The following project is the Joint First in open urban design competition entitled ‘Model Streetscape of Arterial Mirpur Road’ organized by Dhaka South City Corporation in collaboration with Institute of Architects Bangladesh. The competition called upon streetscape design proposals for three-kilometre stretch of Mirpur Road [from Newmarket node at south to Dhanmondi 27 (old) node at north] as a visionary and executable model for Dhaka streets.

The competition “Creating an Urban Oasis” aimed to engage students from different disciplines related to architecture, planning and engineering from universities to submit visionary design proposal appropriate for 415 acre site of Tejgaon Old Airport .It was expected to find new horizons of ideas on how public places could be regenerated within the congested city fabric of Dhaka. The proposals needed to focus on socio-cultural, economic, environmental values, harmonization with surrounding areas. The following project (LAND+TASK)SCAPE envisaged by a group of students from BUET won the First place in the competition.

Architect Masudul Islam and his team are selected winners of International Ideas Competition on Urban Planning and Design -“Kai Tak Fantasy” initiated by Kowloon East Office of Development Bureau-Hong Kong.