Finally,
is she to confine herself to serving the
upper circuit and the affluent sections
of society by adopting the traditional mode
of the ego-centric prima donna, bringing
her dreams to fruition by using state of
the art contemporary technologies, available
to her on the web at the pressing of a keyboard
button.
All
these roles in their exciting variations
are available to her, and they need not
be mutually exclusive. -
Yasmeen
Lari
Yasmeen and suhali, her brother
has always been a part of a small group of universities'
rspected people in Pakistan.
A lifetime of honest work has aroused genuine
admiration for the architect-historian duo.
They are working on a book on Lahore.
Yasmeens ability to write history and expertise
in challanging and deriving architecture is wonderfully
underlined by Suhail's grasp of the historical
facts.
An
urban intervention project, which is still
on the boards, demonstrates the use of historic
buildings for the rejuvenation of historic
urban districts.
The city will gain a vast pedestraianized, vehicle-free
square in a most congested central district,
with Empress Market (c. 1888) as its focal point.
The surrounding existing shops would be housed in
a sunken development, around open-to-sky
atriums, at the rear of the historic structure.
Yasmeen
Lari has also written a book on the history,
politics, art and architecture of Karachi, called
'Jewel of the city.' She is one of the
two authors, she is an architect of repute,
and also the director of the Heritage Foundation.
It is in this capacity that she hepled preserve
for posterity, the architectural treasures and
beautiful old buildings of Karachi.
Her stupendous work begins with Alexander the
Great (356-323 B.C.) up to the present times.
Architect:
Yasmeen Lari,
Lari Associates
Client: Karachi Metropolitan Coropration
Location: Preedy Street, Prince Road Frere
Street and Mansfield Street
Area of Project: 390,000 sqft.
Cost of Project: Rs 500.00 million.
Year of completion: 1996.
This
financially self-supporting project has
been designed to demonstrate
the commercial and economic
vability of adaptive reuse of
historic building.
