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The building below is North Korean, do you think its a nice/cool skyscraper/building?
That building is a huge white elephant and uninhabitable.
So, just answer the poll.. Is the building cool/nice?
The building below is North Korean, do you think its a nice/cool skyscraper/building?
The building below is North Korean, do you think its a nice/cool skyscraper/building?
Why mention the location of the building? IS this some sort of attempt to see if people's opinion about the building will be influenced by the fact the DPRK is ran by a brutal communist dictator Or is this some attempt to see if we are going to say "man, them thar north Koreans sure know how to make thems perty buildings, I guess them commies aren't that bad"?
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-- 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.
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Hotel of Doom - Ryugyong Hotel - Pyongyang - Esquire
So, just answer the poll.. Is the building cool/nice?
No. It's an eyesore and a huge waste of money. I'm all for creative architecture for buildings (I'm a big fan of the "Dancing House" in Prague), but that only works if (A) the building is structurally sound, and (B) the architecture actually looks nice. This is built in the Stalinist Blah style.