The legend of famed Sri Lankan architect Geoffrey Bawa lives on at the Anantara Kalutara hotel | Pledge Holidays Travel Blog

THE LEGEND OF SRI LANKAN ARCHITECT GEOFFREY BAWA LIVES ON AT THE ANANTARA KALUTARA HOTEL Geoffrey Bawa, Sri Lanka’s legendary architectural genius hailed as the ‘father of tropical modernism’, was the master who created a string of jewel-like boutique hotels throughout the island. But, says Nayantara on the Outlook Traveller website, it is the Anantara Kalutara that is exceptional, both literally and figuratively—one of the last projects Bawa began work on before a stroke in 1998 left him incapacitated. Bawa did not live to see it through to completion (he died in 2003); that task was left to his protégé, Channa Daswatte. Writes Nayantara: “As GM Giles Selves escorted me from the work-in-progress that is The Geoffrey Bawa Library—a soothing space filled with Bawa’s architectural drawings (and which Selves hopes will eventually house Bawa’s personal collection of books)— and walked me from one wing to the other through the overhead bridge, the giant jigsaw puzzle began to fall into place.” Click below for more. #SriLanka #GeoffreyBawa #AnantaraKalutara #OutlookTraveller
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