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Friday, 6 January 2012

A Mid-morning visit to the Qutub Minar

A while back my cousins, who were down from Canada, visited us in Gurgaon. While they were with us, I had taken them to see the Qutub Minar Complex in Delhi. We made it there on a clear (as clear as it can get in Delhi) winter morning and my sister-in-law, a conservation architect-in-the-making and an avid photographer captured some beautiful images that I just had to share.

[All images- Ujwala Menon]

Thanks for sharing these images Ujwala! Ujwala has her own photo blog which you can visit here.

[All images- Ujwala Menon]

Monday, 2 January 2012

Tierra Adentro House

I came across this house in a magazine and fell in love with it. It is a beautiful representation of how contemporary architecture and interior design can be true to context and setting.

This house is designed to be a retreat and a place of calm tranquility. And it certainly succeeds at this. The austere simplicity of this house is celebrated by the use of natural materials as well as warm traditional colors and building materials in a very contemporary way. One of my favorite things about this design is the beautiful natural plaster walls that have been hand trowelled in the traditional manner. It connects the house with the land and its elements, giving it a sense of rawness as well as warmth.