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Foto: Lunuganga Trust
Teatime an einem der präzise geplanten Orte • Teatime in one of the precisely planned places Lageplan von Lunuganga • Historical site plan of the former Lunuganga plantation
ped with his favourite furniture. Lunuganga, a former rubber plantation, has only been Geoffrey Baba's time have long since left the plantation. They were black and white
used as a country hotel since Bawa's death. Entrance fees, events and overnight stays because Bawa loved these colours. Otherwise, the Trust does everything it can to make
are used to finance the preservation of the property, which belongs to the Geoffrey Bawa it look like Geoffrey Bawa will be back any minute, even his red wheelchair is still park-
Trust. It covers an area of eight hectares, with a total of twelve buildings, including a gal- ed in a corner of the originally furnished living room in the main building. And the six
lery with changing exhibitions and six spacious guest rooms spread over five buildings. guest rooms are also furnished as consistently as possible with the original, partly anti-
que furniture, partly designed by Bawa. Of course, the architect has also worked in his
... even his red wheelchair is still parked in a corner parallel world, the fantastic mixture of English landscape park, Italian Renaissance
landscape and tamed jungle served him as an experimental field for his numerous
It is quiet in this magical world, I seem to be the only guest today, apart from numerous designs. It is no coincidence that the chicken house looks like a model of the parlia-
employees who clean the rooms or take care of the plants. Dusty construction workers mentary buildings built in the 1980s in Kotte. A bell rings! For a moment, I'm sure it's
are quietly renovating one of the guesthouses. The cows that kept the grass short during Geoffrey Bawa who's returning ...
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