The world's darkest building is at the 2018 Olympics

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This building absorbs 99% of the light that hits it, making it the darkest in the world.\n\nIt's a temporary art installation built by the architect Asif Khan for the 2018 Winter Olympics in Pyeongchang. He worked with a version of Vantablack, the darkest possible paint, to create the illusion of a void dotted with stars.\n\nSUBSCRIBE: https://goo.gl/kdDpXu\n\nFOLLOW QUARTZ:\nFacebook: https://goo.gl/DsmLvx\nTwitter: https://goo.gl/rY7pSX\n\nCheck out the rest of our videos: https://goo.gl/A8gZvx\n\nQuartz is a digitally native news outlet dedicated to telling stories at the intersection of the important and the interesting. Visit us at https://qz.com/ to read more.

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