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Recent Urban development in Bangladesh

Now for some bird's eye shots of Dhaka by Meer Sadi...(click to enlarge)

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Hatirjheel

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Bijoy Sarani area

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Zero Point

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Dhaka South

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Hatirjheel

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Dhanmondi Lake

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Motijheel

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Rampura

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Rampura

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Banani Bridge

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Gulshan-2 Circle

Purbachal Exhibition Center (under construction) outside of Dhaka

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South Breeze Square, Gulshan Avenue

B2+14 fl office building with rooftop helipad

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Intrinsically Iconic – DTX Business Center

Written by Tasmiah Chowdhury

Bold architectural designs coupled with intelligent engineering solutions often result in structures that consume the public fantasy. Pushing the boundaries and testing the limits of structure and design, the DTX Business Center nestled among the urban street of Pragati Sharani, Dhaka is an unusual architectural landmark designed by the BINYASH. Its unique building form and glass façade structures integrate architecture and engineering seamlessly; forming a monumental and inspiring modern business district.

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When Ar. Rahat M Niaz and Ar. Faisal Billah of BINYASH were asked to design the commercial building; one of the primary concerns that emerged was to create a building with a strong identity; but one, which would be intrinsically connected to its surroundings; forming a valuable part of the city’s fabric, in both social and architecture sense.

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With a total construction area of 10.71 Katha, the DTX Business Center is a building for offices and services comprising a total of nine floors and three basement floors. Inside, on the ground level; is the building’s main entrance leading straight through the heart of the building.

The ground floor houses lobby and lounges, main event spaces and other cultural activities, where the architecture is designed to act as space for social interaction. A variety of functions occupies the level above and leads to each company’s main workspaces on the upper floors. A range of flexible workstations was designed with a base palette; that was then built upon with colour and materials to reflect the unique identities of each office team.

The architects conceptualized the rhombus geometry of the building which is evolved from the unusual shape of the site. The DTX Business Centre demanded a different approach for its location and unusual site configuration which was a challenge and a governing factor in the design approach and style. “The studio team orchestrated the unusual site cleverly utilizing the given spaces. Planned to encourage collaboration across the company’s diverse businesses, the spaces are aimed at improving the employee’s work-life while being flexible and functional. The office interiors are clad in light- coloured giving a warm look of sophisticated simplicity. This, and its large glass facades invite daylight from the north and north-east to make for an impressively light interior that feels both stylish and serene,” describes Ar. Rahat M Niaz.

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The commercial complex also includes a selection of outdoor spaces for the building users to meet or just to sit back and relax on their break. The eye-catching extended stairs and the terraces on the roadside; is a true hub of the building. More interaction is intended and engineered to happen in the open terraces and staircases; overlooking the Kuril-Banani flyover, just a few yards away from the complex. A large rooftop garden is designed that brings the outdoors in and helps create a powerful sense of place.

Ar. Sudeshna Shireen Chowdhury, the project architect successfully accomplished a fruitful collaboration with the studio’s engineering team associating with structural designer, Engineer Golam Sarwer, Electrical designer, Engineer Alinur Rahman and HVAC designer, Engineer Hasmotuzzaman, initiating sustainable designs and schemes. Therefore, a major focus of the building laid in the design and development based on environmentally friendly concepts that leave a small carbon footprint on the earth. The core of the building is placed on the South-west side to obstruct the heat and glass has been used on the other sides to ensure maximum visibility and daylight. All the glasses installed extensively in the building are double-glazed low-E glass and a semi-unitized curtain glass system had been installed. This type of glass is used to reduce the heat inside the building; decreasing the artificial cooling load. The building is made of RCC structure, and for exterior cladding, a special type of porcelain tile had been used. The BINYASH team has taken the craft of the office building to the next level.

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Architect Profile

Architect Rahat M Niaz in partnership with Ar. Faisal Billah started their venture called ‘BINYASH’ in the year 2005. Both of them completed their graduation in the department of architecture from Bangladesh University of Engineering and Technology, BUET.

The BINYASH team expanded over the years and created a wide range of commercial, industrial, institutional, healthcare, residential and other different projects. Ar. Rahat M Niaz and Ar. Faisal Billah, founders of BINYASH speak about their future interest to work in the field of urbanism to improve the livability condition of the city, to design and build housing for low and middle income group. Besides housing facility for the workers who work in factories is a prime interest of them. The architects are in pursuit of making a better life for its people and the country, with their bold and strong designs and structures.

Render for Promoda Apparels (Garments manufacturing facility) under construction

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Economical apartments for middle class govt. employees at Uttara


Park in the prison

The authority is turning Dhaka's old central jail in old Dhaka into a multi-purpose complex with several museums to showcase its glorious past

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Artists rendition of restored jail gate. Photo: FORM. 3 Architects

Under the scorching heat of September sun around 30 workers were busy, knocking down a yellow-coloured building. The deserted building (named Manihar) used to house inmates of Dhaka Central Jail. The building was part of the jail premises.

"As it is an old building, it takes more time to dismantle," said Hafizur Rahman, one of the workers.

One could hear the sound of big hammers banging in the distance. Workers were busy bringing down several other buildings at the same time.

The entire (jail) premises has been left abandoned since Dhaka central Jail was shifted to Keraniganj in July 2016. The move left a 21.9 acre of area, fortified with a high wall, barren. Before that, it used to be one of the oldest prison houses on the land.

Now, the authority is turning the place into a multi-purpose complex with several museums to showcase its glorious past. The project, namely, Dhaka Central Jail history, Historical Buildings and Development of the Surroundings, began on July 2018 and is scheduled to be completed by December 2020 with an estimated cost of Tk607 crore.

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Top view of master plan of old prison. Photo: FORM. 3 Architects

The complex will include Bangabandhu Museum, Four National Leaders' Museum and many other historical buildings. Built-in the colonial past, the prison is 228 years old.

A total of 36 old buildings, out of 131, will be kept. The rest of the old buildings will be demolished, of which 80 buildings have already been knocked down.

A glorious past

Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman passed one-fourth of his life in prison. During his whirlwind political career, he was arrested at least 17 times; ending in this prison-house most of the time. During those days of captivity, he used to spend his days in the Dewani Cell of the Dhaka Central Jail, which was later turned into Bangabandhu Museum. The museum is now closed for development works.

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According to the project plan, Bangabandhu Museum will have a huge mural depicting the father of the nation's prison life. The area of the Bangabandhu Museum will be expanded four times as compared to its present size. The six pillars, symbolizing the historical six-point demands he put forward, erected in front of the Dewani cell will also be removed; and will be erected nearer the cell in which the goods he used during his days in jail, including a reading table and a chair, a bird case and so on is kept.

The statue of Bangabandhu will also be removed, and installed nearer to the museum. The bathroom, as well as the kitchen used by him, will also be included in the museum.

Four national leaders: Syed Nazrul Islam, Tajuddin Ahmad, M Mansur Ali, and AHM Quamruzzaman were brutally killed inside the Dhaka's Central Jail on November 3, 1975.

The three cells they spent their days in were later turned into a museum, which will be preserved with a little change: the busts of the four leaders will be removed from their present location in front of the jail buildings, to be installed nearer the museum.

Four oldest buildings (Padma, Meghna, Jamuna, and a hospital building) will be preserved. One of these buildings will showcase the history of Dhaka. Three workshops that the inmates had to work in will be turned into galleries, where the products made by the prisoners will be on display along with the machines used in these workshops, which will include, among others, the weaving machines used by the prisoners. Foreign prisoners ward, as well as, the gallows will be preserved.

Parks and complexes

A park, Kara Uddyan, will be built covering 27,298 square metres of area, which will have a lake with walkways around the lake, cycle tracks, and a library. Two mosques will be built in the premises, and there will also be a school. Two large ponds inside the prison will be preserved.

A 'multipurpose complex' will be constructed on a 3360 square metre land inside the boundary wall; the six-story building will consist of a swimming pool, a multiplex, and a community hall. The complex will have a parking facility for 400 cars.

A market in a two-story building, namely, Chawak Complex, will be built on a 2860 square metre of land inside the jail premises, which will showcase the essence of the nearby Chawakbazar. Besides, there will be book shops and a food court in the market.

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"Whenever I go to the area where Bangabandhu stayed as an inmate, I feel like I am in the Race Course Maidan, listening to his historic 7-March speech," said Brigadier General AKM Mustafa Kamal, inspector general at the Department of Prisons.

Jamilur Reza Choudhury, a renowned engineer and researcher, appreciated the Dhaka Central Jail project plan.

"There is no open space in the densely populated old Chawk Bazaar and Nazimuddin road area. Millions of people live there. So there is a crying need for recreational space. I believe this is an ideal place for landscaping," he said.

The entire environment of the old Dhaka will change with the implementation of this initiative. The government will have to keep on landscaping from Central Jail to the bank of Buriganga.

Forty-four-year-old Anis Uddin Ahmed, who was born and raised at the vicinity of the prison-house, said that they are lucky that the government has taken the initiative.

"We have been living here for three generations. There is no open place in the area where one can breathe freely. When the place is turned into a park, we will be the happiest," said Anis Uddin Ahmed.
 
Latest for the Dhaka Elevated Expressway project...

Eastern Dhaka suburbia, Purbachal current situation. Still idyllic but not for long...


Latest Purbachal Tower plan with Powerpack Holdings (BD) and Kajima Corp. (Japan). Ignore the political garbage...

142 story tower plan is dead as I predicted long ago, bunch of fraudsters. Powerpack (if they can pull it off and I believe they have a much more solid basis in business) is a better more credible party, as is Kajima and the rest of the Asian partners.

 
A Country House: A Holiday Destination for an Extended Family | FORM.3 architects
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Name: FORM. 3 architects | Ar. Md. Didarul Islam Bhuiyan, Ar. Dilruba Ferdous Shuvra, Ar. A K M Muajjam Hossain, Ar. Sabiha Sultana Sara
Year: 2014
Location: Faridpur
Client: Mr. Rubel Aziz
The cosmopolitan lifestyle has given us a lot and also, has taken away more. The families are there, but not in the true sense. People are connected to one another via phone, e-mail, social media, parties, business and institutions. The bond people used to share through their house is almost extinct. There are no strings attached. There is no way we can deny our lifestyle. But yet, we can also not deny the urge of the place to create memory – the place to be with family. The following project by FORM.3architects is designed with an intention to REINSTATE THE LOST INHERITANCE and also, to meet the philosophical and psychological need of the urban people.
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Conceptual Sketch | © FORM.3 architects

From the Architect :

This very project intended to be the place to house the family in greater sense, amidst the vast landscape of the Jute Mill (client-owned) premise. THREE GENERATIONS OF AN EXTENDED FAMILY were to be housed here, to be together and to make this building a home truly. The 5 brothers, one of whom is the client, would come here with their families and the parents, and friends sometimes. It was a challenge to make it a place TO CREATE MEMORIES for all these people who would come here to get rid of urban life’s hustle and bustle in a very remote and serene setting.


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Home away from home | photo credit: Imran Hasan & Mahfuzul Hasan Rana


LOCAL BUILDING TECHNIQUES are the key to the construction of this building. Also only LOCAL MASONS were appointed to complete the job. They had been trained by the architects and engineers to support the whole construction. KNOWLEDGE SHARING with the masons helped to take proper decision and adopt the appropriate construction techniques. Some decisions were made through several TRIALS AND ERRORS like string/cable railing of the stair, offset cut switch boxes in concrete walls etc.
The context falls within the tropic. Key features are BURNING EQUATORIAL SUN and BEATING RAIN. But the tropic covers around 40 percent of the total surface area of the Earth and thus covers around 40 percent, if not more, of the total architecture all over the world. But the characteristics of these buildings vary, as the MICRO-CLIMATE ranges in a huge variety. In this particular case, the context lies in a WARM-HUMID zone. The function of the building here is to modify the ENVIRONMENT. We expect the buildings to keep us dry when it rains, keep warm when cold and to cool us when hot.

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The entrance flowing into the central courtyard | photo credit: Imran Hasan


Here the architecture will play ALL THESENSES_ the smell of earth after rain, the sound of birds and the wind in the trees, the texture of the earth and concrete, the transparency of the glass, even the taste of the monsoon rain. The color of the brown (wood) is also present here and there in subtle amount. The grey, the brown and the black all the neutral colors of construction matches and also complements the color of greenery and the color of seasons.

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Open to sky court | photo credit: Mahfuzul Hassan Rana


ROUGH WOODEN TEXTURED CONCRETE is selected as the primary material for its expected positive ageing characteristic. It blends with the earth as well as complements with the green surroundings. The sun plays over the rough texture whole day and creates lively exterior and interior spaces. Low maintenance is also a factor for choosing the material. Singularity is expected to be achieved by the use of concrete as floor, as walls and finally roof.

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Place of contemplation | photo credit: Mahfuzul Hassan Rana
Locally available MAHOGONY wood has been used for the whole project. It has been selected for its availability and striking natural warm color as a complementary insertion in the grey concrete ambiance. Also, factory-used packing wood has been used to minimize the wastage.

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The outdoor leaking into the indoor loft | photo credit: Md. Didarul Islam Bhuiyan

The PARASOL ROOF acts as an insulator for the whole building. The masters who practiced in our country like STANLEY TIGERMAN, CONSTANTINOS DOXIADIS, ROBERT BUI, MUZHARUL ISLAM found the parasol roof to be the most suitable archetype for warm-humid climate. The cooling effect of parasol enhanced by deep and extensive roof gardening.

The grass, creepers and any form of vegetation in the lawn and also in the roof level were chosen and taken from the surrounding ground. Therefore, when you look behind the horizon, you see only thin lines of built structure swimming through the GREEN. The ground has been merged and lifted in such a way that it feels like a camouflage.

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The place of contemplation | photo credit: Mahfuzul Hasan Rana


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LIGHT is the most vital element used in here that acts as a building material to reveal all the other materials in their true nature. The building is totally RESPONSIVE TOWARDS THE SEASONS of Bangladesh. As the season changes the tropical garden changes the mood and its color and the garden pavilion house shines within it. Even the selection of the herbs, shrubs and trees i.e. overall vegetation, are guided to act as per nature’s change. Thus, GREEN has also been used as an important building material to accentuate the nature and living condition.

The building has been built with prominently one single material in a word. To create an ACHROMATIC MARK in the abundant green was the intention. Therefore, only grey wood-shuttered concrete has been used as primary material in building the house to match the color of earth, the texture of surroundings and to celebrate sunlight & colors of seasons and nature.

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Each space is provided with cross ventilation and ample natural light. Even the roof is designed as a garden that again merges with the surrounding greenery. It’s like living in AGARDEN WITHIN A LARGE GARDEN. The wide projected garden roof is one of the most important single elements in the monsoon climate, giving protection from the burning sun and torrential rain.

The entrance is such that it cannot be defined as a conventional entrance. A door or a gateway can be an entrance to welcome people. And, when there is no door or gateway, there is a void in the house that connects outdoor to the indoor and welcomes you to the home away from home. You won’t even know when you are inside, the outdoor leaks into the indoor in such a way through the ENTRANCE VOID.

The entrance void leads towards the CENTRAL COURTYARD that contains a reflection pool with pebbles, local water-plants, sunken steps and fish. Heading straight, the eyesight goes beyond the building premise into the DENSE WOODS behind, uninterrupted. Also, beside the central courtyard, the reflection pool flows into the interior to create the PLACE OF CONTEMPLATION. You can sit here for hours and you won’t know the time passing by. Even if it is an enclosed and controlled environment, you shall always feel the outdoor and the nature in here.



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The house acts as a LIFE AQUARIUM for the young learners. Here …

Plants bloom.

Fishes vary by their size and numbers, and they grow.

Kalmilata creeps up towards the glass in the monsoon.

The overhanging plants dive towards the water surface gradually.

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Family corner | photo credit: Mahfuzul Hasan Rana


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The stair, the light holders, the string railing, the doors, the hand-rails of the doors and even the wall-inset switch boards are custom-made. All of the items are CUSTOM-DESIGNED and sometimes they individually took several trial and error phases to reach desired termination. Here, the opportunity to experiment was availed and more like a PRODUCT-DESIGNER ATTITUDE had been adopted.

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The house took time. It took time to be designed and to be constructed and to accommodate the users and their spaces and their time. It took time to be a piece of art, to be a symbol of fine indigenous craftsmanship in course of using the materials and the force of landscapes. And, it is still taking time. It is taking time to grow, and someday it will grow to be the PLACE TO CREATE MEMORIES.

A home, can it be built without emotions? Can it be built without memories? Can it be woven? And can it be built without nature?

As we mentioned before, the intention was to REINSTATE THE LOST INHERITANCE and also, to meet the philosophical and psychological need of the urban people.

In the centre there is a courtyard which is accessible from both the main approach and the back garden. It is an AMBIGUOUS PLACE where all the major spaces and levels of the home meet and where light penetrates from different angles all the day and even during the full moon which enliven the major interior spaces. The water container containing greeneries, stones, water, fishes symbolizes the PRESENCE OF LIFE in the whole house. The CHANGING MOOD of the interior spaces was imagined as one of the prior concern of the house.

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Nowadays cities occupy the centre ground and radiate their grid-like surrounding and their speed, the country means a move towards another type of achieving environment. A desire for isolation from the hassle of everyday life is there to start a dual journey. Proximity is desired to more simple and fundamental things and gradual detachments from urban networks of relationships and obligations.

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The main constraint was to find SKILLED LABOUR and CHOSEN MATERIAL in the locality. But, to attain sustainability, indigenous material and labour were used with utmost care. Local building techniques are the key to the construction of this building. Also local masons were appointed to complete the job. They had been trained by the architects and engineers to support the whole construction. KNOWLEDGE SHARING with the masons helped to take proper decision and adopt the appropriate construction techniques. Some decisions were made through several trials and errors like string/cable railing of the stair, offset cut switch boxes in concrete walls etc.
 
JUM CULTURAL COMPLEX, Rangamati | BUET
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Jum Cultural Complex © Jimi Chakma
Name: Jimi Chakma
Studio: X (Thesis)
Studio Master: Prof. Dr. Khandaker Shabbir Ahmed, Prof. Dr. Shayer Ghafur, Dr. Nasreen Hossain, Patrick D’ Rozario , Muhaimeen Islam Bhadhon, Labib Hossain
Year: 2014
University: BUET


Jum Cultural Complex is a proposed Indigenous Cultural Complex located at Manikchari; Rangamati Bangladesh. It was the Final year (5th year) thesis project of Bangladesh University of Engineering & Technology completed in 2014. Jum Cultural Complex is an initiative for the preservation, development and exposure of Jum Culture which not only promotes culture but also indigenous knowledge of sustainable living.

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Chittagong Hill Tracts, located in the Southeastern corner of Bangladesh, along the border of India and Myanmar is the home of 11indigenous groups. The Indigenous groups are Chakma, Marma, Tripura,Tanchangya,Khiyang, Chak, Khumi , Mro, Pankhoya, Lusai and Bawm , all are collectively known as Jumma people. Their distinctive culture, language and lifestyle is differs from the majority of the plain land Bengali people.

‘Jum’ is the traditional Swedish or slash and burn shifting cultivation on hilly area. The Jumma Peoples’ livelihood, music, dance, food habit, festival are directly or indirectly related to this Jum cultivation. So Jum is the common bondage and potential sign of identity among the Jumma People.



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From the colonial British Period to recent time the Jumma peoples are subjected to eviction from their ancestral land and still struggling to protect their land and culture. The built of Kaptai dam in 1960 in then East Pakistan caused hundred thousand of people evicted from their land. The so called development became the threat and fear of eviction. Recently due to decrease of land, pressure of dominant culture, lack of cultural exposure and development, the Jum Culture is on the way to extinct.

Jum Cultural Complex is an initiative for the preservation, development and exposure of Jum Culture which not only promotes culture but also indigenous knowledge of sustainable living.

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Features of traditional Houses and settlement Pattern.

Most common feature of the traditional houses is raised platform with open or semi open terraces. The houses are made of local material like bamboo, wood and sun grass which are abundantly available in the hilly area.

The settlement pattern of the houses is solely dependent on the natural settings and contour of the hill. Most of the settlements are organized along the pathway creating linear settlement patterns. The varied size pathway creates gathering and activity spaces for the inhabitants. The verandahs/decks are aligned along the pathway and oriented towards the natural view.

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The utmost consideration for this project was conservation of land, resource and natural settings; use of local material and indigenous building techniques; and mostly creating an indigenous identity.

The site (about 25 acre) is located at outskirt of Rangamati City. A spectacular view to surrounding hills and a natural stream running through the site are the major site forces for the design.



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In the design, most of the land is kept as it was with less intervention to provide ownership of the cultivable land to the adjacent village community. The functional masses are organized along a linear pathway which is connected by local roads of existing villages. The complex has no boundary and connected to village roads so that villagers could commute through the project and feel as their own. The whole complex is centralized towards the “Genhuli Hall”-Circular Multipurpose Hall attached with a water body provides gathering and activity space for the cultural activity. The water body dug for the old brickfield was recreated into a waterfront walkway.

All masses were built on a raised platform with multiple open verandah and terraces just like traditional houses.
 
Roads and Highways Headquarters, being built in Tejgaon, Dhaka

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Metrorail Update at Uttara Third Phase (Stations Structures Fabrication in full swing)

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First Public Event at Hatirjheel Amphitheater

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Dhaka Stock Exchange (DSE) leaves behind today a history 60 years
Niaz Mahmud
Published at 12:52 am November 3rd, 2019
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The country’s premier bourse Dhaka Stock Exchange (DSE) is moving to its new address at Nikunja beside the airport road today, leaving behind its 60-year-old location at Motijheel in the capital.

All necessary materials have already been moved out of the Motijheel's office to the new 13-storey ‘DSE Tower’, a top official, talking to Dhaka Tribune, has confirmed.

The construction of the new building started on March 28, 2007 and was expected to be completed in three years, but it took until recently to be completed.

The DSE Tower has been set up on 1.33 acres of land while the projected building area is 7,56,000 square feet.
Apart from the media centre, the tower houses an auditorium with a capacity of 400 people and parking facility for around 400 cars, project director Altamas Karim informs Dhaka Tribune.

Visiting new DSE Tower, Dhaka Tribune found most of the work completed, with interior decoration, lobby and corridor area almost complete.

There are three basements that will be used for car parking. The first two floors are for banks and other financial institutions.

The third floor will be exclusively for the use of DSE office. The space from the fourth to the eleventh floor has been allocated for the brokers and part of the twelfth floor is for the auditorium. The thirteenth floor is for Members’ Club.

As per DSE officials, the newly constructed tower will accommodate offices of all 250 TREC holders. The rent of the space has been fixed at Tk88 per square feet.

Another top official told Dhaka Tribune that presently about 130/140 TREC holders showed interest to shift their offices to the new building. Gradually, all of them would shift their offices there, he added.

He also said that the IT, training and publication department would not be shifted to the new building today; they would be moved there within this month.

In 1996, the government had allotted 1.33 acres of land and Tk4 crore to the DSE for constructing the tower. The construction started in 2007.

According to the DSE's annual report of 2011-2012, the construction cost of the multi-story building was estimated at Tk132 crore.

History of ‘DSE’ and “Exchange Building” at Motijheel

According to the DSE publications, eight sponsors formed the East Pakistan Stock Exchange Association Limited on April 28, 1954. As public limited company, the name was revised to East Pakistan Stock Exchange Ltd on June 23, 1962. Again on May 14, 1964, the name of East Pakistan Stock Exchange Limited was changed to ‘Dacca Stock Exchange Ltd.’

The exchange was incorporated in 1954 and the formal trading started in 1956 in Narayanganj after obtaining the certificate of commencement of business. In 1958 the exchange was shifted to Dhaka and started functioning at the Chamber Building in Motijheel C/A.

On October 1, 1957 the Stock Exchange purchased a land measuring 8.75 katha at 9F Motijheel C/A from the government and shifted to its own current location in 1959.

http://www.dhakatribune.com/business...story-60-years

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