The Reality

Reimagining leads to rebuilding... Years later, his dream and her dream merged together and turned into a reality. They both got together with a promise to have more and more people join the brigade and help them preserve and restore whatever was left of the heritage.

What they had envisioned, has now started...

Reimagining Karachi is a process, a promise, a movement, a revolution...It is an endeavour to enable people to see beauty beyond the obvious. It is an effort to instill a sense of pride and belonging in the common man. It is an opportunity to understand our roots, our culture and past.

We are gifted with beautiful heritage, historically and architecturally. We need to understand that living in the world of restoration is both a major responsibility and a privilege. A privilege, because we own such architectural masterpieces and have such a rich culture and history; and responsibility, because it is up to us to preserve and restore these neglected, dilapidated and deteriorating buildings and historical sites. We are in the process of gathering all the data that is there on several sites that we have shortlisted. The shortlisting has been done with the help of architects, urban planners, heritage activists, department of architecture and planning from various engineering and art schools. We are trying to compile all of their work and take it further. We intend to initiate systematic, practical, timely yet aesthetically pleasing programmes to save our forgotten treasures. We are working on clusters of historically important buildings as we understand that it will have a larger impact on the environment and the social, economic and commercial activities.

We will take you on this journey with us as we go step-by-step towards a more beautiful Karachi. Join us, support us, guide us..Help us create a better world for our future generations. Merge your own dreams with our dreams and see what a world of a difference it makes when we march towards a common goal together!

Sadaf Mahmood

Faraz Khan