The latest issue of Designlines magazine is about how Toronto is — finally — embracing laneway life. And one of the featured homes is none other than Mackay Laneway House. Pictured above is architect Gabriel Fain sitting on the front steps. As some of you… Read More
Eleven years and a few setbacks later and we now have a completed laneway house. As Bill Gates once said, “most people overestimate what they can do in one year and underestimate what they can do in ten years.” Construction is all finished up and… Read More
Well, it only took 11 years. I still remember the first time I walked into Etobicoke Civic Centre and showed the lady at the counter my design for a laneway house. She didn’t know what a laneway house was and she couldn’t figure out where… Read More
I posted the following image to Twitter this morning: It’s a map of some of the people who support my proposed laneway house (in midtown Toronto) and have signed their name at lanewaylove.com. To me, this is an incredible demonstration of the kind of broad-based… Read More
The CBC published a piece this morning on my laneway house proposal. The subheadline: Real estate developer believes time is right to build a laneway house he planned five years ago. It’s true. As many of you already know, this proposal has been in the… Read More
In anticipation of a (very short) presentation that I will be giving at this week’s inaugural laneway summit here in Toronto, I thought that I would share the details about about own laneway house proposal and what I’ve learned from the process. Specifically, I’d like… Read More
BRANDON DONNELLY 