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4.4 million square feet. 40 million passengers per year. The headline statistics attached to the design brief for Terminal 2 at Chhatrapati Shivaji International Airport might have proven daunting to many an architecture firm — but not so for Skidmore Owings and Merrill, a global studio that has an established reputation for delivering some of the world’s largest commercial megaprojects.