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Siddiqui, Ahmed Ali, Farhan Feroz Ali, Usama Arif. Location: Hussainabad, Karachi, Pakistan Consultants: Electrical - Eleken Associates, Plumbing - Matrix Consultants Contractor: Various Total Area: 9 acres Completion Date: February 2025 Photography by: Saifullah Sami, Mahrukh Rizvi, Bilal Yousuf This is a renovation of a state-run school into a teacher training college. Our approach was similar to that which we use in all our work: a sense of promenade, climatic response and place-making. The landscaping of the campus simply responds to the existing trees, creating pathways around and towards them as well as pause spaces underneath. The design adds sandstone plinths to the existing buildings, a reference to the 14th century necropolis of Makli near Thatta, serve as a datum to bring the master plan together. The Academic Building is the centerpiece of the campus. its courtyard named Academic Court was originally paved with glossy porcelain and its surrounding walkways separated by parapets from the open space. From the start we sensed the potential of this space to signify a rite of passage - an initiation, a process and a culmination - in essence a promenade. An essential part of the promenade is the amphitheater we added. it serves as the end of a visual and movement axis as well as the symbolic culmination of an academic journey for the women that study for four years at GECE, training to become school teachers in the public schools of Pakistan. Made of demolition rubble, earth fill, brick tiles and washed terrazzo, the steps accommodate the existing trees in a manner that creates seating alcoves. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/57d7ac06440243101e3d25bf/1746239498273-LY3INM4OED9F7NO4LKI3/BIL_0550-Edit.jpg Projects - Cedar College - Hill Park Campus Client & Owner: Cedar College Design Scope: Architecture, Landscape architecture, Interior Design Design Team: Saifullah Sami, Noman Ali, Maliha Hasan, Saniya Khan Location: Hill Park, PECHS Karachi, Pakistan Consultants: Electrical - Econs Associates, Plumbing - Matrix Consultants Contractor: Al-Raheem Total Area: 30,000 sq ft Completion Date: November 2021 Photography by: Mohammad Bilal Yousuf This is a renovation of a school into an A-level college. Our approach was similar to that which we use in all our work: a sense of promenade, climatic response and place-making. The site occupies the edge of a hill such that two accesses are created - one from the top of the hill and another one from below. This allows the design to have two faces - one that presents a three storey front with the main entrance and the other a five storey volume as secondary entrance. An internal staircase that served the original building was replaced by two externally located staircases as an idea of promenade with views to the outside and city beyond. For functional reasons natural light had to be brought into the building which necessitated the addition of glazed windows. At the same time bamboo was used to create light-weight shades and screens for protection from the strong Karachi sun The design adds sandstone plinths to echo the beautifully grounded early modern architecture of Karachi, excellent examples of which - such as the house of Architect Mehdi Ali Mirza - used to exist at Hill Park. As the site is restricted in size, the socialization zone and cafeteria is zoned on the roof, surrounded by a high bamboo fence that serves as the crown of the facade. A first floor terrace with bamboo pergolas, accessed via a cascading staircase, above the newly added laboratory offers students a second option for outdoor social interaction. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/57d7ac06440243101e3d25bf/1746083429700-X1WCTVIA5V0C09SEUKLB/2cc5f77e-c4eb-4549-8d3c-eb404dfe4b9f.JPG Projects -   Project Name: IDEAL – Habib University Client & Owner: Habib University Design Team: Mohammad Bilal Yusuf, Saima Khan, Hasham Ali, Rooshan Zamir, Saifullah Sami Location: Karachi, Pakistan Consultants: Electrical & Mechanical - Eleken Associates, Structural - Iqbal Amanullah Contractor: Aisha Interiors Total Area: 7,000 sqft Completion Date: April 2025 Photography by: Aisha Interiors IDEAL or the Institute of Design Thinking, Entrepreneurship, and Leadership is a multi-disciplinary learning space at Habib University. The program for the Institute provides “collaborative opportunities where students from different fields work together to tackle real-world problems. Platforms, labs and incubator-style initiatives will be undertaken to allow students to apply Design Thinking to real-world problem-solving, fostering an entrepreneurial mindset and leadership capacity.” Based on this pedagogical aspiration, the environmental design of IDEAL is conceived as open, flexible, colorful, connected, rich in materials, and geared towards making. A double-height space on the second floor of the University’s administration block is converted into a sectionally open lofted environment, bathed in natural light from its curtain walls on two sides. The lower floor is dedicated to making and collaborating while the loft is dedicated to computing. Whereas these two endeavors are traditionally kept separate, at IDEAL an open stair doubling as an arena or “agora” connects them as does the double height void at the culmination of the space. As is appropriate for a hands-on making lab, service elements such as ducts and exhausts are expressed as beautiful parts in the architecture of fabrication. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/57d7ac06440243101e3d25bf/1707912597389-34WR0E4XV1WC4PGJ8WJF/IMG_2537.JPG Projects - Horizon - Habib University Client & Owner: Habib University Design Team: Mohammad Bilal Yusuf, Saima Khan, Hasham Ali, Rooshan Zamir, Saifullah Sami Location: Karachi, Pakistan Consultants: Electrical & Mechanical - Eleken Associates, Structural - Iqbal Amanullah Contractor: Aisha Interiors Total Area: 16,000 sqft Completion Date: Nov 2023 Photography by: Focus, Anomaly Lab Horizon at Habib University is a free-flowing, prolific space of active centers and reflective edges – a place where there is both engaged hands-on action as well as detached reflective discourse pertaining to that action. We turn to nature for formal elements as the essential building blocks of this environment: CHRYSALIS (A Center element): This inspired the design of our classrooms which are delimited by collapsible dividers that can contract, expand and connect the classroom spaces all over Horizon. TRUNK (A Center element): depicted graphically as a leafy canopy ceiling, the tree trunk energetically conveys people, materials and resources all around Horizon. MEMBRANE (An Edge element): The sinuous, transparent edge of classrooms with the Trunk corridor opens the class for view from the corridors – a kind of viewing gallery. TIDAL POOLS (An Edge element): On the edge of the raging ocean, tidal pools are placid havens nurturing delicate life. At Horizon these pools give form to calm open meeting spaces at the edge of active circulation routes. HONEYCOMB (An Edge element): Honeycombs are cellular structures, synonymous with intense introverted production processes in nature. The “hexapod” at Horizon is an element that is similarly introverted, quiet, located at edges and given to smaller group and individual activity away from the classrooms. NEST (A Center element): is a nurturing space filled with natural breeze and an openness giving panoramic prospect over the city. It is also literally nourishing in that this is where the inhabitants of Horizon enjoy a wholesome meal. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/57d7ac06440243101e3d25bf/1707915524801-GPJU3HQ5VLN0IQNGWQ6K/BIL_0741.jpg Projects - Swimming Pool Enclosure - Habib University Client & Owner: Habib University Design Scope: Architecture, Landscape architecture Design Team: Saifullah Sami, Umair Siddiqui, Location: Habib University Karachi, Pakistan Consultants: Structural Iqbal Amanullah Total Area: 11,000 sq ft Completion Date: 2016 Photography by: Mohammad Bilal Yusuf Habib University gave a pragmatic brief on a tight budget for an enclosure for its 25meter pool. “Purdah” or privacy during ladies’ swimming sessions required that views into the pool area be curtailed from adjacent roofs, terraces and other vantage points. Swimmers were also to be protected from the strong Karachi sun. Envisioning the swimming experience as an immersion into nature, we conceived of the enclosure as a space both interior and exterior. The roof is a modulator of sunlight, shade, reflections and breezes in addition to views. The enclosure walls are detached from the roof to create a sense of openness and allow vegetation. The structure is a composite of concrete frame, mild steel trusses and bamboo infill. The enclosing boundary wall is masonry clad with local yellow sandstone found in the coastal areas of Pakistan. Materials including terracotta flooring were all chosen to create a sense of the swimming pool as a space for nature. The roof form is a gently warped bamboo plane described by a series of pitched trusses that change profile sequentially. Starting flat at the north-west end near the campus buildings, the pitch of the steel trusses increases as the roof progresses southwest - ie towards the wind direction. This is also the direction in which no buildings are allowed by Civil Aviation height limits. Therefore the roof - a hyperbolic paraboloid - can open up to allow breezes in as well as views of the sky from within the swimming pool area. The gaps between the bamboos cast dappled sunlight on the water in addition to illuminating the space functionally. The crookedness of the bamboo is in accompaniment to the rippling of the water creating two fluid surfaces in dialogue. This project is a first step in our exploration of a culturally attuned architecture that is yet open to the natural gifts of Karachi, melding indoors and outdoors. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/57d7ac06440243101e3d25bf/1707913427233-II9VYWKLKPOK7224M3DW/WhatsApp+Image+2024-02-14+at+5.16.06+PM+%284%29.jpeg Projects - Habib University Courtyard Landscapes Client & Owner: Habib University Design Scope: Landscape architecture Design Team: Bilal Yusuf, Saifullah Sami, Umair Siddiqui, Location: Habib University Karachi, Pakistan Consultants: MEP - Eleken Associates Total Area: 11,000 sq ft Completion Date: 2019 Photography by: Mohammad Bilal Yusuf Habib University campus is intrinsically a campus that connects outside with inside spaces and as such calls for a landscaping program to humanize its courtyards, walks and terraces The Science Labs on the Ground Floor are connected by a series of outdoor spaces both covered and open to sky. A landscape is proposed to make these spaces inhabitable and usable by students. As befits a Science program, the concept for design is the natural elements: earth, air, water and fire The Earth Courtyard features a tiered mound that is planted with vegetation and that serves as seating for students looking at a performance, holding an outdoor class or just taking a break between sessions. Air Courtyard is the entrance on the western edge of campus for not just people but also the breeze. The space is therefore designed as a very open seating space enlivened by furniture composed of light-looking steel frames that let the wind pass through. Water Walkway connects the earth courtyard with the other spaces in the landscape. As a reflective and life giving element, the spaces serves the energy of students moving to and fro, providing pockets to sustain, and a kiosk to refuel the working environment. Fire Courtyard being the resolution, provides a silent, reflective space for the students, acting as the entry court for the science labs. A composition of igneous rocks on gravel, and flickering lights under the open sky is reminiscent of a desert. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/57d7ac06440243101e3d25bf/1642912705373-T4M3NLP4P8FU8LDBVDYI/727BB24E-BF62-4413-B037-A07391792027.jpeg Projects - House with a Pool Client & Owner: Habib University Design Scope: Architecture, Landscape architecture Design Team: Saifullah Sami, Umair Siddiqui, Raza Aziz, Never Khatri, Akhlaq Ahmed Location: Bahrain Town Karachi, Pakistan Consultants: Structural - Mushtaq & Bilal, Mechanical Electrical & Plumbing - SMC Total Area: 65,000 sq ft built-up, 12,000 sq yd plot Completion Date: 2019 Photography by: Mohammad Bilal Yusuf Bahria Town, on the outskirts of Karachi, is an undulating landscape of bare, dusty, parched hills. Two kilometers beyond the grandiose entrance gate off Super Highway, past the first array of flats and townhouses, buildings begin to dwindle. Thereafter, the rugged terrain is civilized by street-light lined tarmac roads but only just. In the empty expanse of desert, nary a dwelling is to be found at present. For as far as the eye can see, the horizontal dominates. Nested in a valley of this terrain, so that one approaches it winding downwards from a higher level, is a house in dark hues composed of floating planes anchored by free-standing wall planes sliding past each other in a composition that echoes geological formations or a pile of rocks. Horizontal Planes echo the landscape: floating roofs rooted to the earth with heavy grey walls or ponderous podiums and platforms civilizing the bare desert floor. The house is a point marker in a vast expanse of uninhabited, unbuilt topography and at its heart is a pool of water. The House with a Pool is a family retreat for its owner, a major figure in the construction industry of Pakistan, and his wife and four daughters. Its site is open on three sides with a single north edge abutting another residential plot. Two sides overlook a golf course. This exposure from all sides necessitates addressing each side of the built form as a façade complete unto itself and as a unique aspect of the house. The east façade facing the road becomes the entry plane, the north façade is the garden face and the true “front”, the west façade is the golf course face and the south façade the lake face. The house is designed to provide a suite for each daughter, three of whom are married. In addition to the private living spaces of the owner and his wife, each daughter has a suite. This contributes to the expansiveness of the house. The suites are configured as fingers that extend out towards the landscape, held together as one by the heart of the house: multi-height lounge and the swimming pool covered with a pergola. The suites and social spaces face north towards the expansive garden. Protected from the sun due to this orientation, glazed window walls establish a continuity between interior and exterior spaces. As part of the in-between space, the link between home and wilderness, the pool terrace holds together a cascading arrangement of semi-open decks, walkways and gazebos that enmesh the house with the landscaping. This penetration of landscape elements, especially water and sky, helps preserve human scale in a dwelling whose proportions and size (65,000sqft built area) are really that of a mansion. The master plan divides the site into the house and a rolling garden yet these entities are enmeshed through semi-open and semi covered spaces and terraces that step down to the garden. The site is about 8 feet below road level and rolls towards the lake. By virtue of this topography the entry level or ground floor is the middle level and the basement is really a lower ground level that is open to the garden and looks towards the lake. The main interior axis of the house is perpendicular (i.e. east-west) to the entry façade, ending in staircases that take the promenade in the vertical dimension both upwards and down. The lounges, breakfast space, dining hall and drawing room with their views to the north and south gardens are lateral to this axis as are the suites. The suites because of their perpendicular orientation to the central axis, are entered via corridors that establish their privacy and sense of remove from the social spaces. With three major floors of accommodation, the house is animated with intermediate levels to create an interior topography that serves to break scale. The owner’s workspaces take up one wing of the house on an intermediate level between ground and first, overlooking the lake of an adjoining golf course. The owner’s suite is on the ground floor, those of his daughters on the first floor and recreational spaces (home theatre, multi-purpose hall, indoor games and bowling alley) and services at basement or lower ground floor. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/57d7ac06440243101e3d25bf/1746016894573-PRAOLAJFWUNGFF2KC7PG/_DSC7540-HDR.jpg Projects - Beached Vessel Client & Owner: Jafferjees Design Scope: Architecture, Landscape architecture Design Team: Saifullah Sami, Raza Aziz, Rooshan Zamir Location: Hawkes’ Bay, Karachi, Pakistan Consultants: Structural - Nafees Khatri, Mechanical Electrical & Plumbing - Seljuk Associates Total Area: 1,800 soft Completion Date: February 2025 Photography by: Keen Eye This beach hut looks out not only towards the Indian Ocean but also towards the mangrove forests - a fast disappearing natural asset of the city. To this effect, the pavilion-like structure offers various vantage points. To create a sense of prospect and refuge, a cantilevered roof above the ground floor deck affords an unhindered panorama of the ocean. A lighter pergola roof of bamboo spans the first floor to offer a shaded stepped terrace served by a bar and bench. The interior space is laid out as an architectural promenade towards the sea. A sequence of expanding and contracting spaces - including an interstitial cascading staircase - before the final release at the beach-front. The environment of Karachi’s coastline is highly corrosive with deteriorated hulks of beach houses littering the beaches. As a protective measure the exposed faces of concrete are encased in white sandstone. Reminiscent of a beached vessel, the design of the plinth is that of a raised plateau with a tapered face to break the force of the nocturnal high tide. The form of the house is yet another expression of our search for an architecture of “platforms and plateaus” - to use Jorn Utzon’s phrase. The floor as a dominant architectural element assumes an important place in our work because of its role in creating a place and in creating a grounded human experience (we’re never too far from a horizontal plane………) Local light quality is also important for the definition of place. At this beach hut the strong Karachi sun plays off of masses and filters through linear elements. The shadows cast bring a sense of repose in an environment of high solar exposure. The much-maligned tree Conocarpus - itself a type of mangrove - is incorporated into the landscaping of the beach house as this is its true habitat. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/57d7ac06440243101e3d25bf/1746960938282-FVOC1U5JANB0EU5B0DZX/165C3E5D-C347-4C03-BAAB-957EB881996B+2.jpg Projects - The Karachi House as Refuge Client & Owner: Uzma and Turan Quettawala Design Scope: Architecture, Interior Design, Landscape architecture Design Team: Saifullah Sami, Bilal Yusuf, Fareed Ansari, Rooshan Zamir, Hasham Ali Location: Defence Housing Society, Karachi, Pakistan Consultants: Structural - Nafees Khatri, Mechanical & Electrical - Seljuk Associates, Plumbing - Matrix Total Area: 10,000 sq ft Completion Date: May 2025 Photography by: Saifullah Sami, Mohammad Bilal Yusuf The form of this house came from a search for a sense of prospect and refuge in the Karachi dwelling. A deep-set double-height void in the front facade opens up to the cool evening breezes from the west - a gift of Karachi - yet retains privacy from the street outside and shading from the low afternoon sun. A terrace inside the void offers prospect and refuge to a first floor lounge which the family of three spends its time together in. The design of this terrace explores our idea of “cave” - a spatial archetype we feel works well climatically as well as from the point of view of shelter in the hot, dusty, noisy and bustling environment of Karachi. The idea of cave permeates the house as it offers a variety of points of refuge and rest with views to the outside - some tall and expansive, others narrow and focused. A sky-lit, cascading wood and steel staircase with open risers connects all internal floors and brings light into the basement - itself a cool and restfully lit space to withdraw into. The roof is designed as a social space as the family regularly entertains friends and relatives. A separate external stair encased in an open tower of brick and terrazzo brings guests to the roof from the rear garden. Solar panels on the roof provide shade for this purpose. Creepers will be planted in a deep planter cast into the concrete roof parapet at the front facade. This is another project in which we have designed brick screens or “jaali” as an element to provide connection with privacy, light with shade and detail with form. The two major materials used in the house facade are brick and washed terrazzo while interiors feature terrazzo, concrete floors and wood. While the exterior has visual weight, the interiors have a luminous buoyant quality. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/57d7ac06440243101e3d25bf/1642948721359-2007MPALNTOVEEUKNJW3/42DB288F-F79D-4420-A1E7-36EA510556FC.JPG Projects - House in a Wheatfield Client & Owner: Brigadier Mohammad Saeed & Sabiha Saeed Design Scope: Architecture, Interior Design, Landscape architecture Design Team: Saifullah Sami, Umair Siddiqui, Fareed Ansari, Rooshan Zamir Location: Daibgran, Hazara, Pakistan Total Area: 4,000 sq ft Completion Date: 2020 Photography by: Saifullah Sami https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/57d7ac06440243101e3d25bf/61258307-6c2f-44eb-afc5-128af2f4dac8/Getz+Astola+Amphitheatre+_+%C2%A9+Zoral+Naik+2021-1.jpg Projects - Rooftop Landscape at a Pharmaceutical Factory Client & Owner: Getz Pharma Design Scope: Architecture, Landscape Architecture Design Team: Saifullah Sami, Saad Mohibullah, Raza Aziz, Umair Siddiqui, Ahmed Ali, Salman Mayari. Location: Korangi, Karachi, Pakistan Consultants: Electrical - Ayub Associates, Structural - Mushtaq & Bilal, Mechanical - Anwar Saadat Associates Contractor: Afzaal Associates Total Area: 33,000 sq ft Completion Date: April 2021 Photography by: Zoral Naik Photography The brief, instigated by a LEED Platinum rating bid, required us to design a landscape on the roof of a double basement parking structure in a factory. This became an opportunity to manipulate the section of the roof slab (designed flat but not yet constructed at the time of our induction into the project) for light-catchers that also became planters. In the center of the scheme we continued the sectional idea to make an amphitheater partially covered with a wood pergola. At center, corners and other critical points we designed planters deep enough for trees. Brick screens or “jaali” help address the need for passive cooling and light in the basement. This landscaped roof has become a recreational, event and cultural space for the factory and company. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/57d7ac06440243101e3d25bf/1642918235589-JJ3K9ITKE43TVPRX0HSD/Getz+Astola+Facade+%7C+%C2%A9+Zoral+Naik+2020-2.jpg Projects - Facade for a Pharmaceutical Factory Client & Owner: Getz Pharma Design Scope: Architecture Design Team: Saifullah Sami, Saad Mohibullah, Raza Aziz, Umair Siddiqui, Ahmed Ali, Salman Mayari. Location: Korangi, Karachi, Pakistan Consultants: Electrical - Ayub Associates, Structural - Mushtaq & Bilal, Mechanical - Anwar Saadat Associates Contractor: Abaseen Construction Total Area: 110,000 sq ft surface area Completion Date: April 2021 Photography by: Zoral Naik Photography https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/57d7ac06440243101e3d25bf/1746196581779-RDHCBVOFC31D1GB4IGBU/KU-DOVS-50.jpg Projects - Department of Visual Studies - Karachi University Client & Owner: Karachi University Design Scope: Architecture, Landscape Architecture Design Team: Saifullah Sami, Umair Siddiqui. Location: Karachi University Karachi, Pakistan Total Area: 153,000 sq ft surface area Completion Date: Unbuilt The proposed building for Karachi University’s Department of Visual Studies (KU-DOVS) is situated on 2.25 acres (9,105 square meters) of open land west of the Student Teacher Club (STC) building that has served as the Department’s home since its inception in 1998. The 153,000 sqft (14,214 sqm) building consists of academic spaces for 6 disciplines belonging to the visual arts and accommodates 900 students and 50 teachers. In addition to studios, lecture rooms and faculty offices, there are amenities such as a dedicated arts and architecture library, computer labs, work-shops, open-air amphitheater, sculpture garden, cafeteria and visiting artists’ residences. The administration offices, auditorium and art gallery will continue to be housed within the STC which will itself be restored to its original design as envisioned by its renowned French architect Michel Ecochard. 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Location: Kornagi, Karachi, Pakistan Total Area: 250,000 sq ft Completion Date: Unbuilt https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/57d7ac06440243101e3d25bf/1746244654981-361WRUNCAGJ3RG6JHTAG/06_JPEG.jpg Projects - MohammadI Park Housing Client & Owner: Amanullah Ai Saheba Memorial Trust (Dawoodi Bohra Community) Design Scope: Town Planning, Architecture, Landscape Architecture Design Team: Saifullah Sami, Raza Aziz, Saad Mohibullah, Umair Siddiqui, Hussain Jessarwala. Consultants: Structural - Hameedy Consultants, Plumbing - Matrix, Electrical - Eleken, Advance Location: Malir Karachi, Pakistan Total Area: 100 Acres Completion Date: Ongoing Construction https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/57d7ac06440243101e3d25bf/1643008618963-GYV2511QDJ1QFKAXWMS0/7a.jpg Projects - AKD Sales Office Client & Owner: AKD Securities Design Team: Mohammad Bilal Yusuf, Fareed Ansari, Akhlaq Ahmed, Saifullah Sami Location: North Nazimabad, Karachi, Pakistan Consultants: Electrical & Mechanical - Eleken Associates Contractor: Iqbal Amanullah Total Area: 2,000 sqft Completion Date: 2019 Photography by: Mohammad Bilal Yusuf https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/57d7ac06440243101e3d25bf/1643044086909-5TG9U97TZO1GE4OCSHXV/e61428b9-c7f8-4e02-a25e-0dd11913385a.JPG Projects - Railway Grounds Client & Owner: Government of Sindh Design Scope: Landscape Architecture, Architecture Design Team: Saifullah Sami, Usama Arif Location: II Chundrigar Road, Karachi, Pakistan Contractor: Paragon Construction Total Area: 6 acres Completion Date: Unbuilt https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/57d7ac06440243101e3d25bf/1755000751853-PF4GPTC3DAYQM692C0BL/Photoroom_20250726_201749.JPG Projects https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/57d7ac06440243101e3d25bf/1758467496433-HM7PEUT6YEZI46BMR0TY/01_FINAL.jpg Projects https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/57d7ac06440243101e3d25bf/1758522696339-42PN17UVCMUZDRM2GOP8/PHOTO-2024-01-15-18-48-13.jpg Projects https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/57d7ac06440243101e3d25bf/1758469188984-8Q74BTB5X0B4Z4V85CDB/PHOTO-2024-08-28-18-42-52.jpg Projects https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/57d7ac06440243101e3d25bf/1746625752057-WRBG8UZ7LCUQHSKYWO8Q/IMG_2627.jpg Projects https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/57d7ac06440243101e3d25bf/1642945978865-Q3ULU5WSOJRY5SLXJGNK/483FD01B-931A-4BFD-8552-3382910C485F.JPG Projects https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/57d7ac06440243101e3d25bf/1758529765530-L7BIEIYK8XZBCRXWLTND/PHOTO-2024-06-14-22-22-58+2.jpg Projects https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/57d7ac06440243101e3d25bf/1758524294667-71FDLGY88MKLSZT37GSV/cc51efc3-af4b-4e65-9d0b-0b366a22ef7c.JPG Projects https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/57d7ac06440243101e3d25bf/1758459297418-I5SW4Y0YQ7CQMHTI9Y38/PHOTO-2024-04-22-14-08-32.jpg Projects http://www.saifullahsamiarchitect.com/new-gallery-2 daily 0.75 2025-04-30 http://www.saifullahsamiarchitect.com/new-gallery-17 daily 0.75 2025-05-05 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/57d7ac06440243101e3d25bf/1707974063480-4EPQSDW8UGFXF16NB89C/WhatsApp+Image+2024-02-15+at+9.53.47+AM.jpeg New Gallery https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/57d7ac06440243101e3d25bf/1707974063480-4EPQSDW8UGFXF16NB89C/WhatsApp+Image+2024-02-15+at+9.53.47+AM.jpeg New Gallery https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/57d7ac06440243101e3d25bf/1707974153244-BDDIWY2XWSFX2E4K568A/WhatsApp+Image+2024-02-15+at+9.53.47+AM.jpeg New Gallery https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/57d7ac06440243101e3d25bf/1746438005527-L6PQA2RPHILJE7QRK08V/image-asset.jpeg New Gallery - 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