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Ryugyong Hotel, a construction project that started in North Korea in the 1980s, is finally coming to an end. At the time, this was going to be the tallest building in the world. However, with the economy of the nation collapsing and the Soviet Union dissolving, the project lost its funding and put on hold indefinitely in 1992. For 16 years, it just sat there, looking like a dystopian relic you would only see in video games. The pyramid-shaped hotel, the largest structure in North Korea and one of the tallest hotels in the world, will open in 2012, 33 years after it was originally set to accept guests. Construction on the project was stalled for 15 years until 2008, when Egyptian conglomerate Orascom committed $400 million to finishing it, Architizer reported. The tower's sleek and shiny facade was finally completed this year. The hotel, which has more than 3,000 rooms, will reportedly have five revolving restaurants. It is the only hotel in the world with more than 100 stories. CNNgo ranked the Ryugyong Hotel as the ugliest buildings in the world. I still have no idea why North Korea even decided to build such a hotel in the first place.
(http://edition.cnn.com/2008/WORLD/europe/10/22/ugliest.buildings/#cnnSTCPhoto)