Creativity, hard work, sustainability, and a strong client focus. These are the architectural values that have governed JDa since we opened our studio over 40 years ago. Our passion for design has enabled us to to work with remarkable clients and resulted in a variety of projects ranging widely in scope but sharing an ultimate focus on people.
Today, our enthusiasm and curiosity about what's possible continues to drive us - particularly as we explore the emerging architectural territory of colocation design and collaborative practice. Located in Vancouver's Killarney neighborhood, Vancouver Fire Hall No. 5 has served the Champlain Heights and East Fraser Lands communities since 1952.
As the building reached the end of its service life both programmatically and seismically, the replacement of the hall was overdue and provides the community with an innovative, colocation facility which is the first of its kind in Canada, ready to serve the needs of residents safely and effectively.
Today, our enthusiasm and curiosity about what's possible continues to drive us - particularly as we explore the emerging architectural territory of colocation design and collaborative practice. Located in Vancouver's Killarney neighborhood, Vancouver Fire Hall No. 5 has served the Champlain Heights and East Fraser Lands communities since 1952.
As the building reached the end of its service life both programmatically and seismically, the replacement of the hall was overdue and provides the community with an innovative, colocation facility which is the first of its kind in Canada, ready to serve the needs of residents safely and effectively.
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The backbone of JDa is an enthusiastic, highly skilled team with wide-ranging backgrounds and experience, collectively delivering excellence for our clients. As architects, designers and technologists, we are still as passionate and curious today as the first day our pencils hit the tracing paper. Built on creativity, efficiency and teamwork, the essence of hard work and perseverance runs strong through our firm.
At JDa, we pair design excellence with the desire to provide our clients with affordable solutions that seamlessly integrate innovation and sustainability. Our areas of focus include complex public projects, with a particular interest in protective services, education and healthcare, as well as feasibility studies and master site plans.
JDa, led by Kimberly Johnston, specializes in protective services design, and over the years our team has delivered police stations, courthouse facilities, emergency operations centres and a large number of fire halls to communities of all sizes across British Columbia and Alberta. Having worked on publicly funded projects for many years, we are skilled stewards of public monies and able to ensure both transparency and value are achieved.
Johnston Davidson Architecture strongly advocates the benefits of colocation. One of our first such projects, the $4.9M Sechelt Justice Services Building, completed in 2003, brought together a courthouse and a local police station, combining two services that work closely together and improving convenience for staff who access both facilities.
JDa has deep experience designing healthcare facilities, particularly acute care projects. We have provided design and project management services for various expansion and renovation projects for Providence Health Care and Lower Mainland Facilities Management over the past 15 years, which demonstrates our dedication and achievement in this sector as well as testifies to our clients' satisfaction with our work.
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Simone Williamson
Jan 16, 2019
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