GH3 ARCHITECTS (Pat Hanson & Diana Gerrard)

he team members bring specialized expertise in architecture, landscape architecture and urban design. Their work is visually engaging and playful, with the underlying philosophy that the best way of encouraging sustainable thinking is to bond people to their environments through deep understanding and by making good design an indispensable part of everyday life. Creating instructive, engaging environments is a big part of what they do. They approach every design with a site- and context-specific approach, with the tools of landscape and architecture brought together to make buildings that are inspiring and beautiful and fundamentally modern in outlook. An integrated approach to the ground plane means that landscape, which can add so much to quality of experience and the sustainability of building, is a fundamental and inseparable part of design. They work closely with clients and multidisciplinary teams to ensure that the individual values and aspirations of every project are reflected in the design. “At heart, we are very practical designers, and we bring our professional training and our life experiences to our work. We design with the dreamer’s hope that our work will last for centuries, and the pragmatic awareness of the importance of ease of maintenance, of durable details, and of good value for investment. We have earned a reputation for working collaboratively to achieve a high level of design excellence, and this has led to a number of repeat clients as well as awards from our peers”.

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