Bill Gates $ 124 million mansion

Bill Gates’ $ 124 million mansion is described as filled with technology, leaving Melinda in a ‘mild crisis’.
On May 3, Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates and his wife, Melinda Gates, announced their divorce after 27 years of marriage. Besides dividing the fortune of 124 billion USD, the Gates house in Washington (USA), named Xanadu 2.0 is also a topic of much interest, because Bill and Melinda are very tight-lipped about this house.

Posts posted above New York Times In 1995, said the house was more than 6,100 square meters, including a spa room, an 18-meter swimming pool, a gym paved with stone from the top of the mountain in the northwest Pacific, a ragged canvas and a fish pond. The nickname of the Gates mansion is Xanadu 2.0. In it, Xanadu is the name of the large, lavish mansion of journalist Kane in the film Citizen Kane , while 2.0 refers to the technology Bill is in the house. BIll Gates and Melinda’s $ 124 million mansion, photographed in 2001. Photo: Getty Images. “The entrance to the house is like Jurassic Park” According to the TechCrunch , the details of the villa were kept so secret by Bill Gates and Melinda that a house entrance ticket auctioned at $ 35,000 in 2009. Records show that the Gates house also owns the surrounding land, so walk across to Looking at the house is impossible. However, a Microsoft trainee visited the house in 2007 and then shared it on the company’s blog. According to this person, the house was built of “orange wood”, sand imported from Hawaii. “The driveway into Bill’s house was like going to Jurassic Park … The landscape was overwhelming,” he wrote. Some rare details about the villa include the fact that it is stratified in the form of a hill about 51 meters high. The house was designed by architects James Cutler and Peter Bohlin. Bohlin’s BCJ is also the unit that designs the famous cube-shaped Apple Store at Fifth Avenue, New York (USA). Melinda French Gates once shared the house that caused her “to have a mild crisis”. It was built by Bill before marrying Melinda in 1994, and construction was halted when the Microsoft co-founder was just married. “This place is the dream of single people, and a nightmare of a bride,” the article above Fortune 2008 revealed that the house is “filled with software and high-tech screens, making Melinda feel like living in a game”. The details in the Gates mansion were kept confidential by the Gates. Photo: Reuters. Bill Gates’ smart home vision After six months thinking about whether to demolish the house or not, Melinda decided to continue building, but will add a few things of interest to make it a home for the family, not just technology. According to the New York Times She contacted the famous interior designer Thierry Despont for advice. Even so, the Microsoft co-founder still wants this home to contain more technology. In the book The Road Ahead Published in 1995, Bill shared his vision of a smart home where visitors would hold badges to communicate with sensors around the house. When moving around the room, the lights come on or go dark, the music is on, and the temperature is adjusted to taste. It is not clear whether those wishes will be fulfilled in the villa or not. While the sensors turned on and off the lights, the music spontaneous speakers were quite popular in this day and age, Bill at the time also shared his desire to turn the wall into an art display screen. When the house was being built, Bill contacted to buy the electronic rights to famous works at museums such as the National Gallery in London (UK). Bill Gates and Melinda announced their divorce on May 3. Photo: Yahoo News. Microsoft co-founder thinks that in the future, more people will decorate their homes with murals as he wants to do. However, that did not come true. Interactive Home Systems, the company Bill contacted buying paintings from museums became Corbis online photo archives, selling licensing, and distributing photos to a Chinese enterprise. In an interview in 2019, Melinda once implied that she did not want to live in that mansion anymore. “We will not own that house for life. I am looking forward to the day I and Bill move to a house of about 140 square meters,” she said. The reason Bill Gates saved Apple To become the first trillion-dollar company in the world, Apple had to go through many turbulence even thanks to Microsoft to avoid bankruptcy.