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Foreign residents in Pyongyang say that the 105-story Ryugyong Hotel has resumed construction after 16 years. The Orascom group has been active in installing glass panels and installing telecommunications devices.
Many call the bleak totalitarian structure the worst building in the world, a “hotel of doom.” The cold idealistic concrete structure has often been airbrushed by the government out of photos. Like most great disasters of this kind, the hotel was built as a prideful response to South Korea’s Weston Stamford Hotel. North Korea’s hopeful symbol of dominance over western economies turned into a symbol of communism’s failures. Now, of course, it’s very hard to get any kind of information about it. It is supposed to have 3,000 rooms and seven revolving restaurants. |
(featured image by John Pavelka on flickr/creative commons)
