I. Panorama of Bill Gates' Mansion
Bill Gates' mansion is called "Xanadu 2.0", which is located on the lake Washington in Seattle, USA. It only takes 25 minutes to drive from downtown. The name "Xanadu 2.0" comes from the fictional house of CharlesFosterKane in CitizenKane.
Gates dug half a hill on the shore, facing the water in front and leaning against the mountain in the back, which is a treasure house for gathering wealth, crouching tiger, hidden dragon. Of course, it covers a huge area of 66,000 square mu, which is equivalent to dozens of football fields.
It is said that,
After seven years of civil engineering,
Mr. Bill lost $97 million,
Enough to buy a medium-sized listed company.
This house * * * has:
Seven bedrooms
Liusuo kitchen
24 bathrooms
Dome library
Reception hall
An artificial lake for trout culture.
Of course, supporting such a house still needs a lot of money. Mr. Bill pays $654.38 million in taxes every year, which is 25 times the average annual income of American citizens.
Intelligent lighting and temperature control system
Visitors will get an intelligent device that can set the lighting and indoor temperature according to their own preferences. No matter which room you go to, music will follow you, because invisible speakers are installed behind the wallpaper.
A model of green ecological architecture
"Xanadu 2.0" is completely integrated with the surrounding environment, so the temperature control system of the house is very energy-saving.
The photo frame on the wall is actually a touch screen.
The walls of the whole house are covered with display screens, which are worth 80 thousand dollars. You can display your favorite pictures or photos directly on the screen. In order to store these photos, the storage device cost $6.5438+500,000.
You can also listen to music in the swimming pool.
There is a 60-foot-deep super swimming pool in the building, which is connected to the balcony outside. There are four showers and two bathrooms in the dressing room.
There are six kitchens in all.
Because the villa is too big, there are six kitchens in total. These kitchens can cook different dishes and are distributed in different areas of the villa. I want to eat something today and go to a specific room. The kitchen is near the room.
A huge fish tank.
Not the kui is a overbearing president, even dolphins and sharks. These things can also be seen in the most ordinary aquarium, and there is actually a whale shark-the largest fish in the world. This shows that Gates' wealth is not just money. It should also be reminded that whale sharks are not only rare and endangered, but also one of the oldest creatures in the world.
An extremely intelligent building
The high-tech equipment of the Gates Building is extraordinary. Visitors will get a brooch with a microchip from the moment they enter the door. You can preset your favorite conditions, such as temperature, humidity, lighting, music and painting. No matter where you go, the built-in sensor will send these data to the central computer of WindowsNT system, and adjust the environment to a home far away from home.
How can you not have a luxury car as a companion?
Have you ever seen such a big refrigerator?
But these are not important, private libraries and art collections are the key points.
Looking around the world, there are not a few people who can build luxury houses to such a scale. For example, Internet upstarts, Middle Eastern oil giants and Russian energy oligarchs can solve problems as long as they have money. But there are always things in the world that money can't solve, such as knowledge, such as art.
Bill Gates is most proud of his private library, which is a dome-shaped building with a skylight in the middle of the roof to receive natural light, and the indoor light is adjusted with the outside rain or shine. Leonardo da Vinci's Leicester manuscript, Napoleon's love letter to Josephine, the script manuscript of Hitchcock's movie Psycho, etc. Among them, the value of Da Vinci's manuscript is more than 30 million dollars.
The picture shows his15th century manuscript of Da Vinci's CodexLeicester, which was sold by Gates at an auction in 1994 for $30.8 million.
From 65438 to 0998, Bill Gates bought Winslow Homer's surreal painting LostontheGrandBanks for $36 million, which set a record for American art auction at that time. Now, this painting is hanging on the wall outside the Bill Gates family library.
In Bill Gates' library, there are Hilde Hassan's impressionist paintings "House of Flowers" and "House of Flowers", which are worth 20 million US dollars (about 65.438+300 million RMB).
From 65438 to 0999, Bill Gates bought GeorgeBellows' PoloCrowd anonymously for $27.5 million (about 65438+73 million RMB) and added it to his collection without hesitation.
The Nurse, painted by Willian Merritt Chase, is worth100000 US dollars (about 64 million RMB) and is also one of Bill Gates' collections.
The first famous painting collected by Bill Gates was probably andrew wyeth's Thunder in the Distance. 1996, Gates spent 7 million dollars (about 44 million RMB) on this painting.
Second, the price of Bill Gates' mansion visit
A visit costs $35,000 and RMB 220,000.
Gates is famous for his charity. Gates auctioned the opportunity to visit Xanadu 2.0 in a charity auction. A Microsoft employee once paid $35,000 for visiting rights. Anyway, Microsoft employees are not short of money and so capricious.
How much is Bill Gates' mansion?
The "Capital" designed by Bill Gates covers an area of 66,000 square feet, costs 63 million dollars and takes seven years to complete. This mansion is named "Xianledu 2.0" after Charles fortes Kane's mansion in Citizen Kane. "Xianledu 2.0" is now worth as much as $6543.8+23 million. According to the data of King County Public Assessment Bureau in Seattle, this property is valued at $654.38+$23.54 million this year. And Mr. Gates bought this property at 1988, and only spent $2 million.
Bill Gates's mansion gives you a real insight into what luxury is without soil. After reading it, I was shocked anyway.