Palm Beach Residency

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From Midday:

Work began three months ago in Navi Mumbai on what will be — at 360 metres — India's longest residential building.

The Palm Beach Residency will be as long as an 18-coach train and stand 23 floors high on Palm Beach Road, Navi Mumbai.

Currently, India’s longest building, according to the Limca Book of Records, is the 180-metre Lake Castle of the Hiranandani Group, designed by Hafeez Contractor.

Palm Beach Residency will have nine interlinked wings and contain 792 two and three-bedroom flats. The developer, Sanjay Chhabria of Vijay Associates (Wadhwa) Developers, said, “We did not want to make or break any record. We just wanted to ensure that each buyer got an unrestricted view of the sea.”

Another reason developers prefer (space permitting, of course) long buildings over skyscrapers is that they can avoid the mandatory space that they would need to leave between adjoining towers.

“This way, they can make full use of the FSI (floor space index) available,” said architect Mukesh Mehta.

The project began three months ago and is expected to be completed in 30 months. The rate will be about Rs 2,500 per sq ft.

Pic by Ubermensch - 6 Jan, 2005.

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Nice

Impressive, that's a really wide tower.

it needs clean``````````

It's a construction site. :|

Would you prefer they hand polish the cranes?

It's a construction site. :|

Would you prefer they hand polish the cranes?
It's a start :) BTW amazing project.

IT LOOKS GREAT

It doesn't look great, it looks like a new generation commieblock.

Here's a bigger version of the rendering
http://img171.imageshack.us/img171/7233/cvew4qm.jpg

I don't think it looks very commie blockish, except in size

How many apartments will it have?

Looks nice, but whats the point in connectining them all and making it so wide? I mean taller I understand, but wider doesnt make sense to me... Just harder to exacuate in case of fire and also easier for a fire to travel from one building to the next...

It's a construction site. :|

Would you prefer they hand polish the cranes?
:rofl: U got it buddy, some forumers here complain too much about cleanliness and India..

If ur so concerned about cleanliness and not skyscrapers, Go lick the Pavement clean!

When is the completion date?

Looks nice, but whats the point in connectining them all and making it so wide? I mean taller I understand, but wider doesnt make sense to me... Just harder to exacuate in case of fire and also easier for a fire to travel from one building to the next...
Probably height restrctions! :bash:

I think going wide is a South Asian thing

The buildings i noticed are not very tall instead very wide!

Probably height restrctions! :bash:
But still, why not make a bunch of sepearate structures? Or is to save on space?

it looks amazing it is definately wide.

currently mumbai has the most amazing skyline in south asia

currently mumbai has the most amazing skyline in south asia

yeap you are right and its very likely to change in SA mumbai has the most buildings u/c currently and they are quiet tall according to other SA cities.

:)

The building is very very wide.

The building is very very wide.
true
i think when it will be finished it will be intresting to see how it turns out. :)

Looks nice, but whats the point in connectining them all and making it so wide? I mean taller I understand, but wider doesnt make sense to me... Just harder to exacuate in case of fire and also easier for a fire to travel from one building to the next...

Maybe there is a height restriction, but for the safety issue ur absolutely right.

But still, why not make a bunch of sepearate structures? Or is to save on space?

You answered it.

Another reason developers prefer (space permitting, of course) long buildings over skyscrapers is that they can avoid the mandatory space that they would need to leave between adjoining towers.

“This way, they can make full use of the FSI (floor space index) available,” said architect Mukesh Mehta.

the building looks quite nice...very different than regular buildings..

Intersting and very nice apartments too.

i actually quiet like this idea - meaning that if the tower curves (bends)
as well as the balconies then at least there is a main theme here!

the communist-era blocks were just blocks that were joined to save building double walls (yep, that was the whole idea of it! saving a few bricks!) so
I think here its to save space - why not join buildings and have a nice big park next to them, then separate tall buildings which shadow all around them with scattered open space?

So in all with india's population this is probably a must.
:cheers: