Guangzhou’s urban jungle
China’s rocketing real estate prices have inspired many entrepreneurial schemes, now one Guangzhou resident appears to have built a 3-storey tall canopy of camouflage to cover an illegal building addition.
According to a report in the Guangzhou Daily, a building in aptly named Begonia Court can be seen wearing a green crown of foliage. However, when a reporter investigated, what appears to be a roof garden is actually a network of plants attached to a lattice-work of construction netting.
The reason for this ruse? The owner of the 18th floor of the apartment block apparently decided to build a bit more elbow room for himself by illicitly adding a 19th, 20th, and 21st floor to the downtown tower block. The illegal construction is now concealed behind the owners clever canopy of green.
If recent experience is any indicator, however, the illegal construction may now have a decidedly finite life-span since the photos of this unique green-space have spread on the Chinese Internet.
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- Soon to be Guangzhou’s best known green space
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- It’s almost a real jungle up there
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- I guess this is where you water it from?
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- Look! Those people down there don’t even notice!
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- Jungle warfare techniques applied in downtown Guangzhou
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- Nah! No one would ever think this was covering something
Last year photos of a two-storey “rock garden” that an eccentric Chinese medicine entrepreneur had added to the roof of a 26 floor Beijing apartment went viral on social media. Shortly thereafter, building regulators who had failed to notice the structure for years demanded the removal of rocks, trees and terraces added to the rooftop.
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