Aura Architect

Up here on the first floor of Lekhraj Dollar, the view of Faizabad Road is mostly just cars and the metro line going past. It’s a very busy part of Indira Nagar, especially being so close to the Gazipur Thana. The office gets quite a lot of light in the afternoons which is nice. We spend most of our time hunched over desks. It’s not a very quiet place because someone is always on the phone with a contractor or a client who changed their mind about a layout at the last minute. We’ve been in this building for a bit now. Most people come in because they saw the name while walking past the shops downstairs. We don't do much fancy talking or presentations. We just look at the land or the room and see what can be done with it. It’s a lot of measuring and remeasuring. Sometimes the site visits are the best part of the day because you finally get out of the office, even if the heat in Lucknow is a lot to handle in June. We have a lot of old rolls of blueprints that probably should be thrown out by now but they just sit there in the corner. It feels like a real workspace, a bit messy and always something moving. We don't have a big corporate team, it's just the architects and some helpers. We try to be honest about what will work.