Was Architect Kumarihamy real designer of Liberty Plaza development ?

 Mar 25, 2016

Architect Kumarihamy, M.A.M had a prominent stand at the recent Architects’ Exhibition on 19th – 21st February, 2016 at the Bandaranaike Memorial International Conference Hall. As per her display board, she was ‘passing-off’ as the Architect of the revamping and beautification of Sri Lanka’s iconic complex Liberty Plaza, as being converted to an international standard shopping complex, with the first RGB Lighting Class façade in Sri Lanka. Liberty Plaza is mainly owned by Singaporean businessman Ng Eng Ghee, who had developed the project, together with the Urban Development Authority.

Such international class design and façade had in fact been done by Architect Dhananjana Ameresekere, American/Sri Lankan Architect, with Master’s Degree from University of Pennsylvania and Bachelor’s Degree from Yale University, both US Ivy League. He had worked in Singapore at a top Architects Firm, designing the most number of projects in Sentosa Island. His design had been selected in an international competition for the 8-Tower – Pinnacle Towers project in Singapore. Having completed the designs, he had discontinued his association with Liberty Plaza.

Has not Architect Kumarihamy, without giving due credit and acknowledgement of design to Architect Dhananjana Ameresekere, violated the professional ethics of Sri Lanka Institute of Chartered Architects, who had held the Exhibition, and also infringed upon the provisions of the Code of Intellectual Property ?