The barefoot architect: 'I was a starchitect for 36 years. Now I'm atoning'

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The barefoot architect: 'I was a starchitect for 36 years. Now I'm atoning'
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She created gilded monuments to corporate excess. But now Yasmeen Lari is building mud huts for the poor. As she wins the Jane Drew prize, Pakistan’s first female architect looks back on an extraordinary life

A mirrored glass ziggurat stands on a corner in central Karachi, flanked by a pair of polished granite towers. Golden bubble elevators glide up and down behind the tinted windows, shuttling oil executives to their offices through the sparkling five-storey atrium.

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