Extravagance
 

http://www.smartmoneydaily.com/personalfinance/billion-dollar-house-ultimate-luxury-or-living-hell.aspx

I can see parking for 168 cars as the bare minimum, but the rest is a bit over the top. Isn't it?

http://forums.pelicanparts.com/uploa...1210861340.jpg

Speaking as an architect, all I can say is; I want the commission.:D

Should look great surrounded by shanties.

And you opinion of that buildings appearance is....

We need to send some food & foreign aid so this dirtbag can build a bigger house! Africa is paradise, just ask Obama!

It is architecture and not just a building.

We see buildings all the time, with architecture it's often "love it" or "hate it" as it's a work of ART.

I do not love this work of architecture, it's very "me too" when comparing it to the many concepts of Urban Living from the late 1970's and early 1980's and the "Green Living" concepts of today.

There is no strong concept here, no cultural references or homage to context or brilliant technological executions - no obvious thought.

It looks like a building program thrown together in haste leaving the form to random rather than planned chaos.

Sloppy work.

It reminds me of the car Homer Simpson designed.

I would guess the 'owner' or 'owners spouse' had significant input...to the overall detriment of the building.

Speaking as a General Contractor, I'm going to open a change order file.

Mumbai is in India...

Perhaps he used his money to move Mumbai to Africa?

India. Africa. All the same to us.

This guys first extravagance should have been to fund a contest for the project or to at least hire a talented architect.

I've done some site planning/Urban Planning in India and learned that the builder tells the client; "we will build you a building this big" and they just start pouring footings in a grid pattern, placing columns and attach a roof or upper floor to them - all by rules of thumb.

A 30,000 SF commercial office building gets thrown up like a ranch house does here.

Different culture.

Looks like a stack of different sized staples fresh out of their boxes (with mold).

When I was there I never saw a steel scaffold. I was going to say they were wood, but they were really just tree branches.

Those plants on the upper floors are going to be great in a windstorm. Likely will kill the impoverished below. :)

It's hard to imagine spending $1bn on a home, especially on a high rise in Mumbai. I'm much rather buy a ridiculous amount of land in the middle of no where and build a cool house on that away from the hoards. But I guess if you're worth $22bn, and you spend $1bn, you've still got $21bn. It would still be hard to end up broke without making some large mistakes and without some sort of monumental catastrophy.

There apparently have been stories about the owners not moving into the house because it wasn't built right for the Indian version of Feng Shui, but the wife has come out and said that they moved in last Sept.

when I saw that I thought it was Romney's new car garage