The world’s first billion-dollar home
Indian billoinaire Mukesh Ambani, CEO of Reliance Industries, and one of the world’s richest persons, owns the world’s first home worth USD1 billion dollars or more, dubbed Antilia, after the mythical island.
Specs:
- 27 floors; now if members of his family can’t sleep, they can simply move to another floor, better than any sleeping aid!
- 173m tall
- location: Altamount Road, Cumballa Hill, Mumbai, India
- built-up area: 400,000 square feet
- plot area: 48.780 square feet
- architect: Perkins & Will (Chicago)
- cost: USD2 billion
- inspiration: Hanging Gardens of Babylon