Gulshan Roy Architects

We have been operating Gulshan Roy Architects out of the Hallmark building on 30 Feet Road for a good while now. Our office is number 001, right there at the MG Road Cross in the Kodialbail area. It’s tucked behind the Empire Hotel, which most people around Mangalore know pretty well. It’s not a massive corporate firm with dozens of people. It’s just us here, working on building designs and trying to make sure the plans make sense for the land we have. The office is usually full of rolled-up blueprints and tracing paper scattered across the big tables. Sometimes it gets a bit messy when we are in the middle of a big project, but we know where everything is. People stop by to talk about their house extensions or maybe a new shop they are thinking of putting up. We spend a lot of time looking at site levels and trying to figure out how to work with the rains we get here. It’s practical work. We don’t go in for those fancy computer animations that look like movies. We just draw what can actually be built. We are usually here from morning until late evening, especially when a deadline is coming up. If the door is open, you can just walk in and see what we are up to. It’s just regular architectural work for the local community, done by people who live right here in the city.