$1bn pad, pictured under construction
Worlds first $1billion pad
By MARTIN PHILLIPS
Published: Today
WELCOME to the first $1billion pad - the new home of India's richest man.
Industrialist Mukesh Ambani, 53, is set to move into the 27-storey palace with wife Nita and three kids in days.
The 570ft Mumbai tower has three helipads, 50-seat cinema, health club and ballroom. Named Antilia after a mythical island, it took seven years to build amid the city's slums.
Guests stay mid-tower - above a tree-lined garden that absorbs sunlight to cool the interior.
The skyscraper has a whopping five football pitches of floor space.
Its 600 staff are housed on two floors, while the bottom six storeys provide parking for 168 cars and an in-house garage.
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The top four levels, with sea views, are family quarters.
The pad cost £44million to build but is now worth 15 times that. Ambani, who made his £18billion fortune in oil, retail and biotechnology, even found space to move in a VIP guest - mum Kokilaben.
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