Panache Architects

Our studio is over in Raja Annamalai Puram, inside the Navin Athreya Apartments on 3rd Main Road. We are at unit F2, which is quite near Kaliyappa Hospital. It’s a nice enough part of Chennai, though the traffic on the main roads can be a bit much during the rush hour. The office itself is inside an apartment building, so it has a very domestic feel to it. It’s not like those glass-walled offices you see in the IT parks. We have our computers set up and a big table where we can spread out drawings. Most mornings start with a lot of noise from the street below, but once we get into the work, we don't notice it much. We spend a lot of time thinking about how to make spaces work better for people in the city. It’s a small team here, so everyone ends up doing a bit of everything, from measuring sites to talking to contractors. We’ve been in RA Puram for a while now and we like the neighborhood. It’s convenient for getting to other parts of Chennai when we need to check on a building site. We don't have a big marketing department or anything like that. We just work on one thing at a time and try to stay organized among the piles of paper. The apartment has a balcony where we sometimes take a break to look out at the city. It’s a simple setup, but it works for the kind of focused work we do.