The Busride Design Studio

Its been a while. We’re very excited to share photos from the almost open to public wine store Les Bouchons at Walkeshwar, Mumbai. The site was like an underground tavern; three small rooms with low ceilings, floors stepping down the walkeshwar hill with tiny windows that sent little shafts of light into the space. There was instant resonance with the idea of the tavern. We tried to re create the imagery of the underbelly, simulated arches and vaults within the rooms, and packed up the lower, larger room with a display of a 1000 wine bottles. All this evolved into a flourish of plywood art deco ornamentation. Its got an amazing collection so if you’re hiking up there do drop by…the toilet has a surprise!

Its not often that you can congratulate a contractor for exceptional honeycombing! We’re practising the wrongest concreting techniques for an upcoming project. Next round, poor reinforcement! More soon!

We’re finishing up at the all new JML Library in Khar west! The tall teal shelving unit creates a fun backdrop to an otherwise quiet space! More soon!

Super excited to see the pixelated terrazzo monoliths at the all new Bharat Floorings and Tiles Mumbai Pvt. Ltd. Showroom-event space hybrid at Laxmi industrial Estate. Each pixel will be capped by a unique tile sample and the entire surface will be Mapped for projections. Two weeks to go! more soon!

We recently completed the Leo Burnett,Mumbai office at Lower Parel. Four distinct clusters, four distinct vibes! Thank you Fabien Charuau and Architectural Digest India for the article, and thank you Leo Burnett for the amazingly fun brief!

Mumbai: A peek inside Leo Burnett India's new office that celebrates conversations Why architect Zameer Basrai of The Busride Design Studio was the perfect choice to design the new Mumbai office of creative cult agency Leo Burnett India

We’re casting a table tennis table for the lounge at the new Searce office. The entire office has been designed as a built-in, monolithic, concrete pour in the hope that it is rugged and maintenance free. more soon!

We recently completed a fun, new office for the most amazing people of Leo Burnett India. The office is designed as an open floor plan and further organized into four distinct clusters - the quiet library, the greenhouse, the trippy media pods, and the cafe - offering a Wide array of individual and group formats for work. More soon!

Sneak peek at whats keeping us super busy lately! More soon!

The little brick village at Malshej ghat was created as a landscape plan around and amongst the hotel villas to create little courtyards and nooks for the hotel guests. At some unforeseen stage in the design process, small innocent squiggles became sculpted patterned brick walls. Once inside, now its all you can see!

We’re super excited to share initial sketches of what will hopefully become a new line of lifestyle accessories inspired by some famous indian architects. From pink eye patches finely tailored for torn garments inspired by Anthill Design‘s famous home to elaborate waist belts that promise to make studio 8-23 wearable at home. There’s a few more coming soon! Drawings by the amazing Arko Saha and the dirty old man himself!

Feels like Mohenjo-daro! But in siporex, inside a mall and with pvc conduits!