Founded in 1957 as an architectural firm, Lemay is now a leading integrated firm with broad services in architecture, urban design, interior design, landscape architecture, branding and project management. To address the increasingly complex and interdisciplinary nature of a design practice, 2009 saw the emergence of LemayLAB, the associated creative think tank and architectural research development studio headed by Lemay chief creative officer Michel Lauzon. Based in Montreal, the 150-person firm also has offices in Quebec City, Toronto, San José (Costa Rica) and Algiers (Algeria). Comprised of architects, urban planners, interior designers and graphic specialists, the firm is renowned for its ability to solve large-scale projects with complex social, heritage and technical constraints. It has extensive experience in health care, institutional, cultural, residential and commercial projects, as well as an established reputation in interior design. Urban design is also emerging as a driving force, garnering large-scale winning commissions and competitions. Lemay uniquely combines the capacity and expertise of a large
firm with the creativity and personalized service of a boutique outfit, creating enduring value through the design of built spaces. Back row, left to right: Damien Leman, Victor Rodrigue, Valentin Guirao. Middle row, left to right: Bryan Marchand, Didier Heckel, Jean-François
Gagnon, Geneviève Telmosse. Front row, left to right: Katrin Bindner, Jean-François FortinGadoury, Sandra Neill, Gino Mauri, Michel Lauzon, François Desmarais, Jean-François St-Onge, Annie-Claude Galland. Missing: Michel Lepage and Brittany Marshall.
gh3 designs in the complex realm where architecture, urbanism and landscape overlap. With a Modernist’s eye to order and beauty, and an environmentalist’s awareness of sustainability and long-term thinking, the studio-based practice brings together expertise in architecture, landscape, urban design and ecology. The firm believes that the full spectrum of the built
environment should benefit from thoughtful design, and approach every design problem with a context-specific strategy supported by technical research that uses site and architecture to make inspiring and beautiful places to live, work and play. gh3 was founded in 2006 by Pat Hanson and Diana Gerrard, each with over 30 years of experience in their respective
careers. The firm has quickly established itself as one of Canada’s most innovative integrated design practices in six short years by garnering 14 major awards, including a 2010 Governor General’s Medal. Left to right: Pat Hanson, Diana Gerrard, Raymond Chow, Byron White, John McKenna.
After graduating from the Master of Architecture program at the University of Toronto, Danielle Berwick went to work for RCR Arquitectes in Olot, Spain. She has worked as a designer on numerous projects in Canada, as well as in the United States, Spain, France and Finland. She won the Yolles scholarship in 2011 and was offered a fellowship at the University of Manitoba in 2009. Prior to this, she worked as a paediatric palliative nurse, a health professional in India, as well as a composer and musician. Danielle’s work and research conceives of cinematic spaces using a reasonable suspension of disbelief to envision scenes of daily life with its inevitable fragility, dirt and uncomfortableness. Experimenting with the vulnerabilities of built form, her ambition is to seek out the balance between architecture that is humble and that which is radical. 12/12 canadian architect
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