From the drawing office.

Dadar is where Mumbai's Art Deco streets begin, and the tower borrows their language: grooved mouldings, stone cladding and, over the entrance, a tall jaali (perforated screen) of arches in anodised aluminium pipe.

I drew that jaali for construction, in two parts across two sheets: the key elevation, the module and sub-module elevations, and the arch plates at 1:20 with every pipe section and centre-to-centre distance called out. I also designed two schemes for the lift lobby: one in herringbone veneer and white marble, one in black marble and brass with a gilded Deco panel between the cars.

For a second tower by the office at Dadar, 250 metres from the sea, I drew the door schedule: entrance, toilet, bedroom and machine-room doors, each in plan, elevation and section with frame, shutter, threshold and ironmongery called out. These are the sheets a contractor prices from.

Sixty floors and roughly 200 metres in the Kandivali skyline. The brief was a tower that reads as a landmark, so the work concentrated where a tower is recognised: the façade, the crown and the podium.

I modelled the options. Seven massings worked the crown and the central void, from terraces cut into the mass to two wings tied together at the top; two podium studies set the shop fronts and the residential entry against the street; and I replanned the duplex and penthouse floors so the combined flats worked inside the new form.

A redevelopment in Ghatkopar wanted a front that would age well. The answer was classical: symmetry, a base, a body and a crown, pilasters running the full height, and arched spandrels under each run of glazing.

I built the model through three iterations of the façade, from plain pilasters to the final crown and spandrels, and produced the renders the client saw.