Yankee cannonball Posted February 1, 2008 Posted February 1, 2008 If a picture is worth a thousand words, I'll save myself some time and show you this This is the Ryugyong Hotel in North Korea. It's 105 stories tall, making it the world's 22nd tallest skyscraper. This piece of crap is so ugly that North Korea airbrushes it out in brochures. North Korea recently spent more than 2% of their gross domestic product on it, and it still isn't done!
Moose Posted February 1, 2008 Posted February 1, 2008 *shrug* it seems to fit with the rest of the city in that picture. I don't like the "wing points," besides that the thing doesn't scream architectural atrocity at me.
krazekiddd Posted February 1, 2008 Posted February 1, 2008 I was just reading that they stopped construction in 1992 with no plans to ever complete it. Love the waste of materials!
spaceace12 Posted February 1, 2008 Posted February 1, 2008 Seems pretty neat and different to me, although being unfinished since 1992 isn't a good thing.
Airtime&Gravity Posted February 1, 2008 Posted February 1, 2008 I actually kind of like that building, and while not great, it isn't that bad. Sure I wouldn't want this anywhere near me, but it looks cool with its Soviet inspired architecture.
BeemerBoy Posted February 1, 2008 Posted February 1, 2008 I was just reading that they stopped construction in 1992 with no plans to ever complete it. Love the waste of materials! It's North Korea. Why am I not surprised? As for the looks...eh, it's not the worst looking thing, but it's horribly misplaced. Shanghai, Dubai, or Vegas would work better.
KrakenKing Posted February 1, 2008 Posted February 1, 2008 I agree that it's just the placing that is off. If it were in a major city then it'd probably look better with the surroundings. I also agree that if it's not going to be completed, it is a waste of material.
Wes Posted February 1, 2008 Posted February 1, 2008 Reminds me of something from "Metropolis". I kind of like it, definitely not the worst building ever.
dandaman Posted February 1, 2008 Posted February 1, 2008 That's not in North Korea... it's the Fakeland Hotel!
AllenA07 Posted February 1, 2008 Posted February 1, 2008 To me it looks like a giant bar graph. Eric You know Eric, I saw the bar graph as well when I looked at it. Reminds me of Enron stock.
Twister II Posted February 1, 2008 Posted February 1, 2008 ...North Korea has Brochures? Ha! A lot of the economic income for select countries in Asia is tourism. I would probably use it as a seller thought...
CoastersNSich Posted February 1, 2008 Posted February 1, 2008 Reminds me of something from "Metropolis". I kind of like it, definitely not the worst building ever. I must agree... I've seen much worse. This reminds me of Jim Bakker's defunct and abandoned theme park resort, which a hotel tower was completed structurally, but never finished nor opened. While on that topic, don't forget that Cincinnati has an abandoned subway... parts of it were completed, but it sadly never saw a train pass through. But this tower has to no doubt be the biggest example of abandonment before completion.
Yankee cannonball Posted February 1, 2008 Author Posted February 1, 2008 ...North Korea has Brochures? According to my source. I must agree that the placement is what makes it look so bad. In Vegas, it would look kickass, but it just looks so stupid next to ten-or-twenty-story office blocks.
Manny In England Posted February 1, 2008 Posted February 1, 2008 I have fond memories of destroying that building with a Bunker Buster in Mercenaries. Now you've mentioned the bar graph thing, that's all I can see it as.
BigBird Posted February 2, 2008 Posted February 2, 2008 ...North Korea has Brochures? That's what I thought. Who goes there? Is it safe?
coastercrazed49 Posted February 2, 2008 Posted February 2, 2008 I have fond memories of destroying that building with a Bunker Buster in Mercenaries. I knew this building looked familiar. I might go play that game later.
dandaman Posted February 2, 2008 Posted February 2, 2008 I can only come to the conclusion that "Li'l Kim" is really trying to compensate for something here.
Tanks4me05 Posted February 2, 2008 Posted February 2, 2008 In terms of actual design, it's not that bad. But the choice of building materials is really what made this look bad. I would have used stainless steel and glass (I love that combonation.) along with other materials.
Mozart67 Posted February 2, 2008 Posted February 2, 2008 Okay, here's the thing. I think it's the ugliest waste of money and materials of all time (save for the Big Dig), and that it cost 2% of the entire country's GNP, but it's not really THAT bad. I mean..it's just the Transamerica Pyramid with a couple of unnecessary erection-looking parts stuck onto it. I can name 5 uglier places without thinking: The Cow Palace in SF, It's a Small World in WDW (sorry, that would be most annoying..my bad), Crowne Plaza in Oakland, the now-destroyed Allis Hotel in Wichita, and, well..the Pentagon.
Bucket Posted February 2, 2008 Posted February 2, 2008 My question is... why build a hotel so big, if no one is going to be staying there? I mean, what is the actual tourism rate in North Korea??
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