The world's most expensive house
Where would you expect to find the world’s most expensive new home – estimated to be worth over a cool one billion dollars? New York? Tokyo? Try Mumbai, India. We take you on a tour of this 27-storey, four million square foot private residence for six people.
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She’s Nita Ambani, the wife of the richest man in India and the sixth richest in the world. She and her husband are living proof that money doesn’t necessarily come with style and taste, although we reckon you need a particularly thick skin to build an over-the-top monstrosity like this in a city where 80% of the twenty million population is estimated to earn less than $2 per day.
Here’s one of the views from the top. The house has three helipads. If you look ten blocks to the right, you can see the sprawling slums of Mumbai.
This is the Ballroom. Fully eighty per cent of its ceiling is covered in crystal chandeliers and the room is surrounded by green rooms, powder rooms and an “entourage room" for security guards and some of the 600 people who have been hired to maintain the home.
The decor was designed as a mix of Asian contemporary and traditional, similar to the Mandarin Oriental hotel in New York, the Ambani’s favorite hotel. Features such as the Gingko-leaf sink in this bathroom have a distinct Indian style.
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Yet another room in a house that has six floors of parking for the family’s 168 cars, a health spa, multiple swimming pools, a 50 seat theatre, dancing studio and ballroom and two floors of guest apartments.
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