Modest in scale but rich in narrative, Sri Lankan master architect Geoffrey Bawa’s former weekend home in Bentota showcases his evolving design sensibilities. Teja Lele 44 Stories Friday April ...

Geoffrey Bawa adapted and incorporated many such design elements in the Bentota Beach Hotel. Assisting Bevis was Donald Friend, Australian artist and sculptor, a co-partner in the venture (a ...

Along Sri Lanka’s southern coast, from Colombo to Galle, are hotels and villas designed by Bawa with the visual opulence of another time.(Courtesy Club Villa Bentota) If you go on an extended ...

Located by one of Sri Lanka’s best beaches, AVANI Bentota Resort & Spa is a designer hotel by the famed architect Geoffrey Bawa. The hotel gives an 18th century Dutch village feel blending in ...

LOS ANGELES, California - Green Globe announced re-certification of the Bentota Beach Hotel in Bentota, Sri Lanka.

From left: A sitting room at No. 11, Geoffrey Bawa's former home in Colombo; Bawa at work in 1996. From the outside, the Colombo house of Geoffrey Bawa, the late Sri Lankan architect and pioneer ...

The great Geoffrey Bawa’s Lunuganga Estate includes the architect’s 12-acre private country residence in Bentota, on Sri Lanka’s breezy southern coast. Since the architect’s death in 2003, this has ...

Geoffrey Bawa is widely recognised as the father of Asian architecture, and nowhere was he more prolific than in his native Sri Lanka, where he built 20 hotels and 50 houses as well as the ...

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 ...

Lunuganga . In 1948, Bawa’s architectural journey began with the purchase of this rubber estate near Bentota. Here, one is always in touch with the natural world outside.