Built on top of the hill overlooking the wide stretch of beach, Nilaya spreads its arms towards the panoramic view below.
It is an earthy structure built from stone excavated from the hill behind and uses a renewable timber (coconut rafters) for its roofing. Incorporated into the building are old artefacts like temple columns and grinding stones. Old methods of construction are also recalled like brick arches, vaults and domes.
Laguna Anjuna has been built in Goan Portuguese style and with local eco friendly materials. The walls are of thick laterite stone with carved lintels, and the roof is a continuous one of terracotta tiles on coconut wood rafters and battens, which dips, curves and swoops in graceful lines. With its white lime washed walls, stone and oxide hued floors, Venetian plastered bathroom walls, paved pathways and courtyards, stone pillars and arches, and its trademark high ceiling brick domes, its architectural pedigree is established. Guests are delighted with its huge and comfortable rooms, all in different shapes and individual features.
Pousada Tauma which in Portugese means "the resting place", is a 13 room resort built around a central pool. The site, originally an odd shaped coconut grove of approximately 7750 sqm bounded by a dense village on all sides. It has a proper road access on one end and a service access at ther other. The original site being flat needed to be articulated and areas defined by the creation of levels, planting buffers, intermediate pavillions and paving changes. It is 1.5kms away from Calangute beach and being in this village, needed to buffer itself from the over development of this area and look inwards.