Posted July 18, 200816 yr North Korea's "Hotel of Doom" wakes from its coma By Jon Herskovitz Thu Jul 17, 3:56 AM ET PHOTO: http://d.yimg.com/us.yimg.com/p/rids/20080717/i/r4245614432.jpg?x=400&y=255&sig=Ov30irZtheUIEbRdRB2p.w-- SEOUL (Reuters) - North Korea's phantom hotel is stirring back to life. Once dubbed by Esquire magazine as "the worst building in the history of mankind," the 105-storey Ryugyong Hotel is back under construction after a 16-year lull in the capital of one of the world's most reclusive and destitute countries. According to foreign residents in Pyongyang, Egypt's Orascom group has recently begun refurbishing the top floors of the three-sided pyramid-shaped hotel whose 330-metre (1,083 ft) frame dominates the Pyongyang skyline. http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20080717/lf_nm_life/korea_north_hotel_dc
July 18, 200816 yr Once dubbed by Esquire magazine as "the worst building in the history of mankind" from what i know about it, can't say i disagree. :laugh: good luck to them! here's some info & a picture of it: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ryugyong_Hotel bonus giant-sized photo: http://homepage3.nifty.com/dprk/ryugyong.JPG
July 18, 200816 yr Once dubbed by Esquire magazine as "the worst building in the history of mankind" from what i know about it, can't say i disagree. :laugh: good luck to them! I don't know...MP in L'ville gives it a run for its money:
July 18, 200816 yr owwwch! :laugh: oh wait that's a rendering - shouldn't the dubious distinction be kept to real buildings that are actually built? :laugh: :laugh:
July 18, 200816 yr Once dubbed by Esquire magazine as "the worst building in the history of mankind" from what i know about it, can't say i disagree. :laugh: good luck to them! I don't know...MP in L'ville gives it a run for its money: Looks like the building is throwing out some hardcore gang signs.....
July 18, 200816 yr Kind of reminds me of this cathedral in the Dominican Republic: http://www.moun.com/imagesup/Papito/2007-01-21_152212_the_cathedral_galleryfull5.jpg
July 18, 200816 yr ^Do you really love the Museum Plaza, or are you just saying it because you saw it?
July 18, 200816 yr Yes, I really do love the design. Just wish it was a little closer to downtown and not in the midst of Louisville's "SoHo" district.
July 18, 200816 yr Museum Plaza is an okay design, but looks somewhat out of place in the renderings. Maybe it will look better when it is actually built. As for the hotel in Pyongyang, the only reaction is horror. The design is madness and has the all the grace and elegance of a bull in a china shop. The angles are much too steep and overly dramatic, giving the whole thing the appearance of an apparition of doom. Even the politics behind the construction are convoluted, so pretty much nothing good could have come of it. With lots of money thrown at it, it could be passable, but will always be unusual and spooky looking. Just plain ugly and too large to overlook.
July 19, 200816 yr ^I kinda do too! It's different. I wouldn't want it for Cincy or C-land's skyline though. They should incorporate a rollor coaster on it Vegas style like New York, New York.
July 19, 200816 yr It's all a matter of personal taste. It just gives me the creeps and reminds me of a looming spectre of death. Other than that it's fine....the elephant in Bangkok is much, much worse.
July 19, 200816 yr It just gives me the creeps and reminds me of a looming spectre of death. Was this referencing North Korea's "Hotel of Doom" or Louisville's "Museum Plaza of Doom"? :wink:
July 19, 200816 yr North Korea. Louisville is just unusual.....the jury is still out on that until they get their act together and actually build the thing. Then we can ridicule it!
July 19, 200816 yr The Elephant Building reminds me of that Dolphin/Swan thing in Walt Disney World. Hideous. Oh, and the Pyongyang Hotel? AWESOME! It's so brutal, powerful, and destructive...how can you NOT like it? "You don't just walk into a bar and mix it up by calling a girl fat" - buildingcincinnati speaking about new forumers
July 20, 200816 yr Once dubbed by Esquire magazine as "the worst building in the history of mankind" from what i know about it, can't say i disagree. :laugh: good luck to them! I don't know...MP in L'ville gives it a run for its money: Looks like the building is throwing out some hardcore gang signs..... lol, that it does! I never looked at it like that until now. Now I'll never look at it the same.
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