Icon is C Anjalendran’s latest built work in Pakistan and his second project outside Sri Lanka. Designed as a flagship department store for the Ghouri family, the building is located in the town of Sukkur in Pakistan’s Sindh Province, 500 km north-east of Karachi.

Contemporary Urban Residential Architecture in Sri Lanka is a reflection of changing lifestyle patterns of urban society with the demands of work, time, social settings and response to tropical conditions.

The task of transforming a 20th Century construction into an acoustically sound music lounge is a difficult one and is what Archt. Murad Ismail undertook with the Qbaa project.

Experimental music fundamentally refers to “sound” itself, regardless of whether it emanates from a standard instrument or is the sound of one’s own heartbeat. Fusion music, on the other hand is the integration of music of different cultures and periods of time.

In January 1958 a young Danish man in his twenties gets off a ship in Colombo. He is an architect; he is devastatingly handsome and has a wry sense of humour.

The Pyramid of Djoser is the mother of all pyramids and over 4600 years old. It is a step pyramid built by the Vizier Imhotep for Pharaoh Djoser, comprising six “mastabas” or rectangular, flat-roofed tombs stacked in decreasing size to a height of 62metres.

The incumbent President of the Sri Lanka Institute of Architects, Prof. Chitra Weddikkara, hosted a dinner at the Cinnamon Grand Hotel on April 5, 2013 to felicitate a group of SLIA members who, through their election to high positions in international professional bodies, had brought fame to the country and the Sri Lanka Institute of Architects.

The first Continuing Professional Development (CPD) event for the 2013-2014 session, organised by the SLIA’s Public Affairs Board (PAB), took place on June 14, 2013 at the Auditorium of the Centre for Banking Studies, Rajagiriya.