Then, one day in March 1966, he received a phone call: His skyscraper was sinking. Fazlur Khan seemed an unlikely candidate for engineering stardom.The tallest structure in his hometown of Dhaka ...

Dutch studio OMA has unveiled visuals of the geometric Dhaka Tower, its first project in Bangladesh, which "expresses the aspirations of a dynamic nation". The 150-metre-high skyscraper will house ...

Fazlur Khan seemed an unlikely candidate for engineering stardom.The tallest structure in his hometown of Dhaka was fewer than three stories high. He didn’t see his first skyscraper in person ...

In recent years, Dhaka’s urban skyline has undergone a dramatic transformation, with towering skyscrapers becoming a dominant feature of the cityscape. One prominent contributor to this ...

Dhaka, May 19 (bdnews24.com) – Skyscrapers in the city are in for a torrid time. It is not Rangs Bhaban alone that is at stake; the city developers are serving notices on some more tall towers ...

He also said more skyscrapers are being constructed in Dhaka thanks to the availability of customers, with there being about two dozen projects for 30-storey buildings so far.

‘Megatall’ skyscrapers like the Burj Khalifa were made possible by a man who started life as a mischievous and lively-minded young boy, born in Dhaka, Bangladesh, in April 1929. Fazlur Khan disliked ...

Bangladesh skyscraper inferno death toll rises to 25. Dhaka (AFP) – Issued on: 29/03/2019 - 06:35. ... A day after flames tore through the 22-storey FR Tower in Dhaka, ...

Firefighters were combing through the charred shell of a Bangladesh skyscraper Friday where ... with many having jumped to their deaths.Flames tore through the 22-storey FR Tower in Dhaka on ...

Bangladesh skyscraper inferno death toll rises to 25 . AFP. The fire department ... A day after flames tore through the 22-storey FR Tower in Dhaka, trapping hundreds of office workers, ...