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On a Monday morning in August 2013, officials from Beijing’s Urban Administrative and Law Enforcement Bureau gave Beijing resident Zhang Biqing 15 days to demolish a mountainous two-story villa he had built on the roof of his 26-story building.
The word
“mountainous” is used in the literal sense.
The
eccentric Millionaire who made his fortune having founded a national chain of
acupuncture clinics, spent six years working on his bizarre project. Real grass trees and rocks were used to cover
the entire 1000-square-meter surface to create a monstrosity of a structure
which essentially resembled a tall building with a mountain plonked on it.
In Beijing
it is not uncommon to proceed with construction projects having not received
official government approval, this dispute however came to a head as a result
of ongoing complaints from residents who had to endure it. It was reported that occupants who issued the
complaints suffered years of harassment before the matter was finally put to
rest.
Living in the
26th floor penthouse and were his upward renovation to have stood,
Biqing would have afforded himself the luxury of a mountain getaway without
having to suffer the rigors of a Beijing commute. According to Google
Sightseeing the city is the worst in the world for traffic congestion so albeit that it was undoubtedly ill-conceived, perhaps his logic wasn’t entirely balmy.
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