MVRDV designs Colombo office building inspired by traditional Sri Lankan weaving patterns and houses foreign diplomatic missions…
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Architecture Office design
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Architecture Residential design
An architect transforms a caretaker’s hut into a low footprint holiday home in the Sri Lankan hills
Architect Damith Premathilake has designed a 976m² holiday home for his family in the upcountry dry zone region of Sri Lanka about 2km away from the Diyathalawa military training school. Perched atop a cliff…
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Architecture Residential design
Lalith Gunadasa Architects reimagines vernacular Sri Lankan courtyard in modern house
This house designed by architect Lalith Gunadasa is located on Alakeshwara Road, a dense urban residential area in Ethul Kotte, Sri Jayawardenapura, the official administrative capital of Sri Lanks. The project was commissioned by…
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Architecture Residential design
Damith Premathilake Architects designs tropical modernist house in Colombo overlooking paddy fields
The Kalalgoda House by Damith Premathilake Architects is located in its namesake suburb in Colombo, adjoining a picturesque paddy field that provides a backdrop to bring the nature-friendly house aims to bring together nature…
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Architecture Residential design
Chinthaka Wickramage Associates designs a house using raw bricks in dense Colombo suburb
Located in the dense Colombo neighbourhood of Nugegoda in Sri Lanka, the Pagoda House by Chinthaka Wickramage Associates needed to address one main challenge: How to retain privacy and blend in with the neighbourhood…