As an experienced and versatile expert, Laura is passionate about developing housing. She strives to find solutions where the result is more than the sum of its parts. Laura is not just focused on task lists but sees the bigger picture and brings out perspectives that have not been previously considered in the project. As a Building and Principal designer of new buildings, she has a FISE V+ certification. She masters all the different steps in architectural design, from preliminary design to handover documents, leading the team, and managing the construction site. She also has experience in designing commercial spaces and parking structures, as well as in renovation construction and land use planning.

Juho's interest in the built environment began to grow through exploring courtyards of closed housing blocks in the city central. Exploring the urban structure and learning about it still continues, although nowadays more and more by cycling.

Juho has been successful in design competitions, has worked on urban planning, infill construction and project development and is an expert in comprehensive low-carbon solutions. Experience lies especially in housing planning, from larger residential areas and building blocks to detached houses.

Roosa has been involved in projects related to land use, project development, and both new and renovation. She enjoys innovating, solving problems, and designing details that impact the overall picture. 

For Roosa, blending the new and the old is particularly inspiring and close to her heart, especially when it comes to cultural environments.

Lilja is an accomplished and gifted designer, a dynamic participant of conceptual and ideation phases of projects and has been a valuable team member on several successful competitions. Lilja’s strength is in ideation of especially challenging concepts and it is not a surprise that her portfolio features many urban design projects. She is all about the things to come and enjoys research and contemplation of new ways of doing architecture.

Janne is an awarded urban designer. By taking part in developing zoning and traffic plans, Janne gained experience through many different phases of a project: from the initial, general zoning drafts all the way to the ideation phases by computer simulations. In addition to an architecture degree, Janne has a degree in sciences and a special degree in zoning and traffic design as well - those degrees fit well together as urban planning is a complex sum of many different parts. Urban planning analysis combined from hard data and changeable knowledge is his passion. Janne’s unique ability to envision complex entities is of invaluable help in trying to build a better urban environment.

Tiina, nickname Peppi, is a reliable and level-headed interior architect. There is a couple of decades of experience in designing interiors of various public spaces under her belt. Her professional focus is on projects that plan and develop big office spaces and design working environments. She believes that interior architects should be involved in the project from the earliest stages, as she is the one that keeps the needs of the final users of a finished project always in sight.

Oksanan insinööritutkinto auttaa häntä ymmärtämään hyvin myös muiden suunnittelijoiden kuvia. Hän käyttää teknisiä työkaluja tehokkaasti Oksana’s engineering degree makes her a wizard in interpreting and understanding project blueprints coming from outside L Architects. She collaborated on many mostly office building projects and was involved throughout the project’s different phases. Her passion, however, would be keeping the final user in mind and insisting on testing the convenience and practicality of different solutions. The fact that Oksana’s hobby is pottery, and that her family uses the objects hand-made by her every day illustrates her beliefs perfectly. It is important to her that whatever one might be designing, be it buildings or crockery, it always needs to be real, usable and helpful.

Juha is an experienced project leader. His career includes numerous projects,  ranging from retail spaces and residences and from offices to hotels. He is an extremely detail-oriented and exact designer who manages all the various aspects of even the most difficult projects with ease. The result  of Juha’s designs are always elegant and functional solutions that make our environment better and more useful. He is calm and collected by nature and that makes him an always welcome addition to any team.

Niina says: “Designing process is not a solitary enterprise; it is best done in a team. And when the team gets along well and there is a good vibe among us, one can clearly notice it because the final result is always so much better.” This quote sums up Niina’s friendliness as a person and her work ethic. She has most experience in designing multi-story apartment buildings, but has participated in renovation and repurposing designs as well. Niina utilises her experience well, as she has become an efficient apartment designer and project manager by standardising design rules and regulation in a good way. She is also interested in other fields of design, as, for example, building in wood. In addition to designing, Niina heads Green Office team with aplomb. 

Jarmo (or Jamo, as everybody calls him) is one of our most experienced project leaders. His hobby is endurance running and it shows: in both his physical appearance and mental attitude, Jamo is resilient, lean and patient. He is well suited for long-term projects and is research-oriented, which means  that he always has an inside-out familiarity with the project at hand and will not give up or in easily. Jamo has taken part in designing numerous apartment and renovation projects, as well as collaborating on big hybrid projects. 

Anu is a versatile and experienced project designer and manager, who has been working in industry since the 90s. As well as designing new buildings, she has worked on many renovations and repurposings of old buildings, the oldest of which was built in the 19th century. She mostly takes part in designing hotels, apartments and offices, but she has also experience in zoning projects. Anu is “Fise”-certified architect in “especially demanding” building projects, concerning both newly designed buildings and renovation of old ones.

Pekka is multi talented, experienced and competent designer and architect. He worked on many projects that designed both new buildings and designed renovations of old ones. He also has a lot of experience in designing office spaces and buildings as well as a strong background in restaurant venues and developing new office-building concepts. Pekka strives to create interesting and lively architecture and he’s very passionate about it. It helps to have an extraordinary ability to visualise one’s ideas, like Pekka does, when going about this task… He is equally passionate about cycling as he is about architecture, and oftentimes gets inspired by the urban landscape he cycles through, be it here in Finland or abroad. Always alert to and immersed in his surroundings while atop his bike, these tours regularly create fresh ideas to try out in his own projects. 

Molly has been working on apartment designing, especially “assisted living” apartments for seniors, and her thesis was on ways to design residences for elderly suffering from dementia. She is a practical person and is handy at making things herself. Woodworking is her hobby, and she worked on a building site several times. Creating and crafting with her own hands is indeed at the core of who she is as she has two leisure pursuits - woodworking and gardening -  which is her passion, as, in addition to having more plants than square meters at home, she also has a gardening allotment.

Albina has broad experience in designing public buildings, both new and renovation projects in Finland and abroad. Some of her renovation projects involved historically valuable and protected sites and buildings. Her portfolio includes a wide variety of projects, from healthcare facilities, retail spaces and hotels to industrial and manufacturing facilities. She handles well all the project’s phases, but the end phase is her strong suit, especially BIM modelling. Albina is particularly invested in creating good and clear communication channels between the designers and clients, including the connection to the building site itself.

Mari has had a long, respected and awarded career in our industry; a career that has taken her from managing challenging projects in the fields of apartment designing, renovation projects, special needs residences, hybrid projects and luxury loft apartments. Added to this long list of achievements are also daycares, renovations and repurposing of protected sites and a renovation of a Catholic monastery in USA.

Aleksei has extensive experience in designing apartments, office buildings and retail spaces, but designing apartments is definitely his strength and he is one of the most appreciated project design assistants in the office, thanks to his expertise in the field. He is methodical and precise and will remain unflappable and calm even in the middle of the most demanding project. 

Sami’s career in architecture and especially in digital modelling started right after he graduated. He threw himself into numerous projects ranging from project ideations, renovations and new buildings to designing healthcare facilities, retail and office spaces and shopping malls. Even with being an office record holder for most square meters designed and built, Sami still finds architecture interesting and invigorating. His hobby (music) and his work, he feels, are ever changing, and it does not matter how long you do it - it will always surprise you with something unexpected and new and inspiring.

Annimaija has gathered experience in various renovation, office building, protected site and zoning projects. In addition to the above mentioned, she also designed a facade color palette used in various projects. She knows Adobe’s software, such as Photoshop and Indesign, inside and out.

Niko is a strong spokesperson for two things: sustainability and the value of high standards in architecture and he is very passionate about it. Building with wood is something he is especially invested in, be it using wood as a building or as a finishing material. He is actively following the latest research and development in the building industry and is fast becoming an expert in Algorithmic Design (AD).

Niko has completed an entrepreneurship course at Aalto Ventures Program and has been involved in heading projects in R&D of startup operations and productions. From the fast-moving world of startups, Niko learned the importance of swift iterative design of ideas and concepts, as well as the significance of analysis-based solutions and these tenets have served him well in his career at L Architects.

Erika worked on multi-storey apartment and office building designs and has experience in both new and renovation projects. She has previously worked in Hungary, Portugal and Spain and now is especially enjoying being a part of a big design team. Curious and people-loving, Erika is good-natured  and always willing to learn and be a part of something new. Privately, Erika is just as curious and enthusiastic: she dances, paints, draws and crafts jewellery.

Elina has close to 20 years of experience as an interior and furniture designer for both public and private clients. In the course of her career, she has designed interiors for numerous shops, restaurants, hotels and upscale residences. Her expertise includes concept development, space layout, material design, interior design and furniture designing, both for fixed and moveable pieces. She has successfully managed several office and public spaces’ designing teams.

Otto is known in the office as a calm and reliable person with a great sense of humour. He is at his best when designing offices, shopping malls and taking part in competitions and he is always ready to lend a helping hand to a colleague, especially when it comes to IT and CAD questions. In his down time, Otto is fixing either his old house or his old car.

Mirja’s strong suit is designing office spaces, and that is her favourite field of expertise but her experience also includes designing apartments, renovation projects and designing upgrades to properties. Although enjoying design challenges, she does not shy away from the more tedious aspects of the trade. Her tongue-in-cheek description of herself is the “dependable worker bee” that gets the task done, even the humdrum ones. 

Tommy is one of those people whose imagination knows no bounds. His strengths include office project development, renovation and new construction. He excels in complex projects that require strong ability to conceptualise entities but also also enjoys collaborating with other freelance designers and his motto is “It’s teamwork, you see”. Tommy likes problem solving and coming up with new and creative solutions. He gets especially involved when it comes to exceptionally demanding projects, specifically the so-called “transformation projects” - ie repurposing (for example the Telakkaranta project).

As a child, Päivi wrote in My Friend book that she likes salt liquorice and that she will be a veterinarian when she grows up. That girl grew up to be a passionate nature conservationist and an excellent structural architect, a brave and multilingual project manager for business centers, retail premises and housing projects who likes challenges and good decisions. As well as, of course, a salt liquorice aficionado - once you learn to love it, it stays with you for life.

Eeva has accumulated a truly diverse experience in designing various buildings - apartment buildings, assisted living houses, terraced houses, hotels, business premises, renovation and shopping malls. She has had time to work on various projects for almost 30 years, so experience is definitely one of her strengths.

Miia is one of the more experienced design assistants in our office. She has extensive experience ranging from residential design to commercial buildings. While being very precise and meticulous by nature, she also has the ability to keep all the different threads of large projects well in hand which makes her a very sought-after project assistant.  Miia has a calm and soothing character, which is evident in her elegant and delicate hand drawings.

Leena has a strong experience in designing office buildings, but is familiar with the design of residential and commercial buildings,too. Implementation planning is also one of Leena's strengths. She enjoys being a project architect, likes team work and always knows exactly where each project is at. Good-natured and affable Leena is well-liked by everybody and is one of our most senior employees.