Daily Double

For movies or music, this extraordinary room delivers the best of both worlds.

- Rob Sabin

Sometimes, you have to go big. And that’s just what one young power couple did when they built their dream home in the Brazilian city of Belo Horizonte, a teeming metropolis that sits about a six-hour drive north of the Rio de Janeiro coast. To be more precise, they went 50,000 square feet big. With that area, the modern two-story residence shown in these photos, if laid flat, would cover the size of an American-style football field (minus a couple of end zones).

Of course, no such luxury home would be complete without a media room, and the one built here is far from ordinary. The homeowner was insistent on having exemplary sound quality for music and movies, requiring dedicated high-end systems optimized for each purpose, both loaded into a single room with as near-to-perfect acoustics as possible. And, of course, money was no object.