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Jul 13, 2019 · Sunethra Bandaranaike remembers turning down the driveway to Lunuganga, Sri Lanka with the world’s first-ever female prime minister in the seat beside her. They had been invited by Geoffrey Bawa to visit his garden estate, and her mother’s first impression was guarded to say the least. “It looks like we are driving through a forest.
A walauwa is the traditional name for a headman's house. In the 1980s the deteriorated stable building was renovated and redesigned by Geoffrey Bawa into a house for Sunethra Bandaranaike and her then husband Udaya Nanayakara. Construction commenced on 1 April 1983 and was completed 25 November 1987. [4] The building consists of two sections ...
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Jul 18, 2019 · Sunethra remembers Sirimavo Ratwatte Dias Bandaranaike asking. By this time, Sunethra and Geoffrey were friends—and she didn’t need her mother’s eventual confirmation to know that Lunuganga was the work of a genius. “I was 29 when I met Geoffrey,” Sunethra recalls, adding that it was around 1972, and the architect was roughly her ...
Sunethra Bandaranaike (Sinhala: සුනේත්රා බණ්ඩාරනායක; born 27 July 1943), is a Sri Lankan philanthropist and socialite.A member of the Bandaranaike family, she is the eldest daughter of former Prime Ministers S.W.R.D. Bandaranaike and Sirimavo Bandaranaike and sister of former President Chandrika Bandaranaike Kumaratunga and former Speaker of Parliament ...
1199x807 / 532.5KB. Keywords. Sunethra Bandaranaike; Bawa; Geoffrey Bawa; Architecture; Sri Lanka; Colombo. Contained in galleries. The Sunethra Bandaranaike House - Horagolla. The Sunethra Bandaranaike House. Horagolla, Sri Lanka. 1984-1986 Geoffrey Bawa.
