The world’s most expensive home is complete. The $1 billion (£630 million), 27 storey tower block in Mumbai is the home of Mukesh Ambani — the richest man in India, fourth richest man in the world –, his wife and their 3 children. It is difficult to know what to call it. It is far too big and grand to call it a house, the fact that it has more floor space than the palace of Versailles and 600 staff would ordinarily make it a castle, or Mansion, but can you call a sky scraper a mansion? Whatever you call it, the building is a physical representation of emerging markets taking over the world in terms of money and power, which is also what it screams (money and power) from the top of its 173 meter high walls: an asymmetric stack of glass, steel and tiles with a four-storey hanging garden and solid gold chandeliers hanging from the ball room ceiling. “Antilia is marvellous, I remember a Picasso painting , it was one of its kind – stunning,” one local businessman who visited the building gushed to the Times of India newspaper.
The Home included: 400,000 sq feet living space, Parking space for 168 cars, 9 Elevators in the lobby, 3 Helipads and An air traffic control facility, Health spa, yoga studio, small theatre with a seating capacity for 50 on the eighth floor,multiple swimming pools, three floors of hanging gardens, An ice room infused with man-made snow flurries and a ballroom. ItsConstruction is started at june 2007 and Finished at 2010 (Month's not exactly), Desing & Architect by Perkins & Will, and Owner is Mukesh Ambani. Chearman of Reliance Company.
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