Inside The World's First Billion Dollar Home

[epp1e]

http://www.forbes.com/2008/04/30/home-india-billion-forbeslife-cx_mw_0430realestate.html

The price is actually almost 2 billion. They were living in a 22-story house before, but that's just not enough space for a couple with 2 children. So they drew up plans for their new 27-story masterpiece of a house.

Good fucking game.

Owned by the world's fifth richest man, Mukesh Ambani. Guess whose idea? The lazy wife who had no part in making the money.

Either way, the pictures made me shit my pants.

Slideshow: http://www.forbes.com/2008/04/30/home-india-billion-forbeslife-cx_mw_0430realestate_slide_2.html?thisSpeed=20000
Exterior: http://images.forbes.com/media/2008/04/30/ambanihome_426w.jpg

[EvilRyuX]

Damn... The guy pretty much made a fucking high class hotel for his family. The house is very impressive looking though.

[valaris]

I would love to be in that house with 19 friends and paintball equipment for all.

[Nairdas]

I don't like the way that house is built. It looks stupid to me.

[Gasaraki]

Ridiculous. And yes that building looks like it'd be fun to make some sort of gigantic game house out of.

[ElderGOD]

Hope they don't get hit by a tornado.

[R.P.D rookie]

A part of me wants to say that's fucking terrible to sink that much money into a home when many in the world are in pretty terrible predicaments. But another part of me wants to say it's his money and he can spend it how he chooses.

All I'll say is if that were me, a $300,000 home would be it, a few Corvettes in the garage and then try to help out the local community with the rest.:smile:

[amandainnswooo]

such a wierd looking thing ,,, I could find better ways to spend 2 billion dollars

[King9999]

That building looks like Jenga blocks mid-game.

[Shukuda]

Too much money for their own good. Hope something haunts it.

[goodm0urning]

I'm not impressed until it sucks my dick.

[El Maniatico]

Baawwllllllllllliiiiiiinn

[BEWD]

That building looks like Jenga blocks mid-game.

That was the first thought that came to my mind but I couldn't remember what they were called. :rofl:

[J-ride]

Man, if I was going to spend 2 billion on a house it would definitely look great from the outside, that house is ugly as hell.

[RyuHikaru]

Who's giving them insurance? heh.

Oh man, if the wife gets pregnant... she's got some serious stairs to deal with. Bitch will get kicked down 27 flights of stairs :lol:

[KnuckIfYouBuckley]

Fuck those kind of people.

Also, epp1e, the article said they had 3 children. Not like that makes a big difference.

[Demon Dash]

Why does it still look like a piece of crap?

[Difoj]

That building looks like Jenga blocks mid-game.


I was going to post almost this exact statement, house looks stupid built like that.

[MAGUS1234]

I hope an earthquake hits that pad.

[The Epidemic]

I would love to be in that house with 19 friends and paintball equipment for all.

shit would be like library from goldeneye or complex...it would be fun as hell.

[Shade]

Stupid fucking cunt, shit fuck.

[kinkey21]

wtf.....

[Darkside3024]

They couldn't make a 2 billion dollar home look better than that?

[Ryu & Ken]

My Indian peeps representing..... by getting some ugly fucking house

[Demon Dash]

5th richest man in the world, no wonder why...

[monkeyspank]

Oh man, if the wife gets pregnant... she's got some serious stairs to deal with. Bitch will get kicked down 27 flights of stairs :lol:

hahaha i just pictured cody popin out sayin srk told me too!:rofl:

But on topic man it looks nice but naw.

[Kzoh]

some of those rooms look like something youd see in a bond flick

[Silent Shinobi]

Who the fuck needs 6 floors for parking? Park dat shit on the grass.

[Million]

The interior is nice, but the outside is ugly. I'd like to have just 1 floor of that. The entertainment level/theatre floor plan looks great. That would be the 1 way I would spend a lot on a niice house....to have my own personal theater, with a large arcade on the outside. Consoles would be hooked up to the theater IMAX-sized screen of course. Imagine some ultra HD gaming on that sumbitch....a screen as large as the side of a building...theater-quality sound....I would never leave my dreamhouse.

[Galactic]

Shit looks like a stack of textbooks...

^_-;

[platinum_pinoy]

I'd be more impressed with the worlds first $5 home that can house 10 mexicans.

[Luciano Leone]

Looks like some simcity bullshit. I just feel like clicking Disasters > Monster

[VruS]

The great pyramid looks better.

[Mario Lemieux!]

i think you guys are missing the point.

at a 2 billion dollar price tag, that shit HAS to be able to transform and fight giant space tentacles.

other than that...i don't see how that pos can be justified.

[igotalottastuff]

The World's first billion dollar home.... followed by the first billion dollar home with bird crap.

[GeoG2]

If you're not having a party every single day, there's no point having a house like that.

[TheSix]

Why does that shit look like it's about to fall over any minute?

Shit looks like it turns into the DragonZord.

[majeh]

how does one insure something that's 2 billion?

[maxx]

That building looks like Jenga blocks mid-game.

:rofl:

i thought the exact same thing.

[w1r3d]

i hope he got that prenup ...

and i don't care much about looks/how much he spent on it. but really, why does it have to be THAT big? and they used to live in a 22-story "house"? that family must not talk too often. i imagine each kid gets like 3 floors to himself. that's crazy.

[FurryCurry]

Looks like some simcity bullshit. I just feel like clicking Disasters > Monster

Like in that one game when are a god and you raise giant monsters to fuck shit up and to keep people in their place. What was the- OH!

Black and White

Anyway. This house is just silly. Middle of a Jenga game for sure. After 4 stories a house is just too tall for me. I'd rather buy the floor of a skyscrapper to feel like I'm standing on top of the world. But my home? I need that shit to be down to earth. I'd dig down deep. I want a crib with an elevator that has "B4" as a floor. Now that's dope.

[fishjie]

goddamn the interior is fucking pimp

but yeah the outside is hideous

[Random_Hero]

They should have never gave the nigga money.

The house looks horrid from the outside. HOw can anyone ever justify moving from a 22 story house to a 27 story house. Was the original house not big enough. This guy probably just hates his family so much he needs to put as many floors between them as possible.

[Fulaani]

i hope it collapses, can't stand people like that.

[white shadow]

Don't worry guys, soon every home will be a billion dollar home in the future! He's just leading the pack.

[Arsenal]

I don't like the way that house is built. It looks stupid to me.

This.

I'd rather have a Taj Mahal looking palace than some strange, vertical tower looking home.

[b1gazn]

too much money

[cain[e]]

Prolly got some homeless people lurking around that shit everyday. Place is so big they'd never get caught unless they had security on every floor, patrolliong on the hour every hour. Which they prolly do.

[Mr.Noodle]

Why does that shit look like it's about to fall over any minute?

Shit looks like it turns into the DragonZord.

I was thinking the same thing when I saw the pic. Looks like there's barely any support on the top floors.

[thurst]

isn't there a killer earthquake in india like every year or so? why would you build a $2 billion house there of all places...especially one that looks like a strung gust could knock it over.

[Chachi]

That place is begging for Omega Weapon to come out of the earth and fuck that shit up.

[MagnetiX]

That house looks stupid as fuck.
The inside looks really awesome but the outside looks like the architect decided to take a shit outside and saw how the shit piled up and was like "oh, that looks fucking sweeeeeeet bro!" and went ahead with it.
Shit looks dumb as hell.
I'd take Bill Gates' house over that...then again, who wouldn't?

[J-ride]

Yeah, you gotta get a good architect when you are building a house like that, sometime you get one of those artists who wants to make your house look like a shoe or some bullshit like that. If I was going to build a house that cost that much , I give it a moat with crocodiles in it and a drawbridge. I'd even have cauldrons of hot water at the ready to pour on the commoners. BALLER!!!!

[kz0060]

Mine would have the exterior walls designed in a brick scheme but actually be made entirely out of velcro. Then i'd get a custom-made velcro spider man suit and pretty much live out my childhood dream.

[OMG AntiAir Dust]

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Picture of his wife that he built this for. :shake:

Also linked for unintentionally hilarious reference to SRK. We bought that bitch NOTHING! This is defamation!

[fishjie]

why you guys acting like he built this for his wife. if i had that kind of money, i'd have a huge fucking house as well. anyone who claims they wouldn't would be fronting. mine would have a harem/strip club/brothel.

[kyored]

I would have a big house too but, I wouldn't base the designs off tetris nor a hotel and my wife had has to be super-model looking status for me to spend more than 2 dollars on her like that.:smokin:

[MagnetiX]

why you guys acting like he built this for his wife. if i had that kind of money, i'd have a huge fucking house as well. anyone who claims they wouldn't would be fronting. mine would have a harem/strip club/brothel.

It's not that he built it for his wife...well, for me atleast, but I just think it looks fucking ugly as hell from the outside. Why couldn't he have built a regular, castle-mansion type looking house that was huge and had like 27 floors instead of some limp dick looking house like that? $2 billion dollars is a lot of money and I sure as hell would not want my house to look like a limp dick

[io]

looks like a ninja warrior stage

[Gord]

What an ugly piece of shit and a waste of valuable money.

I hope the entire thing crashes to the ground with the entire family inside.

[Riot Guard]

They couldn't make a 2 billion dollar home look better than that?

You would think so. The interior looks like it was designed by Master P. The exterior looks like it was created by Van Damne so he could walk outside on any level and practice helicopter kicks.

[fishjie]

It's not that he built it for his wife...well, for me atleast, but I just think it looks fucking ugly as hell from the outside. Why couldn't he have built a regular, castle-mansion type looking house that was huge and had like 27 floors instead of some limp dick looking house like that? $2 billion dollars is a lot of money and I sure as hell would not want my house to look like a limp dick

if i could afford a 2 billion dollar house i dont think i'd really care what people thought about my 2 billion dollar house.

[ringopan]

why are the first 6 floors parking garage... couldnt they have made that shit underground, or off to the side?

i think the exterior is partially due to it being somewhat eco friendly in design... still not very impressive at all from the outside. the sim city shit was way cooler.

i personally would just build bruce waynes mansion w/ batcave.

[Riot Guard]

I would want my house to look like Gill's stage.

[EvilSamurai]

I hope someone burns it down and the Indian government seizes that guy's money.

[Shin-Mech-Brian]

I hope a giant 28.2 richter-metered earthquakes hits near that home so I can see the video of it toppling over.

And for 2 billion dollars, I'd build myself the 1st Mansion from Resident Evil including all the rooms, secret passages, puzzles, guest house, cemetary and all. If I had the money left over I have that underground science lab thrown in just for good measure.

Then I would turn it into a licensed adventure house for RE fans who like getting the shit scared out of their friends. Zombie-cosplay and airsoft guns FTW, baybee!

[Septimus Prime]

I hope a giant 28.2 richter-metered earthquakes hits near that home so I can see the video of it toppling over.
Jenga...

Je-eEn-gaaah...

JENGA!

[The Chief]

That house is ugly as hell on the outside but still impressive.

[Riot Guard]

I would just climb the outside of it all day.

[akumatrunigga]

why you guys acting like he built this for his wife. if i had that kind of money, i'd have a huge fucking house as well. anyone who claims they wouldn't would be fronting. mine would have a harem/strip club/brothel.
you are aware in just about every case when it comes to buying a house it is always based on what the wife wants.


I remember reading this recently. I guess since one has 2 billion to burn why not put it to a house :bluu:

[fishjie]

you are aware in just about every case when it comes to buying a house it is always based on what the wife wants.


I remember reading this recently. I guess since one has 2 billion to burn why not put it to a house :bluu:

yeah but if you didn't have a wife, you'd still want a nice place for yourself. i'm buying a condo right now and i don't have a girlfriend let alone a wife. i originally set my price point at 200k. as i saw how shitty 200k were, i eventually moved my price up, all the way up to 300k now. thats a 100k increase in what i wanted to pay originally, with no nagging woman to convince me.

[psychochronic]

That building looks like Jenga blocks mid-game.

I was just about to post that.

[TigerGenocide]

I'd rather live in a freakin duplex than that monstrosity.

[Starhammer]

that's the first billion dollar home? Fail. :tdown: A kid with a bucket of oldschool lincoln logs could've beat that for free. he should go check out that prince in Dubai for some tips on how to blow few billions. Personal Island > slopslide lego nightmare house.

The wife? :wtf: DO. NOT. WANT! man, I hope that she, like the house, has a LOT more going for her than what you see on the surface. If not, dude is just getting robbed on all corners.

-Starhammer-

[Kromo]

I think I'd rather have millions of houses across the world rather than a 2 billion dollar tower... or just want a one story barn that is a few millions square feet in any direction. You could buy some 3rd world countries to live in at that price. Towers are for wizards.

[KneelB4Me]

Who the fuck needs 6 floors for parking? Park dat shit on the grass.

People with a shitload of expensive cars who want to protect them from the weather. Makes sense to me, if I had the insane moneys Id have loads of cars and keep them inside. Then Id have my elevator go random select on my parking floors so I could drive a different one out everytime.

I might even throw in a little sign on the building exit saying 'welcome to hell.'

[I.E.D.]

5th richest man in the world, no wonder why...

5th richest but probably 5th percentile least brainpower..


It is just me or is it a no brainer to build off-the-grid? When the shit hits the fan, you have no power and only enough food to sustain you for 2 weeks MAX, and manic hysteria ensues on the streets, what good are ivory floors going to be?

Btw, your sig made me laugh buckets. And I think it also caused me to shit.

Let me check... yep.

[Tanion]

Dude if my house is going to cost 2 billion dollars... it better be a floating fucking fortress. Looked like the architect was playing jenga on the blue-prints and just told the construction workers to just build it.

Althought it kinda looks like those levels in Mega-man that force you down and there a spikes/baddies on the side. But yeah god forbid you get drunk in that house. It looks like it will take days for you reach the bottom between all the crap in between.

[True Grave]

A house? More like a small building!

I don't mind the looks if its a sweet place to live, mainly its all the excess. Don't get me wrong i'm all for a large & roomy place, but that is just needless.

It makes since that a woman was behind the idea. Women just love wasting a little TOO much money on flashy, impractical, dumbshit things that serve little purpose other than to impress others.

Dude if my house is going to cost 2 billion dollars... it better be a floating fucking fortress. Looked like the architect was playing jenga on the blue-prints and just told the construction workers to just build it.

Althought it kinda looks like those levels in Mega-man that force you down and there a spikes/baddies on the side. But yeah god forbid you get drunk in that house. It looks like it will take days for you reach the bottom between all the crap in between.

For 2 billion, that place damn well better have an elevator system in it.

[wrecKREATiON]

whats dude gonna do if a fire breaks out in that bitch? parachutes?

[dn3000]

That shits baller..... all it needs is a tyranosaurus egg and diamond omlete.

[Nagata Lock II]

:rolleyes: 2 billion dollars for the world biggest Jenga model. That's how too much money makes you stupid. :rolleyes: