Richest Man In India Builds $1 Billion House

[Rage for Order]

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2008/01/29/richest-man-in-india-buil_n_83910.html

What would you do if your net worth were $22 billion? If you were Indian businessman Mukesh Ambani, you might build yourself the world's most expensive home. As designed by Chicago architecture firm Perkins + Will, the in-progress glass-tower is estimated at $1 billion and is known to feature, at the least, a health club, multiple "safe" rooms, 3 helipads, 168 parking spaces and require 600 servants to maintain, and physically, the structure stands at 27 stories, or 570 feet tall.

According to the Mumbai Mirror, the tower will also contain:

Floor for car maintenance Sources said the Ambanis would prefer to have all their cars serviced and maintained at an in-house service centre. This centre will be set up on the seventh floor.

Entertainment floor
The eighth floor will have an entertainment centre comprising a mini-theatre with a seating capacity of 50.

Balconies with gardens
The rooftop of the mini-theatre will serve as a garden, and immediately above that, three more balconies with terrace gardens will be independent floors.

More at the link

He can do what he wants with his money, but I wouldn't be able to look at myself in the mirror if I spent that much money on a house for myself while millions of people in the world go to bed hungry every night.

[Rage for Order]

1. More features of the house

From the article...

The 'health' floors
While the ninth floor will be a 'refuge' floor -- meant to be used for rescue in emergencies -- two floors above that will be set aside for 'health.' One of these will have facilities for athletics and a swimming pool, while the other will have a health club complete with the latest gym equipment.

Family
The four floors at the top, that will provide a view of the Arabian Sea and a superb view of the city's skyline, will be for Mukesh, his wife Neeta, their three children and Mukesh's mother Kokilaben.

Air space floor
According to the plan, two floors above the family's residence will be set aside as maintenance areas, and on top of that will be an "air space floor," which will act as a control room for helicopters landing on the helipad above.

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2. Sounds like a nice little place n/t

[Richard Steele]

3. I'm not naming names, but somebody's getting reincarnated as a single-celled organism. nm

[renate]

11. ....

:rofl:

[Richard Steele]

12. Y'know, I've always loved your SigLine pic...

As I understand it, it doesn't matter if a viewer can
actually read what it says, or understand what it is...
as long as someone sees it rotate, it counts as a prayer to heaven.

That's pretty cool in my book.

And I'm happy that someone like you got a giggle from my little
offhanded one-liner there.

Every genuine chuckle is a SYMPHONY to the angels; and I do what I can
to make their existence more enjoyable, knowhutImean?

[THUNDER HANDS]

4. yeah, but it's only got 2 bathrooms

go figure.

[AikidoSoul]

5. Obscene N/T

[HuffleClaw]

6. must have a huge family

personally, i'd make sure to include a private IMAX theatre

[NV Whino]

7. Look at it this way

He's employing 600 people who won't go to bed hungry.

I still vote for obscene, though.

[Warpy]

8. I inherited a tiny percentage of that

and my job is to give everything I don't need to live on away.

I don't understand the need for ostentation at all.

[Cronopio]

9. That is one fugly looking tower.

If he's going to throw away $1 billion, he might as well design something that doesn't look so grotesquely pseudo-Bauhaus.

He'll have a great view of his starving fellow countrymen though - through binoculars.

[TahitiNut]

10. It makes Bill Gates' place look like a $140M hovel.

[DFW]

13. This is disgraceful

In a country where so many hundreds of millions live in abject poverty,
I would never build a house costing over $500 million. Building a house
for $1 billion is just going too far. If you're going to spend a billion
dollars on a house, do it in Beverly Hills, where no one will notice....

[Prefer]

14. A burden on his soul.

physical possessions weigh you down. It is very refreshing to scale down to a suitcase.

In today's world, with a laptop and a shower, what else do you really need?

[zanne]

15. You can't buy good taste. nt