O-day’min Park Pavilion
O-day’min Park Pavilion
O-day’min Park Pavilion
O-day’min Park Pavilion
O-day’min Park Pavilion
O-day’min Park Pavilion
O-day’min Park Pavilion
To Anishinaabe elders, strawberries — o-day’min, or “heart berry” for their heart-like shape — are symbols of vulnerability and community. Their leaves, stems and roots mirror a human heart connected to the body. When a local elder named an eye-catching, red-all-over park pavilion in downtown Edmonton O-day’min, it was in recognition of the project’s effort to repair relationships with Indigenous communities. Toronto studio gh3* transformed former parking lots and roads into a strawberry-shaped lawn and multi-use building with universal washrooms, a community room and a “Warming Zone” for cold winters. The heart berry logic repeats in a resplendent barrel-vaulted roof that conjures both park pavilions of yore and Edmonton’s own architectural history.
Team: Richard Freeman, Joel Di Giacomo, Alison Huo, Elise Shelley, Raymond Chow Petra Bogias, Charlotte Keskinen-Keith (gh3*); CCxA; AECOM; PCL
