The Architect - April - June 2008

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Ulrik Plesner was uniquely different to those Danes who arrived before him. He alone contributed to the enrichment and understanding of the country’s cultural landscape.
The Fortress Hotel was declared open in January 2007 on the site of the former mass-market, Club Horizon in Koggala.
When architect Tilak Samarawickrema took on the job of renovating an old building in Maharagama to make a new product development facility for the apparel sector’s Hirdaramani Group, the brief was to make a place where buyers could come and be comfortable.
Chandrika Bandaranaike Kumaratunge commissioned architect Anura Ratnavibushana to design a memorial for her late husband, Vijaya Kumaratunge in Katunayake in 1991-1992.
Archt C Anjalendran, a leading figure in the world of Asian architecture, considers the Mir House as one of his achievements because it is the first time that Geoffrey Bawa’s architectural viewpoint has been successfully incorporated into the design of a house, built in the desert climate of dusty Karachi, with swarms of mosquitoes.