LAHORE: The Canadian Ramgarhia Society has honoured Pakistani architects and educationists Pervaiz Vandal and Sajida Haider Vandal with lifetime achievement awards for their research work, highlighting the architectural legacy of Bhai Ram Singh.

According to a press release, both the architects were nominated for awards in August 2022 on the occasion of the 164th birth anniversary celebrations of Bhai Ram Singh by prominent SikhScholar Jaiteg Singh Anant, the head of the Hardarshan Memorial International Trust, Canada.

The dignitaries of the Canadian Ramgarhia Society, including president Dharam Singh Panesar, the head of Hardarshan Memorial International Trust, Canada, Jaiteg Singh Anant, Punjabi poet Surindar Singh Jabal and Avtar Singh Adampuri specially visited Seattle in the US to bestow award on Pervaiz Vandal.

Pervaiz thanked the Canadian Ramgarhia Society, saying the award would be cherished as a great memory for being associated with Bhai Ram Singh, one of the greatest architects of British Punjab era and the architect of modern Lahore.

He paid tribute to Bhai Ram Singh for his outstanding work, still visible in the form of beautiful arches, domes, brackets, pavilions and Jalis as his signature elements for various monumental buildings of Lahore and India.

Jaiteg Singh Anant lauded Pervaiz Vandal Sajida Haider Vandal for their contributions to art, culture and heritage preservation. He praised the research work (book) of the Vandals and also talked about the rich legacy of Bhai Ram Singh as the master architect of Khalsa College Amritsar, inner design of Darbar Hall England, Senate Hall of Punjab UniversityLahore, Aitchison College, Christian College Lahore, Aitchison Hospital, New Railway Theatre Lahore and buildings in Shimla, Amritsar, and otherparts ofIndia.

S Surindar Singh Jabal also spoke.