About Us
Founded by Christine Lintott in 2009, CLA is a focused, award-winning firm with a history of delivering meaningful projects that support real change in the communities we serve.
We are today a tightly integrated team of practitioners who share a passion for creativity, collaboration and robust environmentally sound designs.
Collectively, we seek to foster an innovative, regional architecture that strengthens the communities in which we work through an integrated design process that responds to our client's needs and listens to the local narrative.
We provide full Architectural service at all stages of the building-making process from Master Planning initiatives to Architectural Design and Construction Administration.
Our portfolio of work is broad and resilient, servicing the needs of clients in the non-profit, public and private sectors at all scales and typologies. The common thread is our commitment to the community and the opportunity to support change while remaining accountable to the people who will inhabit the places we design.
Our Focus
We elevate human well-being through integrated built environment solutions.
Values
Take Initiative
We take initiative and are action oriented self starters. We take ownership of our part in the team and fully engage, building success within the team.
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Continuous Learners
We have a strong desire for continuous learning, having openness to feedback and the courage to grow. With continuous learning comes continuous growth, and great opportunities for sharing knowledge so that we all grow together.
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Pursue Excellence
We hold ourselves to a high standard and take pride in our work. We are motivated by the pursuit of excellence and have the drive to seek out the best possible outcome. We’ve built a reputation in the industry for delivering high quality work.
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Critical Thinkers
We have the underlying foundation of curiosity and the ability to apply to analytical, integrative, critical thinking when developing the best path forward. We achieve big outcomes with a small amount of resources.
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Seek to make an Impact
We see the human in others and seek the opportunity to have a positive impact at every opportunity. Everything we do has a human implication; it is important that we keep the desire to have a positive human impact in mind in all that we do.
Regenerative Design
Our studio’s work is steeped in place and begins by understanding each site as part of a dynamic and complex ecosystem.
We seek to foster new relationships between people and other living systems through the lens of site-specific ecology, both natural and cultural.
We see every project that we are involved with as an opportunity to positively impact the site and the healthful experience of the people who use it.
We are fundamentally committed to regenerative design and have extensive experience in a wide variety of sustainability protocols, including LEED®, WELL®, the BC Step Code, and the Living Building Challenge.
What is Regenerative Design?
Imagine a world where our buildings, landscapes, and communities don't just sustain life but actively regenerate it. This is the promise of regenerative design. Traditional design and development practices often leave a heavy footprint on our environment, depleting resources and degrading ecosystems.
Regenerative design is an approach to creating systems that restore, renew, or revitalize their own sources of energy and materials. It aims to create productive and resilient environments by aligning with the principles of natural ecosystems. Unlike sustainable design, which focuses on minimizing negative impacts, regenerative design seeks to produce positive, beneficial outcomes.
Collaboration
Our studio embraces techniques and technologies which allow for communication at all stages of the design and delivery process.
We are both innovators and enablers and take pride in facilitating active participation from our clients and their key stakeholders at every step of the building-making journey.
Research and Development
The UVIC Visualization Lab and Christine Lintott Architects (CLA) work in close collaboration, exploring ecological design and the integration of design practices with ecological realities. Our work focuses on recent and emerging developments in ecological design that show promise for improving the way that built environments function as part of, not separate from, ecological processes. We aspire to connect built environments, both conceptually and practically, to the evolving cultural and ecological realities that they are rooted in.
Our team brings together researchers, doctoral students, architects, and landscape architects; bridging academia and industry to develop a design language for mitigating and adapting to rapid environmental and ecological changes in built environments.
Services
Over the past 15 years, Christine Lintott Architects has evolved into a leading provider of comprehensive architectural services. The strength of our firm and the satisfaction of our clients are clearly linked to our ability to quickly and efficiently respond to the many needs of our clients. We do this by providing a broad range of services with our in-house staff of highly skilled, dedicated, experienced and trained professionals.
Architectural Design
Building Code & Fire/Life Safety Analysis
Community Planning
Construction & Contract Administration
Energy Efficient Retrofits
Feasibility Studies
Functional Programming
Interior Design
Regenerative Design Technical Consulting
Regulatory & Policy Consulting
Rezoning + Permit Applications
3D Digital Modelling + Rendering
