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State Commendation Award at the 18th Architect of the Year
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Watchtower, Keezpettai, Pondicherry

Architecture using local materials viz: acchikal brick, lime mortar and country tiles

Architect : Pino Marchese
Area : 100 sqm
Cost : Rs.10,00,000/-
Period: 2005

This tower houses a sound-proof generator room on the ground floor, a utility room on the first, a water tank on the second & a viewing deck on the third floor. Its location on the beach makes it ideal as a watchtower. The double wall of achikal bricks with its roman brick proportion break the massiveness of the structure lending it a period quality…like the tower always existed on that site. The pyramidal wood frame roof is covered with country tiles local to that area.