Jatiya Sangsad Bhaban: Louis Kahn's Parliament House for Bangladesh

Louis Kahn's Jatiya Sangsad Bhaban — the National Parliament House of Bangladesh, rising from an artificial lake in Dhaka's Sher-e-Bangla Nagar — is one of the twentieth century's greatest buildings. Commissioned in 1962 as the assembly of Pakistan's second capital and completed only in 1982, it remains the seat of Bangladesh's parliament and a national symbol.