“Today when I design a house, I do a lot of in- depth study and though sometimes, people may get fed up of it, understanding their lifestyle is important to me. That is why I say architecture can be a slow killer. It killed my friends’ family and it also nearly killed them physically. In a space of one month he went from a very modest life to almost ‘Colombo society'. His ideas were too extravagant. He lost his head completely, he borrowed and ran into big debts. That was a life lesson for me because to me it was the house that was his downfall.
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