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55 Ossington Ave Suite 100 M6J 2Y9 Toronto, ON, Canada

The Stormwater Management System is up and running! Treating stormwater runoff prevents a significant amount of pollutants from entering our lakeprotecting aquatic life & providing a cleaner place for folks to swim, paddle and play. Learn more here https://bit.ly/3sGrR9Y

agYU The Art Gallery of York University proposal is positioned on a site that currently operates as a xeriscape garden, a landscape that eliminates the need for manmade irrigation. Our proposed structure maintains and celebrates this function and extends its performance as an active tool in the building’s stormwater management. The garden spaces create an active, seasonally changing backdrop and dynamic site relationships. The gardens will operate as a sponge, soaking and storing water when excess precipitation falls on the site. During dry conditions, the plant material, specifically selected for both drought tolerance and inundation, will thrive as a self-sustaining native habitat.

agYU Our proposal for the new Art Gallery of York University began with understanding the land on which it sits. The site’s indigenous history is referenced by the existing xeriscape garden, a self-sustaining landscape. Maintaining the xeriscape was an opportunity to pay respect to the land we proposed building on. The design of the building and landscape are integrally connected. The curvilinear form of the xeriscape landscape is simplified, abstracted and scaled to create an exterior public programme space of the agYU. Inflecting the edge adjacent to neighbouring buildings animates pedestrian ways north south through the site.

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We are honoured to announce that the Kathleen Andrews Transit Garage is a finalist in the Azure Magazine AZ Awards 2021! https://www.azuremagazine.com//az-awards-2021-meet-the-fi/

Borden Park Natural Swimming Pool by gh3 architecture is a 2020 OAA Design Excellence Award winner. Public voting for our People’s Choice begins later this week..., and our Celebration of Excellence happens online on October 1. More info to come! #OAAAwards2020 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vl0Y7bZfsiQ See more

Vote now for our People’s Choice Award! To learn more about the projects, visit https://oaa.on.ca/peoples-choice-2020 and check our Instagram and Facebook page ...as we continue to post project images every day. Voting ends on September 28, 2020. Borden Park Natural Swimming Pool (gh3 architecture @gh3architects) located in Edmonton. Essex Centre of Research (Hariri Pontarini Architects @hariripontariniarchitects) located in Windsor.

Thank you Azure Magazine for honouring the Borden Park Natural Swimming Pool!

In good company! Ontario Association of Architects Canadian Architect

Honoured to receive the OAA Design Excellence Award for the Borden Park Natural Swimming Pool! https://oaa.on.ca//blo/Borden-Park-Natural-Swimming-Pool-1

KATG Lower level breakout space at the Kathleen Andrews Transit Garage

Governor General’s Medal Winner: RTC 03 LOCATION Edmonton, Alberta ARCHITECT GH3 PHOTOS gh3*... #architecture #architect #buildingdesign RAIC - IRAC, Canada Council for the Arts | Conseil des arts du Canada, City of Edmonton #Edmonton #Alberta

Governor General’s Medal Winner: Borden Park Natural Swimming Pool LOCATION Edmonton, Alberta ARCHITECT GH3 PHOTOS gh3*... #architecture #architect #buildingdesign RAIC - IRAC, Canada Council for the Arts | Conseil des arts du Canada, City of Edmonton, #Edmonton #Alberta

Toronto-based architecture firm, GH3, was selected among Fast Company’s top 10 innovative architecture firms for jumping into the world of natural, chemical-free pools. City of Edmonton #architecture #architects #fastcompany #toronto #alberta, #edmonton #fastcompany

We are excited to announce that the Borden Park Natural Swimming Pool and the RTC 03 have received the 2020 Governor General’s Medal in Architecture! Congratulations to all of the recipients and thank you to the RAIC - IRAC for continuing to support and celebrate Canadian architecture in these difficult times. https://raic.org/awards/governor_generals---2020-recipients

Thank you to Fast Company for naming us in the world’s most innovative companies of 2020 in architecture! https://www.fastcompany.com//architecture-most-innovative-

KATG The $210.7 million KATG was a collaboration between @gh3architects lead design architects, @morrhershfield prime consultants and @cityofedmonton . With safety at the forefront, the bus maintenance bays were designed to have angle irons on the ceiling to provide safety tie-offs for maintenance staff working on the top of the buses. The bus storage area was designed to capture vehicle exhaust low and discharge it high. This process ensures exhaust is captured closer to the source, at the bottom of the vehicles, and provides an effective way of keeping the air clean. @ Edmonton, Alberta

KATG The Kathleen Andrews Transit Garage replaces an aging garage built in the 1960’s. The facility is designed to achieve LEED Silver designation. One of the many features in this pursuit is the design of the roof that directs rainwater into a 1.5 million litre cistern for vehicle washing. With 35 maintenance bays, the facility accommodates three undercarriage wash bays and four re-fuel bays with exterior wash bays.

KATG The Kathleen Andrews Transit Garage is a 450,000 square foot facility, a 10 acre building on a 13 acre site. The bus maintenance area and bus storage spaces have ample daylight through continuous clerestory windows and glazing in the lanterns. The facility accommodates 275 conventional buses and 30 electric buses. The decision to accommodate electric buses was not made until after construction began, this meant the suspended concrete slab that constituted majority of the facility had to be reinforced beyond the original specifications and an emergency generator and charging stations had to be incorporated. @ Edmonton, Alberta

Vote for the Borden Park Natural Swimming Pool for ArchDaily 's Building of the Year Awards! https://boty.archdaily.com/us/2020/candidates/127607

NETG The visual integrity and clarity of building massing is furthered by the continuity of surface in the vertical direction as the cladding wraps the functional elements of the roofscape. The volumes of mechanical equipment have been enhanced to achieve a balance with the profile of the roof lanterns. The modular patterning of the surface varies across the exterior changing the viewer’s experience from different positions within the site.

NETG The transformation of this multi-modal site into a working landscape organized by architecture at the scale of infrastructure is realized through a restrained and rigorous juxtaposition of metal and glass. This palette invokes the industrial legacy of the site and of modern architecture without nostalgia for either. The bus storage and maintenance areas are composed of a system of pre-cast structural panels clad with corrugated stainless steel panels. The built form is c...onceived as a technical surface or skin drawn across the expansive and simply articulated profile of an elemental form. This design strategy, a synthesis of surface and enclosed volume, weaves together the human user and machine determined programmatic requirements, it supports technical climatic and environmental functions and it aspires to a rigorous architectural identity. See more

From a pavilion and swimming pool that renegotiates our relationship with nature to a humble HIV/AIDS hospital that reaches out to both body and spirit, here ar...e the decade’s most memorable Canadian architecture projects: Teeple Architects Inc., GH3, Shim-Sutcliffe Architects Inc, Patkau Architects, Hariri Pontarini Architects, Acton Ostry Architects Inc, Todd Saunders, 5468796 Architecture, RDH Architects.

NETG The design of the North East Transit Garage embraces the significance of and necessity to assign a spatial role to the infrastructural image of the City of Edmonton. The design speaks from a perspective that argues for an architecture that can perform at the scale of urban infrastructure, at the scale of highways that undoubtedly increase in width as they are important to the planning of a future arterial traffic network. At the same time the architecture must perform as infrastructure that supports the more intimate conditions of the workplace, whether human or mechanical, as in the servicing of buses. As such, the design aims to mediate among variable scales by means of the visual impact of a coherent image of building and site.

Hadrien Thiabaud B.Arch.2013 ENSAPM (Ecole Nationale Superieure d'Architecture de Paris-Malaquais) M.Arch 2015 ENSAPM (Ecole Nationale Superieure d'Architecture de Paris-Malaquais) gh3* since 2018... What is your favourite part of being an architect? I like to think that by being an architect I have a chance to work for a community, having an effect on the landscape of the city and hopefully being able to improve the spaces for those who use them. What’s been your most inspiring / challenging project? Sidewalk labs has definitely been the most inspiring project for me. As an experimental project with a direct impact on the way we live and the way a city could develop, I had a very exciting time being part of the design team for the competition. Tell us about your architecture career so far. So far my career has been challenging. I started it in Paris, where I mostly worked on competitions. I would jump for a month or two in a firm and go to another once the competition was submitted. Then after a couple years I moved to Toronto, where I had to sort of restart. This transition was challenging on multiple levels, I had to first start practicing in english which I did not really speak before I landed, then learn a different way to practice, a different bylaw, work on multiple measure systems... through my whole career so far I had to learn how to adapt quickly and be very polyvalent. What do you do in your spare time? I tend to design and build furniture or kids toys for my nieces and nephew.