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TCA Architecture + Planning, Inc.

TCA represents a 60-year evolution of experience providing personalized design services for a wide range of challenging and notable projects.
6211 Roosevelt Way NE
Seattle, WA 98115
206-522-3830

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TCA represents a 60-year evolution of experience providing personalized design services for a wide range of challenging and notable projects. Our award-winning firm has an established reputation for excellence in residential, commercial, municipal, fire service, and interiors projects.

 We are proud of both our architectural achievements and our satisfied clientele, affirmed by an exceptional number of repeat clients. We attribute our success to:

  • Maintaining a close, collaborative relationship with our clients through all project phases, built on communication and our commitment to surpassing expectations.
  • Carefully identifying all specific and unique characteristics of the client's program, including their needs and desires, circumstances of the site and environment, and planning of the project.
  • Providing innovative design concepts and solutions, uniquely suited to each architectural program, with emphasis on people-oriented design and environmental sustainability.
  • Closely monitoring costs and production so projects are within budgets and on schedule.
  • Incorporating the efficiency of evolving technologies by utilizing computers and CAD for design, 3D modeling, presentation, production, specifications, and project management.
  • Engaging consultants with applicable experience and expertise.
  • Working effectively with contractors to achieve the maximum value and superior results.

Our mission is to participate in and to realize our clients' vision. We believe our interactive and collaborative process produces the most successful projects, in which clients and participating community understand, contribute to, and appreciate the quality design. The vision and values of our extraordinary staff and principals, Brian Harris, Forest Hooker, Sarah Elley, and Jeremy Koh, continue to drive our firm's success.

TCA is an SBE/SBA and self-identified CBE firm. 

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TCA has proudly provided comprehensive operations-based architectural planning and design services for emergency facilities since 1960.
Feb. 6, 2025
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TCA Architecture & Planning has been at the forefront of comprehensive fire service planning and design for over 55 years.
Aug. 31, 2018

Press Releases

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Cy-Fair Fire Station #5 in Houston, TX, received the Gold Award for the Volunteer/Combination Station category. The architect is Austin-based Martinez Architects.
Fire departments and architect firms across the country are recipients of the Firehouse Station Design Awards for various fire station and facility categories.
Nov. 15, 2021
The Gold Award for the Satellite Station Design category was awarded to Houston Fire/EMS Station No. 84, Houston, TX. The architects for the project: BRW Architects, Houston, TX.
Winners in five categories have been selected.
Oct. 22, 2015

Articles

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Kirkland, WA, Fire Station 27 kirkland27extoverall
With drive-through apparatus bays and a program that accommodates eight firefighters, a two-story station design became the solution to the constrained site, which is smaller ...
Dec. 14, 2024
Photo courtesy of Mary McGrath Architects
Apr 22 Station Design Conference Preview Pic 1
Fifty-two targeted presentations by end-users and architects provide a wealth of information for municipalities that are looking to build a firehouse, a combined public-safety...
April 18, 2022
Photos by Central Valley Fire District
With the launch of plans to construct a new fire station for the Central Valley Fire District of Belgrade, MT, the department’s chief was committed to exploring all means to limit contaminants in the firehouse. The result: An outbuilding (foreground) where apparatus, equipment and crew are decontaminated before entering the main station.
Architect Brian Harris and Fire Chief Ron Lindroth explain the nuts and bolts behind construction of a standalone decontamination building for the Central Valley Fire District...
Jan. 18, 2021
Image courtesy of Minarik Architecture
In Mosier, OR, a solar array will provide electricity to the fire station portion of a mixed-use facility during the day and send any surplus to the electric grid.
Brian Harris and Brad Liljequist look at the Living Building Challenge, which generally is considered the world’s most stringent green building standard.
May 1, 2020
Brown Reynolds Watford Architects
Topics at the 2019 SDC ranged from intitial planning and building to sustainability.
Firehouse’s Station Design Conference highlighted the latest in station design innovations, technology and healthy concepts.
July 1, 2019
Photos courtesy TCA Architecture Planning
Fire station occupancies under the IBC.
Brian Harris and Forest Hooker share a brief history of building codes and how they apply to station design.
May 1, 2019
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Portage, IN, Fire Station No. 3 includes an outdoor space for dining, gathering and social interaction for firefighters.
Janet Wilmoth reviews what she found trending for design and safety with the 2017 Station Design Award submissions.
Dec. 26, 2017
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Michelle Copeland and Brian Harris explain why a well-thought-out plan is needed to manage firefighter exposure in the station.
Oct. 21, 2017
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Recent studies on firefighter cancer risks, combined with the evolution of litigation related to diesel exhaust exposure, have shined a beacon of light on the urgency of exposure reduction.
Michelle Copeland and Brian Harris begin looking at the effects of diesel exhaust on firefighters in the station.
Sept. 24, 2017
Photo courtesy of Mitchell Associates Architects
Kaestle Boos Associates and Robert Mitchell Associates Inc. designed this apparatus bay for the Holden, MA, Fire Department.
Fire stations are among the most complex, heavily used municipal buildings found anywhere. Simultaneously, they are garages housing millions of dollars’ worth of apparatus; they...
Aug. 1, 2013

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RICK EGELIN, President/CEO, Fireblast 451 Inc.
Firehouse® Magazine recently asked a sampling of manufacturers of firefighter training facilities to participate in a roundtable discussion focused on issues such as ways in ...
June 30, 2011