Lunuganga Estate, Bentota Sri Lanka
We stayed at Geoffrey Bawa's country home this past fall. This is the perfect for anyone who has a passion for architecture and landscape design. They do not have a liquor license, so come stocked with your favorite libation.
Relax Your Mind at Architect Geoffrey Bawa’s Country Estate - Lunuganga Bentota
Geoffrey Manning Bawa, FRIBA was a Sri Lankan architect. He was among the most influential Asian architects of his generation. He is the principal force behind what is today known globally as tropical modernism. It's no exaggeration to say that architect Geoffrey Bawa transformed the look of South-East Asia Nature & Buildings.
His work has had a tremendous impact upon architecture throughout Asia and is unanimously acclaimed by connoisseurs of architecture worldwide. Every turn and every bend in Bawa’s country home is an interesting experience – with so many exotic plants and trees and views to take in throughout the distinct homes and garden. The house itself is sparse but beautiful, full of impressive paintings and photographs of a bygone age. You can enjoy the Geoffrey Bawa Garden by walk & sitting down to get some architectural sketches & Drawing.
Landscape architecture is the design of outdoor areas, landmarks, and structures to achieve environmental, social-behavioural, or aesthetic outcomes. A practitioner in the profession of landscape architecture is called a landscape architect.
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Lunuganga Estate Bentota, Sri Lanka
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Lunuganga Boutique Hotel, Bentota, Sri Lanka
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The house and gardens at Lunuganga, Bentota, were lovingly created over several decades by the world renowned architect, Geoffrey Bawa, as his vision of a tropical garden idyll. The Italian inspired garden with spectacular views over lakes and tropical jungle together with a simply designed plantation house are one of the lasting legacies of Asia's most famous architect.
Guests can now share in Bawa's vision and can stay in one of 6 en-suite bedrooms available in the house, the studio or on Cinnamon Hill, or rent the whole property in its entirety. It is perhaps the most magical garden retreat in the world.
Within the tropical garden paradise sits Bawa's simply designed 4-bedroom plantation house - a collection of courtyards, verandas and loggias create a haven of peace and inspiration. All 4 suites are individual and beautifully decorated to provide a relaxing and memorable environment for guests. In addition to the plantation house, there is a wonderful 2 bedroom studio, set at the edge of a cinnamon plantation which was originally planted in the eighteenth century, and high on the hill overlooking the lake to the south thus giving guests the ultimate in privacy. For those wanting an exclusive holiday, Lunuganga can also be rented in its entirety providing complete solitude for guests
Lunuganga Boutique Hotel Location: Lunuganga is located 5km inland from Bentota on Lake Dedduwa on Sri Lanka's west coast. Set on a peninsula overlooking the lake, Lunuganga is a 2 ¼ hour drive from Colombo's International Airport or, for those guests coming from the centre of the city of Colombo or from the southern seaside town of Galle, it is a 1 ½ hour drive. unuganga is just 10 minutes from the nearest beach and local village.
Lunuganga Boutique Hotel Accommodation: The Guest Room (Double en-suite) Located in the main house the guest room is filled with paintings, antique Dutch furniture and objects d'art giving it the charm and comfort of a country estate. This double en-suite room and the bathroom alone paints a perfect picture of Geoffrey Bawa's eccentricities. The Guest room gives you a special sense of privacy and seclusion with a small outdoor courtyard.
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Lunuganga by Geoffrey Bawa
Journey of finding more abiut Geoffrey Bawa took me to his dream country house - Lunuganga.
The Lunuganga Estate was the country house of the renowned Sri Lankan architect Geoffrey Bawa.
The estate had been used as a cinnamon estate during the Dutch era and then a rubber plantation under the British. In 1948, the small house in the estate was given on rent to the local tax collector. In 1949 newly qualified lawyer Geoffrey Bawa bought it from its owner intending to convert the estate bungalow into a weekend house and create a tropical version of a European renaissance garden. The 6.1 ha (15 acres) property is located on the banks of the Dedduwa Lake, in Bentota. Bawa named the estate Lunuganga, which in Sinhala means Salt River. Recognising his lack of architectural knowledge Bawa returned to England to study architecture. After qualifying as an architect he returning to Ceylon in 1958 and joined the architectural practice of Edwards, Reid and Beggs.
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Best Attractions and Places to See in Bentota, Sri Lanka
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List of Best Things to do in Bentota, Sri Lanka
Bentota Beach
Lunuganga
Bentota River
Sea Turtle Protection Association
Kande Viharaya
Beruwala Beach
Brief Garden - Bevis Bawa
La Luna Water Sports Centre
Dara Gems & Jewellery
Barberyn Island Lighthouse
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Sri Lankan architect Geoffrey Bawa’s home. Lunu = Salt and Ganga = River was an experimental laboratory for his ideas.
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Renowned Sri Lankan architect Geoffrey Bawa in Bentota | Nature Architect Ideas from Sri Lanka
Geoffrey Manning Bawa, FRIBA (23 July 1919 – 27 May 2003) was a Sri Lankan architect. He was among the most influential Asian architects of his generation. He is the principal force behind what is today known globally as tropical modernism.
Geoffrey Bawa was born on 23 July 1919. His father was Justice B. W. Bawa a wealthy and successful lawyer, of Muslim and English parentage, and his mother, Bertha Marianne Schrader, was of mixed German, Scottish and Sinhalese descent. He had one older brother Bevis Bawa who became a renowned landscape architect.
He was educated at Royal College, Colombo after which he studied English and Law, 1938, at St Catharine's College, Cambridge gaining a BA (English Literature Tripos) and went on to study law at Middle Temple, London becoming a Barrister in 1944. Returning to Ceylon, after World War II, he worked for a Colombo law firm. After the death of his mother, he left the profession and soon left in 1946 to travel for two years, going to the Far East, across the United States, and finally to Europe and almost settling in Italy.[4] By the time he was 28 years old, he had spent a third of his life away from Sri Lanka. During his time in Italy, he planned to buy a villa and settle down, but that did not happen, and by 1948 he had returned to Sri Lanka. Bawa bought an abandoned rubber estate on the south-west coast of the island between Colombo and Galle at Lunuganga, planning to create an Italian garden from a tropical wilderness. However, he soon found that his ideas were compromised by his lack of technical knowledge. In 1951, he was apprenticed to H. H. Reid, the sole surviving partner of the Colombo architectural practice Edwards, Reid and Begg. In 1952 Reid died, but Bawa still aspired to a career in architecture, so he returned to England, after spending a year at Cambridge, he enrolled as a student at the Architectural Association in London. There he gained a Diploma in Architecture by 1956 and in the following year he became an Associate of the Royal Institute of British Architects. To this day he is remembered as the tallest, oldest, and most outspoken student of his generation at AA. In 1957, at the age of 38 he returned to Sri Lanka qualified as an architect to take over what was left of Reid's practice.
Ena de Silva house opens to the public @ No.5 Lunuganga
A house with a history that dates back to 1960 when it was designed and created by renowned architect Geoffrey Bawa for batik artist and designer Ena de Silva and her husband Osmund de Silva. When the property was sold in 09, the architectural community stepped in, and the house was relocated, stone by stone, mirroring the exact original property, to a new location.
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Lunuganga Estate was used as a cinnamon plantation during the Dutch era and then a rubber plantation during the reign of the British. The estate had a small bungalow on site to accommodate the workers. Bawa, who had then been a newly appointed lawyer just called to the Bar at the Inner Temple, saw the place in 1947 and fell in love with the expansive gardens. However he was unable to purchase it at the time. In 1948, the bungalow was rented out to a local tax collector. In 1949, Geoffrey Bawa achieved his dream of purchasing the estate in its entirety and and planned to convert the bungalow into a weekend house and the rest of the estate into a tropical version of a European renaissance garden.
It was only after he undertook the project that Bawa recognised his lack of architectural knowledge; and so he went to England to study architecture. After qualifying as an architect he returning to Ceylon in 1958 and joined the architectural practice of Edwards, Reid and Beggs. Bawa began working on his house and the gardens in 1963, and continued to do so for 40 years until his death in 2003.
Since Bawa’s death in 2003, Lunuganga has been managed by a group of his close friends, who formed the Lunuganga Trust in his memory. The gardens are now open to the public and the buildings on the estate are run as a seasonal country home hotel.
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Garden Tour Geoffrey Bawa Full View
Lunuganga Estate was the country home of the renowned Sri Lankan architect Geoffrey Bawa. Started in 1947, the garden led Bawa, a lawyer called to the Bar at the Inner Temple in 1940, to decide to become an architect. As he went on to become Sri Lanka's and one of Asia's most prolific and influential architects, the garden at the Lunuganga estate remained his first muse and experimental laboratory for new ideas. He continued to change and experiment with its spaces and structures throughout his life until his final illness in 1998. Left to the Lunuganga Trust on his demise in 2003, the gardens are now open to the public and the buildings on the estate are run as a country house hotel.
Design Owl #Getinspired Sri Lanka | Episode 1 | The Paradise Road Villa Bentota
Completely restored by its new owner Udayshanth Fernando, The Villa Bentota was designed and once owned by Geoffery Bawa. It was also the first boutique hotel in Sri Lanka.
Displaying flourishes of Geoffery Bawa's Tropical Modernism style, The Paradise Road Villa Bentota is a charming getaway that speaks of understated elegance. Originally a dilapidated ancestral home, Geoffery Bawa purchased this property and converted it into a boutique hotel.
Purchased by Udayshanth Fernando of the Paradise Road group in 2007, the property underwent extensive renovation and additions that included a new wing and entrance pavilion, a second swimming pool and also manicured gardens. However, the design of the hotel continues to be extremely sensitive to Geoffery Bawa's original sensibility and retains a very unique private charm.
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bentota beach sri lanka
Bantota beach in Srilanka , which is 62 km south of the city Colombo , is one of the planned tourist development .
Srilanka Bentota beach is long , broad and sandy . The best time to visit the Bantota beach in Srilanka is from October to April which is holiday season.
The beach has safe swimming , though warning flags fly when currents are too strong . There are variety of beachside hotels
on the Bantota beach in Srilanka , which have swimming pools and guest houses as well to suit budgets .
The services required by a visitor on the Srilanka Bentota beach (banks, post office, tourist shops, restaurants
, a railway station) are available and the atmosphere is of respctability .Guests have evening entertainment in their hotels
and there are many thhings to do and see during daytime such as cruising on the Bentota river,
visiting the two private gardens of Brief and Lunuganga, or indulging in water sports. Bentota beach in srilanka has a reputation
being a water sparts capital in Srilanka
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