Jatiya Sangsad Bhaban (National Parliament)

জাতীয় সংসদ ভবন

Louis Kahn's National Parliament House, rising from its lake at Sher-e-Bangla Nagar.

The real place

Jatiya Sangsad Bhaban, the National Parliament House of Bangladesh, was designed by the American architect Louis Kahn and completed in 1982. It is regarded as one of the major works of twentieth-century architecture: monumental concrete volumes cut with huge circular and triangular openings, set in an artificial lake.

In the game

The building is generated from its real OpenStreetMap outline, a ring of 177 points with 14 interior voids, and then given Kahn's banded concrete, the large geometric cut-outs, the surrounding lake and the long south steps. A dedicated test (npm run smoke) guards it, because a shape that complex is exactly what silently produces broken geometry.

You arrive on the avenue to the south, which is the classic view of it across the open ground.

How to get there

Press O and choose Jatiya Sangsad Bhaban, or press 7 when you are in the Bijoy Sarani district. Or use the button above, which opens the game at this exact spot.

Nearby

• Manik Mia Avenue

  The broad ceremonial avenue along the south side of the Parliament grounds.

• Bijoy Sarani Metro Station

  The station for Parliament: Bijoy Sarani, beside the open ground north of Jatiya Sangsad Bhaban.

• Farmgate Metro Station

  The southern edge of the game world, where the metro corridor meets central Dhaka.