The architectural firm Blank’s latest project is an office in Mumbai for a real estate and elitist car rental agency. Here the firm elucidates how one can build a space that is low on frills and have also have a casual air about it. What used to be a three-bedroom apartment has been renovated and re-designed into an office space which is in equal parts casual and formal. Blank worked on keeping the fundamentals humourless - the dominating colour scheme of the place is a mix of white and brown, and the general tenor of the place is: no-nonsense. The clean lines of the design of the place are punctuated brilliantly by large windows which look out to a green canopy. They provide a refreshing break from the geometrically-correct furniture and participate in the interior scheme without really being a part of it. Jugal Mistri and his team have cut out all the jarring details of the previous construction and have introduced a well-thought out skyline theme that emphasises the ambition of the place, subtly.
