Blue Water Hotel, Wadduwa, Sri Lanka

Blue Water Hotel

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Blue Water Hotel is a 5-star boutique hotel in Wadduwa, Sri Lanka. It was Geoffrey Bawa’s last hotel and the last project which he supervised on site before succumbing to illness.GeographyThe hotel is situated in Wadduwa, a small coastal town located (27km south of Colombo. The site originally was a coconut plantation, situated between the beach and the coastal railway line.HistoryThe hotel was commissioned by Ajit Wijesekera of Union Apparel in 1994, the design of which was a collaboration between Geoffrey Bawa and Milroy Perera. Work on the project commenced in 1996 and was completed in 1998. The hotel suffered damage to sixteen ground floor rooms as a result of the 2004 Boxing Day tsunami but no lives were lost. The hotel was initially managed by Jetwing Hotels until 2008 when it was taken over by Union Resorts, who renovated it and added a reception room/banquet room.ArchitectureThe hotel was one of Geoffrey Bawa's last major projects, which Patrick Kunkel of ArchDaily believes "represents a slightly more minimalistic approach to his architectural design informed by his earlier work." Australian architect, Ceridwen Owen, describes it as "exhibiting a carefully orchestrated sequence of spaces between land and ocean."For the building design Bawa returned to a simple rest house layout, which he first used in 1967 for the Serendib Hotel, but reinterpreted on a grand scale with expansive courtyards and limitless vistas. The main entrance is a lofty porch, with an enclosing wall which screens the hotel from the adjacent railway line. The entrance doors open out to a long axial

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+94382235067

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www.bluewatersrilanka.com

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