Cartwheel
Scope of services: Architecture, Interior Design, Landscape Design.
Types of Built Projects: Residences, Commercial offices, and Restaurants.
Locations of Built Projects: The firm operates in Chennai, and also has a branch opened in Bengaluru.
Style of work: Has a quirky and unconventional approach to Contemporary Architecture
Website: www.cartwheelstudio.com
Cuboid Studio
Scope of services: Architecture, Interior Design, Project Management, Electrical solutions, Furniture Design.
Types of Built Projects: Residences, Commercial offices, Restaurants, Studios.
Locations of Built Projects: The firm works in Chennai and its surrounding areas.
Style of work: The designs are modernised, maintaining the authenticity of materials.
Website: www.cuboidstudio.com
The firm was started in the year 2016. It is a leading architecture firm that provides an all-round solutions for design and architecture, including furniture and fittings. It is known for its well planned spatial qualities and precise details.
Design DNA
Scope of services: Architecture and Interior Design.
Types of Built Projects: Residences, Corporate Offices, Institutions.
Locations of Built Projects: The firm has an office in Chennai and branches in Bengaluru and Hyderabad.
Style of work: The firm has a modern interpretation of designs integrated with new-age
materials.
Website: designdna.in
The firm works to achieve the functional capability of the users’ needs and bring about practicality in its designs. It has quality designs, with spaces emerging from experiences.
Design Realm
Scope of services: Architecture and Interior Design.
Types of Built Projects: Residences, and Commercial projects.
Locations of Built Projects: Majority of the projects are built across various cities of Tamil Nadu, Chennai being the most predominant.
Style of work: Natural forms are used, maintaining simplicity and crisp geometry. The firm has a modernist approach, using new materials.
Website: www.designrealm.in
Established in 2009, Design Realm is an architectural and design firm in Chennai which attempts to incorporate the traditional vernacular techniques into new prospects. It provides cost-effective design and engineering solutions, for residential and commercial projects, adapting them to suitable user groups.
Design Squares
Scope of services: Architecture, Interior Design, Retail Design, Project Management and Renovation.
Types of Built Projects: Residences, Villas and farmhouses, Commercial campuses, and Institutions.
Locations of Built Projects: Most of the projects are located in Chennai, but it also works in the rest of the country.
Style of work: It has modern and present day styles of design for their projects.
Website: www.designsquares.in
The firm is spearheaded by Ravhee Laddha, and strives to be versatile with each project that it takes up and giving an identity. It integrates the various facets of design, from textures to forms and brings everything under one roof. The designs look at reliability and ergonomics before everything else, expanding its functionality.
Design Quest
Scope of services: Architecture, Interior Design and Project Management.
Types of Built Projects: Residential villas, Commercial offices, Hospitality.
Locations of Built Projects: The firm operates in predominantly in Chennai, and other cities nearby.
Style of work: The team strives to maintain the natural terrain of the site, creating interesting spaces, with a modern outlook.
Website: www.dqarchitects.in
Always learning and nurturing itself for better understanding of the creatives, the firm has managed to name a niche for itself in the city. The firm has been awarded the ‘Best Architect and Interior Designer in Chennai’ awarded by Merit Awards and Market Research Pvt. Ltd. in 2017. It organises itself towards to get the right amount of innovation and functionality in it’s projects.
DI Studio
Scope of services: Architecture and Interior Design.
Types of Built Projects: Residences, Offices, Institutions
Locations of Built Projects: Most of the projects are located in Chennai, with a few in Pondicherry and other cities.
Style of work: The designs are contemporary and modern blending with nature, suiting various specifications of the user groups.
Website: distudio.in
Formerly known as DI Architecture, the firm has gained experience in the past decade, and now is an established name in the city, and the adjacents. It has a team of professionals working towards creating designs that are functional and also have visual aesthetics.
Dot Architecture and Design Studios
Scope of services: Architecture and Interior Design.
Types of Built Projects: Residences, Offices, Retails.
Locations of Built Projects: Majorly the firm operates in and around Chennai city.
Style of work: The designs are heavily based on user functionality, with modern ideas and approaches.
Website: Dotdesigns.in
The firm was started in the year 2014, and now has a team of expert designers. It works on the philosophy of design being an emotional experience and it tapers into it. Hence, all the designs they create and the forms that evolve has a backdrop to it and connected to clients. It has won the Best Innovative Commercial Interiors Award, FOAID, 2015.
Drawing Hands
Scope of services: Architecture, Interior Design, and Furniture Design
Types of Built Projects: Residences, Offices and Co-Work spaces.
Locations of Built Projects: The projects are majorly based in Chennai city, while the firm is yet expanding in neighbouring cities.
Style of work: Minimalism is seen at its best, combined with pure geometry and crisp forms, prioritising user functionality.
Website: www.drawinghandstudio.com
Spearheading the institution in 2015, Shruti Omprakash is the founder and principal architect of the Drawing Hands Studio, ideating it to transform into a collaborative manifesto of creative heads. The firm teams up designers with qualitative perceptions, intending to do good to the environment. Though it is a small, young firm, it has achieved many milestones and has been successful in establishing a strong name for itself in the city.
Dwellion
Scope of services: Architecture, Interior Design, Turnkey Contracting, Product Design, Modular Manufacturing.
Types of Built Projects: Individual residences, Apartments, Institutions, Commercial offices, Conceptual Design.
Locations of Built Projects: Majority of their projects are located in Chennai city and its nearby cities, like Cuddalore and Coimbatore.
Style of work: “Design for People” is their motto, which the firm strongly abides to. The designs are functional aesthetic, and modern to suit its client specifications.
Website: www.dwellion.in
Dwellion, hooking up the name from ‘dwellings’ is an architectural firm established in the year 2007 by Jerry Meshach. In 2018, he was awarded the title of ‘Best Architect of the Year’ amongst other architecture firms in Chennai in the 4th Global Business Leadership Awards.
