The project of changing billboards on the Mall has been approved by Dilkash Lahore Committee in a meeting with Lahore District Coordination Officer (DCO) Noor-ul-Amin Mengal, Pakistan Today has learnt.
In the first phase of the project, the changing of billboard design at Baba Dinga Singh Building has been approved and the implementation will be soon stared. The designs are specially made to revive the beauty of the historical buildings.
Bata, Service Borjan and Bank Al-Habib designs are proposed and consist of the logos or the brand writing of the particular shop.
The purpose of the committee is to revive the glory of historical façade of the building of the metropolitan.
A resource centre has also been created which will keep an inventory of all historical buildings of the city. At a later stage, architects associated with the resource centre will recreate the façade of historical buildings to help owners restore the buildings’ old glory.
Taking to Pakistan Today, a member of committee Rafay Alam said; “This was a sensitive issue. But celebrating trade unions of Mall Road, we made an effort to restore the façade of the historical buildings”.
He further said that the original maps of the historical buildings were used to restore and renovation process.
“With the help of LESCO and other authorities concerned, we will move electricity poles and try to portrait the original significance of the buildings,” he said.