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    This document provides details about the Heritage Madurai hotel located in Madurai, India. Originally designed by renowned architect Geoffrey Bawa in 1974, the hotel was built to blend indoor and outdoor spaces in a tropical modernist style. It features airy rooms and villas with tile floors and wood furniture, along with amenities like a pool, restaurant, bar, and spa. The building materials include local granite stone and clay tiles, designed to have an organic feel blending with the landscape.

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    HERITAGE MADURAI

    Heritage Madurai, 11, Melakkal Main Road, Kochadai, Madurai – 625 016,


    Location: T : +(91) 452 2385455, M : [email protected]
     Madura Club at Madurai in Tamil Nadu, now known as Heritage Madurai is still intact.
    Climate: •  Madurai has a tropical savanna climate
    • It borders closely upon a hot semi-arid climate
    • Madurai is hot and dry for eight months of the year.
    • Cold winds are experienced during February and March as in the neighbouring Dindigul.
    Hotel Originally designed by Geoffrey Bawa in his tropical modernism-style, which blends the inside with
    details: the outside, this tranquil, low-rise resort is 4.5 km from Thousand Pillar Hall and 7 km from the
    Gandhi Memorial Museum.

    Facilities: Chic, airy rooms, and villas with tile floors and fancy wood furniture, feature Wi-Fi,
    flat-screen TVs, minibars, and tea and coffeemaking facilities. Upgraded rooms add
    air conditioning; villas have separate living rooms and private pools.

    Special  Breakfast is served in an open-air coffee shop.


     There's also an elegant restaurant and a bar/lounge.
    Feature:  Other amenities include a spa and an outdoor, temple-style pool.

    Built in 1974, the Madura Club can be termed as one of Bawa's best buildings which
    represent his design philosophy in its letter and spirit.
    The club building has been constructed on a sprawling site which was dotted with huge
    trees and overlooks distant hills.
     To achieve clarity in function, the building has been segregated in two distinct zones on either side of an entry
    court and the zones are interconnected by an open colonnaded walkway.
     The guest rooms have been kept on one side of the entry court to ensure privacy.
    Zoning:  On the other side is the main club which comprises a reception, lounge, library, bar, dining room, kitchen and
    a deck facing the playing courts and a swimming pool.

    Building  Granite stone is extensively used in the building, utilizing ancient


    techniques of splitting this stone.
    Material:  The 3.65-metre-high rough-hewn stone columns and beams support
    timber rafters and a purlin network with flat and curved clay tiles
    above.
     To give an organic character to the building, traditional materials
    with their natural colours, shades and textures have been used in
    Material of building
    the contemporary idiom with exceptional skill and simple methods.
     The ceilings are lined with hand-woven cotton.
     The hardware for windows and doors is hand-cast in bronze. 
    Key Facilities:
    •Swimming Pool Building Style: 

    Geoffrey Bawa designed, in his tropical modernism-style
     It’s an oasis in the bustling city of Madurai and arguably
    •Restaurant
    •Bar its best hotel.
    •Internet
    •Wifi Outdoor
    •Gym / Fitness Centre  The low-lying structure of the club was conceived as a series of spaces
    •Spa encompassing nature to blend perfectly with its locale.
    •Business Centre  Preserving the decades-old banyan trees and accommodating them in
    •Child Friendly the plan comprised the main theme on which the club was designed.
    •Laundry
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     Complimentary Breakfast
     Hi-Speed Wifi
     Tea/coffee Kettle
     Mini bar
     Open air plunge pool
     24 Hours Running Hot & Cold
    Deluxe Club Water
     Maintaining a finesse that is ACOMODATION  Electronic Safe
    quintessentially ‘Heritage’, these  Satellite TV channels
    modern rooms surprise with terracotta ...Luxury Plunge Pool Villa...  Air conditioned rooms
    flooring and traditional ambience.  Luxury rooms have been extensively
     The 24 Deluxe rooms are spread refurbished recently and are today well-
    over 600 sq.ft each, with red tile appointed with modern amenities and
    flooring from the 1920’s. facilities.
     These rooms are done up tastefully with
    carved wooden panels and impeccable
    service conveying real Indian luxury.
     Today, Heritage Madurai comprises 72
    rooms including 34 villas. Pool Views

    Dinning Spa

    Coffee shop Gym

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