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O-day'min Park Pavilion / gh3*

Susanna Moreira — Mon, 01 Jun 2026 12:00:00 +0000

Located in downtown Edmonton's rapidly evolving Warehouse Campus district, O-day'min Park transforms a former surface parking lot into a vibrant new public space. Commissioned by the City of Edmonton, the park helps catalyze the neighbourhood's transition from low-intensity industrial lands into a dense, mixed-use, residential community. The park and its pavilion represent early, highly visible public investments intended to establish identity, support downtown living, and signal a new standard for the public realm.

Roxborough House / gh3*

Hana Abdel — Tue, 18 Mar 2025 12:00:00 +0000

Situated in South Rosedale, one of Toronto's dedicated heritage conservation districts, Roxborough House dates originally from the 1920's. Subject to stringent preservation restrictions, the renovation of this Edwardian style home posed the challenge of balancing deference for heritage character with the client's desire for modernization through a minimalist aesthetic.

Windermere Fire Station No. 31 / gh3* + S2 Architecture

Valeria Silva — Tue, 21 May 2024 12:00:00 +0000

As civic buildings, fire stations are highly functional and technical facilities, unusually embedded in residential communities for citizen safety. At once practical and symbolic, contemporary fire stations serve a critical public service while conveying important civic values within a neighborhood.

Kathleen Andrews Transit Garage / gh3*

Paula Pintos — Sun, 29 May 2022 23:00:00 +0000

Edmonton’s Kathleen Andrews Transit Garage (KATG) is a municipal bus maintenance and storage facility designed to set new standards for an often-overlooked building type. Reconciling demanding technical requirements with simple and rigorous architecture, KATG elevates a conventionally utilitarian building and honors its important role within a growing, equitable, sustainable, and resilient contemporary city. Functional efficiency and high sustainability are matched by formal refinement, historic preservation, and public art, enriching both the lives of the people who work there and the wider community it serves.

Stormwater Facility / gh3*

Paula Pintos — Wed, 01 Dec 2021 12:00:00 +0000

The Stormwater Facility (SWF) treats urban run-off from the new West Don Lands and Quayside neighbourhood developments. Functionally, the SWF stands at the intersection of technological and architectural advancement. Housing state-of-the-art treatment systems it expresses a civic responsibility towards ensuring safe and clean water ecology. Architecturally, it adds to a list of Toronto’s historic infrastructural works - such as the R.C. Harris Treatment Plant, the Bloor Viaduct, and the Hearn Power Station - whose architectural character has helped to both express and define Toronto’s identity at a given moment in time.

Borden Park Natural Swimming Pool / gh3*

Andreas Luco — Fri, 23 Aug 2019 01:00:00 +0000

The Borden Park Natural Swimming Pool is the first chemical free public outdoor pool to be built in Canada. The project replaced an existing pool, with a seasonal pavilion and landscaped pool precinct for 400 swimmers. Our challenge was to create a large-scale pool with the high-quality water control (a criterion essential for any public bathing facility), while also achieving an environmentally healthy and natural filtration process.

Street House / gh3*

Karen Valenzuela — Mon, 06 Oct 2014 00:00:00 +0000

A minimal yet radical architectural strategy transforms a landmark Edwardian residence in South Rosedale. The challenge of modernizing the historically designated Street House, designed by architect William Alexander Langton for Mrs. Elenor Street in 1908, began with a single surgical gesture that unlocks the constricted formal plan to become a spatially flowing, light-filled home, suited to contemporary family life.

Borden Park Pavilion / gh3*

Karen Valenzuela — Mon, 29 Sep 2014 00:00:00 +0000

A building that is materially simple but structurally unique.

Williams Studio / gh3*

Nico Saieh — Wed, 27 Jan 2010 00:00:00 +0000

A photographer’s studio over a boathouse on Stony Lake is a re-imagination of the archetypal glass house in a landscape in the Canadian Shield. A continuation of thinking about this architectural ambition, the central concept of the house is reconceived through a contemporary lens of sustainability, program, site and amenity. The compelling qualities of simple, open spaces; interior and exterior unity and material clarity are transformed to enhance the environmental and programmatic performance of the building, creating architecture of both iconic resonance and innovative context–driven design.

House 60 / gh3*

Nico Saieh — Fri, 19 Jun 2009 00:00:00 +0000

House 60 is a renovation and addition to a 50's suburban house on a large lot in Toronto, Canada.