For the world’s super-wealthy, not your Brad Pitt and George Clooneys but your billionaire CEOs and various magnates who are way wealthier than those peons, the price tag for an appropriate home goes all the way to $1 billion.
There are luxury homes, and then there’s Antilia—the Mumbai home of billionaire Mukesh Ambani, Chairman of Reliance Industries.
Inspired by the mythical Atlantic island, Mukesh Ambani’s home, located in South Mumbai’s Altamount Road is estimated to be the world’s second-most expensive property after the Buckingham Palace. The high-end mansion reportedly costs an estimated $1billion.
The 400,000-square-foot building is situated in one of the world’s most expensive addresses—Altamount Road in South Mumbai. According to property trends, per square foot of any real estate on Altamount Road ranges between a massive Rs 80,000 to Rs 85,000 (as per the nos two years back).
The architectural design of Antilia has been fashioned along the lines of the lotus and the sun. The top six floors of the building have been set aside as the private full-floor residential area.
The Ambani home comes with a mega-temple, a host of guest suites, a salon, an ice-cream parlour and a private movie theatre to accommodate 50 people.
Antilia, a 27-story skyscraper on the pricey Altamount Road in Mumbai, is the most expensive home in the world, valued at upwards of $1 billion. Every floor is the same height of an average two-storeyed building. In fact, Antilia can survive an earthquake of 8 on the Richter scale.
Mukesh Ambani, an Indian business tycoon and multibillionaire, moved into the 400,000-square-foot mansion in 2012 with his wife and three children. The modern property was designed by Chicago-based architects Perkins & Will.
Antilia, which was named for a phantom island in the Atlantic, features a multistory garage with space for 168 cars, a ballroom, three helipads, gardens, a temple, guest suites, a health level and a home theater that seats 50.
Antilia has six dedicated floors for cars and has a dedicated car service station on the seventh floor. Antilia also has 9 high-speed elevators, each assigned to different floors.