Mukesh Ambani, India's richest man, builds world's first billion-dollar home | World news | The Guardian
Mukesh Ambani is having a few friends round to celebrate moving into his new Mumbai pad. But as the home has 27 storeys, soars to 173 metres and is worth an estimated £630m, it will be a housewarming like no other.
The building – named Antilia, after a mythical island – will be home to Ambani, the richest man in India and the fourth richest in the world, plus his wife and their three children. It contains a health club with a gym and dance studio, at least one swimming pool, a ballroom, guestrooms, a variety of lounges and a 50-seater cinema.
Those lucky enough to have received an invitation to the housewarming later this month will be able to choose a variety of means of transport to get there.
If they want to avoid Mumbai's gridlock, there are three helicopter pads on the roof. If they do drive, they will not have any trouble parking: there is space for 160 vehicles on the lower floors.
Once in, nine lifts will take the guests from the lobby to upper levels, where the festivities will take place. [...]
This may be extravagant as a 'single-family home', although with a staff of 600 it could be argued that it is in fact a community very similar to many that are being proposed and built all over the world with the difference being that the workforce may not be given access to the amenities. Still, we just recently (in '08 or '09) passed the mark where over half of people on Earth live in urban areas, and it just makes sense to build on ideas like these if we want to sustain the population. (If we don't we can always just stay on the path we're on and we'll start dyin' out in droves before too long. Probably will anyway at some point, but stuff like this may give us a little more time before it comes to that.) This is one of my faves.
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