The Baker Hotel was the result, opening in 1929, and flourishing in the 1930s and 1940s. At its peak, it accommodated film stars (Clark Gable, Judy Garland ) and future presidents (Lyndon B Johnson).

Doo, the classic cartoon series where the villains are corrupt bank managers, implausibly masquerading as monsters, rather ...

People have built some amazing things, but sometimes our architectural ambitions have outpaced our resources or abilities.

But what if this site fails to impress, like Pyongyang's Ryugyong Hotel? The unfinished hotel — dubbed "the hotel of doom" by ...

That beach is in Wonsan, on the Kalma peninsula — a stretch of North Korea's eastern coast now home to dozens of hotels and apartments — and is the latest puzzling artifact of Kim Jong Un's grandiose ...

The sky is overcast at the end of a work day, in Pyongyang, North Korea, where the 105-story pyramid-shaped Ryugyong Hotel is seen in this photograph towering over residential apartments.