The Geoffrey Bawa Memorial Lecture 2011 was delivered by Architects Wong Mun Summ and Richard Hassell, founders of the Singaporean architecture firm- WOHA, synchronized an interesting and thought
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The Geoffrey Bawa Memorial Lecture 2011 was delivered by Architects Wong Mun Summ and Richard Hassell, founders of the Singaporean architecture firm- WOHA, synchronized an interesting and thought
The 29th Annual Sessions of the Sri Lanka Institute of Architects themed “Architecture for All: City + Community” was held recently under the patronage of the Chief Guest Basil Rajapaksa, Minister of Economic Development, and the Guests of Honour Archt Ruth Reed, Chairman, Royal Institute of British Architects and Shri Vikram Misry, First Secretary of the Indian High Commission in SriLanka.
The SLIA was invited by the government of Sri Lanka to design and build ten thousand houses, to relocate slum dwellers in Colombo. Six practices were selected by means of a lottery and have now commenced working on the projects.
The Holcim Awards is an international competition of the Holcim Foundation for Sustainable Construction. The competition celebrates innovative, future-oriented and tangible sustainable construction projects and visions from around the globe and provides prize money of USD 2 million per three-year competition cycle.
Legislation has been passed to fulfil a long felt public need of the country and now it is mandatory for buildings to be accessible to all. Thus ramps, specialized toilet facilities and other ergonomically user friendly features to make public buildings accessible for people with disabilities as well as the elderly will be incorporated into […]