The Single Family Skyscraper
For those of us who think that our 2 bedroom flats are spacious, comes this story of a single-family skyscraper:
This 60-story house is for just one family.
India's richest man, Mukesh Ambani, is planning a palace in the heart of Mumbai with helipad, health club, hanging gardens and six floors of car parking.
His wife, mother and three children will live there with him, looked after by 600 live-in staff.
The building, already worth £500 million, could start a rush on skyscrapers.
Luckily the BBC has more information:
His skyscraper home in the city will be over 170m tall and will have an army of 600 staff to manage it.
Its 27 floors on a 4,532 sq metre plot will provide a panoramic view of the entire city of Mumbai (Bombay) once it is completed next year
I wonder who the architect is? MVRDV? Rem Koolhaas brought back from the 1990's? Anyone taking bets?
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