Bawa loved to listen to music with friends or alone both at No 11 and Lunuganga, a lagoon-side estate in Sri Lanka’s south and his rural idyll. Bawa died at No 11 in 2003 and was buried by a ...

Geoffrey Manning Bawa FRIBA, (July 23, 1919 – May 27, 2003) was Sri Lanka's most prominent architects and one of the original proponents of Tropical Modernism.

His Colombo house is one of many buildings marking the birth 100 years ago of the late architect. ... At Geoffrey Bawa’s home in Colombo, even the garage is full of art.

Bawa himself loved the house so much that when de Silva moved out in the mid-1970s to return to Matale, he moved part of his office here to work on the designs for Ceylon’s new parliament house. Years ...

Geoffrey Bawa is Sri Lanka’s most renowned architect, the creative force behind what’s known as “tropical modernism” and among the most influential Asian architects of his generation.

In April 2021, Teardrop Hotels came on board to manage Lunuganga and Ena de Silva’s house in partnership with the Geoffrey Bawa Trust. Lunuganga’s rooms, five of which are housed in tiny ...

Geoffrey Bawa was born on July 23, 1919, in what was the British colony of Ceylon. His father was a lawyer whose ancestors were British and Sri Lankan Muslim, a community that considers itself an ...

In 1960, when Ena de Silva and her husband Osmund were casting about for an architect to build their family home on a small plot they’d just bought in Colombo, Sri Lanka, her friend, the landscaper ...