The Leaning Tower of Pisa stands precariously enough on its stone base, but a team of Taiwan crafts people has made a sturdy replica of it with nothing but paper scraps. The Italian landmark joins an Eiffel Tower look-alike and Dutch windmills at a 5,200 square-meter theme park that features about 500 structures, some life-sized, built entirely of cartons or cardboard. The Carton King Creativity Park opened three years ago to help a declining family-run packaging business turn a new page and teach hundreds of daily visitors to cherish paper. “It's to give people an understanding of creativity and pass on an environmental message,” said Huang Fang-liang, general manager of the park's founding company Chin Tang Paperware Co. Huang led a dozen artists in experimenting with paper, and they spent up to three months on construction. Some of the building blocks can withstand water or flames and can be folded up for storage during typhoons.
