Vista Architectural Consultant
A Dhaka architecture practice founded in 1995, with thirty-one years of delivered work and no digital presence. Three mega-projects won in the five months since the site launched.
The problem
Vista has been practising since 1995 — commercial towers, healthcare facilities, residential and industrial projects, interior design, taken from concept through RAJUK and BNBC compliance to construction documentation — with none of it visible anywhere. Thirty-one years of delivered work was the asset, and it existed only in the principals' heads and in drawings nobody outside the office had seen. Prospective clients arrived by referral, had no way to assess the practice before meeting, and nothing distinguished it from firms that do not handle permit documentation at all. The practical requirement was not a brochure. It was a site that could explain a regulated, multi-stage service to someone deciding whether to hand over a building.
What we built
A full marketing site covering the four practice areas, the RAJUK and BNBC compliance workflow, and a featured project portfolio, with a contact path that routes enquiries to the practice. Beyond the site itself: domain registration and DNS, hosted infrastructure, analytics, GDPR-compliant consent handling, and live chat — delivered as one engagement rather than handed back as a set of accounts to manage.
Stack
Architecture decisions
Structure the site around the approval process, not the portfolio
Architecture sites almost always lead with images. But the question a Dhaka client is actually weighing is whether the practice can carry a project through RAJUK submission without the schedule slipping. Leading with the regulatory workflow answers the question that decides the engagement; the portfolio then confirms it.
Run it as a maintained service rather than a delivered file
The practice has no technical staff. Handing over a repository and hosting credentials would have meant the site degrading quietly — an expired certificate, an unpatched dependency — until it embarrassed them. Infrastructure and maintenance are carried on a monthly retainer instead, so the failure mode is our problem rather than theirs.
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