Kashef Chowdhury\/Urbana\u2019s\u00a0Friendship Hospital in Bangladesh has scooped the prestigious\u00a0RIBA International Prize 2021. The institute\u2019s award casts its net wide, celebrating outstanding, international works that \u2018demonstrate design excellence and social impact\u2019. The winning project, led by\u00a0NGO Friendship,\u00a0does just that. Not only does it provide functional and considered\u00a0architectural space for important...
Kashef Chowdhury/Urbana’s Friendship Hospital in Bangladesh has scooped the prestigious International Prize 2021. The institute’s award casts its net wide, celebrating outstanding, international works that ‘demonstrate design excellence and social impact’. The winning project, led by NGO Friendship, does just that.
The site is on former agricultural land, where rising sea levels meant that it had slowly moved away from its former use and had been converted into shrimp fisheries. It is this water element that becomes a central theme to the new design, represented by a canal that runs across the hospital campus.
‘It started life as a hospital, and grew to be a space for the resting of minds and the calming of souls,’ says Chowdhury. ‘[I was inspired by] the twin urgencies to build well for the care of humanity and to respond to the changing climatic conditions affecting the area, namely rising sea levels.’International Prize 2021 offers visibility and recognition to valuable, necessary work and showcases architecture at its best.
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