ALA Studio Information

Formerly known as Alda Ly Architecture, ALA Studio is a full service architecture and interior design firm that emphasizes deep listening and hands-on collaboration with clients throughout the design process, treating each project as an opportunity to foster a client’s creativity. Led by a desire to create comfortable and healthy environments, ALA offers custom solutions that focus on the quality of the end user’s experience. The New York City-based studio serves clients who are looking to rethink traditional healthcare, retail, office, hospitality and cultural spaces, whether they be established organizations or startups and entrepreneurs. Clients include Bloomberg, Princeton University, Christian Louboutin, Red Bull, Rent the Runway, The Wing, and women’s healthcare platform Tia. While ALA’s projects range in scale and type, they all share ALA’s minimalist and playful design vocabulary, and seamlessly combine comfort, wellness, smart planning and fresh interior design concepts. Because the studio often gives form to services and business models that have few spatial precedents, ALA’s process begins with a discovery phase in which an organization’s founders, team members, and users share their individual experiences, desires and needs. ALA helps a client articulate what they need and, together, identifies challenges to be addressed through design. ALA’s ethnographic research thus becomes the basis of programming and functionality, and later informs concepts for layouts and finishes. Founded by Alda Ly in 2017, ALA is a certified Minority & Woman-owned Business Enterprise (M/WBE) in NYC. ALA has been featured nationally and internationally in publications such as Metropolis, Contract, Interior Design, and Wallpaper*, and has received awards from Fast Company, Healthcare Design & Interior Design.