Sumaya Architect & Associates

We set up Sumaya Architect & Associates over in the Krishna Complex, which is on the Jail Bypass road in Gorakhpur. If you are looking for us, we are in office number three and four. The Padri Bazar police chowki is right there, so it’s pretty hard to miss the building. Gorakhpur has its own pace of life, and we try to work within that. Some days the road outside is really noisy with people heading toward the bypass, but inside we just focus on the drawings. Architecture here is about making things work for the families and businesses in the city. We aren't a huge firm with dozens of employees. It's just a small group of us who enjoy the process of putting a building together on paper and then seeing it go up. We usually have a few different projects going at once, which keeps the office a bit messy with rolls of blueprints and sketches. We don't really do the whole corporate thing with fancy presentations. We prefer to sit down with a client and just talk through what they need over a glass of water. It’s more personal that way. The Jail Bypass area is changing a lot, and being right in the middle of it is good for us. We just keep our heads down and do the work that comes our way. It’s a simple way to run a business.