BENTOTA, Sri Lanka -- Once home to the late Geoffrey Bawa, Sri Lanka's most celebrated architect, the small coastal town of Bentota, 86 kilometers south of Colombo, is now one of the island's top art ...

From the outside, the Colombo house of Geoffrey ... designed in Sri Lanka from 1948 until 1998, he made certain that they were built in harmony with the surrounding landscape. Bawa studied law ...

(Courtesy Club Villa Bentota) If you go on an extended pilgrimage to hotels in southern Sri Lanka designed by the great Sri Lankan architect Geoffrey Bawa, it is hard not to be overcome by a ...

Bawa designed dozens of homes, public spaces like Colombo's parliament building, and hotels across Sri Lanka, displaying a characteristic sensitivity to the landscape and a tendency to blur the ...

Sri Lanka’s most famous architect Geoffrey Bawa trained in the UK before returning ... Today, his work can be experienced by staying in luxury hotels and villas across the island – each ...

We reach Geoffrey ... Bawa is renowned as the father of the tropical modernist movement. He created a new vernacular style of architecture, suited to the hot, humid climate of Sri Lanka (and ...

Colombo’s Ishq was a private home before it was turned into a four-suite hotel. Right: Number 11, the former home of Sri Lanka’s most celebrated architect, Geoffrey Bawa, is now a small ...

The Life and Work of Geoffrey Bawa, which premieres in Sri Lanka on 15 July 2023. Filmed entirely on location in December 2022 – many of the scenes shot with a drone giving Bawa’s projects a ...

He'd previously traveled throughout Cambodia, Thailand, and Vietnam, “but Sri Lanka was on my bucket list because of Geoffrey Bawa ... Kandalama Hotel. Before Bawa purchased Lununaga's ...