Douchebag builds $1 billion dollar home within sight of the Mumbai slums. It took 7 years to build, has 27 floors, and is as ugly as a bag of assholes.
This monstrosity made the front page of the LA Times as well. It looks like 5 or 6 different buildings were pasted together lego-style to created the world’s ugliest “home”. I’m wondering if he got a drawing from a 5 year old and decided to build it in the real world. Nah - 5 year old’s drawing would probably be a lot more coherent looking…
If you can’t see the slums from your 1 billion dollar home, what are you going to look at while you chuckle evilly and rub your hands together? Come on! Think!
Wow, you ain’t kiddin’ about the fug.
Even if it’s totally surrounded by slums . . . it’s still the ugliest house in the neighborhood.
Maybe he did it just to piss people off. If he did, it seems to be working…
“A Communist sees a mansion and says ‘nobody should have one!’ A capitalist sees a mansion and says ‘everyone should have one!’”
we should admire him for inspiring all those slum-dwellers
It made the NY Times as well. The building is ugly, tacky and tasteless.
This was posted in Lovely Listing for Oct. 20th, 2010.
I should have belived you, Ogre. Is it … done? The house looks unfinished.
I wonder if it will hold its resale value.
He seems to have ignored the three most important things about real estate - “location, location, FUCKYOUPOORPEOPLEIAMTHERICHESTGUYINASIAHAHAHAHAHA!!!”
Regards,
Shodan
Inspire them to what, show up with torches in hand? (For the crime of bad aesthetics or being a prick; your choice.)
Holy shit I saw a picture of that house somewhere recently, out of context, and I couldn’t figure out what it was. I thought “half completed building? half blown up building?”
Not “mansion”. Yeesh!
Meh. It looks functional and it’s surrounded by other buildings about the same size. I’m guessing he doesn’t feel a need for decoration or for a big yard or for well-connected neighbors.
So a billion dollars just flowed into the local economy. Not a bad deal for the locals, plus they have the house to laugh at. Everybody wins.
I doubt much of it stayed in the local economy. I gather the house was mostly built by an Australian contractor.
The trouble with owning that home is that no matter where you sit, you’re looking at something you should be doing.
Fucking Slumdog Billionaires.
Did the contractor bring in all his own workers and materials from out of the country? Even if he did, those people would have needed places to stay and food to eat while they were on the project.
You can think of this as a guy showing off his wealth in poor taste, or as a guy who has a billion dollars less than he used to. I’d rather that he spend his money than stuff it in a mattress and guard it like Scrooge McDuck.
Too bad he didn’t build it in an American slum. The first floor windows would be broken out faster than you can say “sunset.”
Seriously, a whole extended family of squatters could live in a random room on the 33rd floor and he’d never find them until the cleaning lady went in to do her annual dusting.
I dunno, I can’t imagine 3 heliports can be justified on any other terms than conspicuous waste.