"MALL OF INDIA" one of the biggest mall of the world built in Gurgaon

Mall of India is an under-construction shopping mall in Gurgaon, India. When completed, it will cover an area of 4,500,000-square-foot (418,100 m²), making it the largest mall ever built in India and one of the largest malls in the world.^[1] It will have a built-up area of 6 million sq feet (55.74 hectares).^[2]

The mall is being developed by DLF Universal. It will be located on the NH-8 highway right at the Delhi–Gurgaon border, near the existing Ambi Mall. It will be spread over 32 acres (13 ha) and will have parking space for 10,000 cars.^[3] The mall was due to be open for shoppers by October 2009 but has been pushed back to December 2011 because of changes to its design to include an office complex. The plans for construction have been delayed.Other location like Noida are being thought of the construction of the same. ^[4]

It is expected to cost 1500 crore INR ($298 million) to build.^[4]

• 500 stores^[5]
• 14 lifts ^[6]
• 69 escalators^[7]
• 13,271 sq ft food court with 140 restaurants^[8]

Expected daily footfalls of 80,000 on weekend and 120,000 on weekends.^[9]

Shopping in India - Top 10 Biggest/Largest Shopping Malls in India

1) Phoenix Market City, Mumbai - 2,000,000 sq ft

The newly opened grand new mall in Kurla, Mumbai is the largest mall in India and also of Asia. When fully completed (construction is still going on) the mall will house about 600 stores, 14 screen multiplex, and more than 20 restaurants. Yes a city in itself.

Year Opened : - 2011

Total Floor Area : - 2,00,000 sq ft (Total area stretches 4,099,995 sq ft)

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2) Mantri Square Mall, Bangalore - 1,700,000 sq ft

Mantri Square mall is the second biggest shopping mall in India. The mall houses more than 250 outlets and also has a multiplex hall operated by Inox cinemas. This mall is now a major place for businesses to organize events and contests to gather public acceptance.

Year Opened : - 2010

Total Floor Area : - 1,700,000 sq ft

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3) High Street Phoenix, Mumbai - 3,300,000 sq ft

The shopping complex has shops of every thing from international brands as well as Indian brands. The huge compound is one of the best places for shopaholics. Also, there is Palladium - a luxury shopping center which houses upmarket luxury brands.

Year Opened : - 2008

Total Floor Area : - 3,300,000 sq ft (Gross Lease-able area is less than Mantri Square Mall)

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4) Felix Square, Lucknow - 1,600,000 sq ft

Felix Square mall developed by Ansal API and is the largest shopping mall in Uttar Pradesh. This swanky looking mall will change the shopping culture and the perception of shopping in Uttar Pradesh.

Year Opened : - 2010

Total Floor Area : - 1,600,000 sq ft

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5) Metro Junction Mall, Kalyan - 1,500,000 sq ft (Joint)

Opened with much fanfare, now has outlets of many international brands. On a good day the mall attracts around 125,000 people.

Year Opened : - 2007

Total Floor Area : - 1,500,000 sq ft

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5) The Great India Place, Noida - 1,500,000 sq ft (Joint)

The biggest mall in Noida is a great place to shop, eat and has a multiplex operated by Big cinemas which is one of the biggest and can accommodate more than 1000 people at a time.

Year Opened : - 2007

Total Floor Area : - 1,500,000 sq ft

5) Express Avenue, Chennai - 1,500,000 sq ft (Joint)

The recently opened mall is the biggest in Chennai. The mall has dedicated sections for clothes, kids supplies, entertainment and has over two million square feet of space for corporate offices.

Year Opened : - 2010

Total Floor Area : - 1,500,000 sq ft

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6) DB City, Bhopal - 1,350,000 sq ft

DB city mall is the biggest mall in central India which is operated by a subsidiary of Dainik Bhaskar group. Offers six-level shopping with more than 180 outlets of international and Indian brands. Has a six-screen multiplex for your entertainment and a food court to re-fuel yourself for some more shopping.

Year Opened : - 2010

Total Floor Area : - 1,350,000 sq ft

7) Select Citywalk, Saket, Delhi - 1,300,000 sq ft

Select Citywalk is spread over six acres and houses many stores, has a multiples, offices, and as well as resident apartments.

Year Opened : - 2007

Total Floor Area : - 1,300,000 sq ft

8) Inorbit Mall, Malad, Mumbai - 1,200,000 sq ft (Joint)

One of the first to start the mall culture in Mumbai is still the eight largest mall in India. Inorbit is lifestyle shopping at its best.

Year Opened : - 2004

Total Floor Area : - 1,200,000 sq ft

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8) R City Mall, Mumbai - 1,200,000 sq ft (Joint)

Again, a new arrival in Mumbai city, but has every thing that a shopper wants. Excellent food, great entertainment, and lot of shopping awaits you at the R city mall.

Year Opened : - 2009

Total Floor Area : - 1,200,000 sq ft

9) Dreams The Mall, Bhandup, Mumbai - 1,000,000 sq ft

The large mall near the Bhandup station is one of the most visited shopping malls in Mumbai. Construction was completed in 2011 and subsequently opened for general people after a grand opening.

Year Opened : - 2009

Total Floor Area : - 1,000,000 sq ft

10) Neptune Magnet Mall, Bhandup, Mumbai - 1,056,000 sq ft

The mall is developed by the Neptune Group and some parts of it are functional. The mall is expected to get fully operational by mid of 2012.

Year Opened : - 2011

Total Floor Area : - 1,056,000 sq ft

These are the largest shopping malls of India. Had fun writing it and hope you too liked reading it.

Indian Mathematicians And Their Contributions

Indian Mathematicians

RAMANUJAN

• He was born on 22^na of December 1887 in a small village of Tanjore district, Madras. He failed in English in Intermediate, so his formal studies were stopped but his self-study of mathematics continued.
• He sent a set of 120 theorems to Professor Hardy of Cambridge. As a result he invited Ramanujan to England.
• Ramanujan showed that any big number can be written as sum of not more than four prime numbers.
• He showed that how to divide the number into two or more squares or cubes.
• when Mr Litlewood came to see Ramanujan in taxi number 1729, Ramanujan said that 1729 is the smallest number which can be written in the form of sum of cubes of two numbers in two ways, i.e. 1729 = 9³ + 10³ = 1³ + 12³ since then the number 1729 is called Ramanujan’s number.
• In the third century B.C, Archimedes noted that the ratio of circumference of a circle to its diameter is constant. The ratio is now called ‘pi ( Π )’ (the 16th letter in the Greek alphabet series)
• The largest numbers the Greeks and the Romans used were 106 whereas Hindus used numbers as big as 10⁵³ with specific names as early as 5000 B.C. during the Vedic period.

ARYABHATA

• Aryabhatta was born in 476A.D in Kusumpur, India.
• He was the first person to say that Earth is spherical and it revolves around the sun.
• He gave the formula (a + b)² = a² + b² + 2ab

• He taught the method of solving the following problems:

BRAHMAGUPTA

• Brahma Gupta was born in 598A.D in Pakistan.
• He gave four methods of multiplication.

• He gave the following formula, used in G.P series

a + ar + ar² + ar³ +……….. + ar^n-1 = (ar^n-1) ÷ (r – 1)

• He gave the following formulae :

Area of a cyclic quadrilateral with side a, b, c, d= √(s -a)(s- b)(s -c)(s- d) where 2s = a + b + c + d Length of its diagonals = 

SHAKUNTALA DEVI

• She was born in 1939
• In 1980, she gave the product of two, thirteen digit numbers within 28 seconds, many countries have invited her to demonstrate her extraordinary talent.
• In Dallas she competed with a computer to see who give the cube root of 188138517 faster, she won. At university of USA she was asked to give the 23^rd root of 91674867692003915809866092758538016248310668014430862240712651642793465704086709659 32792057674808067900227830163549248523803357453169351119035965775473400756818688305 620821016129132845564895780158806771.

She answered in 50seconds. The answer is 546372891. It took a UNIVAC 1108 computer, full one minute (10 seconds more) to confirm that she was right after it was fed with 13000 instructions.

• Now she is known to be Human Computer.

BHASKARACHARYA

• He was born in a village of Mysore district.
• He was the first to give that any number divided by 0 gives infinity (00).
• He has written a lot about zero, surds, permutation and combination.
• He wrote, “The hundredth part of the circumference of a circle seems to be straight. Our earth is a big sphere and that’s why it appears to be flat.”
• He gave the formulae like sin(A ± B) = sinA.cosB ± cosA.sinB

India's tallest building under construction....

MUMBAI | India Tower | 126 floors | 700m — Mumbai’s tallest skyscraper begins construction!

India Tower, Marine Lines, Mumbai, India

…Mumbai’s, India’s and the Subcontinent’s tallest, greenest

Big news Skyscraper Fans!

India Tower, (formerly known as “Park Hyatt Tower“), the 126-storey, 700 meter tall mixed-use residential and hotel tower has officially begun construction!

With this news, the 882,000 sq ft tower has set a number of records ranging from “Mumbai’s Tallest” to “India’s First Supertall” to “India’s Greenest Skyscraper.” It also has the great distinction of being represented in the Indian Skyscraper Blog’s logo!

While equally tall and taller buildings have been approved, like the Hyderabad’s 100+ storied Lanco Hills Signature Tower, Hyderabad’s 100+ storied APIIC Trade Tower, and Mumbai’s India International Trade Tower, and almost 10 more supertalls are proposed, so far none of them have actually broken ground yet.

Designed by Fox and Fowle (FXFOWLE) architects as part of a three-hotel luxury project being developed by Neelkamal Realtors in conjunction withHyatt hotels, India Tower is located at Marine Lines, Mumbai, just north of the city’s historical district. It marks the southernmost point of a major region of skyscraper development that currently stretches north to under construction Parel/Back Bay skyline.

For more information, and a large collection of hi-res pictures of this awesome project originally posted by me on Skyscrapercity.com, read on!…

The 882,000 sq ft project, India Tower, in the architects’ own words:

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…centers on creating an iconic residential mixed-use building within India’s emerging new economy.

[India Tower] is informed by distinctive indoor/outdoor environments and the desire to optimise the panoramic views of the surrounding landscape.

The tower’s rotated form emerges in response to the buildings functional requirements and its mixed-use program – which changes with each twist of the structure. This circulation pattern separates retail, 5-star hotel and serviced apartments and long lease duplex penthouse condominium apartments within a sustainable network of green roofs and hanging gardens; creating a singular, extraordinary building that, when completed, will be the tallest and greenest building in India.

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Fearing knee-jerk protests by NIMBYites, developers in Mumbai tend to be ultra-secretive about their projects until they have broken ground. India Tower is no different. Though the tower obviously was planned many months before, it was only officially announced in a very low-key manner on May 4, 2007, when Hyatt Hotels told the Economic Times newspaper about it.) Even then, it wasn’t picked up by any other news sources.

The architect’s website was originally the only other source of information, and there was a lot of confusion as to the status of the project for a while, until news came trickling down in architecture magazines and symposiums divulging precious more information by a rightfully proud FXFOWLE about its engineering marvel.

Finally, on June 21 , 2007, FXFOWLE officially launched the project in a press release:

FXFOWLE Architects: “India Tower in Mumbai is under construction”

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Greenest Skyscraper in India?

Tuesday 17 Jul 2007

Construction has started on India Tower, a new 126-storey (700 meters) world-class Park Hyatt hotel, retail, and residential tower located in South Mumbai, India. The developer is committed to making India Tower a United States Green Building Council (USGBC) LEED Gold-rated project. Construction is expected to be completed in 2010.

India Tower is located in the prestigious South Mumbai coastal area fondly referred to as the Queens Necklace. The tower’s rotated form emerges in response to the 3-acre site (1.2-hectares), the building’s functional requirements, and its mixed-use program that changes with each rotation of the tower. This circulation pattern separates retail, a custom-designed residential-style Park Hyatt hotel and serviced apartments, and long-lease and duplex penthouse condominium apartments.

The design concept for India Tower was informed by Mumbai’s climate, the site, and the desire to create distinctive indoor and outdoor spaces with optimum views, inspirational settings, and personalized contemporary accommodations for all users. Designed to have the least possible impact on the environment, the tower will integrate current innovative sustainable systems and technologies throughout the building – solar shading, natural ventilation, daylighting, rainwater harvesting, and green interior finishes and materials – to make it one of the greenest skyscrapers in India.

India Tower’s 3-story podium will include restaurants and cafés, luxury-brand retail stores, a health/fitness club with a swimming pool, and a nightclub/lounge. When arriving at India Tower, Park Hyatt guests will be directed to the Sky Lobby (levels 30-35) to check-in, then descend to levels 14 through 28 to their hotel residences.

India Tower’s long-lease apartments will be located on levels 38 through 50, and will feature stylish and spacious two-story living spaces that have been specially designed to take full advantage of the expansive views from this height. Levels 52 to 59 of the tower will house one-of-a-kind duplex penthouse condominium apartments with unparalleled panoramic views.

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While currently rather separated from the current skyscraper construction, it is located at the southern end of what will be a massive skyscraper-laden redevelopment region that will see a long skyline anchored in the north at Dharavi, west at Worli, in the middle at Parel, and in the south at Back Bay.

But it shouldn’t be isolated for too long. Peter Weingarten, AIA, FXFowle’s director of international architecture seems to have predicted the future when he told AIArchitect Magazine

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Weingarten’s vision of India Tower’s transformative potential is emblematic of developers in many emerging nations. “It will have a much more intangible effect than just another big building, and then it will spur more development around it,” he says. “It becomes a magnet and a center, and if enough of these dots start to get created and they start to become connected into a network,you can really start to see some dramatic changes in the landscape of Mumbai and India.”…

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…as other developers have made known that they are planning skyscrapers at Marine Lines. Currently a 50-storey commercial skyscraper, and 2-3 other projects, including the possible supertall Mumbai International Finance Centre, are planned around the location where Park Hyatt tower is being built.

Here are some more renderings of India Tower:

Aaand a couple older renderings of the building, which don’t look to be accurate anymore:

I will keep updating this post as more renderings and information come out!