"There's Bawa's main house, where you can sleep where he slept and sit at the desk where he worked," Lim says, "but also bungalows scattered around the grounds where you can see him experimenting with different architectural styles."
"No. 5 turned colonialism on its side," Lim says. "It took what's native to Sri Lanka and put it into a modernist context."
"Everywhere I looked, there was something to see," he says. "Seemingly mundane hallways or staircases were a chance to play with perspective and shape; vistas from windows perfectly framed some feature of the landscape. I couldn't believe how modern everything still looked."
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