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Celebrated Sri Lankan architect Geoffrey Bawa has been honoured by the Aga Khan Foundation with the special Chairman’s Award. Geoffrey Bawa is perhaps Sri Lanka's best-known architect. His work is believed to have had tremendous impact on architecture throughout Asia and is widely acclaimed by connoisseurs of architecture worldwide. Among his architectural marvels are the Bentota Beach Hotel, Sri Lanka’s first purpose-built hotel designed in the style of a Dutch fort; the State Mortgage Bank in Colombo, hailed at the time as one of the world's first bio-climatic high-rises; Sri Lanka's new Parliament at Kotte, 8 kilometres east of Colombo and the University of Ruhuna near Matara, a project that enabled him to demonstrate his mastery of external space and the integration of buildings in a landscape. Bawa is the first Asian architect to win the prestigious Aga Khan Award for Architecture. Channa Daswatte a close associate accepted the award on behalf of Geoffrey Bawa who is incapacitated due a stroke he suffered three years ago.
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