Tag: Bangladesh

A ruined tin shed house, situated at the Eastern bank of Mohishkhola River gives a discrepancy between reality and imagination as it is very tough for even a highly imaginative person to make the real portrayal of the actual form of the house in reality. The surroundings of the house have been a playground of nature for 42 years as it did not get the touch of human activities. It has become a jungle land composed by nature at her playful wish.

Dhaka Stock Exchange, located in Nikunja, Dhaka is one of the major stock exchanges in Bangladesh. The Dhaka Stock Exchange tower is located beside the Dhaka-Mymensingh highway. That building had a huge mass with no green on site. Nowadays, almost all corporate houses are designed in a very specific way in Bangladesh where the landscape is ignored. Dhaka Stock Exchange Tower is the next head office of the stock exchange. Sometimes, designers and stakeholders almost forget to put a small green on the premises. There are so many stockholders, companies, broker houses, etc. These premises were surveyed and found almost zero green on site. MSH Atelier is being hired by the Dhaka Stock exchange authority to redevelop the building profile and landscape of the DSE Tower.

Anyone living in the city of Dhaka for the past ten years would somewhat agree to the fact that our cosmopolitan lifestyle has shrunken to a level where there is this overarching dominance of very few activities that happens to regulate our performative behavior regarding how we function in the city. In retrospect, the phenomenon of urban recreation offered by our city in the recent years has been so much restricted that we barely can think of alternatives when it comes to get out of the house and spend an afternoon with friends or loved ones. In so doing, we end up “eating out” and probably posing some “selfies” which of course makes its way to Facebook immediately as a gesture of our prosaic engagement with our surrounding environment and subjugating our conscience to the exploitative pragmatism of the cosmopolitan life. Little are we aware of the fact that such behavior is a result of the repetitive character of where we go and what we see in our city to replenish our insatiable inner selves.