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By Renuka Sadanandan
Sri Lankan-born Madushin Amarasekera wins a major architectural award in New Zealand for his inspired remodelling of a modest state house into a multi-generational family homeView(s):
It was a project very close to his heart. When he embarked on remodelling a modest 1940’s state house in Mount Roskill, Auckland into a home for his extended family, architect Madushin Amarasekera channelled a concept rather unfamiliar to his adopted country but one more common in the land of his birth and that had coloured his growing up years. Looking to create two homes under one roof, he envisaged a degree of separation yet spaces for happy co-existence between his family of four and his wife’s parents.