8 Forgotten Giants

8 Forgotten Giants . . . . . .

Posted on January 12, 2009 by uphaa

  • 5 - The incomplete Ryugyong Hotel.


    If Dr. Evil was a real person, he would need a real hideout, and that real hideout may very well be The Ryugyong Hotel in Pyongyang, North Korea. The giant dark monolith , has 105 floors, yet it is completely empty without a single window. This is the striking (and huge) Ryugyong Hotel in Pyongyang, North Korea. It’s a 330-metre-tall pyramid-shaped building with 3,000 rooms, and was supposed to have 7 revolving restaurants, except they never actually finished it. Newspapers estimated the cost of construction was $750 million - 2% of North Korea’s GDP - and it is generally assumed construction came to a halt in 1992 due to lack of funding, acute electricity shortages, and the prevailing famine.

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