Reply to thread

Message: <blockquote data-quote="aragon" data-source="post: 5704406" data-attributes="member: 134516">Kandalama<img src="http://i36.tinypic.com/f260xz.jpg" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" />Aitken Spence decided in 1991 to build a hotel in the Dry Zone to complement their popular Triton Hotel at Ahungalla and asked Bawa to be their architect. The company had an option on a site at Sigiriya not far from the foot of the ancient rock where King Kasyapa had made his fortress in the fifth century, and early in 1991 a party of directors travelled with Bawa to inspect it. Bawa rejected the site out of hand but suggested that the directors should look at 'a beautiful tank a short way away to the south-west' that would serve them better. The party set off in a convoy of cars along a country track that led them for about 10 kilometres through a landscape of huge rocky outcrops to the bund of the ancient Kandalama Tank. Bawa pointed dramatically with his stick towards his proposed site for the new hotel.The architecture is stark and understated, emphasizing the idea that this is not a building to look at, but a building to look from, like a giant belvedere.The location of the hotel<img src="http://i32.tinypic.com/2e5o2z8.jpg" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" />The entrance<img src="http://i36.tinypic.com/34srlap.jpg" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" /><img src="http://i38.tinypic.com/rihkl1.jpg" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" /><img src="http://i36.tinypic.com/314q8ms.jpg" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" /></blockquote>

Verification: Nawa warak dahaya keeyada? (Namaya wadi kireema dahaya)

Top Bottom