MUMBAI, India — The home of India's richest man, Mukesh Ambani, in Mumbai. The $1-billion home, seven years in the making, is 400,000 square feet on 27 floors, all for a family of six. The building is named Antilia, after a mythical island.
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MUMBAI, India — The home has a swimming pool and yoga studio. By some accounts, an ice room to escape the Mumbai heat, infused with man-made snow flurries.
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MUMBAI, India — There are three balconies with terrace gardens, the health club, spectacular views of the Arabian Sea (and the Mumbai slums).
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Mumbai, INDIA — A security staff stands at the entrance of the 27-story Antilia, the newly-built residence of Reliance Industries chairman Mukesh Ambani, in Mumbai.
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MUMBAI, India — "It's a stupendous show of wealth," said Hamish McDonald, author of "Ambani & Sons: A History of the Business." "It's kind of positioning business tycoons as the new maharajah of India."
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Mumbai, INDIA — An Indian laborer checks his mobile phone while waiting for marblestone to be unloaded from his truck at the entrance to the twenty-seven storey Antilia, the newly-built residence of Reliance Industries chairman Mukesh Ambani in Mumbai.
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MUMBAI, India — Ambani's home, center, is being billed as the most expensive home in history. Anywhere.
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Mumbai, India — Antilia Tower, the new residence of Mukesh Ambani, chairman of India's Reliance Industries Ltd., stands in Mumbai, India, on Thursday, Oct. 28, 2010.
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Mumbai — Laborers work on a portion of the twenty-seven story Antilia, the newly-built residence of Reliance Industries chairman Mukesh Ambani, in Mumbai on October 19, 2010.
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Mumbai — The twenty-seven story Antilia, the newly-built residence of Reliance Industries chairman Mukesh Ambani, is seen in Mumbai on October 19, 2010.
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Mumbai — In this picture taken on July 4, 2007, laborers work on the home of Reliance Industries Head Mukesh Ambani in the Malabar Hills District of Mumbai.
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Ambani, 53, whose $29-billion net worth from petroleum and petrochemical giant Reliance Industries makes him the world’s fourth-richest person.
