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For those of us who think that our 2 bedroom flats are spacious, comes this story of a single-family skyscraper:

This 60-story house is for just one family.
India’s richest man, Mukesh Ambani, is planning a palace in the heart of Mumbai with helipad, health club, hanging gardens and six floors of car parking.
His wife, mother and three children will live there with him, looked after by 600 live-in staff.
The building, already worth £500 million, could start a rush on skyscrapers.

Luckily the BBC has more information:

His skyscraper home in the city will be over 170m tall and will have an army of 600 staff to manage it.
Its 27 floors on a 4,532 sq metre plot will provide a panoramic view of the entire city of Mumbai (Bombay) once it is completed next year

I wonder who the architect is? MVRDV? Rem Koolhaas brought back from the 1990’s? Anyone taking bets?

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A Tunnel Too Far – photo by NY Times
Yes, this is exactly what you think it is, Inches Too Tall for Tunnel, Rig Plies It Anyway:

It was just six inches.
That was what made the difference at 4:40 a.m. yesterday as Gilberto Cantu, a truck driver from Texas, approached the New Jersey entrance of the Lincoln Tunnel in his big rig, loaded with bathtubs, toilets and plumbing fixtures. The truck was 13 feet 6 inches high. The tunnel has a height limit of 13 feet. Six inches can make a big difference.
Mr. Cantu drove the entire 1.5 miles of the tunnel from Weehawken, N.J., to Manhattan, tearing his way under the Hudson River in the tunnel’s center tube and peeling back the roof of his tractor-trailer as if it were a tin can. No one was injured, but an undetermined number of decorative tunnel ceiling tiles were ripped off.

Not much you can say about that.