Marina Tabassum and Kashef Mahboob Chowdhury have won the award for the design of Dhaka's Bait Ur Rouf Mosque and Gaibandha's Friendship Centre, respectively. The report said that the winners were chosen by an independent jury of architectural experts appointed by the Aga Khan Foundation, named after the wealthy leader of the Ismaili branch of Shia Islam. The award money will be split between the architecture firms and clients involved in the winning projects and will partly go toward outreach activities to spread design and building knowledge. The design won rave reviews of the jury for deviating creatively away from conventional designs of a religious place. The Friendship centre in Gaibandha is an NGO training centre made out of locally sourced material.

Source: bd News24 October 04, 2016 05:37 UTC