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2008-02-01 China-Japan-Koreas
The Worst Building in the History: Ryugyong Hotel in North Korea
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Posted by Spot 2008-02-01 09:23|| || Front Page|| [11130 views ]  Top

#1 Could be Spot but have you seen the Lloyds of London building?
Posted by Icerigger 2008-02-01 11:33|| coonlakebeach.com]">[coonlakebeach.com]  2008-02-01 11:33|| Front Page Top

#2 Be a helluva good place to brood in.
Posted by Thomas Woof">Thomas Woof  2008-02-01 11:46||   2008-02-01 11:46|| Front Page Top

#3 Looking forward to the day when, after Kimmie's gone, some company gets to come in and blow it up.
Posted by tu3031 2008-02-01 11:47||   2008-02-01 11:47|| Front Page Top

#4 Put a sh*tload of solid rocket boosters on each wing base (buttress?) and send 'er into orbit. Take videos, photoshop in some Godzilla animation later and you have a sci-fi movie with Juiche!
Posted by Alaska Paul">Alaska Paul  2008-02-01 11:51||   2008-02-01 11:51|| Front Page Top

#5 Actually, AP, I think that's one of the videos.
Posted by tu3031 2008-02-01 11:53||   2008-02-01 11:53|| Front Page Top

#6 Icerigger---Lloyd's building looks like some kind of Bladerunner refinery.....

tu3031---my bad. Haven't seen too many Godzilla videos since my college days in the sixties. If you remember the sixties, you weren't there, they tell me.
Posted by Alaska Paul">Alaska Paul  2008-02-01 11:55||   2008-02-01 11:55|| Front Page Top

#7 Could be Spot but have you seen the Lloyds of London building?

Ah! It's the Borg!
Posted by gorb 2008-02-01 11:57||   2008-02-01 11:57|| Front Page Top

#8 Is it done yet?
Posted by tu3031 2008-02-01 11:58||   2008-02-01 11:58|| Front Page Top

#9 Looks quite fitting to me, given its surroundings
Posted by bigjim-ky 2008-02-01 12:11||   2008-02-01 12:11|| Front Page Top

#10 Would make one heck of a pharaoh's tomb, if the Norks get my drift.
Posted by ed 2008-02-01 12:16||   2008-02-01 12:16|| Front Page Top

#11 Yes it is awful.

The ugliest building I've ever actually been in is the Robert C Weaver HUD building in Washington DC. It is only about 10 stories high and designed by an 'award winning architect' but we all refer to the style as either "neoStalinist" or 'early-Speer'.

http://www.hud.gov/about/hqbuilding.cfm
Posted by mhw">mhw  2008-02-01 14:07|| http://hypocrisy-incorporated.blogspot.com/]">[http://hypocrisy-incorporated.blogspot.com/]  2008-02-01 14:07|| Front Page Top

#12 Steve Den Beste had an inteersting writeup on it a couple years back. Go here and scroll down, down, down to the entry marked "20060628.1455."

See also this essay:

"The Ryugyong Hotel looms over Pyongyang like some kind of slumbering bat. Something deep inside my brain tells me that the 75° angle of the hotel’s outer walls is exactly the wrong angle; it says sinister, it says creepy, it says get away."
Posted by Mike 2008-02-01 14:20||   2008-02-01 14:20|| Front Page Top

#13  MIT's Stata Center
Posted by ed 2008-02-01 14:23||   2008-02-01 14:23|| Front Page Top

#14 Not even close: check out the Experience Music Project building in Seattle; looks like a pile of metal dog poop . another Paul Allen toy.
Posted by USN,Ret. 2008-02-01 14:23||   2008-02-01 14:23|| Front Page Top

#15 "It was considered ugly when it went up, but thanks to my vision the american dream it is now an icon of safe, effective, fermaLgahyde free emergency living for ALL INDIVIDUALS WANTING TO WORK!!!"
-HRC
Posted by swksvolFF 2008-02-01 14:28||   2008-02-01 14:28|| Front Page Top

#16 Well they are both Frank Gehry tossed pile of tinkertoy crap. I wonder just how long those buildings are supposed to last with all those lateral stresses.
Posted by ed 2008-02-01 14:30||   2008-02-01 14:30|| Front Page Top

#17 I HAS A NON-EUCLIDIAN GEOMETRY. LET ME SHOW YOU IT.
Posted by Abdominal Snowman 2008-02-01 17:44||   2008-02-01 17:44|| Front Page Top

#18 The Stata Center reminds me of the Hundertwasser apartment building in the village we lived in in Germany. link
I was told there wasn't a proper right angle in the entire building, because the artist/architect finds such things stifling.
Posted by trailing wife">trailing wife  2008-02-01 21:47||   2008-02-01 21:47|| Front Page Top

#19 Considering HOW TALL/HIGH + espec THIN some proposed skyscrapers in the ME + Asia are gonna be, MIGHT WANNA START [RE]LOVING THAT LOW + WIDE PYRAMID SHAPE.
Posted by JosephMendiola 2008-02-01 22:53||   2008-02-01 22:53|| Front Page Top

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