The front elevation of 2532 Toronto Crescent, a flat-roofed contemporary house in brick and dark metal on a corner lot.

St Andrews Heights · Occupied

2532 Toronto Crescent NW

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Neighbourhood
St Andrews Heights
Scope
New custom home
Completion
September 2023
Square footage
5,400 sq ft
Architect
McKinley Burkart
Status
Occupied

A corner lot with the whole downtown skyline behind it.

The clients had lived two streets away for fifteen years and bought the lot for the view. The house is arranged so that every principal room faces south across the escarpment: living, dining and kitchen run the full width of the main floor behind floor-to-ceiling glass, with the service rooms pushed to the north wall.

Stone and smooth stucco on the street elevation, kept deliberately quiet. The detail is all in the joints.

Aerial view of the house on its corner lot with the downtown Calgary skyline behind it.
Front elevation and downtown beyond
The living room, with full-height glazing framing the city view.
Living — south glazing
The kitchen island in honed stone, with the range wall behind.
Kitchen — white waterfall island, rift oak

Millwork & finishes

The oak was selected as a single order and cut for the whole house so that the kitchen, the hallway panelling and the stair share one grain and one colour. It was dry-fitted in the shop before it came to site.

Plaster walls throughout, hand-finished. The fireplace surround is a single piece of stone, set before the wall closed.

The living space seen wide, showing its connection through to the kitchen.
A hallway vignette — a narrow console against a plastered wall.
The pool seen wide, with the rear of the house behind it.
Rear yard, looking north to the house
The covered patio at the rear, with an outdoor dining setting.
Covered patio
The passage from the kitchen through to the rear of the house.
Stair, main floor
The rear elevation, showing the stepped massing down to the garden.
Rear elevation

Twenty-two months, start to handover.

Excavation began in November, which is not the easy way to do it in Calgary, and the schedule held. The clients were away for six months of the build and were sent photographs every Friday.