Studio profile: Bogdanova Architects and the philosophy of Sustainable Luxury

There are design studios that define themselves by their style. And there are design studios that define themselves by their values. Bogdanova Architects, the Geneva and Kyiv-based practice founded by Olga Bogdanova, is firmly in the second category. The term the practice uses to describe its position is Sustainable Luxury, and while both of those words are used so frequently in the design world that they have almost lost their meaning, Bogdanova Architects uses them to describe something genuinely specific.

For Olga Bogdanova, luxury is not a synonym for expensive. It is a quality of a designed environment that emerges from precision, from the considered selection of materials and proportions and details, from the feeling that nothing in a space is there by accident and nothing that should be there is missing. Sustainability, in the practice's framework, means not just environmental responsibility but the kind of timelessness that ensures a well-designed space remains right for its occupants for decades rather than becoming dated within a few years of completion.

Olga Bogdanova studied architecture at the Kyiv National University of Construction and Architecture before co-founding 2B.group, where she contributed to shaping a new design language in Ukraine during a period of significant cultural and architectural change. In 2016 she founded Prostir86, a platform dedicated to promoting Ukrainian design internationally, presenting the work of Ukrainian designers at Paris, Dutch and Milan Design Weeks and bringing a design tradition that was largely unknown outside the region to an international audience.

The establishment of Bogdanova Bureau in 2018, now operating as Bogdanova Architects following the studio's relocation to Geneva, marked the beginning of the practice's most ambitious period. Based in Switzerland since 2026, the studio works across Europe and internationally on residential, hospitality and commercial projects, with completed commissions including a 525 square metre luxury interior in Vandoeuvres near Geneva and a 450 square metre villa interior in Cologny, one of the most exclusive residential areas in Switzerland.

The studio has received seventeen international awards across twenty years of practice, including a Silver Award at the IDA Design Awards 2026 and an Honorable Mention at the Architecture MasterPrize 2026. Olga Bogdanova serves as a jury member for the Dezeen Awards and is a member of the Swiss Society of Engineers and Architects SIA Réseau Femme.

What distinguishes the studio's work beyond the awards and the credentials is a quality of spatial intelligence that is visible in the projects themselves. The Vin House in Vinnytsia, completed in 2021 across 572 square metres in the Ukrainian countryside, demonstrates the practice's ability to create a sense of calm and material rightness in a residential project of significant scale. The Swiss projects demonstrate how the same approach translates into one of the world's most demanding and discerning luxury residential markets.

The studio's Relooking service, their accelerated interior update programme for spaces that need a considered refresh without full reconstruction, represents an interesting expansion of the practice's offer, making Bogdanova Architects' sensibility available to clients at a range of project scales rather than only for the full commissions that represent the studio's most visible work.

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