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Speaker hands over JS building design to ARCH
DHAKA, Jan 27, 2019 (BSS) – Jatiya Sangsad Speaker Dr Shrirn Sharmin
Chaudhury today handed over the architectural plan of Parliament Complex
Building, designed by American architect Louis Isadore Kahn, to the
Department of Architecture (ARCH) and the National Archive of Bangladesh.
The main design of Bangladesh Parliament Complex Building located in
capital’s Sher-e-Bangla Nagar, which reached here on December 1 in 2016, was
formally handed over to the authorities concerned of ARCH and the National
Archive at function here, an official release said.
ARCH Chief Architect Kazi Golam Nasir and Director General of the
National Archives of Bangladesh Dilip Kumar Saha received one set (10 boxes)
from the Speaker on behalf of their respective institutions.
Earlier, they also signed an agreement with the Parliament Secretariat.
Senior Secretary Dr Zafor Ahmed Khan signed the deal on behalf of the
Parliament Secretariat.
Whip of the 10th Jatiya Sangsad Atiqur Rahman Atik and Whip Iqbalur Rahim
were, among others, present.
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