Christopher Wallace Architect

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Christopher Wallace Architect

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Garden Architecture

Country: Canada

This structure, in the traditional Craftsman style, was built of heavy cedar timbers and finished with a cedar shake roof. It was first built as an award-winning entry at ‘Canada Blooms’, this country’s premier garden show. After the show, we modified the structure somewhat and had it re-erected as...

Craftsman Garden Pavilion, Muskoka

This classically correct garden pavilion was built in Toronto. As well as serving its functional purpose as an outdoor dining pavilion, it also forms a strong visual backdrop at the foot of the garden, much like the classical follies in many grand English gardens.

Tuscan Garden Pavilion, Toronto

This structure is quite tiny, measuring six feet by ten feet. It serves as a change room for the client’s teenage son and his friends. It was designed with a very simple interior, but with and exterior rich in traditional ‘carpenter gothic’ detailing. The garage on the opposite side of the pool was...

Thibideau Pool Room, The Kingsway

Wood gable end detail.

Thibideau Pool Room, The Kingsway

We were asked to create a significant yet subtle formal setting for our client’s piece of historic stone garden sculpture. Our solution was to frame the sculpture with a semi-circular limestone colonnade, designed with classic Tuscan detailing. We then created curved stone steps on the uphill side...

Tuscan Garden Structures, High Park

Oblique view toward central sculpture.

Tuscan Garden Structures, High Park

Limestone steps set into hillside.

Tuscan Garden Structures, High Park

View looking down the slope

Tuscan Garden Structures, High Park

This Georgian-inspired structure was built in the architect’s own back yard in the older area of Port Hope. Sitting at the rear of the lot, it overlooks a small, well treed ravine, and serves as both a living and dining pavilion. We spend many pleasurable hours here in a quiet, private retreat...

Garden Pavilion, Port Hope, Ontario

Interior ceiling detail.

Garden Pavilion, Port Hope, Ontario

Garden Pavilion, Port Hope, Ontario

Exterior cornice detail.

Garden Pavilion, Port Hope, Ontario

Interior dining area.

Garden Pavilion, Port Hope, Ontario

Back edge overlooking ravine.

Garden Pavilion, Port Hope, Ontario

Interior seating area.

Garden Pavilion, Port Hope, Ontario

Like the outdoor pavilion described previously, this outdoor kitchen is on the architect’s own property in Port Hope. E use the barbeque year round, but we particularly put this structure to use in the summer months, for family dining and for al fresco entertaining.

Outdoor Kitchen, Port Hope, Ontario

View from garden

Outdoor Kitchen, Port Hope, Ontario

View from rear.

Outdoor Kitchen, Port Hope, Ontario

We have created a series of accessory structures for a private gated community in Uxbridge, a small town north-east of Toronto. The structures include a community picnic pavilion, a gate house, a community mailbox house and a substantial curved pergola defining the end of the community’s private...

Garden Sructures, Gated Community, Uxbridge

Community picnic pavilion

Garden Sructures, Gated Community, Uxbridge

Large, semi-circular pergola, defining the edge of the private community park.

Garden Sructures, Gated Community, Uxbridge