Reflections in Peterborough in The Globe and Mail 2014
Reflections in Peterborough in the Globe and Mail
A better bungalow: A radical redesign brings a new fluidity and floor-plan clarity to a low-slung Peterborough home.
Dave LeBlanc—While architects generally live by the “don’t repeat yourself” rule — Mies van der Rohe notwithstanding — one can, occasionally, persuade them to pay tribute to a design.
In early 2009, Molly’s Cabin, the sublime, Pointe-au-Baril area, rock-hugging, 1,000-square-foot cottage by Agathom Co. was making the media rounds. A Modernist stunner by the husband-and-wife team of Adam Thom and Katja Aga Sachse Thom, the dipping-roof and timber-clad interior graced these very pages, and those of international magazines.
And that’s when the Brown family of Peterborough — Kathryn Moore the dentist, Siemens senior manager Robert Brown and college-ready Alex and Ian — were introduced to the Thom family. In time, the Browns would allow the Thoms to pull a Fred Astaire and dip their roof, too, along with a whole lot of other smooth architectural moves.
But that’s getting ahead of our story.