Bangladeshi Contemporary Architectural Design and Projects with Context and Details of Works

Kashef Mahboob Chowdhury  Kashef Mahboob Chowdhury was born in Dhaka, the son of a civil engineer, growing up in Bangladesh and the Middle East before graduating in architecture from the Bangladesh University of Engineering and Technology (BUET) in 1995. In 2006, he attended the Glenn Murcutt Masterclass in Sydney. After working with architect Uttam Kumar Saha, he established the practice URBANA in partnership in 1995 and from 2004 has continued as the Principal of the firm. Chowdhury is married to Rajrupa Chowdhury, an Indian classical musician of the instrument Sarod. They have a son, Rayan Mahboob Chowdhury. Kashef Chowdhury has a studio based practice whose works find root in history with strong emphasis on climate, materials and context - both natural and human. Projects in the studio are given extended time for research so as to reach a level of innovation and original expression. Works range from conversion of ship and low cost raised settlements i...

*Peda Ting Ting Gallery Cafe by Studio MRITTIKA *Name: Nazmul Nayeem | studio MRITTIKA *Year: 2015 *Location: Gulshan-1, Dhaka *Client: Peda Ting Ting gallery cafe *From the Architect : Anyone living in the city of Dhaka for the past ten years would somewhat agree to the fact that our cosmopolitan lifestyle has shrunken to a level where there is this overarching dominance of very few activities that happens to regulate our performative behavior regarding how we function in the city. In retrospect, the phenomenon of urban recreation offered by our city in the recent years has been so much restricted that we barely can think of alternatives when it comes to get out of the house and spend an afternoon with friends or loved ones. In so doing, we end up “eating out” and probably posing some “selfies” which of course makes its way to facebook immediately as a gesture of our prosaic engagement with our surrounding environment and subjugating our conscience to the explo...

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Bait Ur Roof Mosque By Marina Tabassum Architects And Friendship Center By Kashef Chowdhury/URBANA has been announced the winner of Aga Khan Award for Architecture. PS: Two out of six winning projects are of Bangladesh.....It is clearly a sign of something specially in the arena of Bangladeshi architecture.   *Other Winners Are:- 3.Hutong Children’s Library and Art Centre, Beijing, China / ZAO/standardarchitecture, Zhang Ke. 4.Superkilen, Copenhagen, Denmark / BIG + Topotek 1 + Superflex.   5.Tabiat Pedestrian Bridge, Tehran, Iran / Diba Tensile Architecture, Leila Araghian + Alireza Behzadi. 6. Issam Fares Institute, Beirut, Lebanon / Zaha Hadid Architects.   Six exemplary projects have been announced as winners of the 2016 Aga Khan Award for Architecture . Presented once every three years, the award was established by the Aga Khan in 1977 to “identify and encourage building concepts that successfully addressed the needs and aspirations of commun...

Project Name: Mamun Residence. Address: Khulshi,Chittagong,Bangladesh. *Raindrops keep falling. . . . Chittagong a southern city located in the tropical area of Bangladesh. the heavy south west wind flowing from the bay of Bengal and round the year scorchy sun are two major considerations for the design. The use of “mathal” a traditional hat that farmers in this region wear during harvesting to help protect them from rain and sun helped to understand the design philosophy of this project. The use of layered parasols and gardens along with exposed concrete not only justify the climate, seismic situation and lateral load as context but also won over the structural system and elements of nature. *Photography by Daniele Domenicali and Masao Nishikawa.