Cubeinside Design Ltd, a prominent Bangladeshi architectural and interior design firm, has earned international acclaim after being named one of the winners at the DNA Paris Design Awards 2025—an internationally sought-after recognition for architects and creative people.
The award-winning project, Bait Ur Rayyan, is a small-scale mosque designed by Cubeinside, located near the banks of the mighty Arial Kha River in Bangladesh’s Madaripur.
The Bangladeshi firm was the consultant for the project, built for the Rokeya Feroza Foundation on a land area of 7,346 square metres.
Cubeinside says: “This particular design is an exercise of abstract interpretation of basic symbolism of Islamic architecture. Geometry has been the principal tool for this abstraction in terms of transforming both the form and spatial quality.”
The DNA Paris listed Khandaker Ashifuzzaman and Shakhawat Hossain Rocky as the lead designers of Bait Ur Rayyan, which won the award in the Public Architecture category.
The annual awards also mentioned Mehri Farnaz, Anis Khan Shanto and Abdullah Al Jaber as members of the mosque’s design team.
About the mosque, it was noted on the DNA Paris website: “A human-centric approach created a space for community, keeping the scale sacred yet intimate, using local materials like red bricks, while lights played the most vital role to uplift the spiritual entity of this mosque.”
“The concept of ‘Abstract Semiotics’ was applied in measurable mass and space, and other immeasurable aspects with a deeper perceptual level.”
DNA Paris, which celebrates the best in global design from over 70 countries, recognises excellence in Architecture, Landscape, Interior, Product and Graphic Design, with entries divided into ‘Professional’ and ‘Emerging’ categories. The latter is reserved for outstanding student work.
Farmani Group, a global authority in architecture, design and photography curation, in partnership with In Between, a Paris-based collective of creatives and thinkers, jointly organise the DNA Paris Design Awards.
In addition to typology-based subcategories, the most distinguished entries across all five disciplines and both sections are awarded the Grand Prix—the highest honour of the programme.
Recipients of the Grand Prix receive a trophy created by Studio Briand & Berthereau, designed to strike a balance between form and function, while addressing the financial and environmental constraints faced by every project.
All submissions are evaluated by an expert jury of design luminaries.
The jury committee is comprised of designers, editors and creatives who are devoted to true excellence in design.
The juries come from different countries, including the UK, the USA, Spain, Argentina, Japan, Sweden, France, Kenya, Thailand, Brazil, Italy, South Korea, Hong Kong, Mexico, Greece and Saudi Arabia.
The evaluation of entries is based on a range of criteria that are constantly adapted to current standards.
DNA Paris has already announced all winners across different categories for this year, who will be honoured at an event in Paris on October 24.
