Antilia (building)
Antilia is the name of a twenty-seven floor personal home in South Mumbai belonging to businessmanMukesh Ambani, chairman of Reliance Industries. There will be 600 full-time staff to maintain the residence, reportedly the most expensive home in the world.
The building will become the residence of Mukesh and his family.
The building is named after the mythical Atlantic island of Antillia.
The Antilia building is situated on an ocean-facing 4,532 square metres (48,780 sq ft) plot at Altamount Road, Cumballa Hill, South Mumbai, where land prices are upward of US$10,000 per square metre. In August 2008, Altamount Road was the 10th most expensive street in the world at US$25,000/sq m[9](US$2,336 per sq foot)
Features of the home include:
Construction Antilia was designed by Chicago based architects, Perkins & Will. The Melbourne-based construction company Leighton Holdings began constructing it.[15] The home was also designed to survive an 8-richter scale earthquake
Antilia is the name of a twenty-seven floor personal home in South Mumbai belonging to businessmanMukesh Ambani, chairman of Reliance Industries. There will be 600 full-time staff to maintain the residence, reportedly the most expensive home in the world.
The building will become the residence of Mukesh and his family.
The building is named after the mythical Atlantic island of Antillia.
The Antilia building is situated on an ocean-facing 4,532 square metres (48,780 sq ft) plot at Altamount Road, Cumballa Hill, South Mumbai, where land prices are upward of US$10,000 per square metre. In August 2008, Altamount Road was the 10th most expensive street in the world at US$25,000/sq m[9](US$2,336 per sq foot)
Features of the home include:
- 400,000 square feet (37,000 m2) of living space, (in comparison the Palace of Versailles occupies 721,206 square feet of floor space)[6]
- parking space for 168 cars.[6]
- a one-floor vehicle maintenance facility.
- nine elevators in the lobby.[5]
- three helipads and an air traffic control facility.[11]
- health spa, yoga studio, small theatre with a seating capacity for 50 on the eighth floor,[12] there is a swimming pool, three floors of hanging gardens, and a ballroom.[6]
- an ice room infused with man-made snow flurries.[6]
- Custom hand carved rare marble pillars and stonework.[13]
- Worlds largest collection of antique sewing machines.
Construction Antilia was designed by Chicago based architects, Perkins & Will. The Melbourne-based construction company Leighton Holdings began constructing it.[15] The home was also designed to survive an 8-richter scale earthquake