Posted on 08/13/2013 9:34:45 AM PDT by Pan_Yan
BEIJING — A medicine mogul spent six years building his own private mountain peak and luxury villa atop a high-rise apartment block in China’s capital, earning the unofficial title of “most outrageous illegal structure.” Now, authorities are giving him 15 days to tear it down.
The craggy complex of rooms, rocks, trees and bushes looming over the 26-story building looks like something built into a seaside cliff, and has become the latest symbol of disregard for the law among the rich as well as the rampant practice of building illegal additions.
Angry neighbors say they’ve complained for years that the unauthorized, 800-square-meter (8,600-sq. feet) mansion and its attached landscaping was damaging the building’s structural integrity and its pipe system, but that local authorities failed to crack down. They’ve also complained about loud, late-night parties.
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He’s just trying to get a glimpse inside the friendly confines of Wrigley Field...
Most interesting thing I’ve read in a week... Thank you for posting this.
If I lived there there would BE not late night parties
I think its a great idea even though it may sadly have some engineering flaws.
The kind of "engineering flaws" that lead to total collapse of the building, killing everybody inside. Think World Trade Center, 9/11/01.
The gov’t owns the land here too.
You are most welcome. I've seen lots of interesting items here over the years so when I run across one somewhere else I like to share it.
Looks kinda cool.
Maybe newer buildings can be designed to safely integrate that look into their construction.
Why doesn’t he build his own personal skyscraper like those 2 guys in Mumbai?
whoa... he is just asking for the roof to cave in
Architecture ping.
WTH ??? OMG !!!
Optical issusion. There’s an architectural feature sticking out that side of the building that makes the facade at that corner look curved.
I meant optical illusion. I don't even know what an issusion is but I assume if you get one you either have to go to the doctor or court.
“While all land in China technically belongs to the state — with homebuyers merely given 70-year leases — the rules are often vague, leaving questions of usage rights and ownership murky.”
coming to a locality near you, sooner than you think
We're rapidly heading into the same situation, where there exist two parallel legal systems, one for the hoi polloi, and one for the nomenklatura.
“The villa’s owner has been identified as the head of a traditional Chinese medicine business and former member of the district’s political advisory body who resides on the building’s 26th floor.”
Translation - the villa’s owner gets away with it - obtains all the political protection he needs - because he’s a long-time loyal member of the ruling party of rhe dictatorship, and use to hold official party posts himself.
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