The Ryugyong Hotel, as it’s officially named, was originally due to open in 1989. Although ground was broken on schedule in 1987, it’s been something of a monumental disaster. Construction of the ...

Before construction was finished, a massive 350-pound marble slab fell off and crashed into the nearby Prudential Center. ... Ryugyong Hotel. 2011 Getty Images / Getty Images News via Getty Images.

Uncover the history of the Ryugyong Hotel, ... dried up and so the huge skyline-dominating pyramid lay in a state of incompletion until the exterior was finally finished in 2011.

The 47-floor building was only 80% finished when the 1997 Asian financial crisis hit. ... Ryugyong Hotel, also known as Hotel Doom, in Pyongyang, North Korea. Feng Li/Getty Images.

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It is North Korea’s creepily empty and embarrassing project, the futuristic but failed Ryugyong Hotel that juts skyward in the centre of the capital Pyongyang. Read Today's Paper Tributes.

Dreamt up in the 1980s as a show of North Korea's Cold War might, the Ryugyong Hotel has never, even briefly, opened its doors. Instead, it's been towering above North Korean capital Pyongyang for ...

Dreamt up in the 1980s as a show of North Korea's Cold War might, the Ryugyong Hotel has never, even briefly, opened its doors. Instead, it's been towering above North Korean capital Pyongyang for ...

It is North Korea's empty and embarrassingly visable project, the futuristic but failed Ryugyong Hotel that juts skyward in the centre of the capital ...