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The Columbus Metropolitan Library in Reynoldsburg is open! It was a joy to watch the community experience this open, light-filled space. Come out, pick up a book, and check it out!

Anticipating the unveiling of the Dion Johnson art wall installation, which experientially connects the lobby to the children's wing at the Columbus Metropolitan Library in Reynoldsburg.

Inceptioning sketches of aParkment housing. A serialized and transient installation that reconsiders the relationship between ownership and urban spaces; of housing and mobility.

aParkment assumes everyone in post-pandemic America still drives and parks and works, and drives and parks and works. But it also questions the normal accommodations for this practice and challenges the ubiquitous parking lot as we know it. In this scenario the single-use surface parking lot with limited public benefit is targeted for stand-alone residential interventions: prefabricated, serially produced machines for living colonize the realm of the car.

This project is a design winner for the Chicago Athenaeum Museum, Global Design News and published in Future House: The New Domestic Landscape.

The office is excited to explore design ideas with our new Ender-3 3D printer, tucked under the staircase. The test models show the different scales of our multi-family project currently under development in Merion Village.

2023 AIA Columbus Honor Award for Jorgensen Farms
2023 AIA Columbus Merit Award for Factory #6 Stair Detail

We enjoyed an evening celebrating design at the AIA Columbus Architecture Awards. JBAD is honored to receive an Honor Award for the Jorgensen Farms project and a Merit Award for the Factory #6 Stair Detail. Thank you to the jury for the recognition and the project teams who made these projects possible!

Thanks to the jury and AIA Columbus for the recognition!

“Carefully thought through and orchestrated. Creates unique ergonomic experience. I appreciated that the smallest of opportunities was celebrated especially one that expressed tactility and materiality that each user was compelled to experience.”

Merit Award - Architectural Detail
Factory #6 Stair Detail
Architect: JBAD
Photography ©Lauren Davis/feinknopf

Thanks to the jury and AIA Columbus! The entire project team appreciates the distinction. Jorgensen Farms!!

"Most capable project. Simple, elegant ex*****on. Clear and lyrical, plus grounded in nature. Excellent spaces for both active and quiet gatherings of all kinds. Jorgensen Farms thoughtfully manipulated more traditional agrarian spaces and typologies to create well-executed and memorable architecture."

Honor Award - Large Project
Jorgensen Farms
Architect: JBAD
Photography ©Brad Feinknopf

JBAD 30 – Then & Now | Adaptive Reuse

JBAD projects often work with existing buildings that are reimagined through new uses to engage employees, residents, and the community. These adaptations lead to new lessons, learned through navigating the challenges associated with connecting historic buildings with contemporary needs. JBAD adaptive reuse projects work to contrast the new with the old, creating dynamic designs.

Middle West Spirits, 2017 | Lear Block Lofts, 2018 | View on Grant, 2018

JBAD 30 – Then & Now | Single Family Housing

From time to time, JBAD gets the opportunity to design homes for families that elevate their unique lifestyles and sense of home. JBAD works to understand and realize their visions by promoting design, prioritizing materials, and connecting to daylight. Each home reflects the uniqueness of its residents and its site.

Sullivan House, 2016 | Grajo House, 2014 | Riverside House, under construction 2023

Congratulations Fontyne!

Fontyne Pagán passed the Architect Registration Examination (ARE) this summer and is officially a licensed architect in Ohio. Congratulations on the well-earned accomplishment!

JBAD Dock Party Celebrating 30 Years

At the end of summer, the JBAD team hosted family and friends, clients and partners, to an evening cocktail party on the building’s loading dock. This annual event was made special this year as it marked 30 years of the JBAD office. Thanks for all who attended and enjoyed the live music and tacos!

2023 AIA Ohio Merit Award for Jorgensen Farms

JBAD is honored to receive a Merit Award from AIA Ohio for the Jorgensen Farms project. Thank you to the jury for the recognition and the project team who made it possible.

JBAD 30 – Then & Now | Third Places

The term ‘third place’ originates from a 1989 book, ‘The Great Good Place,’ by sociologist Ray Oldenberg. Third places are characterized as locations that facilitate social interaction outside of the people you live or work with and encourage new connections. Many JBAD projects create third places as the connecting node between public and private realms, at both the neighborhood and building scale.

Pistacia Vera Pastry Kitchen, 2007 | View on Grant, 2018

JBAD 30 – Then & Now | Community Infill Housing

JBAD designs community infill housing to enrich existing neighborhoods through projects that prioritize more density, appropriate scale, and articulated materials. These projects provide opportunities to explore the spaces, forms, and communities that establish a sense of home.

Brewer’s Gate, 2006 | The Bronzeville, opening 2024 | The Bronzeville, under construction 2023

JBAD 30 – Then & Now | Columbus Metropolitan Libraries

JBAD continues to work with the Columbus Metropolitan Library as they work through their aspirational building program. As CML notes: ‘Great libraries create stronger communities, and each CML location is an essential hub that reflects the unique needs of the neighborhood it serves.’

CML Whitehall, 2015 | CML Reynoldsburg, opening 2024 | CML Reynoldsburg, under construction 2023

JBAD 30 – Then & Now | Housing along High St.

JBAD continues to work on important urban projects to fill gaps along High St in Columbus. These housing projects reference their contexts while also boldly contrasting them through composition and scale.

The Brunson Building, 2006 | Garden Park on High, 2023

2023 marks 30 years for JBAD. As we celebrate the projects, clients, team members, and collaborators over the past 30 years, we are excited for the future of the firm.

One of our faves. Using the design principal known as parabuilding, or “that new thing on top of that old thing”.

Jorgensen Farms is a historic, 100-acre working organic farm and event venue located in Plain Township in Central Ohio. JBAD designed a ceremony building and bridal suites and restored the historic barn. The site plan includes an assembly of buildings linked through a processional path. The new structures, the Ceremony Building and Bridal Suites, are located in a flanking position to the Flower Garden, a distance from the existing Historic Barn.

The processional walkway threads through the structures and their outdoor spaces, leading guests through a specific sequence of spaces, from pre-ceremony to post-reception. This experience engages the natural environment between the venues, including the flower garden and the planting fields, in order to emphasize a sense of place and the immediacy of the agriculture. The farm itself produces much of the food and flowers for the events on site and recycles much of the waste, creating a sustainable, semi-closed circle of production and consumption. Produce is also supplied to area restaurants and food kitchens.

Learn more at JBADUSA.com

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interesting article about the 15 minute city. This is the way to build neighborhoods. BUT do you create housing near amenities or amenities near housing? Prob both. In Columbus, RAPID5 will help do the former, but who will help create amenities near the housing we're currently building (i.e.downtown)?

Is the tiny little neighborhood the city of the future? Why the hyper-local ‘15-minute city’ is gaining ground in urban planning circles

Many thanks to World-Architects for selecting 150 North Third as US Building of the Week! Check out our interview regarding the project.
https://bit.ly/3Bfmypo

OK wow. A hollow glass arched bridge. Wonders never cease.

R+D Award: Robotic Construction—The Glass Vault A collaborative research team initiated and led by Masoud Akbarzadeh, the director of the Polyhedral Structures Laboratory and assistant professor of architecture at the Weitzman School of Design, created an ultra-thin hollow glass structure, which spans 10.5 feet.

Home on Apple TV+ is a wonderfully, engaging series about unique homes and projects that tweaks the conventional tired and trite home show. All the back stories are fascinating, and very real. https://bit.ly/3SFdXmA

Zoning Czar? Sounds too good to be possible. But if HUD Sectretary Barbara Fudge says so, we believe it! https://bloom.bg/3da1Nlg

Great News for Harlow! We’re pleased to see the growth of Craft Culture Brewery and their contribution to making the Harlow location ‘a cultural melting pot’!
https://bit.ly/3QebNsv

Material selection options for our Jorgensen Farms project