Rabu, 30 Maret 2016

Amazing Structures

Hello! Long time no see, right?

Now, I want to tell you-or maybe describe one of the most amazing structures in the world.
Are you curious?


The Ryugyong Hotel, also called Yu-Kyung Hotel. Located at Pyongyang, North Korea. It is an unfinished 105-storey pyramid shaped skyscraper in Pyongyang. Its name mean "capitalof willows" is also one of the historical names for Pyongyang.


Also known as the 105 Building, because of its number of floors. This hotel has a height of 330 metres, making it the most prominent feature of Pyongyang's skyline and by far the tallest structure in North Korea. Construction of The Ryugyong was intended to be completed intime for the 13th World Festival of Youth and Students in June 1989, had this been achieved, it would have held the ttle of world's tallest hotel. And it's urrently the world's 49th tallest building. The building consists of three wings, each measuring 100 metres long, and 18 metres wide. It's topped by a truncated cone 40 metres, consisting of eight floors that are intended to rotate, topped by a further six static floors.

The structures was originally intended to five restaurants, and either 3000 or 7665 guest rooms. And some blogs said that the Ryugyong hotel won;t be just a htel, but rather a mixed-use development, including "revolving restaurant" facilities along with a mixture of hotel accomodatin, apartments, and business facilities.





The plan for a large hotel was reportedly a Cold War response to the completion of the world's tallest hotel, the Westin Stamford Hotel in Singapore, in 1986 by the South Korean company Ssang Yong Group. Construction began in 1987, but in 1992, after the building had reached its full architectural height, work was halted due to the economic crisis in Norh Korea (after the fall of Soviet Union). For over a decade, the unfinished building sat vacant and without windows, fixtures, or fittings, appearing a massive concrete shell. A rusting construction cane remained at the top, which the BBC called "a reminder of the totalitarian state's thwarted ambition".

In April 2008, after 16 years of inactivity, work on the building was restarted by the Egyptian company Orascom Group, which has entered into a US$400 million deal with the North Korean government to build and a 3G mobile phone network, said that their telecommuniations deal was not directly related to the Ryugyong hotel. The exterior of this hotel finally completed in 2011.


March 2013, plans to partial opening for the hotel were suspended. Kempinski clarified its earlier statements saying that only "initial discussions" had ever occured, but that no agreement had been signed because "market entry is not currently possible". Commentators suggested that international tensions related to the 2013 North Korea nuclear test, economic crisis that delays in the construction probably played a part. 


What do you think? Will Ryugyong Hotel's construction finished soon?