India's Richest Man Moves Into $1 Billion Home

[Sylph]

<span style="font-size:105%;">27 storeys high, 50 seater cinema, 160 cars parking space, 600 staff to keep it running smoothly: Telegraph.

Ghastly.</span>

[quartermainefan]

This has to be the ugliest house ever. I think it must have been designed by Frank Lloyd Wrong.

[Sylph]

It's awful. I have no idea who the arhictect is, but this is just... shameful.

Here is the 'plan' for the building.

[Sylph]

It has three helipads?!

The architects are Chicago-based Perkins and Will:

http://www.perkinswill.com/

[quartermainefan]

It doesn't look as nice as the drawing, and the drawing doesn't look too nice to begin with.

[YRBB]

_{Atrocious. I don't know why anyone would find that even remotely beautiful.}

[Cheap21]

Ewww, thats ugly as hell. With that much money, why would anyone want to live in such a monstrousity?

[Sylph]

At least some still have taste (or so it seems). I've just read that Carlos Slim Helú bought Duke–Semans mansion (in July apparently) on the Fifth Avenue, for $44m:

A prime example of Beaux-Arts architecture, too bad many such Manhattan townhouses got demolished.

[Bright Eyes]

Those don't look real. They look like something out of some sort of fantasy.

[Sylph]

That's question number one.

Question number two is: how the hell did these architects allow themselves to design such a horrible building?! Where did their taste go? Sure, Mukesh Ambani told them what he would like, but they could have toned it down quite a bit or improve the 'template'.

Which ones?

[Bright Eyes]

The Duke Semans mansion pictures.

[Sylph]

For a moment there I freaked out: I thought you meant both, Antilia and Helú's new NY abode.

I love the Duke–Semans house, always did. The address is 1009 5th Ave, New York so if you're interested you can use Google Street View to see it from different perspectives.

[Bright Eyes]

Oh dear, have I out dunced myself? Are those two pictures not the same place?

[Sylph]

Yes, yes, it's the same house. The right one is the entrance from the East 82nd Street, you can see it where those cars are in the left pic.

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[SFK]

That is NOT what I was expecting. Cripes.