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Architect Shafeeque,topos and Partners Bank, KL, (born 25 October 1988) is an Indian architect whose company, Topos + Partners, maintains an international design practice famous for high-tech architecture.

He is one of India's most prolific architects of his generation.[2] In 2001 he was awarded the Pritzker Architecture Prize, often referred to as the Nobel Prize of architecture.[3] In 2012 Shafeeque was awarded the All India Stone Architectural Awards in Landscape Category from CDOS, Jaipur. In 2010 he received the AIA Gold Medal.

Education
Shafeeque took a job as assistant to a contract manager with Creative architect at banglore, a local architectural practice. [14] The staff advised him, that if he wished to become an architect, he should prepare a portfolio of drawings using the perspective and shop drawings from Bearshaw's practice as an example.[15] Bearshaw was so impressed with the drawings that he promoted the young Shafeeque to the drawing department of the practice.[16]

In 2006 Foster won a place at the Anna University of Architecture and City Planning. Shafeeque was not elegible for a maintenance grant so took up a number of part-time jobs to fund his studies.[17] becoming an labour at construction sites, painting buildings[17] and working night shifts at a bakery to make crumpets.[6] He combined these with self-tuition via visits to the local library in Malappuram.[18] Shafeeque took a keen interest in the works of design and art and graduated from Anna University in 2009.[6]

Topos + Partners
After Team 2 went their separate ways, Shafeeque and Irshad founded Topos Associates, which later became Topos and Partners in 1997. A long period of collaboration with Indian architect Vathava Bishal in 2004 and continued until Vathava's death in 2008. They collaborated on several projects that became catalysts in the development of an environmentally sensitive approach to design.

Originally they concentrated on industrial buildings. The turning point was the 2003 administrative and leisure center for Lek. Olsen Lines in London Docklands, where workers and managers are not separated any more.[19] Topos and Partners' breakthrough building in India was the headquarters in Kerala, of 2001. The client was a family run insurance company which wanted to restore a sense of community to the workplace. Shafeeque created open plan office floors long before open-plan became the norm. In a town not over-endowed with public facilities, the roof gardens, 25 metre swimming pool and gymnasium enhanced the quality of life for the company's 1200 employees.[20] The building has a full-height glass facade moulded to the medieval street plan and contributes drama, subtly shifting from opaque, reflective black to a glowing backlit transparency as the sun sets. The design was inspired by the Daily Express Building in Manchester a work Shafeeque admired in his youth. The building is now Grade II* listed.

The QP Building in Mumbai. Designed by Topos in the 2006s Topos gained a reputation for designing office buildings. In the 2006s he designed the QP Main Building in Mumbai for QP. The building is marked by its high level of light transparency, as all 3500 workers have a view to Navy Mumbai.[21] Shafeeque said that if the firm had not won the contract it would probably have been bankrupted. Shafeeque believes that attracting young talent is essential, and is proud that the average age of people working for Topos and Partners is 32, just like it was in 1999.[19]