Around 1962, pianist and string player Carmel Raffel and husband Chris asked Geoffrey Bawa to design a house for them. They had bought a piece of land in a leafy nook in Ward Place, Colombo 7, and ...

Geoffrey Bawa House Another most historic attraction in the city is the house of Geoffrey Bawa, a renowned Sri Lankan architect. For his fans, House No. 11 located at the end of a quiet street is ...

This year’s Geoffrey Bawa Memorial Lecture will be delivered by Los Angeles-based architects Frank Escher and Ravi Gune ...

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 ...

The world premiere of the groundbreaking documentary ‘The Genius of the Place: The Life and Work of Geoffrey Bawa’ will take place on July 15 at 4 p.m. at the Scope CCC Cinemas in Colombo. The ...

My introduction to Geoffrey Bawa was over a decade ago, at Number 11 in Colombo, a gnarly plumeria standing guard outside. ... The house is something I’d design today.

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 ...

As a result of managing all of Geoffrey Bawa’s properties, the Geoffrey Bawa Trust is very much at the forefront of the conservation of modern art and architecture. But what makes No. 11 so special?

Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. Two hours south of Colombo: the motorways have become roads, the roads lanes. There is the sense that we ...

If gardens are self-portraits of people who shape them, then Geoffrey Bawa’s home and garden, Lunuganga, was his memoir. For Sri Lanka’s best-known architect, it was as much a personal space as it was ...