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NURTURING SHELTER

MANY THINGS in life pivot on the seemingly inconsequential, and for celebrated Sri Lankan architect Channa Daswatte it was his squeamishness, his inability to cut up a frog, that precluded him from the career in medicine his parents hoped for. With an interest in history and a facility for design, he made his way into the architecture profession, studying locally as well as at The Bartlett School of Architecture, University College London.

For me, one of

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