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AI-generated interpretation: a deep timber doorway framing a shaded courtyard garden in blue evening light, evoking Sri Lankan tropical modernism. Not a photograph of Number 11.

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Geoffrey Bawa: The Threshold Architecture of Tropical Modernism

Geoffrey Bawa's own two places — a Colombo house assembled from four row houses and a garden made from a former plantation — show how he composed thresholds, shade and openness in Sri Lanka.

29 Oct 2026

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