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According to Wikepedia “Sutyagin house” was a wooden house in Arkhangelsk, Russia. The 13-story, 44m tall residence of local entrepreneur Nikolai Petrovich Sutyagin was the world’s, or at least Russia’s, tallest wooden house.
Mr. Sutyagin and his family took over 15 years (starting in 1992), without formal plans or a building permit, to construct.
Unfortunately for Mr. Sutyagin during a few years in prison on racketeering charges the structure deteriorated.
In 2008, it was condemned by the city as a fire hazard, and the courts ordered it to be demolished. In December 2008, the day after Christmas, the tower was pulled down. The balance was dismantled manually over the next several months.
According to World Architecture News the owner was driven to inspiration by his formative years spent in a Soviet communal flat. After a trip to see wooden houses in Japan and Norway Mr Sutyagin decided he had not used the roof space efficiently enough and decided to keep building. Now penniless Sutyagin lives in four poorly heated rooms at the bottom of his wooden log cabin with his wife. Many neighbours considered the building a monstrosity, others feel it is a glorified barn, fire hazard and eyesore.
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