Dhaka

DESIGNING PUBLICNESS: A Workshop on Assessing and Enhancing the Publicness of Urban Spaces

A two-week long training workshop from 10th — 22nd May, 2023, on learning how to assess the publicness of public spaces and develop proposals for enhancing their qualities.

Spring 2022: Dhaka Studio: Dwelling in the Delta

A collaborative studio of Bengal Institute with Global Housing Studio of TU Delft

Launch Event of “Hidden Heritage: Homes in Dhaka”

Workshop: New Urban Topologies – Dhaka

A three-day workshop with selected participants and members of Färgfabriken to understand and conceptualise urban transformations in Savar.

Bengal Institute at the Seoul Biennale of Architecture and Urbanism 2019

A Conversation Between Kazi Khaleed Ashraf and Adnan Morshed: The Future is the City but what will it be?

If the future is the city, and the city the future, what kind of a city do we want? How do we make the city civic again?

“Next Dhaka” Exhibition at Bengal Art Lounge

"Next Dhaka" was the first public exhibition of Bengal Institute's Research and Design Program's works. It featured some new thoughts and designs on and around Dhaka City.

Understanding Cities, Making Cities – Panel Discussion at Bengal Architecture Symposium 01: Now/Next

James Timberlake: “Alluvium: Dhaka, Bangladesh, in the Crossroads of Water”

“City States” A Public Lecture by Michael Sorkin

A Conversation with Gary Hack: Five Points of Solving Traffic Congestion of Dhaka

Professor Hack came to teach at Bengal Institute for Architecture, Landscapes and Settlements. Professor Kazi Khaleed Ashraf conducted this conversation with him at the Institute, focusing on several aspects of contemporary cities and their future...

Public Lecture 05: Gary Hack: “Disrupting Change and Pattern of Cities”

BI/GRU Research Logs: Air Pollution in Dhaka and its Surrounding Areas

Analysis of air pollution levels in Dhaka and its surrounding areas

Good Practices in RMG Factory Design Guidance

A guidance manual for ready-made garment factories in Bangladesh, the book presents examples of planning schemas for medium and large-scale factories in a a collaboration between the Bengal Institute for Architecture, Landscapes and Settlements (BIALS) and the International Labor Organization (ILO)

Dhaka Neighbourhood Based COVID-19 Case Rate Interactive Maps

Daily updates! Last updated with 28th June data from IEDCR.

Kakoli Intersection

Design proposal to solve a critical traffic node

Gulshan Park

Research and design project to create public open space in Dhaka

Footpath Design Guideline

An initiative to create better walkable environment for cities in Bangladesh

Design for Preservation and Renovation of Dhaka Central Jail

Proposal for the open architectural design competition for preservation and renovation of Dhaka Central Jail premise.

Dhaka Circular Light Rail (LRT)

A 40 km LRT connecting major areas of the city

Gulshan Civic Corridor

The initiative is to create active civic spaces across the neighbourhoods | A project with the Dhaka NLTA (Non-Lending Technical Assistance) program of the Sustainable Development Department of The World Bank.

Dhaka Nexus

An active and coordinated planning net for the greater neighborhoods

Buriganga Riverbank

An example of appropriate riverside development connecting both banks | A project with the Dhaka NLTA (Non-Lending Technical Assistance) program of the Sustainable Development Department of The World Bank.

Is There Good Architecture in Dhaka?

If we were concerned about the common good, about the greatest benefit for the most, and if we accept architecture as a collective art whose value is shared and benefitted by many, then it will be really futile to look for such things in Dhaka.

Sadarghat: Designing the Beginning

Kazi Khaleed Ashraf looks at how a historic riverbank can be given a much-needed face-lift

The City is the Challenge

Kazi Ashraf wrote about the key criteria for a livable Dhaka that can be implemented without ecological damage.

Balkrishna Doshi in a conversation with Kazi Khaleed Ashraf

Kazi Ashraf and Balkrishna Doshi converse about the connections that bind us culturally and architecturally and where we go from here.

Nogornama: Panel Discussion on the Future of Cities

Kazi Khaleed Ashraf. Nobonita Chowdhury, Syed Manzoorul Islam, Saif Ul Haque and Khandaker Rakibur Rahman discuss the future of Dhaka.

Early European Settlers of Dhaka

Dhrubo Alam writes about the early European immigrants who settled in Dhaka.

সবুজের অন্বেষণে

শহর ও তার সাথে গাছপালার সম্পর্ক এবং এর রূপায়ণে দ্বিজেন শর্মার প্রভাব নিয়ে লিখেছেন ফাতিহা পলিন

Thinking Density Differently

Mohammad Tauheed defends the densification of cities and explores its benefits while also questioning the narratives opposing it.

Bengal Institute at the “10 Actions for Urban-Rural Bengal” organised by ETH Global

A workshop organised by ETH Global on 30th May to shared research works on the Bengal region.

An Urbanism for Dhaka

An article by Kazi Khaleed Ashraf on The Daily Star 10th February 2019

নগর নবায়নের বয়ান

নতুন ও পুরোনর সংমিশ্রণে বসবাসযোগ‍্য আধুনিক ঢাকার পরিকল্পনা নিয়ে দৈনিক জনকন্ঠে প্রকাশিত কাজী খালিদ আশরাফের লেখা

Bengal Institute on The Daily Star’s Supplement “Rethinking urban spaces: Dhaka and beyond”

Bangladesh's most celebrated English daily The Daily Star published three articles that were contributed by Bengal Institute in their supplement "Rethinking urban spaces: Dhaka and beyond" to be published on print on February 24th 2018

Studio by Gautam Bose: Film-making using Mobile-Phones

"The Lived City" is a short-doc shot with mobile-phones about some of the neighbourhoods of #Dhaka City, it was a classroom assignment as part of Bengal Institute's academic program.

যেমন শহর দরকার “The Cities We Need” – A Keynote Presentation by Kazi Khaleed Ashraf for SmartCity Campaign

‘স্মার্টসিটি ক্যাম্পেইন' এর জন্য ধারণকৃত কাজী খালিদ আশরাফ এর মূলানুগ বক্তব্য; এখানে তিনি আধুনিক শহর এবং এর আনুষাঙ্গিক ধারণা, সেই সাথে ঢাকা এবং বাংলাদেশের অন্যান্য শহরের বর্তমান ও ভবিষ্যৎ নিয়ে আলোকপাত করেছেন।