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The Heritance Ahungalla hotel was built by Sri Lanka’s greatest architect, Geoffrey Bawa. He began his career as an architect at the late age of 37. However in a career that continued for nearly 40 years, he came to be regarded as the most prolific and respected architect Sri Lanka has ever produced.
Bawa was a genius at blending buildings with their natural environment, interconnecting outside spaces with the inside.
The Heritance Ahungalla incorporates several Geoffrey Bawa signature design features. Interconnected expanses of water lead the guest into the hotel and guide your eye across the ocean to the horizon. The infinity pool makes you feel as if you are in the ocean itself when you get in and your eye level is just above the water.
Bawa’s buildings are not just bricks and mortar, but the expression of intangible emotions, and the unique experience of living within his vision.
His best known works are “Lunuganga”, his own garden in Bentota that he designed over a 40-year period, the Parliament of Sri Lanka, the Madurai Club in India, Heritance Ahungalle, and Heritance Kandalama.
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