Tianjin Mall Looks Like a Italian Village
Florentia Village is new shopping mall on the outskirts of Tianjin. It cost an estimated US$220 million and copies old Italian-style architecture with Florentine arcades, a grand canal, bridges, and a building that resembles a Roman Coliseum.
This penchant for copying foreign (especially Western traditional) architecture and scenic villages (see an earlier post on the replica of an Austrian village) is getting to be a little too much.
From India’s Rediff: http://www.rediff.com/business/slide-show/slide-show-1-italian-village-meets-china/20120615.htm