Asia’s richest man is in the process of constructing the most expensive home ever built—a 27-storey skyscraper.
Mukesh Ambani, chairman and managing director of Reliance Industries and the world’s fifth richest man, acquired the land for his expensive project in 2002 and expects to have his new home completed in January of 2009. The building has been designed by firms Perkins + Will and Hirsch Bedner Associates.
Lending the building a mythic resonance, the tower is named Antilia, after the mythological phantom island, and is designed based on the Hanging Gardens of Babylon, one of the original Seven Wonders of the World. Antilia’s design also conforms to Vaastu, an Indian tradition similar to Feng Shui. Furthermore, the building makes use of different architectural elements and materials for every floor—making sure that each one is uniquely appealing.
The 27-storey building will be about 568 feet tall—meaning that, on average, each storey will be over 20 feet tall. The first six floors will be reserved for parking the Ambanis’ cars while the seventh floor will be used to maintain those cars. The eighth floor will be used for entertainment and includes a 50-seat cinema with a gardened rooftop and balconies. The ninth floor will be reserved for emergencies should the Ambanis, their guests and/or staff require rescue. The tenth and eleventh floors will contain a health club, swimming pool and other athletic facilities. Above that will be two-storey guest apartments and, finally, the four floors on which the Ambani family will live. The remaining three floors will be used for maintenance and a control room for Antilia’s three helipads.
At a projected cost of $2 billion, Antillia is the world’s first billion-dollar home.
That’s quite a bit more than The Pinnacle, Yellowstone Club founder Tim Blixseth’s planned Montana mansion and our former “Most Expensive Home.” The 10-bedroom abode would’ve cost $155 million, but construction never began and Blixseth has recently sold the 160-acre land parcel on which it would’ve been built.
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impressive, but the most expensive house in the future will be in india built my billionaire Mukesh Ambani. Bastard
Called the Ambani house has a price tag of 2 billion dollars. Thats my dad
One matchstick could burn the house down.
J, did you even read the article? This is the house you’re talking about. It’s called antillia, not ‘the ambani house’.
i have a feeling that Mukesh will get lost in his own house… but then again, he’ll just hire a person to be in each elevator to press the button for him…
btw, lol to ‘j’s comment…
nice blog! cheers…
imagine forgetting where u put ur fone … or getting into bed and u forget something inthe kitchen …. which is 5 storeys away haha
I’M HAPPY WITH MY 4 BED 4BATH PENTHOUSE IN NYC .. I THINK WE HUMANS JUST KEEP GETTING VERY GREEDY.. IF A VERY BIG CATACLYSMIC CATASTROPHE HAPPENS THEN I WOULD JUST EXCEPT IT AND LEARN TO LIVE IN A CAVE.. BUT FOR SOME THEY WOULD GO CRAZY BECAUSE THEY CAN’T SHOW OFF OR HAVE A SMUG ATTITUDE ABOUT IT ANY MORE WERE JUST HUMAN , NOT GOD…
i don’t think that’s a real house it looks like a drawind or layout.
WOW what a house.This house is not real its so big i wonder how much was spent when it was being built.People become richer every time they think of building what richness.
DAMN!! what is that man thinking of building………..seriously he has bad taste…he may have the most expensive house built in the world but to me its just a huge waste of money for a house or should a say a building or something…….that looks like a tower made of lego blocks that i used to make when i was a kid………and if thats a real house then i have on thing to say…..my $60 lego tower looks way better than that $2 billion junk….lolz………..
j- “impressive, but the most expensive house in the future will be in india built my billionaire Mukesh Ambani. Bastard”
that is mukesh ambanis house…….
lets fly a plane into it lol banzai
I bought the D&G, wow its nice and affordable