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From: Architexturez-IN <admin-in@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
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Date: Fri, 02 Nov 2007 10:33:32 +0530
MUMBAI: Dayanand Jadhav’s office is located above a public toilet in
Santa Cruz. German Chancellor Angela Merkel’s offices in Berlin are
certainly more salubrious. On Thursday morning at the Mumbai
University’s vaulted Convocation Hall, before an audience that included
governor S M Krishna and many suited German dignitaries, the two shook
hands. Architect Rahul Mehrotra summed it up: "A maximum moment in a
maximum city".
Merkel was presiding over the inauguration of the Urban Age Conference,
a high-profile seminar organised by the London School of Economics and
Deutsche Bank’s Alfred Herrhausen Society. It opened with the
announcement of the $100,1000 Deutsche Bank Urban Age Award meant for a
public service project. An international jury had decided that two of
the 74 applicants tied for the award: Dayanand Jadhav’s Triratana
Prerena Mandal which works with slumdwellers in Santa Cruz and the
much-toasted Mumbai Waterfront Development Centre, which has transformed
Bandra’s ragged promenades into curving walkways fringed with greenery.
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http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/Mumbai/Max_moment_in_maximum_city/articleshow/2510316.cms