Highrises and Skyscrapers

[Jinn Baba]

Karachi seems to be the best bet for a skyline in Pakistan. How far is Karachi from something like this? This is Manila.

Over a decade at current pace.

 

[ghazi52]

Mall of Islamabad

Hoshang Pearl.....KARACHI

 

[HariPrasad]

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Karachi..The Arkadians......... 34 Floor + 24 Floor

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Beautiful .

 

[-blitzkrieg-]

Problem with Karachi is that it is much more spread out. It is around 3500 sq km in length, which makes it very difficult to have a big cluster of skyscrapers in one place. Karachi has small Skylines spread throughout numerous areas like Clifton , Bahadurabad , Chundrigar road etc.

Sorry to say but this is not the reason Karachi doesnt have a downtown with skyscrappers. Karachi missed many opportunities at different times in past for investment due to various reasons i will not gointo details but they are all political and security related.
The area from Tower all the way up to Jinnahs Mausoleum is Karachis downtown.
In breadth you can include areas of ìi chundrigarh road and Shahrah e faisal.

They all never got their due attention in regards to transportation, curbing of illegal properties and incursions. As a result the new investors moved out to clifton and other areas.
But even if you combine all that it would be a ahndful number of buildings.
Karachi was deemed to compete dubai in early 80s, but we failed miserably and we know who is to blame on this.

 

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[ghazi52]

Islamabad

 

[Imran Khan]

Karachi ppp and.mqm se jan chura le then no one can stop it

 

[N.Siddiqui]

 

[Baby Leone]

last pic is showing that Karachi is now getting a decent skyline which will be improved with time.

 

[N.Siddiqui]

 

[ghazi52]

 

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[ghazi52]

Crescent Bay by Emaar 2 towers near completion 5 Towers are under construction in Defence phase 8 Karachi

Total Towers = 7

 

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