Ryugyong Hotel: One of the great trajedies of modern architecture, this monster hotel was started way back in the early 80s, just before North Korea had all those sanctions placed on it. The situation in North Korea deteriorated until construction finally ground to a halt due to budget cuts in 1992 where this fantastic looking [...]

I talked briefly in my last post about the burj dubai tower in Dubai. It really is a credit to Adrian Smith (the architect) who designed one of the most stunning and beautiful super tall high rise skyscrapers the world has ever seen. The tower was topped of earlier this year at 818 metres with [...]

A lot of the most interesting and powerful happenings in the architecture world are no longer happening in the western world. Over in Dubai there are scores of skyscrapers going up.. including 2 that claim they will be the tallest in the world. Meanwhile in China experts are predicting there is going to be 50,000 [...]

Some of my favorite statues are the relly unusual ones (often with a really dodgy sense of humor) This collection of really wierd ones from around the world:

This rather fantastic example really shows the architects sense of quirky humour. I am pleased that the the officials in charge allowed them to put up this rather [...]