Architecture Sunday
Ryugyong Hotel (Pyongyang, North Korea)
Under the leaders Kim Jong-il and his father Kim Il-sung, North Korea has become fiercely isolationist, nationalistic, and totalitarian. Despite being one of the planet’s poorest countries, the communist state looks for any achievement to boost itself in eyes of the world.
Its people know little or nothing of other nations except for the fact that Democratic People’s Republic of Korea (DPRK) is vastly superior. The DPRK is also one of the world’s most secretive nations. For a North Korean, contact with a foreigner can land one in jail.
This is the only hotel in North Korea planned to be finished in 2012 assuming some investors are willing to risk a third of a billion to reanimate the Ryugyong Hotel is a rotting vegetable.
North Korea is as scary as it is compelling and this building encapsulates this perfectly and for that reason i ruddy love it.
Above all it looks fucking terrifying, like an alien overlord’s lair.
