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ARCHI TIMES - ISSN No. 2073-9001, A+i - ISSN No. 2073 - 901X

February 2008
Tower designed by Zaha Hadid Warsaw, Poland (NCS) - Zaha Hadid, the winner of the 2004 Pritzker Architecture Prize, has been chosen as the winner of an international design project to build a 257-meter-tall (843 ft).Continued	World Renowned, David Robson Professor David Robson, world recognized authority on legendary Sri Lankan architect Geoffrey Bawa and the Monsoon Style of architecture, will be in Karachi to launch his new book on..Continued
Construction on soft soil is risky The huge Waterfront Development Project currently being built on Karachi's coast is hazardous for life since it is vulnerable to seismic damage, Roland de Souza, explained while talking ..Continued	First ALUMNI forum meeting held The first Alumni meeting was held in Iqbal Campus on January 14, 2008. The basic agenda of the meeting was to collect the alumni of Architecture Department on a forum to address ... Continued
City Council of okays posh hotel The City Council adopted a resolution allowing the construction of a five-star hotel on a piece of land earlier reserved for the offices of the defunct district council amid a walkout by opposition .Continued	Building Shanghai's tower of power Before following his father into the property business, Minoru Mori dreamed of becoming a novelist. So when he returned from an October 1993 visit to Shanghai talking excitedly of a plan to .Continued
Development extremists What criterion should be used to distinguish a 'pseudo-intellectual' from a true intellectual; a pseudo-democrat from a true one; and a pseudo-nationalist from a true one? The common link, it ..Continued	ARCHITECT on ARCHITECTURE Ayesha Noorani received her National Diploma in Architecture from National College of Arts Lahore in 1982. In 1986 she established Noorani Associates and is the Principal ...Continued
Utopias and Architecture The title Utopias and Architecture may seem misleading at first, evoking a return to the study of formalist or orthodox modernism of the pre-Second World War variety, whereby the social ...Continued	Natural Architecture Natural Architecture is what the author calls a "little paper museum" which showcases the way artists and architects are creating small and medium-size buildings using the resources of the ..Continued
"Greening a Profession" The architecture profession is experiencing tremendous pressure to change the ways it perceives and shapes the built environment. A growing awareness of environmental issues ...Continued	Conservation and Religion Just a few months ago, in the shadow of the archaeology department's devolution to the provincial government, a minaret in the Lahore Fort collapsed, revealing to all just ...Continued