There have been nine national elections in
Bangladesh. The first and second Parliaments used the Old Shangshad Bhaban,
which currently serves as the Prime Minister's Office.
Jatiyo Sangshad was designed by Louis Kahn.
Initially, the government had appointed Muzharul Islam as the center's
architect, but Islam deferred, instead recommending bringing in the world's top
architects for the project. He initially attempted to bring Alvar Aalto and Le
Corbusier, who were both were unavailable at the time. Islam then enlisted his
former teacher at Yale, Louis Kahn.
The design of the capital complex was developed
taking into account the aesthetic heritage of Bengal, particularly including
the Ganges delta.
Construction began in 1961 by President Ayub Khan,
the then president of Pakistan as a permanent building for the federal
legislature of both West Pakistan and East Pakistan and was completed after the
country's war of independence and several decades — on 28 January, 1982. The
complex opened the following month on 15 February for the eighth (and last)
session of the second parliament of Bangladesh and has since operated as the
sole complex for the National Assembly.
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