The winner of the latest edition of the Aga Khan Awards for Archtecture, the modular system Khudi Bari – Bengali for ‘small house’ – is an architectural response to forced displacements in emergency situations. Designed by Marina Tabassum, it has bee
This mosque, built in concrete pigmented with reddish tones, is located in a fast-growing industrial area of Ashulia, on the outskirts of Dhaka, the capital of Bangladesh. A factory owner decided to build it for his employees and in memory of his dec
The result of workshops in which members of the community were invited to rethink their public spaces, a series of operations restored the riverbanks as spots for encounters and enjoyment. In the manner of Indian ghats – ritual platforms beside the w
In several of the camps scattered around the country to take in people fleeing from nearby Myanmar, six communal spaces try to contribute to easing the difficult situation. Raised with the most readily available materials and the techniques of Rohing
Rohingya Refugee Site Camp 18 – in Ukhia, in the Bangladeshi region of Chittagong – is the location of a facility in which members of different generations of this predominantly Muslim ethnic group of Myanmar – victims of genocidal violence on the pa
The Friendship Hospital in Bangladesh designed by Kashef Chowdhury/URBANA will be awarded the RIBA International Prize 2021, the global accolade for design excellence and social impact. A project of the NGO Friendship, this hospital complex is locate
In Rudrapur, a village in the Dinajpur District of northern Bangladesh, stands this mud and bamboo construction that houses a therapy center for people with disabilities and a workshop for Dipdii Textiles, a clothes-making project for local women tha
Distinguished with the 2019 Aga Khan Award for Architecture, this bamboo construction in South Kanarchor harbors a kindergarten, a professional training center, and a hostel. Carried out by the Dhaka firm of Saif Ul Haque, the 'amphibious' structure
The project for the improvement of public spaces in Dhaka proposes the creation of a network of community facilities – educational, social, and cultural – that serve the most vulnerable communities by creating safe environments... [+]
Natural ventilation and indirect light characterize the interior of this mosque designed with local materials and located in a neighborhood on the outskirts of Dhaka.
Located on a riverine island or char, this new center for the empowerment of the lowest castes of Bangladeshi society is a reinterpretation of Buddhist monasteries.
This house for three peasant families follows the pattern of traditional homestead in Bangladesh, keeping the kitchen and the sanitary units in external buildings, and leaving remaining land for gardening as a means to overcome the food crisis. Sensi
Construida con técnicas tradicionales y materiales locales como el barro y el bambú, esta escuela de formación profesional reinterpreta la arquitectura vernácula bangladesí.
Con técnicas constructivas tradicionales de la región —tierra apisonada y bambú— y la participación como mano de obra de los vecinos de la aldea se ha levantado una escuela rural.
La decisión por parte del gobierno central de Pakistán de crear una nueva capital legislativa en la región oriental, en las proximidades de Dhaka, y el hecho de que Le Corbusier estuviera demasiado ocupado y Alvar Aalto enfermo en aquel momento, fuer
