Well, that’s one way to get rid of the Ryugyong Hotel

This is a cool Youtube video:

Here’s the URL if the video doesn’t show on your browser.

(HT to reader)

UPDATE: Here’s the background on the video:

demolition S how is a surreal and provocative video installation produced by extraneo group presenting the results of the consultation of ideas, launched by Domus and by the Politechnic of Milan in June 2005, on the 330 metre Ryugyong Hotel built at Pyongyang, the capital of North Korea in the early Eighties.

Fiction Pyongyang, curated by Joseph Grima together with Stefano Boeri and Armin Linke, is a video-portrait of Pyongyang, North Korea presented in Triennale of Milan, the Italian Pavilion 2006 Venice Biennial and traveling in 2007 to Architecture Foundation in London.

Interesting stuff.

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2 Comments

  1. Gravatar Wedge your flag
    Posted February 4, 2007 at 7:00 pm | Permalink

    Wow, how cool is that?

  2. Posted February 4, 2007 at 7:10 pm | Permalink

    Pretty damn cool, I’d say.

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