What does it mean?

Guest   Wed Aug 13, 2008 12:50 am GMT
The Ryugyong Hotel (Korean: 류경호텔)(or Ryu-Gyong Hotel or Yu-Kyung Hotel)[citation needed] is an unfinished concrete skyscraper. It is intended for use as a hotel in Sojang-dong, in the Potong-gang District of Pyongyang, North Korea. The hotel's name comes from one of the historic names for Pyongyang: Ryugyong, or "capital of willows." Its 105 stories rise to a height of 330 m (1,083 ft), and it contains 360,000 m² (3.9 million square feet) of floor space, making it the most prominent feature of the city’s skyline and by far the largest structure in the country. At one time, it would have been the world's tallest hotel.[1] Esquire dubbed it "The Worst Building in the History of Mankind" and noted that the government of North Korea has airbrushed the building out of pictures.


What does the last sentence mean?
Guest   Wed Aug 13, 2008 4:33 am GMT
It would help if you indicated which part of the sentence you don't understand.
JJ   Wed Aug 13, 2008 5:28 am GMT
<<What does the last sentence mean?>>

I don't really see what's so difficult understand, but here goes:

Esquire (a magazine) named the hotel "The Worst Building in the History of Mankind". The fact that North Korean government goes so far as to airbrush the hotel out of pictures (that is, erases it from photos) more or less supports this claim.