After a trip of nine hours, two flights and a long tiring layover, as I entered the French quarter of Pondicherry, the bright yellows and blues of the buildings felt like a breath of fresh air. The pink bougainvillaeas around the big curved doors and the symmetry of the houses set a beautiful tone for […]
Other than introducing India to croissants, the French also left clues of their design and architectural tendencies on the eastern coast of the country during the colonial period. What has since then evolved and taken an emblematic identity for the many edifices, dominantly seen around the lanes of Pondicherry, Tamil Nadu, has inspired yet another […]
With invasive vegetation, native traditions and a rich oeuvre of materials, Geoffrey Bawa created the style now known as Tropical Modernism—a movement which looks to construct with the space rather than in the space. Jumping on that bandwagon after coming across a dilapidated beach villa in Pondicherry, Hohm Design Studio restored the structure into a […]
