Ryugyŏng Hotel

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Ryugyŏng Hotel
Ryugyŏng Hotel
The Ryugyŏng Hotel in August 2011
Basic data
Place: Pyongyang , North Korea
Construction time : 1987-1992; since 2008
Status : under construction (final height reached)
Architectural style : Modern
Architect : Baikdoosan Architects
Use / legal
Usage : hotel
Technical specifications
Height : 330 m
Height to the top: 330 m
Height to the roof: 330 m
Rank (height) : 1st place (North Korea)
1st place (Pyongyang)
Floors : 105
Usable area : 360,000 m²
Building material : Structure: reinforced concrete ;
Facade: glass, aluminum
Korean spelling
Korean alphabet : 류경 호텔
Hanja : 柳 京 호텔
Revised Romanization : Ryugyeong Hotel
McCune-Reischauer : Ryugyŏng Hot'el

The Ryugyŏng Hotel ( 류경 호텔 Ryugyŏng Hot'el ) is a hotel project under construction in the North Korean capital Pyongyang since 1987 , which was originally intended to be the tallest hotel in the world at 330 meters and one of the tallest skyscrapers in Asia. The facade was completed in July 2011. An opening date has still not been set.

Ryugyŏng ("City of Willows ") is a historical name for the city of Pyongyang.

architecture

The skyscraper, 330 m high, consists of three sloping wings that rise at an angle of 75 degrees and come together at the top. This makes the building look like a pyramid from a distance . The floor plan corresponds to an isosceles Y- shape . Each wing has a length of 100 m and a width of 18 m. The whole thing is crowned by a truncated cone made up of eight rotating floors, on which a cone made of six non-rotating floors is enthroned.

The facades are made of mirrored glass. The elevators lead up to the ends of the three outer wings. Five revolving restaurants were planned at the top of the structure . The hotel is to consist of 3000 rooms, which are spread over 105 floors. In addition, casinos, nightclubs and lounges are planned.

Building history

Construction of the skyscraper began in 1987. The opening was originally planned for June 1989 at the beginning of the 13th World Festival of Youth and Students in Pyongyang. However, this deadline could not be kept due to material and construction problems. When the construction work was stopped in 1992, only the reinforced concrete scaffolding had been completed in its full height. The real reasons for the stop or a possible resumption of the construction project could only be speculated until 2008, as the North Korean authorities hushed up the ruins, which were visible from afar . The official city maps and maps did not show the location of the hotel either.

In May 2008 a South Korean politician reported that North Korea had allegedly agreed to expand the network with the Egyptian conglomerate Orascom Group , whose cell phone subsidiary Orascom Telecom is to operate the planned North Korean cell phone network. Orascom has confirmed that it has agreed to "beautify" the building as part of a $ 400 million deal. In addition, Orascom secured exclusive usage rights for the Ryugyong for 100 years.

In 2008, North Korean authorities announced that the hotel would be completed on the 100th birthday of North Korea's founder, Kim Il-sung (1912-1994). The Ryugyong Hotel will have a mixed use with a rotating restaurant, hotel rooms, apartments and business premises. At the beginning of 2009, the assembly of facade elements began, and Orascom announced the start of interior work for 2010, which should last at least two years.

At the end of 2012, the Kempinski hotel chain announced that it would operate a hotel with 150 rooms on the top floors from July or August 2013, but put these plans on hold in March 2013. Neither Kempinski nor its Chinese partners had signed a contract, since market entry in North Korea is currently not possible.

Since 2018, the facade, equipped with LED pixels, has been illuminating the city's silhouette from afar.

Records

The Ryugyŏng Hotel, the official height of which was initially given as 300 meters and later 330 meters, was the tallest building in the world planned as a hotel at the time and would have exceeded the Swissôtel The Stamford in Singapore (226 m) as the previous record holder by half. In the meantime, the Ryugyŏng Hotel has been surpassed by the Rose Tower in Dubai, which opened in 2010 and retained this title until 2012. The Ryugyŏng Hotel would currently be the sixth highest hotel in the world (as of April 2019).

The building is the second tallest on the entire Korean peninsula after the Lotte World Tower . When the shell was completed, it was the seventh-tallest skyscraper in the world and the first building outside of New York and Chicago with more than 100 floors.

photos

  • 2005

  • 2007

  • April 2010

  • August 2011

  • December 2018

See also

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ 《압록강 의 노래》 In: 세기 와 더불어 Vol. 5, Naenara.kp .
  2. ↑ Samuel Medina: Ryugyong Hotel Exterior Completed. architizer, July 22, 2011, archived from the original on July 19, 2012 ; Retrieved July 26, 2011 .
  3. ^ Chad Randl: Revolving Architecture. A History of Buildings that Rotate, Swivel, and Pivot. Princeton Architectural Press, New York NY 2008, ISBN 978-1-56898-681-4 , p. 133.
  4. ↑ Barbara Demick: North Korea in the midst of a mysterious building boom. In: Los Angeles Times . September 27, 2008, p. 2 , accessed on January 2, 2009 .
  5. ^ Georg Fahrion: The pyramid builders of Pyongyang. In: Financial Times Germany . May 8, 2011, archived from the original on May 9, 2011 ; Retrieved May 10, 2011 .
  6. ↑ Donald Kirk: Grand Illusion. In: Forbes magazine (USA). October 27, 2008, accessed July 5, 2009 .
  7. ↑ a b Will 'Hotel of Doom' ever be finished? In: BBC News. October 15, 2009, accessed October 13, 2009 .
  8. ↑ Donald Kirk: Orascom gets into pyramid business. In: Asia Times . October 23, 2008, accessed November 24, 2010 .
  9. ↑ Sangwon Yoon: Kempinski to Operate World's Tallest Hotel in North Korea. In: Bloomberg. November 1, 2012, accessed January 2, 2012 .
  10. ↑ Kempinski Freezes 'Hotel Of Doom' Plans In North Korea. In: NK News. March 28, 2013, accessed March 30, 2013 .
  11. ↑ RARE! Ryugyong hotel by night! - Pyongyang North Korea - 2018 (류경 호텔 에서 의 1 박 - 북한 평양 2018 년). Accessed January 6, 2020 (German).

Web links

Commons : Ryugyŏng-Hotel  - collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Coordinates: 39 ° 2 ′ 11 "  N , 125 ° 43 ′ 50"  E