Wednesday, January 16, 2008

A highlight of today's architectural tour


I’d like to dedicate a particular entry to the chapel built by Valentine Gunasekera onto the home of the Bishop of Galle. It is (and these are the comments of lay person) a fabulous room (in more ways than one) - full of suggestive arcs and incisions. It is cut open with light and air and hung with a careful asymmetry of ceiling fans and neon lights. But it has fallen into terrible disrepair and we heard a rumour that it might be demolished. This simply must not be allowed to happen. I wish you could all see it.

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