Marble, gadgets, luxury, One Hyde Park is the world's most expensive address

LONDON - If you're ever here, and noticed a strange tail in the district of Knigthsbridge formed by Arab sheiks, Russian oligarchs, billionaires and the Chinese nouveau riche Silicon Valley, you know that do not try to grab what little remains from the annual winter sales of large Harrod's. Line up, rather than to buy one of the 84 apartments in Hyde Park One, the skyscraper opened in London yesterday, immediately labeled "the world's most expensive address.

Nowhere else on planet earth, real estate agents confirm there is a private residence that costs so expensive per square meter. Suffice it to say that the cheapest apartment in this new, gleaming glass tower is sold for 5 and a half million pounds (nearly 7 million euro), a sum sufficient to buy a tiny "one bedroom", as they say in English, ie a bedroom with sitting room, kitchen and bathroom.

But the average price for apartments is the largest and most prestigious £ 60 million (72 million euro) and for the four penthouses, the fabulous top floor apartment, is 135 million pounds (160 million €) . Each, of course. If it was necessary to confirm that, in spite of fragile economies and rising unemployment, the housing market for the super-rich of the earth is experiencing a new boom, One Hyde Park is undeniable proof.

There are many more: half a dozen new skyscrapers, including one, the highest, The Shred, designed by Renzo Piano, are about to transform the skyline of London. But this was built by the Candy brothers, two of the most active builders (and richest, of course) in England, designed by the famous architect Richard Rogers, located a short walk from Harrod's and adjacent to one of the most luxurious hotels in the capital The Mandarin, the headquarters of the ultra-chic Knightsbridge, has immediately become the place where Scrooge around the world want to have a way home.

But they must hurry, because 50 of the 84 apartments have already been sold, obtaining the overall beauty of £ 1 billion (1 billion and 200 million euro) for the Candy brothers. What you get in return for all this money? What's so special, this new skyscraper, to cost so much? E 'lined with marble and other materials more valuable to begin with.

E 'studded gadgets, like the coffee maker Gaggenau 26-thousand pounds (30,000 euro): the average income of a British citizen would be enough to buy only one. It has a breathtaking view over Hyde Park and across London. Has built a gym, a spa and a cinema, but this was granted. He also has a simulated golf course, a virtual game room, a conference-room for business meetings.

An underground garage, full service cleaning and maintenance services for automobiles host. It is a service of room service from the adjacent Mandarin Hotel, whose restaurant provides delicious dishes 24 hours 24 tenants of the building (free mica, of course). Then there are the safety systems: indeed bulletproof glass bulletproof, panic-room for each apartment, scanners that recognize the tenants from the eyes to be able to operate the lift.

And the privacy separate entrances for servants, porters and staff cleaning or other (an army), messengers and guests not of consequence. And finally there is the address: One Hyde Park, one of the most exclusive of the land. "Simply put, there's nothing like that anywhere else," admits the director of an estate agent in the Times.

Even the rich are crying, it was the title of an old soap opera. But in places like One Hyde Park is likely that the tears will dry quickly.

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