# Beautifully rustic mountain house rises from its colonial-era grave

> Architecture firm Meister Varma has completed a house in Kotagiri, a hill town in India's Nilgiri Mountains, that's held up by the stones of the collapsed colonial-era cottage that once occupied the same plot.

- **Source:** [Newatlas](https://newatlas.com/architecture/shilaya-kotagiri-meister-varma-architects/?utm_source=gearopen.com&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=feed&utm_content=6a4bcff9254f0da55deb5812)
- **Published:** 2026-07-06
- **Category:** Science
- **Tags:** #surface
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