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	Ryugyong Hotel - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The Ryugyong Hotel (or Ryu-Gyong Hotel or Yu-Kyung Hotel or the 105 Building) is a towering, empty concrete shell that was once intended for use as a hotel in Sojang-dong, in the Potong-gang District of Pyongyang, North Korea.
		Construction on the pyramid-shaped hotel began in 1987.
		The Ryugyong's 3,000 rooms and 7 revolving restaurants were to open in June 1989 for the World Festival of Youth and Students, but problems with building methods and materials delayed it.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Ryugyong_Hotel (570 words)

	Hotel - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Hotels differ from motels in that most motels have drive-up, exterior entrances to the rooms, while hotels tend to have interior entrances to the rooms, which may increase guests' safety and present a more upmarket image.
		A number of hotels have entered the public consciousness through popular culture, such as the Ritz Hotel in London, UK ('Putting on The Ritz') and Hotel Chelsea in New York City, subject of a number of songs and also the scene of the alleged stabbing of Nancy Spungen by her boyfriend Sid Vicious.
		The Burj al-Arab hotel in Dubai, United Arab Emirates, built on an artificial island, is structured in the shape of a sail of a boat.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Hotel (1652 words)

	The Shape of Days: The Ryugyong Hotel (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		The Ryugyong Hotel is, in my opinion, the single most unsettling structure ever erected by the hand of man. It’s 1,082 feet tall, has 105 floors, and encloses 3.9 million square feet of floor space.
		The Ryugyong was designed to have 3,000 rooms, but at the time it was built only a few thousand people were allowed into the country per year, and almost none of them were destined for Pyongyang.
		The Ryugyong was to be a monument to the North Korean virtue of juche, or self-reliance.
	theshapeofdays.com /2004/09/the_ryugyong_ho.html (669 words)

	Ryugyong Hotel Tower
		North Korea have spent ~$750 million or 2% of the country's GDP on the Ryugyong Hotel.
		In 1989 -the original completion date- they had several construction method and material problems therefore the opening was delayed, but in 1992 the construction came to a complete halt due to funding problems, electricity shortages, and the prevailing famine.
		In 2006 the hotel is still not finished (it has reached its full structural height though) and left alone with a crane on the top.
	www.dubaiphotos.net /ryugyonghotel (214 words)

	Ryugyong Hotel - TheBestLinks.com - Concrete, Hangul, North Korea, South Korea, ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Ryugyong Hotel, Concrete, Hangul, North Korea, South Korea, Singapore, 1992...
		According to Emporis (http://www.emporis.com/en/wm/bu/?id=130967), the concrete used in building the Ryugyong Hotel is of unsuitable quality and therefore is unsafe - it cannot therefore be completed as currently built.
		Some question the logic of building such a massive hotel, given that the number of tourists in North Korea remain small.
	www.thebestlinks.com /Ryugyong_Hotel.html (292 words)

	FriskoDude: North Korea Mystery Hotel
		Among the architectural curiosities of Asia, the winner of the modern age must surely be this extraordinary, failed hotel in North Korea, which I briefly discussed a few months ago, and has returned to notice from a few bloggers and websites.
		The Ryugyong Hotel is, in my opinion, the single most unsettling structure ever erected by the hand of man. It's 1,082 feet tall, has 105 floors, and encloses 3.9 million square meters of floor space.
		The North Koreans began constructing he pyramid-shaped Ryugyong in 1987, reportedly aiming for 105 stories to beat out a structure the South Koreans were building in Singapore (not Kuala Lumpur).
	friskodude.blogspot.com /2004/09/north-korea-mystery-hotel.html (855 words)

	Jin Mao Building - Wikicompany (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		It is the highest hotel in the world in terms of distance from the ground, however the tallest building to be used exclusively as a hotel is the Burj Al Arab in Dubai (excluding the taller Ryugyong Hotel which is not in use).
		Lined with 28 annular corridors and staircases arrayed in a spiral, it is 27m in diameter with a clear height of approximately 115m.(1) It is one of the tallest atriums in the world, the tallest being Burj Al Arab's.
		The 88th floor (not part of the hotel) houses the Skywalk, a 1,520m² indoor observation deck with a capacity of 1,000+ people.
	wikicompany.org /wiki/Jin_Mao_Building (1202 words)

	Ryugyong Hotel (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		ryugyong hotel by certain factions of rebel soldiers.
		The ryugyong hotel clincher, to him reports that ryugyong hotel some of the hijackers.
		ryugyong hotel were drinking alcohol and spotted at strip clubs.
	skyline-postcards.kenaffo.be /ryugyong-hotel.html (511 words)

	Tallest Hotel in the World - 2Bangkok.com Forum
		I thought the record was held by a hotel in Singapore and the rule was that the entire building had to house a hotel (that is, it couldn't be a mixed use building with a hotel in it).
		The Grand Hyatt Shanghai Hotel which occupies the 53rd to 87th floor of Jin Mao tower in Shanghai has the highest occupiable hotel floor (JinMao building is measured 420.5m to top of the spire).
		That's not true because the hotel occupied the 22nd floor to 74th floor and the lower part occupies by a garment center.
	www.angkor.com /2bangkok/2bangkok/forum/showthread.php?mode=hybrid&t=248 (1227 words)

	Pyongyang, North Korea
		A giant among giants, the 105-story Ryugyong Hotel bestrides the city like a colossus.
		The finished hotel is to contain 3,000 rooms and to be topped by three revolving restaurants with a view all the way to the west coast.
		With its monumental scale and turret-like projections, the Ryugyong faintly echoes Moscow's Stalinist skyscrapers.
	www.hiddenhistory.info /excRyugyong.htm (202 words)

	Cyberspace - Karl Mamer (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		At 105 floors, the Ryugyong Hotel would have been the world's largest hotel if work had not come to a halt in 1991.
		It's generally assumed construction came to a halt because North Korea was suffering from a famine (the hotel was to have 7 revolving restaurants), an acute electricity shortage, and they basically ran out of money (the hotel cost upwards of $700 million, which is about 2% of North Korea's GDP).
		The hotel is no longer found on stamps and newly issued maps.
	www.yrad.com /essays/hotel.htm (392 words)

	sociology - Ryugyong Hotel
		The Ryugyong Hotel (or Ryu-Gyong Hotel) is a towering, empty concrete shell in Sojang-dong, in the Potong-gang District of Pyongyang, North Korea.
		Its estimated cost ran upwards of $750 million—2% of North Korea's GDP— and it is generally assumed construction came to a halt in 1992 due to lack of funding, acute electricity shortages, and the prevailing famine.
		The luxury Koryo Hotel and Yanggakdo Hotel alone have more than adequate capacity.
	www.aboutsociology.com /sociology/Ryugyong_Hotel (318 words)

	a4a info portal - pregled dogadjaja
		Domus launches a competition of ideas to picture the future of the unfinished Ryugyong Hotel pyramid, 330 metres of cement that tower over the North Korean capital like a "ruin of the future".
		The Ryugyong Hotel is a 330 metre tall pyramid, with a y shaped base, located on a hill in the centre of the city.
		Its construction was interrupted in the building shell phase and today, although incomplete, it represents the main vertical point of reference for the city, visible from every corner of the territory, and unprecedented from the point of view of Korean or Asiatic architectural tradition.
	www.a4a.info /EventView.asp?event_id=618 (245 words)

	News: Ryugyong Hotel on hold (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Ryugyong Hotel, a massive structure started in Pyongyang (North Korea) will not be finished.
		No work has been done on the hotel for many years due to the huge cost of such work in a poor country - especially one suffering regular power shortages.
		The Ryugyong was built as another huge structure to add to the many other around a city full of grandiose building projects and memorials.
	www.emporis.com /en/bu/nc/ne/?id=100302 (265 words)

	Bean Rocket Tag: ghost (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		At 1,083 feet and 105 stories, the gigantic pyramid of the Ryugyong Hotel dominates the skylines of Pyongyang.
		With 3,700 rooms and five (or seven?) revolving restaurants on its various peaks, the Ryugyong is one of the largest hotels in the world.
		Or it would be, if the hotel had ever been completed -- construction ceased in 1992, when money for the project ran out (this isn't Dubai after all).
	www.beanrocket.com /showTag.php?tag=ghost (1357 words)

	Work To Begin On World's Tallest Hotel (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		At 333 metres, the Abbco Rotana Hotel will surpass Burj Al Arab for the tallest operating hotel in the world, which is also in Dubai.
		The Ryugyong Hotel in Pyongyang, North Korea is 330 metres tall, but has not been completed.
		The hotel will be 72 stories and contain 684 guest rooms.
	www.hotelnewsresource.com /pdf/dyn/pdf.php?sid=8829 (80 words)

	All About Skyscrapers; Ryugyong Hotel (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		The Ryugyong Hotel in Pyongyang, North Korea is a sitting open shell of concrete and has been for many years.
		The Hotel started in 1989 and halted in 1992 due to financial problems.
		The Ryugyong Hotel would have been the worlds tallest hotel if completed, but is currently the worlds tallest incomplete building.
	www.allaboutskyscrapers.com /Ryugyong_Hotel.htm (111 words)

	Archinect : Event Calendar (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		The pyramidal hotel building, in prestressed reinforced concrete (a test was carried out in 1992 in Skopje, Macedonia)1, was interrupted at the roughcasting stage.
		An offspring of the cinema, the Ryugyong Hotel is in its turn the fulcrum of a city re-founded on cinematographic principles.
		Domus believes that the Ryugyong Hotel concrete pyramid — a constructional utopia, symbolic breach and urban landmark rolled into one — can today become a catalyst of ideas and visions for the future of Pyongyang.
	archinect.com /events/detail.php?id=E2350 (783 words)

	Ari on the web: A place to rest my head (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		The outer shell of this hotel which dominates the Pyongyang skyline was built in the 1980s, and the interior was, well, never built.
		The Yanggakdo Hotel is a slice of Cold War Bondesque paranoia writ large.
		The Yanggakdo Hotel is a surprisingly lively place, populated by a range of oddball characters, many of them up to no good, and oddball places for them to be odd and be no good.
	ariontheweb.blogspot.com /2005/03/place-to-rest-my-head.html (1433 words)

	Google Sightseeing » Post Archive » Opryland Hotel
		This is the Opryland Hotel in Nashville, Tennessee.
		The hotel also has its own golf course, and used to have a themepark too, which was closed in 1997 to make way for a 1.2 million square foot shopping mall, Opry Mills.
		A complete information about the Opryland Hotel in a minute could not have been provided to you other than this way, anything and everything that you wanted to know about this four starred hotel had already been provided to you through this short but complete review which tells all about this hotel.
	googlesightseeing.com /2005/11/14/opryland-hotel (569 words)

	2Bangkok.com Forum - View Single Post - Tallest Hotel in the World
		Yes, The Stamford in Singapore (226m) was the tallest before Baiyoke II was finished and shortly held the record.
		And the Ryugyong in Pyongyang is certainly an interesting contender - but never held any title as it is not completed.
		On the other hand, the "World's 50 tallest hotels" list on Emporis (http://www.emporis.com/en/bu/sk/st/tp/ty/ho/) contradicts what they write elesewhere, as it is headed by the Ryugyong (because here all "topped out" structures are counted):
	www.angkor.com /2bangkok/2bangkok/forum/showpost.php?p=876&postcount=4 (312 words)

	WorldTourWatch: World's Largest Cursed Pyramid Still Standing - Roadside America (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		The Ryugyong is actually sagging, and it is expected to collapse.
		Built between 1987 and 1992, the Ryugyong was a symbol of North Korean pride while it went up, with its 3,000 rooms and 3.9 million square feet of floor space.
		Now, however, the Ryugyong is reportedly no longer on the city's maps, and tour guides claim not to know where it is -- even though it is impossible to miss from any point in the city.
	www.roadsideamerica.com /tnews/NewsItemDisplay.php3?Tip_AttrId=12974 (262 words)

	TY: The Ryugyong or "Capital of Willows" Hotel - North Korea's "Secret" Hotel
		It's the Ryugyong Hotel in the Potong District of North Korea's capital city of Pyongyang.
		The hotel's story begins in 1987, when the North Korean government began construction at an estimated cost of $750 million, or 2% of the country's gross domestic product (GDP).
		Construction of the hotel was a cold war response to other massive skyscrapers in Asia, most notably South Korea's towering Stamford Hotel in Singapore.
	www.tomorrowyesterday.com /2006/04/the_ryugyong_or.html (330 words)

	Pyongyang: requalification of the Ryugyong Hotel \| Floornature (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		The magazine Domus and the Faculty of Architecture and Society of Milan Polytechnic are inviting students, architects, designers and artists to propose ideas for a functional re-definition of the Ryugyong Hotel building in Pyongyang, capital of North Korea.
		The Ryugyong Hotel was begun in 1987 for the Youth Olympics and is still unfinished (apparently for financial reasons).
		If it had been completed, the building would have housed 105 floors of an international hotel, a rounded plate of facilities on the ground floor and three mechanical lifts along the oblique walls of the pyramid's lateral bodies, as well as a series of rings for receptive spaces rotating around the top.
	www.floornature.it /worldaround/articolo.php/art445/4/en (169 words)

	Eric the Unread: The Missing Skyscraper
		If the building were ever completed it would be the world's tallest building intended for hotel use, and the seventh largest building in the world.
		Japanese newspapers estimated the cost of construction was $750 million[3]—2% of North Korea's GDP—and it is generally assumed construction came to a halt in 1992 due to lack of funding, acute electricity shortages, and the prevailing famine.
		You can see a bigger picture of the hotel here.
	erictheunred.blogspot.com /2006/01/missing-skyscraper.html (265 words)

	HotelChatter \|\| Ryugyong Hotel: North Korea's Not So Secret Hideout
		In one bloggers opinion the Ryugong Hotel is "the single most unsettling structure ever erected by the hand of man".
		The hotel was designed to have 3,000 rooms, yet if every single Pyongyang area visitor booked a weeklong stay, the hotel would still be hanging a vacancy sign on the front door.
		The North Korean's started this project back in 1987 and have spent around $750 million or 2% of the country's GDP on the Ryugyong Hotel.
	www.hotelchatter.com /story/2004/10/22/102731/59 (337 words)

	ZNO: Ryugyong Hotel, 3D Model, Pyongyang, North Korea
		Begun in 1987 to mark the occasion of the world youth games, and to this day unfinished (apparently for financial reasons), the Ryugyong Hotel is a pyramid 330 metres high (9th tallest bldg in world), 105 floors, 3000 rooms, $750 million (which is about 2% of North Korea's GDP).
		When operative, the building was to house the 105 floors of an international hotel, a rounded slab of services on the ground floor, and three sloping elevators along the pyramid’s oblique lateral walls, plus a series of rings to contain revolving restaurants at the apex.
		Interesting fact: A rusty construction crane remains at the very top of the building and has remained there since 1992, permanently gracing the PyongYang skyline.
	znonz.blogspot.com /2006/03/ryugyong-hotel-3d-model-pyongyang.html (165 words)

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