Palmyra House by Studio Mumbai Architects
Studio Mumbai Architects have designed the Palmyra house in Nandgaon, Maharashtra, India.Constructed entirely from locally sourced and sustainably harvested palmyra, the home is sited on a working coconut plantation in the West Indian coastal town of Alibaug.
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July 26, 2010 - Category: Architecture, Latest, Pavillion - Posted by: Chantal - Comments: 0
The Tote, Mumbai, India by Serie Architects
In the middle of one of Mumbai’s most beautiful open spaces, an old shell has been given a new interior. UK architects Chris Lee and Kapil Gupta of Serie Architects have redesigned ‘The Tote’, a banquet hall, restaurant and bar. The colonial facade of the Tote building gives way to what looks like a bleached, enchanted forest. In the banqueting and indoor restaurant areas, white metal pillars branch out like trees as they reach the ceiling, creating the effect of walking down a forest path.
Strategically placed skylights in abstract shapes, mimicking sunlight breaking through dense foliage, heighten that feeling. By contrast, the 40ft long bar upstairs is all dark chocolate wood. The faceted wood panels on the walls give the impression of looking through a kaleidoscope, or at paper that was folded to make an origami figure and then opened out. The original cubbyhole-like windows, through which bets were placed, have been retained.
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December 28, 2009 - Category: Architecture, Facade, Interior, Latest, Restaurant - Posted by: Chantal - Comments: 3
