Orad Works

At ORAD, architecture is not measured by scale alone, but by clarity of thought, contextual response, and the human experience embedded within each space. Over the past year, ORAD has successfully completed 35 architecture and interior design projects , spanning residential, commercial, and hospitality typologies across Pakistan. This round-up reflects a year of intense design thinking, collaboration, and execution — documenting how ideas moved from drawings to built reality. A Year of...

In contemporary practice, buildings are increasingly treated as consumable products—designed for immediate visual impact, rapid construction, and short design cycles. Yet architecture, by its very nature, is meant to endure. A building is not a seasonal object; it is a long-term participant in a city’s life, climate, and culture. At ORAD, we believe that a truly sustainable building is not defined by how it looks on the day of completion, but by how it performs, adapts, and ages over decades....

The grid is silent today. The straight line—that rigid tyrant of modernism that dictated our cities for decades—has lost its greatest adversary. Frank Gehry has passed away at the age of 96, and the world of architecture feels suddenly, starkly static. To simply call Gehry an "architect" feels like a categorization error. He was a sculptor who worked in the medium of shelter. He was a jazz musician who improvised with titanium and steel. For those of us at Orad.Space  who spent our lives...