Billion (with a B) Dollar Home

[smitdavi]

http://finance.yahoo.com/real-estate/article/104984/Inside-the-World's-First-Billion-Dollar-Home

[mustang1]

Unbelievable. It's hard to imagine that level of wealth. So much money that you could never spend it all.

Your money is making money.

[smitdavi]

Originally Posted by mustang1

Unbelievable. It's hard to imagine that level of wealth. So much money that you could never spend it all.

Your money is making money.

lol, hell i'd take 5,000 dollars

[68TriShield]

Originally Posted by smitdavi

lol, hell i'd take 5,000 dollars

hello? I'd settle for five dollars

[uncballzer]

That's just ridiculous. Seriously, they should put that money to better use.

[zmancbr]

Originally Posted by uncballzer

That's just ridiculous. Seriously, they should put that money to better use.

I agree.... I personally don't care for the super rich... and to tell you the truth I really hope I am never that way. I'm not saying I wouldn't love to have a few million... but billions? What the hell would I do with it all... I guess run a charity like Melinda Gates...

[O-Danger]

Originally Posted by uncballzer

That's just ridiculous. Seriously, they should put that money to better use.

agreed. That seems stupid to most...ok probably all of us here. What gets me is there is no mention of a personal B&M although B&M is probably...ok definatley an understatment.

[jbudlives]

With that much money, i would just build my house out of spanish cedar

[PadronMe]

Originally Posted by uncballzer

That's just ridiculous. Seriously, they should put that money to better use.

You mean you couldn't use a 400,000 sq. ft. home?

[mosesbotbol]

A lot of people make a living via building and supporting that building. The best thing a billionaire can do is spend their money and give us an opportunity to get the money back.

[uncballzer]

Originally Posted by PadronMe

You mean you couldn't use a 400,000 sq. ft. home?

Well, maybe if 300K of it is a well stocked humi.....

[Mystophales]

A perfect example of having more money than sense.

[TMoneYNYY]

If you've got it, do what you please! Spread the wealth around to companies that will most likely invest it. They've got so much that they could never even fathom spending all of it. I'm sure it's going to create some jobs in the area, even if it will stick out like a sore thumb!

[lenguamor]

Ugly as sin.

But as pointed out already, it's their money.

I just think it's a shame that they could have bought the entire top half of a NYC high-rise and still had enough to build vacation homes in 20 other locations around the world for a third of that.

[tfar]

I actually like it. The amazing thing is that it would have certainly cost at least 50% more to do this in the US.

It is a prestige thing to do and possibly a historic act. Someone from India (not nobility) makes a statement at the start of the 21st century that they are to be reckoned with and that Asia is where stuff is happening now, not the US anymore. It is the same phenomenon as what happened with rich Americans outdoing century old European palaces or actually importing them brick by brick, see Getty or Hearst castle. There is the duality of the link to the rich country they aspire to and the desire to have something that expresses their own Indian identity.

In terms of exterior architecture I am not so sure about it. It is clearly western but clearly not a strike of genius. They should have hired Foster or Herzog and de Meuron who both have great experice working in Asia.

Anyway, it is not a house but a symbol.

Till