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
Has anybody looked at the city of Pyongyang on Google Earth? It's pretty freaky. It seems to have a fairly well-developed infrastructure, including expressways, bridges, and tunnels. However, all the roads and streets are virtually devoid of traffic and people, and the entire landscape is nothing but shades of brown and gray.
I also remember a post on Boing Boing on how when Google Earth was ready to publish they asked governments what sites they wanted to, esentially, "make fuzzy" for security reasons. Since NK is so insular, they never responded leaving their "sensitive" sites at full resolution.
There are also many Flickr groups showing exactly the desolation you describe LiG.
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A surreal Fiction Pyongyang...
Here is something...
A surreal Fiction Pyongyang...
http://youtube.com/watch?v=lEjqnTcdkXY
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
Has anybody looked at the city of Pyongyang on Google Earth? It's pretty freaky. It seems to have a fairly well-developed infrastructure, including expressways, bridges, and tunnels. However, all the roads and streets are virtually devoid of traffic and people, and the entire landscape is nothing but shades of brown and gray.
I also remember a post on Boing Boing on how when Google Earth was ready to publish they asked governments what sites they wanted to, esentially, "make fuzzy" for security reasons. Since NK is so insular, they never responded leaving their "sensitive" sites at full resolution.
There are also many Flickr groups showing exactly the desolation you describe LiG.
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