It started in a quiet room – just one table, a couple of hand-drawn sketches, and an energy that felt far bigger than the space itself. In 2005, that was Cadence. A studio born not from opportunity, but from obsession. Three friends – bound by their years together in architecture school and an unshakable creative chemistry – put their ideas on the table and built something that has never stopped evolving.
What began as an empty room has grown into a living organism.
People came in, ideas collided, perspectives reshaped the space. Every architect, designer, and thinker who joined didn’t just fill a role they helped rewrite our identity. Today we are more than 50 strong, a collective of collaborators who have walked alongside Cadence long enough to blur the line between colleagues and co-creators.
Together, we have imagined and crafted soulful homes, transformative public spaces, and places that live somewhere between art and utility. Each project pushed us further, forcing us to question standards, challenge norms, and continually rebuild our understanding of space and emotion. Our growth has never been forced or rushed. It has been naturally shaped by conversation, experiments, arguments, failures, breakthroughs, and trust. We’ve never chased scale. We’ve chased meaning.
And the studio we sit in today is not merely a workplace; it is a physical archive of who we are. The walls carry traces of old sketches, the tables hold declarations of new ideas, and the corridor air hums with unfinished conversations. It is chaotic, intentional, imperfect, and alive – just like the minds behind it.
What drives us now is the same spark from the very first day:
Curiosity without limit, design without ego, and an unwavering belief that architecture has the power to shape emotion, culture, and memory.
Cadence isn’t just a practice we built.
It is a journey that continues to shape us, one project, one conversation, one sketch at a time.
Cadence Office
Interiors, Commercial
Bangalore
2025
Completed
Cadence Office
Smaran Mallesh, Narendra Piragal, Vikram Rajashekar