JKA is a full-service, 14-person architecture and urban design firm working on multi-family, hospitality, commercial, residential, and urban design projects. Our mission is to foster places and buildings that further social equity and support the health, happiness, and well-being of all living things. We are growing our office through a design and thinking culture of collaboration, respect, diversity, mentorship, leadership, and opportunity. Founded in 2000 by principal John Kaliski, AIA after eighteen years of practice in both the public and private sectors, John Kaliski Architects (JKA) is a design practice that specializes in the architecture of urban and suburban infill sites and urban design shaped by the dynamics of everyday life.
Construction of a new apartment complex in South Los Angeles, 128 Units; 80% through framing.
JKA is excited to announce the completion of our latest multifamily housing project! The project makes use of affordable housing incentives to provide 75 new homes in the Crenshaw Corridor. We love the modulated facade and splayed windows at the top floor!
Under construction in the midst of the pandemic, a new retail center in Rowland Heights counters prevailing real estate logics claiming the death of retail (and boasts a new Starbucks).
JK A is really excited to showcase The Elite Express Car Wash located in Van Buren Blvd. Riverside, CA. The design takes as precedent the vernacular Southern California "Googie" architecture meant to attract the eyes of the people driving by in cars by the use of atomic imagery, neon glass, steel...
JKA is thrilled to unveil the outcome of this 40 units - six stories over one subterranean parking level apartment building that uses the TOC density and height incentives located in East Hollywood.