L&M Sievänen Architects Ltd

L&M Sievänen Architects was established 1978 by Liisa Sievänen and Markku Sievänen (1978 students of architecture). In 1996 our architect office started full time architectural planning.
L&M Sievänen Architects Ltd. has been a working limited company since 1997. The office is a member of The Association of Finnish Architects' Offices, ATL. We are located in Espoo, Finland, and we employ 4-6 persons.

FUNCTION - ARCHITECTURE – ECOLOGY

Our specialities are designing senior citizen and healthcare buildings, new constructions and renovations. Important part of our specialities are interior design including special fitment design such as buildings first time supplying for example plants, lights, dishes, lamps, textiles etc. Nowadays we are doing product-development with different companies and doing concept-planning and also consulting senior citizens’ group home –planning.
We have familiarized ourselves with building environmental overall design. We design gardens and yards as well. We co-operate with a horticulturist and a landscape architect to make decisions about the plant selections and other green design.
We design our projects always with intense co-operation with the customer and users. Our goal is to make our designs functional, comfortable with distinctive architectural features.

Development of Senior Citizens’ Residence Oulu 2009
- 2. Prize
Welfare Centre Onni, Pukkila 2004
- 1. Prize
Service Flats of Ulrika Eleonora Loviisa 2000
- 1. Prize
Cemetery and Urngarden, Puotila 1990
- Honourable mentioned
Small houses and residential area, Lohja Gunnarla 1990
- Purchase
Market Square of Kiuruvesi, 1989
- Purchase

Projects have been published in books and reviews etc.
- FINNISH DESIGN, part 3, WSOY, Porvoo 2009
- Living for the Elderly – A Design Manual, Feddersen/ Ludtke, Birkhäuser Verlag AG, Germany 2009
- WOOD – Finnish Wooden Architecture 3/2008
- FINNISH ARCHITECTURE 0607, 2008
- THE FINNISH ARCHITECTURAL REWIEV 3/ 2008
- l’habitat des personnes âgées, Philippe Dehan, LE MONITEUR, Paris France 2007
- VILLAS & SAUNAS in Finland 2006 Rakennustieto Oy, Helsinki 2006
- WOOD – Finnish Wooden Architecture 3/ 2005
- THE FINNISH ARCHITECTURAL REWIEV 4/ 2003
- Homes for Senior Citizens, LINKS International, Architectural Design, Barcelona Spain 2003
- WOOD – Finnish Wooden Architecture 4/ 2002
- Contemporary Finnish Architecture, photographed by Jussi Tiainen 2002
- R net 1/ 1998, Rnet 2/ 2001
- Finnland REHA 99, Saksa, Germany 1999
- FINNLANDS BAUINDUSTRIE 1995
- WOOD – Finnish Wooden Architecture 2/ 1995
- THE FINNISH ARCHITECTURAL REWIEV 7 8/ 1993
- HELSINKI TAMPERE VISIONS, 1993
- FINNISH ARCHITECTURE 8, 1992

WAN, Residential 2009 Welfare Centre Onni, Honourable Mentioned
(WORLD ACHITECTURE NEWS.COM)

Finnish Barrier Free Prize 2009, Welfare Centre Onni
Finnish Association of People with Physical Disabilities and ARMI ry.

Green Environment Prize 2008. Welfare Centre Onni
The Association of Finnish Local and Regional Authorities
Nominee for finnish wood prize 2005, 2008

CONTEMPORARY ARCHITECTURE IN FINLAND
- Merano Arte 2009, Merano Italia
- Palazzo della Cultura 2010, Catania Sisilia Italia

ARCHITECTURE FINLANDAISE SELECTION 2006-2007
- Palais de Chaillot 2008, Pariisi

FINNISH ARCHITECTURE 0607
- Museum of Finnish Architecture 2008, Helsinki Finland
- The architectural weeks of Tampere, Finlayson 2009 Finland
- Eesti Arhitektuurimuuseum, Tallinn Estonia 2008
- Casa dell´Architettura, Roma Italy 2009
- State Museum of City Sculpture, St Petersburg Russia 2009
- Det Kongelige Danske Kunstakademi, Kunstakademiets Arkitektskole, Copenhagen Denmark 2009
- Galleria Lavra, Kiova Ukraine 2009
- Harkiv State Municipal Academy, Harkova Ukraine 2009
- Fundación Arquitectura COAM, Madrid Spain 2009

GOOD HOME 2005 in HABITARE –exhibition Helsinki 2005
GOOD HOME 2004 in GOOD AGE –exhibition Tampere 2004
HOSPEX 2002, The 27th International Healthcare Engineering Exhibition, Tokyo Japan 2002
HELSINKI TAMPERE VISIONS 1993
FINNISH ARCHITECTURE 8 1992

2008 Welfare Centre Onni
2007 Munksnäshemmet Home for the Elderly, Helsinki
2007 Guidebook to alterations in the homes of older people with memory
impairment, published by Ministry of the Environment in Finland
2005 Antinkoti Home for the Elderly, renovation and extension, Helsinki
2002 Ulrika Eleonora, Block of Service Flats, Loviisa
2001 Pakila Home for the Elderly, renovation, Helsinki
2001 - 2009 Dental clinics, Espoo and Helsinki
1995 - 2003 Puotila Home for the Elderly, renovation, Helsinki
1997 - 2000 Puotila Home for the Physically disabled, Helsinki
1999 Gaius-bathroom, Product development for the elderly, Helsinki
1996 - 2010 Helsinki University of Technology, Aalto University, renovation, Espoo
1990 Villa Tanskanen, Kirkkonummi
1987 - 1992 Schools of Montessori-pedagogy, Espoo
1980 Restaurant Sahanlahti, Puumala