Posted on 9/27/2018
Ashish Gupta, the young Mumbai-based architect behind the 150m Maharaja gigayacht project, insists on calling it yacht architecture rather than yacht design. And a glance at the renderings is sufficient to see what he means. With a 25m beam, a 15m infinity pool, an 18m wide beach lounge and a 30m putting green, the dimensions may be wholly conceptual but not entirely impossible.
Land-based architect Gupta, who heads a firm called Beyond Design, has some previous experience as a yacht designer (a 40m wooden yacht in India and a 90m interior in addition to some tenders) and recycled the information he gleaned from these projects into the Maharaja: "Basically the design is based on desires of the owners of these previous yachts features such as the...