Skyplane Studio Architects serves clients throughout the Philadelphia region and New England. The practice focuses on residential, cultural, and academic projects, offering full architectural, interior design, and planning services.

Led by founder and principal Bryan David Jones, the studio has built long-standing, trusted relationships with structural, mechanical, and civil engineers throughout Vermont, Pennsylvania, and New Jersey. These collaborations allow each project to be approached thoughtfully—through open dialogue, shared problem-solving, and a deep respect for craft.

Founded in 2019 after five years of design-build practice and over a decade working in Philadelphia with firms including BLT Architects, IS-DG, BWA Architecture + Planning, and OZ Collaborative, Skyplane has grown into an award-winning architecture and design studio, recently recognized with a preservation award from the University City Historical Society in Philadelphia.

Jones’s work is driven by a commitment to contemporary residential architecture and the careful transformation of existing buildings through restoration, commercial infill, cultural placemaking, and adaptive reuse. Each project is seen as an opportunity to serve both client and community through thoughtful, environmentally forward, and enduring design.

With a particular interest in mass-timber construction, Skyplane seeks partnerships with builders, developers, and institutions interested in a sustainable future, and the advancement of beautiful, low-carbon buildings and structures. No project is too small - and the sky, well… is limitless.

Silhouette of a large tree with three people standing underneath it.

1985-2000

Bryan’s first lessons in design – observing and interacting with nature in the woods, fields, and streams of Vermont

A silhouette of a house with two chimneys at the top, set against a white background.

1995-2003

Bryan learns the fundamentals of the building trades assisting his father, and brothers, eventually leading a crew renovating apartment buildings in the summers and falls around his Legion Baseball schedule.

Modern house with stone and wood exterior, large windows, and a garage, with a tree in front and cars parked underneath.

2003-2008 , 2009-2011

Bryan attends Savannah College of Art & Design, earning a BFA in Architecture and M.Arch degree.  He is often found testing prototype construction models in the fabrication studio. In 2008 he returns to Vermont to begin his first Design-Build project, Salisbury Ridge.

Silhouette of two high-rise apartment buildings connected by sky bridge at night

2012-2013

Shortly after moving to Philadelphia, Bryan assists Core Realty, as Project Manager and Construction Manager, in the renovation and conversion of an 8-story, cast concrete, car factory into a 115-unit mixed-use development.

A tall, black skyscraper with a detailed, tiered top against a white background.
Night view of a modern multi-story building with a stone facade, illuminated from the inside, and people walking in the courtyard below.

2014

Bryan works with BLT Architects on a 33-story residential tower, The Alexander.  The townhouses, truck ramps, stairs, roof trees, and parking levels are well documented. As it turns out, floors 6-33 are quite similar.

2015-2020

Bryan joins BWA Architecture + Planning to assist on various Institutional, Commercial, Residential, and Historic projects, eventually leading, as Project Architect and Project Manager, the addition to, and conversion of, a large church to create a residential development with 19 High-End Condominiums.

An image of a dark, multi-story building with distinctive architecture and a mansard roof with arched windows and flower boxes, seen from below against an overcast sky.

2020-2022

Skyplane is formed and takes-on its first Architecture & Construction Management project, cementing a passion for saving beautiful buildings, eventually earning Skyplane Studio Architects a place on the team awarded the 2025 Outstanding Preservation Award from the University City Historical Society.

Close-up of the roof of a house with a peak, showing roofing shingles and part of the wooden siding underneath.

2022-2024

A bespoke design build project renovates and expands upon a small 1850’s era “factory-worker” house, transforming it into a contemporary vernacular home.

Architectural drawing of a modern multi-story building with balconies and large windows.

2026-2027

Skyplane begins collaborating with development teams supporting new housing in Vermont’s Capital Region.