High Commission of Sri Lanka in India

Anjalendran with his Golden Award for Global Contribution in Architecture. From left to right: Suneet Paul (Chief Editor Architecture + Design); Chief Guest Prasad Kariyawasam ( High Commisioner of Sri Lanka in India); Anjalendran C; guest of honour Javier Salido (Consellor, Embassy of Spain, New Delhi); Inder Jit Arora ( Managing Director, Spectrum Paints Ltd)

Sri Lankan architect C. Anjalendran was awarded the Golden Award for Global Contribution in Architecture at the Architecture+Design & Spectrum Foundation Architecture Awards 2011 in New Delhi on 17 October. The Chief Guest at the Ceremony was High Commissioner Prasad Kariyawasam. Speaking at the Ceremony, the High Commissioner referred to the great architectural traditions of the past, with special reference to Sri Lanka’s history, namely, the monumental designs of the engineers and architects of the 1st millennium and the structures based on Vastu Vidya, the local architectural science prevalent at the time.