Partisans creates an undulating Ontario guest house
Partisans creates an undulating Ontario guest house
An undulating wooden structure makes for a striking guest house, designed by Canadian architecture studio Partisans, in the grounds of a Southern Ontario home
A heritage estate nestled among 200-year-old maple and oak trees in Canada’s Southern Ontario region might sound like a dream come true, but for the food and beverage investor and innovator Scott Friedmann, owning a Georgian Revival mansion with multiple structures was not without its perils. After an electrical fire broke out in the property’s guest cottage in 2017, burning it down, Friedmann turned to the Toronto-based architecture firm Partisans to replace the structure with something unexpected.