Most expensive house in the world.

curlzy

http://www.theage.com.au/executive-style/luxury/indias-richest-man-builds-worlds-first-billiondollar-home-20101015-16mrg.html

"An Indian businessman has built the world's most expensive home - valued at $1 billion, with three helipads, its own air traffic control, a six-floor car park, a staff of 600, a four-storey hanging garden and a cinema.

The 173-metre tall mansion is called Antilia, after a mythical island in the Atlantic Ocean, and has just been completed after seven years of construction."



Have a look at the "home" they've built, to be honest I think it looks like an office block, wouldn't be my cup of tea. Do you like it?, yay or nay?

kfallon

It's all well and good building it but he still lives in India!
Is it in India that they wipe their bum with their hands???

thebigbiffo

curlzy wrote: »

http://www.theage.com.au/executive-style/luxury/indias-richest-man-builds-worlds-first-billiondollar-home-20101015-16mrg.html

"An Indian businessman has built the world's most expensive home - valued at $1 billion, with three helipads, its own air traffic control, a six-floor car park, a staff of 600, a four-storey hanging garden and a cinema.

The 173-metre tall mansion is called Antilia, after a mythical island in the Atlantic Ocean, and has just been completed after seven years of construction."



Have a look at the "home" they've built, to be honest I think it looks like an office block, wouldn't be my cup of tea. Do you like it?, yay or nay?

no no no. THIS is the most expensive house in the world aparently...

http://www.independent.ie/opinion/analysis/i-signed-my-life-away-for-the-sake-of-city-centre-apartment-2106182.html

orourkeda

A billion dollar fanny magnet.

candy-gal1

Inside is lovely, very grand and classy but the outside isnt that great at all. seriously just looks like an office/apartment block.

Sykk

How pointless. 600 staff? I only want 2 boiled eggs with 2 slices of toast. Sack 580 of them!

Xavi6

Sykk wrote: »

How pointless. 600 staff? I only want 2 boiled eggs with 2 slices of toast. Sack 580 of them!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G-8wgr2n1dY

squod

Mumbai

Expensive home location fail.

jimthemental

Shhhh, if you really listen you can hear the sobbing of Alison O'Riordan :pac:

Rabies

the fantastic four building is still better

Duggy747

What about Superman's Palace Of Solitude? Planning permission must've been a bitch for that thing, though I imagine the heating bill is fairly low.

Plus, he has that awesome 3D TV thing that can show stuff like Marlon Brando's head all over the walls!

Jumpy

If I recall correctly, this is built in a particularly bad area.

Way to say **** you to the locals.

Rabies

Too many stairs and elevator music is boring too.
I've heard Mumbai is nice. Well, certain areas of it. And fairly rich too and good standard of living for those that can afford it of course

up for anything

While the home cost about $77 million to build, Mumbai's growing property prices means Antilia is now estimated to be worth 15 times more - about $1 billion.

Haven't they heard of negative equity! Give India a few years and we'll be having the last laugh.

Limerick3

Nice house:cool:

BluesBerry

Its basically a hotel for 1 family it is sickening how people waste their money
a fool and their money.....

Minstrel27

BluesBerry wrote: »

Its basically a hotel for 1 family it is sickening how people waste their money
a fool and their money.....

It is their money. Why should it be of conern to anyone else how they spend it?

Sanjuro

All that money and that house wont help him when the zombies attack.


Actually, it probably will.

DubDani

BluesBerry wrote: »

Its basically a hotel for 1 family it is sickening how people waste their money
a fool and their money.....

At least his investment has already paid off. I am sure there are quite a few people in Ballsbridge who spent the same amount on a dingy house on a semi nice road (Shrewsbury Rd. for example) and won't be able to get any return on their Investment on it for at least the next 10 years.

hypermuse

Why?? I mean... WHY???

Procasinator

BluesBerry wrote: »

Its basically a hotel for 1 family it is sickening how people waste their money
a fool and their money.....

His the fourth richest man in the world. Don't know if the ole "A fool and their money are easily parted" phase applies here.

Son Of A Vidic

Kip!

PanchoVilla

Meanwhile, on the other side of town...

http://lebbeuswoods.files.wordpress.com/2008/01/slum-mumbai1.jpg

Social justice and equality fail.

PanchoVilla

Minstrel27 wrote: »

It is their money. Why should it be of conern to anyone else how they spend it?

That's the spirit! Who gives a fúck about anyone else? I sure don't. It doesn't matter that his neighbors are some of the poorest people on the planet, living in cardboard houses and digging through massive piles of rubbish to make a living. Fúck em, not my problem.

I'm sure your parents are very proud of you.

senordingdong

curlzy wrote: »

http://www.theage.com.au/executive-style/luxury/indias-richest-man-builds-worlds-first-billiondollar-home-20101015-16mrg.html

"An Indian businessman has built the world's most expensive home - valued at $1 billion, with three helipads, its own air traffic control, a six-floor car park, a staff of 600, a four-storey hanging garden and a cinema.

The 173-metre tall mansion is called Antilia, after a mythical island in the Atlantic Ocean, and has just been completed after seven years of construction."



Have a look at the "home" they've built, to be honest I think it looks like an office block, wouldn't be my cup of tea. Do you like it?, yay or nay?

It looks rotten.

Noreen1

Money can't buy taste....

Noreen

inforfun

PanchoVilla wrote: »

Meanwhile, on the other side of town...

http://lebbeuswoods.files.wordpress.com/2008/01/slum-mumbai1.jpg

Social justice and equality fail.

That is for the Western world to solve.

goose2005

PanchoVilla wrote: »

Meanwhile, on the other side of town...

http://lebbeuswoods.files.wordpress.com/2008/01/slum-mumbai1.jpg

Social justice and equality fail.

Um, your house is also 100 times better. Yes, he could give a lot to the poor - but so could you.

Darksaga87

looks like a bad game of "jenga".

Dude111

Sykk wrote:

How pointless. 600 staff? I only want 2 boiled eggs with 2 slices of toast. Sack 580 of them!

Ya where is the p00l and hottub??

Looks Gaudy to be honest

LizT

PanchoVilla wrote: »

That's the spirit! Who gives a fúck about anyone else? I sure don't. It doesn't matter that his neighbors are some of the poorest people on the planet, living in cardboard houses and digging through massive piles of rubbish to make a living. Fúck em, not my problem.

I'm sure your parents are very proud of you.

Hey, attack the post, not the poster!!

LizT

Bit much to be honest. The first six floors are car parks? It seems like it would take about 10 minutes to walk from your bedroom to the kitchen...

Minstrel27

PanchoVilla wrote: »

That's the spirit! Who gives a fúck about anyone else? I sure don't. It doesn't matter that his neighbors are some of the poorest people on the planet, living in cardboard houses and digging through massive piles of rubbish to make a living. Fúck em, not my problem.

I'm sure your parents are very proud of you.

Oh look at you being all high and mighty.

BTW how much of your wages do you give to the poor?

Scuid Mhór

doesn't even look that inviting.

cleremy jarkson

Minstrel27 wrote: »

Oh look at you being all high and mighty.

BTW how much of your wages do you give to the poor?

It's not about percentages though, it's about raw wealth..nobody needs as much money as that guy. He's the 4th richest man in the world, worth something like $29 billion dollars..he's 53 and will probably be alive for another 30 years...surely $1 billion dollars is much, much more than even the most spoiled, wasteful human being could ever want??
He's hogging up $29 billion dollars of the world's supply of wealth...if he gave away $28 billion he could do an enormous service to the world, by putting it towards preventing people being born in the third world for example.

I'm not getting at you and I can see why you'd think it hypocritical for us to give out about him for not giving away all his money while we give very little to charity ourselves but he has a boundless amount of enormous surplus wealth that could be put to much better use than just being tied up in investments like I'm sure it is. You know, neither me nor you are forced to witness the lives of pure shít and horror that a lot of the world has to deal with, and I'd like to think any of us would feel guilty about possessing much, much more wealth than we could ever need (in my own opinion, anything over 10 million would fall into this category)

Hail 2 Da Thief

That's some serious "fu$k you" to all of his fellow people living in poverty.
Nothing wrong with living a good life if you've worked hard & become successful but there's no need to rub it in peoples faces either!

Terry

DubDani wrote: »

At least his investment has already paid off. I am sure there are quite a few people in Ballsbridge who spent the same amount on a dingy house on a semi nice road (Shrewsbury Rd. for example) and won't be able to get any return on their Investment on it for at least the next 10 years.

Yeah, but Shrewsbury road is the most expensive property on the monopoly board.

cleremy jarkson wrote: »

It's not about percentages though, it's about raw wealth..nobody needs as much money as that guy. He's the 4th richest man in the world, worth something like $29 billion dollars..he's 53 and will probably be alive for another 30 years...surely $1 billion dollars is much, much more than even the most spoiled, wasteful human being could ever want??
He's hogging up $29 billion dollars of the world's supply of wealth...if he gave away $28 billion he could do an enormous service to the world, by putting it towards preventing people being born in the third world for example.

Bollox to that.
Anglo Irish need it more.

Crasp

He failed miserably there...

If I spent $1bn on a house I would at least expect it to be navigable by means of a motocross bike or 125cc shifter kart... This guy has build a house which would simply tire you out having to walk to the lift all the time, never mind taking the stairs

Dempsey

It only cost $77m to build but already worth $1bn?? I call bull**** because the house is one of the the ugliest buildings I've ever seen, its up there with this

http://www.esquire.com/cm/esquire/images/11/ryugyong-hotel-lg.jpg

I must fire off an email about a western union transfer to this lad, he'd hardly miss a few million!

He also bought his wife a $60m Airbus corporate jet for the wife's birthday. I didnt think you could get with tastes more chav than Stephen Ireland but you learn something new everyday! :pac:

Dionysus

curlzy wrote: »

http://www.theage.com.au/executive-style/luxury/indias-richest-man-builds-worlds-first-billiondollar-home-20101015-16mrg.html

"An Indian businessman has built the world's most expensive home - valued at $1 billion, with three helipads, its own air traffic control, a six-floor car park, a staff of 600, a four-storey hanging garden and a cinema.

The 173-metre tall mansion is called Antilia, after a mythical island in the Atlantic Ocean, and has just been completed after seven years of construction."



Have a look at the "home" they've built, to be honest I think it looks like an office block, wouldn't be my cup of tea. Do you like it?, yay or nay?

Bah - it's only Australian dollars.

Dionysus

A 27-storey building for his wife, three children and himself. It sounds terrifyingly lonely to be honest. 600 staff, too - i.e. surrounded by people who are there because you're paying them just highlights this point.

Sad, genuinely sad.

GobBluth

It looks like someone bombed liberty hall....

imme

money can't buy taste I see:cool:

PanchoVilla

PanchoVilla wrote: »

That's the spirit! Who gives a fúck about anyone else? I sure don't. It doesn't matter that his neighbors are some of the poorest people on the planet, living in cardboard houses and digging through massive piles of rubbish to make a living. Fúck em, not my problem.

I'm sure your parents are very proud of you.

Most people have that attitude these days. About everything.

I'm sure it'll only be worth a fiver in a few years

selfbuildkk

http://irelandposters.com/dublin_city/leinster_house_dublin_ireland.html

I believe this is the most expensive house in the world

kowloon

kfallon wrote: »

It's all well and good building it but he still lives in India!
Is it in India that they wipe their bum with their hands???

No, not at all, you're thinking of Navan.

Runs away giggling to self

CorkMan

I heard the waitresses are bitc*es aswell, he can tell them anything to have sex, one click of the finger for BJ, two clicks for missionary (along with some creamy strawberries)

Waitbitc*es is the correct term I think.

Absurdum

looks like it should be here!

bala

Wonder where the Richest man in Ireland lives ?






Mumbai ......:eek:

Naos

candy-gal1 wrote: »

Inside is lovely, very grand and classy but the outside isnt that great at all. seriously just looks like an office/apartment block.

In fairness, how often do you spend looking at your house from the outside?

He's got other homes he can go to for some relaxation & viewing time.