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A happy marriage of Kandyan and Baroque – By By Yomal Senerath-Yapa In today’s Bawa shortlist series we feature No 12 on Flower Road by a ‘small-time’ builder Suresh Mudannayake, better known as Ashok Ferrey in the literary scene View(s): 416 Source:Sunday time – Press reader No. 12 Flower Road was how Suresh Mudannayake, a.k.a. Ashok Ferrey, re-imagined a Kandyan townhouse of the 17th Century. It’s proof of the little-tapped potential of Suresh the polymath, better known for his writing. Those classy but quirky architectural sketches with which this flamboyant wit fills his short stories and novels spring to life in No. 12 which is home, currently, to the Cricket Club Café. This townhouse/café blends medieval Kandyan architecture with the Baroque- which in the 17th century was still fashionable in Europe and hitchhiked to Ceylon with the Portuguese. Although worlds apart, “their marriage I think was a happy one,” says Suresh, given ...