Ryugyong Hotel

unfinished pyramid-shaped skyscraper in North Korea

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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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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.