A 330-metre pyramid meant to showcase North Korea’s modernity, the Ryugyong Hotel remains empty decades after construction began. Briton Simon Cockerell, one of the few Westerners granted access, ...
The Ryugyong Hotel in the center of North Korea's capital city Pyongyang, must count as one of the strangest building projects, not to say one of the ugliest, in the world. Construction began in 1987 ...
North Korea's The Ryugyong Hotel has spent over 30 years under construction READ MORE: From hidden perks to bizarre requests: ...
In 1987, ground was broken on a grand new hotel in North Korea’s capital, Pyongyang. The pyramid-shaped, supertall skyscraper was to exceed 1,000 feet in height, and was designed to house at least ...
In the middle of Pyongyang, a city that is itself considered one of the most closed places in the world, stands the Ryugyong Hotel - a colossal skyscraper that has never received a single guest. From ...
Photographs of the hotel’s interior from 2012 revealed that, inside, very little work had been done. The images were taken by Simon Cockerell, general manager at Koryo Group, a Beijing-based company ...
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