Studio Profile — O + L Building Projects LLC

O+ L BUILDING PROJECTS LLC, a boutique Design / Build studio is located on the Westside of Los Angeles. Specializing in high-end residential design and construction, the goal for each project undertaken at O+ L BUILDING PROJECTS LLC is to realize the vision and ideas developed through the interaction of design and the craft of building. From conceptual design and finish detailing to Contract Administration, O+ L BUILDING PROJECTS LLC utilizes both their talent as designers and experience as builders to deliver the highest levels of design and construction for their Clients. Through the marriage of design and construction experience, O+ L BUILDING PROJECTS LLC creates highly detailed, elegant, and thoughtful buildings to suit each individual client’s needs and budget.

Providing services concentrated on Building and Interior Design, our services are often extended to Garden Design, Furniture Design, and Construction Management for our Projects. Each Project is individually approached through a complete analysis of the Client’s needs, site, program, and budget. It is our belief that each of these qualities plays a critical and equal role in the formulation of design ideas. This process and the ideas it generates create an appropriate and singular response for that individual and their project.

Playing with a composition of interior to exterior spaces, solid to transparent massing, rough and cold to warm and soft materials, a composition of space, light, and materiality is created. This composition and the balance it creates between the function of the program and the beauty of the design is at the heart of all of O+ L BUILDING PROJECTS LLC work.

To maintain the highest levels of quality and personal management of each of their Projects, O+ L BUILDING PROJECTS LLC sustains a low workload, concentrating on the personal attention our
projects and Clients demand. The Principals maintain an intimate relationship with the buildings, personally managing every aspect of the work. It is through this personal care and a never-ending demand for quality that results in the buildings and interiors they create.

O+ L BUILDING PROJECTS LLC does not believe that their responsibility ends when the design is complete, it is just beginning. The act of constructing the building is where concept and reality meet and that is where the design and building experience of O+ L BUILDING PROJECTS LLC has the greatest benefit to the Client and their Project.

Together, our design aesthetic is a subtle, clean, and elegant regional modernism. Our work centers on the building’s ability to spatially expand beyond its walls into the gardens, patios, natural light, and views of the natural landscape. We believe in the beauty, texture, and feel of materials and the way they interact with space and light. Each aspect of our design work informs the others interwoven to create a seamless environment. Committed to the advancement of regional modern design inherent to Southern California, Daryl, and Martina both believe that the integration of the built to the outdoors is at the heart of Southern California residential design.

Daryl Olesinski + Martina Linden

Daryl Olesinski

Born and raised in Milwaukee WI, Daryl attended the University of Wisconsin - Milwaukee receiving a Bachelor of Science in Architecture. After completing undergraduate studies, Daryl received his Master of Art in Architecture from The Southern California Institute of Architecture. The first few years of his professional life were spent working for various Architectural firms throughout the City of Los Angeles. Critical to his education within the Profession, Daryl also was given the opportunity to construct several buildings throughout his seventeen-year career. Serving as not only a Designer but also as a Construction Manager, each side of the profession has influenced the other and the way in which the buildings of O+ L BUILDING PROJECTS LLC are created. Having started his own Practice in 2003, Daryl is partnered with his wife, Martina Linden, and has been in practice together for over ten years.

Martina Linden

Martina was born and raised in Köln, Germany. Receiving her Professional degree in Interior Architecture from the Fachschule Rosenheim Martina began her career working in Architecture offices in Munich Germany. Moving to Los Angeles in 1997, Martina began work as a Lead Project Designer at CNI-DESIGN, an Interior Design firm specializing in corporate, retail, and commercial interiors. In 2006, Martina joined Daryl as Partner with O+ L BUILDING PROJECTS LLC focusing on Interior Design projects in the office. Bringing the skills learned while within the corporate interior profession, Martina has performed services for Clients from Laguna Beach to Park City UT. Focused on the inherent beauty of materials and how they interact to re-enforce the overall design approach, Martina's design aesthetic has raised the quality of work at O+ L BUILDING PROJECTS LLC.