The Imperial Towers (formerly SD Towers), Mumbai, India
…Mumbai’s first international-standard skyscraper, once India’s and Mumbai’s tallest skyscraper,
and India’s farthest along skyline-defining skyscraper project!
Hi guys
Sorry for not having updated in so long. I’ve been crazy busy over at my end.
Here’s a project I’ve been meaning to post about for a while now:
Mumbai’s first major skyscraper project, and really, the project that can be heralded to have paved the way for the boom, Shapoorji Pallonji & Co Ltd./SD Corporation’s twin Imperial Towers, designed by Mumbai architect Hafeez Contractor as his most recognizable project to datre, was designed as Mumbai’s tallest towers.
Then called “SD Towers” or “Tardeo Twin Towers”, the years long litigation and hard-won battle for construction rights was the change that heralded the ‘new India’ economic boom model of urban redevelopment over the paralyzing nexus of ‘old India’ socialists and special-interest groups that for years had kept Mumbai underdeveloped. For more information, renderings and recent under-construction pictures of this project originally posted by me on Skyscrapercity.com, read on!…
Indian Skyscraper Blog 