A rare glimpse inside North Korea's unfinished Ryugyong Hotel - Polidicks

China has plenty of things like this. [media]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wm7rOKT151Y[/media]

[QUOTE=daijitsu;37822175]Indeed, very 60's feel to the metallic top and general interior layout, the entire thing inside and out screams 'brutalism' by design, but with an odd touch of 70's in the exterior angles and the 80's in the stark, flat glass sides.[/QUOTE] Then again, it was designed in the 80's and the facade wasn't built before 2008.

Finished or unfinished, that shit's going to be as empty as the day they started building it.

the inside fits the entire "hotel of doom" theme very well I've heard the elevator shafts are crooked.

For some reason the way the whole thing is built up reminds me a lot of the starcraft 2 nuclear silo (ghost academy). [img]http://images3.wikia.nocookie.net/__cb20100818210859/starcraft/images/9/96/ShadowOps_SC2_Rend1.jpg[/img]

[QUOTE=Andokool12;37822351]And with a tasteful sprinkle of 90s, perhaps a smidgen of 20s with some infused 30s [editline]27th September 2012[/editline] Do I also detect as seasoning of 40s[/QUOTE] hi I'm an artist who works in an architecture firm I'm really turned on right now

I think it looks like something you would expect to find on the Las Vegas strip. I love the design.

[QUOTE=daijitsu;37822175]Indeed, very 60's feel to the metallic top and general interior layout, the entire thing inside and out screams 'brutalism' by design, but with an odd touch of 70's in the exterior angles and the 80's in the stark, flat glass sides.[/QUOTE] Yeah it sort of reminds me of the better communist architecture taken to the extreme which makes it kinda oh crud what went wrong.

[QUOTE=daijitsu;37822609]hi I'm an artist who works in an architecture firm I'm really turned on right now[/QUOTE] you can firm my architecture any time

i think it looks like a POS

The beeb didn't show all the photos. [img]http://ih.constantcontact.com/fs054/1102343542325/img/307.jpg[/img] [img]http://ih.constantcontact.com/fs054/1102343542325/img/310.jpg[/img] [img]http://ih.constantcontact.com/fs054/1102343542325/img/316.jpg[/img] [img]http://ih.constantcontact.com/fs054/1102343542325/img/309.jpg[/img] [img]http://ih.constantcontact.com/fs054/1102343542325/img/311.jpg[/img] [img]http://ih.constantcontact.com/fs054/1102343542325/img/315.jpg[/img] Hexagons and triangles fucking everywhere in the design.

It looks so good, why does it have to be in a place where barely anyone will get to see it.

[QUOTE=MIPS;37822774]The beeb didn't show all the photos. [img]http://ih.constantcontact.com/fs054/1102343542325/img/315.jpg[/img] Hexagons and triangles fucking everywhere in the design.[/QUOTE] holy crap I think there's an actual car on the highway!

[QUOTE=smurfy;37819741][t]http://ih.constantcontact.com/fs054/1102343542325/img/315.jpg[/t][/QUOTE] Those roads are looking pretty empty.

[QUOTE=Ninja Duck;37822920]Those roads are looking pretty empty.[/QUOTE] The entire city is empty, really. Well the apartment buildings are another story.

[quote]When conceived, the Ryugyong was intended to communicate to the world an impression of North Korea's [i]burgeoning wealth[/i].[/quote] Oh. Well no wonder it was halted for so long.

[QUOTE=Andokool12;37823123]The entire city is empty, really. Well the apartment buildings are another story.[/QUOTE] *Tenements

[QUOTE=oskutin;37823503]*Tenements[/QUOTE] *mandatory workforce night storage units

The building looks amazing, but yeah like said before the real question is if it will actually be finished from the inside :v:

ITT we talk about how much we like or dislike a 25 year old communist skyscraper design.

I always thought the Glorious leader lived there.

[QUOTE=Medevilae;37820385]In North Korea the 80s never ended[/QUOTE] They barely even started.

[QUOTE=MR-X;37819811]It's really creepy that they have all these massive buildings unfinished and just sitting there. From the outside it looks really nice, but in all reality there is nothing going on. Its like all that other fake shit they set up for people to make it seem like NK is lively and happy.[/QUOTE] It's not "like" that, it [B]is[/B] that, have you ever seen the areas behind the DMZ on NK's side? They have big billboards of happy people and the buildings all look fantastic, the further you go back the more realistic it is. It's to try to get South Koreans to defect and come there. (lol)

[QUOTE=Agent Cobra;37819823]'Built from the people, by the people'[/QUOTE] It's funny how all the shitholes in the world have the most democratic sounding official names People's Republic of China Republic of China Democratic People's Republic of North Korea Lao People's Democratic Republic (Laos)

Actually the design doesn't look too bad...looks cool actually.

needs more starving north koreans

[QUOTE=Elecbullet;37827176]It's funny how all the shitholes in the world have the most democratic sounding official names People's Republic of China Republic of China Democratic People's Republic of North Korea Lao People's Democratic Republic (Laos)[/QUOTE] [i]"If we put the words Democratic and Republic in our name the rest of the world will think we care about our people!"[/i]

[QUOTE=OvB;37827554][i]"If we put the words Democratic and Republic in our name the rest of the world will think we care about our people!"[/i][/QUOTE] The Peoples Democratic Republic We Are Allowed to Vote Here No Dictatorships because we are Peaceful China

It's not like people would stay there anyway.

Miniluv