Çamoğlu Architects Competitors

The first health institution built in Pakistan was a 42-bed maternity hospital - formerly known as the Janbai Maternity Home - which opened in Karachi in 1924. Today, while maintaining that early focus on maternal and child health, Aga Khan Health Services also offers services that range from primary health care to diagnostic services and curative care. It reaches over 1.1 million people in rural and urban Sindh, Punjab as well as the North West Frontier, Northern Areas and Chitral. As the largest not-for-profit private health care system in Pakistan, its goal is to supplement the Government's efforts in health care provision, especially in the areas of maternal and child health and primary health care. AKHS,P now operates 47 health centres in Karachi, 27 in Sindh, 14 in Punjab and North West Frontier provinces, 33 in the Northern Areas and 31 in Chitral. In the North of Pakistan, AKHS has been implementing the Northern Pakistan Primary Health Care Programme since 1987. Working in partnership with local communities, the government, and other AKDN institutions, like the Aga Khan Rural Support Programme, the goal has been to find sustainable ways of financing and delivering primary health care in the high-mountain valleys. This has led to a village-based approach -- the designation of community health workers by the local village organisation, the training of these workers in community-based disease prevention, and the reorientation of health professionals (government and private) to primary health care. Since it began, AKHS,P has trained over 1000 Community Health Workers and 1000 Traditional Birth Attendants in the Northern Areas and Chitral.

Global Architectural Development led by design principal Gokhan Avcioglu works with a dedicated, international team of architects to produce forward looking architecture at a global scale. GAD believes that media, technological innovation and the rapidly changing patterns of 21st century social life influence architecture and urbanism. Over the past 30 years GAD has pioneered a sustainable approach to architecture through a strikingly wide range of work to develop an architecture responding to the rapid pace of our times. GAD’s success lies in methodical research of clients’ programmatic requirements combined with an iterative process of digital and physical modeling. GAD believes that architecture as a practice relies on understanding historical architecture movements as well as research and experimentation to develop advanced forms and materials. Since it’s foundation GAD has been producing dynamic, innovative concepts and research infused with thinking from new modes of cognitive thinking and computerized knowledge. Lead by Gokhan Avcioglu, the international staff of GAD takes a multidisciplinary approach that pushes architecture through the changing modalities of global architecture developing new areas of activity in key topics such as urbanism, ecology, agriculture and energy. The firm’s main office is in Istanbul and has additional offices in New York, London, Moscow and Dubai. GAD and Gokhan Avcioglu have designed a wide range of projects from private homes to urban master plans. While many of our realized projects are highly recognized public facilities, such as cultural centers and civic buildings, GAD has also completed several distinguished private projects including residential buildings, hotels and villas.

Architects of choice for brilliant ideas. The world delights through its wondrous diversity. We delight in working alongside our clients — building on their culture with architecture that surprises. The result is a significant collection of diverse buildings — the architectural translation of client culture, contributing distinctively to our towns and cities. We are leaders in education and public architecture, though we work in any sector. We work on any architecture or design project, whether small or large scale, from buildings to exhibitions. Our designs have been awarded Australia's highest architecture prize for public buildings, heritage and small projects. We have also won many awards for our interiors, urban design, and art and architecture, and our work is published both nationally and internationally.