Homemade Wooden Skycraper [PICS]

Nikolai Sutyagin, a one-time gangster is the guy who built this wooden house. He built what is believed to be the world’s tallest wooden house. It is nothing less than ‘the eighth wonder of the world’.



The house dominates the skyline of Arkhangelsk, a city in Russia’s far north-west soaring 13 floors to reach 144 ft. It’s about half the size of tower of Big Ben.


The house is also crumbling, incomplete and under threat of demolition from city authorities who are eager to end Nikolai Sutyagin's 15 year project (began in 1992). Driven to inspiration by his formative years spent in a Soviet communal flat, Sutyagin felt lonely living by himself. For the one-time gangster, who has spent four years in jail on racketeering charges, Nikolai Sutyagin's home is certainly different.

Now penniless Sutyagin lives in four poorly heated rooms at the bottom of his wooden log cabin with his wife. Many neighbours consider the building a monstrosity, others feel it is a glorified barn, fire hazard and eyesore but Sutyagin is determined to save his building and has erected a roof around the second floor that he says allows him to claim that everything above is decoration.