The Green Field Factory, a seven-storey textile facility in Rangpur run by Karupannya Rangpur Limited and designed by Nakshabid Architects, has won the RIBA International Prize, The Daily Star reports, citing CNN.

The prize, held every two years, honors the most significant and inspirational building outside the UK. RIBA's jury visited the site in September and unanimously chose the factory, describing it as a "work of quiet humility" and an "alternative model for factory design and operation."

Parametric Architecture notes that the shortlist included the BRAC University campus in Dhaka and two Belgian finalists — a renovated 1960s office building and an expanded art institute — yet the jury favored a working factory in a textile region.

RIBA President Chris Williamson, according to Parametric Architecture, called it a thoughtful design showing architecture's capacity to improve everyday working life at scale.

A building for handmade rugs now sits on a list previously reserved for museums and campuses, which the outlet reads as a deliberate recalibration toward ordinary building types.

According to The Daily Star, the more than 144,000-square-foot factory brings nature into the workplace with serene courtyards, walkways alongside ponds and a lush tropical-plant facade, plus a rooftop daycare centre, an on-site medical facility and shaded socialising areas.

Jury chair Bijoy Jain highlighted an expansive central entrance used by workers, managers and owners alike, calling it an "equanimous shared portal."

Nakshabid founder Bayejid M Khondoker told the outlet he wanted to prove "industry can breathe, nurture and inspire," adding that "a factory should not be a machine that consumes human energy. It should be a living place that restores it."

Parametric Architecture argues the win legitimizes an approach often dismissed as idealistic or uneconomic: putting dignity, landscape and environmental care into industrial and affordable buildings.

It pairs the factory with the Stirling Prize-winning Lion Green Road housing scheme in Coulsdon as twin answers to what architecture owes daily users, treating workers as citizens rather than units of labor.