The Dhaka-based architect and previous AR Emerging winner will join the jury in London in November The Friendship Hospital in Satkhira, Bangladesh, by URBANA. Credit: courtesy of URBANA Kashef Chowdhury co-founded the Dhaka-based firm URBANA in 1995, leading the practice as principal since 2005. The practice’s projects address Bangladesh’s watery landscape: as Niklaus Graber wrote in the AR in 2019, ‘Chowdhury has developed an architecture which leaves room for water, but offers protection against it too.’ Recent projects include the Kuakata cyclone shelter and Friendship Hospital, for which URBANA won the AR Emerging awards in 2012. The cyclone shelter in Kuakata, Bangladesh, by URBANA. Credit: courtesy of URBANA AR Emerging awards 2025 Find out more and apply today Submit by 16 May 2025 to save £100 on your entry Entry deadline: 27 June 2025 Inaugurated in 1999, the AR Emerging awards support young architects and designers at a key stage in their career, promoting their best work to a worldwide audience. The awards recognise excellence in an overall body of work, rather than a singular project: entrants are asked to submit a small portfolio rather than an individual completed building. Shortlisted projects will be featured in a special edition of the AR and all finalists will present their work to our acclaimed judging panel in London this November to win the £5,000 prize. Previous winners include A Threshold, Comunal Taller de Arquitectura, Carla Juaçaba Studio, Sou Fujimoto, Klein Dytham, Anna Heringer, Bjarke Ingels, Thomas Heatherwick, Li Xiaodong and Frida Escobedo. Find out more about last year’s winning and commended projects here. 2025-04-11 AR Editors Share