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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.

Letters have been found that finally explain how the Liberty Bell ended up in a park in Jerusalem instead of in the Knesset where it once was

Green in all its brilliant shades; vast undulating open spaces; clumps of trees; water to be seen and a distant white dagoba. Peace and absolute serenity and excellent service with the helpers showing concern and sincerely desiring to please. All this and more during a weekend spent in a famous garden. There were four of […]

“My entire source of inspiration has been this Island. Traveling all over I have been overwhelmed by its wonder, inspired by its colour. Design emerges from one’s daily life; it has for me.” I quote Barbara Sansoni from an interview with her just prior to an exhibition of her abstract art which was billed: “Celebrating […]

10 שנים אחרי שהוגש כפרויקט שאפתני בתחרות אדריכלים, הושלם המבנה יוצא הדופן שהפך למלון Six Senses שחרות. חפור בקרקע, מחופה באבן מקומית, משובץ יצירות אמנות ומרוהט בלעדית בעץ ממוחזר - מה שאמור היה להיות צעקה אדריכלית מגלומנית, מתגלה כמבנה עדין שמשחק עם המשוטטים בו משחק מרענן של גילוי ו�...

Laki Senanayake (1937-2021) Laki is seated on a black, high-backed, padded executive swivel chair. He is bare-bodied, in a bright red sarong, dappled sunlight catching his white beard. On the table in front of him is a pair of binoculars, which he picks up frequently to look at the birds in the trees around the pond that he overlooks from a raised open-air platform. Esoteric avant garde music is playing from speakers hidden in the trees. And everywhere you look, art. Mostly sculpture. A bronze ...

The Israeli ambassador in Colombo, Yitzhak Navon, condemned Sri Lanka’s hobnobbing with Arab terrorist organizations that were plotting to exterminate the State of Israel. Yet two months after Navon made this statement, in a clear indication of the PLO’s success at delegitimizing Israel outside the Middle East, Bandaranaike severed diplomatic ties with Israel on the grounds that it had purportedly violated UN Security Council Resolution 242. Her decision was highly praised by Arab leaders...