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 Domus launches a competition of ideas to picture the future of the unfinished Ryugyong Hotel pyramid, 330 metres of cement that tower over the North Korean capital like a "ruin of the future".
Competition for architects, designers, students, researchers and artists from around the world.
In collaboration with the Faculty of Architecture and Society of the Polytechnic of Milan, in the June edition of domus the magazine promotes a consultation for ideas for the completion and functional redefining of the Ryugyong Hotel building in the capital Pyongyang.
The Ryugyong Hotel is a 330 metre tall pyramid, with a y shaped base, located on a hill in the centre of the city. Begun in 1987 on the occasion of the World Youth Games, it still remains unfinished.
Its construction was interrupted in the building shell phase and today, although incomplete, it represents the main vertical point of reference for the city, visible from every corner of the territory, and unprecedented from the point of view of Korean or Asiatic architectural tradition.
"The cement pyramid of the Ryugyong Hotel, an ensemble of constructional utopia, a symbolic breach and urban landmarkt, can become the catalyst for ideas and visions for the future of Pyongyang" explains Stefano Boeri.
The aim is to throw a lifeline towards a city that seems to be awaiting another new, powerful change. Small, unmistakeable signals announce the fact that Pyongyang is devoured by the progressive drawing close of the other capitals of the worlds". |
