The wheels of progress may turn slowly but they don’t ever stop, as these nine landlords have learned the hard way. Our friends at Oobject have assembled the best examples of what resisting gentrification gets you.
Be sure to also check out these 16 bamboo scaffolds, some extreme Vietnamese street cables, and this guide to the walled city of Kowloon
Nail house in front of shopping center, Changsha City, China
Nail house in path of shopping mall development, Chongqing, China
Nail house in path of financial center development, Shenzhen, China
Shanghai Nail House
Nail house, Hongkou, China
Bizarre burial ground isolated by skyscrapers in Shanxi
Narita airport Japan, runway interrupted by farmers land
London dept store built round a nail house
Condo built around Edith Macefield’s house in Seattle
