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London red bus campaign promotes Lahore for foreign investment
LONDON – The city of Lahore has been projected globally in London as a private real estate company has launched its campaign in several parts of London to showcase the rich heritage of Lahore on 150 of London’s iconic red buses to promote ‘LAHORE – The Heart of Pakistan’.
On some of the busiest routes of London, 150 buses carrying the banners of LAHORE – The Heart of Pakistan’ will pass through London till the middle of November 2021.
Diyar Homes, the developers of the $30 Million luxury real estate development One Canal Road, Lahore, who recently announced their collaboration with leading Italian fashion house VERSACE Ceramics, are behind the launch of mega campaign on 150 of London’s iconic red buses to promote Lahore as the travel and investment destination.
The red London buses carrying ‘LAHORE – The Heart of Pakistan’ pass from outside UK Parliament, 10 Downing Street, Edgware Road, Oxford Circus, Trafalgar Square, Park Lane, Bond Street, South Kensington, East London, Embankment and Willesden Green.
Director of Diyar Homes UK Shaan Abbas speaking to the media at the launch of buses said that Lahore has undergone a $10 Billion urban transformation in recent years cementing its place as the cultural and economic heart of Pakistan.
“It’s the preferred investment destination of Pakistan and this is the message we wanted to give to the world from London, the global capital,” he said.
Shaan Abbas said that London’s iconic red double-decker buses are carrying brand Lahore on the roads of Central London, the hub of world tourists.
During four weeks, millions will see these buses depicting the diversity and beauty of Pakistan, he said.
He said the moving buses are creating an unparalleled lasting visual impact on millions of pedestrians and motorists alike, especially the tourists.
Shaan Abbas said the bus wrapping campaign aims to introduce foreign tourists to the beautiful land of Pakistan that still remains unexplored.
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Regularization of Irregular Housing Schemes Ordinance 2021
Regulatory Objectives
Punjab Governor Chaudhry Mohammad Sarwar has enacted regulations governing private housing schemes titled “The Punjab Commission for Regularization of Irregular Housing Schemes Ordinance 2021” to build customer trust. It appears to be an active step in cracking down on illegal housing projects in Punjab Province. The Commission wants to investigate the violation. Through this regulation, the authorities have conveyed that illegal housing projects will no longer be tolerated in the province and take decisive legal action against all illegal housing societies.
What is meant by Irregular Housing Schemes?
Irregular housing scheme means a private housing scheme or a land sub-division or a built-up area that has been developed or a part of which is being developed or sold without the approval of the competent authority or in violation of the approved layout plan or the applicable laws or with the approval of the authority not competent to approve the housing scheme. Therefore, it is essential today to scrutinise and regulate to gain more trust from real estate investors & clients.
Establishment of an Active & Experienced Commission
The 2021 Planning Act constitutes a strong, experienced and knowledgeable committee. The composition of the committee is as follows.
• President: Former judge of the Supreme Court or High Court of Pakistan.
• Urban Planner with at least 20 years of experience.
• Civil Engineer with at least 20 years of experience and accreditation by a national or international professional association.
• Environmentalists with more than 20 years of experience.
• Legal expert with at least 20 years of experience in applicable law.
• Any other expert in the relevant profession in the public or private sector (co-opted by the Commission).
This mandated and experienced Commission will play a key role in regulating the irregular housing schemes in Punjab and speeding up the legalisation process.
The Commission will have the power to impose fines, recommend disciplinary action against officials and officials responsible for establishing irregular private housing schemes, regulate inappropriate land use, and recommend changes to applicable laws and regulations.
Role of Development Authorities & Local Government
The local government or development authority is responsible for providing secretarial support to the Commission and creating & submitting a database of irregular housing schemes. This support will make it easier for the Commission to identify its authority regarding housing projects.
Violation Fines against Irregular Housing Schemes
Violation fines against Irregular housing schemes will be in the following cases:
• Improper land use
• Lack of parks, open spaces or public buildings
• Missing graveyard
• Access road width is less than the required planning standard
• Internal road width is less than the specified standards
Summary
The government will not tolerate illegal housing scheme projects, and it’s being done to boost the real estate sector. The good news is that the government wants to regulate rather than ban illegal housing projects. It will undoubtedly increase customer trust. Both domestic and foreign investors are sure to show greater confidence in real estate following the completion of the irregular housing schemes ordinance 2021, enacted to establish commissions for housing projects in Punjab.
Punjab plans to set up Strategic Planning Unit to revise Rawalpindi’s Master Plan
RAWALPINDI: Realising the need to revise Rawalpindi’s master plan, the Punjab government is planning to set up the Strategic Planning Unit at the commissioner’s office.
Though, the Rawalpindi Development Authority (RDA) had commenced work on revising the master plan, it failed to proceed with it due to lack of capacity.
Rawalpindi’s first master plan was outlined in 1968 when the city was made an interim federal capital. However, once the government offices were shifted to Islamabad, the plan was not enforced. Nearly 30 years later, another master plan was prepared by a board of officials for the period 1996 to 2016.
However, when the Capital Development Authority (CDA) started work on revising its master plan, the Punjab government also felt the need to do the same with the garrison city’s master plan as both cities were interlinked and their administrations had disputes over boundaries.
A senior official of the Rawalpindi district administration told Dawn that green areas had shrunk due to mushroom growth of housing societies.
“Interestingly, Rawalpindi city lost its green areas in the last 20 years; there is no farm around the city as development projects were squeezing agricultural lands,” the official said.
He said under the law, a greenbelt had to be established around the city to make it pollution free but legal and illegal housing societies grabbed agricultural lands, adding that the RDA failed to keep an eye on the housing societies.
The official said the residential, commercial and industrial areas need to be streamlined as do the green areas.
According to the official, there are a number of planning agencies as far as the city’s growth and building control are concerned, including the RDA, cantonment boards, the Rawalpindi Municipal Corporation, the district administration and the housing and planning departments.
“These agencies have their own by-laws, work independently and without any centralised coordination or even direction,” he added.
On the other hand, Rawalpindi Commissioner Gulzar Hussain Shah said in line with the vision of Prime Minister Imran Khan, protection of agricultural land and lush plots had been ensured under the Punjab Land Rules 2020.
He said work on Rawalpindi’s master plan would be carried out on priority basis for which a Strategic Planning Unit would be set up in the commissioner’s office.
This unit will review the implementation of federal and provincial laws in mega projects in Rawalpindi, he added.
Meanwhile, the commissioner also held a meeting to review work on the master plan and urban development under Punjab Land Rules 2020. The meeting was attended by all deputy commissioners of Rawalpindi Division and other officials concerned.
Commissioner Gulzar Hussain Shah said due to urban sprawling, “our villages have also turned into cities which is causing many environmental problems”, adding that long-term and short-term planning was being done under the government’s policy to stop this process.
He said the process of construction of houses on agricultural lands would be discouraged under the law and vertical constructions would be promoted in the city limits and for this, the traffic, sewerage and water supply systems in the city would be developed in a modern way.
He said regular analysis of population growth in Rawalpindi during the last eight years should be done which would be helpful for future urban development strategy.
The commissioner said the site development zones of Rawalpindi tehsil would be created and regular urban development planning would be done by demarcating urban boundaries.
He said close cooperation between Rawalpindi Metropolitan Corporation, Rawalpindi Development Authority, Local Government and Community Development and Rawalpindi and Chaklala cantonment boards was very much needed in the process of urban development of Rawalpindi.
PM Imran launches Cadastral Map of Islamabad to ‘Defeat Qabza Groups’
Prime Minister Imran Khan on Wednesday launched the cadastral map of Islamabad to curb land record tampering, ensure monitoring of construction through imagery and provide information about land ownership.
According to the PTI, the cadastral mapping project was conceived under the vision of the prime minister to transform the old system into a modernised digital online system.
The Survey of Pakistan was assigned the task of cadastral mapping. In the first phase, digitisation of revenue records of three major cities — Karachi, Lahore and Islamabad — and state land data of the country will be done.
Islamabad’s Cadastral Mapping Project. Digitizing Land Records to transform the old Patwar System into Modern Online System
Addressing the launching ceremony, the prime minister said the project would help people verify ownership of plots which was no less than a transformational initiative.
He said the cadastral mapping of three cities would be digitalised by November this year, while the rest of the country would be covered six months after it.
The premier added there were big land grabbing groups in the country making huge money through the illegal practice.
He underlined that around Rs400 billion worth of land in the capital was either illegally occupied or lay unutilised while almost 1,000 acres of forest land was encroached upon.
He emphasised that large scale encroachment on government lands needed to be freed.
The premier regretted the country’s system didn’t have the capacity to retrieve illegally occupied land from encroachers.
He stressed the need to establish the rule of law, saying such a move would help attract investment from abroad.
PM Imran said most of the country’s problems could be resolved if overseas Pakistanis, who he said was the “country’s biggest asset”, were utilised effectively.
He said around half of the complaints of Pakistanis based overseas pertained to land grabbing.
The prime minister said that the National Database and Registration Authority (Nadra) was also introducing a system that would help users get information about projects with just a click, terming technology as the only tool that could defeat land grabbers.
Talking about climate change and its impacts on the country, the prime minister said his government was taking measures for a clean and green Pakistan.
He also lamented the chopping of trees in Pakistan, saying the government was undertaking reforestation, adding that forest cover on Srinagar Highway had grown from 45 acres to 113 acres.
Ali Sultan has successfully summited Peak Minglik Sar (6050m) in record breaking time of five & half hours from Shuverth on 22nd August 2021, and he thanked Zarkon Group for their extended support and encouragement while sharing the amazing moments captured in the harsh weather along with his film crew.
A self-organising shelter that adapts to environmental stimuli and ceramic tableware designed to stimulate the senses are included in Dezeen’s latest school show by students at Birmingham City University.
Also included is a Russian recreational area designed as a multifunctional park to meet residents’ needs, and a chair that explores hair-based discrimination while celebrating black, afro and textured hair.
“A vibrant and inspiring learning community, the school identifies strongly with the civic university movement and has a dynamic and growing reputation in practice-led research, enterprise and knowledge exchange, encompassing disciplines across the scales from Product and Furniture through Interiors, Architecture, Urban Design (from September 2021) Landscape Architecture with cross-cutting courses in Design Management and Conservation of the Historic Environment.
“We deliver an outstanding and distinctive student experience and embrace a practice, research and knowledge-based approach to our teaching demonstrated by our KTPs, our innovative BA (Hons) Design for Future Living in partnership with George Clarke’s Ministry of Building Innovation and Education (MOBIE), our transdisciplinary collaborative Co.LAB live projects and Experimental Sustainability Studio initiatives.”
Heirs of Time by Laura Hastings
“Heirs of Time explores how the memories of local communities could be archived, restored and recollected through the ‘apparatus of the heirloom’. This thesis explores key themes of time, memory, depth and transformation. Following research and investigation into the changes of a Birmingham high street, the heirloom became a physical manifestation of the built environment.
“Programmatically, underground spaces have been developed to represent long-term, consolidated memories that are not so regularly recollected, functioning as archives and experience rooms. Instead of public-facing, the overground spaces represent short-term memories, those that are regularly made and forgotten.”
Student:Laura Hastings Course: BA(Hons) Architecture Tutors: Dr Matthew Jones, Matthew Hayes and Rebecca Walker Email: ljhastings-1@talktalk.net
Equilibrium 2.0 by Pasha Jeremenko
“Equilibrium 2.0 explores self-organising architecture and its adaptations to environmental stimuli. In an extreme climate, conventional architecture cannot sustain itself, which causes the architectural paradigm to shift – from static to dynamic.
“The designed shelter adapts itself to external conditions by working together with nature in its response. The equilibrium between the synthetic and the organic opens up more opportunities for evolving architecture. The evolution, in this case, appears in the form of the technological assembly of machines.”
Student:Pasha Jeremenko Course: BA(Hons) Architecture Tutors: David Capener, Amrita Raja, Bea Martin, Rob Annable and Ian Shepherd Email: pasha.jeremenko@outlook.com
How can the music industry rebuild in a post-pandemic environment while securing its future and maintaining its culture? by Azita Maria Rushton
“Access talent is a music industry tour programme that aims to create a supportive, coherent and connected professional journey for young music enthusiasts. The programme comprises three courses taught by industry professionals, hosted in grassroots music venues located in areas of high deprivation in the UK otherwise forgotten by industry and government.
“The programme features an initiative that offers opportunities provided by industry sponsors to work and study within the music. This concept was designed to address threats to the British music industry’s ecosystem, such as poor creative careers education, inequality in music education and lack of support for grassroots music venues.”
Student: Azita Maria Rushton Course: BA (Hons) Design Management Level 6 Top-up Tutors: Nicholas Irvin Email: azita-maria.rushton@mail.bcu.ac.uk
How can design innovation and digital technology be used to create the shopping experience of the future? by Nontawat Nowarit (Addy)
“Neo – X is the integration and utilisation of Augmented Reality (AR) technology in brick-and-mortar stores to reinvigorate retail shopping experiences of the future. The project explores the challenges and opportunities of how AR could be used in retail to enhance window shopping experience and entice customers to come back into physical stores after the pandemic. The concept demonstrates the promising use of AR in window shopping and how it could become a part of the new and enhanced in-store experiences of the future.”
Student: Nontawat Nowarit (Addy) Course: BA (Hons) Design Management Level 6 Top-up Tutors: Nicholas Irvin Email: Nontawat.Nowarit@mail.bcu.ac.uk
Box For Life by Luke Reynolds
“The Box For Life project is a national tiny home community network designed to bring the tiny home movement to urban cities. I have developed both the ultimate tiny home that can be purchased at an affordable price and a flagship community site on George Street in Birmingham’s Jewellery Quarter.
“It combats the growing economic issue that sees struggling young people attempt to juggle work and social lives whilst reaching for the property ladder. The project aims to increase ‘urban opportunity’ for people in a tiny home and sustainable living communities and attract a new generation of tiny dwellers.”
Student: Luke Reynolds Course: BA Interior Architecture and Design Tutors: Christopher Maloney and Josephine Bridges Email: Ljwreynolds@gmail.com
The Emporium of Possibility by Georgia Ruscoe
“This project aims to prepare for a post-pandemic world and become the key to the escapist dream-world that people so deeply desire. Its spatial strategy will disregard hierarchy and instead focus on forming an economy built on human communities.
“It enhances creative potential through the freedom of exploration, epistemic emotions and knowledge production. Providing people with the opportunity to explore their entrepreneurial aspirations whilst combating social and environmental issues. Its goal is to move away from fast output and stop the machine age, centring on the human again by forming an age of experience and creative exploration – something that cannot be automated.”
Student: Georgia Ruscoe Course: BA Interior Architecture and Design Tutors: Christopher Maloney and Josephine Bridges Email: georgiaruscoe@gmail.com
Comfort Valley Murmansk by Linyun Jiang
“Comfort Valley is a large recreational area outside the city centre of Murmansk, Russia. This innovative design provides an opportunity to identify and implement a vibrant multifunctional park area revitalisation that can meet local residents’ needs, increase the connection between people and the site, and enhance the community environment. It utilises the natural and climatic conditions of the Arctic with sustainable technical innovations in the form of warming huts dotted through the landscape, connected with green infrastructure.”
Student: Linyun Jian Course: BA (hons) Landscape Architecture, LI Tutors: Lucas Hughes, Eccles Ng, Dawn Parke and Rasha Sayed Email: Linyun.Jiang@mail.bcu.ac.uk
Regeneration Design in Tuanjie Village by Shiyun Huang
“This landscape-led urban redevelopment creates public space for residents to live, entertain and relax. There is a diversity of activities, forming active street venues which address nighttime and daytime uses. The Unity Village will be a “new life”, a “new symbol”, and a “new landmark”.
“Inspired by the symbolic language abstracted water-towns in the Yangtze River Delta, a new symbol of a Central Park with a series of dynamic connected spaces is created. It is a new landmark integrating traditional and contemporary characteristics, enlightened by the abstract artistic conception of courtyard and landscape forms.”
Student: Shiyun Huang Course: BA(Hons) Landscape Architecture Tutors: Lucas Hughes, Eccles Ng, Dawn Parke and Rasha Sayed Email: Shiyun.Huang@mail.bcu.ac.uk
Dolcio by Katarzyna Kozlowska
“Dolcio is a collection of experimental ceramic tableware developed in response to the study of gastrophysics – the scientific analysis of how our experience of food and drink is affected by our senses and surroundings.
“Carefully composed, this series of dessert plates stimulate the senses through colour, form and texture, increasing the sweet taste of puddings and creating a more positive and mindful eating experience. By using rounded tableware, users can reduce the amount of sugar used in dishes without compromising on the taste, therefore helping to promote healthier eating habits.”
Student: Katarzyna Kozlowska Course: BA (Hons) Product and Furniture Design Tutors: Richard Underhill, Malcolm Hastings, Brian Adams and Natalie Cole Email: Katarzynakozlowskadesign@outlook.com
Zewadi by Katy Thompson
“Inspired by personal experiences growing up in a predominately white town and the Black Lives Matter movement, this chair explores hair-based discrimination and how design can celebrate black, afro and textured hair. Zewadi was designed as a functional and educational furniture piece, intended to initiate conversations surrounding this underrepresented issue.
“Zewadi uses textured black cork and rounded forms to represent black hair, whilst its throne-like scale brings empowerment to its users. Additionally, the gap in the headrest not only highlights the user’s hair but also reduces the risk of friction damage.”
Student: Katy Thompson Course: BA (Hons) Product and Furniture Design Tutors: Richard Underhill, Malcolm Hastings, Brian Adams and Natalie Cole Email: Katyt1998@gmail.com
Cardboard Products for the Design Museum by Thomas Whiskens
“Taking inspiration from the ecological principle of the edge effect, the project questions and explores how design can respond to uncertainty with creativity and dynamism while recognizing its role in Fairbourne’s narrative.
“The proposition is to create a community-owned visitor destination, together with enabling landscapes, aimed at changing the collective mindset for Fairbourne, encouraging a vision for the territory as having multiple future identities and uses beyond the engineered utility topography.
“The spectrum of landscape systems and settings draw on the unique characteristics of the existing estuary topography, from the engineered edge of the seawall, through the shifting edge of marsh and wetland to the relic uplands.”
Student: Thomas Whiskens Course: Foundation/BA Product Design Tutors: Myles Cummings, Tom Tebby, Andrew Trujillo and Anastasiya Luban
LAxArch – Canal Side Regeneration Project by Matthew Harris
“This Landscape and Architecture project was based on a location within Birmingham’s sprawling canal network. The challenge was to rejuvenate an area of the Grand Union canal in Digbeth, rethink the landscape for people using the site, and provide a kiosk to find information or buy products. This piece of work shows a section through the site.”
Student: Matthew Harris Course: Foundation/BA Architecture Tutors: Myles Cummings, Tom Tebby, Andrew Trujillo and Anastasiya Luban
Grow your own highstreet by Anita Brindley
“Imagine if our cities could become closed-loop systems where all construction materials are produced and harvested just a few metres away from the site. This scheme aims to achieve this by reforesting our high streets. Through reforesting, timber becomes a local and sustainable material source that, during its growth, absorbs vast amounts of carbon dioxide.
“Over time, the timber grown on the high street can then be harvested by locals and used to develop the local surroundings. The high street no longer becomes made up of static objects but encompasses the active processes related to the community and ecology which inhabit and support its construction.”
Student: Anita Brindley Course: MArch Architecture (RIBA Pt.2), unit: Extinction Rebellion Architecture Tutors: Professor Rachel Sara and Elly Deacon Smith Email: anitalb24@gmail.com
The Pleasure Gardens by Chloe Luvena Dent
“Inspired by the Festival Pleasure Gardens in Battersea – one of the major exhibitions organised by the post-war Labour government during the Festival of Britain in 1951 to give the British a feeling of recovery in the aftermath of WW2.
“The thesis uses hedonistic ideas of pleasure based on Jeremy Bentham’s theories to create contemporary pleasure gardens as a response to the isolating and disengaging social constraints of Covid-19. Envisioned as a series of raised platforms above London, ‘socially undistanced’ moving gimbals, as well as ornate festival structures embedded within landscaped gardens, create an ambient and fun urban experience.”
Student: Chloe Luvena Dent Course: MArch Architecture (RIBA Pt.2), unit: arena Tutors: Alessandro Columbano and Valeria Szegal Email: chloedent09@gmail.com
Fairbourne 2070 – The New Gold Rush by David Mahon
“Given its position on a low-lying salt marsh, Fairbourne can no longer be protected from flooding with rising sea levels and increased risk of storms due to climate change. Fairbourne 2070 – the new gold rush is a project to relocate and design a new Fairbourne that is resilient to climate change and fit for social demands of the year 2070 and beyond, using the principles of a circular economy.
“The new gold rush does not take resources from the landscape. It reuses those that have already been extracted and replenishes those that have been depleted.”
Student: David Mahon Course: MA Landscape Architecture Tutors: Russell Good and Dr Sandra Costa Email: davidedwardmahon@outlook.com
Fairbourne – Landscape at the Edge by Sam Rule
“Taking inspiration from the ecological principle of the edge effect, the project questions and explores how design can respond to uncertainty with creativity and dynamism while recognizing its role in Fairbourne’s narrative. The proposition is to create a community-owned visitor destination, together with enabling landscapes, to change the collective mindset for Fairbourne, encouraging a vision for the territory as having multiple future identities and uses beyond the engineered utility topography.
“The spectrum of landscape systems and settings draw on the unique characteristics of the existing estuary topography, from the engineered edge of the seawall, through the shifting edge of marsh and wetland to the relic uplands.”
Student: Sam Rule Course: MA Landscape Architecture Tutors: Russell Good and Dr Sandra Costa Email: sam.rule@outlook.com
Forest Hub by Gertruda Blazaityte
“Forest Hub is a wood innovation centre bringing researchers, students, businesses, and local residents together to collaborate and share their passion and knowledge to build a healthier and more sustainable urban city. Forest Hub also provides the local community with a space to connect with nature – both indoors and outdoors along with private and spacious studios designed for multiple uses.
“The concept focuses on sustainable and innovative design solutions by using Biomimicry where biological strategies are being used to improve building’s energy efficiency and create a multi-sensory forest-like journey that brings the user closer to nature.”
Student:Gertruda Blazaityte Course: BA Interior Architecture and Design Tutors: Christopher Maloney and Josephine Bridges Email: blazaitytegertruda@gmail.com
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