The 27-storey tower is home to Indian oil billionaire Mukesh Ambani, who is worth £75 billion, and his family
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.
Despite its many floors, the building maintains an open and spacious design, with each floor equivalent to the height of an average two-storey building.
Safety was also a key consideration in the design, with Antilia built to withstand an earthquake of up to eight on the Richter scale.