Kamalapur Railway Station is the central railway station in Dhaka, Bangladesh. It is the largest railway station of the country, however the most important terminal for communication between Dhaka and whole Bangladesh. It is also one of the most modern and striking buildings in Dhaka designed by American architect Robert Boughey. Kamalapur railway station situated in the north-east side of Motijheel.

There was only one railway station in Fulbaria, Dhaka. After the partition of Bengal, Dhaka became one of the important cities. But when the station need to extended then it was planned to transfer to somewhere else and then Kamalapur was selected for extension. Once upon a time it used to be a paddy field. At the starting of the 60’s this station was built. At that time it was one of the important establishment in the east Pakistan. It was mesmerizing to people at that time as there was not so many beautiful structures in Dhaka. At that time consulting engineers Pakistan ltd established an architectural firm in Dhaka in 1960 named Berger Engineers in collaboration with the American firm Luis Berger Inc. Several architects working for them and teaching at East Pakistan University of Engineering and technology designed many institutional buildings up to 1967. An inconsistency can be traced in their work as of them had little knowledge and of them had little knowledge and experience of the local context, and often different architects were designing different architect building in the servre campus. Their works were comparatively national and neat. Among the Berger architects, Robert Bouighy maintained a consistency in architectural vocabulary, technical excellence and aesthetics in his creatives, concrete frame structures and its honest expression through ribbon window, non-load-bearing partition walls and cantilevered veranda as are some examples that characterised Bouigh’s design. An inter-marriage of spatial and structural innovation culminated in his outstanding designs of the Kamalapur railway station, which is remarkable for the open petal shaped canopy unifying a number of otherwise disjointed buildings an innovative expression through architectural forms.