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Pradeep Jayewardene House

Pradeep Jayewardene House is the country house of the Jayewardene family. It is a pavilion-style villa which can be booked as holiday accommodation. The original colonial bungalow was built in the northern outskirts of Mirissa, on a steep cliff that forms the eastern coast of Weligama Bay. It was used by J. R. Jayewardene and his family on their holidays. It was burnt down in 1987 during the early days of the JVP Insurrection, following the signing of the Indo-Sri Lanka Accord. In 1997 Jayewardene's grandson, Pradeep, commissioned architect and family friend, Geoffrey Bawa, to rebuild the family holiday home. The main residence, a rectangular structure 34 m (112 ft) long and 12 m (39 ft) wide, is located on the crest of the hill which rises above the bay

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1997

Mirissa, Southern Province, Sri Lanka

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Geoffrey Bawa

1919-2003 · Colombo, Western Province, Sri Lanka

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Geoffrey Bawa was a Sri Lankan architect whose hotels, houses, gardens, and institutional works helped define tropical modernism across South Asia.

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Geoffrey Bawa

studio · Colombo, Western Province, Sri Lanka

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