'World's most expensive house' is mega mansion is worth £3.6bn with 9 lifts and a 'snow room'
'World's most expensive house' is mega mansion is worth £3.6bn with 9 lifts and a 'snow room'
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Boasting a temple, an ice cream parlour and a snow room with frosty walls, this colossal £3.6 billion tower is said to be the world's priciest residence. Towering over downtown Mumbai, the 27-storey Antilia is the extravagant home of billionaire Mukesh Ambani, the world's wealthiest oil tycoon. As the chairman and managing director of Reliance Industries, Ambani oversees a vast conglomerate with interests in petrochemicals, refining, oil, broadband, media and more. His fortune, estimated at £75 billion, largely stems from owning India's largest oil and gas refinery.
This wealth has enabled him to own the 400,000-square-foot palace tower, equipped with nine high-speed lifts, a fifty-seater cinema/theatre, a swimming pool, spa and health centre. The tower was almost featured as a backdrop in Christopher Nolan's film Tenet, starring Robert Pattinson, but stringent security measures led to a change in filming location. Perhaps the most lavish feature is the snow room, which produces artificial snowflakes from its icy walls - a novelty in a country where the lowest recorded temperature is a mild 7.4C.
Constructed between 2008 and 2010 at a staggering cost of £1.57 billion, Antilia towers over one of India's most impoverished regions, including the infamous Dharavi slum. Transportation is no issue for this residence, boasting three individual helipads and a multi-storey car park with space for an impressive 168 vehicles, reports the Express. The six-storey garage houses a collection of luxury cars, including a Mercedes Benz Maybach, Ferrari, Bentley, Tesla, Rolls Royce and more. Designed by Chicago-based architects Perkins and Will, Antilia resembles a vertical glass garden, featuring hanging terraced gardens across multiple levels.
