A Chinese professor spent six years assembling a mountain villa on top of a Beijing apartment block, but could see his outlandish pad demolished.
Professor Zhang Lin, like Martin Luther King before him, had a dream. The academic’s dream however was a little off the walls. He wanted to create a mountaintop penthouse on a high-rise apartment block in one of the busiest cities in the world.
And he must have Irish blood in him somewhere as he reportedly went ahead with the project without any planning permission.
After six years of shifting rocks and rubble, the penthouse was complete with an extravagant rocky mountain garden and shrubbery, but it hasn’t impressed neighbours and local officials, and Mr. Lin won’t be winning any popularity contest any time soon.
First of all, not having planning permission could put him in a little bit of a pickle. Secondly, the neighbours aren’t too impressed either.
“This was originally a small attic when he bought it. But he tore that down and built this mountain on top of us,” one neighbour said in The Daily Mail.
“He’s broken drains so we’re always being flooded when it rains and there are huge structural cracks in our ceiling and walls.”
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Mr Lin could now be ordered to tear down his mountain penthouse if it is deemed unsafe and his dream could soon be a nightmare.
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