Lunuganga
Estate was the country home of the renowned Sri Lankan architect Geoffrey Bawa.
Started in 1947, the garden led Bawa, a lawyer called to the Bar at the Inner
Temple in 1940, to decide to become an architect. As he went on to become Sri
Lanka's and one of Asia's most prolific and influential architects, the garden
at the Lunuganga estate remained his first muse and experimental laboratory for
new ideas. He continued to change and experiment with its spaces and structures
throughout his life until his final illness in 1998. Left to the Lunuganga
Trust on his demise in 2003, the gardens are now open to the public and the buildings
on the estate are run as a country house hotel.
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