Straw Bale Housing For Pakistan

Posted on March 24, 2010
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Owais Mughal This post is about alternative, cheaper and earthquake resistant housing for Pakistan. At ATP we’ve covered alternative building styles before when S.A.J. Shirazi wrote about using mud to build homes. A couple of my friends recently pointed out to me an earthquake resistant straw bale housing style that was practised in Pakistan (and […]

Lahore from Above: Sights to Behold

Posted on February 25, 2010
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Naveed Riaz (ATP Editor’s Note: The ATP Quiz yesterday was a teaser post as a curtain raiser for this pictorial gem. Yes, as many people guessed, that picture was of Government College (now University) Lahore; and it was taken, like the pictures in this post, by Umar Ashraf Riaz) Recently I took my son Umar […]

ATP Quiz: Guess What and Where!

Posted on February 19, 2010
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Ali Farhad Hameed (aka Darwaish) I have been away from ATP for almost a year and I thought it would a be good way to return by posting a quiz for readers. This structure somewhere in Pakistan, when existed, had a great deal of historical importance. All you have to do is guess what and where in Pakistan is this and its historical significance. As […]

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