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Imperial Tower

One of the largest economic centers in India – a city with millions of inhabitants – Mumbai – rapidly changes its appearance. This is a bustling metropolis, where barracks and slums peacefully coexist with skyscrapers, and dumps – with elite shops and restaurants. All the tallest buildings of the country are also located there. These also include towers of the residential complex Imperial, shot up over the city skyline at 240 meters height. It was planned that next to them will stand 400-meter (1,312 feet), 116-storey super-high-rise residential skyscraper Imperial 3, created by the Chicago based architects Adrian Smith and Gordon Gill. But according to the AS+GG representatives, this project, despite it was the winner of the competition, still won’t be implemented.

History of creation
Design Search was started when the real estate developer Shapoorji Pallonji& Co Ltd. under its flagship construction firm S D Corporation Pvt. Ltd. to develop its remaining land where it has already constructed the Imperial Towers, which were the tallest buildings in India when completed in 2010, but topped out by another building from Mumbai the Palais Royale in November, 2012. In March, 2013 a design concept from Adrian Smith + Gordon Gill Architecture was selected and the two structural engineer firms J+W Consultants and CBM Engineers who already have worked on the Imperial Towers were selected for the structural engineer consultant for the Imperial 3.

It would be constructed by Shapoorji Pallonji and J+W Consultants and CBM Engineers will act as its structural engineer. It will stand near to its existing Sister tower The Imperial Towers, which were designed by Hafeez Contractor, undoubtedly would have taken its place among the architectural sights of Mumbai and would be the one of most recognizable object on the horizon of the city, but its construction has not been started.

Location
The Imperial was located in Tardeo, Mumbai. The Imperial Twin Towers are built on former slum land where the current re-development model of builders providing free land and rehabilitation to slum dwellers in exchange for rights for property development, was first put into practice on a big scale. This model was used for slum and mill land redevelopment across the city, and across India as a whole. Tardeo – is the oldest part of the city and commercial center of the country. Today there live the richest people in Mumbai and real estate properties is more expensive than in Manhattan.

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