Ryugyong

We got these picts in from a current expo in Galleries Lafayette…Nicolas Moulin made this reproduction of the Ryugyong Hotel in Pyongyang, North Korea. This scale model is the first element of a series that Moulin is devoting to futurist myths in architecture.

Our ‘Axis of Evil’ tees and hoodies are based on this hotel, a towering, empty concrete shell.
If the building were ever completed it would be the world’s tallest hotel, and the seventh largest building in the world. Today, however, it remains unfinished and uninhabited. The North Korean government has removed the Ryugyong from maps and stamps. Many sources describing the hotel consider it to be sinister, ominous and unsettling…ill.