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 22nd edition of the annual Geoffrey Bawa Memorial Lecture will be delivered by Los Angeles-based architects Frank Escher and Ravi GuneWardena on Thursday, 24 July at 6.30 p.m. at the Sri Lanka ...

Sri Lanka’s most famous architect Geoffrey Bawa trained in the UK before returning home in the 1950s, where his optimistic designs chimed with the hopes of a newly independent country ...

Over the years, Bawa transformed the gardens into a rich ecosystem of endemic flora and fauna, an oasis for Sri Lanka’s diverse wildlife. The architect continued to develop the estate until his ...

Geoffrey Bawa, 83, an architect who gained a worldwide reputation by blending traditional Buddhist motifs from his native Sri Lanka with a more contemporary international style, died Tuesday at ...

Sri Lanka's best cultural experiences - Planning a trip to the tropical island country of the moment? Beverley Watts has your guide to the unmissable historic sites, iconic architecture and wonderful ...

Over the past two decades Anjalendran has established himself as one of Sri Lanka's leading architects. Born into a family of Jaffna Tamils and a student of the prolific and influential Geoffrey Bawa, ...