I visited the fake British town in the outskirts of Shanghai. Honestly, it wasn’t as tacky as I expected it to be, it was fairly well executed. But it does feel uncanny to enter a “pub” and smell stinky tofu and Sichuan pepper, or enter the “church” only to see it’s just a concrete hull with some sort of state-approved art exhibit inside. Not to mention most of the buildings were not just empty but completely unfinished inside, just a naked concrete box
Makes me curious what this would be like in real life. It does look not as nicely-done as Thamestown though
I see they placed a fountain where in real life there’s the road, is this how it was initially designed here too?
And does anybody know why the road pops out in the middle of the park between the two halves of the tunnel? That always bugged me
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It’s indeed a copy, and is part of a resort (“Mingya European Golf Resort”).
https://www.brusselslife.be/fr/article/la-copie-chinoise-des-arcades-du-cinquantenaire
Awesome find!
Do you have any information on the location in China of this thing?
Ah found it, in Nanchang.
https://www.google.com/maps/@28.7228197,115.8455099,169m/data=!3m1!1e3
It seems that this picture is from a while ago. They’ve added buildings next to the monument and the area around it has been filled up.
There is also a street view:
https://map.baidu.com/@12897177.79,3319998.61,21z,87t,172.29h#panoid=09003900121708040900563636C&panotype=street&heading=81.04&pitch=-1.42&l=21&tn=B_NORMAL_MAP&sc=0&newmap=1&shareurl=1&pid=09003900121708040900563636C
It has palm trees!
I visited the fake British town in the outskirts of Shanghai. Honestly, it wasn’t as tacky as I expected it to be, it was fairly well executed. But it does feel uncanny to enter a “pub” and smell stinky tofu and Sichuan pepper, or enter the “church” only to see it’s just a concrete hull with some sort of state-approved art exhibit inside. Not to mention most of the buildings were not just empty but completely unfinished inside, just a naked concrete box
Makes me curious what this would be like in real life. It does look not as nicely-done as Thamestown though
I see they placed a fountain where in real life there’s the road, is this how it was initially designed here too?
And does anybody know why the road pops out in the middle of the park between the two halves of the tunnel? That always bugged me
Huawei has a campus that consists of copies of European architecture, including [Brugge’s belfort](https://www.demorgen.be/nieuws/brugge-bezoeken-in-china-zelfs-het-belfort-bouwen-ze-na~b5e1433b/)
Maybe this is a good opportunity to start a franchise u/ArtHistoryBrussels?
Honesty I just wanna go over there a bit high. Slight out of body experience ahead.
Remember: imitation is the sincerest form of flattery!
Having said that. They still need to add bus parking spaces that spoil the view, for the full experience…
They really do be stealing and replicating everything
And in a few years when it starts crumbling down it will even look like ours.
Chinquantenaire?
They forgot the rapists