About us

We design lives,
not just rooms

A full-service architecture and interior practice with studios in Delhi NCR and Dubai, working PAN India and the UAE. Young hands and experienced ones, in one room. That is where every project here starts.

A studio desk in morning light: books on interiors, design and architecture stacked beside a potted sprig, a balsa massing model, a jar of pencils, and a floor plan unrolled under a mug, with a pencil elevation of a house pinned to the wall behind.
The desk, before the room.

Every client arrives
with a story.

We sit down in person to hear it before anything is drawn. Who the people are, how they actually live, what the day looks like in the room we are about to change. The brief is what comes out of that conversation, not what goes into it.

Then it is answered in plan, material and light. We build on technical excellence, attention to detail and responsible business practice, and we hold to the number we quoted. Client satisfaction is the only measure of the work we recognise.

Homes, workspaces, commercial offices and retail. Architecture, interiors, turnkey furnishing, site planning and landscape, from the first sketch to the last coat of paint, and through the defect liability period after it.

The founders

Young hands.
Experienced ones.

Shahnawaz, Chief Architect and Interior Designer at Arcos Design Firm

Shahnawaz

Creative Head Chief Architect & Interior Designer

Believes design is a vision for a better way of living, and says so more often than most people would think necessary. Graduated in 2010 and spent five years on frontline projects in cities across India before setting up his own team in 2015. Has designed and executed over a hundred projects since, across residential, commercial and retail.

Ar. Aasif M, Principal Architect at Arcos Design Firm

Ar. Aasif M

Principal Architect B.Arch, PM

An architect with a strong foundation in design, and his experience brings together design thinking, attention to detail, and a practical understanding of how spaces are conceived and delivered. At Arcos, he leads residential and retail interior projects, guiding them from the initial concept and client meetings through design development and final handover.

How we work

Five steps, and
we stay for all of them

  1. Listen

    A meeting in person. Your brief, your site, your budget, all before a single line is drawn.

  2. Design

    Concepts with purpose. We design with your goals and every detail in mind. Your dream place, resolved on paper first.

  3. Cost

    Every line costed at design stage, so the number you approve is the number you pay.

  4. Build

    Site supervised on a regular basis, workmanship monitored, vendors sequenced by us.

  5. Stay

    Post-project service through the defect liability period. Handover is not the end of it.

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