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Hatirjheel to house largest dancing fountain
Abu Hayat Mahmud
Hatirjheel Musical Dancing Fountain will be the largest colourful water fountain in South Asia
If you visit one of Dhaka’s leisure spots, Hatirjheel lake, in the evening, you might be treated to an amazing dance of colours and music.
The 1,980 square metre Hatirjheel Musical Dancing Fountain, built in the waters of Hatirjheel lake, is the first dancing water fountain in Bangladesh.
The fountain creates aesthetic designs of different colours and three-dimensional images, achieved by employing the effects of timed sounds and light, including lasers against water particles. The water refracts and reflects the light, and in doing so, produces the images.
Project director of Hatirjheel Integrated Development Project, Major Kazi Shakil Hossain, told the Dhaka Tribune that the dancing fountain is switched on just after sunset every day on a trial basis, and will be launched before the upcoming Bengali new year, possibly on April 13.
“A new theater will also be inaugurated at the same ceremony for the fountain,” Shakil said.
“The Hatirjheel fountain shoots water and different coloured light beams 10-80 metres high, which can be seen from various surrounding locations, including Police Plaza at Gulshan 1, Merul Badda, Modhubagh, and Begunbari,” he said.
He claimed the Hatirjheel Musical Dancing Fountain will be the largest colourful water fountain in South Asia.
According to Guinness World Records, the largest fountain is located in Singapore. Covering 1,683 square metres, the Fountain of Wealth shoots water up to 13 metres high.
However, the Banpo Bridge in Seoul, South Korea, with its illuminated water curtains on both sides, is the world’s longest fountain on a bridge. Both sides of the bridge house has pumps that pass nearly 200 cubic metres of water every minute.
The water comes from the Han River 20 metres below and is illuminated by LED lights before it falls back in the river.
Abu Hayat Mahmud
Hatirjheel Musical Dancing Fountain will be the largest colourful water fountain in South Asia
If you visit one of Dhaka’s leisure spots, Hatirjheel lake, in the evening, you might be treated to an amazing dance of colours and music.
The 1,980 square metre Hatirjheel Musical Dancing Fountain, built in the waters of Hatirjheel lake, is the first dancing water fountain in Bangladesh.
The fountain creates aesthetic designs of different colours and three-dimensional images, achieved by employing the effects of timed sounds and light, including lasers against water particles. The water refracts and reflects the light, and in doing so, produces the images.
Project director of Hatirjheel Integrated Development Project, Major Kazi Shakil Hossain, told the Dhaka Tribune that the dancing fountain is switched on just after sunset every day on a trial basis, and will be launched before the upcoming Bengali new year, possibly on April 13.
“A new theater will also be inaugurated at the same ceremony for the fountain,” Shakil said.
“The Hatirjheel fountain shoots water and different coloured light beams 10-80 metres high, which can be seen from various surrounding locations, including Police Plaza at Gulshan 1, Merul Badda, Modhubagh, and Begunbari,” he said.
He claimed the Hatirjheel Musical Dancing Fountain will be the largest colourful water fountain in South Asia.
According to Guinness World Records, the largest fountain is located in Singapore. Covering 1,683 square metres, the Fountain of Wealth shoots water up to 13 metres high.
However, the Banpo Bridge in Seoul, South Korea, with its illuminated water curtains on both sides, is the world’s longest fountain on a bridge. Both sides of the bridge house has pumps that pass nearly 200 cubic metres of water every minute.
The water comes from the Han River 20 metres below and is illuminated by LED lights before it falls back in the river.
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I thought you were against posting CGI of metro projects. Or do that apply only to the India developing thread ??
Nah....by 2050 Dhaka will be above Moscow.
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Haha...fair enough.
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Shanta The Landing 104, Gulshan-2
Typical Luxury condos in Gulshan area
22 units at 3300 to 3500 sq. ft. each with lake side corner plot view, 2 underground levels of parking for 44 cars, gymnasium, multipurpose community space, jacuzzi, grand reception, waiting lounge, children's play area, community office with powder room and no parking on ground level
Typical Luxury condos in Gulshan area
22 units at 3300 to 3500 sq. ft. each with lake side corner plot view, 2 underground levels of parking for 44 cars, gymnasium, multipurpose community space, jacuzzi, grand reception, waiting lounge, children's play area, community office with powder room and no parking on ground level
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I guess the existing roads in Chittagong needs to be widened if it's going to be elevated. The traffic situation in the city is currently a mess, we are seeing flyovers being constructed one after another but they are of little use. Also, there seem to be a bit of rivalry between CCC and CDA due to some overlapping responsibilities which is seriously hurting the development of the city.
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DMTC Metro terminal and elevated rights-of-way infrastructure designs finalised...
Current status of depot development work
The metro rail (MRT line-6) project is being constructed in eight phases at a cost of Tk. 22,000 crore
Workers build a frame for the Metro Rail project in the capital’s Uttara Diyabari area on Wednesday Mehedi Hasan/Dhaka Tribune
The construction progress of the much needed metro rail project (MRT line-6) is continuing apace.
Minister of Road Transport and Bridges Obaidul Quader, on Wednesday explained that the initial delay was caused by the terrorist attack on Holy Artisan Bakery last year where several Japanese officials and consultants of the project were killed.
“Now the construction is progressing at a steady pace. The pillars of the metro rail line will be erected in the next six months and we hope to see the metro rail open in 2019,” said the minister while visiting the project’s depot in Uttara on Wednesday.
The metro rail project
The metro rail (MRT line-6) project is being constructed in eight phases at a cost of Tk22,000 crore.
Currently, the land development and civil work is being done for the depot which are phases one and two, respectively. Around two thirds of the land development work is complete.
The depot would be home to trains while will have some of them would also house office buildings, workshops, operation centre, washing plant and maintenance wings.
The 19 acres land would be developed at the cost Tk. 56.67 crore and allocation for civil work is Tk. 1,596 crore.
The civil work is being done by the Italian-Thai Development Public Company Limited and Sinohydro Corporation Limited JV and a Tokyo based construction company is developing the depot’s land.
Italian-Thai Development Public Company Limited might be given the job to build around the 12 kilometre-long viaduct between Uttara to Agargoan and nine stations at the cost of Tk4,230 crore, as per phase three and four.
The 20.1 kilometre long metro rail (MRT line-1) between Uttara to Motijheel is being constructed under the supervision of Dhaka Mass Rapid Transit Development Company.
MRT line-1 will be able to carry 60,000 passengers every hour, both ways. The first phase of the project on the Uttara to Agargoan line is set to be completed by 2019. In 2020 the entire project for MRT-6 is set to be complete.
The metro rail cars for MRT line 6 will come to the stations every 3.5 minutes, and it will take 37 minutes for the train to travel between Motijheel to Uttara, the two points at both ends of the line.
MRT lines 1, 2, 3, 4 and 5 (connecting other areas of the capital) are in planning phase too which will have common inter-connectors to MRT-6. All lines will be competed by 2035.
Some proposed traffic correction underpasses etc.
Current status of depot development work
The metro rail (MRT line-6) project is being constructed in eight phases at a cost of Tk. 22,000 crore
Workers build a frame for the Metro Rail project in the capital’s Uttara Diyabari area on Wednesday Mehedi Hasan/Dhaka Tribune
The construction progress of the much needed metro rail project (MRT line-6) is continuing apace.
Minister of Road Transport and Bridges Obaidul Quader, on Wednesday explained that the initial delay was caused by the terrorist attack on Holy Artisan Bakery last year where several Japanese officials and consultants of the project were killed.
“Now the construction is progressing at a steady pace. The pillars of the metro rail line will be erected in the next six months and we hope to see the metro rail open in 2019,” said the minister while visiting the project’s depot in Uttara on Wednesday.
The metro rail project
The metro rail (MRT line-6) project is being constructed in eight phases at a cost of Tk22,000 crore.
Currently, the land development and civil work is being done for the depot which are phases one and two, respectively. Around two thirds of the land development work is complete.
The depot would be home to trains while will have some of them would also house office buildings, workshops, operation centre, washing plant and maintenance wings.
The 19 acres land would be developed at the cost Tk. 56.67 crore and allocation for civil work is Tk. 1,596 crore.
The civil work is being done by the Italian-Thai Development Public Company Limited and Sinohydro Corporation Limited JV and a Tokyo based construction company is developing the depot’s land.
Italian-Thai Development Public Company Limited might be given the job to build around the 12 kilometre-long viaduct between Uttara to Agargoan and nine stations at the cost of Tk4,230 crore, as per phase three and four.
The 20.1 kilometre long metro rail (MRT line-1) between Uttara to Motijheel is being constructed under the supervision of Dhaka Mass Rapid Transit Development Company.
MRT line-1 will be able to carry 60,000 passengers every hour, both ways. The first phase of the project on the Uttara to Agargoan line is set to be completed by 2019. In 2020 the entire project for MRT-6 is set to be complete.
The metro rail cars for MRT line 6 will come to the stations every 3.5 minutes, and it will take 37 minutes for the train to travel between Motijheel to Uttara, the two points at both ends of the line.
MRT lines 1, 2, 3, 4 and 5 (connecting other areas of the capital) are in planning phase too which will have common inter-connectors to MRT-6. All lines will be competed by 2035.
Some proposed traffic correction underpasses etc.
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