I Stoke BD

iStock BD
Education Consultancy Office · Dhaka, Bangladesh

Study abroad consultancies in Dhaka occupy a particular position in their clients' lives. They are not merely offices; they are the first physical encounter with the ambition of leaving, the room where a decision that will change a life is made or unmade. At iStock BD, 23/90 Architects took this weight seriously, designing an interior whose every spatial move is oriented toward aspiration, energy, and the feeling that the world beyond is already within reach.

The reception counter establishes the project's chromatic register from the moment of arrival. An angular geometric form clad in warm amber timber slats rises against a bold mustard yellow wall, the iStock Education mark positioned centrally. This is not a waiting room colour; it is an activating one. The amber carries through the entire office, appearing in the tinted glass walls of consultation rooms, the ceiling reveals, and the partition frames, giving the interior a coherent warmth that reads simultaneously as welcoming and forward-looking.

The consultation rooms are enclosed in amber-tinted glass with large typographic numerals etched across their surfaces, their floor-to-ceiling glazing opening onto city views that place the office literally within the skyline its clients aspire to reach. Each room is a contained proposition: sit here, look out, consider the distance between where you are and where you intend to go.

The corridor is organised as a spatial itinerary. Country names, EUROPE, USA, CANADA, UK, appear in sequence along the passage, each marking a zone and a destination. The client who walks this corridor is already, in some sense, travelling. The IELTS workshop zone anchors one end of the plan with white workstations, diagonal etched glass panels, and the workshop's own brand identity, a zone of preparation within a larger zone of possibility.

The lounge is the project's most sociable moment. Dusty pink swan chairs cluster around low tables beneath clustered hexagonal pendants and geometric black drop lights, indoor plants softening the boundaries between seating groups. Motivational typography, printed large on the wall, completes the atmosphere without irony.