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Bangladeshi architect beats starry shortlist to win ‘world’s best building’

By 2022-01-25T23:07:00

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Kashef Chowdhury scoops RIBA’s international prize from Chipperfield and Wilkinson Eyre

Bangladeshi architect Kashef Chowdhury has beaten David Chipperfield and Wilkinson Eyre to land the RIBA’s International Prize for the “best new building in the world”.

His Friendship Hospital in Satkhira, south-western Bangladesh, designed with his practice Urbana, was praised by the jury for embodying an “architecture of humanity” and being an “exemplar of innovative architecture”.

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