
SLIIT undergraduate Tharusha Randula (SLIIT School of Architecture), has brought glory to Sri Lanka being named as the Winner of the Grand Prize for Architecture at the INSPIRELI AWARDS, the World’s Largest Student Architecture Competition.
Organised by the international social network Inspireli, the InspireliAwards.com – architecture & design is a global student contest in architecture, urban design, landscape and interior design. The objective of the Awards is to enable new talent to tell their stories and raise awareness about their own world view before they receive a chance to build it.
According to the organisers this is the first time since the InspireliAwards.com – architecture & design was founded four years ago, that a student from Asia has been awarded this prestigious prize.
Tharusha was among 29 finalists in the architecture category where his design a ‘Sinharaja Exploratorium – Wildlife Research Center, Kudawa impressed the jury to clinch global recognition. Contestants submit not only visualizations of their work, but provided full technical details and specifications enabling complete feedback from the InspireliAwards.com – architecture & design Jury.”