Was the caldding manufactured just recently or was it sitting in a warehouse all this time?
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I'm currently reading a book called "Under the Loving Care of the Fatherly Leader" about North Korea in which this building is mentioned.
The reason that only the shell was completed was because NK only had the natural resources to cast the masonry (this is not a steel supported structure apparantly). However they had no way of producing the glass, elevators, etc and could not import them because of their low credit score (NK stiffed all of the people who poaned them money.
I don't know about you all, but my feeling is, this is coming the most futuristic, clean, and simple shaped iconic building in appearance that we ever had, like a rocket-mountain far away soft blue look skyline of our today modern times and if not only that, the real futuristic buildings of animation films of past 60ies to be reality now, even more than other more complicated buildings like BD, T101, SHFC and etc. It is just a simple high Mercedes-Benz pointed star floorprint extruded in a 3D mountain shape and it is coming terrific beautiful. So the future sci-fi buildings that we just see in films is now in this one. Good to seen it finished now. I would say it is one of my best preferences of design shaped buildings, because its simplicity and unique different.
Will the 3 edges be terraces to walk outside or covered with glass also? Are
there bookings in advance for the "Grand Opening" of this "Eccentric" hotel for
only the local elite or for a more foreign presence with national clout? It's defenitely impressive and hoping a gesture to open up more clout to the world
and publicity...
i have a sneaky feeling that the extent of all this is simply to reclad the building and perhaps spruce up the grounds and finish a handful of floors. i doubt the have the resources (materials and money) to finish the building in its entirety.
i have a sneaky feeling that the extent of all this is simply to reclad the building and perhaps spruce up the grounds and finish a handful of floors. i doubt the have the resources (materials and money) to finish the building in its entirety.
It's being reclad by a mobile communications company, so you're correct that the hotel will not be fitted out.
In the original renderings the whole tower was clad in blue glass, but it looks like they've changed the top to have those opaque white stripes so they can hide all their equipment behind it.
i have a sneaky feeling that the extent of all this is simply to reclad the building and perhaps spruce up the grounds and finish a handful of floors. i doubt the have the resources (materials and money) to finish the building in its entirety.
Hey, an unused but otherwise complete building still looks better on the cityscape than an unfinished concrete shell.
So is Chernobyl's Sarcophagus, but we all know it is a ticking time bomb. Not saying this building is not OK, but just standing does not mean a whole lot.
that doesn't mean anything. plenty structurally unsound buildings still standing that for whatever reason, haven't collapsed. wouldn't want to be near it during an earthquake. should north korea integrate into the south at some point, the first thing that will happen will be to implode that building.
that doesn't mean anything. plenty structurally unsound buildings still standing that for whatever reason, haven't collapsed. wouldn't want to be near it during an earthquake. should north korea integrate into the south at some point, the first thing that will happen will be to implode that building.
I'm well aware, but I just find it funny that a handful of people made comments on how poor the quality of the original concrete was, and yet it has held up for almost 20 years now. Crappy exposed concrete, especially in a city with harsh weather like Pyongyang, would have given out a long time ago to the elements.
I'm well aware, but I just find it funny that a handful of people made comments on how poor the quality of the original concrete was, and yet it has held up for almost 20 years now. Crappy exposed concrete, especially in a city with harsh weather like Pyongyang, would have given out a long time ago to the elements.
20 years really isn't a long time and given what i read about how long buildings can last, i couldn't see why this building could sit there another century before it started falling apart. however, being fit for occupation would be an entirely different matter.
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