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12/11/2025

BARRIE WASTE WATER INNOVATION (WWIC) Winner of the Canadian Architects Award of Excellence

WWIC is an all-electric facility powered by a 350.8 kW-DC rooftop solar photovoltaic array sized to offset the building’s projected annual electricity consumption. High-performance envelope design, passive daylighting, heat recovery, and advanced building controls support the goal of achieving operational net-zero energy and net-zero emissions. Narrow floor plates and clerestory glazing bring natural light deep into the interior, and durable, low-maintenance materials contribute to healthy, long-lasting workspaces.

Together, these strategies reinforce WWIC as a forward-looking civic building, creating a facility that is truly sustainable both technically and socially, in alignment with the City of Barrie’s corporate climate action plan.

12/11/2025

BARRIE WASTER WATER INNOVATION CENTRE (WWIC) Winner of the Canadian Architect Award of Excellence

WWIC is an all-electric facility powered by a 350.8 kW-DC rooftop solar photovoltaic array sized to offset the building’s projected annual electricity consumption. High-performance envelope design, passive daylighting, heat recovery, and advanced building controls support the goal of achieving operational net-zero energy and net-zero emissions. Narrow floor plates and clerestory glazing bring natural light deep into the interior, and durable, low-maintenance materials contribute to healthy, long-lasting workspaces.

Together, these strategies reinforce WWIC as a forward-looking civic building, creating a facility that is truly sustainable both technically and socially, in alignment with the City of Barrie’s corporate climate action plan.

12/08/2025

BARRIE WASTE WATER INNOVATION CENTRE (WWIC) Winner of the Canadian Architect Award of Excellence

WWIC transforms the archetypal “big box” shed into a carefully sculpted civic form. Along Bradford Street, the corners of the volume are lifted to acknowledge the urban significance of the site. Functionally, these lifted corners bring natural light deeper into the floor plate and create a sense of openness for users and a beacon back to the public realm.

Emerging from the ground like an infrastructural landscape element, the building’s materiality and scale express the industrial sublime. Fluted Canadian-made weathering steel cladding panels are animated by shifting daylight, revealing a continuous play of light and shadow. These flutes also help to regulate daylight, reducing glare and solar heat gain to support comfortable working environments for staff.

12/08/2025

BARRIE WASTE WATER INNOVATION CENTRE (WWIC) Winner of the 2025 Canadian Architects Award of Excellence

WWIC transforms the archetypal “big box” shed into a carefully sculpted civic form. Along Bradford Street, the corners of the volume are lifted to acknowledge the urban significance of the site. Functionally, these lifted corners bring natural light deeper into the floor plate and create a sense of openness for users and a beacon back to the public realm.

Emerging from the ground like an infrastructural landscape element, the building’s materiality and scale express the industrial sublime. Fluted Canadian-made weathering steel cladding panels are animated by shifting daylight, revealing a continuous play of light and shadow. These flutes also help to regulate daylight, reducing glare and solar heat gain to support comfortable working environments for staff.

12/02/2025

BARRIE WASTE WATER INNOVATION CENTRE
Winner of the 2025 Canadian Architect Award of Excellence

“This addition to a public-works facility decisively rejects the notion that architectural beauty is a luxury. As a water treatment plant, it achieves remarkable architectural poise, elevating a once unseen utilitarian operation into an evocative building with a delightful civic presence. The design’s response to program is conceptually clear, rigorous, and engaging.” - Kelly Buffey, Juror

As the public face of Barrie’s treatment plant, the Wastewater Innovation Centre (WWIC) operates as both a carefully planned public-works facility and an interpretive centre, welcoming and educating visitors about the innovative processes championed by Waste Water staff. Its weathering steel panels, articulated to recall large-scale infrastructure pipes, tells the building’s story through its materiality. The WWIC stands at the threshold between civic infrastructure and civic life, serving the workers who sustain the system while fostering broader public understanding of the network the city depends on.

11/12/2025

PEC BUILDING B

This deliberate restraint results in a space that is both sanctuary and study. The darkness provides a sense of solitude and quiet, but it also heightens awareness of the landscape beyond. Openings to the exterior frame glimpses of the surrounding forest and sky, turning the interior into a viewing chamber for the landscape and invites stillness, reflection, and focus.

Rather than relying on colour or contrast, the design achieves its richness through the interplay of light, surface, and proportion. The process demanded precision and experimentation at every stage, and the final result is a reflection of that shared dedication and curiosity.

10/31/2025

PEC BUILDING B

Located in Prince Edward County, this private residence is conceived as a retreat within the landscape. The design inverts the expected palette of a rural home. Instead of light-filled, cottage-like interiors, the entire space is rendered in black. Floors, walls, ceilings, furniture, countertops, and finishes are unified by this single colour, creating an interior that feels at once enclosed and expansive.

10/14/2025

PENTHOUSE 7

Recently redesigned by gh3 architects, Penthouse 7 is a 1,650 sq.ft. two-storey residence in a downtown Toronto condominium originally built in 2000. The client sought a dwelling that would be both a comfortable home and a playful, highly personalized space in which to make and enjoy her own artistic and creative endeavours.

The design is shaped by a curated duality: the raw texture of cast-in-place concrete set against smooth, monochromatic insertions. Surface variations and casting marks in the concrete were retained as characterful qualities to be revealed and reframed. In contrast, new interventions are exacting and restrained: black-and-white volumes, crisp detailing, and refined surfaces that bring clarity and sculptural presence. Together, these elements establish a balance of robustness and refinement, continuity and contrast.

08/25/2025

We’re Hiring! gh3* is looking for an Intermediate / Senior Landscape Architect to join our Toronto studio.

If you’re passionate about design excellence, public realm projects, and working in a collaborative, multidisciplinary environment, we want to hear from you.

For full details and how to apply, click the link in our bio or visit https://www.gh3.ca/job-positions

12/06/2024

WAREHOUSE PARK PAVILION
Located in the west end of downtown, the entire project is an important urban catalyst and transformative at many scales. It will create amenity and value for the neighbourhood while also establishing an incredible precedent and symbol for the city. Warehouse Park will be a gathering place and a convergence point for the surrounding community. It is designed to be accessible, safe, active, and enjoyable year-round for individuals of all ages and abilities, while also celebrating the unique character of Edmonton’s seasons.
Central to the design of Warehouse Park and Pavilion is the name of the ward in which it resides—O-day’min—a name gifted by a local Elder meaning “strawberry” or “heart berry” in Anishinaabe. Indigenous history is reflected throughout the park as a gesture of placemaking and togetherness—from the strawberry shape of the central lawn of Warehouse Park to the dark red color of the Pavilion. The Pavilion aims to be iconic for Edmontonians, with an identity that is unique and cannot exist elsewhere. It will proudly assert Edmonton’s distinctive place in the world.

12/05/2024

WAREHOUSE PARK PAVILION
The Pavilion is designed as an extension of the exterior realm, with a physical openness to the outdoors achieved through transparency and large openings.

Material and color studies emphasize a light, airy structure that serves as a beacon or lantern for the park, harmonizing with the warm tonal palette of the paving and furnishings. Clear sightlines through the building ensure safety and enable flexible use. The design incorporates arched and faceted façades with an integrated structural system, seamlessly connecting indoor and outdoor spaces.

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