Mukesh Ambani $1.8 billion Antilla House Mumbai
Mukesh Ambani, an Indian billionaire, is moving into the largest, most expensive house in the world, built to his specifications. The $1.8 billion, 398,000 square foot tower, dubbed “Antilla” by its ostentatious owner, rises 567 feet above the Mumbai slums. The Ambani house is being derided for claiming it’s an environmentally friendly building and as a symbol of the growing divide between the minority of haves and the majority of have-nots in India.
Inside the Ambani house
Ambani is India’s richest person and number four on the Forbes list of world’s richest. Antilla has been billed the most expensive residential property in the world. It took more than seven years to build. Ambani’s wife, mother and three kids will be served by a staff of 600 in what Inhabitat calls an example of “excessive consumption, extreme wastefulness, and unsustainable living.” Antilla houses a health club with a gym and dance studio, a swimming pool, a ballroom, guestrooms, numerous lounges and a 50-seat movie theater. Three helicopter pads fit on the roof. A 160-car parking garage takes up several ground floors. Each floor has ceilings more than twice as high as considered normal, making the 27-story structure as high as a 60-story building.
Ambani's highly expensive building that was estimated 60-storeyed home is situated in one of the posh street- Altamount Road. Its cost was fixed approximately two billion US dollars and four thousands crores Indian rupees. The height of the Mumbai skyscraper will suppose to be 173 meter.
The building is planned to build with very gorgeous designs as like as maharaja's palace. It was designed by Chicago's eminent skilled designer Perkins and Will.
If anybody ask why Mukesh Ambani's house is so important to talk about, the answer is very easy that it is exceptional in terms of its diverse facilities. The special features of the building can mention here are, for instance, helipads, three rooftop landing areas, family residence of four floors with eye catching scenery of the Arabian Sea, apartments for guests hospitality, swimming pool, gym, health centre, garden, balconies, foliage floors, entertainment centre called theater reserved for cinema watching, car parking extra rooms that made it expensive and extraordinary as well.
Sustainable architecture questioned
Ambani’s attempts at sustainable architecture consisted of using Indian companies, contractors, craftsmen and materials firms, according to a Forbes Antilla profile. The building’s “green” attributes include trees growing inside and hanging gardens on the exterior called “living walls.” Sarah Rich at Inhabitat said that in Mumbai, a city of 13 million people, claims that Antilla is a green building are a deceptive facade. Sustainability is meeting the needs of the present without compromising future generations. Rich writes that sustainability is about humanity as much as greenery. Living walls don’t translate to environmental integrity.
Ambani’s Antilla backlash
Ambani will throw a housewarming party on Oct. 28. The Australian reports that guests arriving from around the world will pass through miles of Mumbai slums to reach Ambani’s Antilla. Critics are saying that even maharajas of centuries past showed more restraint than Ambani. Antilla is a glaring reminder that India’s economic renaissance is heaping more on a small number of filthy rich “Bollygarchs,” while 800 million Indians live on about $1.60 a day.
What makes Antilla so expensive?
Though the building is designed to build 60 more stories, it will actually stand just 27 stories only as there would be considerably space between the floors. Each of the floors will be higher than the usual average of about three meters.
Parking and maintenance
For keeping the vehicles in well organized inside the house, at least six more floors are reserved for parking where two are booked for personal use of Ambani's family. Besides, an in-house car servicing centre is installed in fact that is allocated for the seventh floor.
