This is so cool.
Skidmore, Owings and Merrill is doing a makeover.
Of Bombay’s slums.

It may just be the world’s most extreme property makeover: 125,000 Bombay slum dwellers are about to have their homes rebuilt by one of the world’s hippest architects.
I heard once that those who most need an architect are least able to afford one. This would be one of those examples.
Do you watch Extreme Makeover: Home Edition on Sunday night? Those shows make me cry. This is one of the reason why I want to be an architect. I want to make a difference in the lives of those who need it the most.
(I can’t stand those design shows where they redo a master bedroom for some uninteresting affluent corpulent couple who are about as excited as toast when the design team unveils the new look.)
…the American firm’s latest venture is the low-rise redesign of 124 acres of squalid shantytown. If that sounds like a comedown from the grandeur of its past projects, it shouldn’t - the slum’s inhabitants are shaping up to be some of SOM’s toughest judges yet.
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