From Mumbai Mirror
You may have read details about Mukesh Ambani’s new house-in-the-making at Altamount Road, but even as work on its construction goes on in full swing, here on your right is the first picture of what it will look like when it’s complete. Mumbai Mirror is in possession of the entire architectural plan for Residence Antilia (as the house is going to be called, after a mythical island), the subject of enormous curiosity in the city ever since the Reliance Industries Ltd chairman purchased the 4,532 sq mt plot in 2002. The plan, drawn up by the firm Perkins+Will, reveals that the house will resemble a virtual glass palace, with entertainment centres, a health club, a swimming pool and various green spots thrown in for good measure. C onstruction of Mukesh Ambani’s new house at Altamount Road, where real estate prices are now in the region of Rs 75,000 per sq ft, began in late 2006, and the first six floors are already in place now. The building is expected to be complete in September 2008. 27 FLOORS Six floors for parking The first six floors — which have come up — will be reserved for parking alone, and that too for cars belonging only to Mukesh’s family. Space for a total of 168 ‘imported’ cars has been earmarked here. Floor for car maintenance Entertainment floor Balconies with gardens The ‘health’ floors For guests Family Air space floor Helipad However, Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation officials told this paper that permission for the helipads has not been granted yet. “The residential plans were approved three-four years ago. Two levels of basement have also been shown in the proposed project,” Sudhir Shinde, deputy engineer at the BMC’s building proposals department said. Staff Total stats
What is Antilia? The origin of the name is uncertain. The oldest suggested etymology (1455) fancifully connects it with the name of the Platonic Atlantis, while later writers have endeavoured to derive it from the Latin anterior (i.e. the island that is reached “before” Cipango), or from the Jezirat al Tennyn, “Dragon’s Isle,” of the Arabian geographers. The legend of the islands seems to have arisen at the latest in pre-Christian Roman times when Plutarch chronicled (in 74 AD) the life of Roman military commander and Consul of Spain Quintus Sertorius (died 75 BC). After returning by sea to Spain after a campaign in “Mauretania” (modern northern Morocco), Sertorius “met some sailors who had recently come back from the Atlantic Islands.” It was from these men that Sertorius learned facts so beguiling that he made it his life’s ambition to find the islands and retire there. |
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interesting…
With BSE touching 19000 today…its quite probable that Mukesh Ambani may at the moment be the richest person on the planet.
hey..where the hell did I comment go?
crazy filthy rich people.
nothing compared to these beauties..
http://www.forbes.com/2007/02/21/homes-expensive-world-forbeslife-cx_mw_0222mostexpensivehomes_slide1_2.html?thisSpeed=30000
That’s old school :p
And anyways…to do something like that in a posh Mumbai locality, you need to be a trillionaire I guess 😀
let’s see what Anil Ambani does to counter his brother’s growth.
Amazing!! I think, well, why does he want to do all that? And, I suppose its because he can.
The Emperor of the world…
9th floor for emergencies…ya may be helipad..
Money money money speaks