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RAHEJA PLATINUM TOWER, Mumbai, India - UPGRADED! New Sidebuildings added, nightlights fixed, pictures upgraded. Two versions, both landmark, a 11x7 campus, and 5x4 standalone tower, are included.
When I saw there were hardly any buildings from India in the STEX, I was inspired to make some of my own.
This is my second-ever upload to the Exchange. I have made this tower armed with little knowledge about its architecture except for a few renderings from the K Raheja Developers. Therefore this may not be the most accurate rendering of the building. As soon as I have more information, I will update this tower. Tell me what you think!
Changelog - 7/28/08 - Currently working to fix nightlight problem and to come up with a bigger update that includes the campus and IT building complex.
8/2/08 - Fixed Nightlight Problems, Updated pictures, total upgrade: added sidebuildings.
8/3/08 - Plans announced for a commercial version of the tower as well.
ATTENTION! : THIS LOT HAS ONE DEPENDENCY - LOOK BELOW
Raheja Platinum Tower
Location: Under Construction in Mumbai
Date of Completion: Not known (yet)
Developers: K Raheja Universal Corp.
Architects: J P Parekh & Sons Architects
Description: Mumbai's skyscraper boom has almost entirely consisted of residential highrise development. The reasons for these are many, but namely because residential skyscrapers, especially with integrated retail, hospitality, and anemities, produce far less strain on infrsastructure than their purely commercial counterparts, whose workers would all need to commute to the tower every day. Secondly, for the longest time, India's banking, service, R&D and IT companies preferred glassy, sprawling lowrise campuses -- more of a college campus look and feel -- than towers.
With infrastructure redevelopment now likewise booming in Mumbai, coupled with a change in corporate culture, the future landmark skyscraper projects proposed in Mumbai are increasingly commercial in nature. Leading this change from the front is one of Mumbai's largest real estatedevelopers K Raheja Universal, who are actively promoting commercial skyscraper construction as a necessity for Mumbai, and the only way to halt sprawl.
For the last couple years, their company has talked about a "landmark" purely commercial skyscraper that will break the mental/cultural dam holding back corporate skyscraper construction in Mumbai. They called this development "Raheja Platinum".
source: http://forum.skyscraperpage.com/showthread.php?t=144841
Being an Indian Myself, I'm pretty amazed with the quality these architects have acheived.
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Landmark, 11x7 Lot, also included a standalone tower version, Landmark, 5x4 |
| Cost to Plop: | $60,000 |
| Dependencies: | Palm Pack1 by whitelighter |
| Monthly Cost: | $60 per month |
Enjoy this new building, everyone, keep a lookout for updates, and most of all, have fun!
Mod Edit: Fixed broken dependency link.
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