For the first time, a Bangladeshi architecture has earned a place on the list of TIME’s World’s Greatest Places 2025. The Zebun Nessa Mosque, designed by Saiqa Iqbal Meghna – Director and Partner of Studio Morphogenesis Ltd., who also serves as an Assistant Professor in the Department of Architecture at BRAC University – has been recognised for its ground-breaking design. Since the inception of the list in 2018, no Bangladeshi location has ever been featured, until now!
The sky is the limit! The adage truly defines Singapore's approach to urban architecture as the city’s skyscrapers stretch higher with every new addition. Recently, the Pan Pacific Orchard has won the “World's Best New Tall Building” title by the Council on Tall Buildings and Urban Habitat (CTBUH), an international non-profit organisation headquartered in Chicago, USA.
MIST's Saraf Nawer wins Inspireli Awards 2024 in architecture.
The Charrette Quest aims to reinforce a dynamic learning environment by fostering collaborative and respectful connections among students.
For an individual who took pride in their creativity, Shilpi resorted to the most unoriginal solution to this problem of hers. She aspired to become an architect.
Our experience of designing Brac regional offices across rural Bangladesh.
Despite how mentally and physically taxing it may be, Bangladesh churns out hundreds of new Architecture graduates each year.
We must rethink how cities are planned, designed, and administered to combat the adverse effects of both the heat island problem and climate change.
The installation in the Kala Kendra premises invites the general mass to the venue and creates a welcoming place, connected with the urban spaces.
"[This] is an important collection of work to be made available to the architecture, planning and engineering community as a key cornerstone of continuing to build Bangladesh", Transcom GCEO Simeen Rahman writes in her foreword.
The opening ceremony of ‘Bengal Stream: The Vibrant Architecture Scene of Bangladesh’ was held at Bengal Shilpalay December 10, 2022. M.A Mannan, Honorable Minister of Planning, Government of Bangladesh inaugurated the exhibition as the Chief Guest. Nathalie Chuard, Ambassador of Switzerland to Bangladesh, and Honorable Member of Parliament, Mr. Asaduzzaman Noor, were also present as Special Guests at the event.
Dhaka's transitions carries the question of whether our historic buildings shall be preserved. From an economic viewpoint, there is financial gain in replacing them with buildings. The question now becomes whether the cultural heritage outweighs this financial gain.
Architecture is a lot more than just drawing buildings and designing interiors.
Architecture exists all around us, effecting our daily lives.
ARCASIA intends to unite architects in this region and provide them with a platform to maintain professional networks.
In Bangladesh, many new mosques with their edgy architecture are reflecting changes in the populace’s changing mores.
At Kamini Mohan (K.M.) Das Lane in Tikatuli of Old Dhaka, there lies a majestic mansion called “Rose Garden”. Interestingly, it was built to host parties by one of the prominent zamindars of Dhaka, named Hrishikesh Das. He built the Rose Garden in 1931 on a 22-bigha plot along with a famous garden that had various species of rare roses. Thus the compound earned the name “Rose Garden”. The central piece of the garden is the elegant building.
These buildings also had a political history. They were the products of what the military regime of Muhammad Ayub Khan called the “Decade of Development” (1958-68), intertwined with West Pakistan's shrewd political strategy of placating East Pakistan's agitating Bengalis through architectural and infrastructure development.
The narrow “main” roads filled with potholes and iron rods plunging out, the scorching afternoon heat and a destination unknown to
