KUALA LUMPUR (Reuters Life!) – A Bangladeshi school built from clay-mud and bamboo by its pupils and teachers shared in the world’s richest architecture prize on Tuesday.
It was among nine projects that split the $500,000 Aga Khan award, awarded every three years and founded by philanthropist Prince Karim Aga Khan in 1977 to recognize and encourage designs that met “the needs and aspirations of Muslim societies”.
The school, in the village of Rudrapur in northwest Bangladesh, was built by hand in four months by local craftsmen, pupils, parents and teachers under the direction of architects Anna Heringer from Austria and Eike Roswag from Germany.
Source: Reuters
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