‘Antilia’ is said to be the world’s most expensive home and is 27 storyes high (Image: Getty)
With a temple, an ice cream parlour and a snow room with icy walls this huge £3.6 billion tower reportedly takes the crown as the world’s most expensive home.
Casting its shadow over downtown Mumbai, Antilia’s 27 floors of pure opulence is the home of billionaire and
Ambani is the chairman and managing director of Reliance Industries, a sprawling India-headquartered conglomerate that owns interests in petrochemicals, refining, oil and a range of other interests in several different sectors from broadband to media. Ambani gained much of his wealth from the ownership of India’s largest oil and gas refinery giving him a net worth of £75 billion.
has afforded him the 400,000-square-foot palace tower which includes nine high-speed lifts, a cinema/theatre that can seat fifty people, a swimming pool, spa and a health centre.
The tower has become such a landmark it was almost the backdrop for the Christoper Nolan film Tenet, starring Robert Pattinson, but tight security measures led to filming being moved elsewhere.
Antilia is estimated to cost around £3.6 billion (Image: Getty)
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Perhaps the most extravagant feature of them all is the snow room. The freezing cold room even emits mandmade snowflakes from its icy walls – in its sweltering Indian location that has never seen snow, with the lowest temperature ever recorded coming in at a mild 7.4C.
Antilia was built from 2008 to 2010 and cost £1.57 billion. The building overlooks one of India’s poorest areas including a famous poverty-stricken area, the Dharavi slum.
Transportation is not an issue, the home has three separate helipads as well as a multi-storey car park to make room for a staggering 168 cars.
Antilia towers over Mumbai’s Skyline (Image: Getty)
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The six-storeyed garage includes his Mercedes Benz Maybach, Ferrari, Bentley, Tesla, Rolls Royce and more.
Antilia was designed by architects Perkins and Will, the Chicago-based company, to resemble a vertical glass garden with hanging terraced gardens on several levels.
Despite all the floors, the building has been designed to be extremely open and spacious, with each floor the same height as an average two-storey building. The architects also had safety in mind, making Antila strong enough to survive a magnitude eight earthquake.