Ambani Home
Nobody knows quite what happened, but one day the Zee-Age campaign ended. Subhash Chandra was highly visible last fortnight, at the hospital, and later at Seawind, the Ambani home, paying his respects, and telling the same Zee News how much he had learnt from Dhirubhai Ambani.1
Although the building will be the headquarters for his company Reliance Industries it predominantly serves as Ambani’s home. In the most densely populated city in the world (30,000 people per sq.2
Apparently, Ghai who is quite close to the senior Ambani, had a special screening of Black & White at Sea Wind- the Ambani home at Cuffe Parade recently. Even Kumarangam Birla had a special screening of the film organized by Ghai at the Birla residence yesterday itself.3
Mukesh Ambani is building an estimated $1 billion, 60-story home on one of Mumbai’s most expensive streets. Plans for the modern maharaja’s palace, designed by Chicago’s Perkins & Will.4
Urban planners say Mr Ambani’s home is part of a global rush for tall buildings, with skyscrapers springing up in Dubai, Shanghai and Seoul. In India, planning rules and a historic antipathy to unrestrained materialism has meant that this race to touch the sky has largely bypassed the cities, which are more notable for their shantytowns and dilapidated housing.5
The Ambani home, called Antilla, differs in that no two floors are alike in either plans or materials used. At the request of Nita Ambani, say the designers, if a metal, wood or crystal is part of the ninth-floor design, it shouldn’t be used on the eleventh floor, for example.6