In addition to its own products, the Geoffrey Bawa Trust supports local craft through an annual holiday design market. The Trust’s third annual December Design Market will host Sri Lankan small ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Now, for the first time, those furniture designs are being revisited and reissued, not as faithful one-to-one replicas, but as ‘reinventions’, carefully stewarded to production by the Bangalore-based ...

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

My introduction to Geoffrey Bawa was over a decade ago, at Number 11 in Colombo, ... The house is something I’d design today. The lower levels and staircase are finished in epoxy, ...

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 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.

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 ...

The fifth cycle of the Geoffrey Bawa Award for excellence in Architecture was launched at the reconstructed de Saram House on Ward Place, Colombo 7. This year's Award commemorates the 100th birth ...