D’Arcy Jones Architects
D’Arcy Jones Architects | Pearl Block, Victoria, BC, 2021. Image credit: Ema Peter
The Architectural League’s annual Emerging Voices program spotlights North American architects, landscape architects, and urban designers who have significant bodies of realized work and the potential to influence their field.
D’Arcy Jones of D’Arcy Jones Architects is a 2026 Emerging Voices winner.
Led by D’Arcy Jones, design firm D’Arcy Jones Architects has developed an expansive portfolio ranging from single and multi-family residential projects and commercial spaces to arts and cultural projects across urban and rural areas of British Columbia. Jones founded the practice in 1999 in Vancouver, Canada. Distinguished by their formal invention and deep commitment to craft, the firm seeks to ask “how habit, function, construction, beauty, and even chance shape the spaces we make,” in their own words.
Projects include:
Pearl Block, six staggered rowhouses arranged in response to the irregular shape of the lot, featuring a stepped form, recessed windows, and modest openings to ensure privacy, and small screened balconies and private roof decks to provide outdoor space
3789 Redo, a renovation of a 115-year-old house that inserted a new foundation while retaining the existing wood-framed structure, strengthened by an exposed steel frame and a bent steel stair
Brick House, an infill residence with an L-shaped plan that corresponds with the lot’s sharply-triangular form, with a red brick exterior and flat roof that match the neighborhood context, and an interior planted courtyard level with the lowest point of the site
D’Arcy Jones Architects received the Prix de Rome in Architecture from the Canada Council for the Arts in 2024. The same year, their Pearl Block residence received the Mies Crown Hall Americas Prize for Outstanding Project.
D’Arcy Jones holds a doctorate of design from the University of Calgary, a master’s of architecture and a bachelor’s of environmental design from the University of Manitoba, and a bachelor’s of environmental design studies from Dalhousie University.
