The National Assembly Building in Dhaka, Bangladesh, known in Bengali as Jatiya Sangsad Bhaban, is the seat of the Parliament of Bangladesh, designed by the architect Louis Kahn together with Muzharul Islam and built between 1961 and its completion on January 28, 1982. Kahn's design, originally commissioned for a planned second capital of Pakistan, groups eight peripheral blocks around a central octagonal chamber, the peripheral blocks rising to 110 feet and the central block to 155 feet, and surrounds the complex on three sides with an artificial lake meant to echo the riverine landscape of Bangladesh. The main assembly chamber seats up to 354 members beneath a parabolic shell roof designed to admit natural daylight, and the complex covers about 840,000 square meters across 210 acres, among the largest legislative complexes in the world. Kahn died in 1974, before construction finished, and his associate David Wisdom oversaw the remaining work; the building received the Aga Khan Award for Architecture in 1989.
Facts
Building Type Completed Year Height (m)47.24 m converts the cited 155 feet for the central octagonal block, the tallest of the complex's nine blocks; the eight peripheral blocks rise to 110 feet (33.5 m). Classification
Standing StatusSourced to the subject's own account Building Type
Building Type (category)Government / Parliament Building 2 Connections
Has Building Type
Entity-backed identity for the building-type enum value this building already carries, resolved to an architecture concept by an explicit value-to-entity map (phase 3 bucket conversion, docs\design_entity_backed_browse_buckets_20260928.md). The building-type fact itself stays on the building unchanged.
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Source National Assembly Building, Dhaka (Wikipedia)
In the Other Atlases
- Also in Geography Atlas: Bangladesh, located there.
Sources
1. National Assembly Building, Dhaka (Wikipedia)
Wikimedia FoundationEntity description and the lead of the Wikipedia article
The National Assembly Building in Dhaka, Bangladesh, known in Bengali as Jatiya Sangsad Bhaban, is the seat of the Parliament of Bangladesh, designed by the architect Louis Kahn together with Muzharul Islam and built between 1961 and its completion on January 28, 1982. Kahn's design, originally commissioned for a planned second capital of Pakistan, groups eight peripheral blocks around a central octagonal chamber, the peripheral blocks rising to 110 feet and the central block to 155 feet, and surrounds the complex on three sides with an artificial lake meant to echo the riverine landscape of Bangladesh. The main assembly chamber seats up to 354 members beneath a parabolic shell roof designed to admit natural daylight, and the complex covers about 840,000 square meters across 210 acres, among the largest legislative complexes in the world. Kahn died in 1974, before construction finished, and his associate David Wisdom oversaw the remaining work; the building received the Aga Khan Award for Architecture in 1989.
- In Style: Brutalism, Infobox style field: Modern, Monumental
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Wikimedia Foundationlead paragraph, first sentence
The Jatiya Sangsad Bhaban is the Parliament house of Bangladesh, located at Sher-e-Bangla Nagar in Dhaka.
lead paragraph, first sentence, location clause
The Jatiya Sangsad Bhaban is the Parliament house of Bangladesh, located at Sher-e-Bangla Nagar in Dhaka.
History section, completion sentence
It was completed on 28 January 1982.
Bhaban (main building) section, block heights sentence
the eight peripheral blocks rise to a height of 110' while the central octagonal block rises to a height of 155'.
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