It’s not every day that a designer is given the opportunity to create a visual space in the sky. This was both the opportunity and challenge that was presented to Archt Madhura Prematilleke and his team at team ACHITRAVE by Sri Lankan Airlines who wanted a new cabin interior created for their Business and Economy […]

Aviraté, meaning sensual in Sanskrit is a high-end women’s clothes label, whose flagship store was envisioned by Timex Garments two years ago.

A lone carriage painted in blue attached to a long line of red hued train carriages signaled the latest addition to Sri Lanka’s railway system. A pioneering venture of Expo Rail and created by KWA Architects, the brightly coloured carriage signified the dawn of a new era of luxury train services in Sri Lanka.

It is not only in theory but in practice, that architecture is a complex form of art. It is complex in its nature as it entails planning, creative designing and executing a three dimensional space, reflective of its function.The creator must have astute observations of the surrounding environment, the cultural and functional needs and the […]

The book is a successful achievement of an attempt to research the concepts and works accomplished by the master architect Kengo Kuma, during 1994 and 2004. By Luigi Alini with an essay by Kengo Kuma  Reviewed by Archt. Jayantha Domingo The book includes an Introduction to the subject by the author, Luigi Alini, who is […]

Early childhood interactions with building sites and architects shaped Architect Michele Fonseka’s future. Her family background is based in construction as her grandfather and later her father headed a well established engineering and construction company that she lived next door to, affording her a close up view into the construction industry. By Mutiara Tegal Educated […]

It has been revealed that about 50 percent of Colombo’s population lives in under-served, low-income settlements. This project seeks to look at new architectural possibilities for the regional housing predicament by providing flexible, adaptable and incremental residential units for more than 180 squatter families living in a coastal urban edge. The main objective of the […]

CREATIVE PHOTOGRAPHY AND EXPERIMENTAL VISUAL MEDIA CENTRE | BAMBALAPITIYA CLIENTS AND FUNDING: TRIAD (PVT) LTD, SRI LANKANETWORK ONE – THE WORLD’S LARGEST NETWORK OF INDEPENDENT AGENCIES THE PROJECT The “Creative photography and  experimental visual media centre” is proposed under a mission to be a globally recognised center pioneering in groundbreaking photographic and visual design studies […]