From China to Dubai to Tennessee: Greek Architecture Has Become the World's Most Copied Aesthetic

A billion-yuan Santorini replica on the banks of a Chinese lake, a whitewashed Aegean resort complex in Dubai, a full-scale concrete Parthenon in Tennessee and neoclassical temples in Bavaria and northern England — Greek architecture has become the world's most commercially replicated aesthetic, copied across four continents for its proven ability to generate tourism revenue. The most recent large-scale example is "Santorini Dali" in China's Yunnan province, a hillside resort valued at more t...

By ANTHEE CARASSAVA