A factory owner in Ashulia, Bangladesh, wanted to build a mosque for his workers. He gave the commission to a Bangladeshi architect. Not an imported name. Not a foreign firm. A local architect who understood the land, the climate, and the culture she was building for.
In 2025, Time Magazine named it one of the greatest places in the world, the first Bangladeshi building to ever appear on that list.
The entire structure is one material. One colour. Pink-pigmented concrete, perforated with small rectangular voids that filter light into the prayer hall the way hanging lanterns did in old mosques. A dome floats unsupported over the circular prayer space. The high plinth references the Bhiti, the earthen mound that Bangladeshi homes have been built upon for centuries in the deltaic floodplain. The building knows where it comes from because the architect did.
Across Africa, clients with the same resources make a different call. Foreign firms. Imported aesthetics. Buildings that could exist anywhere. The brief gets fulfilled. The opportunity gets wasted.
Trusting a local architect with his mother’s name just made global history. That should mean something to us.
Zebun Nessa Mosque, Ashulia, Bangladesh 🇧🇩 | Studio Morphogenesis | Lead Architect: Saiqa Iqbal Meghna | 6,060 sq.ft | 2023 | 📷 Asif Salman, City Syntax
Your phone isn’t personal. It’s a data sensor with a camera.
In 2026, privacy isn’t a feature. It’s a fight.
If you haven’t audited your device, you’re not the user. You’re the product.
Here’s the 18-step Ghost Protocol to take your phone back.
If your Nike sneakers are damaged you can get a new pair for free, without a receipt, within 2 years of purchase.
Nike will give you a brand-new pair or a gift card of the same value.
Nike's return policy allows you to return sneakers or apparel within 2 years of the manufacture date if they develop flaws in their materials.
Without a receipt it's 2 years from manufacture date. Inside the shoe, there's a white tag with a 4 digit (mm/yy) or 6 digit (mm/dd/yy) UPC.
Clear your calendar. The world’s biggest stage is set. 🏟️
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New York City Mayor-elect Zohran Mamdani said Israel is committing genocide in Gaza during an Oval Office meeting with US President Trump on Friday.
Trump dodged a question on whether he’d intervene if Mamdani tried to have Israeli PM Benjamin Netanyahu arrested in New York.
After more than two decades of development, the Grand Egyptian Museum has officially opened on Egypt’s Giza Plateau.
Designed by Heneghan Peng Architects, the huge complex brings together over 100,000 artefacts, including the complete Tutankhamun collection displayed in one place for the first time. The museum’s centrepiece, the Grand Staircase, rises through the structure’s halls and is lined with ancient statues, framing views of the pyramids beyond.
Easily one of the most significant museum openings of this century, the building is likely to redefine how the world experiences one of history’s greatest civilisations.
📷 Grand Egyptian Museum (GEM)
NEW: California will be the first state in the nation to sell its own insulin.
It will be $11.
No Big Pharma price gouging.
Simple, affordable healthcare. As it should be.
Whether or not you care about foreign aid, you should be very worried about what DOGE is doing to @USAID right now.
Breaching highly classified systems and unlawfully attempting to unilaterally dissolve an independent federal agency.
This is a test run.
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