The mother ship, the mother ship.
Posted on 01/31/2008 10:14:49 PM PST by americanophile
A picture doesn't lie -- the one-hundred-and-five-story Ryugyong Hotel is hideous, dominating the Pyongyang skyline like some twisted North Korean version of Cinderella's castle. Not that you would be able to tell from the official government photos of the North Korean capital -- the hotel is such an eyesore, the Communist regime routinely covers it up, airbrushing it to make it look like it's open -- or Photoshopping or cropping it out of pictures completely.
Even by Communist standards, the 3,000-room hotel is hideously ugly, a series of three gray 328-foot long concrete wings shaped into a steep pyramid. With 75 degree sides that rise to an apex of 1,083 feet, the Hotel of Doom (also known as the Phantom Hotel and the Phantom Pyramid) isn't the just the worst designed building in the world -- it's the worst-built building, too. In 1987, Baikdoosan Architects and Engineers put its first shovel into the ground and more than twenty years later, after North Korea poured more than two percent of its gross domestic product to building this monster, the hotel remains unoccupied, unopened, and unfinished.
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I don’t think it’s as ugly as the Archdiocese of Los Angeles’ Our Lady of the Angels Cathedral, aka, the raj mahoney.
Maybe my post should've read, "Oops. Leebah?"
But I didn't want to sound racist.
The Clinton double wide? I don’t see any wheels....
Not so bad, actually. Our Lady of the Angels cathedral in LA has it beat by a country mile. And Boston City Hall, too.
Gotcha. ;-)
You, sir are pure genius! ROFL! Oh please! Oh please!
Behold the
National Library of the Czech Republic in Prague
BTW, the rest of the previous are a riot with Kunstlers commentary...
The mother ship, the mother ship.
LOL. I’m about 30 miles from the Space Needle. It’s nice to hear someone “needle” it.
Gee, I'm not sure...
Say what? The Space Needle's cool.
I am a lifelong San Francisco native, and have seen the Golden Gate Bridge almost every day for over forty years. It's supposedly the most photographed man-made structure in the world.
I don't get it. It's ok. But it's not THAT big of a deal. Is it because it's red?*
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*Actually, the official name of the color of the rust-resistant paint on the GG Bridge is "International Orange." But it's red.
Great idea, but you know who would end up paying for a complete rebuild of the damn thing. Might be worth it just to get rid of the “diplomats”, though!
And got rid of that hideous Kingdome thing.
I used to live about 30 miles south of the Space Needle. We had our own architectural monstrosity called the Tacoma Dome.
They look an awful lot like minarets to me... stick some speakers at the top and pop in a cd of your favorite call to prayer and you’re good to go. If Seattle has another riot it’ll look just like Beirut.
OH Monk that is funny LOLOLOL!
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