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  • January 2008
    • Behold, the Worst Building Ever

      Behold, the Worst Building Ever

      The Ryugyong Hotel in downtown Pyongyang is surely one of the worst architectural failures in history, Eva Hagberg writes in Esquire : Not only has the 105-story building—which sucked up an estimated 2% of North Korea’s annual GDP from 1987 to '92—never opened, but the pyramidal “hotel of doom” is such an eyesore that the government routinely edits it out of official skyline photos. More »

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      North Korea   Pyongyang   buildings

  • December 2007
    • Best New Buildings of 2007

      Best New Buildings of 2007

      Looks weren't all that mattered to BusinessWeek and Architectural Record in choosing their 2007 architectural awards. "Contribution to business" was important, too. Their top picks: InterActive Corp. Headquarters, New York—Gehry Partners Young Center for the Performing Arts, Toronto—Kuwabara Payne McKenna Blumberg Architects US Census Bureau Headquarters, Suitland, Md.—Skidmore, Owings & Merrill More »

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      list   architecture   green building   buildings   top 10

  • July 2007

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