Looks really nice.

 

This thread isn't complete without the big beauty herself!

 

The Mansudae Apartment Complex

What's a 'ManSundae'? :lol:

 

I remember seeing a video showing an exhibition full of renders for new North Korean buildings... I can't find it :\

 

wait what are those buildings? hotels? do people really stay there? :lol:

 

^^Apartments for the elite, apparently.

 

North Korea by yuou, on Flickr


new skyline by laffaff, on Flickr

 

I don't get it. How could they have built all those new towers in less than two years, while the pyramid is still not finished even after 20 years. Something just does not add up here. :bash:

 

err?

edit: good to see you put a picture of Ryugyong Hotel in. What's with the ugly towers?

 

^^ Ugly towers????

Those IMO are some of the finest residential blocks I have seen. :cheers:

 

Completely agree :yes: especially since the residents do not pay a cent to live in them. Here an apartment like that 2 bedroom would cost around $500.000 which is an absolute rip off

 

Oh, they look very elegant during the day. At night they are lit up like a Las Vegas slot machine. I think the pictures were removed from this thread. To stay on topic, the Ryugyong Hotel lighting scheme may be similar. I am afraid they will take a very nice looking building and turn it into a flashing alien probe!

 

It might look something like this:

I'm actually not a big fan of the new apartments.

 

It was under full construction for about 10 years throughout its life, and on hold for 16.
1987-1992,
and
2008-2012

 

 

 

 

I've got to say, the concrete used for those buildings looks a lot worse than the concrete at the Ryugyong.

Terrible.

At least the interior is decent, as seen in the above video.

 

Also a video of some new projects proposed in Pyongyang:

Most of them are friggin' tacky.

 

The main square of the city. It is the 16th largest area in the world.

Kim Il Sung Square was opened in August 1954, shortly after the Korean War, but the main building was built already in the second wave of building in Pyongyang. People's Palace of study, the largest building in Pyongyang Korean style, opened in April 1982, exactly to the 70-th birthday of the Great Leader. In fact it is a huge library area of ​​100,000 square meters. m, with 30 million books.

A total of 21 months valiant Korean construction workers built this palace for 600 rooms with 34 distinctive roofs covered with 750,000 pieces of green tiles.

The remaining building area of the recovery period is similar to the Stalinist neoclassicism. Left - The Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the DPRK, at the center and right - the building of the Workers' Party of Korea. In the Central Department Store is visible tip of the number 1.

Ministry of Foreign Trade, the rarest object in the DPRK, which is not decorated with portraits of the two Kims, as Marx and Lenin. Along the perimeter of the area visible platform - here, of course, are all major military and labor parades of the country.

The ensemble of Kim Il Sung Square continues on the two cultural buildings- twins to the river - Korean Central History Museum, on which the "Trumpeter on the background of Mount Paektu, the Holy Mountain of the Revolution."

On the other hand - decorated with the flag of the Korean People's Army Art Gallery.

Kim Il Sung Square opens to the river Taedong and closes with majestic Monument of the Juche idea is the opposite of its shore.

This granite obelisk height of 170 meters, opened in 1982 for the 70th anniversary of Kim Il Sung, is especially beautiful at night.

At the foot of the monument to the 30-foot bronze sculpture of a group of three figures, representing a peasant, worker and intellectual labor. Cross-tools, they seem to look favorably on the front center of Pyongyang, lying on the opposite bank of the Taedong.

darriuss

 

Another new buildings in Pyongyang



Artists Apartments up Close in Pyongyang North Korea by Ray Cunningham, on Flickr


New apartment building Pyongyang North Korea by Ray Cunningham, on Flickr

 

^^ North Korea moved from 70s designs to 90s designs! Good for them.

 

What do you mean? There's pretty much nothing BUT commie blocks in Pyongyang.

What I like is that some of the new projects will have solar panels for power. And North Korea is actually building upwards! Looks like they desperately want to make some cash. The nuke power center, the dam, the port... Too bad many new skyscrapers are so badly designed, the USSR knew better than to start postmodernism.
The Ryugyong is still the epitome of beauty.

Umm, you just contradicted yourself. Besides, North Korea is stuck in the 1940s with "socialist reforms" from their GreatLeaderThereI'veSaidItPleaseDon'tKillMe every now and then. Also, there was never a modernist nor postmodernist movement in the former USSR, because both were state-rejected in favor of "socialist realism." Please do us all a favor, and get your facts straight if you're going to defend this kind of stuff.

 

New Port Tanchon

work completed

New Yongbyon nuclear reactor

New power Huichon

work completed

New free housing neighborhoods for the people in construction

Ryugyong Area

Future projects

Some new projects that are U/C or completed.

 

The People's Place of Culture is absolutely beautiful! The high-rise residential blocks aren't bad either. It looks like Pyongyang will be dotted with commie blocks just like Seoul.

 

Some nice buildings, shame about all the death and starvation.

 

The People's Place of Culture is absolutely beautiful! The high-rise residential blocks aren't bad either. It looks like Pyongyang will be dotted with commie blocks just like Seoul.

What do you mean? There's pretty much nothing BUT commie blocks in Pyongyang.

What I like is that some of the new projects will have solar panels for power. And North Korea is actually building upwards! Looks like they desperately want to make some cash. The nuke power center, the dam, the port... Too bad many new skyscrapers are so badly designed, the USSR knew better than to start postmodernism.
The Ryugyong is still the epitome of beauty.

 

What do you mean? There's pretty much nothing BUT commie blocks in Pyongyang.

Perhaps I should've rephrased that. I meant the city looks like it's building commie blocks on an increasingly large scale like Seoul did in the past when its population soared.:yes:

What I like is that some of the new projects will have solar panels for power. And North Korea is actually building upwards! Looks like they desperately want to make some cash. The nuke power center, the dam, the port... Too bad many new skyscrapers are so badly designed, the USSR knew better than to start postmodernism.

Solar panels - it's somewhat of a surprise, but makes sense if there is erratic power supply. And a nuclear power plant sounds disconcerting.

The Ryugyong is still the epitome of beauty.

I used to think it was hideous until cladding was done. Now it definitely is a stunner.:cheers: I'd love to see it at night.

 

New project:

Source: http://joshuaspodek.com/north-korean-monuments-part-2