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Edward House, Karachi

It is a setting pretty much out of the famous Ayn Rand novel, The Fountainhead. There is an architect's office located in an old, two storey building. Maps are rolled out on desks, with rulers and finely sharpened pencils lying alongside them. Apart from being a workplace, there are people residing in a few flats that exist in this gorgeous building, Edward House.

The structure has fine massing, striking balcony like projections and a striking central tower. It is more than apparent that Edward House is affected by the dissonance that you expect to experience on the main road on one of whose sides this lovely work of stonemasonry stands. The irony is that despite the rather defaced walls, its wooden staircase, the flooring, the fairly spacious rooms and the doors that for sure open into a time zone when life did not move faster than the speed of light, make you feel affection for this almost a century old piece of construction.

[Source: Karachi Legacies of Empires by Peerzada Salman]

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