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Twenty-one years of buildings in Dhaka that were finished on the drawing before anyone dug a hole.

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21Years in practice
74Buildings completed
0Projects abandoned
Practice

Ishraq Haider

Architect · Dhanmondi, Dhaka

I trained at BUET and spent nine years in other people's practices before opening my own in 2014. The studio is six people. I still draw.

Most of what goes wrong on a site went wrong on the drawing. So the drawings take longer here than they do elsewhere, and the sites take less time than they do elsewhere. That trade is the whole practice.

What I do

Four kinds of drawing

  • A.01

    Residential

    Houses and apartment buildings. Full service from the survey to the handover, including the parts most people find out about too late — RAJUK, utilities, the neighbour's wall.

  • A.02

    Commercial & retail

    Offices, showrooms and mixed-use. Drawn so a contractor can price it accurately the first time.

  • A.03

    Interior & fit-out

    Full interior packages with joinery drawn to the millimetre and a schedule your carpenter can actually build from.

  • A.04

    Drawing review

    A second pair of eyes on somebody else's set before you build it. Usually the cheapest week you will spend on a project.

Work

Three off the shelf

  • P.074

    A nine-storey apartment block

    2024 — 2025
    The job
    Dhanmondi. A difficult corner plot with setbacks on three sides.
    The outcome
    Eleven flats where the brief asked for nine. Approved first submission.
  • P.068

    A garment head office

    2023
    The job
    Gazipur. Converted a warehouse shell into offices for 260 people.
    The outcome
    Handed over four weeks early. Cooling load down 31%.
  • P.059

    A family house

    2021 — 2022
    The job
    Uttara. Three generations, one plot, and everyone needed their own door.
    The outcome
    Built to drawing with two site variations in fourteen months.
What clients say
  • The contractor priced it in nine days because there was nothing to ask about. I have never had that before.

    Client, apartment block
  • He found four things in our previous architect's set that would have cost us a floor.

    Managing Director, garments
Contact

Send me the plot.