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Architect AIBC, FRAIC, LEED AP
Principal
JOHN@PUBLICARCHITECTURE.CAJohn Wall is a founding partner with more than 30 years of architectural practice. Central to his work is improving the public domain, from the animation of collective space through to the rigorous application of sustainable technologies. John’s inferential and thoughtful contributions, often at the intersection of art and architecture, have helped to earn the firm seven AIBC awards. Born in Vancouver and educated at the UBC School of Architecture, where he was awarded the AIBC Medal in 1994, John continues to have an active role in Vancouver’s design community. He is a past member of the Surrey Design Panel and former chair of the City of Vancouver Urban Design Panel and member of the Development Permit Board. In addition, he is a regular guest critic at the UBC School of Architecture.
John Wall's Selected Work:
Education | VCC Culinary Arts School
A culinary school reimagined with chefs, chefs-in-training, and administrators.
Civic | Wesbrook Community Centre
Where recreation and the arts share the same roof, built on a foundation of genuine community input.
Housing | Vienna House
A multi-family pilot for more affordable, resilient, climate-ready housing.
Housing | UBC c̓əsnaʔəm leləm̓ Residences
A 350-bed residence built to echo the forest it sits beside.
Education | UBC Transit Shelters
Extending UBC's architectural thread down to the bus stop.
Housing | UBC Totem Commonsblock Lobby
Where thousands of students leave knowing whose land they’re on.
Education | UBC Stewart Blusson Quantum Matter Institute
A research facility designed from the atomic scale up.
Education | UBC Rugby Centre
A sunlit design that puts the field, and the action in it, front and centre.
Interiors | UBC Chung | Lind Gallery
Giving the untold stories of BC a permanent home at UBC.
Education | UBC Centre for Comparative Medicine
A state-of-the-art unification of public and private programmatic areas.
Education | UBC Buchanan Courtyard Renewal
Two courtyards reimagined as stages for both quiet and social life.
Education | UBC Bicycle Parking Facility
70 stalls of secure, sustainable parking for UBC's Engineering precinct.
Housing | Stacked Townhouse Study
A study shaping the ground rules for the future of Norquay's housing.
Housing | Single Stair Residential Study
Advocating for change that could transform how BC builds homes.
Civic | Sechelt Water Resource Centre
A wastewater treatment plant where plants do the cleaning in plain view.
Housing | SFU Student Residences Phase 3
A new LEED Gold home for 425 upper-year students
Education | SFU Strand Hall
Upgraded spaces where the university’s top offices get to work.
Education | SFU Plaza Renewal
Preservation of one of the most significant public spaces in Canadian architecture.
Cultural | Ron Thom & The Allied Arts
Five cities, one architect's legacy profiled with Adele Weder.
Housing | Residential Shade Study
Testing shading strategies to cut cooling loads and boost comfort.
Commercial | Presentation Centre
Residential presentation centre with custom-fabricated façade.
Civic | Phibbs Transit Exchange
One of four significant transit hubs that serves the North Shore.
Housing | Old Lillooet Road
Affordable housing buildings, angled and offset to create a protected central courtyard.
Civic | New Westminster Museum and Archives
An exhibition design that turns a timeline into a walk-through picture book.
Education | KPU Wilson School of Design
A creative hub designed to grow with its environment and future generations.
Education | KPU Indigenous Student Gathering Place
Renovated around the things that bring people together: hearth, kitchen, and learning.
Education | KPU Brew Laboratory
From barley to bottle, this lab marries the art and science of brewing.
Housing | Hood Point Residence
An island home for generations with the Salish Sea always in view.
Civic | Hastings Park Wayfinding
Connecting people to place through modest and direct design interventions.
Civic | Cloverdale Field House
Visible, accessible and a nod to Surrey’s agricultural past.
Civic | Centennial Beach Park Pavilion
Built to protect the wetland it welcomes people into.
Education | BCIT Biomass Energy
A showpiece for the first biomass boiler within Metro Vancouver.
Education | Adler University Vancouver
A campus where architecture, wayfinding, and branding all work together.