Photo Credits belong to Zafar Iqbal at trekearth.com. The subject is a brightly colored house in Lahore. Also note the use of spot lights for night illumination as well as the few resting pigeons at the scaffoldings.
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Jo bhi hai….Lahore Lahore Hai :D
The reason I chose this photo was the initial shock I got looking at the choice of colors here. Overtime I’ve grown to like it. I think it is a beautiful attraction for bringing tourists to ‘Food Street’ Lahore. This choice of color has a definite commercial/business value. I may not want to paint my own residence in such bold colors but won’t mind looking and praising a business center as bold as this.
Other than the gaudy color scheme that does not belong to Lahore, this is an architecturally beautiful building from the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. The hybrid style incorporated many different architectural elements of European and local traditions. During this period the old and the newly British laid out Lahore saw many structures similar to this building. The Lakshmi Building at Mcleod Rd. is a prime example of this type of architecture. Most of these buildings were used for both commercial and residential purposes and were owned mostly by the effluent Hindu/Sikh merchant classes connected with the British interests. During 1947 riots many of these buildings were vandalised and then later used for shops (ground floor) and multiple-family housing/offices (upper floors). With time most of these structures have decayed and now are being pulled down to accommodate new commercial centers.
Pardon the pun guys - Lahore Blues!!!!!!!!!
I apologise in advance but I am in a cheerful mood thanks to the upcoming demise of Mush & Co, I cannot say it better other than saying Pakistan Zindabad, see below:
http://www.otherpakistan.org/archive.html
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Wasim
Erm, its a house in Gawalmandi food street! And it was renovated like that for tourism purposes
is that the actual color of the building? all original?
Ugh!!
very pretentious but so cultural!