A curvilinear villa in Thalpe where concrete learns to bend around jackfruit trees In the villages that string along Sri Lanka's southern coast, architecture has long followed a familiar grammar. Deep verandas. Sweeping eaves. The timber columns and terracotta pitched roofs of what locals simply call veranda architecture — a vernacular so settled it rarely asks to be questioned. The Third Half, a 700-square-metre boutique residence in Thalpe designed by DXMID, begins by asking anyway. The...

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