'Standing before a colonial-era bungalow, beside a sculpture of Roman emperor Augustus, with a Chinese copper urn at my feet and the hint of a conical turret ahead, I could already see this was an extraordinary place.'
It was hard to guess what lay beyond the slim, mossy-lined, temple bell-topped iron gates, but once inside, I wound my way through a tunnel of riotous wilderness to reach Lunuganga, home of the late Sri Lankan architect Geoffrey Bawa, father of tropical modernism. This 15-acre estate, just outside the beach resort of Bentota on Sri Lanka’s south-west coast, has been described as his self-portrait.
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