The incredible Heritance Kandalama was built by Sri Lanka’s greatest architect, Geoffrey Bawa...a genius at blending buildings with their natural environment, interconnecting outside spaces with the inside. He produced ‘sustainable architecture’ long before the term was coined, breaking down the barriers between inside and outside, between interior design and landscape architecture and reducing buildings to a series of scenographically conceived spaces separated by courtyards and gardens.” At Heritance Kandalama Bawa created an austere building that derives its beauty from the surrounding landscape. The simple geometry and lack of decoration help to highlight the natural environment. When he first built the hotel, he told the staff that one day it would peer out from under a canopy of lush vegetation. The staff didn’t fully grasp what he was describing. Ten years later, after Bawa was long gone, the staff say he had described the hotel exactly as it is today. Source: heritancehotels
Posted on: Thu, 10 Jul 2014 11:04:44 +0000
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