Bill Gates' house | |
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General information | |
Architectural style | Pacific lodge |
Location | Medina, Washington, United States |
Coordinates | 47°37′40″N 122°14′31″W / 47.62774°N 122.24194°W |
Technical details | |
Structural system | Earth-sheltered home |
Bill Gates designed and owns a mansion that is in Lake Washington in Medina, Washington. The 66,000-square-foot (6,100 m2) mansion[1] incorporates technology in its design.[specify][2] In 2009, property taxes were reported to be US$1.063 million on a total assessed value of US$147.5 million.[3]
The house was designed collaboratively by Bohlin Cywinski Jackson and Cutler-Anderson Architects of Bainbridge Island, Washington.[4][5][6] The mansion is a modern design in the Pacific lodge style, with classic features such as a private library with a dome-shaped roof and oculus.[7][8] The house features an estate-wide server system, a 60-foot (18 m) swimming pool with an underwater music system, a 2,500-square-foot (230 m2) gym, and a 1,000-square-foot (93 m2) dining room.[9] There are six kitchens and 24 bathrooms, ten of which contain bathtubs.[10]
The house was made fun of in Dilbert in January 1997 when the lead character was forced to become a towel boy after his failure to read an end-user license agreement over purchased Microsoft software.[11] Some online news articles call the house Xanadu 2.0, a reference to the motion picture Citizen Kane, which was itself a reference to the opening lines of Samuel Taylor Coleridge's classic poem Kubla Khan.[12][13]