Triad tributes client, launches coffee table book 'Kandalama'
BOOK LAUNCH: Back in 1994, Aitken Spence Hotels became Triad
Advertising's very first corporate client.
Then a fledgling communications agency, Triad worked from the on-set,
even prior to the construction of the hotel, to promote what was to
become, undoubtedly, Sri Lanka's greatest environmentally sustainable
travel and tourism project - the much acclaimed Heritance Kandalama.
PRESENTATION: Managing Director, Aitken Spence Hotel Management (Pvt)
Ltd. Malin Hapugoda accepts the first copy from Jt. Managing
Director Triad Advertising Varuni Amunugama Fernando. Jt. Managing
Director, Triad Dilith Jayaweera, Catherine Mole and Sumedha
Liyanage were also present.
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Thirteen years later, as a tribute to a great client-agency
relationship and as an appreciation of the work of one of Asia's
greatest architects, "Kandalama", a hundred page coffee table book was
handed over to Managing Director, Aitken Spence Hotels Malin Hapugoda
recently.
The book, single-handedly conceived and produced by the Triad Team,
is a first hand account in visual and written content of Catherine Mole
and Sumedha Liyanage.
A testimony of sixty two wondrous days spent in the awe-inspiring
company of a structure that melds into the surroundings, bringing
untouched nature and simple village life into the core of one's
existence.
The collaborative efforts of six Triad subsidiaries that undertook
conceptualization and design, photography, pre-press and print, the
project remains probably one of the few wholly agency driven initiatives
of this scale, in Sri Lanka.
"Our intention was to capture the beauty of Kandalama in its myriad
forms; as a natural habitat, as a rural village and lifestyle, as an
architectural art-form" noted Dilith Jayaweera and Varuni Amunugama
Fernando, Joint Managing Directors, Triad Advertising; "we hope that
this coffee table book will allow those who love Kandalama, to re-live
the experience, many times over, through it's pages".
A masterpiece of geometric lines, Heritance Kandalama is the
brainchild of Geoffrey Bawa, widely acknowledged as the "father of Asian
architecture" and also as Sri Lanka's most prolific and influential
architect.
Designed from the start to be an extension of the surroundings - the
hotel reflects the creativity, the sensitivity, and the genius of
Geoffrey Bawa.
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