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Cinnamon Bentota Beach, formerly known as Bentota Beach Hotel, is a luxury five-star hotel in Bentota, Sri Lanka. The hotel was built in 1967 and designed by Geoffrey Bawa. After refurbishment, the hotel reopened in 2019. The hotel is owned and operated by a subsidiary of John Keells Holdings under its luxury hotel chain, Cinnamon Hotels ...
The railway Colombo – Galle at Bentota Skylark Helicopter conducting joy rides in Bentota Bentota Estuary. Bentota is a coastal town in Sri Lanka, located in the Galle District of the Southern Province. It is approximately 65 kilometres (40 mi) south of Colombo and 56 kilometres (35 mi) north of Galle. Bentota is situated on the southern bank ...
Geoffrey Bawa was born in Colombo on 23 July 1919, [5] [6] the youngest of two sons to Major Benjamin Bawa, a Sri Lankan lawyer who was partly of European parentage, [7] [8] and Bertha Marianne née Schrader, a Burgher of mixed Sinhalese, German and Scottish descent.
The Graduate School of Architecture, Planning and Preservation (GSAPP) is the architecture school of Columbia University, a private research university in New York City. It is also home to the Masters of Science program in Advanced Architectural Design, Historic Preservation , Real Estate Development , Urban Design , and Urban Planning .
The 25 acres (10 ha) [3] property is located on the banks of the Dedduwa Lake in Bentota. Bawa named the estate Lunuganga, which in Sinhala means Salt River. Recognising his lack of architectural knowledge, Bawa returned to England to study architecture. After qualifying as an architect, he returned to Ceylon in 1958 and joined the ...
Resort architecture [1] (German: Bäderarchitektur) is an architectural style that is especially characteristic of spas and seaside resorts on the German Baltic coast. The style evolved since the foundation of Heiligendamm in 1793, and flourished especially around the year 1870, when resorts were connected to big cities via railway lines.
Nationwide, SPAs ranked above any other architecture college. [6] Worldwide, SPA Delhi is ranked 7th in Asia for architecture. [7] and is also ranked as one of the top 10 graduate planning education institute in the world along with MIT, UCL and others. [8] It is now an established brand name for excellence in planning and architecture education.
Resort architecture or Bäder architecture — a Historicist architecture style of Germany. Characteristic of German spas and seaside resorts on the Baltic Sea coast.