Two-time Aga Khan Award winner Architect Marina Tabassum honoured

Architect Marina Tabassum, Bangladesh's only two-time winner of the Aga Khan Award for Architecture, was recently honoured at an event jointly organised by Ceramic Bangladesh Magazine, published by the Ceramic Manufacturers and Exporters Association (BCMEA), and ArchiConnect, a buildtech platform. The internationally renowned architect delivered a keynote titled "Between Erosion and Emergence" at the Renaissance Dhaka Gulshan Hotel, where she reflected on the projects that earned her global acclaim. Marina won the Aga Khan Award for Architecture for the first time in 2016 for Bait Ur Rouf Mosque, which was completed in 2012 on the outskirts of Dhaka. "Built with locally sourced brick and devoid of traditional Islamic iconography, it offers a contemplative space where worshippers are bathed in natural light," she said at the event. "The structure is not just a place of prayer—it's a refuge for a dense, underserved neighbourhood."