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Is this a cool building?

Is the [b]North Korean[/b] building nice/cool?

  • Yes, one of the nicest/coolest buildings I have seen..

    Votes: 15 16.1%
  • Yes, definetely..

    Votes: 28 30.1%
  • Its ok..

    Votes: 12 12.9%
  • Nothing special..

    Votes: 5 5.4%
  • Nah, not nice/cool

    Votes: 26 28.0%
  • Something else(explain)...

    Votes: 7 7.5%

  • Total voters
    93

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The building below is North Korean, do you think its a nice/cool skyscraper/building?

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That building is a huge white elephant and uninhabitable.
 
So, just answer the poll.. Is the building cool/nice?

Functionality is, in my opinion, integral to my opinion of the building, so my answer is no, the building is not cool.
 
The building below is North Korean, do you think its a nice/cool skyscraper/building?

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No. It looks like a ridiculously expensive hotel that never opened. Oh wait. That's exactly what it is. Not only that but look at what surrounds it. In the words of pretty much anybody who's ever bought a house 'location, location, location'.
 
I've seen a building like that before but no one ever used the one that I saw before something about being uninhabitable....I dunno....:mrgreen:
 
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"?
 
The design looks cool, it's just not functional, which you'll see, most americans take into account. You don't think we built the empire state building just to have it look good? No.

I don't care who built it, once it becomes habitable and functional, I think we can all fully vote.

As I said though, I do think the "look", the outside, looks cool.
 
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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"?

The first...
 
I have to admit it looks very cool...funny thing is my first reaction was to say something negative about it because of our general perception of North Korea.!!?
 
From a distance it really looks cool (original post), but as you get closer it starts looking like a huge concrete eyesore.

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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



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YouTube - Ryugyong Hotel North Korea Pyongyang
 
The one picture looked like it had reflective glass but the close up's don't show that. It does look decidedly less cool in the close ups.
 
These photos only show one side, so the glass may be on another, or a new addition to try and spruce it up.
The video only shows a portion of another side.
Then again, it may be an altered photo.?
 
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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.
 
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My favorite building of all time is the IAC building on the West Side Highway

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It's frightening looking.
 
I wonder how many North Koreans they could've saved from starvation with the 2% of North Korea's GDP they spent to build this abomination.
 
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It looks like a place skeletor would live if he lived in north korea.
 
It looks like something out of Blade Runner kinda,
 
Seems like people here cannot overlook the fact that the building is North Korean..

I think the building on the picture looks rather cool and special. The article the picture is taken from btw, is an article about how North Korea is now putting glass on the building.
 
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.

This is not a question about the feasibility of the building, but simply if you think it looks cool on the picture..
 
It's OK I guess. The close ups are pretty ugly though.
 
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