Archt Sagara Jayasinghe’s new book is a historical and architectural survey of the Catholic churches of the Kalpitiya peninsula. While analysing in detail the historical evolution of art and architecture of the centre of devotion of the peninsula – St Anne’s Shrine, Talawila, he also traces the diversity of design in the other churches of […]

The 21st Annual Architect of the Year Award was held in Sri Lanka. It is significant in that this is the first time that AYA has been held outside of India. Minister of Economic Development, Basil Rajapaksa graced the occasion as the Chief Guest, while Ashok Kantha, the Indian High Commissioner was the Guest of […]

The internationally acclaimed Bengali architect Rafiq Azam spoke about his work at the SLIA Auditorium. He is a graduate of BUET (1989) and practices from his own studio “SHATOTTO architecture for green living”. His architecture is a fusion of tradition, nature and mysticism with significant harmony. The distinctive features of his designs are use of vegetation […]

The Auditorium of Center of Banking Studies; Rajagiriya was the venue of the third CPD event on “Designing your building façade”. Archt Rahul Miskeen, Vice President, Design and Planning Glass Wall Systems (India) focused on the design and technical aspects in façade designs in low rise, middle rise and high rise buildings describing various design […]

Gearing up for a new paradigm of heritage building architecture in asian cities” was the theme of the 15th ARCASIA congress. It was hosted by the Indonesian Institute of Architects (IAI) in Bali. Apart from the Internal Council meetings the IAI had organised many interesting events such as a series of cross-border architecture expert presentations, […]

The SLIA formed two cricket teams subsequent to selection matches played at the Bandaranaike Grounds. The two teams were captained by Archt Ranga Dayasena and Archt Buddhika Manoj Champika. The teams performed favorably at their first outing – the Cricket tournament organised by the OPA at the Bloomfield Grounds. Subsequently, the teams also participated at […]

Auditorium in l’aquila is a temporary structure built to revitalise an area where many cultural buildings were destroyed by an earthquake in 2009. The auditorium conceived as three cubes, the largest of which is the middle volume that rests at a seemingly arbitrary slant and which corresponds to the angle of the terraced seating, capable […]

Fendi, an Italian designer of fashionable merchandise collaborated with the Belgian designer Maarten de Ceulaer to create “Transformations” as part of the performance programme at Design Miami, the global forum for design.