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Offline Kosh

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Skyscraper Vaporware
on: October 15, 2009, 10:41:00 pm
There's few better examples of this anywhere in the world than the Ryugyong Hotel in North Korea. According to wikipedia the hotel started construction in 1987 (!), appearently two years after I was born and................................it still hasn't been finished. I suppose given that they are spending about 2% of the country's ENTIRE GDP on just this one building, it isn't a surprise. According to a BBC news article about it construction just recently started again and it is scheduled to be completed by 2012. I just wonder :wtf: were these guys thinking?

Given the large amount of doomsday hype around 2012, it certainly puts a new spin on the hotel's nickname of "Hotel of Doom". :p
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Re: Skyscraper Vaporware
Reply #1 on: October 15, 2009, 11:03:15 pm
What are you talking about, citizen? The Great Hotel is coming along just according to plan!

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Re: Skyscraper Vaporware
Reply #2 on: October 15, 2009, 11:25:49 pm
Apparently, even though they've restarted construction, only one side of the building has windows installed.  I'd assume that anyone attempting to take a picture of the other two sides is shot on sight. :p
 

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Re: Skyscraper Vaporware
Reply #3 on: October 15, 2009, 11:41:43 pm
The concrete in much of the building is cracked, and the water doesn't work...
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Reply #4 on: October 16, 2009, 03:16:53 am
Details, details!
 

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Reply #5 on: October 16, 2009, 03:37:09 am
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Re: Skyscraper Vaporware
Reply #6 on: October 16, 2009, 08:38:24 am
This begs the question, besides kidnapped Japanese civilians what foreigners are staying in Pyongyang?

Even if they've got a hotel from the set of Blade Runner the DPRK doesn't seem like a prime tourist location.
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Offline Sushi

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Re: Skyscraper Vaporware
Reply #7 on: October 16, 2009, 09:40:22 am
I thought this was going to be about the new WTC tower. :p

 

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Re: Skyscraper Vaporware
Reply #8 on: October 16, 2009, 01:43:59 pm
Its the tower you blow up in mercenaries.
they said it was still WIP when you esplode it in the future, so...
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Re: Skyscraper Vaporware
Reply #9 on: October 16, 2009, 04:21:49 pm
Wait really? Was that the first Ace contract?
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Offline Kosh

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Re: Skyscraper Vaporware
Reply #10 on: October 16, 2009, 06:50:14 pm
Quote from: StarSlayer on October 16, 2009, 08:38:24 am
This begs the question, besides kidnapped Japanese civilians what foreigners are staying in Pyongyang?

Even if they've got a hotel from the set of Blade Runner the DPRK doesn't seem like a prime tourist location.



There actually are some tourists in the DPRK.

http://www.hasbrouck.org/articles/DPRK.html
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