Rajuk Bhaban

Rajuk Bhaban is the head office of Rajdhani Unnayan Kartripakkha (Rajuk), which is literally the capital development authority of the Bangladesh government. It plays a vital role for sustainable. development, planning and controlling of Dhaka metropolitan city through planned urbanizing and approves building design. It is situated at Rajuk Avenue, Dilkusha, Dhaka. This is one of the most well-known buildings of Dhaka city. Rajuk Bhaban was established in 1956 as the head office of Dhaka Improvement Trust (DIT). At that time, Rajuk Bhaban was called as DIT Bhaban. It was designed by architect Abdulhusein M Thariani.
Rajuk Bhaban is an important architectural monument of Dhaka city. It is one of the ancient buildings of East Pakistan. It is an overcrowded building. There were so many black columns in the middle point of Rajuk Bhaban, which created much confusion about the perfect uses of the column in architecture. Architect Thariyani didn’t think about the climate to design this building. Rajuk Bhaban is mainly a west face Bhaban, which consists of two different buildings named Rajuk, the main building and the Rajuk annex building. These two buildings are connected by a small over bridge.
Rajuk Bhaban is an example of the architecture of the Pakistan period. In the early period, Rajuk Bhaban looked like a very simple building but recognising the historical and architectural importance of Rajuk Bhaban, Rajuk took the idea to modernise it. The main stage of renovation took place after 2000 and introduced a great architectural look to the building.

It deals with different development projects of Dhaka city include satellite city and new city projects, sight and services project, to build commercial and industrial zone, widening roads and reduce congestions, lay out plans for better traffic circulation, providing open spaces for recreation, demolishing or constructing buildings and construction of roads, bridges, culverts, park, religious placing, shopping mall,market, car parking space, academic institution, playground and lake etc. Rajuk also takes beautification project and rehabilitation project for suffering people.

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