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Message: <blockquote data-quote="aragon" data-source="post: 5705967" data-attributes="member: 134516">More about KandalamaArchitect Geoffrey Bawa.The booming Sri Lankan tourism industry required the construction of Hotels especially near the heritage rock site of Sigiriya in Central Sri Lanka. 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. For Bawa the original site lacked any sense of surprise or drama - the Sigiriya Rock was simply there,'in your face'. What he wanted was a site that would offer mystery and suspense: visitors would be forced to make a long trek through the jungle to arrive at the edge of a tank, across which they would finally see Sigiriya in the distance.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. If they really try, guests can escape onto terra firma, though neither the architect nor the management ever intended that they should do so. They are marooned in a huge ocean liner with decks above and cabins below that has come to rest like Noah's Ark on some faraway mountain side. The only obvious contact with the ground is at entrance level, where the lounge opens towards the main swimming pool, which seems to hang like a shelf on the edge of the cliff.<img src="http://www.barefoot-traveller.com/TempImages/HOTELK0002001.JPG" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" /><img src="http://www.alc.edu/denham/FileDir/5Mideast/05u2SriLankaGraphics/SRL101KndlLounge.jpg" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" /><img src="http://www.archidose.org/Jun03/bawa2.jpg" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" /><img src="http://img103.imageshack.us/img103/7474/k5wq2.jpg" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" /><img src="http://img147.imageshack.us/img147/503/k4jf6.jpg" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" /><img src="http://img147.imageshack.us/img147/6785/k3yn2.jpg" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" /><img src="http://img465.imageshack.us/img465/1813/srilanka020sized3fv.jpg" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" /><img src="http://img468.imageshack.us/img468/3188/srilanka019sized0mr.jpg" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" /><img src="http://img472.imageshack.us/img472/2799/srilanka017sized6sc.jpg" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" /><img src="http://img391.imageshack.us/img391/4503/srilanka018sized7bm.jpg" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" /><img src="http://img459.imageshack.us/img459/2370/srilanka088sized0io.jpg" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" /><img src="http://img103.imageshack.us/img103/2192/k2cp2.jpg" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" /><img src="http://img161.imageshack.us/img161/5632/k1ju2.jpg" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" /></blockquote>

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