“……………..spirituality includes the conviction that there is more to the world than what the eye sees, that man can relate to the unseen aspects of it, and in so doing their own being is enhanced.”

Warehouses were a prominent and an important factor in the Dutch fortification concept, and played a vital role in their urban spaces.

The Attapattu Walawwa, originally built by Mudliar Don Bastian Gooneratne in 1742 has been the ancestral home of the Dias Abeysinghe and Gooneratne families for 269 years.

The truth of the matter is that we, the human race are expanding so fast that space for containing our lifestyles is fast diminishing.

Located on a rather peaceful corner plot in Alfred House Gardens of Colombo 3, the residence of Maurice Perera and his wife Malkanthi, has successfully stood the test of time for almost fifty years since its completion in 1965.

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.

By Lionel Jayanetti Bamboo has a long history as a building material. It is widely used in construction throughout the world’s tropical and sub-tropical regions, with a range of applications to match or even exceed those of timber.

By Vinuri Ethapane “The fact that I myself don’t understand my paintings does not imply that they don’t have any meaning on the contrary the meaning is so deep, systematic and complex that their interpretation requires scientific knowledge… they are the precise expression of a secret symbolic language of the subconscious.” Salvador Dali 1976