tiktok made me hate a building

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  • @SwellEntertainment
    @SwellEntertainment  3 ปีที่แล้ว +2705

    THE FILM WAS FOUND! And the finder will be claiming their bounty! Thank you all for looking!

    • @matheusromao6907
      @matheusromao6907 3 ปีที่แล้ว +341

      What if I wanna see the movie too? Lol

    • @monkeyssocks
      @monkeyssocks 3 ปีที่แล้ว +246

      Send the link queen 😭

    • @666DeViLeSs
      @666DeViLeSs 3 ปีที่แล้ว +79

      Also want to watch this apparent beaut of a film... Link?

    • @lebkha
      @lebkha 3 ปีที่แล้ว +34

      Link pleeeease

    • @gracenicole1988
      @gracenicole1988 3 ปีที่แล้ว +117

      You can't just not show us

  • @nate6045
    @nate6045 3 ปีที่แล้ว +8577

    I'm a New Yorker and let me just say this building is even more than an eyesore in person. I remember when it was being built and it was like a middle finger slowly rising up.

    • @araceli7604
      @araceli7604 3 ปีที่แล้ว +351

      A middle finger is going to quickly rise up if they keep this architectural style in fashion for much longer

    • @patrickchoque7720
      @patrickchoque7720 3 ปีที่แล้ว +126

      I distinctly remember hating it when I visited New York

    • @frigginresulrum
      @frigginresulrum 3 ปีที่แล้ว +145

      New life goal, make enough money to build five buildings that form a middle finger to the city it's in.

    • @Blaiser_
      @Blaiser_ 3 ปีที่แล้ว +67

      @@frigginresulrum if u use this one u only need 4

    • @idontevenknow9758
      @idontevenknow9758 3 ปีที่แล้ว +67

      Totally, I used to work where we could see the skyline from our desks and that building when it was finished sticks out like a wart. No character whatsoever and no design at all.

  • @AmandaDavis6130
    @AmandaDavis6130 3 ปีที่แล้ว +4464

    “This building is so ugly” Huh, looks like something I’d make in Minecraft
    “She recreated it in Minecraft” yup that tracks

    • @JamesCharIes
      @JamesCharIes 3 ปีที่แล้ว +45

      It looks like the tall structure building hotel thing my friend or her little brother made out of glass and netherite blocks (in creative, of course)

    • @edgarnello9165
      @edgarnello9165 3 ปีที่แล้ว +16

      Lol i was gonna comment about how it looks like something id make in Minecraft then like a second later shes like she built it in Minecraft

    • @ededetudo2879
      @ededetudo2879 3 ปีที่แล้ว +11

      It looks like a tall rubix cube

    • @JamesCharIes
      @JamesCharIes 3 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      @@ededetudo2879 IT DOES LMAO

    • @benedictdwyer2608
      @benedictdwyer2608 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@ededetudo2879 OMG YASSSSSS

  • @ollieshark
    @ollieshark 3 ปีที่แล้ว +5300

    If being "poor" means living safely on the ground then i will never aspire to be 432 park avenue rich.

    • @ddjsoyenby
      @ddjsoyenby 3 ปีที่แล้ว +203

      being poor also means you get to eat the rich.

    • @robingifford8964
      @robingifford8964 3 ปีที่แล้ว +81

      @@ddjsoyenby more like spam and ramen

    • @mangoslormpy7618
      @mangoslormpy7618 3 ปีที่แล้ว +140

      yes but if rich people's buildings fall on you, is it really safe?
      Before anyone tells me buildings fall straight down, I bet this building would snap and fall like a domino

    • @shepard1175
      @shepard1175 3 ปีที่แล้ว +9

      @@ddjsoyenby cringe

    • @karinalumen9722
      @karinalumen9722 3 ปีที่แล้ว +21

      @@ddjsoyenby is it a pot luck? Should i bring a side.

  • @tattttu9
    @tattttu9 3 ปีที่แล้ว +3734

    The walkie talkie building in london couldn't only fry eggs, it literally fried a car and caused fires in the stores in front, carpets out of nowhere just going in flames.

    • @gingermaniac5484
      @gingermaniac5484 3 ปีที่แล้ว +291

      *A Series of Unfortunate Events intensifies*

    • @newguy90
      @newguy90 3 ปีที่แล้ว +309

      Same thing happened when the Disney Concert Hall opened in downtown Los Angeles. The surface was reflective so it was giving pedestrians heat strokes. The city forced the hall to sand down the walls to remove the reflective coating.

    • @Lic021
      @Lic021 3 ปีที่แล้ว +166

      yeah it was literally like melting the plastic on the cars. they had to place a parking restriction on the street in front to not park there for specific times of day

    • @gracealyssa28
      @gracealyssa28 3 ปีที่แล้ว +34

      I’m pretty sure I saw it melt a bike seat in a video I watched about it

    • @aucarter
      @aucarter 3 ปีที่แล้ว +8

      Sounds like a job for The Doctor! 😂😂

  • @burkemanorart2193
    @burkemanorart2193 3 ปีที่แล้ว +2362

    ‘For millions of dollars you too can wake up in a war zone , swim in your flooded apartment and face final destination entrapment scenarios in our broken elevators”

    • @Orion_TheyThem
      @Orion_TheyThem 3 ปีที่แล้ว +30

      McKamey Manor who???? Sign me up for my horror experience!!!

    • @ritasprinkle5098
      @ritasprinkle5098 3 ปีที่แล้ว +7

      So it is the secret escape game of the rich people

    • @honeyspice8989
      @honeyspice8989 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      “Kaaaaachow-“

    • @diehardDanny
      @diehardDanny 3 ปีที่แล้ว +9

      ... entrapment in a broken elevator in a swaying building on Halloween night. This has to be the ultimate scenario.

  • @KrisKrisKrissy
    @KrisKrisKrissy 3 ปีที่แล้ว +3123

    "Entrapped" in an elevator, 70+ floors up, with the cable bouncing around wildly, on halloween night, for over an hour. I would have died. Panic attack induced heart failure.

    • @OrangeCat1992
      @OrangeCat1992 3 ปีที่แล้ว +48

      For real!

    • @D0MiN0ChAn
      @D0MiN0ChAn 3 ปีที่แล้ว +176

      The fact that it was on Halloween -- you can't make stuff liek this up 😵 I would've died right up there with you, omg!

    • @rawrberrys
      @rawrberrys 3 ปีที่แล้ว +23

      I would have probably loved it. But I'm a freak.

    • @SuperNuclearUnicorn
      @SuperNuclearUnicorn 3 ปีที่แล้ว +88

      @@rawrberrys further proof that anything you can think of has someone who is in to it

    • @PeachysMom
      @PeachysMom 3 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      Yes

  • @PhoebeHB
    @PhoebeHB 3 ปีที่แล้ว +4868

    Me, a Londoner: haha what a silly New York building, almost as silly as when the walkie talkie melted cars!
    Amanda: the architect of this building also designed the walkie talkie
    Seriously who keeps letting this guy design things?!

    • @minadorissa
      @minadorissa 3 ปีที่แล้ว +339

      MELTED CARS?????????

    • @minadorissa
      @minadorissa 3 ปีที่แล้ว +222

      my brain is going "!!!!!!!!!!" like no thoughts just alarm

    • @Turambar88
      @Turambar88 3 ปีที่แล้ว +127

      @@minadorissa if you pause the video, the article she shows actually mentions the car melting!

    • @diahan9896
      @diahan9896 3 ปีที่แล้ว +104

      @@minadorissa yes. It's because how the shape of the bldg. is angled. It creates like a magnifying glass effect

    • @toriladybird511
      @toriladybird511 3 ปีที่แล้ว +74

      He must hate people 🤣

  • @FlameVulpin14
    @FlameVulpin14 3 ปีที่แล้ว +2982

    I love the concept of a building that concentrates sunbeams into a death laser and redirects and focuses the wind to a point where it can knock people over. All buildings should be constructed to wreak as much havoc as possible.

    • @laurabuchanan2180
      @laurabuchanan2180 3 ปีที่แล้ว +250

      I can't endorse this comment, but I like it!

    • @Pixieee885
      @Pixieee885 3 ปีที่แล้ว +228

      it’s just super funny how that building exists only to be used by elites while simultaneously causing chaos for regular people on the street

    • @keithbray9416
      @keithbray9416 3 ปีที่แล้ว +159

      She didn't even mention that one time when it MELTED SOMEONE'S CAR

    • @Milkmouse1966
      @Milkmouse1966 3 ปีที่แล้ว +107

      Sounds like a building dr. Doofenshmirtz would make on purpose.

    • @whatthehellisthis
      @whatthehellisthis 3 ปีที่แล้ว +79

      @@Milkmouse1966 *say hello to my laser-building-inator!*
      sorry i’m not good with names

  • @davidpachecogarcia
    @davidpachecogarcia 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1846

    As an architect it BAFFLES me how people don’t consider what they’re designing and how it will affect its surroundings.

    • @alisaurus4224
      @alisaurus4224 3 ปีที่แล้ว +121

      Like isn’t that the JOB

    • @lukamotel3446
      @lukamotel3446 3 ปีที่แล้ว +35

      I think they do, but just don’t care

    • @ptonpc
      @ptonpc 3 ปีที่แล้ว +66

      From what I recall he has a habit of designing buildings that don't work and/or cause hazards for tenants and people in the surrounding area.

    • @TheGrmany69
      @TheGrmany69 2 ปีที่แล้ว +6

      El cochino dinero, tú como arquitecto sabes que se gana muy mal y los mejores proyectos se obtienen por favores políticos, nepotismo, ser hijo de rico, etc. ¿Tú de verdad te piensas que les importa?

    • @qualifiedarmchaircritic
      @qualifiedarmchaircritic 2 ปีที่แล้ว +18

      Is there no possibility to take away a licence (do architects have licences??) from that guy?

  • @lordbafford640
    @lordbafford640 3 ปีที่แล้ว +868

    So basically this building is the Fyre-Festival Version of Skyscrapers: trapped in an isolated location, where everything's wet from the water and there is no free breakfast.

    • @localmenace3043
      @localmenace3043 3 ปีที่แล้ว +15

      The one person trapped in the elevator: “We are chained in :)”

  • @mrlshinder6093
    @mrlshinder6093 3 ปีที่แล้ว +2322

    I can’t understand the appeal of living on such a high floor, just thinking about it makes me feel nauseous

    • @girrrrrrr2
      @girrrrrrr2 3 ปีที่แล้ว +59

      Imagine the view!

    • @TheSimplyCooking
      @TheSimplyCooking 3 ปีที่แล้ว +66

      Seriously. I’m getting nervous just watching this.

    • @jrdnk5715
      @jrdnk5715 3 ปีที่แล้ว +141

      @@girrrrrrr2 Id be too busy worrying about the ground than looking at the views!

    • @guppy2816
      @guppy2816 3 ปีที่แล้ว +112

      Well nobody probably "lives" there. Owning one of those apartments are more of a status symbol. Most people who own the units don't actually live in them

    • @diegodoumecq5144
      @diegodoumecq5144 3 ปีที่แล้ว +65

      Status. It's just status. It's expensive because it says it's expensive and therefore it has status

  • @Malum09
    @Malum09 3 ปีที่แล้ว +2447

    Imagine living on the last top floor, the elevators don't work that day so you have to go down by the stairs, once you reach the ground floor you search for your car keys only to remember you left them in your apartment...

    • @a2point083
      @a2point083 3 ปีที่แล้ว +42

      PLS

    • @neitan6891
      @neitan6891 3 ปีที่แล้ว +197

      I'd be legit afraid of starving to death up there.

    • @taniabn
      @taniabn 3 ปีที่แล้ว +33

      I'd call an Uber

    • @slurmmackenzie5752
      @slurmmackenzie5752 3 ปีที่แล้ว +34

      It's not like they're gonna be late to work

    • @solarprogeny6736
      @solarprogeny6736 3 ปีที่แล้ว +259

      Then you remember you are a billionaire and your chauffeur is waiting for you. You don't keep your own keys. You haven't touched the wheel of your designer car in 15 years, ever since you ran over an entire family of black people while drunk-driving when you were twelve years old and didn't go to court. In fact, THEY went to jail for it.

  • @charlisabeth
    @charlisabeth 3 ปีที่แล้ว +929

    Another thing about these types of expensive apartments is that the people who buy them often don't even live in them or rent them out. They're just left empty, as investments. Especially in cities with not enough living space these types of buildings are infuriating...

    • @Grayvorn
      @Grayvorn 3 ปีที่แล้ว +18

      Tokyo residents would be baffled in the extreme.

    • @Nadia1989
      @Nadia1989 3 ปีที่แล้ว +67

      That's what happened in China. They built a new city to decompress the population density, and sold out all the apartments... and barely no one lives there.

    • @hothotheat3000
      @hothotheat3000 3 ปีที่แล้ว +13

      Lot of foreign nationals stash their money in condos in desirable locations.

    • @VelvetCondoms
      @VelvetCondoms 3 ปีที่แล้ว +5

      That should be a capital punishment crime.

    • @hypothalapotamus5293
      @hypothalapotamus5293 2 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      An empty apartment building is forever grande...

  • @TheGreatChrisB
    @TheGreatChrisB 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1331

    My sister worked on the 82nd floor of a building and pretty regularly they were sent home early because high winds were going to shutdown the elevator so they sent people home rather than expect them to walk down the stairs

    • @jauxro
      @jauxro 3 ปีที่แล้ว +10

      Damn 😬

    • @kariissmol9172
      @kariissmol9172 3 ปีที่แล้ว +147

      But imagine walking downstairs after your shift, fourty floors in and remembering you forgot your keys.

    • @solala1312
      @solala1312 3 ปีที่แล้ว +69

      I would just get dizzy from walking the stairs. used to live in an 11 floors high building and the stairs were arranged in a circle. after 5 floors I would get dizzy and stop for a moment.

    • @aoefeable
      @aoefeable 3 ปีที่แล้ว +13

      @@kariissmol9172 would only happen once! 😂

    • @sarahsantoro7506
      @sarahsantoro7506 3 ปีที่แล้ว +37

      @@solala1312 I used to live in an 11th floor and when the elevator stopped working or electricity went off (happened really often) it was awful to go up the stairs, can’t imagine doing the same in anything taller

  • @syd5380
    @syd5380 3 ปีที่แล้ว +919

    I need us all acknowledge that Viñoly has designed TWO death ray buildings. The other one is the Vdara Hotel in Las Vegas. That building also had to have a non-reflective film put on it.

    • @erikdaniels0n
      @erikdaniels0n 3 ปีที่แล้ว +188

      WHO KEEPS HIRING THIS GUY TO DESIGN THINGS???? It seems like all his buildings are death traps or safety hazards

    • @genera1013
      @genera1013 2 ปีที่แล้ว +26

      I think this guy is secretly a super villain!

  • @dranziken
    @dranziken 3 ปีที่แล้ว +3334

    The billionaires? I don't care about their living situation. But that restaurant, the housekeeping staff, maintenance, mechanics... they're working class people. And this building being unsafe for THEM is what matters.

    • @cozycasasmr4510
      @cozycasasmr4510 3 ปีที่แล้ว +90

      THANK YOU!!!

    • @DivinesLegacy
      @DivinesLegacy 3 ปีที่แล้ว +61

      I care for every human who has goodness in their heart

    • @JadeGarza
      @JadeGarza 3 ปีที่แล้ว +300

      @@DivinesLegacy billionaires become billionaires by exploiting the labor of working class people, so how much goodness can there really be in their hearts?

    • @DivinesLegacy
      @DivinesLegacy 3 ปีที่แล้ว +39

      @@JadeGarza Billionaires are only billionaires because they’ve created something for society good enough that you have to pay for it, they put in a load of work organizing people and people want to work for them and get paid to, I understand that there could be a better system out there but currently this is the best system. That creates the most inventions and innovations.

    • @jimbo0386
      @jimbo0386 3 ปีที่แล้ว +246

      @@DivinesLegacy not true most of them haven’t created shit and just stay rich by dipping their toes into financial investments

  • @rotoscl
    @rotoscl 3 ปีที่แล้ว +2789

    as a Chilean, that building gives me the chills. I know there are no earthquakes in New York but still.

    • @rebeccamartin1858
      @rebeccamartin1858 3 ปีที่แล้ว +293

      There actually are earthquakes in all 50 states including NY. Not as bad as california but they happen

    • @Sebshappytrees
      @Sebshappytrees 3 ปีที่แล้ว +43

      As another chileano I agree lol and I live in LA so still get little earthquakes here and there.

    • @mistakesmisfits
      @mistakesmisfits 3 ปีที่แล้ว +26

      y yo aca odiando el Costanera Center

    • @KO-vb4tg
      @KO-vb4tg 3 ปีที่แล้ว +115

      There actually are tremors, though very rarely. About ten years back there was some seismic activity and it made a bunch of tall buildings vibrate like massive tuning forks.
      Fun stuff.

    • @TheMurrmursonbottle
      @TheMurrmursonbottle 3 ปีที่แล้ว +73

      On the US east coast we traded earthquakes for hurricanes and blizzards unfortunately.

  • @bvummedbvummed9926
    @bvummedbvummed9926 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1732

    New Yorkers be like: “we’re built different” ... like bro ur literally in danger LMAOAO

    • @TheStarswearee
      @TheStarswearee 3 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      How oit of touch

    • @honeyspice8989
      @honeyspice8989 3 ปีที่แล้ว +17

      @@TheStarswearee bro it was a joke lmao

    • @TheMonicaAlison
      @TheMonicaAlison 2 ปีที่แล้ว +44

      Lol there’s no in between, either living in a billionaires high rise with elevators that can snap at any moment or living in a shoebox studio that’s definitely not up to fire code standards

    • @myrialynn
      @myrialynn 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Fantastic comment 👏.

    • @Dunkleosteusenjoyer
      @Dunkleosteusenjoyer 2 ปีที่แล้ว +8

      @@TheMonicaAlison if it makes you feel better, the millionaire's building aren't up to code either.

  • @slylover123
    @slylover123 3 ปีที่แล้ว +543

    Hi I live in NY and I feel like we should get income tax from the distress caused by this abomination

  • @sunfvalley
    @sunfvalley 3 ปีที่แล้ว +466

    that building looks exactly like how i draw tall building when i was in kindergarten, just draw tall rectangle with a bunch of squares as windows and im done
    i knew i should've been an architect :/

  • @laurenfox1899
    @laurenfox1899 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1142

    I feel like I would have to live in this building for the sheer fact that that is the only way I wouldn’t have to look at it.

    • @mowganashwey
      @mowganashwey 3 ปีที่แล้ว +27

      Lmao very underrated comment, you've got a point there

    • @magnolia8903
      @magnolia8903 3 ปีที่แล้ว +35

      its the tour montparnasse of new york

    • @fuelingthefire2389
      @fuelingthefire2389 3 ปีที่แล้ว +85

      @@magnolia8903 "the best view of Paris is from the top of the tour montparnasse because it's the only view of Paris where you don't have to look at the tour montparnasse"

    • @camille6910
      @camille6910 3 ปีที่แล้ว +5

      Isn't that basically what Gustave Eiffel did?

    • @softreyna
      @softreyna 3 ปีที่แล้ว +5

      @@camille6910 I thought it was Guy de Maupassant

  • @alexasaud1529
    @alexasaud1529 3 ปีที่แล้ว +846

    About to graduate with an architecture degree and I can confirm we all hate this building too. Architects like him care more about personal profit than good design, and don’t take the effort to think through the consequences of design decisions.

    • @antonellabionda
      @antonellabionda 3 ปีที่แล้ว +36

      As an architecture student who was born in the same country as the designer of this building I TOTALLY AGREE WITH YOU

    • @hypothalapotamus5293
      @hypothalapotamus5293 2 ปีที่แล้ว +10

      What exactly are the consequences of an architect creating an Archimedean death ray and hurricane force winds in London's financial district or creating fyre fest tower for billionaires in New York city?
      Seems like he's giving some very deserving people a lesson about amoral capitalism.

    • @DrawciaGleam02
      @DrawciaGleam02 2 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      Reminds me of the Verruckt tragedy.....

  • @forsakedsorrow
    @forsakedsorrow 3 ปีที่แล้ว +286

    Ok... as a fresh graduate of Structural engineering, I got angry halfway through this video: this architect is the sole reason I have to do environmental science units as a student who was only supposed to design structure elements. Wind tunnel effects and light pollution is such a problem that the entire industry is now training people not to do it and yet projects with forecastable issues still got green light

  • @drdimensions
    @drdimensions 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1978

    Me before watching this: Why do you hate a building?
    Me after watching this: I agree with this STRONGLY!!

    • @drdimensions
      @drdimensions 3 ปีที่แล้ว +9

      Also that short film was made by DBOX in 2012, that's all I could find

    • @ddjsoyenby
      @ddjsoyenby 3 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      buildings are monsters!

    • @rohannalawade3227
      @rohannalawade3227 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      Same

    • @user-zk7hi7pb6v
      @user-zk7hi7pb6v 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      Same

    • @linasayshush
      @linasayshush 3 ปีที่แล้ว +7

      From "lmao people have too much time on their hands" to "I will tear this building down myself if I have to"

  • @birtarb07
    @birtarb07 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1344

    I feel like TikTok is slowly taking over the "random and unimportant info that I will still not forget" part of our collective minds with stuff like this

    • @poralitical
      @poralitical 3 ปีที่แล้ว +69

      the app is designed perfectly to expose you to content you didn't know you wanted until you saw it at which point you become momentarily obsessed.

    • @ravendangernavy3575
      @ravendangernavy3575 3 ปีที่แล้ว +8

      this is just the youtuber tom scott for me. I guess this is why I don't use tiktok

    • @typosinthebrain5363
      @typosinthebrain5363 3 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      And i absolutely love it for that xD

    • @themagicalllama8514
      @themagicalllama8514 3 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      🎶"These are cattails"🎶

  • @youngfunny1824
    @youngfunny1824 3 ปีที่แล้ว +711

    Oof, I've seen that building before and assumed that it was a corporate building office because of how drab it looks. You're telling me people are paying millions to live in that building!?

  • @katherinerogers2545
    @katherinerogers2545 3 ปีที่แล้ว +396

    As someone living in NYC I can tell you a good number of units in buildings like this are bought and sit vacant most if not all of the year. Usually they’re bought as part of a business move and it’s bananas

    • @Hippidippimahm
      @Hippidippimahm 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      😩

    • @disembodied1273
      @disembodied1273 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      Gross lmao eat the rich 🔪

    • @syd5380
      @syd5380 2 ปีที่แล้ว +12

      Here in Maine 1/5th of all the houses are considered “vacant” because they’re vacation homes that are occupied for at most like 3 months out of the year, if that. But at least people _go_ to them sometimes jesus christ

    • @tracysills257
      @tracysills257 ปีที่แล้ว

      B-A-N-A-N-A-S!!!!!

    • @sidhawker
      @sidhawker ปีที่แล้ว +2

      Yeah, wish the video could make more of a distinction between ‘owned’ and ‘occupied’

  • @thealucas7247
    @thealucas7247 3 ปีที่แล้ว +246

    "An Architect's dream is an Engineer's nightmare"

    • @Nadia1989
      @Nadia1989 3 ปีที่แล้ว +15

      The Architect designs the building and the Engineer rips it to shreds

  • @ellermg
    @ellermg 3 ปีที่แล้ว +407

    To my fellas worldwide:
    1400 feet is almost 427 meters

    • @lize-marigrobler161
      @lize-marigrobler161 3 ปีที่แล้ว +15

      Thank you

    • @lea88pu
      @lea88pu 3 ปีที่แล้ว +6

      Thank you

    • @melanieg.9092
      @melanieg.9092 3 ปีที่แล้ว +7

      thanks

    • @Miselfforever
      @Miselfforever 3 ปีที่แล้ว +6

    • @beth4928
      @beth4928 3 ปีที่แล้ว +33

      This thing is. Almost half a kilometre long. I hate rich people.

  • @Divinelywriting
    @Divinelywriting 3 ปีที่แล้ว +875

    I laughed way too fucking hard at this video. Imagine spending millions of dollars for a home and it sounds like a bomb is going off every 15 minutes.

    • @vawkwardbat
      @vawkwardbat 3 ปีที่แล้ว +26

      That part killed me

    • @tcoker0416
      @tcoker0416 3 ปีที่แล้ว +10

      Pretty sure you can get a house for cheap af in an actual war one. Complete with real bombs. These rich fucks could have saved alot of money.

    • @hothotheat3000
      @hothotheat3000 3 ปีที่แล้ว +5

      They’re buying the units to stash cash, not to actually live there.

  • @02u4
    @02u4 3 ปีที่แล้ว +518

    Looking at this building makes me feel so nervous. like... I don't trust the structural integrity of this building and it makes my palms sweat it's so scary.

    • @Otter34
      @Otter34 3 ปีที่แล้ว +52

      Imagine cleaning those windows. Just imagine the death-defying feats required to clean those rich jerks' crummy windows for the apartments they hate.

    • @02u4
      @02u4 3 ปีที่แล้ว +21

      @@Otter34 Oh man, don't do that to me. The thought of the building itself swaying in the wind is scary enough, but then swaying from a dangling thing off of the side on top of that? Yeah... no thanks, I'd rather just lay on the ground.

    • @annadarko6056
      @annadarko6056 3 ปีที่แล้ว +7

      @@02u4 That's probably safer than using the elevator. :D

    • @jackdumanat49
      @jackdumanat49 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      majority of the strength of a high rise come from the lift shaft... its technically called the core which contains the lift shaft, fire escape stair and utilities like piping and wiring. Those two floors she was on about at 8:10 are called outrigger which are mainly just trusses spreading the load around. They're there to help with lateral and axial loading. Yeah they typically put HVAC (A/C and heating) as well as water pumps/tanks since it's not liveable. lol the building is not really out of the ordinary it's just thin... which imo makes it pretty swingy in the wind. although structural engineers have design it to minimise that swingyness, its just contractors making the good old shortcuts and cost cuts.

    • @Crlarl
      @Crlarl 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Are your knees weak? Arms are heavy?

  • @fruitylaura
    @fruitylaura 3 ปีที่แล้ว +738

    Me going into this video: How can someone hate a building? That’s just a bit extreme.
    Me 15 minutes into this video: This building is the stuff of nightmares. I’m having a panic attack just hearing about it. I hate it with a passion.

    • @3oddsocks47
      @3oddsocks47 3 ปีที่แล้ว +26

      It took you 15 minutes it took me 9 Holy fucking shit, its disgusting

  • @AlexxShmalex
    @AlexxShmalex 3 ปีที่แล้ว +170

    WAIT I lived between NYC and NJ for 4 years and every time I looked at the skyline I would think “what the hell is that and will it ever be finished?” Only to find out now that it is finished and just as hideous as you would expect

  • @Cab895
    @Cab895 3 ปีที่แล้ว +484

    I hate this building so much. If you have ever been to Central Park, especially Sheep Meadow
    that building sticks out of like a sore thumb and ruins the view.

    • @katenz100
      @katenz100 3 ปีที่แล้ว +18

      Is there a view of anything in New York? The media makes it all look like nothing but buildings.

    • @ggundercover3681
      @ggundercover3681 3 ปีที่แล้ว +19

      @@katenz100 even buildings can be pretty. it has a city vibe. so it depends if you like that. however, there are more neighbourhood areas where it's at most 2 story buildings and those areas are nice in a uniform type of way. there are also some parks which have a nice view with decently tall but not corporate tall in the background with some trees and I think that is nice. so it really depends on what you like, and where in NY you go. this is based on when I've visited family there tho. I don't live in NY

    • @katenz100
      @katenz100 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@ggundercover3681 I sort of more meant from. Central Park. Should have specified.

    • @ggundercover3681
      @ggundercover3681 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@katenz100 ahhhh ok. my bad

    • @homosexualitymydearwatson4109
      @homosexualitymydearwatson4109 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      Go to Chicago then, we’ve got the prettiest skyline anyway.

  • @cherryblossomshadow3
    @cherryblossomshadow3 3 ปีที่แล้ว +313

    "Stuck" is like you're walking down the sidewalk, but now you can't move because there's gum on your shoe. It sucks and it's kinda gross, but you'll get out of it.
    "Entrapped" is like there's something keeping you there, the four walls are closing in around you, and you'll never see the light of day.

    • @squishish
      @squishish 3 ปีที่แล้ว +33

      stuck: a little frightening, she was fine and it was like 3 minutes of not moving
      entrapped: death is now on the table, anxiety is your god
      anyways kudos to that women because i would have passed out from a panic attack. I cannot imagine being stuck that high and just hoping i don't fall and also am not stuck there too long.. eugh

  • @MaxRobertsdoesthings
    @MaxRobertsdoesthings 3 ปีที่แล้ว +116

    YES YES!! I've hated this building since it was under construction! I once walked 20 blocks in freezing temperatures just to glare at it up close. That trip actually revealed something really interesting. The concrete ledge goes about 1 foot out from every window. So every winter, 5ft long icicles form on all the window ledges and they have to build a scaffold and makeshift plywood covered walkway to stop the billionaires getting skewered by massive ice spears.

    • @squeakyrabbit
      @squeakyrabbit ปีที่แล้ว +12

      This is the eye witness information we need to hear about the hidden realities. 🤝

    • @keropi193
      @keropi193 ปีที่แล้ว +9

      We need a working class hero to 'forget' to build the plywood ledges one year

    • @astrostar000
      @astrostar000 10 หลายเดือนก่อน

      Lmao, that’s WILD!!

  • @leewebster4420
    @leewebster4420 3 ปีที่แล้ว +87

    God this was hilarious for me to see because a friend of mine ran a tabletop rpg campaign set in NYC and this building was used as a dungeon where we encountered the main villain so I can’t help but feel like all the structural damage was our fault somehow, cosmically.

    • @cassualtea2040
      @cassualtea2040 2 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      if you took this thing down you'd have done everyone a favor

  • @worldbfr3e263
    @worldbfr3e263 3 ปีที่แล้ว +472

    What's even more baffling is the architect, Viñoly, who designed the solar death day building in London. That wasn't even the first time he ran into that issue. He made the same mistake years earlier for a hotel in Las Vegas which had a similar solar glare problem.

    • @leilalove3462
      @leilalove3462 3 ปีที่แล้ว +149

      Doing it once is a mistake. Doing it twice is part of a master plan to put stove makers out of business by having people fry and cook food under your giant magnifying glass (that shall be referred to as building for legal reasons)

    • @Owesomasaurus
      @Owesomasaurus 3 ปีที่แล้ว +45

      Death rays only hurt The Poors, so, working as intended

    • @D0MiN0ChAn
      @D0MiN0ChAn 3 ปีที่แล้ว +60

      How is this man still working as an architect? How was he not sued for all the damages his monstrosities caused?

    • @croci7622
      @croci7622 3 ปีที่แล้ว +20

      Doing it once is just bad design. A simple solar study and wind study during the design phase would have highlighted most of the issues. Most design students probably could have told this guy his building was terrible

    • @joaomrtins
      @joaomrtins 3 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      I Las Vegas? That's a true problem. London is never sunny anyways.

  • @DarthChu11
    @DarthChu11 3 ปีที่แล้ว +445

    Oh my god the death ray building guy was allowed to make another nightmare

    • @Melanie-jy2nw
      @Melanie-jy2nw 3 ปีที่แล้ว +28

      Why was he given such a big project again after his huge fuckup?!

    • @rm5537
      @rm5537 3 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      give him more projects...its good content haha

    • @wretchedcats4909
      @wretchedcats4909 3 ปีที่แล้ว +8

      Some people aren't cut out to be architects, but they still do it anyways

  • @antonteponainen6417
    @antonteponainen6417 3 ปีที่แล้ว +407

    My theory is that those death trap apartments are gifted by rich people to the relatives they dislike, as a prank

    • @k3th.b.w122
      @k3th.b.w122 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      💀

    • @inTIMMYdator44
      @inTIMMYdator44 3 ปีที่แล้ว +16

      Like a white elephant!

    • @Zzz2x
      @Zzz2x 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      Lmao

    • @alexbrown3637
      @alexbrown3637 3 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      Or a easy place for the rich to dump the bodies...... no wonder the trash shoot sound like a bom-

  • @KayKay114
    @KayKay114 3 ปีที่แล้ว +193

    I can barely handle driving on the highway in windy conditions, just imagine sitting on your couch and feeling the building blowing and screaming.

    • @amandarama3314
      @amandarama3314 3 ปีที่แล้ว +26

      i cant even go up a ladder if its steady. no way in hell am i VOLUNTARILY LIVING in a swaying building HUNDREDS OF FEET FROM THE GROUND

  • @vespervictrola
    @vespervictrola 3 ปีที่แล้ว +143

    That building is a horrific blight on the skyline--I think it's actually quite sad. New York and many other beautiful cities are being marred by terrible architecture and money-hungry developers who will throw up anything if it makes a profit, all while worsening the longstanding issues of housing affordability in these places.

  • @relativelyjilly
    @relativelyjilly 3 ปีที่แล้ว +659

    The swaying building thing is actually really cool. In case of an earthquake a building that is build to be able to sway is going to be more likely to survive since the movement is distributed throughout the building and keeps it safe where much smaller buildings might crumble. its the same reason Taipei101 has a massive pendulum in the building. kind of awesome that people really thought of something like that that feels counterintuitive. A lot of pagodas back in the day were also build like that.

    • @GyroCannon
      @GyroCannon 3 ปีที่แล้ว +80

      Funnily enough, the example I have in my mind whenever someone mentions old architecture that have a pendulum that sways to counteract wind is the Bellsprout Tower in Pokemon

    • @Alek.17
      @Alek.17 3 ปีที่แล้ว +105

      I mean, yes, buildings must sway to survive earthquakes, but this one is so ridiculously tall that it sways CONSTANTLY

    • @relativelyjilly
      @relativelyjilly 3 ปีที่แล้ว +80

      @@Alek.17 yeah i'm not defending this hell building, I'm just talking about how buildings built to be able to sway are a cool physics thing

    • @dandarcy2539
      @dandarcy2539 3 ปีที่แล้ว +6

      one world trade center is a much better example of it than this fuckign thing lmao

    • @GyroCannon
      @GyroCannon 3 ปีที่แล้ว +46

      @@Alek.17 I think the difference is that one case sways because of good engineering and the other sways because of bad engineering lol

  • @AerinMoriarty
    @AerinMoriarty 3 ปีที่แล้ว +535

    Also, if you hate this dude's first building, London in general has some AWFUL buildings because of sight line regulations and how architects have gotten around them in hideously ugly ways

    • @Ash-xt1ej
      @Ash-xt1ej 3 ปีที่แล้ว +32

      Please please please expand or give me resources. I must know

    • @lhdr_
      @lhdr_ 3 ปีที่แล้ว +8

      @@Ash-xt1ej I would also like to know.

    • @dubspool
      @dubspool 3 ปีที่แล้ว +61

      Ash there’s a law that states you can’t build buildings that obscure the view of St. Paul’s Cathedral and Westminster Palace from certain points iirc. Tom Scott has a video about them.

    • @Ash-xt1ej
      @Ash-xt1ej 3 ปีที่แล้ว +7

      @@dubspool Excellent. I love him so I’m looking forward to this!!

    • @angelalovell5669
      @angelalovell5669 3 ปีที่แล้ว +37

      Not to mention the flammable cladding on thousands on residences... still not fixed.

  • @JM-ft8lw
    @JM-ft8lw 3 ปีที่แล้ว +787

    Hey fun fact about the walkie talkie’s death mirror is that it also melted a car

    • @danang5
      @danang5 3 ปีที่แล้ว +22

      i think it used to but now its somehow fixed

    • @salsasalsa943
      @salsasalsa943 3 ปีที่แล้ว +9

      at least its fixed

    • @ashleybow
      @ashleybow 3 ปีที่แล้ว +56

      I’m surprised she didn’t mention it when one of the headlines she showed actually mentioned melting cars I think. Lol

    • @alysasorrell8252
      @alysasorrell8252 3 ปีที่แล้ว +15

      @@danang5 they "fixed" it by hanging ugly tarps over the side of the building

    • @gringa978
      @gringa978 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@alysasorrell8252 anti reflection tape

  • @arxvphoto809
    @arxvphoto809 3 ปีที่แล้ว +159

    I witnessed this building being built floor by floor though the years and was waiting for the design of it to come to life. It never did, its like a bad joke on the entire city. I think in the years to come it’ll become iconic just for the irony it represents of excess in technology and money still not being enough to fend off tasteless rich people’s influence on our society.

    • @vigilanteinc768
      @vigilanteinc768 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      Easier said (by POOR PEOPLE) than done (by Rich people). Let's wait until you're rich first. While many of the rich people were having sleepless nights working on their ideas, businesses and investments, the likes of you were busy sleeping, Bing watching Netflix, getting drunk and having sex. Now you want to EAT the rich? Screw that! As you've laid your bed, so you lie in it. Smh. Instead of hating the rich, use your imagination to solve a problem and build a business around your solution.

    • @mony.mp4
      @mony.mp4 3 ปีที่แล้ว +8

      @@vigilanteinc768 elon musk is not gonna f*ck you dude

    • @jeanneann3545
      @jeanneann3545 2 ปีที่แล้ว +6

      How to experience the Poor People way of living : Rich people version.
      Leaking? Check. Unsafe building? Check. Elevator stop working frequently and you got trapped inside? Check. One single sad restaurant that you're forced to go to because there's no other restaurants want to be in poor people area? Check. Noise all round? Check. Neighbours start to get on each other nerves and start fighting? Check. Uncaring and downright greedy landlord? Check.
      This is how the rich people experience what its like to live as poor people, but with thick wallet and expensive building that look like a 5 years old kid designed.
      Honestly instead of prison, they should send billionaires prisoner there. We all know they got fancy treatment in prison anyway, might as well just send them to fancy prison outside but hell inside.

  • @aidenwilliams5487
    @aidenwilliams5487 3 ปีที่แล้ว +56

    If anyone's interested, every building over like 6 stories need to sway a little bit. Skyscrapers positively need to sway, otherwise they would snap and crumble, though even with inertial dampening some buildings are poorly optimized like this gross stain in the history of architecture.

    • @germanulrich
      @germanulrich 3 ปีที่แล้ว +7

      Exactly, you need a little sway, otherwise rigidity and external effects will fuck you up

  • @alizardinyourroom1361
    @alizardinyourroom1361 3 ปีที่แล้ว +492

    "sometimes, expensive things are worse"

  • @jessdelight
    @jessdelight 3 ปีที่แล้ว +601

    Imagine having $18+ million dollars and this is what you choose to buy. I can't with the 1%.

    • @Sonicsis
      @Sonicsis 3 ปีที่แล้ว +34

      Why can’t they just enjoy living in one place and staying at a hotel like the rest of us.

    • @theadventuresofzoomandbettie
      @theadventuresofzoomandbettie 3 ปีที่แล้ว +10

      You've got to think they were off the plan purchases, and the renders didn't look anything like real life.

    • @emilyb.8219
      @emilyb.8219 3 ปีที่แล้ว +11

      Rich people have no taste

    • @kwood55
      @kwood55 3 ปีที่แล้ว +15

      Many rich people want to spend this kind of money just because so many people CAN’T, which is sick.

    • @riari6980
      @riari6980 3 ปีที่แล้ว +10

      So um, the fact that a lot of these people are very corrupt officials from developing countries that GET their money from taxes that should have gone to medicine and stuff :(

  • @Koiske
    @Koiske 3 ปีที่แล้ว +157

    Worked at a catering company that was nearby, and some of my regulars came from that building. None of them have stayed in there for longer than a year. This alone told me how shitty the building was.

  • @JackhammerJesus
    @JackhammerJesus 3 ปีที่แล้ว +132

    Being "stuck" in an elevator means that there was some kind of malfunction which can be fixed.
    Being "entrapped" implies that someone (or something) does not WANT you to get out.

  • @ellah6188
    @ellah6188 3 ปีที่แล้ว +34

    You left out the best part! It's not even on park avenue, it only claims the address on a technicality because there is an associated property that is on park avenue. The whole thing is a lie.

  • @AerinMoriarty
    @AerinMoriarty 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1169

    I hate this building, capitalism is broken, and I hate my brain for incessantly singing, "We're going four three two, electric avenue" the ENTIRE VIDEO.

    • @MikeStavola
      @MikeStavola 3 ปีที่แล้ว +12

      Here I am playing the theme to Green Acres the whole damn time.

    • @ddjsoyenby
      @ddjsoyenby 3 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      same.

    • @henlex6424
      @henlex6424 3 ปีที่แล้ว +5

      Well shit now I'm singing it too

    • @filthyclown8033
      @filthyclown8033 3 ปีที่แล้ว +17

      “We’re gonna rock down to Electric Avenue” are the lyrics to that song

    • @goldensloth7
      @goldensloth7 3 ปีที่แล้ว +27

      and then we build it high-er

  • @CalvinBlackmoon
    @CalvinBlackmoon 3 ปีที่แล้ว +158

    Ngl my biggest, burning question when it comes to massive buildings like these...... how long does the elevator take if you live on floor 95? I need to know these things.

    • @inTIMMYdator44
      @inTIMMYdator44 3 ปีที่แล้ว +12

      Typically theyre pretty quick. Not exactly the same, but 1WTC's tourism elevator (just goes to the top) goes about 20mph.

    • @Aron-ru5zk
      @Aron-ru5zk 3 ปีที่แล้ว +10

      They have faster elevators than the ones that only go a couple floors like at the mall etc,
      Online it says the lifts do 2000 feet a minute
      I did the math and you should be able to go from ground floor to the top floor in just under 40 seconds which isn’t too bad.

    • @Zman44444
      @Zman44444 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      Lived on the 40th floor of a high rise for a few years. The elevator ride only took ~30-40 seconds.
      Was sometimes spooky cuz it would move so fast that the doors would shake...
      sometimes I have odd dreams about the elevator... but eh.

    • @germanulrich
      @germanulrich 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      Even with a 1-second-per-floor speed, you are talking about a minute and 35 seconds. Not that long of a ride I reckon.

  • @robotdickens
    @robotdickens 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1202

    Okay I’m starting to think that “432 Park Avenue” is a trigger phrase designed to wake me up as a Russian sleeper agent.

    • @beepatpen
      @beepatpen 3 ปีที่แล้ว +39

      it sounds like a scp/creepy pasta

    • @littlejourneyseverywhere
      @littlejourneyseverywhere 3 ปีที่แล้ว +37

      I love it and so I immediately head canon this. Welcome to the 432 resistance, comrade.

    • @hugoedelarosa
      @hugoedelarosa 3 ปีที่แล้ว +17

      I’ve found the Winter Soldier!

    • @honeyspice8989
      @honeyspice8989 3 ปีที่แล้ว +7

      Fucking underrated comment

    • @drdrdrk
      @drdrdrk 2 ปีที่แล้ว +7

      Your comment made me pause for a bit to think and I AM russian.

  • @20tetsuo77
    @20tetsuo77 3 ปีที่แล้ว +55

    Honestly tall buildings like that give me so much anxiety, I have nightmares about being in buildings that look exactly like that right as they’re losing support and falling to the ground

  • @studybuddy.
    @studybuddy. 3 ปีที่แล้ว +273

    As a wise wo/man once said, “Sometimes, expensive things are worse.”

    • @itvbewitchme
      @itvbewitchme 3 ปีที่แล้ว +13

      oh Freckle

    • @XtremelyNerdy
      @XtremelyNerdy 3 ปีที่แล้ว +6

      I love Freckle!

    • @babsff
      @babsff 3 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      Freckle is a mood

    • @luckystar9279
      @luckystar9279 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      Why is your wise person a hermaphrodite

    • @itvbewitchme
      @itvbewitchme 3 ปีที่แล้ว +7

      @@luckystar9279 those terms aren't used anymore, Lucky, just fyi

  • @Neryssa111
    @Neryssa111 3 ปีที่แล้ว +69

    When I was working for the census, I was on the Reddit forum and the New York City workers talked about apartments like these. Allegedly these are empty apartments and the management doesn’t want the city to know these are empty. There are other allegations that they wouldn’t let the census workers conduct their business so higher ups in the federal office had to collaborate with these management offices to get accurate counts. The security was insane allegedly according to a redditor, who claimed that once they got into one part of the building there were 7 more doors with key card requirements to walk across the other part.

  • @juliettekimmins7929
    @juliettekimmins7929 3 ปีที่แล้ว +26

    I remember when 432 Park Ave was being built and everyone in the surrounding building being absolutely fed up. A whole part of my mom’s office space at 450 Park Ave just straight up doesn’t get any sunlight anymore and the years of construction forcing everyone to get noise cancelling headphones. Even before it was fully “built” people were pissed about it.

  • @nap10001
    @nap10001 3 ปีที่แล้ว +28

    As someone who wants to be an architect I can tell this building Had 5 whole minutes of forethought before they made 10 floors and copied and pasted it

  • @filipeeeeeeeee5615
    @filipeeeeeeeee5615 3 ปีที่แล้ว +128

    These new super tall skinny buildings in NY are ruining the skyline, I thought I was the only one who hated them. It creates this obstacle in the view, so weird, and they probably destroyed a historical building to build this like they always do. I saw a video some months ago about another skinny building being built next to Central Park and how debris would constantly fall from the construction, once a piece of metal almost killed a waiter that was working at an Italian restaurant down the street.

    • @dandarcy2539
      @dandarcy2539 3 ปีที่แล้ว +18

      god its even a problem with shorter buildings too. when i was in elementary school they were constructing a 30 story building on the corner, theres another building in between the school and this new building thats maybe two stories, debris fell ALL the time past the other building right into the playground, we literally couldnt use a majority of the playground because it was too dangerous.

  • @Mantuamaker
    @Mantuamaker 3 ปีที่แล้ว +37

    I’ve worked in property management, in high rise condos for four years. The number of issues that can occur are insane. Take a neighbor three floors above you with an issue with their fridge. They have a service company come out multiple times to check. Each time they pull the fridge out then push it back in. Now, the people in the floors between you and him are only living there part time. One day you notice a leak. Management, aka my company takes a week to figure out it’s this guy’s fridge water line because the refused access. You now have thousands in damage same with all the other units involved. This is a true story.
    Next, you have a new neighbor, their excited to move in and hire good friends to help. Well, in the process of moving a couch they whack a sprinkler head. This sets the sprinklers off on the whole floor which causes a flood in four floors of the building. Oh, and these units, about the price of a home in the area, you just have a quarter of the square footage at best.
    I have so many more stories, but the moral of the story is: I would not recommend high rise condo living.

  • @stephanieandsophia
    @stephanieandsophia 3 ปีที่แล้ว +71

    As a Brit, seeing that the architect is of the 'Walkie Talkie' building makes so much sense. People have had their hair singed from the condensed sun rays, let alone vehicles being damaged

  • @j.munday7913
    @j.munday7913 3 ปีที่แล้ว +29

    Its kind of weirdly comforting to me to know that billionaires are living in scary death trap slums, but they're big and have a hoity-toity address so they're somewhat wasting their money on these homes. Shitty housing, the great unifier.

  • @redred7702
    @redred7702 3 ปีที่แล้ว +53

    As someone from a peaceful, rather small city in Canada, I’ve always wondered how different do LA and Newyork residents need to be built to survive those living conditions.

    • @gringa978
      @gringa978 3 ปีที่แล้ว +5

      Fun fact they believe people who thrive in New York City have ADHD and had chaos in their childhoods

    • @madisonstoner7405
      @madisonstoner7405 3 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      @@gringa978 *immediately moves to NYC*

    • @JC-dm9un
      @JC-dm9un 3 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      @@gringa978 i cant imagine how much sensory overload I would get from any of those big cities 😭 would probably get panic attacks there

    • @electronics-girl
      @electronics-girl 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      New York and LA are very different. Much of LA is single-family homes.

    • @ellemarr7234
      @ellemarr7234 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      @@gringa978 Can confirm 😂

  • @pintpullinggeek
    @pintpullinggeek 3 ปีที่แล้ว +192

    When you started I was thinking "Does it melt stuff like the Walkie-Talkie?" and then lo-and-behold...there it is!

  • @lukemurphy7165
    @lukemurphy7165 3 ปีที่แล้ว +277

    I saw the title and was INSTANTLY like "Its 432 park avenue right?"

  • @magicmike191v2
    @magicmike191v2 3 ปีที่แล้ว +65

    As a New Yorker all my life I can confirm that the wind noise freaks me out. My anxiety makes me think that we'll be flying in the air in like a minute. If I heard the elevator cables make a sound because of wind I would just disintegrate idk that's super scary.

  • @HellGirl666
    @HellGirl666 3 ปีที่แล้ว +819

    “They don’t just have money, they have ‘fuck you money’ and ‘hide the body money” idk why but that line gets me

  • @RicardoMoralesMassin
    @RicardoMoralesMassin 3 ปีที่แล้ว +62

    Her voice, her tone, is like a balm, a form of entertainment on its own

    • @mollymattingly1459
      @mollymattingly1459 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      She sounds just like Sarah Shauer

    • @RicardoMoralesMassin
      @RicardoMoralesMassin 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      @@mollymattingly1459 i LOVE Sarah Schauer. Amanda doenst burp as much tho. Or at all. Different styles.

    • @mollymattingly1459
      @mollymattingly1459 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      @@RicardoMoralesMassin very true, very true 😂

  • @oceanesta5131
    @oceanesta5131 3 ปีที่แล้ว +83

    Are we not gonna acknowledge the fact that the elevator entrapment was on Halloween? Yall just imagine for a moment. The wind took out the elevator and someone was trapped alone in there on Halloween for an hour and a half.

  • @diegocella6791
    @diegocella6791 3 ปีที่แล้ว +242

    Oh look a scam in the construction industry? Strange, would have never guessed...

    • @jenwhitesides
      @jenwhitesides 3 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      exactly. The whole thing just feels like a giant money-laundering scheme to me.

  • @studybuddy.
    @studybuddy. 3 ปีที่แล้ว +52

    Who would WANT to live on the top floor of that building? Imagine if the elevators broke. Every second in that building I would fear for my life.

    • @Romanticoutlaw
      @Romanticoutlaw 3 ปีที่แล้ว +8

      not to even mention travel time... you get out the door at breakfast time and get out the front door in time for lunch

    • @professionalpainthuffer
      @professionalpainthuffer 3 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      Imagine having to move into a penthouse on floor 92 like the level of stress is unbelievable

    • @marrchaney9206
      @marrchaney9206 3 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      Or a fire? There's no way to get down those stairs in time. I'd just fucking wait to die

    • @ScrambleYolk
      @ScrambleYolk 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      i want to live in a high rise :D, yes call me a weirdo

  • @neuromantoo
    @neuromantoo 3 ปีที่แล้ว +49

    If I were a billionaire I would have extremely large single story houses cause money can't cure acrophobia.

  • @jordaneadotcom
    @jordaneadotcom 3 ปีที่แล้ว +22

    As an urban planning student i cannot IMAGINE how much they had to bribe the zoning commission or the mayor’s office to get the zoning exceptions for the height of the building (unless it was a transfer of development rights from other properties this company owns which is a whole other can of worms)

    • @scottblair3719
      @scottblair3719 3 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      They bought the air rights from adjacent properties.

  • @deanlejeune5005
    @deanlejeune5005 3 ปีที่แล้ว +64

    As someone who works on skyscrapers for a living this building genuinely creates a physical response from me

  • @jaceware8808
    @jaceware8808 3 ปีที่แล้ว +103

    "they don't just have money, they have fuck you money and hide the body money" Funniest thing I have ever heard.

  • @jacquesalope
    @jacquesalope ปีที่แล้ว +5

    I can't think of anything more terrifying than being trapped in an elevator in an absurdly tall skinny building while the building is swaying around in the wind so bad that it's shutting down services, AND it's halloween

  • @jaymeecummings5238
    @jaymeecummings5238 3 ปีที่แล้ว +49

    'Entrapped' makes it sound like you'll have to solve a series of horrifying puzzles in order to escape

  • @elvingearmasterirma7241
    @elvingearmasterirma7241 3 ปีที่แล้ว +47

    That building makes brutalist pieces look positively welcoming.

    • @Nadia1989
      @Nadia1989 3 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      It really makes the Biblioteca Nacional look like high art, and I usually think that it looks like someone smashed a rock placed it in the middle of a park.

  • @spencerrodgers
    @spencerrodgers 3 ปีที่แล้ว +18

    432 park ave looks like the architects just watched their kid build something in Minecraft and was like yeah let’s make money off it and I’ll take credit

  • @jordanzish
    @jordanzish 3 ปีที่แล้ว +15

    I swear scamming your way to the NYT Bestsellers list is how you get on the NYT Bestsellers list.

  • @rjdruhan
    @rjdruhan 3 ปีที่แล้ว +46

    I went to that TikTok to make sure, she also brought up the I-4 Eyesore in Orlando.
    And, of course she has. . . That building Should. Not. Exist.

    • @mothmadi_
      @mothmadi_ 3 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      its not even close to completion it's a fucking nightmare. at least it isn't causing damage to anything though

    • @rjdruhan
      @rjdruhan 3 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      And It's only 18 stories. But it's 18 stories in the middle of swampland where 98% of buildings don't surpass four. It's probably one of the biggest true boondoggles ever.

  • @Tots_
    @Tots_ 3 ปีที่แล้ว +75

    I knew instantly which building you were talking about. I've never felt this much hatred toward a building in my life.

  • @francofranco9815
    @francofranco9815 3 ปีที่แล้ว +29

    The good thing is, when you try to go home drunk, by the time you reach your unit at the top floor, you’re probably sober.

  • @br5632
    @br5632 3 ปีที่แล้ว +19

    Watching this in my basement suite feeling boujie knowing it won’t snap in half.

  • @user-wh8qx1xi3k
    @user-wh8qx1xi3k 3 ปีที่แล้ว +26

    I live in NYC but I live on the second floor of a building that’s only 12 stories and in the 18 years I’ve lived here I’ve had like two problems! That’s it! Meanwhile these people are fucking SWAYING IN THE WIND in their elevators 😂

  • @Limonenmixgetraenk
    @Limonenmixgetraenk 3 ปีที่แล้ว +278

    "The trash chute sounding like a bomb - how do you fix that?" Hear me out: pillows. Pillows at the bottom.

    • @francofranco9815
      @francofranco9815 3 ปีที่แล้ว +6

      Or nets?

    • @sweetpeabee4983
      @sweetpeabee4983 3 ปีที่แล้ว +76

      Imo to make it not make a huge bomb sound, instead of a straight trash drop, spiral it, like those children's slides in park playgrounds lol.

    • @eleanorhenriquez3930
      @eleanorhenriquez3930 3 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      @@sweetpeabee4983 lol I support this idea lol

    • @dandarcy2539
      @dandarcy2539 3 ปีที่แล้ว +42

      the sound is probably from the trash hitting against the sides of the chute as it goes down, theres pretty much no way to fix it besides like sound proofing the entire chute

    • @Taurusus
      @Taurusus 3 ปีที่แล้ว +9

      @@dandarcy2539 yeah I'd wager you're right, I've dealt with trash chutes before, and you don't hear it hitting the bottom. Just entering the system, and the weirdly heavily sprung doors they sometimes have can catch you off-guard.

  • @ravonne6308
    @ravonne6308 3 ปีที่แล้ว +150

    I just want to go to 50 years to the future when this building unavoidably morphes into a Judge Dredd type vertical ghetto. It'll be ironic as hell.

    • @Aron-ru5zk
      @Aron-ru5zk 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      It won’t though, the whole reason it’s made for billionaires is they are the only people who can afford to maintain it...

    • @ravonne6308
      @ravonne6308 3 ปีที่แล้ว +7

      @@Aron-ru5zk Yeah, but what if they choose not to?

  • @nancykira717
    @nancykira717 3 ปีที่แล้ว +59

    the three dislikes are from the architect but through different accounts

  • @Silburific
    @Silburific 2 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    This building looks exactly like the buildings I used to put in the backgrounds of my paintings. The thing is, most of those paintings were meant to depict Hell (they were pieces to help me try and convey the feel of a story I wanted to write at the time). This souless, pretenious, eyesore of a death trap is _exactly_ what I envisioned tormented souls in Hell being forced to reside in.
    Glad to know I wasn't the only one to think this kind of nightmare is where billionaires should languish.

  • @winterburden
    @winterburden 3 ปีที่แล้ว +252

    Thank you for hating this building so we don't have to! 🙆‍♀️

    • @Ash-xt1ej
      @Ash-xt1ej 3 ปีที่แล้ว +14

      Nah, the joy is in hating it with her

    • @winterburden
      @winterburden 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      I think we should hate this building so much that we collectively buy a unit and use it as a Swell Simps for Amanda fan club headquarters 🙆‍♀️

  • @damianhugh
    @damianhugh 3 ปีที่แล้ว +93

    i HATE this building. these supertalls ruin the ny skyline and like are so unnecessary.

    • @sambee33
      @sambee33 3 ปีที่แล้ว +7

      this and hudson yards fr, like build affordable housing in our city not this!!!!!!!

  • @EilonwyWanderer
    @EilonwyWanderer 3 ปีที่แล้ว +167

    20:12 "...getting to shit on billionaires for, like, probably way too long..." Sorry, but there's no such thing as too much shitting on billionaires! This was my first time hearing about 432 Park Avenue, and I now hate it also.

  • @mistyhoneypop
    @mistyhoneypop 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

    As someone who is about to graduate with a degree in interior design and a degree in architecture, the building makes me livid and upset with the way we are starting to modernize everything instead of matching with nature as it was intended since the beginning of architecture/interior design history.

  • @pagolainaki7175
    @pagolainaki7175 3 ปีที่แล้ว +10

    It is so painful to look at the building, I literally can't look at it without being angry.

  • @dariosilvestri473
    @dariosilvestri473 3 ปีที่แล้ว +176

    Am I the onlyone that noticed the person being "entrapped" in the elevator was on Halloween evening? I hope it was the ghost of Karl Marx

  • @KO-vb4tg
    @KO-vb4tg 3 ปีที่แล้ว +83

    “Entrapped in an elevator” has some real Saw vibes. Do you want to play a game?

  • @thomaseames5016
    @thomaseames5016 3 ปีที่แล้ว +48

    They where trapped on Halloween as well and I would just freak out at that point

    • @TJ_Sauce
      @TJ_Sauce 3 ปีที่แล้ว +8

      Also imagine spending your halloween trapped there, I would be so mad.

    • @happypenguin25
      @happypenguin25 3 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      @@TJ_Sauce Honestly me too, I'd be so pissed.