They should leave Prof. Zhang alone and his plush country villa - on top of 26-floor high rise compo

www.independent.co.uk...

A mysterious Chinese medicine practitioner has built an unplanned, unlicensed multi-story villa on top of a 26-floor residential high rise compound in Beijing.

It comes complete with elaborate fake rockeries, real trees and grass, and covers the entire of the top of the building.

The reportedly illegal construction at the Park View building in Haidian district has taken some six years, after its owner – known only to his neighbours as “Professor Zhang” – bought the then-relatively modest penthouse apartment.

He worked on it for 6 years using huge cranes, wasn't like he was sneaking rocks up the elevator, to me sounds like someone higher up in Chinese hierarchy doesn't like the fact his house is sweeter than theirs, so they must destroy it.

I'd love to have a house like his!

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Well that right there is an evil lair if ever I saw one.

Was that apartment building constructed to support all that extra weight?

No.

He'll most likely just have to pay a fine. that's often how it works once something nice is already built.

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I wanna see the inside!

It has a creepy feeling about it

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Should they leave him alone? Sure, if you don't live below that monstrosity.
I imagine the sheer weight was unplanned and not engineered properly.
Usually the rooftop of a high rise building is only engineered to exceed 125-140% of it's load.
That is just for the snow/precipitation weight. Not any other structures.

I do believe he has far exceeded the structures weight allowance.
Unless he planned for that and had a proper support structure in place.
I definitely don't want to be the person living below him.


Either way it's freakin' cool and I want!