Editing Ryugyong Hotel (section)

==Architecture==
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The Ryugyong Hotel is {{Convert|330|m|ft|abbr=on}} tall,<ref>{{cite news |title=North Korea's 'Hotel of Doom' to open 24 years after construction: by numbers |work=The Daily Telegraph |date=10 October 2011 |url=https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/asia/northkorea/8817892/North-Koreas-Hotel-of-Doom-to-open-24-years-after-construction-by-numbers.html |archive-url=https://ghostarchive.org/archive/20220112/https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/asia/northkorea/8817892/North-Koreas-Hotel-of-Doom-to-open-24-years-after-construction-by-numbers.html |archive-date=12 January 2022 |url-access=subscription |url-status=live}}{{cbignore}}</ref> making it the most prominent feature of Pyongyang's [[skyline]] and the [[List of tallest buildings in North Korea|tallest building in North Korea]].<ref>{{Cite web|last=Lakritz|first=Talia|title=North Korea's tallest building is an abandoned hotel that has never hosted a single guest – take a closer look at the 'Hotel of Doom'|url=https://www.insider.com/abandoned-hotel-north-korea-ryugyong-photos-2019-11|access-date=2020-10-23|website=Insider|archive-date=14 March 2022|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220314120143/https://www.insider.com/abandoned-hotel-north-korea-ryugyong-photos-2019-11|url-status=live}}</ref> Construction of the Ryugyong Hotel was intended to be completed in time for the 80th birthday of [[General Secretary of the Workers' Party of Korea]] and President [[Kim Il Sung]] in 1992;<ref>{{cite book|last=Hwang|first=Kyung Moon|title=A History of Korea|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=ITy7DQAAQBAJ&pg=PT316|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220314114409/https://books.google.com/books?id=ITy7DQAAQBAJ&pg=PT316|url-status=dead|archive-date=14 March 2022|edition=2nd|year=2016|publisher=Palgrave Macmillan|location=Basingstoke|isbn=978-1-137-57358-2|page=316}}</ref> if this had been achieved, it would have held the title of [[world's tallest hotel]].<ref>{{Cite web|author=Jacopo Prisco|title=Ryugyong Hotel: The story of North Korea's 'Hotel of Doom'|url=https://www.cnn.com/style/article/ryugyong-hotel-architecture-origins/index.html|access-date=2020-10-23|website=CNN|date=10 August 2019|language=en|archive-date=4 March 2022|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220304001805/https://www.cnn.com/style/article/ryugyong-hotel-architecture-origins/index.html|url-status=live}}</ref> Before [[Goldin Finance 117]] in China, it was considered the tallest unoccupied building in the world.<ref>{{cite web |first=Jacopo |last=Prisco |title=Ryugyong Hotel: The story of North Korea's 'Hotel of Doom' |url=https://edition.cnn.com/style/article/ryugyong-hotel-architecture-origins/index.html |publisher=CNN |date=10 August 2019 |access-date=10 January 2022 |quote=Still closed to this day, the Ryugyong Hotel is the world's tallest unoccupied building. |archive-date=6 February 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220206082221/https://edition.cnn.com/style/article/ryugyong-hotel-architecture-origins/index.html |url-status=live }}</ref><ref name="Tallest building unoccupied">{{cite web |author1=Guinness World Records |author-link1=Guinness World Records |title=Tallest building unoccupied |url=http://www.guinnessworldrecords.com/world-records/tallest-building-unoccupied |website=Guinness World Records |date=September 2015 |access-date=10 January 2022 |quote=Tallest building unoccupied |archive-date=7 January 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220107233342/https://www.guinnessworldrecords.com/world-records/tallest-building-unoccupied |url-status=live }}</ref>

The building consists of three wings, each measuring {{Convert|100|m|abbr=on}} long and {{Convert|18|m|abbr=on}} wide, lightly stepped once but otherwise sloping at 75 degrees to the ground,<ref name="Esquire"/> which converge at a common point to form a [[pinnacle]]. The building is topped by a truncated [[cone (geometry)|cone]] {{Convert|40|m|abbr=on}} wide, consisting of eight floors that are intended to rotate, topped by a further six static floors. The structure was originally intended to house five [[revolving restaurant]]s, and either 3,000 or 7,665 guest rooms, according to different sources.<ref name="revolving">{{cite book |last=Randl |first=Chad |title=Revolving Architecture: A History of Buildings That Rotate, Swivel, and Pivot |publisher=Princeton Architectural Press |location=New York |year=2008 |page=[https://archive.org/details/revolvingarchite00rand/page/133 133] |isbn=978-1-56898-681-4 |url=https://archive.org/details/revolvingarchite00rand/page/133 }}</ref><ref name="Quinones2003">{{cite book |last1=Quinones |first1=C. Kenneth |first2=Joseph |last2=Taggert |title=The Complete Idiot's Guide to Understanding North Korea |publisher=Alpha Books |location=Indianapolis |year=2003 |series=[[Complete Idiot's Guides]] |page=183 |chapter=The Economy: Supporting the Military |chapter-url=https://books.google.com/books?id=uWOSvlp9jwMC&pg=PA183 |isbn=978-1-59257-169-7 |lccn=2003113809 |oclc=54510387 |ol=8867625M}}</ref> According to Orascom's [[Khaled Bichara]] in 2009, the Ryugyong will not be just a hotel, but rather a mixed-use development, including "revolving restaurant" facilities along with a "mixture of hotel accommodation, apartments and business facilities".<ref name="doom"/>