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    The Ryugyong Hotel in Pyongyang, North Korea is an unfinished 105-story triangular pyramid-shaped building that has been under construction since 1987. It remains the world's tallest unoccupied building at 1,080 feet tall. Construction was halted in 1992 due to economic troubles when North Korea lost its main trading partner. While the exterior is finished, the inside was never completed. Finishing the hotel is estimated to cost $2 billion, around 5% of North Korea's GDP. Though unoccupied, the building is used for propaganda by displaying messages on over 100,000 LED screens on its surface every night.

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    The Ryugyong Hotel in Pyongyang, North Korea is an unfinished 105-story triangular pyramid-shaped building that has been under construction since 1987. It remains the world's tallest unoccupied building at 1,080 feet tall. Construction was halted in 1992 due to economic troubles when North Korea lost its main trading partner. While the exterior is finished, the inside was never completed. Finishing the hotel is estimated to cost $2 billion, around 5% of North Korea's GDP. Though unoccupied, the building is used for propaganda by displaying messages on over 100,000 LED screens on its surface every night.

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    The Ryugyong Hotel in Pyongyang, North Korea is an unfinished 105-story triangular pyramid-shaped building that has been under construction since 1987. It remains the world's tallest unoccupied building at 1,080 feet tall. Construction was halted in 1992 due to economic troubles when North Korea lost its main trading partner. While the exterior is finished, the inside was never completed. Finishing the hotel is estimated to cost $2 billion, around 5% of North Korea's GDP. Though unoccupied, the building is used for propaganda by displaying messages on over 100,000 LED screens on its surface every night.

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    The Ryugyong Hotel in Pyongyang, North Korea is an unfinished 105-story triangular pyramid-shaped building that has been under construction since 1987. It remains the world's tallest unoccupied building at 1,080 feet tall. Construction was halted in 1992 due to economic troubles when North Korea lost its main trading partner. While the exterior is finished, the inside was never completed. Finishing the hotel is estimated to cost $2 billion, around 5% of North Korea's GDP. Though unoccupied, the building is used for propaganda by displaying messages on over 100,000 LED screens on its surface every night.

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    NAME:_______________________________________________ SCORE:___________________________

    YR. & SECTION:_____________________________________ DATE: ____________________________

    PERFORMANCE TASK # 1
    Instruction: Research about famous buildings around the world that are triangular in
    shape specifically right triangles. Print a picture and write down it’s description and
    history.
    Ryugyong Hotel in Pyongyang, North Korea

    At 1,080 feet, North Korea's Ryugyong Hotel in Pyongyang is the tallest unoccupied
    building in the world, according to Guinness World Records. The 105-story "Hotel of
    Doom," which is also North Korea's tallest building, has never hosted a single guest, but it
    remains a subject of international fascination. Construction on the Ryugyong Hotel began
    in Pyongyang in 1987 but halted due to economic troubles in North Korea. When the Soviet
    Union collapsed in 1991, North Korea lost its main trading partner and source of aid,
    spurring an economic crisis.
    The hotel reached its full height in 1992, but the inside was never completed. Despite
    its aversion to foreign visitors, North Korea does have several functional hotels in
    Pyongyang. Until the Ryugyong Hotel is completed, the Yanggakdo International Hotel is
    the city's largest, and the Ryanggang Hotel is widely regarded as the fanciest. Its pyramid
    shape dominates the Pyongyang skyline from miles away. Each of the building's three
    sections, which join together at the top, are 328 feet (100 meters) long, according to Atlas
    Obscura. At the very top of the building, an eight-story cone-shaped section was supposed
    to feature revolving restaurants.
    More external work began on the hotel in 2008 with the installation of glass panels
    over its entire surface. An Egyptian contractor, the Orascom group, took over the project
    and revived construction in 2008, according to Reuters. It would cost an estimated $2
    billion to finally finish the Ryugyong Hotel, according to Reuters. North Korea's gross
    domestic product is around $40 billion, according to the CIA's World Factbook. That makes
    the cost of finishing the building around 5% of the country's entire GDP. In the meantime,
    North Korea has found other uses for the building.
    Pyongyang celebrated May Day in 2009 with a fireworks display framing the
    Ryugyong Hotel. It serves as a dramatic backdrop for arts troupes' performances. The
    troupes' performances usually contain propaganda messages. North Korea sent an arts
    troupe to the 2018 Winter Olympics in South Korea. It also provides a backdrop for
    propaganda messages made up of over 100,000 LED screens. In 2018, lighting designer
    Kim Yong Il created a light show comprised of political slogans and party symbols. It plays
    on the building's surface for several hours every night, according to the Associated Press.
    The building itself still doesn't have electricity, and there's no expected completion date, but
    there have been new signs of construction progress.

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