DESIGN
BC Multiplex Architects
Registered architects design the building, stamp the permit drawings, and own the technical sign-off most BC multiplex submissions require. They drive massing, zoning compliance, Step Code strategy, and the city approvals relationship.
Why it matters
On any multiplex over a certain size, an AIBC stamp is required and almost always the difference between a permit in months versus years.
When to engage
After zoning analysis, before development permit submission.
12
Architects listed
21yrs
Avg experience
13
Built projects
8
BC service areas
Spotlight
The architects we'd hire first.
Lanefab Design/Build
Bryn Davidson
Built Vancouver's first laneway house in 2010 and its first net-zero laneway in 2012. Lanefab now designs and builds ~10 small-multi-unit projects a year.
Vancouver · Metro Vancouver
Cornerstone Architecture Ltd.
Cornerstone Architecture
Vancouver's foremost Passive House multi-unit specialists — designers of The Heights, Canada's largest Passive House project, with 16 more PH projects in the pipeline.
Vancouver · Metro Vancouver · BC
Daniel Clarke Architect
Daniel Clarke
Vancouver specialist in ultra high-performance Passive House and net-zero multiplexes — over two decades stamping high-performance residential in Western Canada.
Vancouver · Metro Vancouver · BC
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DAE — Design Architecture Everyday Inc.
David Long
Vancouver AIBC architect, 13 yrs running multiplex projects through rezoning, permit, and construction — including the SSMUH-approved 6162 Granville.
Vancouver · Metro Vancouver
Haeccity Studio Architecture Inc.
Haeccity Studio Architecture
AIBC studio that won the 2018 Urbanarium Missing Middle competition and designed the published C-Plex multiplex prototype.
Vancouver · Burnaby · Squamish
Leckie Studio Architecture + Design
Michael Leckie
Founder of the Vancouver studio the BC Ministry of Housing hired to design the province's free standardized multiplex catalogue.
Vancouver · Metro Vancouver · BC province-wide
Nick Bray Architecture Ltd.
Nick Bray
Vancouver AIBC architect using the city's net-zero/Passivhaus density bonus on every multiplex he designs.
Vancouver · Metro Vancouver · BC
GDP Architecture (formerly Gronlund Dare Partnership)
GDP Architecture
Metro Vancouver studio running both custom and prototype multiplex designs — owns the missingmiddlehousing.ca and multiplexesvancouver.ca domains.
Vancouver · Metro Vancouver
Gravity Architecture
Gravity Architecture
Vancouver + Calgary studio with documented missing-middle and infill / greenfield project portfolio across BC and Alberta.
Vancouver · Metro Vancouver · Calgary
Hearth Architectural Inc.
Hearth Architectural
Specialists in converting Vancouver character houses into multiple-conversion dwellings with infill — multiplex from heritage stock.
Vancouver · Metro Vancouver
Marken Design + Consulting
Marken Design + Consulting
Designed Vancouver's first certified Passive House MURB duplex and the city's first Zero Emissions Building in East Vancouver.
Vancouver · Metro Vancouver
Measured Architecture Inc.
Measured Architecture
AIBC Emerging Firm Award winner. Practices 'situational modernism' — multiplexes that read as architecture, not output of a zoning calculator.
Vancouver · Metro Vancouver · BC Gulf Islands
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Bryn Davidson
Built Vancouver's first laneway house in 2010 and its first net-zero laneway in 2012. Lanefab now designs and builds ~10 small-multi-unit projects a year.
Cornerstone Architecture
Vancouver's foremost Passive House multi-unit specialists — designers of The Heights, Canada's largest Passive House project, with 16 more PH projects in the pipeline.
Daniel Clarke
Vancouver specialist in ultra high-performance Passive House and net-zero multiplexes — over two decades stamping high-performance residential in Western Canada.
David Long
Vancouver AIBC architect, 13 yrs running multiplex projects through rezoning, permit, and construction — including the SSMUH-approved 6162 Granville.
Haeccity Studio Architecture
AIBC studio that won the 2018 Urbanarium Missing Middle competition and designed the published C-Plex multiplex prototype.
Michael Leckie
Founder of the Vancouver studio the BC Ministry of Housing hired to design the province's free standardized multiplex catalogue.
Nick Bray
Vancouver AIBC architect using the city's net-zero/Passivhaus density bonus on every multiplex he designs.
GDP Architecture
Metro Vancouver studio running both custom and prototype multiplex designs — owns the missingmiddlehousing.ca and multiplexesvancouver.ca domains.
Gravity Architecture
Vancouver + Calgary studio with documented missing-middle and infill / greenfield project portfolio across BC and Alberta.
Hearth Architectural
Specialists in converting Vancouver character houses into multiple-conversion dwellings with infill — multiplex from heritage stock.
Marken Design + Consulting
Designed Vancouver's first certified Passive House MURB duplex and the city's first Zero Emissions Building in East Vancouver.
Measured Architecture
AIBC Emerging Firm Award winner. Practices 'situational modernism' — multiplexes that read as architecture, not output of a zoning calculator.
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