400,000 square feet of living space, 600 full-time staff, underground parking for 160 cars, 27 floors, 3 helipads, 1 prodigious building, Antilia. Named after a mythical island in the Atlantic ocean, Antilia is the personal home of Mukesh Ambani (one of the top 5 richest men in the world, and is said to be worth approximately $22 billion), chairman of Reliance Industries and situated in Altamont Road, South Mumbai (Altamount Road was the 10th most expensive street in the world at US$25,000/sq m).
Features:
- Many of the floors are double or triple height, so the building rises to 570 feet, the equivalent of a 40-story structure.
- It is reported that Antilia is worth more than a billion dollar.
- Antilia also has a movie theatre with a seating capacity of 50.
- Architecture by a global multidisciplinary architecture and design firm Perkins and Will.
- Includes swimming pool, three floors of hanging gardens, ballroom, health spa and yoga studio.
- Antilia contains a multi-story garage with space for 160 cars. It also has three helipads on the roof.
- The building caters the world’s largest collection of antique sewing machines.
- No two floors are alike in either plans or materials used.
- Antilia also features an ice room where residents and guests can escape the Mumbai heat to a small, cooled chamber embellished with man-made snow flurries.
- The whole building is decorated with custom hand carved rare marble pillars and stonework.
- Fine rugs, chandeliers and mirrors feature heavily in the numerous sitting areas throughout the building.
Some say Antilia is a home that that expresses India’s growth in luxury living while for others it’s just an ostentatious house and a stupendous show of wealth.
Yet it remains true as a fact that Antilia is a unique, distinguished and a never-seen-before project.