Architecture: Inside The World’s First Billion-Dollar Home. Actually $2bn. I sort of like the exterior - well, I like that it’s not some Romanesque monstrosity one logarithm too large - but the interior looks like a midrange hotel, and that’s because it was built by “Perkins + Will and Hirsch Bedner Associates, the designers behind the Mandarin Oriental.” The owner is Mukesh Ambani, whose net worth is ~$43bn, which means this residence is around 4.5% of his fortune. In that light he almost seems house-poor. (Link via Kottke.)
Song of the day: Del Shannon, Hey Little Girl. Kind of creepy, right? It has the same general tone as Runaway, but there’s something sinister about it. “I’ll replace each broken part that’s gone.”
Architecture: Inside The World’s First Billion-Dollar Home. Actually $2bn. I sort of like the exterior - well, I like that it’s not some Romanesque monstrosity one logarithm too large - but the interior looks like a midrange hotel, and that’s because it was built by “Perkins + Will and Hirsch Bedner Associates, the designers behind the Mandarin Oriental.” The owner is Mukesh Ambani, whose net worth is ~$43bn, which means this residence is around 4.5% of his fortune. In that light he almost seems house-poor. (Link via Kottke.)