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Harding Boutique Hotel Sri Lanka
6 April 2022
ANARCHITECT Pays Homage to Tropical Modernism in New
Design: ANARCHITECT
Location: Ahangama, Southern Province, Sri Lanka

Photos © Edmund Sumner
Harding Boutique Hotel opens in Ahangama, Sri Lanka
The first Harding Boutique Hotel designed by British Architect Jonathan Ashmore of RIBA-chartered practice ANARCHITECT is now open in the surf-break and coastal town of Ahangama, situated in Sri Lanka?s lush Southern Province and a thirty-minute drive from the UNESCO World Heritage Site; Galle Fort.

Born out of a passionate vision between both client and architect, this six-suite independent boutique hotel pays homage to the Sri Lankan architectural genre of Tropical Modernism, in its design and architecture and bears a unique story about the project?s inspiring creation. As with Geoffrey Bawa‘s later works, the hotel explores modernism with local cultural implications and the areas natural resources for a uniquely recognisable vernacular.
Hotelier Paul Harding and Dubai/London-based ANARCHITECT?s Founding Principal; Jonathan Ashmore, connected through a shared admiration for Sri Lanka – its rich landscape, cultural diversity and natural hospitality. ?My great uncle was one of the first hoteliers and great pioneers of tourism in the country, opening “The Blue Lagoon” – the country?s first hotel des...