Boutique hotel
Randomly placed
Unusual garden
Place of peace
This is a boutique hotel
Club villa
m’ friend the tree
Unknown fruit, hanging like a testicle
Paradise garden
Not Japan
Like a picture
Sunny afternoon
Heritage of the wise men and women
Our great friend
Headlong
A bigger friend
Jackfruit tree
Tamil tea pickers
Tea shrubs in beautiful nature of Sri Lankan mount…
Saint and the camera
Sky, water and buffalo
Land of the elephants
Peacock in action
Loch Ness
...another beautiful morning seen from my kitchen
Tree of crows
the Fen
A water story
A folly
Happy New Year 2022 (with Barbara)
Sky above Orava
Horses at 'my' Tor
Youngest castle in England
Hertfordshire countryside house of Henry Moore
Jatiya Sangsad Bhaban, designed by renowned Americ…
Bangladesh Parliament Building - South Plaza
Open air bathroom
Indecent proposal
Garden magic gate
Rare black orchid
Briefly from the garden
Colours, shapes, nature
Yellow, green and blue
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Flo
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Freedom life of apes
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Handsome
Glare of old times
Little Netherlands here
Tea breeze
Shy smile
You cannot stop the nature
Decorate my wall
Paradiso
Observers like us
Collective job
Everyone wants to click a tusker
Proud as the King of fowl
A giant
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Your shadow is always along
Pavo
1931
Small piece of Europe
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Bastion
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Big tree brothers protect the small tea shrubs
Teaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa
tealandia
Chapel for the Good Shepherd Convent
Him
Chapel for the Good Shepherd Convent
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Celebration of colour
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A sympathetic Tamil tea picker
Tea country
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Tooth relic
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Heaven of an architecture, imagine you live here
The Sri Lankan Architect Geoffrey Bawa is now regarded as having been one of the most important and influential Asian architects of the 20th century. Bawa came to architecture late, only qualifying at the age of thirty-eight in 1957, but he soon established himself as Sri Lanka’s most prolific and inventive architect, establishing a whole canon of prototypes for buildings in a post-independence context. His oeuvre includes hotels, houses, schools and universities, factories, offices, numerous public buildings as well as the new Sri Lankan Parliament.
Bawa’s work is characterized by sensitivity to site and context. His work is instinctively, rather than self-consciously, sustainable. His designs break the barriers between inside and outside, between buildings and landscape, and he characteristically links a complex series of spaces—rooms, courtyards, loggias, verandah—with distant vistas in a single scenographic composition.
One of Bawa’s most impressive achievements has been the Garden at Lunuganga, which he has slowly fashioned for himself from an abandoned rubber estate over a period of fifty years. The result is a series of outdoor rooms conceived with an exquisite sense of theatre as a civilized wilderness set within the greater garden of Sri Lanka. He died in 2003 and was cremated on the Cinnamon Hill of his magical garden. In 2001 Bawa received the special Chairman’s award in the eighth cycle of the Aga Khan award for architecture, becoming only the third architect to be so honored since the awards inception.
Bawa’s work is characterized by sensitivity to site and context. His work is instinctively, rather than self-consciously, sustainable. His designs break the barriers between inside and outside, between buildings and landscape, and he characteristically links a complex series of spaces—rooms, courtyards, loggias, verandah—with distant vistas in a single scenographic composition.
One of Bawa’s most impressive achievements has been the Garden at Lunuganga, which he has slowly fashioned for himself from an abandoned rubber estate over a period of fifty years. The result is a series of outdoor rooms conceived with an exquisite sense of theatre as a civilized wilderness set within the greater garden of Sri Lanka. He died in 2003 and was cremated on the Cinnamon Hill of his magical garden. In 2001 Bawa received the special Chairman’s award in the eighth cycle of the Aga Khan award for architecture, becoming only the third architect to be so honored since the awards inception.
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