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'Worst building in the history of mankind' gets a face lift
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| 9/7/09
Posted on 09/07/2009 7:03:50 PM PDT by mathprof
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To: Zakeet
OMIGOD ... IT LOOKS LIKE - A DOUBLEWIDE
(I would be ashamed)
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posted on
09/07/2009 7:37:55 PM PDT
by
_Jim
To: umgud
NK is a dark place at nite.North Korea at night from a satellite. Quite the contrast from South Korea,(and even rural China) eh? (I assume the one dot of light there is Pyongyang...
To: Senator Goldwater
Do they actually get tourists in Pyongyang, and is each room hard-wired with bugging devices? Watch this, it is one of the most facinating videos on the web.
VICE Guide to North Korea
To: RayChuang88
Made me think of a castle at first but after taking a second look, it looks more like a maximum security prison.
To: stayathomemom
Still standing? Then the rule still applies.
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posted on
09/07/2009 7:42:00 PM PDT
by
patton
(Obama has replaced "Res Publica" with "Quod licet Jovi non licet bovi.")
To: mathprof
Remote viewed from a 2035 news article:
But few expect the U.S. will ever finish implementing Obama's "Ryugyong Hotel," started in 2009 and halted for 16 years because it could have bankrupted the nation.
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posted on
09/07/2009 7:42:11 PM PDT
by
WilliamofCarmichael
(If modern America's Man on Horseback is out there, Get on the damn horse already!)
To: Gapplega
Mind you, they deliberately building the Moscow State University building—among with six other skyscrapers there—as “proof” of the superiority of Communism. They applied the same ridiculously ornate style to the Moscow Metro stations, too.
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posted on
09/07/2009 7:43:18 PM PDT
by
RayChuang88
(FairTax: America's economic cure)
To: stayathomemom
Boston City Hall. Or as the locals call it "the Packing Case that Faneuil Hall came in".
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posted on
09/07/2009 7:43:43 PM PDT
by
hc87
To: RayChuang88
Then there is this monstrosity of a building in downtown Warsaw that was Uncle Joe's "gift" to the Polish people.
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posted on
09/07/2009 7:44:40 PM PDT
by
dfwgator
To: DrGunsforHands
How will it handle an earthquake, given the rigid form?
And what do they imagine will be served in the six empty restaurants, given that NK has no food?
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posted on
09/07/2009 7:45:37 PM PDT
by
patton
(Obama has replaced "Res Publica" with "Quod licet Jovi non licet bovi.")
To: MaxMax
I think the EMP in Seattle takes first prize. I think we have a new suggested destination for the suitcase nuke in the other thread. (though I've been within a few hundred yards of this monstrosity, I've never actually seen it).
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posted on
09/07/2009 7:54:10 PM PDT
by
steve86
(Acerbic by nature, not nurture)
To: The Cajun
Looks like something that should be on the Klingon home world. Probably where they got the design.
To: RayChuang88
I saw this in Havana a few years ago, it has always stuck with me.
Russian (formerly Soviet) Embassy.
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posted on
09/07/2009 7:56:34 PM PDT
by
Boiling Pots
(Evil-Mongering Angry Mobster)
To: Boiling Pots
I saw this in Havana
Geez ... looks like one huge guard tower there in the center ...
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posted on
09/07/2009 7:58:44 PM PDT
by
_Jim
To: mathprof
It looks nice, for a Christmas tree.
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posted on
09/07/2009 7:58:58 PM PDT
by
Joann37
To: Husker24
Using a Van Jones scale, they are far more advanced than we are, consider their “carbon footprint.”
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posted on
09/07/2009 7:59:21 PM PDT
by
Boiling Pots
(Evil-Mongering Angry Mobster)
To: mathprof
That isn't even close to being the ugliest building in the world. A giant hotel and restaurant complex in a country with no food, tourists, or functioning economy, may make it the most pointless building, but not the ugliest.
Now the State of Illinois building, (sometimes known as the UFO of LaSalle street) constructed by the only government on earth more corrupt than the North Koreans, boasts some real ugly. It also has heat, that works sometimes, AC that works in the winter, elevators that shake the whole building, and an atrium that flooded.
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posted on
09/07/2009 8:00:56 PM PDT
by
GonzoGOP
(There are millions of paranoid people in the world, and they are all out to get me.)
To: mathprof
And I thought they were talking about the UN Building.
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posted on
09/07/2009 8:02:55 PM PDT
by
BuffaloJack
(Obama's New New Deal = The Raw Deal)
To: hc87
I always cringe when I have to visit a building that a truck bomb can drive totally under.
To: GonzoGOP
Or if we are going for Chicago ugly how about the new Soldier Field. This Close encounters of the Roman Coliseum can only be designed by a committee of monkeys, the built by the Chicago political machine.
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posted on
09/07/2009 8:09:27 PM PDT
by
GonzoGOP
(There are millions of paranoid people in the world, and they are all out to get me.)
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