ADA- ARCHITECTURE DESIGN ART

19/10/2026

14/10/2026

A Blast from the Past | ADA Awards — Cycle 01Every legacy has a beginning.

Every legacy has a beginning. As part of our Blast from the Past series, we revisit the seminar from the first cycle of the ADA Awards, bringing together voices from the worlds of architecture, design and art for an exchange of ideas and perspectives.

Featuring our jury members:

Salima Hashmi

Dr. Savita Apte

Joumana Ibrahim


Their contributions reflect the value of bringing diverse disciplines and perspectives into conversations about art, architecture, and design. As we look back at the first cycle, we celebrate the conversations and milestones that have shaped the ADA Awards journey and continue to contribute to Pakistan’s architecture and design landscape.

Join us as we revisit where it all began and get closer to the next cycle of the ADA Awards.

07/10/2026

ADA-ICONICA 79 is out.

This issue asks what it means to build, preserve and belong. We look at built environment, evolving practice rather than something frozen in time, and walk through ASTOLA, a LEED Platinum pharmaceutical campus in Korangi that treats the workplace as a sanctuary.

Inside:
🏛️ Heritage as Becoming: community-led preservation, from Pakistan Heritage Exchange 2026
🌿 ASTOLA: where industry, light and people share one roof
🏆 Announcing the Chairs and Jury for the 2026-27 ADA Awards
🎨 Punjab – A Sublime Terrain at the Venice Art Biennale
🪑 Salone del Mobile.Milano 2026

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06/10/2026

Heritage isn't frozen in a glass case. It lives in the hands that carry it forward. 🌿
At Pakistan Heritage Exchange 2026 British Council Pakistan & ICOMOS Pakistan experts, makers, and community custodians gathered in Lahore to ask who truly safeguards our traditions. The answer: the people who practice them every day.

Through panels, live craft, and The Indivisible Spirit exhibition by CROM Lahore, one idea stood out: heritage survives through practice, transmission, and cooperation.

📍 Alhamra Arts Center, Lahore

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06/10/2026

Reading Karachi Through the Zaigham Jaffery Archive.

An insightful evening celebrating the work, legacy, and enduring contribution of Syed Zaigham S. Jaffery to Karachi’s architectural landscape.

Through thoughtful conversations and shared perspectives, the panel explored the stories, ideas, and architectural heritage that continue to shape the city we call home.

📍 IVS Courtyard, Karachi
📅 30 September 2026

A meaningful dialogue, a remarkable archive, and a deeper look into the architectural memory of Karachi.

02/10/2026

Getz Pharma's ASTOLA Head Office proposes another understanding of the corporate workplace — one where productivity does not come at the expense of human well-being.

Designed by architect Ahmed Mian of Studio Subtractive, the workplace holds space for every rhythm of the workday: concentration, collaboration, informal exchange, retreat and recreation.

Behind it is an interdisciplinary approach across architecture, interiors, environment and industrial design, with sustainability and meaning at the centre.

At ASTOLA office becomes less an institutional container and more an environment designed around the rhythms of the people who inhabit it.

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25/09/2026

"The art and life of Meher Afroz — artist par excellence."
A retrospective spanning five decades (1974–2025), Meher Afroz's "Connecting Internal and External Time" marks 40 years of Chawkandi Art. Curated by Nilofur Farrukh across Chawkandi Art and Alliance Française, the show moves beyond linear chronology — reading Afroz's oeuvre through memory, migration, faith, and resistance.
A rare, unpretentious window into one of our most significant living artists as penned by Amra Ali.

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18/09/2026

ASTOLA: A WORKING SANCTUARY
Getz Pharma’s New Karachi Headquarters

In the industrial heart of Korangi, ASTOLA proposes an alternative to the ordinary factory campus. Designed by Gul & Thariani, the LEED Platinum-certified facility unites pharmaceutical production with a workplace built around light, landscape, and human wellbeing — courtyards, gardens, and water threading through a disciplined, rust-and-ochre exterior.

Inside, a dramatic sky court carved through the third and fourth floors anchors four colour-coded zones, while a thousand-seat auditorium, a library and gaming zone, and courtyard gardens turn the everyday workplace into something closer to a community. As CEO Khalid Mahmood puts it, the project takes its name and spirit from Astola Island in Balochistan — a sanctuary where varied forms of life converge.

Spanning over a million square feet and eight years in the making, ASTOLA marks Getz Pharma’s second major architectural chapter with ADA, continuing a dialogue between industry, design, and culture that began back in 2009.

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14/09/2026

ONLY 7 DAYS LEFT: SUBMIT YOUR POSTER FOR TOMORROW
Call for Entries Closes September 20

Poster for Tomorrow returns for its 14th edition with this year’s theme, Dignity — inviting designers and creatives worldwide to respond through the universal language of the poster. Following a global deadline extension, the submission portal remains open to all until September 20th, giving you a final window to submit your concept.

Selected works will go before the live jury in Lecce, Italy, with the Top 10 exhibition and press conference following on October 17th.

🗓️ Call for entries closes: September 20
🗓️ Online jury: September 21 – October 10
🗓️ Live jury: October 16
🗓️ Top 10 exhibition & press conference: October 17 (Lecce, Italy)

Don’t miss your chance to be part of this year’s global conversation on Dignity.

🔗 www.posterfortomorrow.org

11/09/2026

ADA-ICONICA ISSUE 79 IS OUT NOW
Featuring the Getz Pharma Astola Facility on the Cover

The edition arrives with the Getz Pharma Astola facility gracing the cover — a workspace nearly two decades in the making, radically rethinking what a workplace can be. Beyond fiscal walls, Astola turns its attention to human boundaries, well-being, and identity, weaving modular, multi-outreach spaces into its layout and interiors.

Rooted in the energy of cosmopolitan Karachi yet speaking a global design language, Astola is glocality in built form — where function, aesthetics, and identity meet.

Grab your copy of Issue 79 to step inside the story.
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📹 Getz Pharma