The Worlds Most Expensive House Completed!

The world’s most expensive home is complete. The $1 billion (£630 million), 27 storey

tower block in Mumbai is the home of Mukesh Ambani — the richest man in India, fourth

richest man in the world –, his wife and their 3 children. It is difficult to know what to

call it. It is far too big and grand to call it a house, the fact that it has more floor space

than the palace of Versailles and 600 staff would ordinarily make it a castle, or Mansion,

but can you call a sky scraper a mansion?

Whatever you call it, the building is a physical representation of emerging markets taking

over the world in terms of money and power, which is also what it screams (money and power)

from the top of its 173 meter high walls: an asymmetric stack of glass, steel and tiles with

a four-storey hanging garden and solid gold chandeliers hanging from the ball room ceiling.

“Antilia is marvellous, I remember a Picasso painting [there], it was one of its kind – stunning,”

one local businessman who visited the building gushed to the Times of India newspaper.

As well as having a health club with a gym and dance studio, at least one swimming pool,

a ballroom, guestrooms, 9 elevators, a variety of lounges and a 50-seater cinema, the tower

also has 3 helipads on the roof, and a parking garage with capacity for 160 cars in the lower floors.

The family quarters are understandably on the top floors, where they enjoy an incredible

view across Mumbai and the Arabian Sea. Experts say there is no other private property

of comparable size and prominence in the world.