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Alter & Company revamps 1960s home to create Sri Lankan-informed Bawa House-by Amy Frearson Source:Dezeen Architecture studio Alter & Company has updated a mid-century house in East Sussex, England, using a layout and materials palette inspired by trips to Sri Lanka. Bawa House, named after Sri Lankan modernist Geoffrey Bawa, is a renovation of a typical two-storey detached house built in the 1960s. Vertical larch battens now clad the exterior Alter & Company‘s design sees the interior layout reconfigured to better connect with the gardens – just like many of Bawa’s projects – while the exterior features a new cladding of vertical larch battens. ...