On Mar 29, 8:37 am, Ignoramus7500
wrote:
This is definitely something worth checking out, very funny. There is
a picture in the article. Typically Russian story in many ways.
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main...07/03/07/whous...
``For the one-time gangster who built it, it is nothing less than "the
eighth wonder of the world". The less charitably disposed dismiss it
as a glorified barn, fire hazard and eyesore.
But on one thing everyone agrees: Nikolai Sutyagin's home is certainly
different.
Dominating the skyline of Arkhangelsk, a city in Russia's far
north-west, it is believed to be the world's tallest wooden house,
soaring 13 floors to reach 144ft - about half the size of the tower of
Big Ben.
The house that Sutyagin built is also crumbling, incomplete and under
threat of demolition from city authorities determined to end the
former convict's eccentric 15-year project. ''
In the word's of Bart Simpson, this thing is craptacular.