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Gargi Gupta New Delhi
Last Updated : Jan 29 2013 | 1:14 AM IST

From the outside, B 3, Sector 32, the Petro IT corporate office, looks like a particularly drab example of Gurgaon architecture: squat, block-like and cladded with pink stone. Inside, it's a different story altogether.

The first thing you notice as you enter is a rather large, boat-shaped water body... no, look closer, it's a real boat in beaten stainless steel and skirted in wood, set right in the middle of the lobby. Topped with gleaming white marble and inlaid with lily leaves in mother-of-pearl and other semi-precious stones, it shimmers so richly in the light of the ring of tall ceiling lamps just above that you might well take it for water at first glance.

Look left, and the entire wall behind the sofas in the waiting area is covered with a gigantic wall panelling in a delicate pink Jaisalmer stone, sculpted in organic whorls and sweeps. There's stone everywhere

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