The People's Republic of Bangladesh is building its new diplomatic mission in the Tiergartenstraße ambassador district. The five-story building, which will house both the embassy and the residence, is set to be completed by 2025.

Construction has recently begun. The property is located on Tiergartenstraße between the recently completed Embassy of Indonesia and the Canisius College. This will fill the last vacant lot in the diplomatic quarter on Tiergartenstraße.

The embassy will operate from the first three floors, featuring a two-story entrance lobby with an exhibition space, a multifunctional hall for up to 200 people, the ambassador's office, offices for diplomats and local staff, a visa section, a prayer room, and various auxiliary rooms. The basement will include an underground garage as well as technical and service areas. The ambassador’s residence will occupy the fourth and fifth floors.

The German architecture firm Peter Ruge is designing the building to reflect both traditional and modern architecture from Bangladesh. "As a reference and identity-defining feature, the facades of the new building will be clad with bricks in varying shades of red," the firm explains. The bricks will be arranged both horizontally and vertically. Simple steel grids in red tile patterns will be integrated into the facade in the tradition of Jaali structures, with traditional Bangladeshi ceramic tiles placed in some sections.

A “Garden of the Scents of Bangladesh”, a “Garden of Independence” and a bamboo garden are being built around the building, which has an area of around 2,400 square meters.

Until now, Bangladesh had always been a tenant in Berlin, most recently at Kaiserin-Augusta-Allee 111 in Moabit, before that in the Spreetower commercial center on Dovestraße in Charlottenburg.

Before that, it had its embassy in Bonn in Germany and one in East Berlin in the GDR. Diplomatic relations with the GDR were established on January 16, 1972, and those with the Federal Republic only two weeks later.

Ambassador Mosharraf Hossain Bhuiyan, who has held his post for nearly four years, is also accredited to the Czech Republic and Kosovo.

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