Paolo Soleri, the visionary Italian-American architect and theorist who built the famed urban setting ‘Arcosanti’ in the Arizona high desert, died on the 9th of April 2013 at the age of 93. Soleri dedicated his life to promoting an art of living that re-establishes the all-important relationship between human beings and the environment they live in.

At the turn of the millennium, the “Middle East” was renowned as an astute block of sovereign nations with soaring GDP’s and glittering cities with all the trappings of the rich and the not so-famous, with wealth abundantly amassed as a result of an “eternal” supply of natural resources.

Contemporary Urban Residential Architecture in Sri Lanka is a reflection of changing lifestyle patterns of urban society with the demands of work, time, social settings and response to tropical conditions.

The task of transforming a 20th Century construction into an acoustically sound music lounge is a difficult one and is what Archt. Murad Ismail undertook with the Qbaa project.

In January 1958 a young Danish man in his twenties gets off a ship in Colombo. He is an architect; he is devastatingly handsome and has a wry sense of humour.

The clients’ request to Archt Damith Premathilake was a calm and tranquil house with ample privacy along with security on their 26 perch land at Mahara close to the Kandy-Colombo Road.

“The creation of a design is subsequent the client needs to be studied first,” says Archt Sudesh Nanayakkara. He believes that the client’s personality should be reflected in the design.

Within the wilderness of Induruwa, Art of minimalism came to life as Archt Russell Dandeniya designed this simple holiday home fusing elegance with the surrounding picturesque landscape…