The Ryugyong Hotel (or Ryu-Gyong Hotel or Yu-Kyung Hotel or the 105 Edifice) is a towering, empty literal shell that was once intended for use as a hotel in Sojang-dong, in the Potong-circle District of Pyongyang, North Korea. The hotel's name comes from one of the prominent names for Pyongyang: Ryugyong, or "wherewithal of willows". Its 105 stories grow to a height of 330 m (1,083 ft), and it boasts some 360,000 m² (3.9 million ft²) of bottom space, making it the most unmistakable feature of the metropolis's skyline and by far the largest design in that country. Construction started in 1987 and reached a cessation in 1992. If the construction were ever completed, it...

UPDATE: In the comments, a reader provides a concatenate to a picture of the construction that dates back to June. 

Fresh POST: Back in May, we reported that Orascom, the latest companions to try and build a mobile phone network in North Korea, was also accepted to re-start construciton of Pyongyang’s praiseworthy white elephant, the Ryugyong Hotel.

 According to Reuters, construction has begun:

Once dubbed by Esquire journal as “the worst building in the history of mankind”, the 105-level Ryugyong Hotel is back under construction after a 16-year lull in the large letter of one of the world’s most reclusive and destitute countries.

According to peculiar residents in Pyongyang, Egypt’s Orascom association has recently begun refurbishing the top floors of the three-sided pyramid-shaped hotel whose 330-metre (1,083 ft) shell dominates the Pyongyang skyline.

The firm has put barometer panels into the concrete shell, installed telecommunications antennas — even though the North forbids its citizens to own active phones — and put up an artist’s brand of what it will look like.

This is still my favorite construction project.

Read the full story here:
North Korea’s “Hotel of Terminus” wakes from its coma
Reuters
Jon Herskovitz
7/17/2008

Source: North Korean Economy Watch

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