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Ryugyong Hotel
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unfinished pyramid-shaped skyscraper in North Korea
The Ryugyong Hotel is an enormous pyramid-shaped skyscraper in North Korea that was never completed after construction began in 1987. It has become a notable symbol of North Korea's ambitious but stalled development projects, and remains one of the world's tallest unfinished buildings.
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It sits within the topics 1992 establishments in North Korea, 20th-century architecture in North Korea and Buildings and structures under construction.
Its subject is documented across 56 Wikipedia language editions.
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- mixed-use development
- Country
- North Korea
- Located in
- Pyongyang
- Area
- 360000
- Image
- Finished ryug.jpg
- Height
- 323
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- Commons category
- Ryugyong Hotel
- main building contractor
- Orascom Construction Industries
- floors above ground
- 105
- McCune–Reischauer romanization
- Ryugyŏng Hot'el
- Revised Romanization
- Ryugyeong Hotel
- occupant
- Global Telecom Holding
- architectural style
- neo-futurism
- name
- 柳京飯店
- native label
- 류경호텔
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Encyclopedic overview
The Ryugyong Hotel (Korean: 류경호텔; sometimes spelled as Ryu-Gyong Hotel), or Yu-Kyung Hotel, is a 330 m (1,080 ft) tall unfinished pyramid-shaped skyscraper in Pyongyang, North Korea. Its name (lit. "capital of willows") is also one of the historical names for Pyongyang. The building has been planned as a mixed-use development, which would include a hotel.
Construction began in 1987 but was halted in 1992 as North Korea entered a period of economic crisis after the dissolution of the Soviet Union. After 1992, the building stood topped out, but without any windows or interior fittings. In 2008, construction resumed, and the exterior was completed in 2011. The hotel was planned to open in 2012, the centenary of founding leader Kim Il Sung's birth. A partial opening was announced for 2013 and subsequently cancelled. In 2018, an LED display was fitted to one side, which is used to show propaganda animations and film scenes.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Ryugyong Hotel” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.