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Modern Xanadu Finished in Mumbai
This is not your average trend post about the recession. Well, perhaps it is, in the sense that building the world’s most expensive home (pictured above in Mumbai) during a global recession is one approach to ’surviving’ it.
Mukesh Ambani, chairmen of Reliance Industries, is preparing to move into the first $1 billion dollar home – a 27-story ‘greenscraper’ in Mumbai. Six of those floors are for parking – though the tower (called Antilia) will only house Ambani and his family of four.
You may remember the rendering for the tower, built by Perkins + Will, which emphasizes a ‘twisting ribbon’ facade with lots of greenspace interspersed. They used a similar strategy with their recent proposal for a Riyadh tower with really beautiful (rendered) results. In Antilia’s case, it seems that the ribbon is more of a cosmetic envelope element than a driver in the distribution of programmatic or mechanical spaces throughout the tower.
The obligatory listicle of the tower’s most ridiculous features include:
* Health club
* Dance Studio
* 50-seat Movie theater
* Three helipads
* Parking for 160 cars
* Swimming pool
* Ballroom
* 600 staff (explains what the other 26 floors are for)
Farbeit from us to judge — if we had that kind of cash we’d be building a Antilia replica, on the moon, made out of solid gold. But the notion of calling a 30-story single family home ‘green’ seems counterintuitive.
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I like the word "listicle."
Modern Xanadu Finished in Mumbai
This is not your average trend post about the recession. Well, perhaps it is, in the sense that building the world’s most expensive home (pictured above in Mumbai) during a global recession is one approach to ’surviving’ it.
Mukesh Ambani, chairmen of Reliance Industries, is preparing to move into the first $1 billion dollar home – a 27-story ‘greenscraper’ in Mumbai. Six of those floors are for parking – though the tower (called Antilia) will only house Ambani and his family of four.
You may remember the rendering for the tower, built by Perkins + Will, which emphasizes a ‘twisting ribbon’ facade with lots of greenspace interspersed. They used a similar strategy with their recent proposal for a Riyadh tower with really beautiful (rendered) results. In Antilia’s case, it seems that the ribbon is more of a cosmetic envelope element than a driver in the distribution of programmatic or mechanical spaces throughout the tower.
The obligatory listicle of the tower’s most ridiculous features include:
* Health club
* Dance Studio
* 50-seat Movie theater
* Three helipads
* Parking for 160 cars
* Swimming pool
* Ballroom
* 600 staff (explains what the other 26 floors are for)
Farbeit from us to judge — if we had that kind of cash we’d be building a Antilia replica, on the moon, made out of solid gold. But the notion of calling a 30-story single family home ‘green’ seems counterintuitive.
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I like the word "listicle."
