Penthouse in the highest US building will be sold for 40 million dollars
Chicago Spire????????s founders, which upon termination of construction in 2011will become the highest building of the USA, have declared quotations on premises. The price of one square meter in the 150-story skyscraper on the average will be below 21500 dollars, and the penthouse will cost 40 million dollars. Now the price of one square meter in the Chicago elite multi-storey house ranges from 7500 up to 14 thousand dollars.
In total the building will have 1193 apartments, which average areas will vary from 50 up to 956 square meters. Three-meter ceilings and windows in all walls are being stipulated in apartments.
It is expected, that sales of apartments will begin in January, 2008. Owners for the present a nonexistent skyscraper are measured to offer apartments in Chicago Spire not only to Americans. They will arrange exhibitions in 14 cities of the world, including Dublin, Hong Kong, New York and Moscow.
Chicago Spireis designed by the well-known architect Santiago Calatrava and represents a 150-storeyed building (609 meters) reminding a drill. Chicago authorities have approved the civil-engineering design in the sum of 2,4 billion dollars, in May, 2007.
Chicago penthouse is not the most expensive penthouse in the world. The record on the given parameter is being kept with four penthouses in London complex One Hyde Park. Each of them costs 84 million pounds sterling (about 170 million dollars).
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