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The Hibiscus Home Built in a Caribbean gingerbread style, the Hibiscus Home was a renovation of a small, existing dwelling in St. Lucia. “It was not a remarkable house to begin with, just a small cottage with a small pool,” Pettigrew says. The clients wanted an authentic Caribbean home where they could entertain family and friends.
Homes of the Caribbean LANE PETTIGREW ASSOCIATES HAS EARNED A REPUTATION FOR ISLAND-style ARCHITECTURAL AUTHENTICITY
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by Dave Hudnall In 1986, Lane Pettigrew traveled to Bermuda and entered a competition to design a Club Med vacation resort for the country. He was fresh out of architecture school at the time, and the design plan he drew up at his kitchen table was up against designs from large international architecture firms, but Pettigrew’s plan still won the competition. “I started my own firm almost immediately after that, right there in Bermuda,” he says. “I had always wanted to be a Caribbean architect.”
For an American citizen to dream specifically of becoming a Caribbean architect might seem like an unusual goal, but Pettigrew had been schooled in Venezuela and Colombia, and his grandfather had worked as an architect in the Caribbean. “I had a tropical background, and I later received my formal architectural education in England,” he says. “Of course the Caribbean has a British colonial history, so to work there was a natural fit given my experiences.” Club Med soon gave Pettigrew the opportunity to move to St. Lucia and design a new resort, so
St. Lucia Population: 170,000 Attractions: The Sulphur Springs drive-in volcano, Marigot Bay, Pigeon Island National Park, Fort Rodney, The Gros and Petit Piton mountains, and numerous beaches
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