Seven buildings by RIBA prize-winning Nakshabid Architects in Bangladesh

Nakshabid Architects, a 20-person studio Bayejid Khondoker founded in Dhaka in 2003, has just won the RIBA International Prize for its Green Field Factory in Rangpur. The biennial award goes to the best new building outside the UK, and the studio sees it as recognition of what Bangladeshi architecture can bring to conversations on climate and the dignity of labour. Dezeen marks the moment with a tour of seven of its projects.

The factory itself is a seven-storey rug works behind a big green facade, drawing on the traditional Bengali home, with natural ventilation and a design meant to flatten workplace hierarchies. Elsewhere, Aman Mosque in Narayanganj is a concrete cube in a sunken circular courtyard, its "invisible dome" formed by two crossing arches and light filtered through triangular perforations. A tiered brick mosque at the Aman cement factory in Sirajganj has become, the studio says, a gathering place for workers and neighbours alike.

In Dhaka there are two apartment schemes, one shaded by a perforated concrete skin, the other by red-brick balconies spilling with vines, plus the renovated Bangladesh Military Museum under a 120-foot glass geodesic dome. Nurpur Graveyard in Rangpur pairs burial ground with a clinic and madrasa.

Worth reading for anyone interested in climate-led building in South Asia; the museum and mosques are the ones most open to visitors.

Our summary of a story from Dezeen, published 24 October 2026. Read the original