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Deshamanya
Geoffrey Bawa
FRIBA
Born
Geoffrey Manning Bawa
(1919-07-23)23 July 1919
Colombo, British Ceylon
Died
27 May 2003(2003-05-27) (aged 83)
Colombo, Sri Lanka
Education
Royal College, Colombo
St Catharine's College, Cambridge
Architectural Association School of Architecture
Occupation
Architect
Awards
Aga Khan Chairman's Award
Practice
Edwards, Reid and Begg
Geoffrey Bawa Associates
Buildings
Sri Lankan Parliament Building
University of Ruhuna
Heritance Kandalama
Deshamanya Geoffrey Manning Bawa, FRIBA (23 July 1919 – 27 May 2003) was a Sri Lankan architect. He was among the most influential Asian architects of his generation.[1][2][3][4]
^Aesthetic Recollections Archived 18 November 2007 at the Wayback Machine Newindpress on Sunday
^"Beyond vernacular kitsch?". The Sunday Times. 11 November 2007. Archived from the original on 29 January 2022. Retrieved 29 January 2022.
^"Legacy of a master". The Sunday Times. 28 October 2007. Archived from the original on 29 January 2022. Retrieved 29 January 2022.
^Compston, Harriet (4 December 2021). "The captivating story of one of Sri Lanka's great architects". The Daily Telegraph. ISSN 0307-1235. Archived from the original on 6 December 2021. Retrieved 29 January 2022.
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including the large dining room was given to the Bank of Ceylon. In 1966 GeoffreyBawa was appointed to remodel the hotel, creating the Harbour Room, a restaurant...
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the hospitality business by building two seaside resorts designed by GeoffreyBawa. The company was founded in 1978 as Ahungalla Hotels Ltd and is the...
which was built with donations from a Muslim sponsor to the design of GeoffreyBawa. It was the home for erudite scholars such as Ratmalana Sri Dharmarama...
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serve as visiting lecturers each semester In 2022, she delivered18th GeoffreyBawa Memorial Lecture in Colombo after accepting an invitation from Sri Lankan...
architect, Bevis Bawa, the older brother of architect GeoffreyBawa. Established in 1929 on the grounds of a former rubber plantation Bawa continued to develop...
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five-star hotel in Ahungalla, Sri Lanka. Triton Hotel was designed by GeoffreyBawa and opened in 1981. Aitken Spence Hotel Holdings is the owner and operator...
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(formerly Hotel Triton), designed by notable Sri Lankan architect, GeoffreyBawa, and constructed from 1979 to 1981. As with the entire region Ahungalla...
sector in 1974, with the opening of Neptune Hotel—designed by Deshamanya GeoffreyBawa—in Beruwala, Sri Lanka. In July 2011, the Group rebranded the hotel...
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