Our Story

RLA Inc. is a multi-award winning architectural firm located in Vancouver, BC. Our legacy of creating innovative, high-quality urban and resort master planned communities, mixed-use developments, and large-scale multi-family residential designs began in 1978. Since our founding, we have focused on sustainable, sensitive architecture that respects the communities we develop while emphasizing the needs and aspirations of our clients.

With over 40 years of experience designing some of the world’s most prominent resorts and recognized master plans, we’re specialized in master planning and developing architecture for both cold and warm weather communities.

Our design portfolio includes a diverse range of properties found throughout North America and across the world including locales such as Mexico, New Zealand, and Hawaii. We have earned a reputation for our ingenuity and design excellence by leveraging our technical knowledge with our expertise, working with the construction industry and delivering solutions for our clients’ unique needs. By applying our principles of careful research, creativity, thoroughly understanding our clients and community sensitivity to all our design work, we focus on creating buildings that work aesthetically and practically for the user, our clients, the community and the environment.