The deeply strange Ryugyong Hotel in the center of North Korea's capital city Pyongyang may finally be finished - 24 years after it was started.

Nearly 30 years—and an estimated $750 million—after its construction began, the empty and unused Ryugyong Hotel in Pyongyang remains a glorified telecommunications antenna.

Infamously ugly and unfinished, the shell of the Ryugyong Hotel dominates North Korea's capital Pyongyang. But work on the skyscraper began again last summer after a 16-year hiatus, and as the ...

Why wasn’t the Ryugyong Hotel finished? The failure of the hotel has had multiple iterations. In 2008, 16 years after construction first halted, Egyptian construction firm Orascom Group stepped ...

The frame was finished two years later - a little behind schedule, ... Then in 1992, after the collapse of ally and backer the Soviet Union, work stopped completely on Ryugyong Hotel.

The pyramid-shaped 105-story Ryugyong Hotel in Pyongyang, North Korea, appears to be almost complete in this picture on Sept. 23. With more than 3,000 rooms, North Korea's enormous pyramid-shaped ...

The Ryugyong, the 47th tallest building in the world, has 105 floors, which is more than any other hotel. But it will only have half of the 3,000 planned rooms and just one of the proposed three ...

The partially finished Ryugyong Hotel stands out on the Pyongyang skyline in 2009. Wikipedia Now, the hotel is ready to open for business.

The shiny three-sided facade gives the impression the hotel is nearly finished. ... North Korea began building the Ryugyong hotel in 1987, but construction was halted for 16 years when funds ran out.

This $3.1 billion hotel is taller than many of the most iconic buildings in the world, but it’s sat empty for decades. Set to be the jewel in the country’s crown, the 330-metre-tall structure ...

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