Chris Hemsworth’s controversial £5m Aussie mega-mansion compared to a SHOPPING MALL as new pics show giant home is nearly finished
THE controversial construction of Chris Hemsworth's £5million mega-mansion is nearly complete as outraged locals compare it to an airport, factory and shopping centre.
Extraordinary aerial photos reveal the enormous structure - nestled on 4.2 hectares of bushland in Byron Bay, Australia - is growing bigger by the day.
Avengers star Hemsworth, 34, is currently living nearby in a £4million property with his actress wife Ela Pataky, 42, and their three kids as construction nears completion.
In the latest pictures of the multi-storey superstructure, it appears the Hollywood couple have added yet another level.
They appear to have picked a white concrete theme for their ultra-modern home.
It will boast a large lap pool complete with a palm tree and shaded areas and is expected to feature a gym, steam room, spa, media room and games room.
And another raised roof area seems to have been added to the already vast six-bedroom mansion.
The home - located within the hills of Broken Head - overlooks a luxurious New South Whales beach and is estimated to cost the Thor actor £5million to build.
Hemsworth and Pataky married in 2010 after meeting though a dialect coach in LA.
They moved back to Australia four years later to escape paparazzi.
Fast and the Furious actress Pataky, revealed last year: "We couldn’t take it anymore.
“In LA, my kids had a camera in front of them all the time and it made my daughter (India) become very scared of photos. She didn’t want pictures taken and didn’t want to be in photos.”
A development application for the build was approved by Byron Shire Council in 2017, but the sheer scale of the home has caused outrage among locals.
Resident Amy Robinson wrote on Facebook earlier this year: “I thought Byron would be Noosafied but apparently it’s being Hollywooded. Next level."
Another local Georgie Poppins wrote: “It’s obscene, greedy, flashy, vulgar opulence at its finest and has no place in the Byron I once knew and love.
"A sad sign of things to come due to greedy, unfettered development policy."
Others said the mansion looked like “a Westfield had been photoshopped into the photo”.
Outraged Samantha Lee said: “If this was some sort of bank boss or corporate-type dude building a Walmart-like building in the middle of a national park do you reckon we’d all be so forgiving?"
"Or is it because he’s Thor and that’s cool?” she added.
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But many rushed to defend Hemsworth's massive new house.
Luke Jolly, whose dad also lives on Seven Mile Beach Rd, said despite the construction was taking “forever” and it “can get noisy”, his family didn’t have a problem with it.
He told : “The bloke is successful, I think he deserves everything he’s got."
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