Indian businessman Mukesh Ambani, his wife Nita and three children are set to move into the world's most expensive house, the Sydney Morning Herald reports, valued at $US1 billion ($NZ1.34 billion).According to Wikipedia, home sweet home will be a 27-floo
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Indian businessman Mukesh Ambani, his wife Nita and three children are set to move into the world's most expensive house, the Sydney Morning Herald reports, valued at $US1 billion ($NZ1.34 billion).
According to Wikipedia, home sweet home will be a 27-floor designer building in Mumbai, dubbed Antilia.
The avante-guarde tower comes complete with three helipads, 600 staff, a recreation of the hanging gardens of Babylon and - but of course - its own air traffic control system.
Mr Ambani, chairman of industrial conglomerate Reliance, is India's richest man with his wealth estimated by Forbes at $27 billion.
Reliance's interests span from oil and gas to telecommunications.
All told, the family home measures 37,161 square metres (or about 400,000 square feet in the old currency).
NBR's crack team of mathematicians has calculated that's 80,000 square feet per family member, meaning Mr Ambani is unlikely to win a carbon-emission medal from Greenpeace any time soon.
Photo courtesy Wikipedia. Read Wikipedia's full profile of the building project here.
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