Phantom of Doom

This is AWESOME... They tried to build this shit but it didn't work.  This is a hotel in Pyongyang, North Korea apparently it was never finished and has sat there as an eyesore since the 80's. I LOVE THIS!!!

"In 1987, Baikdoosan Architects and Engineers put its first shovel into the ground and more than twenty years later, after North Korea poured more than two percent of its gross domestic product to building this monster, the hotel remains unoccupied, unopened, and unfinished."

You have to read the whole story that was in esquire here.  The best part about this building are all these renderings I found online, people love this building obviously ha ha ha ha!  Who TRIES to Build this SHIT!

This video is even better:



As Esquire so elegantly puts it: "The Demolition S How video by the Italian architects Extraneo might not be as conceptual as Ryugyong.org, but this piece of architectural porn sure is fun to watch. The video (which you can watch above) was mounted as part of the exhibition Fiction Pyongyang, curated in part by Stefano Boeri, who also collected 120 speculative designs for the hotel in the June 2006 domus magazine. The designs, he says, "have forced it to reveal its icy nature, its irresistible fascination as a fragile alien meteorite." The worst building in the world is also, we now know, "the only built piece of science fiction in the contemporary world." And it's true. Demolition S How is all Blade Runner-style flying ads and soaring concrete, and the video reminds us that the worst building in the world is the closest humans have come to building a Death Star."