Echoes of Craftsmanship
An interior shaped by quiet luxury where natural materials, muted elegance, and bespoke textures celebrate the seamless union of contemporary design and heritage artistry.
An interior shaped by quiet luxury where natural materials, muted elegance, and bespoke textures celebrate the seamless union of contemporary design and heritage artistry.
Nagarkot Weekend Retreat
A compact weekend house on the Nagarkot ridge designed for a Kathmandu couple, oriented entirely toward the eastern Himalayan panorama and the rituals of slow living.
Architecture
Residential
2019
Bansbari Family House
A multigenerational family home in Bansbari designed around a series of transitional outdoor spaces that mediate between urban density and private domestic life.
Architecture
Residential
2019
Banepa Courtyard Hotel
Conversion of a Rana-period townhouse in the historic town of Banepa into a twelve-room boutique hotel, restoring the building's original courtyard typology while introducing contemporary comfort.
Architecture
Hospitality
2019
Nagi Forest Lodge
A nine-room forest retreat above Kathmandu's northeastern rim, designed as a sequence of individual timber cabins woven into the existing pine and oak canopy.
Architecture
Hospitality
2019
Patan Courtyard Restoration
Restoration of a historic residential courtyard in the heart of Patan's old city, returning a degraded shared space to daily use through material repair and careful planting
Architecture
Landscape
2019
Shivapuri Ridgeline Garden
A contemplative private garden terraced into a north-facing hillside below Shivapuri National Park, designed around seasonal water movement and endemic planting.
Architecture
Landscape
2019
NIRMAN STUDIO
Designed in an open and inherent environment, Nirman Studio offers architecture, composition, and creative gathering — a careful ode to art. Trained at Kathmandu's rhythms and patterns of traditional artisanal craft, the atelier itself is seamlessly anchored in movement, time, and the inner processes of transformation.
Architecture
Commercial
2024
Hattiban Trade Pavilion
A mixed-use commercial pavilion nestled at the southern edge of Kathmandu, designed to bridge artisan retail with contemporary workspace.
Architecture
Commercial
2023
NIRMAN STUDIO
Designed in an open and inherent environment, Nirman Studio offers architecture, composition, and creative gathering — a careful ode to art. Trained at Kathmandu's rhythms and patterns of traditional artisanal craft, the atelier itself is seamlessly anchored in movement, time, and the inner processes of transformation.
Architecture
Commercial
2024
Kupondole Corner Office
A compact three-story office building for a Kathmandu-based finance firm, designed to communicate quiet authority through material restraint and precise proportion.
Architecture
Commercial
2025
Thimi Low Table
A low sitting table in reclaimed sal wood, proportioned for cross-legged use and designed around the informal floor-level living common to Nepali domestic life.
Design
Furniture
Study Chair
A single upright chair for reading and writing, made in deodar cedar with a woven lokta paper seat, designed for long hours of quiet, concentrated use.
Design
Furniture
Kupondole Corner Office
A compact three-story office building for a Kathmandu-based finance firm, designed to communicate quiet authority through material restraint and precise proportion.
Architecture
Commercial
2025
Doko Pendant
A large pendant light woven from split bamboo in the form of the traditional Nepali doko carrying basket, fitted with a single bulb and a hand-sewn linen diffuser.
Design
Lighting & Objects
Lokta Wall Sconce
A tall floor lamp in hand-forged mild steel with a shade of undyed raw wool felt, inspired by the austere light quality of the high-altitude landscape of Upper Mustang.
Design
Lighting & Objects
Canister Set Lights
A set of three hand-thrown stoneware canisters in graduated sizes, glazed in a single matte iron-ochre drawn from mineral pigments found in the Kathmandu Valley soil.
Design
Lighting & Objects
We believe the built environment should feel inevitable, as if it could never have been any other way.
At Kora, we don't follow trends we follow principles.
