The World's First 100-Story Hotel: Built Over 28 Years, Still Unopened and a 'White Elephant'
There are many records in this world, some can be easily broken, but some are unattainable. In the field of tourism architecture, there are also many records. Today, let's talk about the first 100-story building in Asia. To be honest, when I saw this news, the editor was a little unbelievable. There are still such buildings in the world, and they have existed for 28 years! It's really surprising.
This building is the Ryugyong Hotel in North Korea. From the outside, it looks very unique, like a triangle taking off. It looks quite good. The building is 330 meters high and began construction in 1987. It was originally planned to build a hotel with a name like '100-story Hotel', but now it's been 28 years and it hasn't opened yet.
It is reported that the construction cost 530 million. At that time, this was a huge sum of money. So there were financial difficulties during construction. After all, this amount of money was too much for that era. In addition, there may have been some technical problems encountered during construction. Although the exterior is good, it looks like a small hill, but unfortunately it was ultimately a 'dead end'.
In 2008, the building was restarted, but this time it only completed the external decoration, and the interior was still unrenovated, which is why the hotel hasn't been able to open and has become a popular tourist check-in spot after the external construction was completed. However, when it comes to breaking records, this building is not because of its height, but because of its floor number. This building is the world's first manually built 100-story building. But who knows that spending 530 million ultimately ended in failure.
Now this building can only be used as a landmark and a tourist check-in spot. As for other uses, the editor can't really think of them. However, the boss has the courage to do this, and he is indeed very awesome. It's a pity that he couldn't achieve his goals. But it's very admirable. What do you think?
