Sunday 11 January 2015

Holdout Houses: 10 Stubborn Structures That Won't Make Way

Holdout Houses: 10 Stubborn Structures That Won't Make Way


Despite the emergence of highways, shopping malls, frighteningly deep pits and even moats around them, the tenacious owners of these older structures refused to give in to developers, remaining in their increasingly incongruous homes. In China, they’re referred to as ‘nail houses,’ like stubborn nails in wood that can’t be pounded down; American developers call them ‘spikes.’ Most of them are ultimately demolished, but some stand like strange little monuments to the past.

Read more: http://ift.tt/1yTVuGP

No comments:

Post a Comment