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Last night, art history was made when an anonymous buyer paid a record-breaking $4.34 million for Andreas Gursky's photograph of the Rhine River, called Rhein II. The snapshot, which sold at Christie's impressionist and modern art auction in New York, became the most expensive photograph ever sold at auction. It beat out Cindy Sherman's Untitled #96, (see below) which ...
"I’m traveling to Sri Lanka to discover what progress has been made from the disaster on Boxing Day 2004. I will be looking at how the funding has filtered down to community level and how the coastal villages have developed over the years. I’m intrested in the architecture that services the local habitants and how it has changed. I ...
The Indian High Commission on Tuesday announced the winner of the design competition for the Jaffna Cultural Centre. India will build the centre, costing about LKR 900 million (1 INR = 2.5 LKR). In a ceremony here, S. M. Krishna, Indian Minister for External Affairs, and Basil Rajapaksa, Sri Lankan Minister for Economic Development, presented awards to the top three ...
20+10+X World Architecture Community Awards 10. Cycle The Lake House at Bolgoda Sri Lanka Sri Lanka, 2009-2010, Residential buildings / Country houses kumudu s munasinghe WA link Photos via World Architecture Community
A dwelling amalgamated with its existing serene context over looking paddy fields…. The Hettihamu’s; a hard working couple associated with the corporate sector are nature lovers who wanted a home which was low key and close to nature. The design strategy was to create a journey which controlled a sequence of events that harmonized with its environment, incorporating the ...
Lies My Teacher Told Me: Everything Your American History Textbook Got Wrong is a 1995 book by sociologist James Loewen. It critically examines twelve American history textbooks and concludes that textbook authors propagate factually false, Eurocentric, and mythologized views of history. In addition to critiquing the dominant historical themes presented in textbooks, Loewen presents a number of his own ...
ar+d Emerging Architecture Awards: Highly Commended Community Centre by Chinthaka Wickramage, Thalalla, Sri Lanka Rebuilding in Sri Lanka still has a long way to go after the catastrophic damage wrought by the 2004 tsunami. This new community centre designed by Chinthaka Wickramage on a budget of $55,000 (£34,000) works hard to restore essential services for the villagers of Thalalla. Set ...
Plagiarism is becoming serious problem in Sri Lanka as well. With the increasing accessibility to the web, it has becoming an 'entrenched practice' especially due to the ease with which you can 'rob' information using the web. Fortunately, it is very easy to detect the 'web lifted' information using the same web. Unfortunately what we still do not have ...
This is my mate Sandamali's blog. Hmmm.... When was the last time I met her? Most probably 15 years ago. I think it was during my uni days (as a student). Being a self confessed lousy writer I have never ever written to her, though I have kept in touch with her through my mate Sujeewa, who as usual keep ...
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