When Don Evans and Susan Wilson bought their new home, they literally tore the roof off. The couple made the 1930s Tudor house a modern home in downtown Toronto by removing the gabled roof and adding a “light monitor”—an angled rooftop window like the ones that topped early 20th-century factories. It is emblematic of architect Paul Syme’s design for the house, which has the openness and hardy materials of an industrial space. “There’s very little that divides the spaces inside,” Syme says. “I think of it as the folding of a loft space into a contemporary house.”
