Altius Featured in Luxury Homes Magazine

Local legend says the steep slope was Toronto Ski Club’s first ski hill. In the late 1800s, skiers started uphill at the Eaton cottage and schussed through the formal gardens, right down to High Park’s Wendigo Creek. When architect Graham Smith discovered it in 2000, no sign remained of the ski hill or the famous family’s gardens, just an overgrown woodlot in the heart of a mature Bloor West Village neighbourhood. The double-wide lot stood vacant for good reason. The site presented a serious engineering challenge: how to anchor a home to an alpine-steep slope. Smith, a principal of Altius Architecture, believed…