Ryugyong Hotel
The 105-story Ryugyong Hotel in Pyongyang, North Korea, was once dubbed "the worst building in the history of mankind" by Esquire magazine.1 In July 2008, reports surfaced that construction had resumed on the pyramid-shaped hotel after 16 years.2
Fast Facts
- Ryugyong Hotel: 105 stories, 3,000 rooms1
- Hotel frame: 1,083 feet2
- Hotel has three sides; shaped like a pyramid
- Nicknames: "Hotel of Doom" and "Phantom Hotel"2
- 1987: Construction began on the hotel2
- 1992: Work stopped on the hotel2
- 2008: Egyptian company began refurbishing rooms in the hotel2
- Cost estmates to finish construction on the hotel as high as $2 billion2
- Original plans called for seven revolving restaurants at the top of the hotel3
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