UNB, Dhaka :
The government has already collected legendary American architect Louis I Kahn’s final drawing inventory list from the USA for proper preservation of the original design of the Parliament Complex and the mega project taken for its adjacent areas.
“The final drawing inventory list was sent from the USA on January 15, 2016,” Housing and Public Works Minister Eng Mosharraf Hossain told Parliament on Thursday replying to a starred question from ruling Jatiya
Party MP Selim Uddin (Sylhet-5).
As per the Prime Minister’s directive, the minister said officials contacted the Pensylvania University Architectural Archive, USA through email to collect Louis I Kahn’s designs of the Parliament complex and other architectural designs of the mega project taken for adjacent areas.
An amount of $ 3,550 was sent to the USA through Bangladesh Bank on November 8, 2015 as fee for finding out the design from the Architectural Archive and preparing the drawing inventory list, he said.
A process is underway to collect the designs sorting out necessary ones from the list, the minister said.
The government has already collected legendary American architect Louis I Kahn’s final drawing inventory list from the USA for proper preservation of the original design of the Parliament Complex and the mega project taken for its adjacent areas.
“The final drawing inventory list was sent from the USA on January 15, 2016,” Housing and Public Works Minister Eng Mosharraf Hossain told Parliament on Thursday replying to a starred question from ruling Jatiya
Party MP Selim Uddin (Sylhet-5).
As per the Prime Minister’s directive, the minister said officials contacted the Pensylvania University Architectural Archive, USA through email to collect Louis I Kahn’s designs of the Parliament complex and other architectural designs of the mega project taken for adjacent areas.
An amount of $ 3,550 was sent to the USA through Bangladesh Bank on November 8, 2015 as fee for finding out the design from the Architectural Archive and preparing the drawing inventory list, he said.
A process is underway to collect the designs sorting out necessary ones from the list, the minister said.
