JCDRANZER Wow you've been to some incredible buildings, that is just awesome
Now here is an unusual building:
It's called the Ryugyoung Hotel in Pyongyang, Korea.
The buildings construction started in 1987 and it was abandoned in 1992 due to the lack of fund or to the fact they used bad quality concrete and it is literally crumbling so the hotel is structurally unsound.
Even without this to consider, the state of the North Korean economy is such that it doesn't have the raw materials, energy or financing for a project of this magnitude.
The constuction of the hotel has never resumed to this day and a crane still sits at the top, 330 meters above Pyongyang.
Look At the right of the picture, you'll clearly see the giant hotel.
The hotel is so massive that it is clearly visible from nearly everywhere in the city, but it is nearly impossible to get anyone to talk about it. It is often seen as a metaphor of the highly secretive nature of North Korea. Mike Chinoy, a former reporter for CNN, once likened it to the giant calcium deposit on the neck of late dictator Kim Il-sung. Like the Ryugyong, the growth was clearly visible despite official attempts to hide it from view.
Part of the information here is from Wikipedia
It's to bad they don't resume the construction, but on the other hand that would be very unsafe, because of the bad quality concrete, but i love the design of the hotel, it looks like an enormous pyramid, it's very awesome
Now here is an unusual building:
It's called the Ryugyoung Hotel in Pyongyang, Korea.
The buildings construction started in 1987 and it was abandoned in 1992 due to the lack of fund or to the fact they used bad quality concrete and it is literally crumbling so the hotel is structurally unsound.
Even without this to consider, the state of the North Korean economy is such that it doesn't have the raw materials, energy or financing for a project of this magnitude.
The constuction of the hotel has never resumed to this day and a crane still sits at the top, 330 meters above Pyongyang.
Look At the right of the picture, you'll clearly see the giant hotel.
The hotel is so massive that it is clearly visible from nearly everywhere in the city, but it is nearly impossible to get anyone to talk about it. It is often seen as a metaphor of the highly secretive nature of North Korea. Mike Chinoy, a former reporter for CNN, once likened it to the giant calcium deposit on the neck of late dictator Kim Il-sung. Like the Ryugyong, the growth was clearly visible despite official attempts to hide it from view.
Part of the information here is from Wikipedia
It's to bad they don't resume the construction, but on the other hand that would be very unsafe, because of the bad quality concrete, but i love the design of the hotel, it looks like an enormous pyramid, it's very awesome