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Original design of JS complex brought back in country

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Published: 15:39, 1 December 2016   Update: 15:18, 26 July 2020
Original design of JS complex brought back in country

Secretariat Correspondent: The copy of design of Jatiya Sangsad (JS) complex drawn by American architect Louis Isadore Kahn has been brought back to the country. The design has been brought back from the archive of University of Pennsylvania of US.

Senior Information Officer of Housing and Public Works Ministry SM Golam Kibria confirmed the matter on Thursday evening.

Kibria said the design reached the country but the ministry is yet to get its copy.

According to parliament secretariat sources, the parliament secretariat has got the design of entire Agargaon area including parliament area.

The design which was sent from the archive of University of Pennsylvania of US this evening reached Hazrat Shahjalal International Airport in Dhaka. Later, the design was brought to the parliament secretariat, the sources said.

Additional Secretary of Jatiya Sangsad A.E.M. Golam Kibria around 6:15pm said, “We have got the design. Now it will be handed over to Speaker Dr Shirin Sharmin Chaudhury.”

Earlier, a delegation led by Additional Secretary A.E.M. Golam Kibria went to the United States of America and finalised the process to bring back the original design of Jatiya Sangsad.

After that visit, it was said that 835 out of 8000 designs preserved in the Architectural Archive, University of Pennsylvania of US is directly related to the parliament secretariat. Four sets of these designs will be brought.

The parliament secretariat sources said Architecture Department of Bangladesh was informed that 8000 designs were preserved in the Architectural Archive, University of Pennsylvania of US.

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