Tag Rafiq Azam, Shatotto Architecture For Green Living

09-09-2022

Rafiq Azam: redevelopment of Rasulbagh Children’s Park, Dhaka

In the heart of Dhaka, where there was once merely a gap in the urban fabric, there is now the Rasulbagh Children’s Park, a redevelopment project by Rafiq Azam and his firm Shatotto. Greenery used as a boundary, together with a hidden water recovery and filtration system, have transformed this park into a fully-fledged community centre.

20-07-2022

Rafiq Azam wins the CAA Robert Mathew Award 2022

Major new awards were recently given to Shatotto Architecture for Green Living and its founder, architect Rafiq Azam. The Rasulbagh children's park project in Dhaka, Bangladesh, received a special mention at the AR Public awards and was selected as a finalist for the World Architecture Festival 2022 in the Landscape-Urban category. Additionally, architect Rafiq Azam will receive the CAA Robert Mathew Life Time Achievement Award 2022.

03-12-2021

Rafiq Azam: Mayor Mohammad Hanif Jame Mosque, Dhaka

His first mosque project, Mayor Mohammad Hanif Jame Mosque in Dhaka, offers Rafiq Azam an opportunity to create a place of worship that is also a centre for civic society. The contemporary idiom of Rafiq Azam’s work is grafted onto the building tradition of Bengal.

08-05-2020

Architecture, the pandemic and the future of design: Rafiq Azam, founder of Shatotto

In only a few months, everything has changed completely. Even the world of architecture. In search of possible new scenarios, Floornature opens the discussion of a new approach to design for a time of public health emergency, publishing a series of interviews with architects all over the world. How are the big studios organising their work, and what has been the impact of the current situation on smaller architectural practices? What does it mean to design infrastructure, cultural centres and living spaces while avoiding social contact? Might the resilience we seek in buildings also be applicable to the profession of architect? Here are the architects’ responses, some in text form and others in videos, in the usual style of our portal.

06-10-2017

Rafiq Azam wins the Cityscape Awards for Emerging Markets 2017

In the pages of Floornature we rediscover some of the designs by Rafiq Azam and his Shatotto studio to celebrate his recent success in the Cityscape Awards for Emerging Markets 2017, for the South Huda's Skyline residential project in Gulshan.

24-02-2017

Rafiq Azam’s studio Shatotto is a finalist for the MIPIM Award for Best Futura Project

The Bangladesh Chancery Complex project by architect Rafiq Azam, founder of Shatotto architecture for green living, is one of four finalists for the MIPIM Award in the "Best Futura Project" category. Let us take a look at projects by the Bengali architect published in the pages of Floornature and Livegreenblog.

12-07-2013

World premiere: interview with Rafiq Azam

Rafiq Azam tells Floornature that he came to architecture via painting, still an important component of his philosophy of design. His work takes form when he is completely immersed in the spirit of a place to the point that he falls in love with it. His studio, Shatotto Architecture for green living, is based in Dhaka and works primarily in Bangladesh, where there is an urgent need for greenery in the city.

04-10-2011

Rafiq Azam: house with pool of water in Dhaka

A key representative of a new form of architecture that combines natural elements with cement, Rafiq Azam completed his most recent home in the centre of Dhaka, Bangladesh in 2010. The strong contrast between the artificial and the natural represents an attempt to create something unique despite the degradation of the city around it.