Dhaka, Sept. 20 -- The architects and people who are involved in decision-making, planning and development in Bangladesh need to take environmental aspects into account instead of going for a "wholesale change", says an award-winning Bangladeshi architect.

"We can't just go and change the environment and landscape in a wholesale manner before we've understood the implications of the changes," architect Saif Ul Haque, one of the recipients of the 2019 Aga Khan Award for Architecture, told Dhaka Courier.

Saif Ul, a well-known architect at home, said this is what he exactly wants to pursue in the future. Saif Ul's Arcadia Education Project in South Kanarchor is one of the six winning projects of the 2019 Aga Khan Award for Architecture.

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