Pyongyang Streets of Unique Style


 

Pyongyang, February 29 (KCNA) -- Foreign visitors to Pyongyang are struck by its two qualities of the city -- beautiful to the eye and magnificent in appearance. The streets built in unique style and the splendid decoration add beauty to the general composition of the city plan.

At the center of the city is built Changgwang Street with

diversified high-rise apartment blocks and other majestic public

 buildings including the Pyongyang Koryo Hotel.

 

Kwangbok Street lined with massive dwellings of various

 types stretches from the center to the west, giving a

 three-dimensional effect. Apartment blocks in the street are

 cylindrical, indented and polygonal and symmetrically

 combined with the Pyongyang Circus, youth hotel and

 Mangyongdae Schoolchildren's Palace. 

All the buildings are  in harmonious proportion to one another.

Thongil Street situated south of the

 capital is characterized by striking

 symmetry of architectural composition

 and bright colors. Apartment blocks,

 public buildings and networks of

 welfare service facilities present a

 wonderful ensemble.

The green-tiled Pyongyang noodle house, the white- and grey-colored dwellings and public buildings give an effect of cleanness and neatness.


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