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Architecture should deepen the experience of being alive, connecting us to a place, to one another, and to ourselves.
We approach every project with care, looking beyond the obvious to discover what a place might become. A new building, an overlooked site, or a forgotten fragment can hold the beginning of something meaningful. We listen to the landscape, consider the lives that will unfold there, and design through the relationships between light, material, space, and time.
We want our architecture to stir a feeling, the comfort of belonging, the pleasure of discovery, the stillness of a moment you wish would last. These experiences become memories, shaping how we inhabit the world.
Principal Architect / OAA
Kostika Lala is the founder and Principal Architect of LALA Studio. He brings over a decade of experience across residential, civic, and cultural architecture, with work on Harris Square (River City Phase 4), 170 Bayview Avenue (River City Phase 3), and the Canoe Landing Community Center and Schools Complex.
His passion for adaptive reuse begins with the character of what is already there: stone, structure, and the memory of use. Through LALA Studio, he seeks to challenge the impulse to demolish and influence a more attentive way of building, grounded in site, material, and human experience.
He uses computation, AI visualization, and immersive tools to explore these possibilities and make a convincing case for the lives existing places can still hold.
