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Introduction

AHAD TOWER is a centrally Air Conditioned multi storeyed building offering a panoramic and attractive view from all sides. Its most modern architecture is complemented by robust and skillfully engineered servies. The intelligently designed interiors of the building, offer most appropriate environment ot enhance the commerical activities and business prestrige of its occupants. Out contructional specifications and technical vigilance, enrich the quality, life and mood of the prject. AHAD TOWER strategically is located in the actual center of commerical centers of Lahore, at KALMA CHOWK, the crossing of Ferozpur Road, Main Boulevard (Gulberg) and Garden Town. More over, the location is not obstacled by any foot path or partition of service lane and main road. Hence, is easily Accessible form every conrner.

Professionally designed parking facilities, add to the convenience and sense of security to the car owners.

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Salient Features

AHAD TOWER stands at the front line amongst the most modern business points, Setting a new standard of architectural qualities, AHAD TOWER is enriched with number of buiness enhancing features.

-Centrally Air Conditioned.
-One Capsule Lift and serveral comfortable escalators.
-Two super fast lifts.
-Concealed wiring for electricity, Telephone and Cable in all shops and offices.
-Gas and water supply for offices.
-Style Introducing system of light to all shops, offices and corridors.
-Every floor equipped with close circuit television cameras for perfect vigilance and security.
-Round the Clock Security Guards on duty.
-Stand-by power generator system for emergency electric supply.
-Smoke-detector and Automatic Centeral Fire Alarm System.
-Fire-Fighting system on each floor.
-24 hours water supply.
-Garbage Schooters.
-Adequate car parking in two basements and at the front of building.
-Reserved Parking for special people.

Hey I know that intersection; it's close to Barkat Market in Garden Town I always pass it on the way to the bus terminal when I travel between the two cities.

its at Kalma Chowk

Location

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hmm i see some improvements in the design, the most noticeable is the increase in the number of storeys.
Its good to see Gulberg taking shape, Eden Towers just looks amazing from Bank Al-Falah chowk. Gulberg just needs 3-5 buildings with 16+ storeys, then it will be truly awsome.

its in garden town not gulberg, and eden tower has failed. but the building is nice. and there are more the 5 buildings in gulberg under construction which are 16+ storeys.

i know its in New Garden town, Eden Tower has failed! i think its too early to say that. and i havent seen any underconstruction 16+ storey buildings in gulberg can i have there information and exact location.

there is big city mall 17 storeys, sadiq trade center, 16 storeys, aashiana center, construction just started, and there are a few more which are gona start later this year.

eden tower has failed, the tower is nice and is good from inside too with shiny marble floors, only about 10% of all there shops were sold. and the 10% shops which were sold are also closed and up for sale.

Wow that not good. Still I think you have to give it time it may work out eventually, but 10% only?

the roof for ahad tower is awsome

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the roof top looks impressive.

so what is the status on this project? has construction commenced yet ?

well when i saw them last week they were digging the ground out, so it just started.

what about the century tower ? is it good ?

Century tower is average, nothing special. Big city 17 storeys? at present only 11 (above ground) have been completed and aashiana isnt going to be more than 7-8 (above ground) and siddique trade center is 14 storeys (above ground) and city tower is 12 (above ground), Gulberg still needs some 16+s.

Good stuff. a lot of construction going on.

Century tower is average, nothing special. Big city 17 storeys? at present only 11 (above ground) have been completed and aashiana isnt going to be more than 7-8 (above ground) and siddique trade center is 14 storeys (above ground) and city tower is 12 (above ground), Gulberg still needs some 16+s.

Waqas, since your in Lahore, can you get the brochures or advertisements from the papers, and scan them, upload them, and share them with us, because most of the on going projects in Pakistan are mostly advertised through newspapers, television ads, radio, and brochures.

but.. now advertising projects on the Internet has started. still we need to get more info. so if you could do that. it would be great.

hey pak boy i see two different designs, which 1's the final i hope that its the 1st one with more storeys.

hey pak boy i see two different designs, which 1's the final i hope that its the 1st one with more storeys.


i think its the second 1 as they added the roof later and also streched the center to make it longer. but you can go to there office and ask them and get some more pictures for us :) .

i like the second design, the building looks big and nice :D

wow this is nice, the building should have been taller though

wow this is nice, the building should have been taller though

its just a shopping mall tho .... ?

o ok then its good

are all the 17 floors for the mall

well no majors cities downtown is really dead.

sorry. come again ?

but . in Pakistan they have that Downtown thing, but they dont have the downtown concept going .... yet.. i'd love to see a few skyscrapers come up in almost every major city, like a cluster of them in one area, that would give a skyline view, and plus would look cool.

no sorry man that was for other thread, i accidentaly posted it here. lol :bash:

but still. you got an answer ! ;)

http://www.powermarketings.com/ahad/images/tower.jpg

This is the final design.

http://www.powermarketings.com/ahad/images/tower.jpg

This is the final design.

are you sure ?

man.. i liked the other one, it looked longer... and bigger......

well, this is cool too ..... how can u be so sure ?

yeh i think its the other one not this one,

this might sound like a stupid question ... but what are all those poster type things on the bottom floors of Ahad tower. They should take them off its look much better with only glass and steel !

this might sound like a stupid question ... but what are all those poster type things on the bottom floors of Ahad tower. They should take them off its look much better with only glass and steel !


those are the boards of the shop with there name on it, but yes they should have made it fully glass.

Just wondering...will this also be a office tower...I mean the higher floors..

i would like to see two or three of these type of buildings a bit taller (office towers) turn into an IT park.... that would be great!

this is the final design i saw the advertisment in news papers. i think they wanted some parking space thats y they made it smaller but this design is much better. hey as any 1 seen CRESCENT STANDARD BUILDING its amazing, i think its the best looking building in Pakistan but its short only 8-9 floors :(

Yaar, get me a pic of that Crescent Standard Building ! I wanna see :(

if you see more ads of different projects, please scan them and share them with us...

I dont have a pic of it, but it sure looks good glass and aluminium great design i wish it was taller,it should have been a 16 storey, hey Pakboy have u seen it?

I dont have a pic of it, but it sure looks good glass and aluminium great design i wish it was taller,it should have been a 16 storey, hey Pakboy have u seen it?


yeh i went pass it about 200 times when i was in lahore, its diffinatly the best building in lahore.

add this

I have seen the construction at Kalma Chowk in Lahore; it seems like they have stopped for some reason why?

They have blocked the cut that links main boulevard garden town to ferozpur road and they are using it as a storage place for construction material, the project belongs to some MNA.

so wats gona happen to this mall then.

it will be completed but after a LONG, LONG time.

any news or updates??

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Ahad Tower should really wake up and move some of the stuff off the street; Tagga is right it's creating chaos at that intersection as if people don't already have enough problems there. Kalama Chowk is such a pain; the signal lights take forever and on top of it Ahad Tower's construction material is taking up a lane.

Plus whenever it rains all that sand turns to MUD; it's horrible. Either they finish the building now or move the material...!

I'd be happy if the govt decides to demolish the structure... somebody should do something!

Source: http://www.nation.com.pk/daily/sep-2005/18/localnews1.php
Roadside debris creating problems

BY IQTIDAR GILANI
LAHORE - Builders continue to carry on with impunity construction activity by blocking service lanes and at certain places even the roadsides despite repeated warnings from the City District Government.
The government is seemingly helpless in controlling the menace, arising out of dumping building material and debris on roadsides and forcing the builders to abide by the prescribed rules and regulations.
It is obligatory on the citizens to heap building material and debris within their property premises. Dumping of materials on roadsides in violation of law causes inconvenience to general public.
Besides causing inconvenience to the motorists and pedestrians, the practice of putting building material and debris on roadsides is damaging the road infrastructure itself especially during rainy season.
The phenomenon of encroaching upon roads and streets during construction activity is not confined to residential areas only. This nuisance can be seen even at important and busiest roads in the city.
The glaring example of this practice is under construction Ahad Tower at Ferozepur Road, where the builder has blocked the entire service lane and causing great inconvenience to the traffic.
Motorists going toward Canal Bridge at the Ferozepur Road have to wait at the signal at Kalma Chowk due to the blockage of service lane resulting into long queues of vehicles.
The construction activity and digging of basement at the said Ahad Tower has already damaged the road besides adversely affecting the sewerage and water supply lines. Accumulation of water at the service road due to putting building material and debris on roadside has completely washed away the road surface causing huge economic loss to the government.
Sources revealed that sewerage and water supply lines were completely damaged during the digging of basement at Ahad Tower.
This digging caused over Rs 1.8 million loss to the Water and Sanitation Agency. WASA, however, restored the said facilities to the residential and commercial localities in the surrounding areas through temporary arrangements. The sources believe that WASA officials are helpless, as the said under construction plaza belongs to an influential politician.
The sources in the Lahore Development Authority have however revealed that a committee has been constituted to probe into the matter and action would be taken in the light of proposals submitted by the committee.
The illegal activity of putting the building material at roads can also be seen near LDA Plaza. The builder has dug basement during monsoon while the building material has blocked half of the road right under the nose of LDA authorities. This nuisance has severely damaged the road and causing inconvenience to motorists.

any update, i really wanted to see this tower in real.

the freakin structure and the debris is causing massive traffic jams at Kalma Chowk! Somebody please shoot the owner - I'd love to see this project go down the drain!

why cant they continue with the construction.

I have no idea!

hi i m new to skyscrapper. need to see the pic of ahad tower

Welcome to the world of Construction & Architecture!!! lol

Here a Rendering for ya

http://www.landmarkpk.com/pics_1%25/11.jpg

http://i213.photobucket.com/albums/cc63/AFFI666/LAHORE/08%2016%20FEB/AHADTOWER.jpg

latest pic.

This poor guy Ahad (owner of Ahad tower) was with Nawaz few years back and Ch. Pervez was giving him hard time so he changed is political affiliation, and now Shraifs are back in power, wonder whats going to happen to this project

he should have taken rules and laws more seriously before starting the project... i read in the paper that this building was originally approved for 5 or 6 floors.... he has added 5 more floors illegaly... plus there is no under ground parking aswell..

this guy is going down...!!

ahad had been fined many times.This building should had been built on such a ideal location we would not want this building to remain uncompleted for years.

This poor guy Ahad (owner of Ahad tower) was with Nawaz few years back and Ch. Pervez was giving him hard time so he changed is political affiliation, and now Shraifs are back in power, wonder whats going to happen to this project

probably will build 100 more of them now with our tax moneys :ohno:

probably will build 100 more of them now with our tax moneys :ohno:

It will be good for us coz at least we are getting 100 buildings.Thats development.

It will be good for us coz at least we are getting 100 buildings.Thats development.

yes move the resources away from infranstruchure, education, healthcare and security what we need most nowadays to make plazas which will remain empty all the time, WICKED DEVELOPMENT, BRING IT ON :banana::banana::banana:

What ever you say "SHER AGAYA SHER CHAGAYA"

What ever you say "SHER AGAYA SHER CHAGAYA"

or pakistan ko doobadya :lol:

:doh:

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BACK SIDE OF AHAD TOWER nad we can see the masood hospital old building.

Someone should add the number of floors its going to have and its status in the thread title.

why some one MODS should do that:naughty:

why some one MODS should do that:naughty:

Rana can you please tell us how tall the building is going to be? I could only find this:

are all the 17 floors for the mall

why some one MODS should do that:naughty:

Wer all on vacation.

Wer all on vacation.

lazy bitches!

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mOD BHAI zara is ka bi title change kardo

sure, here's the render btw.

http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3058/2498779007_16e573bb07_o.jpg

uggg...

The real thing is shaping up to look better than the render. Now that's a rarirty.

It would be a terrible experience having apartment or shop in this plaza. its owner is really a sick person. he has 2-3 more plazas in lahore. and everyone is crying in them. My old office was also in Ahad tower Mini Market. And we left it because of countless problems in it. All his building have few Common problems.
1. NO MANAGEMENT
2. No Maintenance
3. No Responsibility
4. No Water
5. No Electricity(maintenance)
6. No Cleanliness
7. No facility like elevators etc.
8. and if you think other basic facilities are there, sorry brothers you are wrong

He just built it, sell it and gone for the next. same things with the ahad center in liberty. we had an apartment in ahad heights mini market. and for each problem we had to fix it ourselves. can you believe that no one was there to operate motor for water supply. and at last i had to take responsibility and i installed motor switch in my office :-( we also bought our separate water tank and when electricity problems used to happen i or my neighbor had to call or go to wapda office. Our another neighbor took the responsibility of cleanliness. and Many and many more problems we had to face just because of no central management. And at last we had to leave that shit place.
It was like hell in the heaven of MM Alam Road :-)

sorry i forgot another Really big problem.
9. NO PARKING SPACE.

not in front of plaza nor in basement. he made shops in basement and sell the parking space. A PLAZA without parking :-) he is a corrupt person. he joined Muslim league (Q) and then who can blame.
And i see no parking place in this plaza too. He blocked a part of the main road near kalma chowk for many months and no one could stop him.

Sadly, every second plaza has this problem.

And when every wedding can block a street and every house construction can do it, why single out this guy?

LDA ( and other city govt authorities) should make it mandatory to have a basement parking proportional to the occupants/visitors.

Sorry to hear about that Qaiser! :(

It would be nice if each of these building integrated a solar panel on the rooftop.

It would be nice if each of these building integrated a solar panel on the rooftop.

well its started by malik riaz, he has covered park lane towers roof with solar panels.

well its started by malik riaz, he has covered park lane towers roof with solar panels.

Impressive! I hope others follow the same route.

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^^ These pics remind me of another similar sized building in Lahore, which was covered in Blue glass. I can't seem to put my finger on it, right now. :?

they take their sweet ass time, dont they? and i only count 11 floors, where the remaining 4?

this building is just in the center of the city and on a prime location still not completed :ohno:

^^ These pics remind me of another similar sized building in Lahore, which was covered in Blue glass. I can't seem to put my finger on it, right now. :?

Jeff heights?

^^ Ummmm.....no.

^ big town Mall

The one trappy is talking about is behind the macdonalds.

I think it is mega tower

I think it is mega tower

You saying its called "Mega tower"?

Guys, forget it. I remember Techno posting loads of pics of it at UPK. It looked LOVELY!!!!

You saying its called "Mega tower"?

YEAH the one which is right next to macdonalds at main boulevard gulberg :)

Looks likes as will no not rise more.

maybe hes talking about rabi center.

btw. i just went passed ahad tower and they have taken the blue off now.

^^ Any Pics ...?? :naughty:

its been under construction for well over 4 years now!

its been under construction for well over 4 years now!

thats the reason i have started hating this project:bash: I often pass by this place but donot waste storage space of my camera and bandwidth of this forum for this crap :moods: I think Mabarak Center will rise and get finish before this building.

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what were these women doing in Suzuki Bolan... Ahemm Ahemm :weird::weird:

what were these women doing in Suzuki Bolan... Ahemm Ahemm :weird::weird:


:nuts: :nuts: :nuts:

what were these women doing in Suzuki Bolan... Ahemm Ahemm :weird::weird:

:naughty:

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still at the same stage as it was one year before

Supreme court has ordered its stoppage...........because it has no parking space as well as some design fault

Supreme court has ordered its stoppage...........because it has no parking space as well as some design fault

parking is must for such a plaza at such a bzy location...they should have thought of it at the stage when they were designing

parking is must for such a plaza at such a bzy location...they should have thought of it at the stage when they were designing

^^Even if they didnot design it well, what LDA authorties were doing when they passed that design?????

i think they have resumed the work, if you look at the top few floors you will see that the brick work looks fresh???

i think they have resumed the work, if you look at the top few floors you will see that the brick work looks fresh???

May be.........but what I think is that it is standing still from the last 1 year or so........

May be.........but what I think is that it is standing still from the last 1 year or so........

yes ur rite....i passed by it many times and never saw single worker at the site

Its standing still at 10 floors (I dont know abt the basements).........

guess what

High Court ordered to demolish 5 floors of ahad tower

i dont want to see that short building over there they should demolish it all then built some nice building there

The Lahore Development Authority (LDA) on Monday started demolition of five floors of the Ahad Tower at Kalma Chowak, which were constructed in violation of building by-laws.

According to details, originally only six floors had been approved for the building while the remaining five were constructed against LDA rules. Earlier, the LDA on Sunday started demolition of the four-storey Al-Rehman Medical Complex on Ferozepur Road in Naseerabad. The building had been constructed on land allotted for katchi abadis and such land could not be used for commercial purposes according to the rules.

The Lahore Development Authority (LDA) on Monday started demolition of five floors of the Ahad Tower at Kalma Chowak, which were constructed in violation of building by-laws.

According to details, originally only six floors had been approved for the building while the remaining five were constructed against LDA rules. Earlier, the LDA on Sunday started demolition of the four-storey Al-Rehman Medical Complex on Ferozepur Road in Naseerabad. The building had been constructed on land allotted for katchi abadis and such land could not be used for commercial purposes according to the rules.

I passed by the building today and there are no signs of any demolition by LDA. All floors are still intact.

they ^^ were demolishing it on the eve of blasts, but put it on hold when the blasts happened. i think they will start again in few days

UPDATE
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very good thing happened !!! this crappy plazza was right on the head of the busiest intersection and literally have no parking at front. I disapprove the design from day-1 but nevertheless they took action finally.

only in Pakistan .............

So should we close this thread? It's useless to have a thread for a 6 or 10 storey building ..

very good thing happened !!! this crappy plazza was right on the head of the busiest intersection and literally have no parking at front. I disapprove the design from day-1 but nevertheless they took action finally.

its gona look even more stupid by having a 6 storey building at your cities main intersection

It's good that they are demolishing inadequately designed buildings which don't cater to the parking needs relative to their size! Finally, some urban planning culture is developing here.

And yeah, :lock:

Finally, some urban planning culture is developing here.


:rofl:

More like either he (owner) belongs to 'the other' party or he didn't pay the 10% to construct as many floors as you want.

Or that :no:

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http://i709.photobucket.com/albums/ww91/atownboy_17/inbeforethe128534369783593750.jpg

:hilarious

:rofl:

More like either he (owner) belongs to 'the other' party or he didn't pay the 10% to construct as many floors as you want.

well this building shouldnt have been allowed in the first place, they way it was built was totally illegal, he was suppose to leave 10-20ft in front of the building which he didnt, it is built right next to the road and looks ugly

Instead of demolishing it, can't they reconstruct/modify the first few floors for parking?

Instead of demolishing it, can't they reconstruct/modify the first few floors for parking?

nobody cares to park inside, stupid people like to stop on road and go shopping so its better being demolished.

only in Pakistan .............

So should we close this thread? It's useless to have a thread for a 6 or 10 storey building ..

yups i agree ... there's no need of this thread...it would b better if it is closed