Antilia (building)
Antilia is the largest and most expensive " detached house" in the world. This high-rise is in Mumbai in the Indian state of Maharashtra. The Antilia building is owned by the richest people of India, the billionaire petrochemical entrepreneur Mukesh Ambani. The building is named after the mythical island of Antilia. Ambani is not indented, despite long years of construction and the high cost of construction after the completion of the house in 2011.
The building was inaugurated in November 2010. The house is 173 meters high and has 27 floors with a special ceiling height; a normal skyscraper of this amount would have between 40 and 50 floors.
Design
It was designed by the architectural firm Perkins and Will from Chicago. The architecture of the building is inspired by the Hanging Gardens of Babylon.
The idea for the house came Ambani's wife Nita During a 2005 visit to the " Mandarin Oriental New York." The view from the 1,300 m² spa area on the 35th floor of Central Park in combination with the modern Asian interior impressed her so much that she commissioned the construction of Antilia, the same companies that were responsible for the design of the hotel: the Chicago-based architectural firm Perkins & Will and the interior design firm Hirsch Bedner Associates ( with 13 worldwide offices ). The construction of the construction company Leighton Holdings and later from another company was started continues.
Construction costs
According to a spokesman for Ambani's construction costs are 50 to 70 million U.S. dollars.
Many media outlets had reported that the house will be the first residential building in the world that has cost one billion U.S. dollars, the most expensive private house in the world would be; an article quoted the sum of 2 billion, it is questionable whether this really dollars are meant. A comparison with the currently world's tallest building, the Burj Khalifa, whose construction costs are estimated at 1.5 billion U.S. dollars, suggests that the cost of Antilia were incorrectly distributed, or rupees and U.S. dollars were swapped.
Building Description
The Ambani family with their three children are a living area of approximately 37,000 square meters. This is more than the area of the castle of Versailles.
The actual core of the Ambani family apartment is located on the top four floors. Mukesh Ambani's mother Kokilaben Ambani lives in the house. The family are 600 employed full-time equivalents are on staff available who live partly in the building.
The " family house " is equipped with all the expected amenities, such as a small movie theater with a capacity of 50 seats on the eighth floor, three to four floors with hanging gardens ( with an outdoor area and lawn ), a panoramic deck overlooking the Arabian Sea and the Skyline of Mumbai.
The " health Floor " is a swimming pool (there are several in the house), jacuzzi, solarium, host a dance and yoga studio, fitness rooms, a spa area and an " ice room ". In this cooling chamber can snow snow from the ceiling to cool off from the tropical heat in Mumbai.
The tower will have three helipads, including its own air traffic control zone in the airspace over the high-rise.
The bottom six floors of the house serve as a parking garage with 168 parking spaces for the family and for guests. On the seventh floor is the in-house auto repair shop for maintenance of the vehicle fleet. Another floor is used as a rescue floor. Also, guest apartments, there will be in the house. The construction of the building is designed to withstand an earthquake up to a magnitude 9 on the Richter scale.
Above the six parking floors there is a floor with a large lobby with nine elevators, numerous lounges and warehouses. Two elevators go to the parking floors, 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 into the large ballroom with stage, which has the height of two normal floors and the ceiling is hung all over with crystal chandeliers. There is also a large kitchen, which is the same size as the ballroom and can supply hundreds of guests.
A creative basic element in the construction of the building was the consideration of the Indian Vastu Vidya principle. It should be positively influenced by the building by strategically placing materials, rooms and objects of the energy flow. The interior is worn considerably Indian trains and mostly from India. Even to the materials in the different floors should not be repeated.
So far, the Ambani lived in a 22 - story skyscraper ( Sea Wind ), in the transformation they had invested several years in order to tailor it to their individual housing requirements.
Location
The building stands on the Cumballa Hill on a 4532 m² plot of land in Altamount Road ( officially called the street SK Barodawalla Marg ), one of the ten most expensive streets in the world, in an upscale residential area in South Mumbai. In this street live some Bollywood stars and business leaders, as well as some consulates can be found there. Land prices move there from U.S. $ 10,000 per square meter upwards. The land on which the building stands, part of a foundation for orphans and was not actually for sale.
Altamount Road runs parallel to the more familiar Pedder Road. ( Lage18.96417572.807527777778 ) Mukesh Ambani had once lived at the Altamount Road, the first skyscraper of India, the " Usha Kiran ".
Public reactions
The Indian journalist Praful Bidwai described the division between rich and poor is obscene and said there is growing outrage over such absurd spending.
"Critics point out the house arises in a city where millions of people without a roof over your head and have not know what they should eat. " ( Hasnain Kazim, Spiegel Online )