“Antilla” by Perkins+Will, The 60-Story House for Just One Family
Mukesh Ambani of Reliance Industries, is building a new home in Mumbai city. The buzz around town is that the home-in-the-making is a glass mansion on Altamound Road called “Antilla.”
The plan for the palatial building in India’s economic capital is drawn up by “Perkins and Will“. And the mansion will have everything from a swimming pool to a personal car-servicing center for the Ambani family’s 168 imported cars.
In actuality, it is about 60 floors, but since it has been reduced to 27 stories to make the ceilings a bit higher.
An helipad or an air space floor is planned on the uppermost area, functioning as a control room for landing choppers. The eighth floor will have a mini theatre, which can seat 50, and will be used for recreational activities. A two-storied glass-front apartment will serve as guest rooms. Three floors will serve as terrace gardens with balconies. And the facility will be staffed, around the clock, with 600 employees.
Via [The Indian Express]
June 13, 2007 - Category: Architecture - Posted by: Chantal - Comments: 15
May 10th, 2008 at 7:36 am
it is a sheer waste of money and land.It looks hopeless more like a 3 star hotel.Mukesh is a bloody fat man who enjoys in money earned by his father…
July 19th, 2008 at 4:56 pm
this looks like trash, i just dont understand why hes wasting his money on somethin that looks like a stack of grass and cowdung
September 28th, 2008 at 10:21 pm
Mukesh Ambani is the wealthiest and considerably the most powerful man in india. He can afford this luxary because of his hard work you jealous arrogant assholes. He did inherit some of his fathers money but so what! HE MORE THAT DOUBLED ALL OF THAT MONEY! This house is something of pride he doing not just for himself but for his family. I say good job Mukesh Ambani you are a man of great power and there is nothing wrong in showing it. You went for something different as your place of residence and good luck to you and your family.
January 13th, 2009 at 5:11 pm
wow really interesting… its good that he can afford this and he should be able to do what he wants to do with his money, if he wants to have a two billion dollar house so be it… I would only hope to be able to afford that kind of house some day.
February 3rd, 2009 at 2:13 am
I think this is horrible. With all the poverty in the world, this man waste 2 billion dollars on one house! Why doesn’t he just give away 2 billion to people who actually need it. He didn’t even earn all of it. I hate people who show off their money like this. He should give most of his money away to charity. I think he is a selfish man who wants to do nothing but show off. If I ever get the chance to talk to him, I would so tell him off.
May 26th, 2009 at 4:19 am
Meanwhile, thousands of children in India live in EXTREME poverty while this sorry excuse for a human being lives in pure decadence. I dont care how he earned it, you cant waste the earths resources like this and expect respect, its a sin to live like this. And this goes to all people who live in multi-million dolllar homes, you suck and I hope you burn in HELL because there are children out there who will spend their entire lives suffering yet you think its ok to use more than your share of the earths resources. You are disgusting people, and I would tell you off too, if you had to guts to confront real people like me, and not just the sorry losers who are so stupid that they idolize people you and your lifestyle.
August 28th, 2009 at 6:34 am
Well’s it’s his money he can decide what ever he want’s to do with it but as people says it’s better to donate to charity than to build such a building that looks so easily collapsible becuase natural disasters cannot be avoided ….Save the animals and stop the killing or just fund into research for better crops and help the farmers giving u your rice dammit,it’s such a waste on the earth’s scarce land resource,if youre so great,why not build a big house for the homeless? seriously you have really let down religion…but in the reasoning in hindu i belive they said if a person is born as a beggar it is because they lived a life that harmed others or is rich but did not donate,well? judge yourself
December 7th, 2009 at 12:50 am
Anthony i live in a multi-million dollar house but i am not a snob. My family gives a lot of money to charity each and every year. You can’t judge people by what one person does. THOSE ARE CALLED STEREOTYPES. Before you start judging people with a lot of money, get to know them first or do more research. And how do you not know Mr. Ambani does not give to charities. And don’t tell people like him and me to burn in hell, that is horrible.
January 14th, 2010 at 10:07 am
India is so rich and powerful that each and every one of its 1billion-plus residents are living in care-free luxury…..NOT!
Shame on you fat fucker! hahaha
January 14th, 2010 at 10:09 am
Hmm.. I wonder how far the mumbai slums are from this ramshackle of a building? I reckon the stenchof the shit which they are eating in the slums could be smelt from the penthouse floor of this sorry excuse for a waste of money!
March 19th, 2010 at 7:03 pm
This house “Antilla” featured with other “most expensive homes” in the Wellington daily newspaper on Friday March 19th 2010. I was impressed and it appealed to my own thoughts of building a partly underground skyscraper on my residential hilltop section in Wgtn NZ.
The other homes in the Dominion Post article written by Aleeza Khan, were all vulgar in their own particular way too.
Other comentators to this page are right about poor, homeless and starving multitudes in India and the rest world, however this contrast has always been there. If this rich man Mukesh Ambani had not grown his father’s business then his employees would not have shared in the growth. His personal billions are a proportionately small slice of the cake when compared to the whole cake.
Many billions must be generated from the family company and when in business, profit is king, they sole reson for being in business. More benevolent enterprises are for charity or social developement or clubs. The head of one of those should never live like Ambani unless they are him.
If, as suggested up-page by ANGEL in 2009, Ambani give away the value of the home ($2 billion) then half the poor in china and India would get $1 each. That wouldn’t go far. Angel might prefer one billion people to get $2 instead or some other ratio of the hand-out, depending on how Angel “feels” at the time.
Cheers from Dave NZ
April 12th, 2010 at 10:35 pm
Gluttony, greed, the desire to look down at people: what inspires someone to think that are above everyone else? Probably the fact that they have been so out of touch with reality their entire lives – they don’t know any better. This Ambani family made its fortunes in the petrochemical industry – the same one that’s currently destroying the environment and causing global warming causing insecurity for all. So let’s reward one of the planets greatest threats, the Ambani’s with a place that they never have to leave so no one ever has to look at their sorry faces again!
April 13th, 2010 at 2:48 pm
Absolutely gaudy house. This man have money but don’t have taste. Poor man.
June 18th, 2010 at 4:59 pm
Mumbai is strange, you have the richest living next to the poorest.
June 18th, 2010 at 5:14 pm
Mumbai needs some bragging rights – claiming to have Asia’s largest slum or recurrent communal violence is nothing to brag about. India needs more jobs and tourism has great potential to provide those jobs – more hotels will be booked, more attractions will be created, and more people will be employed. If Mumbai can create the world’s most expensive residential building so be it.