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AN INTERIOR - TOP 50
D’Arcy Jones Architects was honoured as one of AN Interior’s 2026 Top 50 Architects and Designers.
The Top 50 list celebrates the most interesting architects and design firms producing interiors across North America. Now in its ninth year, this collection of offices, selected by AN Interior's editors, surveys studios actively rethinking and advancing the field.
ARCHITECT’S NEWSPAPER - OLD IS NEW AGAIN
D’Arcy Jones explores the intelligence of historic ordinary buildings. Our current wood research is featured in the September/October 2026 issue of Architect’s Newspaper.
RECORD HOUSES - BRICK HOUSE
Our Brick House won a 2026 Record Houses Award.
Established in 1956, Architectural Record’s annual Record Houses program recognizes excellence and innovation in residential architecture. An editorial jury selects the program's winners, celebrating exceptional built houses that challenge conventional approaches and advance residential architecture.
EMERGING VOICES
D'Arcy Jones Architects has been named a winner of the Architectural League of New York's 2026 Emerging Voices award. The biennial program recognizes North American architects, landscape architects, and urban designers with significant bodies of realized work and the potential to influence the future of their disciplines. D'Arcy Jones Architects was the only Canadian practice recognized this year.
RAIC RESEARCH FOUNDATION GRANT
We are pleased to have won the 2026 RAIC Foundation Research Grant. The grant provides financial support for a significant scholarly research project related to architecture that results in publications, exhibitions, symposia, lectures, and/or conferences.
Our Prix de Rome research took us back in time to uncover historic innovations that can inspire a modern critique of the status quo. In out-of-the-way places in Norway, Switzerland, and Montana, we uncovered lost knowledge about solid-wood construction that will become a book and a series of exhibitions.
DWELL - 3789 REDO
An Exposed Steel Skeleton Revived This 113-Year-Old Vancouver Home
Our 3789 Redo is featured in a Dwell article.
PRIX DE ROME
Canada Council for the Arts awarded us the 2024 Professional Prix de Rome in Architecture. This prize will fund travel, research, and design workshops in Norway, Switzerland, Japan, and Canada.
ARCHITIZER - CLIFFHANGER HOUSE
Our Cliffhanger House has been selected as a finalist in this year’s Architizer A+Awards in the Unbuilt Private House category.
RADA - 107 LOFT
Our 107 Loft won a 2024 RDA (Residential Architect Award) from Architect Magazine.
RADA - PEARL BLOCK
Our Pearl Block multifamily housing project won a 2024 RDA (Residential Architect Award) from Architect Magazine.
DEZEEN - 3789 REDO
D'Arcy Jones Architects overhauls condemned Vancouver house.
3789 Redo is featured in a Dezeen article.
DWELL - HA-HA HOUSEBARN
How They Pulled It Off: An 18th-Century-Inspired Farm Fence That Keeps Sheep and Their People Happy.
Dwell featured our Ha-Ha Housebarn in its “How They Pulled It Off” series.
DEZEEN - JOHN STREET REDO
D'Arcy Jones adds subterranean garage to century-old house in Vancouver.
John Street Redo is featured in a Dezeen article.
JUROR: 2024 CANADIAN ARCHITECT AWARDS OF EXCELLENCE
D’Arcy Jones is pleased to be a juror for this year’s Canadian Architect Awards of Excellence. The jury includes Matthew Hickey (Toronto/Calgary), Andrea Wolff (Montreal), and Lisa Stinner-Kun (Winnipeg).
MIES CROWN HALL AMERICAS PRIZE - PEARL BLOCK
We are pleased that the Mies Crown Hall Americas Prize jury selected Pearl Block as an Outstanding Project. The ideas that shaped this building were individual outlooks, refuge, privacy, and rain-proof recesses.
MIES CROWN HALL AMERICAS PRIZE - PEARL BLOCK
Pearl Block was nominated for a Mies Crown Hall Americas Prize.
The Mies Crown Hall Americas Prize, founded by the College of Architecture at the Illinois Institute of Technology in Chicago as a biennial award, illustrates the excellence demonstrated in built works of architecture of the 21st century in the Americas.
RIBA LOCAL AMBASSADOR
D’Arcy Jones is pleased to be a RIBA Local Ambassador for Canada. The RIBA International Awards for Excellence are given to projects worldwide that stretch the boundaries of architecture and standards of excellence. RIBA Local Ambassadors are appointed to visit selected projects in consideration for the RIBA International Awards for Excellence.
ELLE DECORATION CANADA - BROWN RENOVATION
Brown Renovation is featured in the Spring 2024 issue of ELLE Decoration Canada.
THE GLOBE AND MAIL REAL ESTATE - ROTUNDA
From One Home, Many
Rotunda is featured in the Globe and Mail.
CANADIAN ARCHITECT
D'Arcy Jones Architects 2009-2020 featured in the April 2023 issue of Canadian Architect.
CANADIAN ARCHITECT AWARDS 2022 - HORNBY ISLAND ARTS CENTRE
The Hornby Island Art Centre has been awarded the 2022 Canadian Architect Award of Merit.
BLOOMBERG CITYLAB
How Do You Wedge a Condo Into a Tiny Site? Work the Angles
Pearl Block featured in Bloomberg CityLab’s “Look at That Building” series.
HOMES THAT FIT INTO TIGHT SPOTS / PEARL BLOCK
The Globe and Mail recently featured Pearl Block.
D’ARCY JONES ARCHITECTS 2009 - 2020
D'Arcy Jones Architects 2009-2020 presents the design thinking and work of our studio. Includes essays by Trevor Boddy, Andrew Gruft, Brian Carter, and Christine Macy.
The book can be ordered directly from UBC Press, or look for it in your favourite bookstore:
UBC PRESS
GESTALTEN - DOUBLE HEADER HOUSE
Double Header is featured in Gestalten’s Come Together: The Architecture of Multigenerational Living.
DWELL - PEARL BLOCK
Pearl Block is on the cover and featured inside Dwell’s Jan/Feb 2022 Issue.
AZURE BEST OF 2021 - HA-HA HOUSE
Our Ha-Ha House was chosen for Azure’s Best of 2021: Top 10 Houses of the Year.
THE PLAN - PEARL BLOCK
Cutting Edge Modernity: Pearl Block is featured in Issue #135 of The Plan.
BAF EMERGING FROM ARCHITECTURE EXHIBITION - HORNBY ISLAND ARTS CENTRE
Our upcoming Hornby Island Arts Centre is featured in the Burrard Arts Foundation’s “Emerging From Architecture” Exhibition.
ARCHITECTURE FOUNDATION OF BRITISH COLUMBIA 2021 DESIGN EXCELLENCE AWARD
Pearl Block was awarded an Architecture Foundation of British Columbia 2021 Design Excellence Award in the Multi-Residential & Mixed Use category.
MONTECRISTO - LAMPA HOUSE
Our Lampa House was recently featured in Montecristo.
Our studio space has been longlisted for Dezeen Awards 2021.
DEZEEN AWARDS 2021 - PEARL BLOCK
Pearl Block has been longlisted for Dezeen Awards 2021.
CANADIAN ARCHITECTURE: EVOLVING A CULTURAL IDENTITY
We are happy to see our 430 House and Okada Marshall House featured in Canadian Architecture: Evolving a Cultural Identity.
CBC.ca features the new Hornby Island Arts Centre.
CANADIAN ARCHITECT - INTERNATIONAL ICON
D’Arcy’s building review of BIG’s (Bjarke Ingels Group) and DIALOG’s recently completed Vancouver House is featured in the November 2020 issue of Canadian Architect.
The New House Rules: Double Header House was recently featured in Azure’s annual January - February 2020 Houses issue.
CANADIAN MODERN ARCHITECTURE, 1967 TO THE PRESENT
We are pleased to be included in Adele Weder’s essay in Canadian Modern Architecture: 1967 To The Present.
GRAY MAGAZINE - DJA STUDIO 3
Double Identity: DJA Studio 3 was recently featured in Gray Magazine’s Issue #44.
D’Arcy’s building review of KPMB and Public: Architecture + Communications's new Wilson School of Design at Kwantlen College Richmond) is featured in the October 2018 issue of Canadian Architect.
D’Arcy’s review of GBR’s new book is featured in the September 2018 issue of Canadian Architect.
2018 GREY MAGAZINE AWARDS
The Okada Marshall House has been selected as a finalist in the 2018 Grey Awards.
LIEUTENANT GOVERNOR OF BRITISH COLUMBIA 2018 AWARD OF EXCELLENCE
The Okada Marshall House was awarded a Lieutenant Governor of British Columbia 2018 Award of Excellence Medal.
CANADIAN ARCHITECT - 480 HOUSE
Design Excavation - Our 480 House has been featured in Canadian Architect's April 2018 issue.
WOODWORKS BC / CANADA WOOD COUNCIL 2018 RESIDENTIAL WOOD AWARD
The Okada Marshall House was awarded the Woodworks BC / Canada Wood Council 2018 Wood Design Award.
DWELL MAGAZINE - FRIESEN WONG HOUSE
Make an Impact: Our Friesen Wong House is featured on the cover of Dwell’s May-June 2017 issue.
LIEUTENANT GOVERNOR OF BRITISH COLUMBIA 2017 AWARD OF EXCELLENCE
The Friesen Wong House was awarded a Lieutenant Governor of British Columbia 2017 Award of Excellence Medal. Thanks to Jon and Silping for making this project happen!
2017 AIBC EMERGING FIRM AWARD
Our studio has won the 2017 Emerging Firm Award from the Architectural Institute of British Columbia. The award recognizes a young firm for achieving excellence in completed architectural work.
UNIVERSITY OF CALGARY EVDS GUEST CRITIC
D’Arcy Jones will be an external critic at the University of Calgary’s Faculty of Environmental Design (EVDS) April 19-20, 2017.
The Yan House is featured as Architectural Record Magazine’s April 2017 House of the Month.
D’Arcy Jones Architecture is pleased to be the recipient of the 2017 Royal Architectural Institute of Canada (RAIC) Emerging Architectural Practice Award. This award is to recognize the principals of an emerging architectural practice that has consistently produced distinguished architecture. The award recognizes the achievements of the principals for the quality of their built work, service to their clients, innovations in practice and public recognition.
2016 CITY OF VANCOUVER URBAN DESIGN AWARDS - 430 HOUSE
The Ha-Ha House in Agassiz, BC, was awarded an Award of Merit from Canadian Architect..
Raising the Roof: Our Waddell - Kunigk Renovation is featured in Dwell’s June 2015 issue.
VIVA VANCOUVER ROBSON REDUX - HONOURABLE MENTION