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Live Life KingSize!! Oct 15, 2010
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India's richest man Mukesh Ambani moves into £630m home

Ambani, his wife and three children have moved into the building which is named Antilia, after a mythical Island. It contains a health club with a gym and dance studio, at least one studio, a ballroom, guestrooms and a range of lounges and a 50 seater cinema.

There is even an elevated garden with ceiling space to accommodate small trees.

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldne ... -home.html

Crazy, Crazy stuff eh?

Come to think of it his dad started out as a petrol pump worker! Life!!!

While the whole project is ostentatious, the building designed by an Aussie firm is indeed marvelous.

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Re: Live Life KingSize!! Oct 15, 2010
Don't you think that place is tad too big for a family of 5 ?

Is he the dude with the funky hairdo ?

And isn't it funny that the President of Pakistan also happens to be one of its richest men in pakistan....Hmm I wonder :D
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Re: Live Life KingSize!! Oct 15, 2010
desertdudeshj wrote:Don't you think that place is tad too big for a family of 5 ?



Maybe he is looking to adopt a son, you should apply DD! :wink:
Let me know if they want to adopt a daugter too! :lol:
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Re: Live Life KingSize!! Oct 15, 2010
It is too ugly and impractical to be a home.

It's more like a high-rise, glass office building!!

Apparently, he's got an inferiority complex.

Wants to feel he's on top of the world!!!


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Re: Live Life KingSize!! Oct 15, 2010
I guess we should move to india and pretend to be his long lost relatives :D
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Re: Live Life KingSize!! Oct 15, 2010
Tom Jones wrote:It is too ugly and impractical to be a home.

It's more like a high-rise, glass office building!!

Apparently, he's got an inferiority complex.

Wants to feel he's on top of the world!!!


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I think it's a high rise owing to the Mumbai space crunch. Not to mention the higher you go the better the views get. Talking about practicality well there will support staff of only 600 people!!
Besides it hardly seems like it'll be a house for just 5 people. It seems more like alternate headquarters. The new power center of Indian business and politics. The man is ambitious no doubt about that. And considering the various companies he holds right from Asia's largest oil refinery, to petrochemicals, to sports, to offshore oil drilling etc etc. he would need to accommodate sizable support staff too. And this is just him, we haven't even started with his brothers and sisters, all of whom are independent of the parent company yet control equally humongous businesses. So it kinda makes sense that the family has one large center to carry out all their activities. Especially considering that more high profile people meet him than heads of state, and he hosts more guests than 5 star hotels. If there was Oligarchy in India these people would be oligarchs.

That said the people of the country have great regards for the family. His father was one of the first men to fully utilize Indian capital markets, in the process creating loads of wealth for all their investors(millions). I can testify to knowing many people who've become millionaires merely by purchasing his company shares. So there you go. Of late his investments have been taking a beating, but that doesn't matter, he virtually controls the entire political establishment. As probably every major politician wets his beak in their gravy.

Keepin all that in mind I hardly think the venture is impractical.
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Re: Live Life KingSize!! Oct 15, 2010
Not the sort of place I would like to live, but hey if you have the money and your satisfied then go for it.
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Re: Live Life KingSize!! Oct 15, 2010
In the words of England's apprentice king: "It is a carbuncle of architecture!"

Looks like the designer was playing Jenga when he came up with it.

:shock: :shock: :shock:

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Re: Live Life KingSize!! Oct 16, 2010
Are you sure its finished? Kind of suits the indian skyline though.
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Re: Live Life KingSize!! Oct 16, 2010
Looks like it was designed by a Committee!

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Re: Live Life KingSize!! Oct 18, 2010
...and I thought this was a thread about ciggies!

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Re: Live Life KingSize!! Oct 18, 2010
Hmm... Thats pretty ancient of you. I don't think any one lables smokes King Size or Filtered anymore ! Or maybe I just don't notice anymore !
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Re: Live Life KingSize!! Oct 18, 2010
Certainly not Beedies!

Always used to be Rothmans and B&H King Size when I was younger. Like you, I stopped noticing.

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