It is not possible to talk only about Milroy Perera’s work. To do so would be to ignore the human sensitivities and relationships that have made his an amazing and ongoing journey in architecture.

In February 2008, the architectural profession honoured one of its most enduring and influential members with the award of the Sri Lanka Institute of Architects Gold Medal.

Shyamika Silva describes her “Architectural Direction” in life to be a calling, one which emerged early, where as a child she found great interest in walking around and analyzing the varying aspects of both old and new architecture. Captivated and inspired by Architect Pani Tennakoon’s house near St Bridget’s Convent, young Shyamika always dreamt of someday being able to build something like that.

By: Amanda Rajakaruna
“I rarely imitate existing furniture designed by other people but innovate something new, which is a unique answer to the problem in hand.”
Apart from being brought up in a design background, simple experiences of camping in Sri Lanka’s forest reserves as a child has made Rangi Basnayake who she is today. A talented furniture [...]

Waruna Gomis, an architect by profession, has also risen high in a world which was once simply a hobby, a world which not only enhanced his creativity, but also helped him experience architecture through a different eye … a camera lens.

By Amanda Rajakaruna
His story begins as a young student, his head leading him in the footsteps of his father the engineer, but his heart walked in the footsteps of the creativity he inherited from his mother; a path that led him into the world of art and architecture. One task a young [...]

By Manisha Wijegoonawardena
She’s a ‘Jill of many trades’ in her selected sphere being a theatre director, actor, writer, teacher, Arts administrator and once a radio personality – all revolving around the arts.
We met Tracy Holsinger at her production set of the Traveling Circus at Nuga Sevana, an amphitheatre on Bauddhaloka Mawatha; exceptional and unique, as [...]

A painter, landscape artist, architect, sculptor and innovator are the cascade of titles that trail after the name Laki Senanayake. Yet the artist himself likens his numerous creative accomplishments to “eating ice cream, to indulge in one thing only to move on to another”; a means he says, to keep boredom at bay.