Posted on 07/25/2011 10:33:34 PM PDT by Pinkbell
The massive Ryugyong Hotel in Pyongyang is nearly ready to welcome guests after nearly two decades in the making, according to Architizer.
The pyramid-shaped hotel, the largest structure in North Korea and one of the tallest hotels in the world, will open in 2012, 33 years after it was originally set to accept guests.
Construction on the project was stalled for 15 years until 2008, when Egyptian conglomerate Orascom committed $400 million to finishing it, Architizer reported.
The tower's sleek and shiny facade was finally completed this year.
The hotel, which has more than 3,000 rooms, will reportedly have five revolving restaurants. It is the only hotel in the world with more than 100 stories, though the Emirates Park Towers, which opened in Dubai this year, is technically taller.
North Korea's Kumgang tourist district is also apparently ramping up on its efforts to attract tourists. The country reportedly agreed to allow foreign entities to invest in the troubled resort area in May.
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None of Stalins buddies got skinny during the Famine in the USSR. The Inner Party will always have plenty to eat.
God only knows what the Egyptians were promised in return to bankroll part of this coldwar trainwreck.
Either that, or...
...Kimchi Helper.
Here is where the NorKo's were very clever. Not only did they build this hotel, but they built a companion food factory...
Above, assembly line producing crackers for the new hotel's restaurants.
North Korea - the tourist capitol of the underworld.
B.Y.O.F.
I believe the only reason it was finished is because it was started to be noticed and passed around on the internet, and it because an embarrassment to North Norea. It is probably a deathtrap, but they can say it is used, and it will no longer be a blight on the skyline.
I would be afraid of being accused of being a spy and arrested.
Hotel of Doom
The Worst Building in the History of Mankind
Read more: http://www.esquire.com/the-side/DESIGN/hotel-of-doom-012808#ixzz1TDRIbOLw
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