Enamul Karim Nirjhar

Enamul Karim Nirjhar (born 29 November 1962) is a Bangladeshi architect and filmmaker.Nirjhar is the founder and principal architect of System Architects. As one of the most prominent architectural studio practicing contemporary architecture of various residential, mixed use, commercial, institutional, industrial, hospitality, community development, and other projects. His eye opening interior design initiative, which targeted restaurants during the 1990s, had a strong influence on numerous restaurants in Dhaka city. By that time, he designed different conceptual restaurants in Dhaka, Chittagong, and UK like Bukhara, Santoor, Bonanza, White Castle, Asparagus, WE etc. His another idea for horror themed family entertainment restaurant Voot made a huge craze. Later he made his team much more wider for standard architecture practice. Which they called Total Architecture. Some of the notable projects includes British American Tobacco Dhaka headquarters, nina Kabbo, FeraVery recently Nirjhar initiated a new collaboration with Indian entrepreneurs and architects and started System Architects India. Furthermore, Nirjhar is one of the most prominent filmmakers of Bangladesh. His filmography includes two full-length feature films Aha! (2007), Nomuna (2009)Nirjhar's journey as an architect along with film making and song making is culminating towards creating a collaborative platform, EK Nijhar Collaborations which will be aimed towards the creative and intellectual empowerment of a young creative. The first step towards that, EK Nirjaharer Gaan, the collaborative music initiative with artists from West Bengal and Bangladesh is currently going on from the music platform Gaanshala. It hopes to become the biggest music community in south-east Asia.