Hospitality · Regionalism
Geoffrey Bawa · Dambulla, Sri Lanka · 1994
Key featuresA hotel laid along a rock face, so overgrown it disappears into the jungle.
Heritance Kandalama, (Sinhala: හෙරිටන්ස් කණ්ඩලම) formerly known as the Kandalama Hotel, is a luxury five-star hotel in Kandalama, Sri Lanka, approximately 11 km (6.8 mi) south-east of Sigiriya. The hotel was built in 1991 and designed by Geoffrey Bawa. The hotel is owned and operated by Aitken Spence Hotel Holdings under its luxury hotel chain, Heritance Hotels and Resorts.
The Sri Lankan architect Geoffrey Bawa designed the Kandalama Hotel which was built between 1992 and 1995. The hotel's entrance lobby is situated at the terminus of a sloping 2.7 km (1.7 mi) long private road that branches north from a secondary arterial leading back to the centre of town. Bawa was interested in developing a spatial and visual sequence of entry that culminated in the revelation of the distant view of the monument of Sigiriya only after entry to the hotel lobby. One of the hotel's dominant design features is the large, cave-like porte-cochère abutting the western side of the cliff around which the hotel wraps. A large slanted canopy that angles down towards the entrance to an enclosed tunnel-like walkway, with a boulder-lined wall, with an expansive open-air lobby and panoramic view northward over the Kandalama Reservoir.
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