The Soaring Skyscraper Capital No One Ever Talks About
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- Europe's better known skyscraper cities are London, Frankfurt, Moscow and Paris. But this one city could easily become Europe's most impressive skyline out of all. Warsaw; the capital city of Poland has now become home to numerous praiseworthy skyscrapers. Currently, Warsaw has 25 buildings that go over 100m in height, and there are several more approved skyscraper constructions underway, which are transforming this capital city’s skyline. Join us today, as we explore some of the finest modern high-rise buildings in this underrated European city.
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0:00 Intro
1:00 Atlas Tower
2:32 Centrum LIM Building
4:15 The Warsaw Spire
5:55 Palace of Culture and Science
7:35 Varso Tower
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I have been watching your videos and and I love them, it's always my favorite topics! I really love skyscrapers, projects , cities and that stuff, I also love how you carefully explain everything like a book of history, totally subscribing and hope you grow more !
Thank you for this wonderful comment. feel free to suggest topics and we will make informative videos on them 🙌
Warsaw is a fantastic city. Clean, great public transportation, great restaurants.
This is true. Warsaw is very clean and has very good city transport.
Even the pitch dark reataurant???
@@paulheydarian1281 Of course. You can walk around town at night and you'd be unlucky enough to get hurt.
Not for long apparently
oh sir, I've been there last month and I can only agree with great public transport. there's almost no green areas, trees, there's trash, homeless people and graffiti everywhere. maybe that's just my Kraków perspective
I just got back from Warsaw! Spent two weeks in Poland, it's a beautiful place with beautiful people, amazing food and fantastic architecture. Highly suggest you pay a visit!
In as much as I’d like to agree, it’s funny how I can’t think of anyone ever saying, it’s a beautiful place but man the people are just hideous. Lol
@@saywhatyouwantidontcare sorry buddy but you misunderstood my whole comment.
What I was questioning was not if Polish people are beautiful, but the phrasing “beautiful place with beautiful people”.
Have you ever heard anyone say that any place, be it Poland, China or any place for that matter, is beautiful but people are ugly? It’s kind of weird in general to say that people are beautiful. what does it even mean? that they are generous and hospitable? point a place where people aren’t like that..
So no need to be apologetic and make a whole essay about it. You coulda just said that my point of view is subjective.
Cheers
Do they have good types of breads and cheeses?
@@paulheydarian1281 hardly any. There are some English and French, many Swiss, also most of Italian popular types available in the grocery stores. However most popular cheese types are the rather bland and unimpressive like Gouda, Emmentaler, Edam. Like I said there’s always a variety of imported types, Italian/French but they are on the expensive side. From what I’m seeing cheddar is finally slowly gaining popularity but it’s still a bit pricey.
As for traditional polish cheese making there are Oscypek and Rolada, coming from southern Poland, both are preserved by smoking, so they give off a distinct aroma that not everyone likes, not to mention they are made of sheep/goat milk so they are already a bit funky.. There are also Bryndza and Cottage cheese. The latter one is a little different from the way it’s known in the west, say UK where I’ve seen it sold as a runny mixture of bigger and smaller lumps. In Poland cottage cheese comes in solidified in cubes/ blocks, and firm enough so that you can slice it and put it on bread.
@@j_bailey11 Thank you, that was a very detailed response. I don't know much about Polish food beyond Pierogis. I enjoy good bread and cheese with good tea or coffee.
My budget is limited, so I have to keep things simple.
I find it remarkable that Poland and Warsaw have been virtually nonexistent in Western and global conscience, discourse and even popculture up to this day and I'm not sure whether it's a result of bad historical luck or intentional effort to prevent Poland from having any significance in economy, politics or culture. With that in mind, I would like to thank you for creating this video and showing a glimpse of our little "New York of the East".
education and knowledge is a key my friend
Western Politics is against new Poland, same some media, for example BBC hates Poland, they always show Poland in a bad highlight for decades now, they don’t like to show that Poland economy is growing and getting better standard of living than uk and other western countries.
They got overshadow by Moscow.
it's the constant effort by Germany and Russia for centuries, plus in the XX-XXI c. international Jewish and Hollyjew effort to omit or slander or portray Poland in the bad light - which affects all major media and consciousness of western nations.
@@falseflaag touché 👌🏼👍🏼
20 lat temu się śmiałem jak wyszedł 1. Spider-Man ze by u nas nie miał na czym się huśtać a tu proszę z roku na rok coraz lepiej ;)
Seen my fair share of European cities- Berlin, Rome, Venice, Vienna, Prague, Barcelona, and many others- but nothing feels quite like home, like Warsaw.
It's remarkably clean (especially compared to Rome or Paris), it's one of the safest cities in Europe, and it has an amazing diversity of restaurants, clubs, etc.
If there is a cuisine there's probably a restaurant in Warsaw serving it, which so far I've only really experienced in NYC.
You have the obvious like Italian, Japanese, Thai or Middle Eastern (Kebab and such), but also Greek, Vietnamese, Indian, Balkan, Spanish, Mexican, Jewish, West African, Caribbean...
You have Halal options, you have Kosher options, every restaurant has a vegetarian option and you can't walk five blocks and not see a vegan restaurant.
i drive through Warsaw everyday, wouldn't live there myself but boy those towers looks nice, clean crisp and always give out a golden shine.
Why wouldn’t you live there?
@@Hpop14 some people just dont like living in big cities
@@Hpop14 average yearly salary in Paris you have 47k, in Warsaw 57k its just WAY ahead of the entire country and most people just work there, because they cant afford living
@@altrover9930 ok thanks
As someone who watches all sorts of videos on best places in Europe to live, I don't understand how Poland never is on anyone's list. It's almost as though they have been shadowbanned lol. I mean Warsaw ranks in the top 30 safest cities in the world the healthcare system is not bad by any means in Poland and they have spent a lot of money on infrastructure and modernizing the country as we can see. I think it's time people give Poland the credit they deserve. It's not just some gray dark country. One could argue it is now the silicon valley of Eastern Europe
Thakns a lot but we already having to many imigrants, there is no need in bringing more of them.
@@romanzodziej96 right because it's a bad thing for productive workers to come toma country? Small brain over here.
It's becouse of state. While geographic means are great, and people are hardworking and helpfull [unless, you know, talk about politics] anything that state does is desecrating the good things earned by citizens.
@@jakzak23 😂 state? Probably you mean German or Russia state lol
@@Cryptid71 You just experienced the reason “WHY”. YT comment section and generally all Internet is full of Russian trolls and useful idiots brainwashed by Russian influences whose are trying to diminish Poland. Germany is doing their part as well btw. Russia as a shithole capital of the brainwashed people is always building their fantasy picture by contrasting with fiction about the “broken” neighbors and the West. One of their strategy is pretending to be Polish and writing some racist or fascist BS just to create that picture about us. They are doing this about Ukraine, Poland, Georgia etc. So keep that in mind and come to Poland to meet real people and real attitude towards LEGAL immigrants.
Warsaw is currently the most futuristic city in Europe.
idk
If you exclude commie blocks neighborhoods across the river, that is
What ? ? ? I think u don’t travel much…
@@Kam7777 its true I travel alot
Not really
- Mexican embassy
- Invisible Exhibition in the darkness
- Different restaurant, also in the darkness
- a nickname after a porta-potty
...sounds like a building you'd see in a dream. If you told me the backrooms were in Warsaw in that Atlas Tower, I'd believe you.
backrooms are really just a teleport to poland
Damn you, made me chuckle
Wow, I never knew such buildings exist in Warsaw. They look modern with a futuristic touch. Thanks for this revelation.
The question is why did you never know it? Do you still believe we are backwards country? hahaha
we are not backward country anymore since 2000's
@@shazzshank6393 Poland is not the centre of the world for your information. I’m pretty sure you know nothing about African or South American economies so stop criticising other people!
Thank you for this material, I suggested in the commentary under your other recording that you make a film about Warsaw and you did it: D I'm grateful to you, greetings from Warsaw: D
Warsaw citizen here, it really feels weird to see areas I have seen personally be discussed this way. However I am happy we are getting some recognition for architecture we built up after the entire area has been leveled to the ground.
I live in Warsaw and I must say that this is a great city
Hopefully, NATO and Russia won't carve up Poland like a Thanksgiving Turkey anytime soon.
@@paulheydarian1281 what? why would NATO attack Poland?
@@Alix49 They (NATO) might be forced to offer it as a peace offering to the Eastern powers.
NATO wouldn't attack Poland, just abandon it, because Poland has very unfavorable geography.
@@paulheydarian1281 yea... That's true, but this country was doomed to destruction from the beginning
@@paulheydarian1281 HAHAHAHAH? Bro 1st april was few months ago. Abandon Poland lol
Warsaw is currently on 6th place in numbers of skyscrapers in Europe.
3:04 Banot xD
Ive recently been in warsaw and its soo butifull
The Invisible Exhibition was one of the most memorable things I ever attended in my entire life. I went there on a school trip, back in 2013 or 2014, and it's one of the only things I remember still from that time. I was a tiny kid, I rarely found myself in Śródmieście, it was an exciting journey. Despite the whole exhibition being quite literally just in the dark, I remember it so vividly I could swear they turned on the lights for us. The guide lady explained how she, as a blind person, got around the world, how she could tell what color was the car we bumped into along the way, in the visible part there was a computer with a narrator for the keyboard. It was amazing, and if you ever get a chance to visit it, DO IT. It's been almost a decade, and I am still delighted from the trip.
Also, this is the first time I learned where the damn exhibition was, I never realised that the building was called Atlas Tower, I just remember thinking that it looked like the Axiom ship from Wall-E.
thanks for sharing your wonderful experience with us!
There's another beautiful skyscraper in Warsaw called Prudential House. It's known for being the tallest building in the pre-war Poland and also for surviving the WWII itself. It looks extremely spectacular!
greetings from Switzerland ! Warsaw is the most fascinating European fascinating City, so a ma zing and incredibly dynamic all my love to Poland
Warsaw is indeed an underrated city. They recognized us back in 1948 as the sole government of Korea. And were a part of the Neutral Nations Supervisory Commission established by the war's armistice. We even co-founded a maritime transport company called Chopol. While they have since established relations with the south and joined NATO, we still have embassies in each other's nations.
Thank you Pyongyang isn't bad either.
Hello little rocket 🚀 man. Yes, we believe in dialogue and since you are holding your tiny rockets in the silos and soldiers in the barracks we are ok with you. But once you are gonna do what fkin ruSSia did, you are gonna be surprised how good military relationships we just have with the South.
thanks for appreciation supreme leader
North Korea = Best Korea
Are we just going to ignore the people climbing on side of tower?
In 3:04 you can see "Banott" written on the tower instead of "Mariott" which edited by polish urban climber BNT (this is the name of his channel), so I think that a person who runs this channel was looking for videos from urban climbers.
i love skyscrapers and this city is becoming an oasis of them
Very nice video, informative and captivating. Warsaw is a beautiful city with impressive new buildings, modern transportation, fantastic restaurants and charming old town. I enjoyed multiple innovative museums and charming palaces, parks as well. I highly recommend visiting this jewel of Europe.
I have spent a lot of time in Warsaw as I have a lot of family(including my sister) that live there. It really is a cool spot. There are some real hidden gem parks in Warsaw too.
i was in warsaw in may 15-16! beautiful city 🔴
It's changed a lot since even then.
I lived here and there in Poland, small village to country capital, but nothing feels as natural and captivating to me as Warsaw. Modern, clean city with amazing public transport and true cultural crucible in terms of cuisine.
As a trivia, the 04 Centrum LIM Building was climbed without equipment by polish daredevil recently. You can check it out searching for "Banot Mariott":)
Here's a link for the courious:
th-cam.com/video/GZwuCndOF6w/w-d-xo.html
Thats actually a great video, not many people do reaserch like you man. Everything is on point. Thats very impressive
Pozdro.
warsaw is a great city. quite affordable great public transportation and lots of restaurants
Beautiful country and nice buildings.
Sadly,a lot of pre war building is lost forever .
we lost them in 1944 when Germans destroy every single building in Warsaw.
I love the Palace of Culture and Science, the view is beautiful and I've looked up at it on many nights. Though it's sad to know that the few remaining structures from the Warsaw Uprising were knocked down to build it, as ordered by Stalin.
I am living in Warsaw and i can agree in this video.
Pretty nice video, you'll become a big channel someday, keep it up.
I love Warsaw and I think that my favourite skyscraper here is Złota 44, I like the architecture, Varso Tower seems to be simple for me and Warsaw Spire or mentioned Złota 44 look better and are more interesting. You could also show look from Rondo Daszyńskiego whoich is a roundabout now surrounded by tall buildings
So amazing 😍
Nice job! Thanks!
Great vid
Imagine that germans destroyed almost all buildings and infrastructure in Warsaw and other polish cities
Very nice 👍
7:54 the Varso tower is 310 meters high with the spire but the architectural height is 239 meters. The Commerzbank tower is with its spire 305 meters high and the architectural height is 259 meters. Without spire the Commerzbank tower is higher.
thats literally why they extended the spire, it was supposed to be a little bit lower but the architechts decided to extend it so that it would top commerzbank tower
TAAAAAAK POLSKA DZIĘKUJĘ!!!!
thank you for making something polish :)
*Polish
Let's goooo big up 🇵🇱🇵🇱
You forgot about Złota 44, Highest luxury residential building in Poland
Highest residential building in Poland ( and entire Europe ) is Sky Tower in Wroclaw.
i love your videos
Currently, there are several dozen projects in Warsaw ranging in height from 100 to even 300 m. Already in 2030, Warsaw will have a very high and distinctive panorama. Comparable to Frankfurt am Main, and maybe even better ...
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Even better than Moskva?
@@paulheydarian1281 Sure, what Moscow near Warsaw means.
@@ziutbryk531 This is what I meant. Will the skyline of Warsaw be better than Moscow's skyline? (In the near future)
3:03 Banott ;)
Most cities have skylines, but not as impressive as Warsaw's. Also, when other cities skylines are depicted, the buildings are drawn right next to each other, but in real life they are not next to each other. In Warsaw, most of the tall buildings are next to each other.
Thank you greetings from Katowice Poland 🇵🇱❤️
Hi 👋
Th footage of "Centrum LIM shopping centre" at about 3:39 is actually Złote Tarasy [Golden Terraces], a close by and completely different building.
The Atlas tower is probably most famous in Warsaw (at least among the locals) for the panorama bar at the top called Level 27 which wasn't mentioned, and a few of the shots from the Centrum Lim building were not from that building, but from Zloty Tarasy which is a mall in the area (it's like a 4-5 minute walk away), but it is not the same building. But other than that I'd say everything else was accurate and informative, good job!!!
Lol 3:05 is an ending scene from a BNT’s (Banott) video on which he documented himself climbing that building with no ropes, or any security whatsoever. He is the most famous Polish urban climber. His videos are definitely worth watching!!
You have done a increadable reaserch about the Palace of Culture and Sience. as a person that lives in this city all life i can tell that most of the people that live there don't know all of the history behind it and why is it hated. It is probably the first time i have seen someone include so much true facts about this building on youtube. Great job keep it up :)
First photo shows building which my office is located in. And I’m currently sitting there watching this video
Hi 👋
Warsaw has had an amazing recovery from the horrific 20th century, and they have a good mix of old and new buildings. I think skyscrapers though are pretty un-European looking however.
I love your videos so much keep going brother , i am also sad for this content to be underrated.
This is a great city with fantastic and drastic history. It’s a real phoenix reborn from ashes. Literally Germans tried to erase the city from the world maps in 1944. Maybe the history is of the reasons it is not widely presented on the global scene. All my international friends who visited Warsaw were amazed by culture people and food. Come to see it and let’s make some business together :)
Warsaw spire looks like a ps5
Wciąż czekam na budowę Lilium Tower. Mam nadzieję, że ten piękny wieżowiec powstanie i wprowadzi nowy oraz przyszłościowy kierunek rozwoju miasta.
Cool
Let's be honest
You enter this video for 1of2 reasons:
1:you are polish
2:you are countryballer
Banot tower is so beautiful
This is my hometown yet I've never heard of most of these stories of these buildings. The Atlas Tower especially is lesser known.
For those of you wondering, the music in the intro is derived from this: th-cam.com/video/j7HfxgQdDW4/w-d-xo.html&ab_channel=SuicideSheeep
I may not be the biggest fan of Soviet architecture but that Palace is STUNNING!!!!
Yes, exactly. It's a classic.
For me, as a native of Warsaw, this comment is funny :)
Many, maybe even the majority of residents, especially those born in Warsaw (there is a minority of them; a city in Poland has a reputation as mostly inhabited by newcomers whom they call - both the more chauvinistic native Varsovians and people from other cities who do not like Varsovians - as a "jars "- from food brought by students, after visiting their parents, in their hometown; you can also hear opinions as "real Varsovians died in [Warsaw] Uprising" or that "real Warsaw was [exist] before War"), consider this building to be the worst ugly building and from time to time the idea of demolishing it returns in public discussion.
There’s one more distinctive scyscraper in Warsaw, Daniel Libeskind’s design Zlota 44, it brought a lot of investors attention years ago
Fun fact, people from warsaw call the district where all the office buildings are ,,Mordor"
This has nothing to do with the video
@@j_bailey11 Why not ,there are high buidling in "mordor" this is why its called that
@@Iroook well there aren’t any skyscrapers there as I know, also the video doesn’t mention them at all
Recently some empty office buildings in Mordor are being demolished to be replaced by residential buildings and schools.
Ohhh my city :D
In my fictional world, This project already finished and successful
Whole Dmowski roundabouts and many interesting skyscrapers are omitted, but thank you for this movie.
Not Dmowski, but Daszynski 😀
your comment at 0:23 is wrong, skyscrapers per definition are buildings exceeding 150m in height, not 100, therefore warsaw has 13 skyscrapers at the moment.
I wasn't ever in Warsaw, but i want to go there. Sometimes. And enjoy those high-rise buildings. Here in Prague we are really bad in the terms of skyscrapers. And UNESCO doesn't want any new building to be higher than 66 meters... kinda sad. And even Bratislava is faaar ahead.
nejsem si jisty, zda mrakodrapy Praze patri (mozna v nejake moderni ctvrti na okraji), ten historicky centr mesta ma sve kouzlo i bez toho. Varsava na rozdil od Prahy a jinych stredoevropskych hlavnich mest byla skoro uplne znicena behem 2. svetove valky, a tim padem po znovupostaveni vice pripomina americke nebo sovetske velkomesta, takze vyskove budovy v primym centru nevypadaji tam spatne. zdravim z Polska
Prague, avoid skyscrapers, please 😀 Otherwise you will follow fate of Liverpool which lost UNESCO status recently.
I had a doctors appointment in the new building recently, it was impressive but has a very confusing shopping mall esque setup on the inside
You Failed to mention , Centrum LIM was built in 1989 , during the (final) communist years. It was one the first " western style" office tower whilst being under communist rule. Marriot was also the first western hotel chain to open up in
Poland.
thank you for sharing this information with us!
2:45 it is a building in Paris - Montparnasse
7:48 well depends on how you count the spire
Varso tower is ready
Except restaurants and viewing platforms on the top; to be opened soon 😀
seen Warsaw i had to click.
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Lets go poland ! 😁🥴🌹👌🇵🇱
And what about ,,złota 44" or ,,Golden 44" 5 star hotel? Still Great video
That's not a hotel, but apartment building.
Watching this from Shenzhen- skyscraper capital of the world
Skyscraper capital of the world is still Dubai and Shanghai is in second place. Shenzen could win bronze medal. 😀
3:05 Banot na mariocie 😂😂
А що це означає?
According to CTBUH the Varso Tower is already finished
Batumi?
Yeah it is underrated by mostly Western nations! They don't want to lose their spotlight to other places.
Stara, Połland górą!
What makes the Panorama Sky Bar “infamous.” Is it that bad? Were people murdered there? What bad quality is it known for? Is it wicked? Known for serious crime? Or did you mean to say that it was famous?
3:25 how are they PARKED?! XDDDD
I live here!
2:44 The man is climbing Tour Montparnasse in Paris. It's not in Warsaw
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Ok cool
3:34 infamous?
3:03 "Banott" XD XD
gość ukradł kawałek nagrania od Polskiego TH-camra o nazwie BNT który wspina się na budynki i umieścił w swoim filmie XD a to przeróbka :D
2:40 you used picture of oxford tower in Dubai. Its obvious cause palm trees dont grow in Poland lol
We have palm trees in the Katowice (Silesia), at the town square :v
@@Prazek100 really? i tryed to check out but diddnt see any
Warsaw will be emprie of Europe in 10 years
Not to be that guy , yes Warsaw has 27 tall buildings above 100 metres / 328 feet , however only 13 of them are actually skyscrapers .
Skyscrapers are termed as such by reaching or exceeding a height of 150 metres / 492 feet .
The first 2 buildings you showed in this are not technically skyscrapers .
This city was completly destroyed after ww2, look at us now
Polska gurom is all i can say about this video tbh