First Galle Fort, now Clove Hall. « RATATHOTA

I first met Ong in Galle, Sri Lanka, when I visited his Galle Fort Hotel a month after the devastating tsunami of Boxing Day 2004. He and his partner had decided to chuck in a career in investment banking, buy an old Dutch villa and ... using salvage materials for the restoration; it was very 'bawa',” said Ong, referring to the Sri Lankan architect Geoffrey Bawa who is regarded as having been one of the most important and influential Asian architects of the 20th century. ...