Impress group headquarters for electronic and print media
Abstract
Impress Group marked its entrance into electronic media with the founding of the
television production house known as „Impress Telefilm Limited. back in 1997 and the
later success of which made ground for the company to commence the first digital
television channel in Bangladesh, “Channel i”. With growing businesses and the just
valuation of the 11.5 bighas of land at Tejgaon, the company is planning to build new
offices that will serve specifically as the Headquarters of the Electronic and Print Media,
housing the offices and studios of the company.s successful television channel “Channel
i”, the offices of their supporting concerns of or related to the electronic media, and the
offices of the several magazines and weeklies. Their vision is to create a state of the art
establishment that meets the current standards equivalent to the benchmarks of the
world arena, and bring the nation under the radar of the exponentially synchronic global
village. The ideology of the design is to include public access as much as possible into
the project while maintaining all the required security measures for a television station
office. This paradoxical requirement was met through proper arrangement of functions,
buffers and accessibility- these functions were initially separated in three sections, which
eventually were connected to each other with other common functions, surrounding a
public plaza. This project represents the growth of this nation.s progress, encompassing
the very ideals of the modern day Bangladesh, reflecting upon the company.s age old
motto, „Hridoye Bangladesh..