Issue 24 - What Makes a Building Age Well Over 20 Years
Uncategorized | 30/08/2026
Issue 24 – What Makes a Building Age Well Over 20 Years

A Founder’s Note Some buildings look tired after five years. The façade stains, the fittings fail, the layout becomes obsolete, and the structure starts showing distress. Other buildings remain vital after thirty years—their materials age gracefully, their systems continue to function, their spaces adapt to new uses. The difference is rarely about budget. It is about decisions made at design…

Issue 23 - Why Most Schools Fail at Design—Lessons from a Mehsana Government School
Blog | 29/08/2026
Issue 23 – Why Most Schools Fail at Design—Lessons from a Mehsana Government School

A Founder’s Note In 2016 we completed a government primary school in Mehsana — Mehsana Taluka Primary Kumar School-1 — and built it to the amenity standard of a corporate private school. Most government schools in Gujarat at the time were running on bare-minimum SSA facilities: shared toilets, undifferentiated furniture, no real thought given to how a six-year-old’s body differs…

Issue 22 - What Ahmedabad Developers Still Get Wrong About Luxury Housing
Blog | 20/08/2026
Issue 22 – What Ahmedabad Developers Still Get Wrong About Luxury Housing

A Founder’s Note In Ahmedabad’s real estate market, “luxury” has become a branding exercise. Import some Italian marble, install a European kitchen, add a clubhouse with a gym, and call it premium. But visit these projects a few years after handover and the complaints are remarkably consistent: the marble has stained, the kitchen layout does not work, the clubhouse is…

Issue 21 - Why Do So Many Ahmedabad Apartments Feel Dark Despite Abundant Sunshine?
Blog | 19/08/2026
Issue 21 – Why Do So Many Ahmedabad Apartments Feel Dark Despite Abundant Sunshine?

A Founder’s Note Gujarat has over 300 sunny days a year. Ahmedabad is flooded with light. And yet, walk into most apartments in the city—even new ones, even expensive ones—and you will find yourself reaching for a light switch at two in the afternoon. This is not a climate problem. It is a design problem. And it is almost entirely…