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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.
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