These days, everyone loves an expensive house. Many families buy houses that they can never afford and languish in mortgages for the rest of their lives. Mukesh Ambani decided to have his dream home built, but he didn't have to go into debt to buy it, even though it cost almost $2 billion.
Mr. Ambani is the world's fifth richest man and the owner of Reliance Industries, which makes petrochemicals (don't ask me what those are), started by his father. Ambani is worth around $43 billion, so this custom house was just pocket change.
This house is not yet complete, but it will be 27 stories when finished, with each floor being vastly different. The designers and engineers were ordered to make every floor out of different materials and have a different theme, It sounds like a nightmare to me, changing everything all the time. That's part of the reason its so expensive.
The first six stories are parking garages (how many cars do they have?), and then a lounge with a ballroom and seven elevators. Farther up is an outdoor garden that takes up almost the whole floor (the W shape in the picture). I am not going to go through all the features, but just imagine what you could get for 2 billion dollars.
This downtown Mumbai skyscraper is the world's first billion dollar home. Bill Gates' home only cost $60 million, but then again he doesn't have a six-floor garage. I guess Bill just doesn't have the taste that Mukesh does.
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