Phillipa Rispin from Montreal & Toronto Home Magazine writes of Altius’ latest cottage project in the Muskoka region, North of Toronto. Photo credits to Brandon Barré. Be sure to check out your local newsstand for the print copy of the magazine available this week.

Altius Architecture’s founders bootstrapped their firm into existence. “We basically decided to start a firm right out of school,” says principal Cathy Garrido, AIA, LEED AP. Partners Graham Smith, MRAIC, LEED AP, and Trevor McIvor, MRAIC, piloted the firm’s early design/build projects. Garrido helped structure and manage the...

Set on the cliffside of a much-cherished lake, the Cliff House enhances the extraordinary surrounding scenery through thoughtful integration of building elements with the natural assets of the site and terrain. The dwelling emerges from the rock formation of a cliff, using the same local granite to form its base…