The New York Times has featured Sri Lanka’s Brief Garden — created by landscape architect Bevis Bawa — in a global spotlight on gardens favoured by artists, Newswire reported.
The estate at Beruwala, on the southwestern coast roughly 60 km south of Colombo, was named in T Magazine’s “favorite gardens to visit” feature, published on April 29. The piece highlighted Brief’s distinctive design, layered tropical landscape and artistic legacy.
Bevis Bawa — elder brother of pioneering architect Geoffrey Bawa — spent more than five decades transforming a 5-acre rubber estate into a sequence of formal terraces, water features and sculpture-dotted clearings. The garden, opened to the public after his death in 1992, has become a fixture on Sri Lanka’s design and heritage tourism circuit alongside Geoffrey Bawa’s Lunuganga property at Bentota.
The NYT placement comes as Sri Lanka pushes to rebuild international visitor numbers; the latest Sri Lanka Tourism Development Authority figures showed March arrivals tracking 27% below the same month last year despite a brisk start to 2026.
Source: Newswire.
