With its elegant use of standard industrial building components and materials, Wolf House is considered as one of the most important houses of 20th-century Canada. Located in a wooded ravine park in the Rosedale neighbourhood of Toronto and designed by the American architect Barton Myers (b. 1934-), the house was completed in 1977 and is now recognised as a national monument. The skeleton of the house is constructed from steel with the structure, ducts and conduits all left exposed. Home comforts are provided by built-in timber furniture which softens the industrial character of the building’s main structure and is used to divide rooms. The floorplates are enclosed by floor to ceiling glazing that almost brushes against the surrounding trees, giving a sense of being immersed by nature.

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