The Antilia Tower, Mumbai

The last time a single-family home generated so much global curiosity and scorn was owned by Hearst’s San Simeon and Louis XIV’s Versailles.

Now, a 27-story tower has been commissioned by Mukesh Ambani, a billion-dollar businessman. This unusual and extravagant house is home to the businessman himself, his wife, three kids, mother and 600 staff.

This home sure does have all the necessities: 400,000 square feet of living space, a parking garage for a wopping 168 vehicles, a total of nine elevators, a gorgeaous health spa, a yoga studio, a theatre that seats fifty people, as well as more than one swimming pool. The house even has an ice room with snow flurries! What a perfect way to cool down on a scorching hot day.

One potential redeeming antidote to all that mind-boggling excess is the three floors of hanging gardens, which makes this the largest and tallest “living wall” in the world—and a green mini-lung for polluted, slum-filled Mumbai.