This prolonged winter, with its cold temperatures, grey weather, and mountains of snow, can dampen even the most jubilant spirit. One treatment to combat these seasonal blues, is to get outside and get some sunlight onto your face, and what better way to find out more about my new neighbourhood than a destination-less twenty minute jaunt? Actually, I did have some idea of what I wanted to go see; on one of the many redirected streetcar journeys I had passed a most unusual house on Coxwell street just south of Gerrard, and I wanted to get a better view.
157 Coxwell street is a three story, two bedroom house designed by Rohan Walters. To call it unique in its surroundings would be an understatement; it's exterior is resin impregnated plywood in contrasting primary colours, red, blue, yellow. It towers above its neighbours (but not imposingly) on improbable conical stilts, with a drawbridge-like walkway leading to its front door. To this sci-fi geek, its spaceship meets castle look, channels The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy in humour, cheerfulness, and imagination - made all the more bright by its contrast to the drabness of its immediate surroundings. The green space (or soon to be green space if Spring ever arrives) around the house is prominently displayed underneath and all around the structure itself; making the home seem even more like a temporary alien visitor, ready for take-off.
If you would like to know more about this building, or the artist responsible for it visit http://www.spacesbyrohan.com/.
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