One rival developer, Ren Zhiqiang, the president of the Beijing Huayuan Group, called the soho New Town project "junk houses that should be bombed".
In the wrong hands, and with the wrong architects, these haunting marshlands might have become acres of junk housing and other fastbuck Thames Gateway developments.
Or will we decide it's business as usual in little Britain and carry on building junk housing on what were once meadows and unsustainable supermarkets and shopping malls on the land that's left and between overcrowded roads and railways?
A lot of kids when they see that I'm almost on track for graduation they're like, you know, if you can do it, you know, everyone else can do it, and they be like, 'Yo, you're cool.' When I was younger, before they built all of these houses on my block, it was a junk-house there, and that was like my playground.
A truck ride away, but still on the property, is the Possum Trot, a barbecue restaurant and junk auction house run by Mr. Anthony and his father, which comes to life Friday nights.
Junk drawers house an odd mix of the useful and the useless, the expensive and cheap, the urgent and the long forgotten, the one-time gadgets and the tools we use daily.
There have been so many blows inflicted on unwitting borrowers and lenders of last resort by clever people who offered a product that offered unusually high rates of return: Milken junk bonds, housing itself, and the loans associated with housing made to less-creditworthy buyers.
The older brother Homer, was found dead in the junk-littered house, the younger brother Langley, has disappeared & is being sought by police.
Man and dog live in a nameless seaside town, in a cluttered, junk-filled house, where black mould on the walls has "mushroomed into a reverse constellation".
Woodrow studied with Frank Auerbach, John Bratby and Peter Blake at the Royal College of Art but turned hermit and was moved to the home after accidentally setting fire to his junk-packed house in Leeds.
