MEENAL CAVALE ARCHITECTS

I've been working out of this spot in Hampinagar for a while now. It’s right there on 8th Main, 4th Cross in RPC Layout, if you know the Vijayanagar 2nd Stage area. Meenal Cavale Architects is just me and a small team trying to figure out how to make buildings work better for the people around here in Bangalore. We don’t have a fancy lobby or anything like that. Most days we are just hunched over drawings or talking about how a window should sit. It gets busy, especially with the traffic around here, but we like the neighborhood. People sometimes drop by just to ask about a small wall or a roof leak, and we try to help out when we can. It’s not always glamorous work. A lot of it is just dealing with paperwork and checking site measurements over and over. We’ve been at 540 Shravan Mavarkar for a good stretch of time. The office has piles of blueprints everywhere and the coffee is usually cold by the time we drink it. We just want to do decent work that stays standing and looks okay years from now. It’s hard to keep things simple sometimes, but that’s the goal. If you're walking through Vijayanagar, you’ve probably passed us without noticing. We’re just local folks doing our job in this corner of the city. We don't have all the answers, but we try hard to get the walls in the right place for everyone.