AMBIENCE

My entry and initial exposure to architecture was accidental. Back in the early 1980s, there was no internet and an A-Level student’s exposure to architecture was quite limited.

New furniture is surprisingly expensive and old items are tiresome to get rid of. So here’s a handy solution for both problems – upcycling!

Leonardo DiCaprio has come a long way in 20 years. He has leapfrogged from Romper Room and Friends to become a Hollywood A-lister. Along the way, he has built a real estate portfolio that might make even Ellen DeGeneres envious.

When she received an honorary mention at the ARCASIA Awards for Architecture 2020, Malisha Kodituwakku became one of the youngest Sri Lankans to receive a commendation for The Box House, which was designed by adaptively reusing shipping containers.

Located in the densely populated suburb of Rajagiriya, Striated House faces a marsh and is surrounded by tall buildings on three sides. While the main house faces the marsh to the north, its western façade (which overlooks the street) is solid with concrete fins.

As an artist, Nuwan Dias hopes to evoke feelings of comfort and calm through his work by creating spaces that help people to settle down and relax. This is particularly important because one needs to have a place to chill.

This spacious two storey house with an open rooftop terrace is located in the hill capital Kandy. The unique feature of the Amunugama Project is that the living room, dining room and pantry on the ground floor have been blended, to create a more open and spacious area.

She desired the adventures that a career in engineering offered and followed in the footsteps of her father who was an irrigation engineer – and as Danya Udukumbure harboured a more creative side, she studied architecture.