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Friendship Centre by Kashef Mahboob/URBANA

 Architects: Kashef Mahboob Chowdhury/URBANA Location: Gaibandha, Bangladesh Team: Anup Kumar Basak, Sharif Jahir Hossain, Motiur Rahman, Amrul Hasan Area: 2897.0 sqm Project Year: 2011   The Friendship Center near the district town of Gaibandha, Bangladesh, is for an NGO which works with some of the poorest in the country and who live mainly in riverine islands (chars) with very limited access and opportunities. Friendship uses the facility for its own training programs and will also rent out for meetings, training, conferences etc. as income generation.    The low lying land, which is located in rural Gaibandha where agriculture is predominant, is under threat of flooding if the embankment encircling the town and peripheries break.      ...