Nelson Planning & Design Pvt Ltd

Our place is on the second floor of C-26 in Lajpat Nagar-III. It’s a good spot because the market is close by, but we are high enough up to avoid some of the street noise. Nelson Planning & Design Pvt Ltd is mostly about drawing up plans and looking at site layouts. We have several large tables where we spread out blueprints and sketches. The floor is often covered in scraps of paper and pens. It’s a working office, so it isn’t always the neatest place you’ll ever see. We have a few computers for the CAD work, but a lot of the initial thinking happens with a pencil. The light in the afternoons is quite good through the front windows. Most of us have been working here in New Delhi for several years. We know the local building rules pretty well. Sometimes we have clients come in to look at designs, so we clear off a table for them. It’s a small team, so we all know what everyone else is working on. There is no corporate hierarchy here, just people doing their jobs. We get our lunch from the stalls downstairs quite often. It’s a busy life, but we like being in the middle of Lajpat Nagar. It feels like a real part of the city. We have a shelf full of old samples like tiles and carpet bits that we use for reference. Sometimes we spend hours just arguing over where a wall should go in a drawing.