Student: Amanda Rajakaruna Project: Sustainable Green building | Integ Brain Learnig Centre | Marine Drive|Bambalapitiya Year: Year 2 part 2 Institute: City School of Architecture

Shyamika Silva describes her “Architectural Direction” in life to be a calling, one which emerged early, where as a child she found great interest in walking around and analyzing the varying aspects of both old and new architecture. Captivated and inspired by Architect Pani Tennakoon’s house near St Bridget’s Convent, young Shyamika always dreamt of someday being able to build something like that.

Glass and concrete, two materials which are worlds apart. One, robust and solid and the other transparent and elegant. These are qualities which have defined the conventional use of these materials. Today, innovation and technology along with sheer need have brought about new ways in which these materials can be used. By Nandaka Jayasinghe

Nothing in this world is softer and more yielding than water. As fragile as it may look over time in masses it wears down the hard. Its strength in masses is such that no one can overcome it; many can conquer it. No living organism on earth would subsist without it. Our existence is sustained because of it.

Architecture in educational syllabuses everywhere has been defined as both an art and science, but its ultimate function tends to vary from architect to architect. Andrea Oppenheimer’s Rural Studio: Samuel Mockbee and an Architecture of Decency introduces us to a vivid world where an architect chooses virtue over grandeur and firmly grounds his work into […]

Angampora is an indigenous martial arts form, the origins of which are buried in legend.

Bangalore the picturesque garden city of the early 19th and 20th centuries has over the years lost its green park like atmosphere as it developed commercially.

“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.