Jeanne Ng

For over 25 years, Jeanne has developed expertise in the design and construction of public projects, while also taking a special interest in evolving our firm’s engagement and sustainability practices. Motivated to explore the potential of architecture to affect and transform people’s lives for the better, she seeks to hear clients’ and communities’ stories, understand their diverse and collective aspirations, and meet and exceed their expectations. She sees design as a means to find better answers to the challenges we face together as a society.

Jeanne leads MJMA’s Sustainability Committee, which draws together personnel with different interests and skills across all disciplines in our studio. Undertaking work that involves some of MJMA’s most ambitious research, including an embodied-carbon benchmarking study focused on the community recreation typology, she has overseen the creation of our Sustainability Action Plan — a set of standards and best practices for the rigorous and holistic inclusion of sustainability considerations at every stage of a project’s development, realization, and afterlife.

Jeanne’s wide-ranging portfolio includes projects that have tangibly pushed forward the social and environmental impacts of architecture. With Toronto’s Pam McConnell Aquatic Centre, she helped develop and implement community consultation that was essential to achieving a facility that responded with groundbreaking inclusivity to the priorities of the city’s diverse and underserved Regent Park neighbourhood. She has served as Project Manager for the Western North York Community Centre, which was designed with an engagement process that set new standards for the City of Toronto, while also being one of the first aquatics-based Net-Zero energy and emissions buildings in North America. Since teenagehood, Jeanne has loved the eclectic architecture of Toronto, where she was raised, and has been grateful to being able to contribute to its civic identity through projects like the Harbourfront Centre Community Square, an iconic waterfront site. She has also conducted research and facility master planning for numerous library boards across Ontario, including in the City of Mississauga and the region of Kingston-Frontenac — working with librarians to determine strategies for maintaining the vitality of these highly democratic public amenities well into the future.

Jeanne graduated with a Bachelor of Architecture from the University of Waterloo in 1996. She joined MJMA after working at award-winning practices in Vancouver and Toronto.