A small brick hospital in rural Bangladesh with its own zigzagging canal has been named the best new building in the world, winning the RIBA International Prize 2021.
Kashef Chowdhury’s $2m Friendship hospital beat competition from David Chipperfield and Wilkinson Eyre.
It is the first “land hospital” for the NGO Friendship, for which Chowdhury has helped to convert several boats into floating hospitals in the past, designed to serve remote communities in the delta region.
