Every city wears its history on its skyline. In Lahore, that story began with the Mughals, who gave us domes, mosques, and gardens that still carry the city’s soul. The colonial era added red-brick institutions and civic buildings that defined order and discipline. Later, modernist Lahore rose in concrete blocks like Alhamra and WAPDA House—symbols […]
Floods have always been part of Pakistan’s story, leaving behind destruction but also resilience. From the devastating flood in 1988, when the River Ravi overflowed and submerged thousands of villages, to the more recent 2022 disaster in Swat, where entire valleys were washed away, these events remind us how unprepared our built environment often is. […]
The most ambitious river-adaptive urban development in Pakistan is called Ravi Urban City. It is a planned city that will be built in three phases and span about 46 km along the Ravi, covering about 102,000+ acres (≈41,300 ha). By channeling the Ravi into a managed, perennial water body and enclosing it with public waterfronts, […]
