India Tower
Mumbai approved a 126-storey vertical city and began its foundations, then a payment dispute stopped construction before the skyline could change.
Quick facts
- Existence state
- Never Born
- Peak stage
- full production started
- Research confidence
- high
- Last verified
What it was
An unfinished 707-metre mixed-use tower designed by Foster + Partners for Mumbai.
The megatall project combined a hotel, residences, offices, retail and five underground levels.
Existence timeline
An 85-storey hotel tower is proposed.
The mixed-use plan grows to 126 storeys.
Excavation and foundation work start.
A civic payment dispute halts the site.
The developer abandons the original programme.
The megatall proposal leaves the active pipeline.
Why it ended
A municipal stop-work order in 2011 and developer disputes left the project stalled before its 2015 cancellation.
Last confirmed trace
Excavation, planning records, professional databases and contemporary reporting preserve the attempted start.
What it left behind
India Tower remains one of the largest height ambitions to reach construction in Mumbai without becoming a building.
How we classified it
The proposed archive unit never reached ordinary public access in the form being documented.
The strongest verified milestone maps to full_production_started under Arrival Score V1.
Sources & verification
Last reviewed 2026-08-01. Sources are linked so readers can inspect the evidence directly.