To everyone’s surprise, price tagged at $ 2 Billion, Antilla (named after the mythical island) is in India and is world’s first billion dollar home. Indeed, like its name, it houses stuff that surrounds myth!
Owner is India’s richest, Mukesh Ambani of Reliance fame whose net worth was 43 Billion in March of this year and [...]
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Antilla Stands High As World’s First Billion Dollar Home
Posted in Architecture, Green Architecture, News Ink, Super-Architecture, tagged Architecture, Design, Green Architecture, Hirsch Bedner Associates, India, Mansion In Air, Mukesh Ambani, news, Nita Ambani, Perkins + Will, Reliance, Technology, World's First Billion Dollar Home on May 4, 2008 | 7 Comments »
When Economy Drives Design
Posted in Architecture, Culture, Discussion, Peoples' Places, tagged Aesthetics, Architect, Business, Cities, Design, Economy, Gene Kaufman, Hotels, Manhattan, New York, Urban Districts on February 19, 2008 | 3 Comments »
Is it fair for one architect to design 36 hotels in a prestigious urban district like Manhattan, especially when New York is home to some of the finest architects and designers of the world?
Architect Gene Kaufman is designing 36 hotels in Manhattan, including three that will share a single building on West 39th Street near [...]







