living quarters, and office, as well as a gallery and event space.
The extension features curved corners on the outside that were inspired by the rounded forms found in Pachter's paintings.
Curved corners take cues from Pachter's paintings
"We used Charles' paintings as a departure point for the building?s design: his colour palette of blues, the reductive simplicity of the ...
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