Showing posts with label Buildings-and-Constructions. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Buildings-and-Constructions. Show all posts

Tuesday, April 5, 2011

Antilia - The One Billion Dollar Home of Mukesh Ambani

This is the extravagant £630 million or $1 billion home built by a billionaire Indian tycoon to house his family-of-four in Mumbai.

With 27 storeys, Antilia will be home to Mukesh Ambani and features a health club with a gym and dance studio, a ballroom, at least one swimming pool and a 50-seater cinema.

Towering above the Mumbai skyline, the 37,000sq ft property is 570ft high and also boasts three helipads on its roof, space for 160 vehicles on its lower floors and nine lifts.

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Antilia, built by tycoon Mukesh Ambani for his family of four, towers 27-storeys over Mumbai, India

Saturday, March 5, 2011

World Strangest Buildings

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The Crooked House (Sopot, Poland)

Tuesday, February 8, 2011

9/11 in 2010 - Remembrance and Rebuilding

Last Saturday, September 11th, people all over the United States and the world took time to remember the victims of the terrorist attacks which killed nearly 3,000 people in New York, Virginia and Pennsylvania nine years ago. Progress on the rebuilding of Ground Zero in lower Manhattan is now becoming more evident as One World Trade Center topped 36 stories recently, on its way to 1,776 feet by 2012. The building, formerly known as the Freedom Tower, is now growing at a rate of one floor per week, after years of political, security and financing issues plagued the $11 billion multi-building project. A push is underway in both New York and Pennsylvania to complete memorial projects before next year's 10th anniversary. Collected here are photos from this weekend's memorials and of the rebuilding progress so far

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The Tribute in Light rises behind the construction cranes on One World Trade Center, among the lower New York skyline, Saturday, Sept. 11, 2010. In an annual tradition, the two bright blue beams of light rise from lower Manhattan in memory of the fallen twin towers. (AP Photo/Mark Lennihan)