KWA Architects wins big at Asia Pacific Property Awards
Colombo based architectural and interior design practice KWA Architects won three awards at the Asia Pacific Property Awards held on May 14, 2019, in Bangkok, Thailand.
It won Five Star Best Architecture Single Residencesri Lanka for their Floated House project and Interior Design awards for Retail Architecture-sri Lanka for Thilakawardhana Textiles showroom in Kandy and Office Interior-sri Lanka award for Amazon Teas corporate offices.
KWA Architects Partner Thilan Koththigoda received the awards in Bangkok. Stuart Shield, President and Founder of the International Property Awards made the presentation.
Speaking after the event Thilan Koththigoda said: “We are absolutely delighted to receive this wonderful international recognition for our work and this is a true testimony to our team’s dedication to perfection of design solutions to suit our client’s needs.”
Floated House is a luxury residence built on a sloping land overlooking fascinating mountain views of Kandy. The living and dining space of the house is projected outwards from the sloped land and supported with a single column from bottom giving it the sensation of floating above the landscape.
Thilakawardhana Textiles is one of the most celebrated Sri Lankan fashion brands and their Kandy Department Store was designed to offer a novel retail experience to Kandyan shoppers. The design of the outlet was inspired by Kandyan period arts and crafts and the ‘Binara Flower’ motif from that period has been used as a design feature throughout the interior.
Amazon Teas is the owner of celebrated boutique tea brand ‘The English Tea Shop’ sold in many countries globally. The design
was inspired by the dynamism and youthfulness of the people and their brand.
As a tightly knit group of mostly under forties making waves in a centuries old industry, the interior attempts to project out this personality in visual and spatial form allowing a pleasant and exciting working environment.
Asia Pacific Property Awards was held for the 26th year this time. Organised by the International Property Awards based in the UK, the panel of judges include many celebrated architects, designers, journalists and industry professionals mostly from UK and the EU.
KWA Architects is an all service architectural, interior design and engineering consultancy firm now in its eleventh year in business.
Their current projects include one of Sri Lanka’s largest high rise mixed use development Colombo City Centre, largest banqueting and wedding reception hall complex in Kotte, high rise apartment developments in Negombo and other Colombo Suburbs in addition to several high specification residential and interior design projects.
This is the third year KWA has been awarded at Asia Pacific Property Awards. Previously they won Best Hotel Architecture-sri Lanka award for their project Reefs Edge Hotel and Public Service Interior-sri Lanka for Expo Rail carriages in 2015 and Architecture Single residence highly commended award for their Layered House Project in 2016.