PYONGYANG | Ryugyong Hotel - Reconstruction | 1,083 FT / 330 M | 105 FLOORS - Page 9

MolsonExport · #**161** Posted **Dec 19, 2008, 5:57 PM**

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Originally Posted by giallo

I remember reading blogs from people who had traveled to NK and toured the area around this building. I laughed when I read the part where the tour guide said that this building would be the tallest hotel when completed. I thought "How delusional can one be to think a building that has been on hold for 16 years can resume construction?'' I feel kind of stupid now.
Anyway, I hope it's safe and that the concrete hasn't been compromised.

New pics

from ZimasterX at SSC.

Wow. the lack of automobile traffic is shocking.

JDRCRASH · #**162** Posted **Dec 19, 2008, 6:23 PM**

^ There really isn't much of any kind of traffic on the streets of Pyongyang.

BrandonJXN · #**163** Posted **Dec 19, 2008, 6:26 PM**

^ Read this

http://1stopkorea.com/index.htm?nk-trip1.htm~mainframe

JDRCRASH · #**164** Posted **Dec 19, 2008, 6:33 PM**

And you assume based on one person's rare experience?

alphawolf · #**165** Posted **Dec 19, 2008, 6:34 PM**

I can't tell if this is a crack, shadowing, or something else.

from ZimasterX at SSC.

bbeliko · #**166** Posted **Dec 19, 2008, 6:35 PM**

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Originally Posted by MolsonExport

Wow. the lack of automobile traffic is shocking.

The fact that there is a mercedes on NK is shocking.......................or not

BrandonJXN · #**167** Posted **Dec 19, 2008, 6:49 PM**

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Originally Posted by JDRCRASH

And you assume based on one person's rare experience?

Huh?

MapleLeaf · #**168** Posted **Dec 19, 2008, 7:32 PM**

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Originally Posted by alphawolf

I can't tell if this is a crack, shadowing, or something else.

from ZimasterX at SSC.

But those "things" are all over the front...

Biff · #**169** Posted **Dec 19, 2008, 7:43 PM**

I like how so many on here are structural engineering experts able to accurately determine weakness and deficiencies of structures from photographs taken over a kilometer away. I heard it quite often in the Burj Dubai threads on how it is insanely tall and hopefully they have done wind load testing because there is no way it could withstand a sand storm or that it would surely collapse on itself under all that weight.

....the world is full of rouge construction companies running around building structures from a napkin sketch and some concrete.

FLBlake · #**170** Posted **Dec 20, 2008, 3:17 AM**

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Originally Posted by KevinFromTexas

It's interesting to think that this building started construction 9 years before SkyscraperPage was founded. We've all set here looking at the unfinished project and have sort of mocked it. It's strange seeing it actually being worked on after all these years. This thing started construction in 1986! I was 7 years old when they started it.

HA.....I was 5!

FLBlake · #**171** Posted **Dec 20, 2008, 3:20 AM**

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Originally Posted by Aleks0o01

Anyways, we always see it from the front. But are there any pics from the back?

Nope. That's where the 2x4's are holding up the cardboard.

bbeliko · #**172** Posted **Dec 20, 2008, 4:52 AM**

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Originally Posted by FLBlake

Nope. That's where the 2x4's are holding up the cardboard.

in the link posted above they have a story similar to what you stated, jsut not about the ryugyong

JDRCRASH · #**173** Posted **Dec 20, 2008, 5:12 AM**

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Originally Posted by ThreeHundred

Huh?

Wait a sec; what exactly were you talking about?

Nowhereman1280 · #**174** Posted **Dec 20, 2008, 6:58 AM**

^^^ It sounded to me like he just wanted us to read that interesting article...

Also, crazy to think that this has been around a good 2 years long than I have...

staff · #**175** Posted **Dec 21, 2008, 12:04 PM**

I absolutely love that this building is under construction again!
Such an intriguing tower, and all irrelevant politics aside - there are few building in the world that look as massive and intimidating as this one. I have to say I love it.

Bergenser · #**176** Posted **Dec 21, 2008, 4:03 PM**

Looks like there is a Mercedes(Probably just another similar high cost car) in North Korea, I thought they had economic Communism? Is something changing there recently that I don't know about?

JDRCRASH · #**177** Posted **Dec 22, 2008, 4:23 AM**

^Uhh, could it possibly be owned by a government spokesman?

Indescribable · #**178** Posted **Dec 22, 2008, 6:41 AM**

I'm really surprised this is going forward, given how long it sat as a shell.

yumiko ^.^ · #**179** Posted **Dec 22, 2008, 1:42 PM**

With the glass, it suddenly reminds me of Las Vegas

KingKrunch · #**180** Posted **Dec 29, 2008, 1:18 PM**

A slightly older picture showing construction of the base of the hotel: