Office

• 2014Johanna Lindqvist and Olli Ekroos founded the office in spring 2014. The first job was a 14 m² garden sauna in Sipoo; the office was a 38 m² room in Sörnäinen. The sauna section still hangs on our wall because the bench heights were drawn wrong, which nobody noticed until the benches were in.
• 2019We moved to the second floor of a former printing house in Vallila. There were seven of us.
• 2021First public building: Sammalkallio day-care centre, procured with 60 % weight on quality.
• 20231st prize in the invited competition for Honkaniitty School, our largest project so far at 6,340 m².
• 2024Saara Vehviläinen became the third partner. Sammalkallio opened in August.
• 2026Honkaniitty and Lehvä are on site at the same time. There are twelve of us.

• 01Timber as structure, not surface

  Nine of our last eleven new buildings have a timber frame. We calculate the carbon footprint of two frame options at competition or sketch stage, so the choice rests on numbers.

• 02Repair before demolition

  When a building is considered for demolition, we first write a repairability survey. Four of six surveys have ended in repair, Puistokulma in Turku among them.

• 03One lead designer from start to finish

  The lead named in the tender stays until the two-year warranty inspection. Saara Vehviläinen attended all 64 site meetings at Sammalkallio.

• 04Competitions in office hours

  Entries are drawn in working hours, 600 hours at most. We list the competitions where we did not place, too.

• 01Lead design and architecture

  From the needs assessment to the warranty inspection. Lead designer qualification for exceptionally demanding projects: Olli Ekroos and Johanna Lindqvist.

• 02Project planning

  Space programmes, reference designs and cost baselines for a municipal investment decision.

• 03Renovation and conversion

  Repairability surveys, changes of use and full renovations.

• 04Interior architecture

  Fixed furniture, materials and lighting in the same building information model.

• 05Climate reports

  Climate declarations under the Finnish Building Act 751/2023 and carbon comparisons of frame options.

• 06Competitions

  Open and invited competitions, and plot allocation competitions with developers.

We work under the Finnish consulting terms KSE 2013 and the ARK18 task list. Fee tables and procurement details are on the Finnish page Toimeksiannot.