JBAD

After 30 years of impactful work in Columbus and beyond, JBAD has closed its doors. I truly appreciate all of the support, valuable relationships, and opportunities to create beautiful and aspirational projects together over these decades.
I'm looking forward to my next chapter as I step into the role of Co-Managing Director of Gensler Columbus, and I hope to work with many of JBAD's past clients, partners, and industry friends in this new capacity. Please connect with me at my new email address [email protected] to stay in touch!

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