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摘要

ENR reporter Alex Padalka recently sat down with Michel Abboud, a principal at SOMA, to discuss the New York firm's involvement in the controversial Park51 Islamic community center and prayer space proposed for Lower Manhattan. Renderings of the 15-story building-labeled the Ground Zero Mosque by its opponents-recently were released.rnWhat can you tell me about your firm?rnWe have offices in New York, Mexico and Beirut. With the economic crisis, we wanted to extend our projects in the Middle East, so the past couple of years we've done a lot of work there.