If im not mistaken Donald Trump was supposed to be in town and we shuda hv been receiving some update on the Trump Towers - Height & Floors as well as renders . Any idea about that?

The stadium still looks unfinished?

Although its a great design.

The stadium still looks unfinished?

Although its a great design.

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i think there are 4 water tunnels currently under construction in bombay

Bhoomi clelstia 40 floors Malad west

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I think this is just a project by some University Students. Has this been posted before?

Illinois Institute of Technology B.Arch students, Seth Ellsworth and JaYoung Kim have shared with us their Mumbai traveling studio project, TATA Tower. Their project studies the infrastructural crisis regarding parking in developing regions such as Mumbai and how to address such issues in a way that does not stifle economic expansion, increases housing density, produces clean energy and creates high quality outdoor space for Mumbai. Additional images and a description by the architects after the break.


By the year 2030, 25% of the land area of Mumbai will be covered by parked cars - Mumbai Traffic Police

Project Description
This project addresses Mumbai’s increasing congestion and pollution. The TATA Corporation is the largest automaker in India and manufacturer of the Nano, the world’s cheapest car ($2500 US). The tower is seen as a development for TATA offices and employee residences, all of which drive alternative energy Nano cars. TATA Tower aims to be part of a much larger solution to the city’s crumbling infrastructure. Energy demands of the building and vehicles are met by photovoltaic louvers, building-integrated wind turbines, tri-generation, and an algae farm which produces biodiesel. Vertical parking allows for maximum parking density, gathering parked cars to act as a parking resource for neighboring linked towers. This also frees up space for a more pedestrian oriented ground plane, allowing for parks, recreation and increased public transportation.

Building Agenda
Mumbai’s increasing density has brought the city’s infrastructure to the brink of collapse. Public transportation is either non-existant or far beyond capacity, which is contributing to the growing number of cars in the city. Our building is envisaged in the year 2030, and along with new urban transportation strategies (congestion charging, etc.) aims to:

1. Create a new residential community for the TATA Corporation and its employees, where every family owns an alternative fuel TATA Nano car.
2. Generate electricity and biodiesel from alternative energy sources to power both the building and vehicles.
3. Create a vertical parking system the full height of the tower in order to maximize parking density.
4. Intensify car parking density within the city, eliminating the typical anti-urban parking structure and freeing up space for a more pedestrian-orientated ground floor.
5. Allow the building to become a parking resource for nearby towers, linked horizontally at height through skybridges.*Number of residential units in scheme = 930. Number of car parking spaces = 4050.
6. Create high quality outdoor parks and spaces throughout the tower, for the benefit of the vertical community and the local community of Mumbai.
7. Become a prototype for urban algae farming and other forms of alternative energy generation.
8. Become a vertical parking prototype for other areas in Mumbai and other cities around the world.

Project Team: Professor Antony Wood, Seth Ellsworth, JaYoung Kim
Location: C-Ward, Mumbai, India
Date: Spring 2010
Materials: Concrete, Steel
Sponsor: The Council on Tall Buildings and Urban Habitat

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[Via (http://www.archdaily.com/109186/tata-tower-seth-ellsworth-jayoung-kim/)]

Yes, posted that Tata parking tower project sometime last year, but not those pics.

Bhoomi clelstia 40 floors Malad west

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Bhooma Celestia, Malad West: 40 floors

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lol the parking lots ass ugly

Ugly.

MAROSHI TUNNEL SEES LIGHT OF DAY AT MAHIM

Infrastructure development firm HCC, which is constructing the 12.24 km long Maroshi-Ruparel water tunnel, announced on Tuesday that most of the work on the Mahim stretch has been completed. The remaining 1.8 km stretch should be completed in a couple of months, the firm said. Once completed, the tunnel – constructed 70 metres below the ground – will replace the Vaitarna, Tansa (E) and Tansa (W) main pipelines, thus providing protection against water thefts and leakages
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12.24 km of tunnel, hmm thats pretty long

Oberoi exquisite ii 45 floors Goregon east
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Are these three towers other than three fifty floor towers in phase 1?
link http://www.mumbaipropertyexchange.com/new-project-search/?curpage=5&ordBy=project_buildings.rating_building%20desc

(sorry about the dupe post - Moved - details to correct thread..)
Looks like the Worli-Haji sea link is also in trouble.

http://www.skyscrapercity.com/showthread.php?t=908686&page=18

^^ you love giving bad news.. JK

^^ you love giving bad news.. JK

Sorry about that!! Yea it is happening quite often from me - but am pretty frustrated with the whole World One and DB Realty fiasco. I take it out on you guys :D

Mumbai: Cricket fanatics waiting with bated breath to watch the two league matches and the grand finale at Wankhede wont be disappointed.The stadium,claim officials,in its new avatar is all ready to host the World Cup games.
To be unveiled soon,the historic stadium revamped in accordance with ICC standards for Rs 300 crore to accommodate nearly 33,000 spectators has been refurbished in 22 months.
Its a feat considering the several roadblocks we faced,which also include the threemonth delay due to a PIL filed in the Bombay high court against the renovation plan, said an official.
Renovating the 40-yearold World Club venue close to Churchgate station has been a challenge for architects P K Das & Associates and Shashi Prabhu Associates,with the experts slogging to come up with a well-balanced plan that did not inconvenience residents and commuters.
TOI got a sneak preview of the stadium from the dressing room area elaborately designed for the players.A visual treat with hues of red,yellow and blue,the stands have a 100-foot cantilever roof sans columns to provide an uninterrupted view of the match to every spectator.The old benches have been replaced with bucket seats and there is an elaborate signage system and four floodlights.The stadium has been broadly divided into three categories : players gallery,spectators gallery and media as well as corporate boxes
There are seven entrances to the stadium with elaborate plan for assignment of gates to a particular stand with specific colour coding.So,a spectator with a red ticket will go to the red gate,while those with blue codes will head for the blue one.There is also a detailed evacuation plan worked out,with 15 gates that will open into the field during emergency, an official said,adding that the entire pitch and the 71-yard boundary circle have been retained.
Wicket will be same as it used to be earlier.It will have a good bounce and ball will swing and seam.The pitch wont be different from the one earlier, said Sudhir Naik,pitch curator for Wankhede.The dressing room has food and drink counters,toilets,changing rooms with a massage facility (physiotherapy,to be precise).
The players have an exclusive entrance to the stadium for security reasons.There are two independent stairs which connect the dressing rooms to the fields.
There is a dedicated gallery for the press with a Wi-Fi enabled media room.About 250 scribes can witness and operate from here during the match, the official said.
Nearly 60 private AC boxes will be hired out during matches,with each box having the facility of a toilet and a pantry.
When contacted for comment on the issue of occupation certificate (OC),Uday Tatkare,chief fire officer,said,It has already got an OC as it is an old stadium.Theres no such a thing as a conditional OC or a NOC.But we have asked them to plug the loopholes,if any,in fire safety requirements and they have agreed to it.We will then submit our compliance report.

Source
TOI Today Mumbai

Bhoomi clelstia 40 floors Malad west

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good greif

it has litrally no closeby public transport and they are demanding 2.3 crore starting?in malad? that too in a location with a darshan of the slums?


:ohno:

sometimes i get a feeling that only those with big black money can afford a flat in mumbai

Swaroop atlantis Bhandra up 35 floors
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Designed by Hafeez Contractor for DB Realty:

Orchid Park, Mumbai Central - 63 floors

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This is in approval stage atm

too tall to be this ugly

Damn, that looks massive and hideous. It looks like it could be a supertall even.

Swaroop atlantis Bhandra up 35 floors
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I you mean Bhandup.

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^Thats a ghastly project, hope it never happens.

Damn, that looks massive and hideous. It looks like it could be a supertall even.

DB should complete its U/C supertalls before launching more :nuts:

lol thats just an ugly building.


however i have a question

is that building like art decosih?

[QUOTE=Coolguyz;63645593]The Capital - BKC -
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The egg is taking shape faster, now they have started on the inside structure.I guess its gonna be an empty structure.
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The backside
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trust me its gonna a stunner an icon for whole mumbai!

Signature Island in BKC by Sunteck Reality, not able to find any renders to go with it

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The latest hotel to open in BKC, right behind Trident

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"First Financial Place" in BKC besides Platina building
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Current favorite building of BKC.The new land rover showroom adds more glamor to it

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Latest bank to move in BKC. IDBI bank

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nice update cg,,, bkc really rock....

nice update cg,,, bkc really rock....

premier cbd of mumbai......


greats pics CG

cool updates coolguys :cheers:

WOW..... Simply amazing updates. The cybertecture building is going to stand out. Can't wait until the building is completely finished.

BTW, why do I feel the building dimensions look bigger in the render and smaller in reality?

Great up-dates and i am always impressed by BKC.

Also hope that Orchid Park does NOT get built, he could do better as well as Swaroop Atlantis.

Wankhede stadium sports new look(video)

http://ishare.rediff.com/video/sports/wankhede-stadium-sports-new-look-/2789598

Wankhede Stadium (Feb 2011)
cc Hardik jadeja
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This is good - though I don't know what is Mumbai's obsession with such low FSI's!!
Free it and let the builders and market their research decide whether to to use low or high!! If Mumbai had vast open expanses - it would be understandable - but when its constricted - why not adopt the worldwide model of high FSI - more compact city to save space?


CM's FSI hike will boost redevpt of chawls, old bldgs

Read more: CM's FSI hike will boost redevpt of chawls, old bldgs - The Times of India http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/city/mumbai/CMs-FSI-hike-will-boost-redevpt-of-chawls-old-bldgs/articleshow/7505206.cms#ixzz1EcycI1pU

MUMBAI: Residents of Mumbai's ubiquitous chawls may soon be able to live in self-contained flats measuring 300 sq ft each. Chief minister Prithviraj Chavan's decision to permit a floor space index (FSI) of 3 as against 2.5 for old and dilapidated buildings in the island city has removed the final hurdle in the redevelopment of chawls.

Builders had stopped the redevelopment on the grounds that the compulsory provision of bigger flats was eating into their share of the incentive FSI. In case of individual buildings like those in Dadar's Hindu Colony where each flat is spread over at least 1,000 sq ft, the law permits only 750 sq ft to residents after redevelopment. "As a result, residents refused to go in for redevelopment. Builders' had to give a portion of their incentive FSI so that residents could get a similar-sized flat in the redeveloped building,'' said an industry observer. "This made redevelopment economically unviable."

The proposal was earlier cleared by former chief minister Ashok Chavan just days before his ouster. After taking over as Maharashtra's chief minister, Prithviraj Chavan stayed all the decisions taken during his predecessor's last days in office. He, however, cleared the file on Monday, albeit with a few riders.

The chief minister, said officials, was insistent that there be an increase in Mhada's share of the housing stock from the surplus FSI that is to be split between the private developer and the housing authority. He has also sought change in norms to provide off-site infrastructure, like marginal open spaces (open spaces on the rear and the sides of the building), and roads. Chavan has asked authorities to draft fresh guidelines to meet these results. While his predecessor had suggested this move, Chavan has endorsed it. "This is clearly to encourage cluster redevelopment rather than that of a single building. Cluster redevelopment will help create better civic infrastructure,'' said an official.

Ajit Khatri, president of The Practicing Engineers, Architects, and Town Planners Association, said the additional FSI, along with the relaxation in Coastal Regulation Zone norms, will boost redevelopment of old and dilapidated buildings. "Builders will get incentive to carry out redevelopment and residents will get bigger homes,'' he said.

Chavan also cleared a proposal extending FSI benefits to all cessed and dilapidated buildings in the island city that were constructed prior to 1969. The benefits were previously available only to pre-1940 cessed properties.

Amin Patel, an MLA from Mumbadevi, welcomed the decision. This will benefit over 6,000 old buildings in his constituency.


Source : Link (http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/city/mumbai/CMs-FSI-hike-will-boost-redevpt-of-chawls-old-bldgs/articleshow/7505206.cms)

Rustomjee Elanza near Inorbit Malad - should be around 35-40 floors.

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I think this is Infinity 2 coming up in Malad W

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Is that by Marve road or a bit south of it?

1st pic - Just next to Inorbit

2nd pic -The road from Inorbit towards the east (SV Road). Just 100 m away from Inorbit

Small skyline sprouting up in Malad W. I think the vacant space will be filled with midrises of 25-45 floors in the next 5 years.

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So thats on the link road then, I see.

Hey anyone heard about Namste Tower:banana::banana::banana:http://img593.imageshack.us/img593/6954/17535677.jpg

^^ Never ! What is this?

:lol: :lol:

^^thats was very smart of you!

^^Tried to get pics of it from Shangri la's 5th floor parking but couldnt get any.

Sahara Star is seeing some activity, they have removed some of those steel structures near the entrance , also skeleton built for parking is dismantled

Skeleton being dismantled?

There is a seperate thread for the Namaste Tower in the Mumbai Projects.

Yes. It was just for the newer forumer who was unaware of this. But anyways, VIP123, if you are unaware, all the mega-Mumbai building projects are created under the Mumbai sub forum.

A video taken by me earlier today. Please excuse the quality! This was a quick fix job!

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Excellent video and description :cheers:

nice video

I see some rumbles near the tracks. Number of tracks being expanded?

The new rendering of Sahara Star, and work is moved on quite a bit in the background
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^^ a project which i always kept a close look at, but later on i have started loosing interest in it because of slow progress of work ! Good to see that this never end project is still goin on..........

Nice. THanks for all the fantastic updates CG>

The render looks fab!

Well at least its better late than never.

This will look fab around the Airport vicinity.

Radisson hotel (march 10th 2011)
I have a doubt in the date provided by photographer. Is that a slow progress or a wrong date ?

photo copyright: HÜHMI
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Mega redevpt project set to roll

Nauzer Bharucha TNN

Mumbai:The redevelopment of Khira Nagar in Santa Cruz (West),one of the citys largest housing societies,is set to take off six years after it was initiated.
The developer,Pune-based Kumar Urban Development Limited (KUL),paid Rs 10 crore in stamp duty a few days ago.The project cost is estimated at Rs 750 crore.KUL chairman Lalitkumar Jain confirmed the deal,but declined comment.
The 11-acre complex on S V Road comprises 17 low-rise residential buildings with 672 flats.TOI has learnt that KUL,given an FSI of 2 for the project,will offer 36% extra floor space to each flat owner in the redeveloped property;the existing flats have areas between 330 sq ft and 600 sq ft.Forty residents have opted to sell their flats outright to the developer,at a rate of Rs 18,000 per sq ft,which works out to over Rs 1 crore for a 600-sq-ft flat.KUL will also construct commercial buildings.
Seventy per cent of the residents have given their signatures for redevelopment.We are in the process of taking the consent of the remaining, said A S Nagori,general secretary,Khira Nagar CHS Association.The project was stuck in litigation for three years.The societies were owned by several landlords and multiple partners.They recently reached an out-of-court settlement.

TOI Epaper

Building parking castles in the air

When the floor space index is used as an instrument to raise money,it destroys urban planning


Mumbai has a huge shortage of public toilets.These are public amenities,and expected to be built by the municipal corporation.Despite having a budget of more than Rs 20,000 crore,the corporation is perennially strapped for money.So where is it going to find money for toilets So the BMC thinks of a brilliant idea.It has surplus land in Deonar.About thousand acres.
It announces a scheme,that for every toilet you build,you get an extra equivalent building permit anywhere in Mumbai.That is,if you build a thousand toilets,with total area of 1 lakh sq ft,you can build that much real estate.You will get extra floor space index (FSI) to be used anywhere in the city.
What do you think will happen Thousands of toilets will be built on the Deonar land,and skyscrapers will mushroom in Bandra and Worli,sold at golden prices.Having all the toilets in one place in Deonar will hardly solve the problem.They might as well have all been built in Vidarbha,or the Thar desert.
You see,the public toilets have to be spread all over the city.(Thats why the Sulabh Shouchalaya model of involving toilet entrepreneurs is much more effective,yet inadequate.)
The toilets story is imaginary.But in reality the government of Maharashtra actually used the same idea for building parking lots.It used FSI as an instrument to reward building parking lots.This policy was introduced in 2009 to grant builders extra FSI in exchange for parking spots.That was done with the noble intention of solving the parking problem in the city.Thats because cars are congesting traffic either by moving,or being parked illegally on narrow roads.So builders started acquiring land to build new flats from the FSI they would reap from parking lots.Hence,they bid astronomical amounts for land being auctioned by the National Textile Corporation (NTC),i.e.mostly mill land in central and southern Mumbai.(NTC got that land because mills became bankrupt by the 1980s.Thats because the land underneath the mills became more profitable than producing cloth from machines.That led to deliberate closures,labour disputes,strikes,mafia takeover.But thats another story.)
So,NTC land got auctioned and earned handsome profits.The builders were eyeing even bigger profits from selling luxury flats on tall buildings,built from FSI earned free from building parking lots!
Did this sound like a win-win proposition for all
The city thought it would get 23,000 parking spaces in return for 7.36 million sq ft of buildable area.But alas,all the parking spots came up in a tiny circle around Lower Parel and Worli.Soon,the city was contemplating a spectacle of 15-storey parking lots coming up in close clusters.Some 12,000 of these parking spots were within thousand metres on Tulsi Pipe Road.Does this sound like the hypothetical toilets of Deonar
This huge clustering of parking lots has prompted the government to scrap this FSI for parking plan.
The concept of floor space index is a tool for urban planning.It is not to be used in isolation.There are many other factors that go into area planning to ensure balanced growth of commerce,recreation,traffic and all the trappings of city life.Unfortunately,FSI became a single magic bullet to control city growth.When combined with transferable development rights (TDR),it became a monetary instrument.
Since 1995,after introduction of the Slum Rehabilitation Scheme (free housing in exchange for TDRs),the FSI has,in fact,become a fiscal tool,i.e.to raise revenue for the government.With this heady cocktail of mixing money,monetising urban policy tools,zooming real estate values and FSI as a fiscal tool,it wasnt surprising that urban planning was soon going down the toilet.Oops!

TOI Epaper

Radisson hotel (march 10th 2011)
I have a doubt in the date provided by photographer. Is that a slow progress or a wrong date ?

photo copyright: HÜHMI
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progress is indeed slow. Opening date is early 2012, so lets c how they can finish so fast unless they have changed the design

K coolguyz thanks for the information

Lodha Imperia Bhandup - This tower looks gorgeous really impressed with Lodha groups construction quality

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Looks like Adarsh's big twin.

^^+1 my first guess was the same

@Samir. Can you resize the image? Can't make out much - use the resize image option in imageshack when uploading the file

wow... not a great design but Lodha constructions reek of quality...

very well written...


Building parking castles in the air

When the floor space index is used as an instrument to raise money,it destroys urban planning


Mumbai has a huge shortage of public toilets.These are public amenities,and expected to be built by the municipal corporation.Despite having a budget of more than Rs 20,000 crore,the corporation is perennially strapped for money.So where is it going to find money for toilets So the BMC thinks of a brilliant idea.It has surplus land in Deonar.About thousand acres.
It announces a scheme,that for every toilet you build,you get an extra equivalent building permit anywhere in Mumbai.That is,if you build a thousand toilets,with total area of 1 lakh sq ft,you can build that much real estate.You will get extra floor space index (FSI) to be used anywhere in the city.
What do you think will happen Thousands of toilets will be built on the Deonar land,and skyscrapers will mushroom in Bandra and Worli,sold at golden prices.Having all the toilets in one place in Deonar will hardly solve the problem.They might as well have all been built in Vidarbha,or the Thar desert.
You see,the public toilets have to be spread all over the city.(Thats why the Sulabh Shouchalaya model of involving toilet entrepreneurs is much more effective,yet inadequate.)
The toilets story is imaginary.But in reality the government of Maharashtra actually used the same idea for building parking lots.It used FSI as an instrument to reward building parking lots.This policy was introduced in 2009 to grant builders extra FSI in exchange for parking spots.That was done with the noble intention of solving the parking problem in the city.Thats because cars are congesting traffic either by moving,or being parked illegally on narrow roads.So builders started acquiring land to build new flats from the FSI they would reap from parking lots.Hence,they bid astronomical amounts for land being auctioned by the National Textile Corporation (NTC),i.e.mostly mill land in central and southern Mumbai.(NTC got that land because mills became bankrupt by the 1980s.Thats because the land underneath the mills became more profitable than producing cloth from machines.That led to deliberate closures,labour disputes,strikes,mafia takeover.But thats another story.)
So,NTC land got auctioned and earned handsome profits.The builders were eyeing even bigger profits from selling luxury flats on tall buildings,built from FSI earned free from building parking lots!
Did this sound like a win-win proposition for all
The city thought it would get 23,000 parking spaces in return for 7.36 million sq ft of buildable area.But alas,all the parking spots came up in a tiny circle around Lower Parel and Worli.Soon,the city was contemplating a spectacle of 15-storey parking lots coming up in close clusters.Some 12,000 of these parking spots were within thousand metres on Tulsi Pipe Road.Does this sound like the hypothetical toilets of Deonar
This huge clustering of parking lots has prompted the government to scrap this FSI for parking plan.
The concept of floor space index is a tool for urban planning.It is not to be used in isolation.There are many other factors that go into area planning to ensure balanced growth of commerce,recreation,traffic and all the trappings of city life.Unfortunately,FSI became a single magic bullet to control city growth.When combined with transferable development rights (TDR),it became a monetary instrument.
Since 1995,after introduction of the Slum Rehabilitation Scheme (free housing in exchange for TDRs),the FSI has,in fact,become a fiscal tool,i.e.to raise revenue for the government.With this heady cocktail of mixing money,monetising urban policy tools,zooming real estate values and FSI as a fiscal tool,it wasnt surprising that urban planning was soon going down the toilet.Oops!

TOI Epaper

Cross posting from the international forum

India Tower 2 ? Or India Tower to slums?

Mumbai Porocity:

"The massive structure is based on 3x9 meter blocks that connect to create ever increasing triangular structural elements"

"One of the densest and largest slums in the world is Dharavi in Mumbai, India. The 216 hector triangular site inspired the PoroCity concept made honorable mention in this year’s eVolo Skyscraper Competition. Khushalani Associates takes the triangle form to its extreme with the deviation of a Sierpenski’s Pyramid, allowing the multifaceted construction to maximize habitation in an open air and connected vertical environment.

The massive structure is based on 3×9 meter blocks that connect to make ever-escalating triangular structural elements. The basic habitation has a north facing terrace to allow private outdoor access. The resulting massive interior volume will be use as the central community and commercial spaces. The variations in scale allow the cottage industries and services to use smaller blocks while larger volumes house industry and offices tucked below the living units. The scalability of the basic infrastructure allows for a flexible and transformable program.

The effect is a full fledged community supported by a single building, allowing for scale and connectivity while still supporting small scale living and commercial activity – a hallmark Dharavi. Due to its density and combination of elevator, walks, and other mechanized systems of transport, no vehicles will be needed."

Source: http://inhabitat.com/massive-pixilated-porocity-transforms-worlds-largest-slum/porocity-7-2/

http://farm6.static.flickr.com/5015/5524869696_b7ff875cee_b.jpg

I just thought of adding more pictures so that I can give more attention to this whole thing. It's a quite unique and effective design idea to solving Slum problem not only in Mumbai but also elsewhere in India and the rest of the world that are affected by slums.

Maximum Pixilated Porocity Transforms World's Largest Slum
by Andrew Michler, 03/09/11
filed under: Architecture,humanitarian design

SLIDE # 2
http://img864.imageshack.us/img864/6361/screenshot20110316at558fs.png
The massive structure is based on 3x9 meter blocks that connect to create ever increasing triangular structural elements.


SLIDE # 3
http://img809.imageshack.us/img809/1239/screenshot20110316at610.png
The basic habitation has a north facing terrace that allows private outdoor access. The resulting massive
interior volume will be use as the central community and commercial spaces.


SLIDE # 4
http://img862.imageshack.us/img862/4245/screenshot20110316at614.png
The variations in scale allow the cottage industries and services to use smaller blocks while larger volumes
house industry and offices tucked below the living units.


SLIDE # 5
http://img821.imageshack.us/img821/1985/porocity1.jpg
The scalability of the basic infrastructure allows for a transformable program.



SLIDE # 6
http://img691.imageshack.us/img691/3710/porocity3.jpg
The effect is a full fledged community supported by a single building, allowing for scale and connectivity
while still supporting small scale living and commercial activity that is a hallmark of Dharavi.


SLIDE # 7
http://img690.imageshack.us/img690/3918/porocity2.jpg
Due to its density and combination of elevator, walks, and other mechanized systems of transport, no
vehicles will be needed.


Read more: Massive Pixilated PoroCity Transforms World’s Largest Slum PoroCity (6) – Inhabitat - Green Design Will Save the World (http://inhabitat.com/massive-pixilated-porocity-transforms-worlds-largest-slum/)

That is hideous and looks unrealistic. Heck Dharavi right now looks better than that.

slum wale log 100 mt ki uchayi se poore mumbai pe hag sakte hain aur thandi hawa bhi kha sakte hai!! gr8

Is Dharavi the largest slum in the world???

I agree its hideous, unrealistic & too radical, cant imagine anything more bizarre than this.

This is NOT the solution anywhere in the World.

^^ Even if it is the ideal solution, do u think its ever gonna get built in India? Well, I dont think so?

Is Dharavi the largest slum in the world???

I agree its hideous, unrealistic & too radical, cant imagine anything more bizarre than this.

This is NOT the solution anywhere in the World.

nope, its second largest in South Asia, South Asia's largest is from pakistan(Orangi Town), world largest from maxico, africa in others

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Slum
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Favela
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Orangi_Town
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shanty_town

follow see also section http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shanty_town

Relax, its nothing more than a vision

What in the world is that on the previous page. :ohno: How can they even come up with such unrealistic ideas and waste money on creating designs.

It must be just some design studios concept or something .. I don't think it uses any govt money .. may be just a intern project or something !!

hehe a internship project gone mad!

What in the world is that on the previous page. :ohno: How can they even come up with such unrealistic ideas and waste money on creating designs.
Exactly! What a waste of precious time and money on projects that will never even be considered. We have far too many pressing problems to focus on unrealistic concepts like this.

Exactly! What a waste of precious time and money on projects that will never even be considered. We have far too many pressing problems to focus on unrealistic concepts like this.

Naysayers and cynics notwithstanding, I think phenominal progress is being made that Indian solutions to Indian slum problems are seeing the light of the day.

I honestly say there is practical merit in this vertical conurbation building. :banana: The need of the hour is more ingenious ideas like the one here.

Also nice to see progressive and modern, almost Global, - Indian solutions coming up rather than imported, borrowed or copied ideas.

True!

But this is the problem, no action is taken to turn solutions & ideas into reality.

Slums stay as they are & the problem expands further as more people end up in these slums.

Bombay Realty's website (http://www.bombayrealty.in/) is under construction again with this message:

http://img52.imageshack.us/img52/2849/45acresad.jpg


This means they are going with HC's mixed used design proposal for Spring Mills in Wadala:

http://img20.imageshack.us/img20/580/br1u0.jpg

http://img33.imageshack.us/img33/4154/br2bz.jpg

http://img703.imageshack.us/img703/2286/br30.jpg

Some new renders on HC's site -

http://img840.imageshack.us/img840/9143/new1hq.jpg

http://img843.imageshack.us/img843/8895/new11z.jpg

^^ Outstanding 101- Are those supertalls? They look humongous - height-wise!!

Judging from the render they appear to be way over 300m.

Nice.

True!

But this is the problem, no action is taken to turn solutions & ideas into reality.

Slums stay as they are & the problem expands further as more people end up in these slums.

^^^^^^^^

Turning ideas into reality ...
that what it's all about 'innit? Ideas --> Reality :)

I often think that's the main difference between the 1'st World and the rest of us, & re: pic below. Consensus builders needed on this thread!

Some new renders on HC's site -


http://img843.imageshack.us/img843/8895/new11z.jpg


^^^^^^

:cheers: Finally! Encore ... encore. Took me back to New York's Rockefeller buildings complex. No, that goes to Hiranandai Powai maybe.

Then pricing would normalise and we all could actually buy or rent - live in a flat ourselves.

That's how it is in much of Brazil and South America. Would'nt it be nice if say 1000's such supertalls came up, like Brazil/Argentina etc. with their smaller population bases. One has to adjust to population pressure, much of said South Amercan cities have 1000's if not more mid rise bldg.'s, 20-35 stories. In the Indo-Chin context, the same would have to be 75 to 100 stories, no?

self del.

Annie Beasant Road, Worli, Mumbai
http://img87.imageshack.us/img87/8278/worliannie.jpg (http://img87.imageshack.us/i/worliannie.jpg/)
(I like the height of this one...sorry for the poor quality image but you can clearly see how RNA mirage will be towered by this beauty)



Holy shit

Blown up and clarified:
http://img148.imageshack.us/img148/8663/69341769.jpg

Looks to be at least 80 floors. What is that project in front? It looks like one of the DB Realty projects? Looks to be 65 floors


Was searching to see if this approved or going to be launched soon, but still appears to be in Omkar's forthcoming pile.

Anyway a better render -

http://img831.imageshack.us/img831/8998/resworli.jpg

Was searching to see if this approved or going to be launched soon, but still appears to be in Omkar's forthcoming pile.

Anyway a better render -

http://img831.imageshack.us/img831/8998/resworli.jpg

Is the above project site next to CG house , behind century bazar office ? Bcoz there is quite a huge hole being dug up, the space too is quite large

I think that project is still proposed.

I am talking about the following site, its a pretty huge hole say 3 floors down.

http://www.freeimagehosting.net/uploads/2ecd2cc5bc.jpg (http://www.freeimagehosting.net/)

Dawoodi Bohra Religious trust to redo Bombay's Bhendi bazaar for Rs 1,500 cr

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bM-uLZx963g&feature=related

I am talking about the following site, its a pretty huge hole say 3 floors down.

http://www.freeimagehosting.net/uploads/2ecd2cc5bc.jpg (http://www.freeimagehosting.net/)

This is coming up there -

Remember Skylark Heights (http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/city/mumbai/Tallest-residential-building-in-city-may-have-125-floors/articleshow/5558376.cms), Prabhadevi/Worli: 85 floors?


Pell Frischmann seems to be doing engineering consultancy (http://www.britishexpertise.org/bx/pages/Organisation_view/77.php) for the project. From a company flyer (http://www.pellfrischmann.com/buildings.pdf), we have a prerendering of the two towers:
http://img547.imageshack.us/img547/6143/tempq.jpg

Presumably the 160 m commercial skyscraper/wing is in the foreground, and the 376 m residential skyscraper/wing is in the background.

This is coming up there -

If we can get some more renderings, we can start a new thread, the site prep is going on full speed.

another supertall!! mumbai is going :nuts:

If we can get some more renderings, we can start a new thread, the site prep is going on full speed.

Great news.

I really dont get it

mumbai premium real estate is in the dumps and these people are adding more?

this is just one epic bubble waiting to burst

http://www.business-standard.com/india/news/four-seasons-checks-in/429161/

The 33-storey hotel will soon be dwarfed by a tower that will be two and a half times taller – 84 storeys. It might sport an Aer bar similar to the one present in the current structure, which is also India’s first rooftop bar. The financial details, including the investment for the new hotel, are being finalised. While construction of the two new ballrooms will begin this month, the new skyscraper, which will have office space, service apartments, guest rooms, restaurants and Four Seasons-branded residences, is in the design stage and will be finalised by the end of this year.

When completed, the new building will be the third tallest hotel in the city. The first and second slots will be occupied by the 125-storey India Tower (coming up in Marine Lines in south Mumbai), and the Park Hyatt, which is expected to house 117 storeys.

I really dont get it

mumbai premium real estate is in the dumps and these people are adding more?

this is just one epic bubble waiting to burst


I was going to say the same.

its not going to be nice

real estate make a significant chunk of the mumbai economy.

and it employs the masses (unskilled and semiskilled labour)

we are going to have a social epidemic on the cards.

I hope these plans are put on hold.



the only real estate company fully healthy is godrej and they had a huge land bank even before this bubble began

When completed, the new building will be the third tallest hotel in the city. The first and second slots will be occupied by the 125-storey India Tower (coming up in Marine Lines in south Mumbai), and the Park Hyatt, which is expected to house 117 storeys.


??? Isn't Hyatt in India Tower itself?

its not going to be nice

real estate make a significant chunk of the mumbai economy.

and it employs the masses (unskilled and semiskilled labour)

we are going to have a social epidemic on the cards.

I hope these plans are put on hold.



the only real estate company fully healthy is godrej and they had a huge land bank even before this bubble began


And when are the prices going to stop going up?

A 1BHK flat in Kandivali costing 6.5M Rupees?

yeah man

before the nuclear family was popular and starting to take shape in the 90s.

Now due to the high prices its joint large families all the way.

Parents and sons combining to purchase a 2 bedroom apartment.

its a market of lies... builders claim they have only 2 flats available... when they potential haven't sold many... that too in the ugliest corners... n rate is the same... it is like they are creating a false demand where none exists... these guys are dishonest... the best option is to avoid any purchases... but won't happen either... coz pple with surplus income or black money won't mind spending more than wat it is worth... inflation they won't care bout... but my personal guess is the market won't crash... it may correct... but crash is not the word... however i hope it crashes...

I think a correction is due. I'm not sure the demand has dried up though. A 25-30% correction will stabilze the market in my opinion.

Low cost housing should be high priority but we know builders would prefer to opt for the high end market since their is more money to be made there.

There should be a correction rather than a collapse; Mumbai is already out-pricing itself.

Mumbai realty robust despite small fall in flat sales in Feb
PTI, Mar 27, 2011, 12.41pm IST


MUMBAI: Mumbai's real estate market continues to be robust despite a minor blip in February when flat sales clocked a 2.40 per cent decline, a leading industry body said.

The city reported a marginal decline in flat registrations at 16,341 in February as against 16,743 registrations in the year-ago period, data from the Maharashtra Chamber of Housing Industry (MCHI) showed.

http://articles.economictimes.indiatimes.com/2011-03-27/news/29194819_1_flat-sales-registrations-mchi

Citi set to seal Rs 1,000cr office deal
http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/business/india-business/Citi-set-to-seal-Rs-1000cr-office-deal/articleshow/7830485.cms

MUMBAI: The city may soon record the largest transaction for commercial space with Citibank India close to paying approximately Rs 1,000 crore for space in an under-construction building at Bandra-Kurla Complex. The deal, expected to be concluded shortly, comes at a time when the property market is in the dumps.

Market sources said the bank is believed to be paying Rs 33,000 a square foot for the 3 lakh sq ft office space in the new building. It is being constructed by Purnendu Chatterjee promoted-TCG Urban Infrastructure and New York-based realty firm Vornado Realty Trust. A Citi spokesperson declined to comment on the deal.

"This could be the largest commercial deal. BKC is a premium location, but the price is high considering the depressed market conditions," said real estate consultant Ashok Narang. A source familiar with the transaction said the bank signed a letter of intent (LoI) and was in the process of ironing out issues such as naming rights of the building, car parking and interior fittings. The deal is brokered by global property consultants, CBRE.

The building is coming up on a two-acre plot which was bought by TCG-Hiranandani Group for Rs 1,041 crore in November 2007. The under-construction building will have a total area of over 6.5 lakh sq ft, of which the bank will own half.

The biggest commercial property deals in the city so far would include the one in May 2010 where Bombay Dyeing sold a 4 lakh sq ft building in Worli to Axis Bank for Rs 782 crore. In end 2008, Standard Chartered Bank paid Rs 750 crore for approximately 1.47 lakh sq ft spread over 4.5 floors in Crescenzo building at BKC. In 2009, developers Rustomjee sold a 1.42 lakh sq ft office space at Andheri East to SBI Life Insurance Company for Rs 211 crore. In early 2007, the British deputy high commission inked a Rs 147-crore deal to purchase outright three floors in a building constructed by Shri Naman Developers at BKC. The commission paid Rs 35,000 a sq ft for space measuring a built-up area of 42,000 sq ft.

Citibank's office expansion comes at a time when it has made a phenomenal turnaround. Three years ago, Citigroup was on the verge of collapse, but its India operations continued to be robust. The bank has a strong presence at BKC with its headquarters, the eight-storey Citibank Centre. In late nineties, Citibank moved its main offices from Nariman Point to BKC. It took on lease another 50,000 sq ft in Trent building.

During the global financial meltdown of 2008, Mumbai's property market was agog with rumours that the Citibank building in BKC would be up for sale, a move the bank denied. That year, Citigroup sold off several of its properties worldwide when it was hit by the subprime crisis. The properties included Citigroup Center in the Shinagawa district of Tokyo, which it sold to its rival Morgan Stanley in a deal reportedly worth $445 million. The bank shed apartments across India in 2007-08. In Mumbai, it sold more than half a dozen flats at Altamount Road, Bandra and Colaba. The bank said sale was due to the increasing preference of employees towards a flexible remuneration policy.

^^ a very interesting move.. selling in developed market and buying in a developing country(this deal is worth $225 million at today's conversion rate) :cheers:

Updated the ever growing supertall list. Added some new projects and changed

1. MARINE LINES | India Tower | 720m | 125fls | U/C (http://www.skyscrapercity.com/showthread.php?t=610347)

2. WADALA | Lodha Project | 101fl | 530m | APP (http://economictimes.indiatimes.com/markets/real-estate/news-/Lodha-Group-wins-Mumbais-101-storey-tower-for-Rs-4050cr/articleshow/5974163.cms)

3. MAHALAXMI | Joyus Housing Project | 486m | 125fls | APP (http://www.2point6billion.com/news/2010/02/11/move-over-shanghai-%E2%80%93-mumbai%E2%80%99s-latest-residential-tower-to-have-125-floors-4039.html)

4. 5. 6. LOWER PAREL | Lodha World Place | 442m | 117fls | U/C (http://www.dnaindia.com/mumbai/report_world-s-tallest-residences-will-be-in-lower-parel_1393307)

7. MUMBAI | Platinum II | ~350-400m | 100fls (http://www.p-t-group.com/project_detail.php?t=rt&sub=5&sub2=8&sub3=5&id=372&lang=en)

8. 9. 10. LOWER PAREL | DLF Project | ~350 | 90 fls | 3 Towers | Site Prep (http://www.hindustantimes.com/DLF-to-build-90-storey-towers-at-Lower-Parel/Article1-548593.aspx)

11. 12. 13. 14. 15. 16. 17. 18. SEWRI | R M Batthad+IL&FS | ~300m | 90fls | 8 Towers (http://www.business-standard.com/india/news/tall-is-beautiful-for-realty-players-in-mumbai/397134/)

19. WORLI | Skylark Heights | 375m | 83 fls | U/C (http://www.indianexpress.com/news/486m-proposal-sets-new-residential-high/578262/)

20. TARDEO | Matru Mandir | 325m | 100fls | APP (http://www.mumbaimirror.com/article/2/20090913200909130343352031b205f24/100storey-tower-at-Tardeo-set-to-be-city%E2%80%99s-tallest.html?pageno=1)

21. WORLI | Palais Royale | 320m | 66fls | U/C (http://www.skyscrapercity.com/showthread.php?t=624711)

22. TARDEO | Shreepati Skies | 301m | 88fls | App (http://www.skyscrapercity.com/showthread.php?t=634027)

23. 24. MAHALAXMI | Orchid Heights | 328m | 80fls x 2 | U/C (http://www.skyscrapercity.com/showthread.php?t=624735)

25. 26. 27. PRABHADEVI | Orchid Crown | 337m+ | 75 - 80fls | U/C (http://www.skyscrapercity.com/showthread.php?t=1112759)

28. MAHALAXMI | Mivera | 305m | 85fl | U/C (http://www.skyscrapercity.com/showthread.php?t=1233439)

29. WORLI | Four Seasons Hotel | 84fl | PRO (http://www.business-standard.com/india/news/four-seasons-checks-in/429161/)

30. LOWER PAREL | Namaste Tower | 300m | 60fl | U/C (http://www.skyscrapercity.com/showthread.php?t=1297345)

31. 32. MAHALAXMI | Orchid Turf View | ~340m | 72fl - 70fl | U/C (http://www.skyscrapercity.com/showthread.php?t=624681)

33. 34. PAREL | Shreepati Garden | ~350m | 105fl | APP (http://www.skyscrapercity.com/showthread.php?t=1292891&page=2)

35. 36. 37. 38. WADALA | Spring Mills | ~350m | ~90fl | PRO (http://www.skyscrapercity.com/showpost.php?p=74901219&postcount=5588)

39. WORLI | Omkar Corp Project | 320m+ | ~80fl | PRO (http://www.skyscrapercity.com/showpost.php?p=74988347&postcount=5594)

Great work 101.

[QUOTE=SSCaddict;75318437]^^ a very interesting move.. selling in developed market and buying in a developing country(this deal is worth $225 million at today's conversion rate) :cheers:


^^^^^^^^^^^^

Plus we know Mumbai is fiancial mega-city of S. Asia from before. And is an established high-end Global BFSI & BPO hot-spot, for last 10-15 yrs.

No surprises ... looks like Citi is leading the pack of renewed, post fin. crises, high-end outsourcing to Mumbai by shedding stangnant 1'st world assets, new positions and cutting losses. HR is cut to the bone by using India based HR. The $ 225 Million consolidates it's image in a rocket booster growth economy of India. Other places Citi is a stodgy incumbent, established brand with nominal scope of expansion and hyper competition. Not so India.

It's a great deal for Citi. It's investment will grow and it's brand burnished in a growth eco. - India.

[QUOTE=India101;75353749]Updated the ever growing supertall list. Added some new projects and changed



Thanks for keeping and tracking this list, India 101. I have a feeling - Mumbai is building the largest # of super's in the world at 1 go! N'est pas? Or that goes to Dubai & Shanghai beforehand, anybody know?

Self-Del.

I really dont get it

mumbai premium real estate is in the dumps and these people are adding more?

this is just one epic bubble waiting to burst

People have been saying the same thing about Chinese real estate for over 10 years now. Hasn't happened yet.

People have been saying the same thing about Chinese real estate for over 10 years now. Hasn't happened yet.


^^^^^^

Re: above, thanks very much.

Also in Mumbai unlike China's case, an entire generation of engg., scientific and 'white-collar' Indians are retiring and heading back to the Gateway of India, Mumbai, wherefrom they had taken off earlier.

So the supa high end marekt will remain more niche in Mumbai. It's when the next layer down, the local mid-to-upper middle class property market in Mumbai booms, it's going to be the most exciting place in the world.

Lot of room for growth in the near 20.000 chawls and older properties. Lot of room for growth in salt pan lands. Then their are rail, docklands, refineries and associated oil storage tankyards, godowns, army and navy cantonment lands, airport and railway stations etc. Textile mill land development is just the tip of the iceberg. Plus logically there is no reason why Mumbai can't re-claim land from the sea; politically it may be impossible but for how long. It's the builder-neta nexus sabotaging progress; good thing lots of newcomers and luckily, foreigner also entering the market and may initially be in cahoots, but long-term view, can neutralise the cartel-mafia.

Shit there's huge demand-supply problem re: Mumbai builders' cartel versus mass, middle class housing.

Proposed Bhendi Baazar

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wow this looks good... i hope this is set into motion at the earliest...

marvellous! completely changes the skyline and cant wait for the project to take off

marvellous! completely changes the skyline and cant wait for the project to take off

Project foundation has been laid hope everything goes well its 1500 crore project and its on no profit no loss basis

That looks like it's going to be a crowded place. btw, are they keeping the old mosques?

That looks like it's going to be a crowded place. btw, are they keeping the old mosques?

I think Religious places will be not be touched

Proposed Bhendi Baazar

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Oh God, please no. :ohno:
This will rid the area of all its culture and character. Of course the decline of Bhendi Bazaar is sad, but replacing it with this sanitized ugly block of skyscrapers is not a solution.
Look at the area in the 1880s:
http://img404.imageshack.us/img404/9218/019pho0000807s1u0000400.jpg

Only if we could bring that back. How did the roads become so narrow.

self-del.

Oh God, please no. :ohno:
This will rid the area of all its culture and character. Of course the decline of Bhendi Bazaar is sad, but replacing it with this sanitized ugly block of skyscrapers is not a solution.
Look at the area in the 1880s:
http://img404.imageshack.us/img404/9218/019pho0000807s1u0000400.jpg[/QUOTE]


^^^^^^^^^^

Sorry, I'm voting for progress and profit!

This is what community effort can do, wow!

Practically speaking, looks like the whole community and their Uncle Bob will have a roof over their head and then some. :banana:

I am critical of the 1/2 way approach though. I say go super tall all the way. The extra real estate can be put into a community trust rented out, unless communal exclusivity must be retained. The community is already in a majority in a project like this, so whynot consider some trusteeship based apt.'s for future couples and growth ... ahhhhhhh ... wadda I know.

Re: culture-vulture ... let's focus on survival first. What about the culture to come, the culture to be? And as for heritage, it is patently obviuos to let bygones be bygones, I don't want to call the place a slum. Keep the mosque, whynot. To think that the place should be renovated to what it was like a 100 yrs. ago in the name of heritage, that would be plain fraud. What about the intervening 100 yrs. And who's going to pay for all that ?

All good stuff!

True!

But this is the problem, no action is taken to turn solutions & ideas into reality.

Slums stay as they are & the problem expands further as more people end up in these slums.

^^^^^^^^

Slums are political creations, nothing but; the 'gift' of independence.

Slum dwellers are solicited and re-settled, often by 'majzbooree' by realtors in cahoots with netas.
It's plain ole, garden variety, land grab.

Slum ppl. don't have rights, it's the neta-builder who calls the shots. Fact is, slum dwellers ARE THE VICTIMS of multiple perpetrators, goondas, hunters etc.

You just try talking sense to slum-dwellers, you'll be shot! Unless you and me, the decent ppl., civil citizens don't fight it out for slume dwellers rights, them guys are effed. Criminals run politics, why won't they loot & hijack public sentiment. Criminalisation of politics means eff the public good.

What we do instead, ... hehe ... we solve the slum problem by getting away from the problem.

At least we are dong something by raising awareness, perhaps getting off-track re: thread too. Ppl. gonna jump at our throats ...:ohno:.

Getting back to topic, pls. tell me I'm wrong or is it really that at least 25 if not 30-40-50 supertalls (300 m & above) are coming up in aamchi. That's gotta be #1 worldwide ever in 1 shot, no?

Oh God, please no. :ohno:
This will rid the area of all its culture and character. Of course the decline of Bhendi Bazaar is sad, but replacing it with this sanitized ugly block of skyscrapers is not a solution.
Look at the area in the 1880s:
http://img404.imageshack.us/img404/9218/019pho0000807s1u0000400.jpg

I agree with Patenteer - whatever was the culture and historical asset in this image - its long gone - the bazaar is nothing but a filthy, overcrowded ghetto now!!

bhendi bazaar
http://cms.mumbaimirror.com/portalfiles/1/2/201007/Image/020710/02-01b.jpg

I also completely agree with patentneer and sixsigma1978.Hope this project transforms the area which is narrow,overcrowded and traffic jams are common.

Even the Trump tower site has a crane installed.Its the same company which has installed cranes at IB sites. Renderings anybody???

http://www.freeimagehosting.net/uploads/34ff155e43.jpg (http://www.freeimagehosting.net/)

a cnn video about Mumbai's changing skyline >>>link (http://cnn.com/video/?/video/business/2011/04/04/kapur.eye.on.india.property.cnn)

Wow! Kya idea nikaala, bole to :applause:

If I was in the flyover and bridge building business in dense Indian cities like Mumbai, this is how I'd do it, free:

http://t3.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcSN3TIa8NQQ3mpV-l1VDjLttvguLumBD1FQgUsn5FIO9ji-WL63Xw

(c) http://t3.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcSN3TIa8NQQ3mpV-l1VDjLttvguLumBD1FQgUsn5FIO9ji-WL63Xw


Re: Anna Hazare - Sure I support him, he's r8 on the ball!

Another shot:

http://www.instablogsimages.com/images/2010/03/11/sky-table-skyscraper5_YmGh6_24429.jpg

(c) http://www.instablogsimages.com/images/2010/03/11/sky-table-skyscraper5_YmGh6_24429.jpg

I'd even do it for free or nominal charge for projects like metro rail, Mumbai - Nhava Sheva Harbour link. Hell, this way I can provide 10 harbour bridges for free. Now watch the naysayers, regressive' s and retards jump me. The rest of it will be a mall, rec. places, housing, parking, you name it ... wotsay?

Credit: Russian architect Ayrat Khusnutdinov and his Sky Table concept.

Even the Trump tower site has a crane installed.Its the same company which has installed cranes at IB sites. Renderings anybody???

http://www.freeimagehosting.net/uploads/34ff155e43.jpg (http://www.freeimagehosting.net/)

I posted your update in the Trump Tower thread.

There is a building being built near Colaba post office and BPT gardens, which will have 50 floors with the first 10 (nearly complete) being parking. Any idea what building this is?

Oh God, please no. :ohno:
This will rid the area of all its culture and character. Of course the decline of Bhendi Bazaar is sad, but replacing it with this sanitized ugly block of skyscrapers is not a solution.
Look at the area in the 1880s:

agar india mein renovate karne chalein to har cheez cultural,hostoric and blah blah bullshit hai!!

There is a building being built near Colaba post office and BPT gardens, which will have 50 floors with the first 10 (nearly complete) being parking. Any idea what building this is?

A Picture would help dude...

agar india mein renovate karne chalein to har cheez cultural,hostoric and blah blah bullshit hai!!
:cripes:
Never mind.

There is a building being built near Colaba post office and BPT gardens, which will have 50 floors with the first 10 (nearly complete) being parking. Any idea what building this is?

Are you sure it's 50floors? The only building under construction at Colaba (besides the famous Adarsh) is Ekta Waterfront Tower at 35fl.

agar india mein renovate karne chalein to har cheez cultural,hostoric and blah blah bullshit hai!!

^^^^^^^^^

About time naa :)

Superpower banne ki ho rahi ya ... ?

Re: Mazgaon tower above, nice, slick & surprise-surprise - non-fugly.
Now can we have 1000's like that given need & demand if not 10's of 1000's. :applause:

u/c virar depot for local trains

http://img641.imageshack.us/img641/8476/08042011300.jpg

http://img251.imageshack.us/img251/8959/08042011301.jpg

wow nice tower

:cripes:
Never mind.

+1, what an attitude :nuts:

Inversely, here's another nice and do-able solution to de-congest and mitigate Mumbai's low income, migrant, bachelor and slum housing problem. :applause:

This is exceptionally affordable because off-shore Mumbai is calm and shallow for a large distance, maybe upto beyond eye-sight, and then-drops into deep waters sharply. There's a secret to saving on expense - for now, cheapest & best steel and cement can be had from India & Pakistan, by boat if need be, whynot. Indian steel is shipped through Bay of Bengal ports and Pak. cement through Karachi. For travel to-&-fro buildings, a punctual, 1 hr. ferry service, and eventually, a rail or metro link, would do.

http://t0.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcS-InEz1sjv7tZOCs4mIVVg4ShPFPmPskNb7dwkjwPoEYa6Hlls8Q

http://t1.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcTl_UXGkMhEhDz2QU_TlKCL5SKcsLx5bPeEV9YqnAMgOSrLo79IOA

(c) eVolo arch. competion & website + Malay Sarly Adre Bin Sarkum’s Water-Scraper


Mumbai's low income, migrant, bachelor and slum housing issues cannot be buried or wished away, so taking the problem underwater makes the whole idea sustainable, and viable. There's a park on top. The way it's done now, ... politician-builder-babu mafia's hired goons torching, flooding, gassing or bombing slum areas is just not cricket:(



- patentneer

wait i'm confused are you suggesting we offshore our slum population and put them on a floating rock?

^^

:rofl:

wait i'm confused are you suggesting we offshore our slum population and put them on a floating rock?

^^^^^^

Think positive 'aksstar', 'jaadu'- grow up. :bash: .

Think ---> Near Shore, Unlock Value in Slums, empower working class ppl. by enabling clean, spacious, even green housing. Be it near shore, it's sustainable, viable & practical.

Technically speaking it's possible as shown. Unlike us, not everyone has millions u know, ... & I worked 4 mine. We all know that India is still an 'emerging' eco.! We don't really line 'em up, toss 'em to the sea ... anymore.

^^^ that is the most impractical thing I have ever seen. How the hell is it even viable? it would cost thousands upon millions of crores to develop and construct and then rehabilitate them. Dozens of problems would be there if that gay idea was implemented. And that is why we have navi Mumbai. Need not put the slum people on water.. Need to only construct new buildings and ask them to live there. And you are talking about building metro to connect it? Ferry service? Rofl rofl. How would you even get fresh drinking water there? Pumps and tubes or have a hourly ferry service to transport goods. You talk as if money is no problem at all!!! That project would only increase problems tenfold. One must have lived in Mumbai to understand. The projects you post are the most ridiculus, idiotic, and impractical ever!! People need to get this think outside the box or being imaginative out of thier heads.

humn....Just relocate the slums to the outskirts of the city...

this has to be done forcibly and Mumbai would change forever.....Nice wish....ehhh

@Patent: Baba yeh kaisa idea diya hai....sab OHT* ho gaya...Kripya karke aise idea's mat post kiya karo...

* OHT- Over Head Transmission

OHT- Over Head Transmission :lol:

That idea to put slumdwellers under the sea is just unbelievable...

Mr. Patenteer, u shud be appointed as the head of planning authority in Mumbai (If that kind of an authority is ever existed in bombay :lol:)

dude ..before any1 else grabs this idea and implements it ..patent it!!
jaisa naam waisa kaam..:banana::lol::smug:

+1, what an attitude :nuts:

Inversely, here's another nice and do-able solution to de-congest and mitigate Mumbai's low income, migrant, bachelor and slum housing problem. :applause:

This is exceptionally affordable because off-shore Mumbai is calm and shallow for a large distance, maybe upto beyond eye-sight, and then-drops into deep waters sharply. There's a secret to saving on expense - for now, cheapest & best steel and cement can be had from India & Pakistan, by boat if need be, whynot. Indian steel is shipped through Bay of Bengal ports and Pak. cement through Karachi. For travel to-&-fro buildings, a punctual, 1 hr. ferry service, and eventually, a rail or metro link, would do.

http://t0.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcS-InEz1sjv7tZOCs4mIVVg4ShPFPmPskNb7dwkjwPoEYa6Hlls8Q

http://t1.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcTl_UXGkMhEhDz2QU_TlKCL5SKcsLx5bPeEV9YqnAMgOSrLo79IOA

(c) eVolo arch. competion & website + Malay Sarly Adre Bin Sarkum’s Water-Scraper


Mumbai's low income, migrant, bachelor and slum housing issues cannot be buried or wished away, so taking the problem underwater makes the whole idea sustainable, and viable. There's a park on top. The way it's done now, ... politician-builder-babu mafia's hired goons torching, flooding, gassing or bombing slum areas is just not cricket:(



- patentneer

This is a truck load of shit!

Man ! Yar 'hardcore', are you ever no-no-no ... CYNICAL :(

Master of Disguise, putting said ppl. out of town, force or not, is not viable re:

1. Location - Slums are teh source of cheap, local labour for the area. Given that Mumbai's slums are multi generation old- majority of slum dwellers are 'low to mid' middle class ppl. Many can even afford to live in suburbs, but why bother? The younger generation of course think differently but are not so flexible. Idea is to open the mind. Prime slum land development can fund relatively large, sustainable and location based temporary solution to said multi generation problems. Temporary because as public transport and other infrastructure improves, ppl. will be 'incentivised' and motivated to move out of their prime but underwater 'location' to sustainable, affordable outlying areas. One can tow said sturctues away to build a bridge, shopping malls, or parking or conference, marriage halls etc. Art galleries, crafts work-shops? Anything ..

Look it, Hong-Kong, Singapore and many other Asian cities had large floating 'boat' ppl.

2. Human Rights, corrupt politicians & vote banks, entrenched minds. i think the idea has nominal merit to deal with a catastrophic problem.

It's only an idea 'hardcore gamer', go play some game or something hardcore. 'x2spanish', an idea already in public eye cannot be patented ok.

Enough ok, topic closed :ohno:.

Will people get enough oxygen ?
what are the security implications in case of leak ?
Is this idea applied anywhere ?
the sever will go directly in sea there by polluting the water arund ...

in that amound we can relocate the slum dwellers in same area and build new towers as well.

What happens in the case of a tsunami or large storm? Will the floating rock sink?

lol. Paneer Bhai think for a second. This is impractical on so many different levels. You need an entire habitat to live and support yourself. If you live on a rock then everything from food, water, medicine, you name it has to supplied. Not to mention the high risk they would be exposed to during the monsoon season.

I don't think pantaneeer ever thinks. Some of his previous idea's include 10,000 supertall skyscrapers in Mumbai :lol:

I don't think pantaneeer ever thinks. Some of his previous idea's include 10,000 supertall skyscrapers in Mumbai :lol:

His ideas are lloigical, ill-based, and has no concrete back ground. If one cant invent or produce anything thourogh or proper or viable how can one patent? :rofl:

Man ! Yar 'hardcore', are you ever no-no-no ... CYNICAL :(

Master of Disguise, putting said ppl. out of town, force or not, is not viable re:

1. Location - Slums are teh source of cheap, local labour for the area. Given that Mumbai's slums are multi generation old- majority of slum dwellers are 'low to mid' middle class ppl. Many can even afford to live in suburbs, but why bother? The younger generation of course think differently but are not so flexible. Idea is to open the mind. Prime slum land development can fund relatively large, sustainable and location based temporary solution to said multi generation problems. Temporary because as public transport and other infrastructure improves, ppl. will be 'incentivised' and motivated to move out of their prime but underwater 'location' to sustainable, affordable outlying areas. One can tow said sturctues away to build a bridge, shopping malls, or parking or conference, marriage halls etc. Art galleries, crafts work-shops? Anything ..

Look it, Hong-Kong, Singapore and many other Asian cities had large floating 'boat' ppl.

2. Human Rights, corrupt politicians & vote banks, entrenched minds. i think the idea has nominal merit to deal with a catastrophic problem.

It's only an idea 'hardcore gamer', go play some game or something hardcore. 'x2spanish', an idea already in public eye cannot be patented ok.

Enough ok, topic closed :ohno:.



I can only imgaine the chaos that whould be in Mumbai if you were part of BMC or MMRDA. You can keep you floating rock idea in Canada. I'm sure it'll be accpeted there. You can build one near lake ontario and niagra falls and put Canada's poor there!!! But here in Mumbai we take the logical approach. It maybe time consuming to relocate and rehabilitate people but we dont spend extra billions of dollars on some deluded, liberal guy's dream's. :bash:

Guys - lets not dedicate an entire page to this continual bashing!! Lets get back to project news !!

Deleted.

Kalpataru crest 32 floors Bhand up

http://www.mumbaipropertyexchange.com/images/builders/projects/thumbs/5264_main_thumb.jpg

[B]Aura biplex borivalli 40 floors[/B

http://www.mumbaipropertyexchange.com/images/builders/projects/thumbs/4197_main_thumb.jpg

Another one bites the dust!! :)


HC clears way for Ghatkopar slum rehabilitation project
The Bombay high court recently paved the way for a slum rehabilitation project involving the rehabilitation of 919 slum dwellers from Kamraj Nagar in Ghatkopar (East) by dismissing a petition challenging the project on various grounds. The division bench of justice Ranjana Desai and justice RG Ketkar dismissed a petition challenging the Letter of Intent granted by the Slum Rehabilitation Authority (SRA) for the project on the grounds that the procedure followed by SRA was improper and contrary to law.

Though petitioner Deepak Jadhav was eligible for rehabilitation, he contended that the SRA had not verified the documents relating to eligibility of members.

He further contended that the authority overlooked the fact that there was no notification, which declared the concerned area admeasuring 18,100 sqm to be a slum, as required under the Maharashtra Slums Act, 1971.

The developer, however, pointed out that the necessary notification had been issued in October 1980, and the developer had obtained all the necessary permissions and sanctions for the project. The court also took into consideration that there was delay in filing the petition, and by the time Jadhav moved court, the developer had shifted 320 slum dwellers outside the property, and had spent more than Rs2.5 crore on transit accommodation for 600 slum dwellers.

The court also took note of the fact that the developer had already constructed four buildings which housed 48 rehabilitation tenements, and that

878 of the 919 eligible slumdwellers had given their consent for the project.


Source : Link (http://www.hindustantimes.com/tabloid-news/mumbai/HC-clears-way-for-Ghatkopar-slum-rehabilitation-project/Article1-681789.aspx)

A new project at parel 63 floors and 53 floors

http://www.99acres.com/property/photo_serve.php?propid=O3858041&sno=1&photo=FULLPHOTO

The project is proposed to be a landmark residential development located at Parel, it is in the heart of Central Mumbai, with easy accessibility to the Island city as well as the suburbs.

Comprised of two towers (63 and 53 stories respectively), the project is an architectural marvel. Designed by a leading architect of international repute, the unique shape is a spectacle that is poised to enthrall South Mumbai.

http://www.99acres.com/customised/iifl-parel-mumbai-residential-property/gifs/iifl-parel-mumbai-residential-property-location.jpg?from_src=NP7817&from_src=NP7817&from_src=NP7817

link http://www.99acres.com/customised/iifl-parel-mumbai-residential-property/index.htm?from_src=NP7817&from_src=NP7817&from_src=NP7817

arre yaaron..aap logon ne to patent ka neer nikaal diya..
patent bhai...point noted..although impractical..lets move on and call it a day on this rock business..
if you still want to wrestle with ideas..think about getting us folks some uninterrupted bijli and paani 24 x7...windfarms,desalination plants etc etc..think hard and post after a fortnight ..olright..take it ez muh frnd :nuts:

A new project at parel 63 floors and 53 floors

http://www.99acres.com/property/photo_serve.php?propid=O3858041&sno=1&photo=FULLPHOTO



Is this the same -

floors -

Trident, Parel

http://img88.imageshack.us/img88/9888/pareltower.png

This might be the same project ie by kamala landmarc . thanks 101

arre yaaron..aap logon ne to patent ka neer nikaal diya..
patent bhai...point noted..although impractical..lets move on and call it a day on this rock business..
if you still want to wrestle with ideas..think about getting us folks some uninterrupted bijli and paani 24 x7...windfarms,desalination plants etc etc..think hard and post after a fortnight ..olright..take it ez muh frnd :nuts:

^^^^

Pls., I humbly request let's move on. The public voice here in the form has risen and I stand ridiculed, my ideas stand ghettoised and I submit 100 %. Lesson learnt, no more ideas, I will continue to post pic.'s only.

I thank forumers for teaching me 1'st hand how difficult it must be to tackle develoment issues in India indeed.

x2spanish, I can solve your paani-bijli problem pronto, I'm afraid it involves technical innovation though:(. A major Singaporean Co. among many, and Canadian/US/EU Co.'s among many others have moisture extraction based water making machines and natural gas run micro-turbine for bijli. Both types of machines are desk-top size, modular and scalable. Both are affordable. The net says the Sing. Co. is setting up a giant factory in Gujarat for India market. The micro-turbine bijli co.'s are also in India. Google it out. Here's a teaser from wiki:

The Microturbine
-----------------
Also known as Turbo alternators; Microturbines are becoming widespread for distributed power and combined heat and power applications. They are one of the most promising technologies for powering hybrid electric vehicles. They range from hand held units producing less than a kilowatt, to commercial sized systems ... http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gas_turbine#Microturbines

Quiet operation, Secure Power
Multi-fuel = Gas. Oil, Solar?
Remote Control
Lightweight, compact
Combined Cooling, Heating & Power

Vid.
----

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P3xDZLO34xk&feature=player_detailpage


One can do additional savings by coupling the micro-turbine and water making machine together, in India. I have long held that these 2 inventions can change Indian cities re: 'distributed' bijli, paani. Glad you asked, pleased to be of service. Problem solved, next :) ?

http://www.99acres.com/Residential-Apartment-Flat-in-Lower-Parel-Mumbai%20South-4-Bedroom-bhk-for-Sale-spid-D3247513&pos=35&from_src=D3247513&mob=9702027643,9322843186&cntct=&ownc=Dealer&nm=Sanjy%20Bagade


which project is this?

41 floors claims

Photo looks like world one and price matches too..

^^^^

Pls., I humbly request let's move on. The public voice here in the form has risen and I stand ridiculed, my ideas stand ghettoised and I submit 100 %. Lesson learnt, no more ideas, I will continue to post pic.'s only.

I thank forumers for teaching me 1'st hand how difficult it must be to tackle develoment issues in India indeed.

x2spanish, I can solve your paani-bijli problem pronto, I'm afraid it involves technical innovation though:(. A major Singaporean Co. among many, and Canadian/US/EU Co.'s among many others have moisture extraction based water making machines and natural gas run micro-turbine for bijli. Both types of machines are desk-top size, modular and scalable. Both are affordable. The net says the Sing. Co. is setting up a giant factory in Gujarat for India market. The micro-turbine bijli co.'s are also in India. Google it out.

One can do additional savings by coupling the micro-turbine and water making machine together. I have long held that these 2 inventions can change Indian cities re: 'distributed' bijli, paani. Glad you asked, pleased to be of service. Problem solved, next :) ?

thank u sir..much appreciated..sounds good...will look it up

What happens in the case of a tsunami or large storm? Will the floating rock sink?

^^^^^^

What happens to a cork in water? Bobs up-&-down, simple physics.
In this case the structure is giant size, so will up-down in slow mo :).

del

thank u sir..much appreciated..sounds good...will look it up


^^^^^^

If 1 can integrate the micro-turbine generator, moisture based water maker and air chiller for air conditioning, cold water and refrigeration cheaply and compactly enough; have biz know - how in the Indian context, that one would be the next Brij Munjal, Tulsi Tanti or Bharti Mittal of India. :cheers:

By the way, the tech. for this has been around since dog yrs., check:

Tesla Micro-Turbine
-------------------

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/3/37/Tesla-Turbine-Small.png

(c) http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/3/37/Tesla-Turbine-Small.png

A More Modern Cut-Piece
-------------------------


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xwqvGWTIKbA&feature=player_detailpage



http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xwqvGWTIKbA&feature=player_detailpage#t=27s

Make the unit to window parapet or balcony, price say Rs. 10000. Killer !
If interested in mass production, e-mail me, I can hook you up free. If serious ...


:applause:

^^^^^^

What happens to a cork in water? Bobs up-&-down, simple physics.
In this case the structure is giant size, so will up-down in slow mo :).

Sure, who wouldn't want to live on a bobbing up and down rock out at sea :)

Lodha world crest

58 stories

http://www.99acres.com/Residential-Apartment-Flat-in-Lower-Parel-Mumbai%20South-4-Bedroom-bhk-for-Sale-spid-F3842135&pos=25&from_src=F3842135&mob=9702731888&cntct=&ownc=Dealer&nm=Manmeet%20Singh%20Bhamra

Property Description
World crest is the second tower in the three tower world series at lodha place a self contained destination at lower parel the new urbane epicenter of mumbai. Spread over 17 acres, lodha place is conceived as a world class district on the lines of londons historic eaton square and tokyos contemporary roppongi hills, a perfect environment for people to live, work, relax, and indulge themselves, all at one convenient address. Lodha place comprises of the 3 world series towers occupying about 10 acres of land space. World crest rises majestically above the city and the arabian sea, 58 storeys high, the lavish 3 and 4 bhk apartments and 5 bhk villas, are the epitome of elegance.

Apartment sizes:
3 bhk 2988 sq. Ft, 3042 sq. Ft & 3051 sq. Ft
4 bhk 3456 sq. Ft
5 bhk 5364 sq. Ft duplex villas

facilities include spa zone spa lounge yoga studio salon and facial room treatment and consulting rooms steam, sauna, hot tub changing and locker rooms fitness zone juice bar cardio exercise room spinning room weight training room pilates studio changing rooms, bathrooms, locker rooms entertainment zone double height fine dining area elegant, air conditioned venue for banquets outdoor lawn for banquets private party lounge with plunge pool kitchen relaxation zone indoor games room snooker billiards private movie lounge screening room childrens care facility open to below fine dining cards game room library and reading room kids pool indoor swimming pool swimming pool changing rooms tot lot elders corner ganesha temple the lawn, amphitheatre juice bar the six senses spa & club facilitie mentioned below is the list of people involved in the world crest project: architects pcf pei cobb freed & partners. Principal architect i.M.Pei from pcf structural engineering design: lera leslie e.Robertson associates interior designer: rajiv saini mechanical electrical plumbing(mep): burohappold landscape: ken smith kitchen: bulthaup acs: vrv type bathroom: gessi and villeroy & boch spa: six senses concierge: quintessential


the rate quoted is the base price of the apartment and would request you to contact for the all inclusive pricing and a special offer for all dashmesh properties clients along with 0% brokerage
Property Code: F3842135
Mar 13, 2011
Report Inaccuracies in Listing
Additional Details
Society Name: World Crest NO BROKERAGE
Flooring:
Furnish: Semifurnished
Additional Rooms: Pooja Room,Servant Room
Transaction: New Property
Possession: Dec,2014
Ownership: Freehold
Age of Property: Under Construction
Total Floors in Complex: 41

There is already a Lodha World Crest thread, post it there.

Acme oasis Kandivali east 2 33 floors

http://www.affinityconsultant.com/siteadmin/project/display/1282170427.jpg

link http://www.mumbaiflats.co.in/

Shreepati Jewels
Adding Glitter to the Mumbai Skyline
Welcome to Shreepati Jewels. It is the finest thing to happen to residences. A collection of exquisitely planned apartments, duplexes and penthouses are spread over 7 high rise towers.
Redeveloped under D.C.R 33(9) Cluster Development

Approval Status: High Power Committee Approval Obtained
Project Status: Commencing Shortly
Rehabilitation Status: Commencing Shortly

Location : Pimpalwadi, Girgaum,Mumbai
Walkthrough Video : http://www.shreepatigroup.in/videos/ShreepatiJewels/ShreepatiJewels.html

http://www.shreepatigroup.in/cmsimages/projects/Residential/Commercial/township/Shreepati%20Jewels/Phase4/PIN00010/Maps/Layout10.gif
Project Map

http://www.shreepatigroup.in/cmsimages/projects/Residential/Commercial/township/Shreepati%20Jewels/common/townshipelevation1.jpg
Combined Elevation

Properties within this Township
http://www.shreepatigroup.in/cmsimages/projects/Residential/Commercial/township/Shreepati%20Jewels/Phase3/PIN00011/ElevationImages/elevation91.jpg
Amethyst

http://www.shreepatigroup.in/cmsimages/projects/Residential/Commercial/township/Shreepati%20Jewels/Phase3/PIN00024/ElevationImages/elevation136.jpg
Emerald

http://www.shreepatigroup.in/cmsimages/projects/Residential/Commercial/township/Shreepati%20Jewels/Phase2/PIN00003/ElevationImages/elevation14.jpg
Pearl and Diamond

http://www.shreepatigroup.in/cmsimages/projects/Residential/Commercial/township/Shreepati%20Jewels/Phase1/PIN00001/ElevationImages/elevation9.jpg
Ruby

http://www.shreepatigroup.in/cmsimages/projects/Residential/Commercial/township/Shreepati%20Jewels/Phase4/PIN00010/ElevationImages/elevation73.jpg
Sapphire and Coral

highly visible project then from marine drive.

Shreepati Jewels
Adding Glitter to the Mumbai Skyline
Welcome to Shreepati Jewels. It is the finest thing to happen to residences. A collection of exquisitely planned apartments, duplexes and penthouses are spread over 7 high rise towers.
Redeveloped under D.C.R 33(9) Cluster Development

Approval Status: High Power Committee Approval Obtained
Project Status: Commencing Shortly
Rehabilitation Status: Commencing Shortly

Location : Pimpalwadi, Girgaum,Mumbai
Walkthrough Video : http://www.shreepatigroup.in/videos/ShreepatiJewels/ShreepatiJewels.html

http://www.shreepatigroup.in/cmsimages/projects/Residential/Commercial/township/Shreepati%20Jewels/Phase4/PIN00010/Maps/Layout10.gif
Project Map

http://www.shreepatigroup.in/cmsimages/projects/Residential/Commercial/township/Shreepati%20Jewels/common/townshipelevation1.jpg
Combined Elevation

Properties within this Township
http://www.shreepatigroup.in/cmsimages/projects/Residential/Commercial/township/Shreepati%20Jewels/Phase3/PIN00011/ElevationImages/elevation91.jpg
Amethyst

http://www.shreepatigroup.in/cmsimages/projects/Residential/Commercial/township/Shreepati%20Jewels/Phase3/PIN00024/ElevationImages/elevation136.jpg
Emerald

http://www.shreepatigroup.in/cmsimages/projects/Residential/Commercial/township/Shreepati%20Jewels/Phase2/PIN00003/ElevationImages/elevation14.jpg
Pearl and Diamond

http://www.shreepatigroup.in/cmsimages/projects/Residential/Commercial/township/Shreepati%20Jewels/Phase1/PIN00001/ElevationImages/elevation9.jpg
Ruby

http://www.shreepatigroup.in/cmsimages/projects/Residential/Commercial/township/Shreepati%20Jewels/Phase4/PIN00010/ElevationImages/elevation73.jpg
Sapphire and Coral

a video

on the same

http://shreepatigroup.kalkisupport.com/videos/ShreepatiJewels/ShreepatiJewels.html

^^ Its in my description mate :)

oops

my apologies

above projects are already posted by nitro long back

post http://www.skyscrapercity.com/showthread.php?t=482638&page=213

^^ I checked the history - there was fleeting mention on this on page 160 and 255. There didn't seem like any consolidated post on the entire Jewels. If there is - point it out and let me know. I'll delete my post!

nothing wrong.I critically follow your posts in power sector and your contribrution is enormous .

Cant these people introduce some good designs....Mumbai skyline is changing and these type of towers will just be an eyesore.....


Need some steel & glass structure rather than these ugly looking concrete boxes......

So many super-luxury projects?? so many buyers??? i smell trouble for real estate investments... this will be like no other city...

atleast 20,000 super luxury homes IMO (more than 7-8 crore) in all stages of the of construction from planning to recently built (max 3 years ago) in Mumbai MMR

now out of a population of 23 million and about 8 million families in MMR plus the rich NRI's and MNCs willing to house their MNC's i am sure that you can about 20,000 families?

Thats like 0.25% of all families in MMR.


and thats not even including other people who are getting rich in India as a whole wanting a place in Mumbai.



If you do the math is not that big a number considering the population.

Considering India is supposed to have a million millionaires by the end of the decade (http://shenoinigans.typepad.com/india/2011/04/a-million-millionaires-in-china-when-will-india-get-there.html) - and thats a conservative estimate! Pull all the noveau rich and cities like Mumbai and their Prime areas are pretty much never going to be satiated.
I think the builders are simply doing a pre-emptive strike, and grabbing all the prime lands to build their super-luxuries - knowing the economy will catch up even if they can't fill ALL the flats!!

Of course- this is all statistical speculation - but I have no doubt that investing in Mumbai will never be a white elephant - especially when it comes to real estate.

its a question of liquidity though

how long can you afford to hold onto it?

its a solid asset.

a million millionaires??? how do they count? assets included? if you reside in a 5 crore apartment, you are a millionaire too... then sure, else a million is dunno, doesn't sound coherent to my ears... n m sure there are rich NRIs but these many, i doubt... coz 7-8 crores may be out of reach of most NRis... it is not only spending on 7-8 crores once, it is also maintaining and sustaining the income later on... i hope i m wrong else, this is going to plummet... if not crash...

yeah but considering the total population 20,000 is not that big a number.


I know a family who are interested in World Crest of Lodha in purchasing a 9 crore apartment.


They currently live in a 1500 apartment on Peddar road purchased by the families grandfather in 1960.

The price per square foot for their apartment is 60,0000.Price per sqaure foot for Worst crest is 25,000

so its a straight swap for them.


you have to keep in mind willie that a lot of these super talls are coming up in areas which though in southern mumbai are not in too popular parts.

They are coming up in areas from Prabhadevi to Lower parel.


Many areas in Sobo like Cuffe Parade to Pedder Road have prices per square foot twice that of these supertalls.


Take the Girgaum project. Its in a traditionally shit area. Per living in say Neapensea road can simply trade a 1500 sqaure foot flat and purchase a flat in this place with ease.


It may not be even millionaires purchasing this. It maybe people from posh areas moving to bigger flats in a poorer (or less posh area)

Cant these people introduce some good designs....Mumbai skyline is changing and these type of towers will just be an eyesore.....


Need some steel & glass structure rather than these ugly looking concrete boxes......

Sahi Bol Rela hai Bhai.

These look like mid-90s towers.

yeah but considering the total population 20,000 is not that big a number.


I know a family who are interested in World Crest of Lodha in purchasing a 9 crore apartment.


They currently live in a 1500 apartment on Peddar road purchased by the families grandfather in 1960.

The price per square foot for their apartment is 60,0000.Price per sqaure foot for Worst crest is 25,000

so its a straight swap for them.


you have to keep in mind willie that a lot of these super talls are coming up in areas which though in southern mumbai are not in too popular parts.

They are coming up in areas from Prabhadevi to Lower parel.


Many areas in Sobo like Cuffe Parade to Pedder Road have prices per square foot twice that of these supertalls.


Take the Girgaum project. Its in a traditionally shit area. Per living in say Neapensea road can simply trade a 1500 sqaure foot flat and purchase a flat in this place with ease.


It may not be even millionaires purchasing this. It maybe people from posh areas moving to bigger flats in a poorer (or less posh area)

I totally agree and also the older buildings in these areas do not have the facilities that the new high rises provide and most important of all ample parking for their fleet of cars. The old money in South Mumbai is looking towards areas such as Prabhadevi and Parel with new interest. Around 10 to 15 years back these same people would consider Parel and Prabhadevi a dump. I believe that the next big transformation is going to happen in Wadala. I know there are a number of projects in the pipeline there but till something 'ICONIC' comes up there..wadala will still be off the radar of the Super rich.

In my experience in living in such a society with has the facilities for nearly a decade

(swimming pool, sauna, gym and games room, table tennis carrom etc the works)

after the initial magic the draw of amenities wears off.

Hardly 10% of the residents of the society use the amenities. I for eg go for a swim three times a week and its like nobody is there.Indians it seems feel good that they have the option rather than actually using them.


the point being now a days unless the apartment you live in has a swimming pool etc people consider it a downgrade.

Thats why many in traditionally rich areas of Mumbai like your Cuffe Parade people are trading in.They want the lifestyle not just the location.


as for Wadala. Time will tell.

depends what kind of transport it gets. the Prabhadevi to PArel area is going to be blessed with a metro line all the way to Colaba.

I dont see any big plans for Wadala.

what you said sounds fair but i am still having doubts only over the numbers... if pedder rd guys are moving out, who is moving in?... and why? and that is true, new construction and amenities shall entice people from these areas... I am sure there are big plans for wadala, east at least... but sustainability of an area also depends upon the crowd that is living in... from that perspective i don't see wadala becoming a super-rich or ultra-living hot spot ever... however it shall lure upper middle class people who need amenities and planned infra in the future...

what you said sounds fair but i am still having doubts only over the numbers... if pedder rd guys are moving out, who is moving in?... and why? and that is true, new construction and amenities shall entice people from these areas... I am sure there are big plans for wadala, east at least... but sustainability of an area also depends upon the crowd that is living in... from that perspective i don't see wadala becoming a super-rich or ultra-living hot spot ever... however it shall lure upper middle class people who need amenities and planned infra in the future...

where do you think black money accumulated across india ends up?

buying a costly flat in peddar road in an apartment complex which is well maintained and 20-30 years old which does not attract the lime light suits there people.


you have people with black money buying into things like One World and then its going to cause some fuss.


Look at that adarsh building. Pain as shit. Infact no amenities to speak of either. But was low key and did not attract attention and was in a great location. Had adarsh been something like the highrise projects etc questions would have been raised much earlier by the media. Rather Adarsh was meant to duck away from the publicity and quietly sit in a good area without attracting attention.


you have too much black money and want to get attention you do what the owners of kochi did and create a national shitstorm of publicity.


People moving into one world palais roayle or the loads of other supertalls will be buisnessman/executives with the income to show for it.

not the people with only black money but a good deal of legit money as well. Lodha himself has said that the price of the flats will be 7.5 crore to 50 crore. He is selling them all at market white rate with no black money involved.Its going to be a transparent deal.

In my experience in living in such a society with has the facilities for nearly a decade

(swimming pool, sauna, gym and games room, table tennis carrom etc the works)

after the initial magic the draw of amenities wears off.

Hardly 10% of the residents of the society use the amenities. I for eg go for a swim three times a week and its like nobody is there.Indians it seems feel good that they have the option rather than actually using them.


the point being now a days unless the apartment you live in has a swimming pool etc people consider it a downgrade.

Thats why many in traditionally rich areas of Mumbai like your Cuffe Parade people are trading in.They want the lifestyle not just the location.


as for Wadala. Time will tell.

depends what kind of transport it gets. the Prabhadevi to PArel area is going to be blessed with a metro line all the way to Colaba.

I dont see any big plans for Wadala.


Absolutely!! I couldnt agree more - I dont get what all this talk of "oversupply" is all about.. I think its naive to think that all these construction companies (considering the best of the best is building in these areas) have not done their edequate research before starting to build luxury sky scrapers..

There are at max 20 towers to be standing in the prime Prabhadevi to Mahalaxmi belt- those being pred- Sky Towers, World series, Dlf, Lokhandwala Minerva, Orchid crown/Heights/views/Turf, Orbit terraces..Palais Royale Thats pretty much it? This is the prime location- The rest will be far flung locations in upper parel/wadala etc..

So how is about 20 towers max for a city like Mumbai over supply? Its simple- Its aspirational living!! people are talking day and night about these projects even before they are 10 floors up in the air- can you fathom the rage that stretch will create once in 5 years (hopefully) these buildings are actually standing tall with all their glass, waterfalls, concierge service etc etc???

There is a HUGE demand for luxury in India.. When BMW, Merc. Jag and Audi all enter the market- no one talks of over supply of cars do they? They all sell and how!! Look at the number of 50 lakh plus worth cars on the streets of south bombay?? Each and every one of those guys is a potential buyer for one of these luxury apartments..

Most international metroes have 100s of such buildings in the downtown area.. Whats 20 odd buildings? Yes it will take the entire 5 years leading to posession to sell out but it will all sell..

Plus once these 20 are sold- Its over!! the land parcels are over and out !! Then you have to move to wadala and north East Parel.. This "prime" land is just that 2-3 km strech from Prabhadevi to Mahalaxmi- Thats all!!

Well this is the biggest, widest hole I have seen till date in the city...Just look at it!!!
and by far the easiest place to take pic of.:), no guards,nothing

BTW its Skylark Heights, if anybody can start a thread, i dont have the presentation skills to start a theard with renderings n all unlike other forumers

http://www.freeimagehosting.net/uploads/1f11333c82.jpg (http://www.freeimagehosting.net/)

Wow Coolguyz, you've been busy.

I suppose the 380m will be in the front hole and the 160m tower at the back, or possibly vice versa.

I forgot the name of this project. Its on Bhulabhai desai road in front of Breach candy, some companys headquarters

http://img34.imageshack.us/img34/171/img1108dy.jpg (http://img34.imageshack.us/i/img1108dy.jpg/)

That is JK House, here is the thread -

http://www.skyscrapercity.com/showthread.php?t=1293125

Still not sure which design in being built

Render 1
http://www.ziwucg.com:8081/zpxs.aspx?id=001002
http://img192.imageshack.us/img192/2659/jk01.jpg

Render 2
http://img682.imageshack.us/img682/5870/jkhouse.jpg

Plus once these 20 are sold- Its over!! the land parcels are over and out !! Then you have to move to wadala and north East Parel.. This "prime" land is just that 2-3 km strech from Prabhadevi to Mahalaxmi- Thats all!!

agree with the rest but

Parel/lower parel has enough mill land to keep the builders there for for another deace or two....

this is just the tip if the iceburg.

Its the old textile mills/vhawls which are being bought and done up.

A rate of 25,000-35,000 for these apartments as of now is not too bad

@cg

thankyou thankyou thankyou.

Wow Coolguyz, you've been busy.

I suppose the 380m will be in the front hole and the 160m tower at the back, or possibly vice versa.

correct

Officials from the high-rise committee confirmed the project as the tallest building proposal they have received since the committee was formed six years ago. The second tallest proposed structure the committee is studying is Skylark Heights at Worli. The project proposes two separate towers, commercial at a height of 159.9 m and a residential one 375.6 m in height, and will be roughly 74 floors over and above three floors for the basement and another 11 for parking.


101 you seem to have all the highrise projects by heart.


any movement on the 8 super talls in sewri?

101 you seem to have all the highrise projects by heart.?

Yes, I can remember most of the major highrises in the city :D Butthe suburbs it too hard to remember, hundreds of similar looking 30-40 floor towers.

any movement on the 8 super talls in sewri?

Nope, that project hasn't been spoken of since.

if only you were older

you would be a brilliant mod....


shame the sewri project has not moved on. Would be a great location for a cluster

Sewri isn't in a flight path is it? Wonder if the project will run into any aviation problems.

well i thought Parel was in the flight path?

where exactly is the flat path? IU had explained it before. i forgot.

Yes I remember that, but I can't find where he posted it.

agree with the rest but

Parel/lower parel has enough mill land to keep the builders there for for another deace or two....

this is just the tip if the iceburg.

Its the old textile mills/vhawls which are being bought and done up.

A rate of 25,000-35,000 for these apartments as of now is not too bad

@cg

thankyou thankyou thankyou.

I guess you are right MM. Perhaps there maybe pockets of land still left but those may not be key locations like the current projects- Neither will they be large parcels in a single spot to create large multi tower luxury complexes.. Its pretty amazing if you think about it that many of these projects are actually acres and acres of land with proposed landscaping etc right in the heart of South central Mumbai.. so those key locations may get exhauseted and then you may have cluster development etc which comes with its on share of complications..

Either way, I still think , like you.. that while there can be a case of lots of supply for luxury housing- yet if it wont be availlable in south bombay then where will it eh? ? I assume and hope that it will all be absorbed and well received..

One things for sure- That 2-3 km stretch is definitely gonna look H O T !! by the year 2015.. if all goes as proposed..

^
yeah

what will happen is they will move from parel into Buyculla etc.



2015 is a bit too early. I think say 2020 we should have 6-7 supertalls along the Prabhadevi to Lower parel cost.

I am assuming the Db realty plans go ahead and the Orchid projects in Prabhadevi (3) and Jacobs Circle (2) get ahead.

Plus you have one world and i am sure a whole host of other projects and supertalls i have missed out like the India bulls ones and the dlf ones.


Just too many to remember.


will be awesome to buy a boat and then sail on the arabian cost of mumbai

^
yeah

what will happen is they will move from parel into Buyculla etc.



2015 is a bit too early. I think say 2020 we should have 6-7 supertalls along the Prabhadevi to Lower parel cost.

I am assuming the Db realty plans go ahead and the Orchid projects in Prabhadevi (3) and Jacobs Circle (2) get ahead.

Plus you have one world and i am sure a whole host of other projects and supertalls i have missed out like the India bulls ones and the dlf ones.


Just too many to remember.


will be awesome to buy a boat and then sail on the arabian cost of mumbai

Absolutely, Currently if one is no list the projects that have been launched and work is on or are atleast at site preperatation stage or more would be..

3 Sky
1 Orbit
3 World series
3 DB crown
Indiabulls Blue
Victoria
Pallais Royale
3 DB Heights
DB Views
1 Minerva ( Lokhandwala Infratructure)
SkyLark
Ahuja
Namaste Tower
DB Turf View..
Unitech/Omkar worli

Thats way more than 6-7- we re talking abt 20-25 structures over 250 mtrs in height.. Ofcourse almost 30% of those belong to DB so lets hope for the best.. But yea by 2020 we should see all these standing.. Plus there could be more development as well.. so yea it will be a handsome cluster of luxury..

Soon, hotels will tower over sea-front

Mumbai: The city’s coastal skyline is set for a change with more developers entering the race to build tall luxury hotels along the waterfront. Following an August 2009 Supreme Court order, which paved the way for a starred hotel with an FSI of 6.29 to come up on Queen’s Necklace, the state government recently cleared two more high-rise hotels.
One of them is at Hindoostan Mills in Mahim, where the project has got an FSI of 7.62; another starred hotel, to come up on Napean Sea Road, has been given an FSI of over 8. Officials, however, do not know the exact height of the two buildings or the number of floors they may have as the plans have not yet been submitted.
Both projects fall with the Coastal Regulation Zone (CRZ), where the existing FSI in the island city is 1.33. But the Development Control rules make an exception for hotels, educational and healthcare institutions by not having any cap for these establishments.
The project at Mahim, being undertaken by Akruti Nirman, has an FSI of 7.62 (construction can be allowed on an area of 1,37,557.15 sqmt given the size of the plot). The developer has already given the state a deposit of Rs 16.2 crore. Officials said the starred hotel on Napean Sea Road was being developed by Govani Builders who had bought a lot of old properties.
The new clearances, officials explained, came because of the perceived shortage of hotel rooms and a need to promote the hospitality industry. “Based on a court directive, the urban development department in August allowed a five-star hotel—being constructed by D B Realty on Charni Road —an FSI of 6.29. That sort of set a precedent to upper limits for luxury hotels falling even within CRZ,’’ a senior Mantralaya official said.
“Several hotels in the past, like the Taj Mahal Palace, Oberoi, Sea Rock, President and the Ambassador, were allowed an FSI of up to 5 under DC Rules (1967). All that changed with the introduction of the CRZ notification in 1991 and we maintained a freeze on FSI after that. But the SC verdict set a precedent that could not be ignored,’’ the official added. “Rule 10 (2) of DCR 67 does not put a cap on FSI when it comes to educational and health institutes, government offices and luxury hotels,’’ he explained.
D B Realty managing director Shahid Balwa welcomed the state’s move. “The state felt it was necessary to give a boost to the shortage of hotel rooms. This will help promote tourism,’’ he said.

TOI



It will be called Ackruti Tower Celeste. The render on Ackruti's website (http://www.ackruticity.com/new/residential_launching_soon.html), looks close to 80fls?. They only have a this render for now -

http://img227.imageshack.us/img227/729/screenshot20110112at124.png

Looks like it will be twins.

A real but very small render has been released. It appears they have added another tower to the project, but I really can't figure out the floor count, looks somewhere between 60-80. We will have to keep an eye on Akruti's website for more info and larger render -

http://img27.imageshack.us/img27/263/hmill.jpg

Back to FSI of 1.33!!! Welcome back : low-rise construction !!!:bash:
Welcome back : Huge spread-out sprawls instead of a tall compact city!! Instead of a modern, efficient high-rises and supertalls- we'll have 55 acres of unremarkable, spread out low-rises!!


NTC’s mill land auction phase II to kick off soon
Textile corporation expected to earn Rs 2,000 crore by auctioning 55 acres

The National Textile Corporation (NTC) is expected to kick off phase two of its Mumbai mill land auctions soon. The textile body has submitted its Integrated Development Scheme 2 (IDS 2) to the Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation, which once approved will pave the way for the NTC to go ahead with its auctions.

NTC officials said five mills totalling a massive 55 acres in the heart of the city will be auctioned after IDS 2 is sanctioned. These include Kohinoor Mills 1 and 2 in Dadar, India United Mills 4 in Kalachowky, Jam Mills in Lalbaug, Sitaram Mills in Chinchpokli and Madhusudan Mills in Worli.

NTC chairman and managing director K Ramachandran Pillai said IDS 2 is awaiting the BMC’s approval for two months now. “We had a meeting with state government officials in February, but the approval is yet to come through. Once that is done, we will start auctioning the five mill land plots one after the other,” said Pillai. Unlike previous times, when the NTC had set ambitious revenue targets for its prime plots, this time, Pillai said, they do not want to speculate right away since the realty market in Mumbai is down by 10-20 per cent.


With the parking FSI gone for a toss and the government coming down hard on inflated super-built up areas, there is a huge regulatory risk involved in quoting high bids for a regular FSI of 1.33. A realistic price for central Mumbai would be about Rs 6,000 per sq ft, which will not come to more than Rs 2,000 crore for the entire 55 acres,” said Kapoor. With a flux of residential properties in central Mumbai, Indiabulls was recently forced to reduce the rates of its Sky suites project on NTC land in Lower Parel from Rs 23,000 per sq ft to Rs 16,500 per sq ft.


Source : Link (http://www.indianexpress.com/news/NTC-s-mill-land-auction-phase-II-to-kick-off-soon/771479/)

hmm still 55 acres thats nearly 3.3 million sqaure foot of space.

best scenario

supertall and a 50 acres garden


ok i am dreaming

^^ What bugs me is the Government's vehement obsession with low FSI. They claim that giving a high FSI like other "Island" cities like Hong Kong do, would greatly strain Mumbai's Infrastructure.
Interpretation : the govt for 50 years did NOTHING to augment the city's infrastructure, happily sat back and let massive slums sprawl and patted themselves on letting the city creak along under the ridiculous "Hindu Rate of Growth" days.
Now suddenly, under a massive 8% growth, with India clamoring to be on the path to First world, the GOVT realizes that it didn't do ITS job to keep the infrastructure augmented - so NOW they put brakes on all projects so that they keep up with its erstwhile COMPLETE lack of vision and current inefficiency!!

Compare that to the Shanghais and Ghuanzhous in another third world country, that have pulled off world class cities - while we're still scuttling about over 1.33 FSI, Golibar, Dharavi, Koliwada, CSIA slums, Medha Patkars, Caps on World One and endlessly delaying what would be the transformation of Mumbai into a world-class city - something ALL of India can be proud of!! What Mumbai is stuck with until then - is SLUMDOG!

true.

Surprised though hong kong has low FSI

I would assume they would have high FSI


ideal i would have given an FSI of 4 or 5.


55 acres being sold at such low FSI means everybody loses out from the seller to city.



with such low fsi they may as well make it a park.


however more than government its the NGOs who have done the damage for eg

http://www.thehindu.com/news/national/article453387.ece

All of those mills have great spots in the skyline. I think the developers will get their way and have their desired height for the buildings.

Western Express Way, Malad, Mumbai
http://img221.imageshack.us/img221/6611/malad.jpg (http://img221.imageshack.us/i/malad.jpg/)


More info on this Omkar project -

Alta Monte, Malad West: 55 floors

http://img594.imageshack.us/img594/853/screenshot20110422at105.png

MPE

Not sure if this has been mentioned before, but Studio Gang is apparently designing a project in Mumbai. Expect a pretty crazy (in a good way) design:

http://www.architectmagazine.com/articles/architects/studio-gang-architects.aspx?playlist=playlist____20_731406&plitem=1

http://img607.imageshack.us/img607/4553/tmpba962etmptcm20729986.jpg
Jeanne Gang, FAIA, leads a project meeting with (left to right) Stephen Claeys, Weston Walker, and Beth Zacherle. The group is discussing a mixed-use project for Mumbai, India, and debating, specifically, how the project's base will meet the ground. In this session, the group resolved to combine elements from two preliminary models to move forward.

They are showing such a high density of trees in the renders as if Mumbai is in the pre-construction era.

Wow Coolguyz, you've been busy.

I suppose the 380m will be in the front hole and the 160m tower at the back, or possibly vice versa.

Hi 101, can you quickly confirm if the Skylark Tower (the siteprep image that coolguyz posted) is the same site next to CG Thappar house at Worli??

Hi 101, can you quickly confirm if the Skylark Tower (the siteprep image that coolguyz posted) is the same site next to CG Thappar house at Worli??

Yes, thats the same one.

All of those mills have great spots in the skyline. I think the developers will get their way and have their desired height for the buildings.

dont builders transfer FSI?

ie buy up land in places in MMR like Karjat and build at an FSI of like 0.5.

Transfer the FSI to mumbai prime spots?

thats been happening i think for years.


i could be wrong.

Mumbai to clean up Dhobi Ghat, to make it tourist-friendly

The iconic Dhobi Ghat in Mahalaxmi, a popular tourist spot for foreigners visiting Mumbai, will soon don a new look. While the civic administration has begun the revamp of the century-old washing and drying area spread over a 23-acre plot to provide better facilities for the launderers, the BMC is also planning to build a viewing gallery for tourists in the second phase of restoration.

“In the first phase, roofs will be built over the sheds of the kilns,” said Nutan Prakash Ghotge, municipal architect. “Most of the bhattis are in a dilapidated condition and we are putting new roofs and repairing the sheds. Earlier, the roofs were made of cement tiles and asbestos, but we will now use colourful tiles,” said another official.

The BMC has, however, decided to retain the British era flooring of the Dhobi Ghat because of its historical significance. “The plan to renovate Dhobi Ghat is primarily to provide better conditions for the washermen,” said BMC City Engineer D M Phase. The Rs 2.4-crore project, mooted in 2006, is expected to be completed in about two years.

“As the Dhobi Ghat is dilapidated and in a shambles, tourists prefer to view the place from a distance. The viewing gallery will help them get a better look,” said an official involved with its restoration. The viewing gallery is proposed to be constructed alongside the footpath near the Mahalaxmi Bridge, built in a way that vehicular traffic is not obstructed. There are also plans for a parking space nearby. “But the plans for the car park and the viewing gallery will only be implemented if the railways, bridges department and other authorities give us an NOC,” said Ghotge.

Under the new plan, the washermen will also be provided with gas connections for use in the kilns to discourage use of firewood. “Typically, Dhobi Ghat uses about 8,875 kg of wood per day and if we calculate the amount they have to spend on wood for firing the bhattis, it is about Rs 27,000 a day,” said an official. “Pipelines from Mahanagar Gas will be laid in the Dhobi Ghat for the bhattis. We are studying whether we should provide individual or group connections,” said Ghotge.

The 731 washing stones will also be repaired along with the drainage system in the area. The civic administration will also repair the boundary wall and put a large steel and iron gate at the main entrance. There is also a plan to provide internal lighting so that the launderers can work at night too, said an official.

hmmm

"colourful tiles"...? :shocked:
Oh God, who knows what the BMC means by this?

Mumbai to clean up Dhobi Ghat, to make it tourist-friendly

hmmm

Ohhhh so thats what they are doing.They have replaced those sheds and a gate is being built.

"colourful tiles"...? :shocked:
Oh God, who knows what the BMC means by this?

Those colourful tiles may be on the walls. The roofs looks good now with those brown color tiles as used on roofs of houses in villages. One can see all these developments while travelling on trains.

Any idea if the Akruti Realms project @ Huges Road has kicked off? Looks like a supertall....

Which ones are you talking about?

If you are talking about the first picture, then its transmission lines and they have to be overhead.

^^ +1 transmission lines always to be overhead, doesnt matter its india or US or any other country, for others information who never seen Mumbai, All electricity lines are underground except transmission grid.

Could this be the render?
http://img190.imageshack.us/img190/7452/hotelv.jpg


Any idea if the Akruti Realms project @ Huges Road has kicked off? Looks like a supertall....

They may have started site prep, I'm not sure.

Anyway here are some new renders of Realms from Akruti.

http://img818.imageshack.us/img818/5674/21777521251655544368020.jpg

http://img195.imageshack.us/img195/6966/20816721251657877701120.jpg

http://img718.imageshack.us/img718/3254/20858721251659544367620.jpg

http://img641.imageshack.us/img641/4706/21110720588504277349877.jpg

edit:

Here's a larger render -

http://img15.imageshack.us/img15/4480/screenshot20110425at613.png

101, what is the height & floors???

Prithviraj Chavan seeks to cap pencil buildings

Published: Monday, Apr 25, 2011, 2:51 IST
By Shubhangi Khapre | Place: Mumbai | Agency: DNA

The sleek multi-storied pencil buildings threatening to alter the city skyline may have become trendy but the chief minister Prithviraj Chavan wants to put a cap on their construction as they may not be able to cope with unforeseen calamities like mild tremors caused by the earth quakes.

The tall and thin residential buildings, without any support system, even with best construction companies, are not popular with the state administration which has laid emphasis on cluster developments.

The chief minister, who holds the portfolio of urban development and housing, plans to look at the older policies to ensure highest safety standards are incorporated in residential constructions.

According to the chief minister, “Cluster developments complete with safeguards, infrastructure and other amenities should be considered. Single structures without support system could be dangerous.”

After the budget session the chief minister intends to usher in major reforms in ministry of urban development and housing. Ever since he took the charge of state, five months ago, he has been confronted with issues across the board leaving little time to explore reforms in housing and urban development.

According to sources, “The government does not plan to thwart any of the ongoing projects that are already under construction. But it wants to bring reforms to inculcate stringent safety norms in the residential structures.” The officials in the housing department said, “Since the city is not considered earthquake-prone nobody takes into account the dangers to the pencil buildings. Often the developers focus on design and spatial aspects.”

The state housing policy adopted in 2007 has laid stress on vertical development of Mumbai. The reason cited is that given the space constrains the city will have to rise vertically. The policy gave the boost to the high-rises that were 70 to 90-storey residential structures. Chavan, who is a technocrat, is not against vertical development. But his concerns relate to dangers to such single structures in absence of provisions to withstand calamities.

The other concerns relate to lack of amenities. A single 70-storey pencil building may accommodate 140 families, if each floor has two spacious flats, but it often absolves the developers of providing the infrastructure to cope with the growing population. While advocating vertical development the housing policy also laid stress on cluster development which has remained on the back burner. The chief minister through the reforms will ensure overall development.
http://www.dnaindia.com/mumbai/report_prithviraj-chavan-seeks-to-cap-pencil-buildings_1535792

101, what is the height & floors???

I think about 70 floors with the parking structure and 60 without.

Found some updates on a recent Akruti Corp Presentation.

Link:http://www.ackruticity.com/new/investor_relations/Ackruti_-_Corporate_Presentation.pdf
http://img856.imageshack.us/img856/8689/akrutirealms.png

http://img812.imageshack.us/img812/430/acrutirealms2.png

http://img852.imageshack.us/img852/5628/hmills.png

The bottom project, Ackruti Tower Celeste now has an official render which I happened to have posted on the previous page.

A real but very small render has been released. It appears they have added another tower to the project, but I really can't figure out the floor count, looks somewhere between 60-80. We will have to keep an eye on Akruti's website for more info and larger render -

http://img27.imageshack.us/img27/263/hmill.jpg

Ibis 44 flr Kandivali
http://i54.tinypic.com/10yqfrn.jpg

Another Render of the IBIS. Any Idea what's happening on this project?
http://www.allcheckdeals.com/projects/Red_Brick/Ibis/images/red_brick_big.jpg

Made this render today of several upcoming buildings near the Mahalaxmi racecourse. See if you can spot them all! :)

http://img848.imageshack.us/img848/7320/mumbairender.jpg

Awesome job!! Looks good!! Hopefully by 2020!

^^ +1
@b3ta That is friggin' Incredible!! Good job!!

Made this render today of several upcoming buildings near the Mahalaxmi racecourse. See if you can spot them all! :)

http://img848.imageshack.us/img848/7320/mumbairender.jpg

I say the pace at which things work in Mumbai, we may be able to see this in 50 years.

I can see a lot more things happening in the next 10 years

excellent thought beta

Excellent work, beta! To think that a few years ago that the word "skyline" was unheard of in India...Mumbai is set to change!