The £1.2bn 'city' modelled after Paris, Oxford and Verona and home to 25,000 people
All of the 25,000 people who live in China's Huawei Ox Horn Campus work for the mobile phone giant, with the campus divided into 12 different mini-cities.
A £1.2bn “city” based on Paris, Oxford and Verona is actually the headquarters of one of the world’s biggest tech companies.
All of the 25,000 people who live in China’s Huawei Ox Horn Campus work for the mobile phone giant, with the campus divided into 12 different mini-cities based on real-life locations.
The 12 sections are each based on Paris, Oxford, Bruges, Burgundy, Fribourg, Luxembourg City, Windermere, Granada, Verona, Český Krumlov, Heidelberg and Bologna, with the areas each having their own scale replicas of real-life landmarks.
It spans 1.4 million square metres and took seven years to build, with work beginning in 2015.
The campus is located on the outskirts of Dongguan, in China’s Guangdong Province, which is home to more than 10 million people.
Oxford University’s 18th-century Radcliffe Camera is copied in the campus grounds along with Heidelberg Castle and Lake Windermere.
There is even a Versailles replica and a copy of the Reading Room at France’s National Library, but while their original counterparts are historic, the copied buildings are packed with modern equipment to serve staff.
Rather than using elevators to ascend and descend office blocks, staff use narrow winding streets which replicate those in Bruges and Bologna.
The whole area is connected by a five-mile-long tram line with each of the areas having at least one tram station.
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Its designers wanted to make it a car-free town and even the trams were based on those at Switzerland’s Jungfrau Railway.
As well as office blocks, the areas are packed with cafes, restaurants, shops, gyms, and other amenities including a grand dining hall in the Bologna section.
But despite its quirky and charming appearance, the campus has drawn criticism from some who believe it is “kitsch, fake and vulgar” with others wondering why it was not based on Chinese architecture.