Situated down Madinagoda Road, Rajagiriya, on a site that abuts a marsh is located a residence designed by Architects Indika and Samanthi Samarasinghe. A home for a family that loves nature, the architects envisaged a house that overlooks the marsh to absorb its breathtaking beauty whilst ensuring maximum privacy and security. Taking the clients’ other requirements into consideration, the house was designed with most internal spaces opening out to the marsh. A high, exposed granite wall towards the road ensures that privacy is maintained.

“Keeping the client’s requirements in mind I have used several elements of an old walawwa house to create a modern interpretation,”
says the Architect.

By Suharshi Perera | Photography by: Logan MacDaugall Pope, Kushantha & Danushka (Studio U)

DGS Holdings engaged The Design Group Five International to develop a modern luxury apartment complex on a 40 perch piece of land on Dabare Mawatha, Colombo 5. This particular land was irregular in shape and was boxed in by several dwellings of different sizes and shapes.

Given the opportunity to make a significant change through architecture in the lives of the little orphans at Jeewani Home, Sheran Henry Associates approached the project with eagerness. The perceptive approach of free space and openness is truly innovative. The wide polished concrete areas and the imaginary castle like appearance on an upper level wall […]

“The centre had to be multi-purpose – a place to perform productions by professionals and an academic centre for students to learn and experiment art forms.”

“The centre had to be multi-purpose – a place to perform productions by professionals and an academic centre for students to learn and experiment art forms.”
“The centre had to be multi-purpose – a place to perform productions by professionals and an academic centre for students to learn and experiment art forms.”

“The centre had to be multi-purpose – a place to perform productions by professionals and an academic centre for students to learn and experiment art forms.”
“The centre had to be multi-purpose – a place to perform productions by professionals and an academic centre for students to learn and experiment art forms.”

Community bonds can be strengthened by simple planning interventions which satisfy the basic needs of a community.

From the beginning of time man has been yearning for some form of cover to shelter himself from sun and rain, from wind and storm.