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Raqbash builds portfolio-led websites for architecture practices and design studios: a design system considered enough to stand beside your work, full-bleed photography that still opens instantly, and project credits that say what your role actually was.
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From global enterprises to fast-growing startups, brands across the world trust Raqbash to build and scale their digital products.
Overview
Raqbash builds architecture firm websites in Ahmedabad for architects, interior designers and design studios: visual, portfolio-led sites where the work itself is the pitch. For a design practice, the website is a portfolio and a statement of taste at once; it has to feel as considered as the work it presents.
Prospective clients judge a studio on its aesthetic and its projects within seconds. That means large, fast-loading imagery, restrained and confident design, and project stories that show your thinking, not just pretty pictures. We build sites that let the work breathe and convert the right clients into enquiries.
Six capabilities cover almost every studio brief we take on, from a three-person practice with one extraordinary house to a multidisciplinary consultancy publishing across architecture, interiors and landscape.
A restrained, confident design system built around your work rather than around a template: because a studio site is a demonstration of taste before it is anything else.
Immersive project pages with concept, process and outcome, and with your role and collaborators credited properly rather than left for a reader to assume.
Modern formats, responsive sources, blur-up placeholders and edge delivery, so a portfolio built on large photography still opens instantly on a phone.
Practice, philosophy and team pages that make your positioning legible, so the briefs that arrive are closer to the work you actually want.
Considered enquiry forms that ask about scope, site and timeline, qualifying a commission before it reaches a conversation.
Press, awards and a journal that build reputation and search authority, published as dated entries so an old award never reads as a current one.
A studio site is judged on three things a peer notices immediately: whether it looks like something you would have made, whether the credits are honest, and whether the photography is yours to publish.
Restraint, typography, pacing, and motion used sparingly and on purpose. This is the one kind of website where the craft of the thing is part of the pitch: a practice presenting careful work through a template has already answered the client's question about how much attention they pay.
A responsive image pipeline, modern formats, blur-up placeholders, lazy loading and edge delivery. On this vertical a slow site does not read as slow: it reads as unrefined, which is a harsher penalty and a harder one to argue your way out of.
Your role on every project (design architect, architect of record, interiors, in collaboration with) and collaborators nameable, with unbuilt and competition work labelled as such. A credit without a role is the commonest misrepresentation in this field, peers spot it instantly, and the clients worth having ask peers.
Architectural photography is usually the photographer's copyright and web use is a scoped licence, so we record the rights and display the credit, and we build the state where a project publishes without naming the client or the location. Most studios have never been asked about their web licence; asking is what separates a portfolio from a liability.
Where our work stops. We build websites. Raqbash is not an architecture or design practice, is registered with no professional body, and certifies nothing. "Architect" is a protected title and Council of Architecture registration is yours to hold: we build the credential fields, and we will not describe anyone as an architect unless you tell us they are registered: what CoA's conduct rules permit by way of self-promotion is yours to confirm rather than ours to interpret. Project photographs are published on the licences you hold. Architectural photography is usually the photographer's copyright and web use is a scoped permission, so we record the rights against each image and display the credit, and we build the option to publish a project without naming the client or the location where their consent is limited. Your role on each project is a required field and collaborators are nameable, because a credit without a role is the commonest misrepresentation in this field. Unbuilt and competition work is labelled as unbuilt. Awards and press go up as you supply them, dated, so an old award never reads as a current one. And we make no promise that a website wins commissions: we will not write cost-saving or delivery-outcome claims into your copy.
Design practices choose Raqbash because we design the site rather than assemble it, hold a performance budget on a photography-led build, and ask the awkward questions about credits and image rights in week two rather than launch week.
A custom design system for your practice: type, grid, pacing and motion decided rather than inherited. On this vertical a recognisable template is a message you did not intend to send.
We set a budget before the first image lands and hold it: modern formats, responsive sources, deliberate loading. Heavy photography and a fast site are not in conflict if the pipeline is built for it.
Role, collaborators, photographer, client consent: settled in week two rather than discovered the week before launch, when the answer might mean pulling your best project off the site.
Contrast, focus states, keyboard paths and reduced-motion handling inside a visual-led design. Restraint and accessibility pull in the same direction more often than designers expect.
We help the site say what kind of practice you are, because the cost of vague positioning is not fewer enquiries: it is the wrong ones, and the hours spent politely declining them.
A senior in-house team in Ahmedabad you can sit down with, and who will keep the portfolio current as projects complete rather than leaving it two years behind the studio.
Show us the work you'd want on the homepage and tell us who you want more of as clients. Our Ahmedabad team will come back with a direction and a free, fixed-scope quote covering portfolio structure, credits and rights.
A conservation practice and a multidisciplinary consultancy are selling almost opposite things: restraint and provenance on one side, range on the other. These six each need the portfolio structured differently.
Registered practices whose work spans houses, institutions and commercial buildings, where the portfolio has to carry both the aesthetic and the evidence of delivery at scale.
Residential and commercial interiors, sold on atmosphere and detail: a portfolio judged on photography quality and material sensibility as much as on plan.
Public realm, campuses and landscape, where the work is best understood over time and through drawings, and a gallery of finished photographs tells only part of it.
Restoration and adaptive reuse, where the before-and-after is the story and provenance, documentation and restraint matter more than a hero render.
Studios working across architecture, interiors, product and graphics, needing a portfolio structure that lets each discipline be found without diluting any of them.
Six phases take your studio site from first conversation to live and supported, starting, before any design, with which projects go up, how they are credited and whether the photography is cleared for the web.
We look at your work, your positioning and the commissions you want more of, and the ones you keep declining, which usually says more about what the site needs to communicate.
Before design, we agree which projects go up, your role on each, who holds the photography licence and what it covers, which clients have consented and to what, and how unbuilt work will be labelled.
We design the project page and the index first, and settle type, grid, pacing and motion as decisions rather than defaults: the parts a prospective client reads before reading a word.
We build the portfolio structure with its credit and rights fields, the media pipeline against a performance budget, the journal and press areas, and brief-capture enquiry forms.
Performance measured on real photography rather than placeholders, motion checked against reduced-motion preferences, credits proofed with you, plus accessibility and contrast passes.
Ongoing support from Ahmedabad: new projects as they complete and are photographed, press and awards as they land, and the occasional pass that stops the portfolio drifting behind the practice.
We build portfolio-led sites on a modern, proven stack: a media pipeline that keeps full-bleed photography fast, credits and image rights held as structured fields, and a CMS your studio publishes from.
We have not published an architecture or design studio site, and we would rather say so than imply otherwise. These are the nearest builds (construction project management, developer sales and an image-heavy listing platform) and what they show is domain familiarity and media performance at scale.
Principals, partners and founders rely on Raqbash for sites that look like something their studio would have made. Here's what working with us is like.
“The site finally looks like something our studio would have made. That sounds like a small thing and it is the entire brief.”
“They asked who held the licence on our photography before they asked about the homepage. We had never checked, and two shoots turned out to be print-only.”
“Full-bleed photography and it still opens instantly on a phone. Our previous site made people wait to see the work.”
Common questions from principals and studio partners: reflecting your aesthetic, keeping an image-heavy portfolio fast, telling the story behind a project, who must consent before photographs are published, crediting collaborators and your own role, and showing unbuilt work.
Book a free consultation with our Ahmedabad team. We'll look at how your work reads to someone deciding whether to shortlist you, and show you exactly what we'd change.
