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I found the following which should provide your answer:
http://www.architectureweek.com/2002/0130/news_1-2.html
Geoffrey Bawa Appreciation
...At the age of 70 [1989], Bawa withdrew from his partnership, and it
was widely assumed that he would retire to Lunuganga and contemplate
the garden he had fashioned for nearly 50 years.
Instead, the break signaled a new round of creative activity, and he
began to work from his home in Bagatelle Road, Colombo, with a small
group of young architects. Together they embarked on a stream of
ambitious designs — hotels on Bali and Bintan, houses in Delhi and
Ahmedabad, and a Cloud Center for Singapore. None of these projects
was built, but each served as a test bed for new ideas.
Some of these ideas came to fruition in three hotels built in Sri
Lanka in the 1990s: the Kandalama, conceived as an austere jungle
palace, snaking around a rocky outcrop on the edge of an ancient tank
in the Dry Zone; the Lighthouse at Galle, defying the southern oceans
from its boulder-strewn headland; and the Blue Water, a cool pleasure
pavilion set within a sedate coconut grove on the edge of Colombo.
All three demonstrate Bawa's concern to "consult the genius of the
place in all," as well as his skill at integrating architecture and
landscape, and his scenographic manipulation of space.
One final house, designed for the Jayawardene family in 1997 as a
weekend retreat on the cliffs of Mirissa, shows Bawa's unflagging
inventiveness. A phalanx of slender columns supports a wafer-thin roof
to create a minimalist pavilion facing the southern ocean and the
setting sun. Nearly 40 years separate the Jayawardene House from the
Ena de Silva House, but they are two points on a continuum, one a
distillation of the other.
In 1998 Bawa suffered a massive stroke that left him paralyzed and
unable to speak. A small group of colleagues has continued to work on
the projects he initiated before his illness — an official residence
for the Sri Lankan president, a house in Bombay, a hotel in Panadura.
They take drawings down the corridor from their office to Bawa's
bedroom for nods of approval or rejection..."
So, I am afraid his activity has been severely limited.
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"Geoffrey Bawa" project +2002 OR 2003
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