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A square full of middle-class apartment buildings in Gulshan-e-Iqbal, Karachi. Housing in Pakistan generally consists of three classes: pakka houses (पक्का / پکّا pakkā, lit. ' "ripe" '), which are made of strong materials like brick and cement; katchi houses (کچی kachē, lit.
Hussain D'Silva Town is a small housing colony in North Nazimabad, Karachi, Pakistan. This housing colony developed in the late 1950s for the new upwardly mobile middle class, with its cottage-style houses, wide roads, parks, sewerage system, schools, and places of worship. Few houses had gates and most had waist high walls. St.
In 2015, it launched Bahria Town Karachi, the largest of its gated communities, while Bahria Enclave Islamabad (launched in 2013) is the smallest of them. [ 5 ] [ 6 ] Most of these communities are large towns in their own right, its oldest community in Southern Islamabad spans over 16,000 hectares (40,000 acres). [ 7 ]
It is one of the biggest projects in Karachi. The development will contain a series of highrise towers for residential and commercial use, [13] a shopping centre, a five-star beachfront hotel and an Iconic tower located in the heart of the project. The development includes approximately 4,000 residential apartments.
Habib Bank Plaza, built in 1963 in Karachi, was the first high-rise and the tallest building in Pakistan. It stands 102 m (335 ft) tall with 25 floors. It stands 102 m (335 ft) tall with 25 floors. It was also the tallest building in Asia from 1963 to 1965, and the tallest building in South Asia from 1963 to 1970.
Bahria Town Karachi is a privately owned gated suburb just off the M-9 Motorway northeast of Karachi, Pakistan. [2] The suburb is being developed by the Bahria Town Group , and occupies over 46,000 acres (72 sq mi; 19,000 ha).
The Crescent Bay, Karachi is a 108-acre (440,000 m2) under-construction upscale mixed-use oceanfront development in Defence, Karachi, Pakistan. It is considered one of the biggest projects in Pakistan, with a cost of $2.4 billion.
The Karachi Defence Housing Authority building is located at 2-B, East Street, Defence Phase I. In recent times, there were several complaints against encroachments by the concerned citizens in phase 6 at Khayaban-e-Seher adjacent to the commercial area. Houses were built on an area which was allocated for commercial area car parking.