Lahore, a diverse and rich historical city is dated back to the era of Loh the son of Indian god Rama. It is a cultural city with a rich architectural character. Lahore was the capital of Gaznavid’s Empire and attained its glory in Mughal era. Various religions prevailed under the skies of this city as the built heritage of Lahore gives references to the past, staring from the old Hindu buildings, magnificent Mughal monuments, matchless Sikh virsa, and the lastly with glory of British raj ended before the independence. Diverse and trans-cultured early periods and British Raj gave us that what we called the heritage of Lahore. This heritage gives us an overall image of how people used to live. From the period of British raj, “Pirzada Mansion” is one of the finniest example of changing housing style of from the Mughal Havelies to Modern and stylistic mansions.

Pirzada Mansion is located at fort road or Old Shahi Mohallah near Food Street. It has the area of 3880 sft. A colonial period structure has five floors including the basement and the mezzanine floor. It also has a separate covered area at roof top. From decades, it was an abandoned private residence belongs to a family of lawyers. It was constructed over the time of 1925 to 1930. It has numerous beautiful architectural features as it belongs to an Art Deco era in India. Art Deco, also called style modern, movement in the decorative arts and architecture that originated in the 1920s and developed into a major style in Western Europe and the USA during the 1930s.

The surviving art deco structures in Lahore can be found in certain areas of the city but unfortunately, in very bad conditions. This Mansion is one of the examples in Lahore. This building shows the ironic materials and fine workmanship. Overall the building has very unusual characteristics like a pair of angels sitting at the top floor, the floral ornamentation, ovular frames in plaster, metallic railings and interestingly made embossed plaster works. This building belongs to the Sikh era in Lahore which shared the Art Deco rich details which are losing its charm day by day due to the extreme negligence. Over the passage of time, this magnificent structure got serious damage due to the rough weather conditions and less maintenance. The existing conditions of the building are very thought provoking as the structure is deteriorating. With the passage of time the building is in severe threat.