Friday, July 15, 2005

The Ryugyong Hotel [in Pyongyang, North Korea] is, in my opinion, the single most unsettling structure ever erected by the hand of man. It's 1,082 feet tall, has 105 floors, and encloses 3.9 million square feet of floor space.



And it is completely empty. It doesn't even have windows.



[...} Work was halted in 1992, and nobody knows exactly why.




The Shape of Days :: The Ryugyong Hotel