Penthouse Terrace, Toronto

This penthouse terrace provides a seamless flow from interior to exterior and accommodates large gatherings while ensuring a sense of intimacy for smaller groupings. White granite covers most of the terrace surface. However, a wood deck continues the parquet flooring and stain colour of the master bedroom and kitchen, visually extending the interior to the outside. A more private deck off a bedroom is screened from the terrace by an evergreen hedge and stone garden. A cedar screen hides an exit door and conceals storage.

Brushed stainless-steel planters at parapet height line the perimeter of the terrace, allowing the skyline to dominate the space. The exterior kitchen boasts a stainless-steel barbeque, countertop and wine/beer cooler container. Water from one edge of the container falls to the ground plane, where it becomes a trough that divides the terrace into separate zones.

Chalmers: This project gives the sense of being in a private garden.

Rock: You’re exposed yet intimate. This is one lucky client.