Projects
Mr.Gunasekera has undertaken and completed projects which have included Bank Headquarters (e.g. Hatton National Bank), Hotels, Habarana Lodge and Mount Lavinia Hotel Extension), Political Party Headquarters (SLFP, UNP), Shopping Malls (Welikada Plaza, YMBA), Apartment Complexes (e.g. .Police), Office Complexes (People's Park Complex), Auditoriums (Bishop's College Auditorium), Office Buildings (e.g. Hemas), Headquarters for the Armed Forces (National Armed Reserve, Air Force, National Intelligence Bureau), Factory Buildings (Ceylon Glass Company), Academic Headquarters (e.g. Institution of Engineers, Institute of Chartered Accountants, Institute of Business Management) and University Buildings (e.g. Science Faculty, Arts Faculty, University of Colombo), Warehouses (e.g. Aitken Spence, Ferntea), Houses (e.g. Sirimavo Bandaranaike's) among many more. He is known to be the Most Successful Sri Lankan Civil Engineer of the 20th century with an unprecedented market share in Construction. He was the first Sri Lankan Engineer to build high-rise buildings and therefore was single-handedly responsible for the development of the Engineering level in Sri Lanka.
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“But look what we have built ... low-income projects that become worse centers of delinquency, vandalism and general social hopelessness than the slums they were supposed to replace.... Cultural centers that are unable to support a good bookstore. Civic centers that are avoided by everyone but bums.... Promenades that go from no place to nowhere and have no promenaders. Expressways that eviscerate great cities. This is not the rebuilding of cities. This is the sacking of cities.”
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