The landscapes of Sylhet, northeastern Bangladesh, are lush tea plantations, swamp forests, and paddy fields. As one of the wettest parts of the world, with monsoon rains relentlessly lasting weeks, there is a dialogue of understanding between people and landscape, with a history of agriculture and architecture working with extreme seasonal weather.
It will also be the site of Srihatta, a new arts and sculpture center due to open in 2024 and formed around a suite of three architectural set pieces designed by Kashef Chowdhury. With his Dhaka-based firm URBANA, Bangladeshi architect Chowdhury is recognized globally for a series of projects responding to climate change and utilizing a design language rooted in materials and context. The environmental and social issues he contends with are amplified in Bangladesh, a nation hit in 2022 by record flooding and reckoning with ongoing humanitarian crises related to the 2017 Rohingya genocide and 2021 Myanmar military coup.
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