On Dec 9, 12:09*pm, Bertie Wooster wrote:
On Sun, 9 Dec 2012 03:15:42 -0800 (PST), Squashme
wrote:
"China to flatten 700 mountains for new metropolis in the desert.
[Snip]
They do some pretty odd things in China.
The delightful Costa Brava fishing port of Cadaques is being
replicated in Xiamen bay:http://www.guardian.co.uk/artanddesi...de-in-xina/824...
Why don't the Chinese just buy the original?
"Wealthy Far East investors will be given the chance to purchase flats
at Battersea Power Station before buyers in London.
Apartments in the £8 billion riverside development go on sale in
Malaysia and Hong Kong in January before being offered to British
buyers in February.
The Malaysian developers behind the redevelopment of London’s most
famous industrial building said that an unspecified number of the 800
homes in the first phase will be “ring-fenced” for British owners.
But the decision is certain to anger critics who say the wave of
foreign buying in central London is a major factor in the capital’s
housing crisis.
The Malaysian consortium paid £400 million for the derelict former
generator and 39 acres of surrounding land in September, the fourth
owners since it stopped producing electricity in 1983.
A spokeswoman said the timing of the sales was driven by the desire of
the new owners to offer apartments in their own country first as well
as concerns that British buyers would not want to visit the site to
view a model in the middle of the winter." (ES 3/12/12)