Oct 15, Pyongyang, North Korea

Infamously ugly and unfinished, the shell of the Ryugyong Hotel dominates North Korea's capital, Pyongyang. But work on the skyscraper began again in the summer of 2009 after a 16-year hiatus and, as the company behind it tells the BBC's Matthew Davis, an end may finally be in sight. A three-sided pyramid with walls that jag upwards at 75 degrees, capped by a series of concentric rings...more