Shiva Lakshmanan

Architect, thinker and dabbler in tech.

I’ve spent more than 26 years getting buildings out of the ground, from Chennai to Lagos to Kinshasa. This is where I keep everything else: ideas I’m chewing on, things I’m tinkering with, and one small game about switching the lights back on.

Read my story Play Lights On

The windows are switches. Try a few.

Have a look around

AboutHow someone who trained to draw buildings ended up running the sites that build them.
WritingShort pieces on building, teams and technology, on Medium and LinkedIn.
LabA workbench for design, code, pictures and places. Some of it even works.
ContactSay hello. I like a good question.

Twelve towers, no power.

Lights On is a small puzzle that lives on this site. Turn the wiring until every room connects back to the mains. There’s no clock and no way to lose, just a street that gets brighter.

Play Lights On