Apparently I’m not the only one who thinks London’s Shard skyscraper (shameless article-I-wrote-about-London-skyscrapers plug) looks like Pyongyang’s Ryugyong Hotel. Koryo Tours, the only tour group that offers westerners package to North Korea, plays up the similarities on its blog:
To the eyes of us all at Koryo Tours it looks like Renzo Piano has been copying Pyongyang…
(Note the following is not 100% accurate – but close!…