Antilia (building)

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View of the Anitilia building from Altamount Road

Antilia is the largest and most expensive private residential building in the world. The skyscraper is in Mumbai in the Indian state of Maharashtra . The Antilia building is owned by the richest people of India, the billionaire and petrochemical -Unternehmer Mukesh Ambani and after the mythical island of Antilia named. The building was inaugurated in November 2010. It is 173 meters high and has 27 floors with a special ceiling height; a normal high-rise building of this height would have between 40 and 50 floors.

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The design comes from the architectural firm Perkins and Will from Chicago . The architecture of the building is inspired by the Hanging Gardens of Babylon .

Ambani's wife Nita came up with the idea for the house in 2005 while visiting the Mandarin Oriental New York . The view from the 1,300 m² spa area on the 35th floor over Central Park in combination with the modern Asian interior impressed her so much that she commissioned the same companies that were responsible for the design of the hotel to build Antilia: the Chicago-based architecture firm Perkins & Will and the interior design firm Hirsch Bedner Associates (with 13 offices worldwide). Construction began by the construction company Leighton Holdings and later continued by another company.

building-costs

According to a spokesman for Ambanis, the construction costs are between 50 and 70 million US dollars.

Many media had reported that the house would be the first home in the world to cost a billion US dollars, making it the most expensive private home in the world; an article quotes the sum of 2 billion, although it is questionable whether this really means US dollars. A comparison with the currently tallest building in the world, the Burj Khalifa , whose construction costs are estimated at 1.5 billion US dollars, suggests that the cost of the Antilia was spread incorrectly, or rupees and US dollars were exchanged.

Building description

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The Ambani family with their three children have a living space of around 37,000 square meters. That is more than the area of ​​the Palace of Versailles .

The actual core apartment of the Ambani family will be on the top four floors. Mukesh Ambani's mother, Kokilaben Ambani, lives in the house. The family will have 600 full-time domestic staff available, some of whom live in the building.

The “family house” is equipped with all possible amenities, such as a small cinema with a capacity of 50 seats on the eighth floor, three to four floors with hanging gardens (with open-air area and lawn), a panoramic platform with a view of the Arabian Sea and the Mumbai skyline.

The “health floor” will house a swimming pool (there are several in the house), jacuzzi , solarium, dance and yoga studio, fitness rooms, a spa area and an “ice room”. In this cold room, snow can fall from the ceiling to cool off from the tropical heat in Mumbai.

The skyscraper will have three heliports , including its own air traffic control zone in the airspace above the skyscraper.

The lowest six floors of the house serve as a multi-storey car park with 168 parking spaces for families and guests. The in-house car workshop for maintaining the vehicle fleet is on the seventh floor. Another floor serves as a rescue floor. There will also be guest apartments in the house. The construction of the building is designed to withstand an earthquake up to magnitude 8.

Above the six parking floors there is a floor with a large lobby with nine elevators , numerous lounges and storage rooms. Two elevators go to the parking levels, three to the guest quarters, two elevators to the living area of ​​the Ambanis and two elevators are provided for the service. From the lobby, a wide double staircase leads down to the large ballroom with a stage, which is the height of two normal floors and whose ceiling is hung over and over with crystal chandeliers. There is also a large kitchen that is the same size as the ballroom and can accommodate hundreds of guests.

A basic design element in the construction of the building was the consideration of the Indian Vastu Vidya principle. The strategic placement of materials, rooms and objects should positively influence the flow of energy through the building. The interior furnishings will clearly have Indian features and will come mainly from India. In addition, the materials should not be repeated on the different floors.

location

The building stands on Cumballa Hill on 4532 m² of land on Altamount Road (officially the street is SK Barodawalla Marg ), one of the ten most expensive streets in the world, in an upscale residential area in South Mumbai. Some Bollywood stars and business giants live on this street , and there are also some consulates there. The land prices there move from US $ 10,000 per square meter upwards. The land on which the building stands belongs to a foundation for orphans and was actually not for sale.

The better-known Pedder Road runs parallel to Altamount Road. ( Location ) Mukesh Ambani had already lived on Altamount Road, in India's first skyscraper, the “Usha Kiran”.

Public reactions

The Indian journalist Praful Bidwai called the divide between rich and poor obscene at the beginning of the construction period and said there was growing outrage over such absurd expenses.

"Critics emphasize that the house is being built in a city in which millions of people have no roof over their heads and do not know what to eat." (Hasnain Kazim, Spiegel Online)

So far, the Ambanis lived in a 22-storey high-rise building ( Sea Wind ), which they had invested several years to redesign in order to tailor it to their individual living requirements. According to numerous press reports published in 2011, Ambani did not move in after the completion of the house because, according to critical voices, the architecture did not correspond to the spiritual Indian architectural theory Vastu. Nita Ambani contradicted these reports in 2012.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Randeep Ramesh: Indian tycoon builds tower block home ( English ) In: The Guardian . July 1, 2007. Retrieved April 11, 2014.
  2. ^ A b Matt Woolsey: Inside The World's First Billion-Dollar Home ( English ) In: Forbes . April 30, 2008. Retrieved April 11, 2014.
  3. ↑ Hans Kirchmeyr: The fairy tale of the Indian billion house . In: KOBUK! . October 29, 2010. Retrieved April 11, 2014.
  4. ↑ Anand Giridharadas: Meet Mukesh Ambani - India's Richest Man ( English ) In: The New York Times . June 15, 2008. Retrieved April 11, 2014.
  5. ^ The Times of India - Author PTI: Mukesh Ambani's $ 2 billion home world's most expensive: Forbes ( English ) In: The Times of India . May 1, 2008. Archived from the original on July 5, 2009. Retrieved on April 11, 2014.
  6. ^ Karen Russo: Man Builds Himself a Billion Dollar Home ( English ) In: American Broadcasting Company . January 29, 2008. Retrieved April 11, 2014.
  7. ^ Ronnie Grob: Slumdog Billionaire . In: BILDblog . November 29, 2010. Archived from the original on February 2, 2011. Retrieved on April 11, 2014.
  8. ↑ Dhiram Shah: Antilia the classiest residence for the richest Indian ( English ) In: Luxurylaunches . May 30, 2007. Retrieved April 11, 2014.
  9. ^ Matt Woolsey: In Pictures: Inside The World's First Billion-Dollar Home ( English ) In: Forbes . April 30, 2008. Retrieved April 11, 2014.
  10. ↑ Williams: Mukesh Ambani's new house - Antilla ( English ) In: aavaas.com . November 4, 2007. Archived from the original on September 3, 2011. Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. Retrieved April 11, 2014. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / aavaas.com
  11. ↑ Claims World's Largest and Most Expensive Residence ( Memento of the original from May 29, 2010 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. (English) @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.indiamarks.com
  12. ↑ http://www.theage.com.au/executive-style/luxury/indias-richest-man-builds-worlds-first-billiondollar-home-20101015-16mrg.html
  13. ↑ dna India: Mittal's address more expensive than Ambani’s ( English ) In: dna India . August 4, 2008. Retrieved April 11, 2014.
  14. ↑ a b Hasnain Kazim: Indian billionaire: A 60 million dollar Airbus as a birthday present for the woman . In: Spiegel Online . November 23, 2007. Retrieved April 11, 2014.
  15. ^ Agnes Tandler: Most expensive house in the world: A luxury ruin in Mumbai . In: The daily newspaper . November 30, 2011. Retrieved April 11, 2014.
  16. ^ Antilia is only home we have: Ambani. Nita Ambani said some of the media reports about their house were "exaggerated." Indian Express, May 17, 2012

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