Tiny house sits in middle of busy motorway in China after stubborn homeowner refused to move when it was built 0 By Denis Bedoya on August 9, 2020 News A STUBBORN homeowner is living life in the fast lane after a Chinese city built a highway bridge around her tiny house. The views expressed in the contents above are those of our users and do not necessarily reflect the views of MailOnline. It is 18 metres taller than the Shard in London and its closest rival is 600 miles away in Beijing. But that's because it was built in a village of 2,000 FARMERSA touch out of place, perhaps? An old house in Guangzhou found itself entangled in between motorway lanes, as seen on footage from Monday, after its owners failed to reach an agreement with local authorities on compensation, resulting in a peculiar sight for local residents. Beginning of the end: Work began on the house's deconstruction on Saturday city of Wenling, Zhejiang province. The building boasts 65,000sqm of floor space for offices, restaurants and the headquarters of China's Phoenix TVThe world's silliest supertower? "She added that she was happy to deal with the consequences and did not mind what other people thought of her.She also claimed in an interview recorded by Pear Video, the government had offered her substitute accommodation next to a morgue, and that was why she hadn't settled.The government of Haizhu district said that officials earmarked the plot on Huandao Road for demolition in 2010 to build the Haizhuyong Bridge, reported Guangzhou Daily.Ms Liang is the only person out of a total of 47 households and seven firms that still lives there.Authorities claimed to have offered the resident many different places to live as well as cash compensation schemes, but she had rejected them all. Near the rice paddies, groves of yellow bamboo and the homes of tens of millions of dirt-poor migrant workers lies this bizarre replica of an Alpine village in the southern Chinese province of Guangdong. But after refusing to relocate while authorities built a … "The Sun", "Sun", "Sun Online" are registered trademarks or trade names of News Group Newspapers Limited. Demolition experts left the apartments either side of the Luao's intact to prevent the building collapsing. It has been trumpeted as 'a dramatic, iconic gateway' to the East that makes the Arc de Triomphe look like a mere ornament, but critics of he £445m Gate of the East in Suzhou, China, have likened the structure to a giant pair of long johnsEe bah gum! Unsurprisingly, sales were non-existent when it opened earlier this year'It's good to be home.' It had become a symbol of resistance against developersStanding strong: Luo Baogen, 67, who lived in the house on the outskirts of Wenling in east China's Zhejiang province, previously refused to leave as he said the compensation offered was no enoughProof: Mr Baogen stands in front of his home holding the certificate that states he owns the land beneath it, meaning that he and his wife could't be forced to move awayKing of the road: The house stood strong in the middle of the highway after their entire neighbourhood had been torn downCalm before the storm: The balcony from Mr Baogen's home looked peaceful, but he was finally forced to move before the road was opened to trafficFolorn: Mr Baogen looks wistfully across the new scenery, the tarmac from the new road waving haphazardly along the side of the building and demarcating the homeowner's landRoom with a view: Luo Baogen looks out on the new road - yet to be officially opened - from the apartment building where all his neighbours moved outThinking laterally: Unperturbed by the couple's decision to remain in the property, developers simply paved around the houseIsolated: Niu Chuangen and Zhang Zhongyun's home stands on a small parcel of land amid the growing skyscrapersRefuse to move: Another family initially agreed to sell the property in Taizhou but changed their minds once work on the road had startedStranded: The couple were left without running water and electricity ground after real estate developers dug out the ground around itCannot demolish: During the Communist era, private ownership of property was abolished but now the laws have been tightened up and it is illegal to demolish property by force without an agreementHigh and dry: A furious family took legal action against property developers in Mianyang, south west China, last year after they demolished every staircase in their seven-storey apartment block in a bizarre bid to make them vacate their top-floor flat so they could build a factory (pictured, top, with the flower boxes and awnings)That's prime retail estate! … But the gloss was taken off ever so slightly when Beijing's new Phoenix International Media Centre (above) was compared by some observers earlier this year to a huge Yorkshire pudding. Majestic, yes. Towering 328 metres (1,067ft) above the ground, this skyscraper in Huaxi, Jiangsu province,  dwarfs everything in its path. The one-storey house contains a 40-square-metre flat and is situated in a pit in the middle of the four-lane traffic link, according to Guangdong TV station.