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gh3 is featured in this year’s Wallpaper Architects Directory, for which each selected firm designed a speculative residential project on a rural site. From Wallpaper:

Pat Hanson and Diana Gerrard set up GH3 in 2006, bringing together their respective disciplines of architecture and landscape architecture. ‘Finding the unique identity of a site and translating that into built form is the essence of all our projects,’ they say. Their holiday house was designed for the ‘agricultural expanse of southern Saskatchewan’. Serving as a counterpoint to the area’s relentlessly flat topography, the house was designed as a bold, geometric object, ‘enclosed between soaring crops and the dark earth’. Arranged around a central courtyard, the house is clad in an ‘oxidising skin to record the toll of the often harsh prairie weather’

gh3′s pavilion designs for the City of Edmonton’s Borden Park and Castle Down District Park have been chosen as winning entries in the City of Edmonton competition. A third design by gh3 for Victoria Park garnered a citation award from the jury. More information about each individual competition can be found below:

Borden Park / Castle Down District Park / Victoria Park

The pavilion at 550 Wellington is installed. See more photos of the project here.

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See Part I here.

Fabrication of the pad is complete; the sequence below shows the final process of attaching the tubular legs. Installation will take place at the end of May.

The Royal Architecture Institute of Canada and the Canada Council for the Arts have announced that gh3′s Photographer’s Studio Over A Boathouse has won a 2010 Governor General’s Medal in Architecture. More information is available on the RAIC site.

gh3’s first built example of a vertical planted form will be completed in the fall of 2011. Installed at the entry level of the Thompson Residences, the aim of the design is to produce a unique, independent structure that distinguishes itself from the architecture of the building.

CNC-milled foam slabs are secured to two columns . The sculptural structure is equipped with a rainwater irrigation system to sustain the sedum and moss plantings.

Set on a black-polished concrete slab with retractable blinds, the pavilion at 550 Wellington is a modern interpretation of a traditional lattice garden structure.

An adjacent south-facing reflecting pool will act as a skating rink in the winter.

The aluminum, tubular, welded frame will be powder-coated black with a flat finish, while an LED lighting system will ensure a bright setting for outdoor dining and various organized events.

The Photographer’s Studio pad is an outdoor extension of this live/work space set in the Canadian Shield. The platform is constructed from plate aluminum, principle members are 25mm in thickness and 400mm in depth, filled in with a 2-way tubular floor grid, and founded on a tubular column structure. The pad will function as a large-scale outdoor tripod and a social congregating area.

Guarded by low-iron glass with concealed supports, the curvilinear pad, which will be powder blasted and clear coated, is bridged at level with the studio.

Here’s an excerpt from Alex Bozikovik’s story on House 60:

When Granovsky first bought the house with her husband in 2007, it was a red-brick ’50s dwelling with low ceilings and a cut-up floor plan. Charging GH3′s Pat Hanson with a fresh start led to a quick and decisive process (two months of design and nine months of construction) that would transform the building beyond all recognition.

Finn O’Hara, who photographed the cover image, also produced a time-lapse of the photoshoot:

Read the full article here.