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Anonymous
>>322955 The Ryugyong Hotel (Korean: ????)(or Ryu-Gyong Hotel or Yu-Kyung Hotel or the 105 Building) is an unfinished concrete skyscraper. It is intended for use as a hotel in Sojang-dong, in the Potong-gang District of Pyongyang, North Korea. The hotel's name comes from one of the historic names for Pyongyang: Ryugyong, or "capital of willows." Its 105 stories rise to a height of 330 m (1,083 ft), and it contains 360,000 m² (3.9 million square feet) of floor space, making it the most prominent feature of the citys skyline and by far the largest structure in the country. Construction started in 1987 and ceased in 1992 due to financial difficulties. At one time, it would have been the world's tallest hotel.Esquire Magazine dubbed it "The Worst Building in the History of Mankind" and noted that the government of North Korea has airbrushed the building out of pictures.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ryugyong
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