Thirty five years of drawings, site visits and handovers.
1,500 homes across India, Australia and Africa.
Nandish Architects has worked out of the same block of Jayanagar since 1990. Different city around us now, same table, same habit of starting every project on the plot rather than on the screen.
We draw houses mostly. Also offices, hospitals, hotels and a coffee estate cafe in Coorg. The scale changes. The method does not.
A home should not need explaining. If the light lands where it should, if the kitchen sits where the family already walks, if the monsoon runs off without a fuss, you feel it the moment you step in. Everything else is decoration.
One team handles design, drawings and site, and stays with you through approvals. Nothing gets handed off to a stranger halfway.
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Standalone homes, villas, row houses and apartments. The bulk of what we do and the reason most people call.
Office buildings, retail and mixed use, with eighty one office projects among them.
Places people arrive at tired and leave rested, which is a design problem before it is a decor one.
Hospitals, schools and community buildings, including rural development work with the Art of Living foundation.
Planned around the process first, then wrapped in something the workforce does not mind arriving at.
Sorted by what the building is for. Click any plate to read its sheet.
Five of the above, one from each side of the practice, at length.
Set within a mango orchard, this contemporary holiday home blends clean architectural forms, warm timber accents and expansive openings into a seamless dialogue between the interiors and the surrounding landscape. Shaded outdoor rooms and resort inspired living make a refined countryside retreat.
A compact street corner block wrapped in a perforated screen that reads as pattern by day and as backlit texture after dark. Ground floor display bays open straight onto the footpath, with two levels of flexible showroom above and parking pulled to the rear so the frontage stays uninterrupted.
A timber and glass pavilion set at the edge of a water body, lit from within so it reads as a lantern once the light goes. Sliding panels open the whole long side to the deck, and a shallow pitched roof carries out far enough that guests can sit outside through a shower.
A flat floor hall sized for a full house, with tiered upholstered seating, a raised stage and acoustic treatment carried up the side walls. Concealed coves let the room change colour for whatever it is being used for that evening, which in practice runs from convocations to weddings.
Carved teak columns frame a long hall that ends in a wooden swing at the window, with Athangudi tiles running underfoot. A traditional interior, built and lived in, and a good measure of how far the studio will go on craft.
Roughly fourteen to twenty months for a standalone home, from the first site walk to the day you move in.
We start on the plot, not in the office. Which way the sun crosses it, where the neighbours' windows fall, what the soil is doing, how the family actually lives. The budget gets said out loud on day one.
Sketches first, then plans, then a walkthrough detailed enough that you can picture a Sunday morning in it. Three rounds of changes are normal. Four is fine too.
BBMP, BDA, panchayat, whichever applies. The filing is yours to make, but you will not be doing it blind. We talk you through what each authority looks for and when, and stay on call while it moves.
Site visits through every stage, checking the drawing against the actual wall. Material samples get looked at in daylight, on site, before anyone orders a truckload.
A finished home, documented and warrantied, with as built drawings you can hand to a plumber in ten years. We stay a phone call away long after the keys change hands.
For over thirty five years Nandish Architects has been shaping built environments across Karnataka and well beyond it. Known for design excellence and end to end service, we take a brief from the first conversation through drawings and site, help you through approvals along the way, and hand back a finished building.
Projects now sit in India, Australia and Africa. That gives us a wider reference library to pull from, but every house still answers to its own plot, its own climate and the family that will live in it. Context first, always.
Nice to have. The referrals from past clients still matter more.
Global Architecture and Building Awards, Best Luxury Villa Project of the Year.
2020Profiled in the Luxury Houses of Bangalore series.
TVCovered for the Art of Living rural development programme.
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