Twenty-one years of buildings in Dhaka that were finished on the drawing before anyone dug a hole.
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.
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.
Offices, showrooms and mixed-use. Drawn so a contractor can price it accurately the first time.
Full interior packages with joinery drawn to the millimetre and a schedule your carpenter can actually build from.
A second pair of eyes on somebody else's set before you build it. Usually the cheapest week you will spend on a project.
The contractor priced it in nine days because there was nothing to ask about. I have never had that before.
Client, apartment blockHe found four things in our previous architect's set that would have cost us a floor.
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