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After designing signature projects such as the Freedom Tower at the
World Trade Center site in New York and the Burj Dubai, which will be
the world’s tallest skyscraper when it is finished in 2009, New
York-based architect firm Skidmore, Owings and Merrill Llp. (SOM) is
doing something more down to earth.

It is designing homes for slum dwellers in Mumbai.

This design is part of a master plan SOM is drawing up for realty firm
Unitech Ltd, which is developing a 127-acre commercial project that
would include offices, retail spaces and a hotel at Mumbai’s Santacruz
suburb, not far from the business district of Bandra-Kurla. Nearly
22,000 slum dwellers have to be rehabilitated for the project.

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http://www.livemint.com/2008/05/08223908/Homes-for-Mumbai-slum-dwellers.html