Culture

We entered two beers we brewed from scratch in this year's NOUS Engineering Beer Brew Competition: Our ale, OM ÖL and a beer dedicated...

In December of 2024, we hosted our holiday party in Omgivning HQ, söm co-space. This was our second holiday party since completing the...

We're solid sports fans! The gang went to the last regular season game for the Clippers at crypto.com arena. Go Clips!

Came across some original blueprints for the CalEdison, from when it was home to the Southern California Edison Company.

Our 2018 staff retreat took us up the coast for 3 days in Big Sur. Highlight: a roving potluck across our four campsites! Hearst Castle is okay too.

Our office got a tour of the LA Times' downtown printing facility before the Times moved to El Segundo in 2018.

Our winningest interiors project is currently Don Francisco's Casa Cubana, in downtown's Spring Arcade Building. In 2018, the project won top honors from the LA Business Council, the IIDA, and the AIA LA. For that last one, we won the People's Choice Award for restaurant design, as accepted by Norella Carboni during the Dwell on Design conference. Thanks to our clients, the Gaviña family, for being such great collaborators!

We had our 2017 Holiday Party at a brand-new project of ours for Don Francisco's Coffee, in the Spring Arcade Building.

That time in 2015 when we won the AIA's Emerging Practice award and tried (not very hard) not to get obscenely excited.

Karin Liljegren was one of the prime movers in the effort known as Bringing Back Broadway, covered by NBC LA back in 2013.

In 1987, U2 was pretty much the biggest band in the world when they took over an intersection just north of our office for a semi-impromptu rooftop concert. You can see our projects Dearden's and Hotel Cecil, AND our office, in this incredible video.