I am an elevator technician for over 38 years in NYC. I work for one of the EMANY corporations. And actually they are the largest in the world. Having serviced and built units in some of the most prestigious addresses in the Manhattan, I can tell you, these custom made units, will present challenges not foreseen by the builders. And consequently will have unpredictable consequences for service. There is the possibility of good outcomes if they designate regular maintenance, during off hours, because once someone has an appointment and their Porsche is stuck on the elevator, they will change their tune. Especially if the tech is some 40 minutes away stuck in traffic. I for one would love to see that email.
There was another B1M video saying many of these Manhattan apartments sit half-empty. Billionaires just use them to park money. So maybe it doesn't matter if the car elevator is broken.
But in this area self driving (parking) cars with AI - make sense. I don't want to see self driving cars on the streets, but coming to such home, leaving car in queue to let it park itself sounds good.
@MrCmon113 i agree. I don't get why people hate Jeffery epistin. He did nothing wrong. He was a true business man. Thats why people like Bill gates when to him. As you said, he did nothing wrong
Yes! I would love to see this channel tell me something positive about a block of flats that's been designed in the Tiny House style (houses, not the ones with wheels that should accurately be called caravans and are nothing new). It should be obvious by now that solving the climate and housing crisis should involved large buildings full of cheap starter homes that are cunningly designed with small studio, one bed and two bed flats laid out as perfectly as possible for modern life. And probably communal facilities for exercise, parking, storage and so on.
As a kid I would have been much more easily able to simply appreciate the feats of engineering in projects like these. However, I find that the older I get and the more I know about the state of the world I find myself less and less able to enjoy these things. The truly obscene degree of luxury on display makes me feel nothing but literal revulsion given how a lot people live in the very same countries these buildings stand in. None of this does anything to diminish the quality of the video though so... thumbs up I guess.
...give how people live *LITERALLY right underneath these buildings* like for example the Las vegas ball, its so lavish, yet there are literally homless people hidden below the stormdrains
@@madoxxxx06 "iT iS wHaT iT iS" you realise these car companies could have a major impact on homelessness if they so desired, yet they don't. Same goes for most rich people. It's 100% greed.
Interesting and all to watch from afar - however, I think many viewers would be equally interested in a video researching genuinely affordable and innovative housing projects around the world
I guess it's kind of boring. There are already a lot of videos on youtube about "missing middle" housing, so the solutions are known and they are not flashy. Basically, you build lots of 3-8 storey housing (smaller buildings do not offer enough density, taller buildings require more complex and expensive construction methods and materials) and build transit and amenities at the same time. It is not that the solutions are unknown or require innovation, it is just that this is not the way to generate maximum profit. So you need an entity to step in and take control of housing provision that is not focused on making money, e.g. government or non-profits.
The majority of this channel's videos feature just that. They cover a huge variety and the whole range from social housing, to occasionally luxury construction.
Hey commoner, you know climate right? Don't forget to take cold showers and turn off your AC - because some billionaire in Miami needs to haul his 3000 kilos up 150 meter in the air for no reason.
@@AL-lh2htnot entirely correct. Companies on their own might have incentive to be less harmful to the environment. it's the rich, eg. the people behind the companies, investors, and so forth that are the real cause of that material usage. They could decide to just stop creating trash and destroying the environment, but that wouldnt make them more money.
@@Dac_DT_MKDthat’s why housing should be the responsibility of the government. They can provide reliable well built housing with the basic necessities instead of designer interiors with luxury materials everywhere
@@blushdog I agree, and in the eastern side of the iron curtain proved that it can be done (I know since I live in an ex-Yugoslav nation). But we know that in the USA these days that will be labeled as "communism".
I like to watch this channel to give me hope for the future. Neither cars, nor luxury appartment, or even greater brand presence all around us does that. This just bummed me out.
As an intern architect, I worked on the Nordstrum's department story in San Francisco in the mid 1980's. The building had two elevators that could handle semi-tractor trailers, taking them from street level to three (?) levels of loading docks below grade. Building also had the first use of curved escalators in the US.
This seems really Dystopian by having your own home branded by huge companies, I hate the idea of my bed frame saying Porsche on it, a frame that I can't change unless I splash out a couple of million.Lot of these don't seem homely.
Absolutely. They people are relying on someone else to tell them what good taste is, but that person is selling them ugly luxury to charge them a lot of money and make huge profit. What they think they're doing is going to a middle aged Saville Row tailor who really knows what they're talking about and positively drips style, taste and distinction. But they're buying Paris catwalk fashion and baseball caps instead and they're too ignorant to realise :)
@@AL-lh2ht yes because they're awful. :) They're not something you wear for style, right? Much like driving a Porsche doesn't make you look like you have taste.
Every day I hear about luxury homes being built but not a peep about helping out the regular people and the massive housing crisis we are facing. The part that really makes me sad is that most of these will sit empty while people sleep in the street in front. Man's greed knows no bounds!
Absolute bullshit. There's huge social housing projects everywhere. Also there's plenty of empty houses outside of city centers. You are taking the resources from places with empty houses with force and pumping it into already popular places. And you don't see how this will lead to those places always staying expensive.
I understand "my money I do what I want" but... how much is enough? What does it take for someone to realize that... enough is enough, the rest can go to back to the community? (obviously if you think like that, you don't get to own a condo with a car parked at the door) It's a fantastic project. I salute the architects and workers that made it possible. But damn.
The amount of engineering skills that are being wasted on stupid things like this instead of being used anything else which would not be making the world actively worse. By God, we have enought problems we need bright minds to solve.
@@shedefinitelylikes can't imagine what this amount of talent could accomplish towards efficient building and affordable living. There already are insanely talented people working towards those, but WE NEED MORE. sigh
@@cloverhighfive Affordable housing isn't as profitable as this kind of housing. Most talented people move towards the higher paying jobs, those jobs will prioritize these types of construction projects.
Yeah it's a nice safety net to have your car with you. Those people won't get their cars or garage broken into. People buy into those for the peace of mind, the view and everything it includes without hassle.
Dunno I like the Buggati one, has a lot more open space/balcony design versus others which are same old bland boring skyscrapers with special elevators.
This is just depressing. So much money gets wasted on these things while there are so many people who can't even afford to rent a place. It's not that these supercar skyscrapers have gone too far. Capitalism has gone too far.
well most people dont have money(even though we work more hours than ever) so now we just build things for billionaires who don't even go to their apartment while people are homeless and starving. Capitalism best system C:
What would you suggest? We confiscate their money and hand it to the poor. These people have in many cases created wealth by employing others, not least in building these apartments. I don’t begrudge them a penny, cent, people like Jeff Bezos or Elon Musk got their riches through hard work and innovation.
Bullshit. There's plenty of houses completely empty. When people can't "afford rent" that means they want to live somewhere where a lot of people want to live. Naturally such a place becomes more expensive. Now your solution is to give extra money to the places people already want to live and take it from the places with empty houses.
@@jramseier Who is starving? Who is starving in the West? Only thing that comes to my mind is Venezuela - people starving as a direct result of socialist policies.
Rich people will tell regular people they’re out of touch for wanting higher taxes or a social safety net and then live in a car skyscraper where they literally never need to go outside. Wild.
Ig it's worth pointing out that Porsche Design is _not_ actually owned by the Porsche car company, but by the holdings conglomerate that owns controlling stakes in Porsche, Volkswagen etc (formerly VW group). AFAIK, they're pretty independent
The principle is the same, they're just strcutred that way for tax/libailty reasons as you don't really want this kind of 'investment' on the main balance sheet of your core operations. Aston Martin works in a similar way with other investors
I just want whatever the home equivalent of a VW Golf is: Practical, efficient, reliable and affordable. That apparently is an impossible ask, because all they build near me are luxury apartments, retirement housing and student flats. Nobody needs a car lift.
- "Nobody needs a car lift." Don't you have any items that you don't actually need (or items that are unnecessarily fancy for their use), but bought them anyway because you liked them ? If you had a lot of money, wouldn't you buy any more such items?
I know this might be an absurd question to ask, but why are they building some of these skyscrapers in Miami? I am scratching my head in bewilderment at the appeal of such a place.
Nice weather, and full of other rich people. They will just transition from apartment to car to other exclusive venue, no real interaction with the city itself.
I refuse to believe these lifts are silent enough to not disturb sleeping residents. Someone is going to have to invite me to come stay a few nights to test this theory.
4:52 - So apparently the concept of parking in a garage and going up an elevator without a valet coming to help you just DOESN'T OCCUR to people of this level of wealth.
Try living in Hong Kong or center London where density and infrastructure for parking is limited. In Manhattan I would see $200K+ cars illegally parked on the street in front of condos going for $10 million each. There was no place for their guests to comfortably park on the street. If the guests could elevate their cars to the floor they are visiting life would be great
There's housing shortages everywhere, the construction sector struggles to adapt to environnemental changes and rich people have fun driving to their FLATS. They somehow managed to extend car-centric infrastructure to a ridiculous point.
everytime i think of like "impending disasters" and super rich I think of things like that 2012 movie where all the super rich get on boats and let all the poor people die. Then its like who's going to do the work that these super rich used to underpay poor people do do? Theyre all going to just die anyway, only they will have long slow deaths, not just washed away in whatever natural disaster 1 shots everyone else
Affordable housing is not profitable, so it's not the work for corporations but for the government. And not just building it but also distributing it in a way that prevents scalping, otherwise all the affordable homes will be quickly gobbled up by same corpos and resold for unaffordable prices.
@@mountainjeffI really don’t know how you got socialism that. It’s true that corporations aren’t obliged to building cheap apartments where they won’t make a big profit and could potentially lose money. Not sure if you understand this but that’s a capitalist opinion, not a socialist one.
Have supercar skyscrapers gone too far? Why no! They seem like a very efficient way to make the world a better place with just a small investment in C4.
If you need any footage of the Ashton Martin near completion, I've climbed it with a 4k GoPro and captured the views you get from the penthouse, and pool, etc. Happy to work with your team. Keep up the quality content!
Sounds Great on Paper, hoping the Buildings stand the test of time as both NYC, and San Francisco have had Nightmare problems with new construction Tall condo buildings. The weight is continually added into budlings exceeding what the foundation can support.
This country loves building the most ridiculous things yet we can’t have affordable housing, healthcare and education. But sure. Let’s build a skyscraper where you can park your car 500 feet in the air.
You can be certain that Insurance providers will take a very hard look at a hole that penetrates floors and is hauling gasoline or electric battery powered vehicles.
I'm pretty sure the Walkie Talkie was the second building that architect built that focused lethal light on the street, wasn't it? I'm sure that's what was said at the time - it wasn't the first time they'd done it so it was either less or more shocking depending on how you looked at it.
You are correct, they had previously designed a building in Las Vegas that cooked people in the pool area. That one only curved horizontally, the Walkie Talkie had a horizontal and vertical curve. It sure seems like a deliberate progression in death ray effectiveness.
@@JonMartinYXD there might have been others as well, although perhaps there just aren't that many with a concave curve or weren't until recently? I'm sure it's an Architecture 101 courses now, along with the one about why bridges shouldn't vibrate themselves to collapse and how Brutalism made the world hideous beyond belief.
It does surprise me that so much real-estate money is pouring into a State (FL) that is amongst the most susceptible to sea level rise. I'd be looking for a condo that has a boat lift rather than a supercar lift.
Or like Evergrande building electric cars, it signals the end of their capability of extracting the returns shareholders expect from their core business.
This is appalling. There is a shortage of affordable housing and developers are building for the wealthiest 0.1% of society. How much does anyone want to bet that when sea level rise causes Miami property values to drop to zero, the owners of these ultra-luxury apartments are going to cry for a taxpayer funded bailout?
Technically Porsche, Bentley, and Bugatti are all owned by VAG so it makes sense they all have elevators. Furthermore they likely are not meant to compete with each other but to give the customer feeling of choice.
Do hope they have a good system to keep the car exhaust from getting into the living space, plus something to keep the grime on the tires off the floors....
Pretty sure it's just investment portfolio diversification for these brands. I still very much appreciate the video and all that, but that they're built by car manufacturers is not all that relevant to the construction.
Jesus Christ this thing looks like an absolute nightmare. Whatever happened to trying to stray AWAY from car centric infrastructure? Imagine wanting to live here rather than a humane place made for people, not cars.
"The real estate market has matured" is such nice way of saying "Sht so expensive no one wants to buy anything anymore so we make pointless amenities for the superrich so at least someone buys something."
The upper class has done very well the last few decades. There is more money then ever, but said money is going more towards the upper class. So high end luxury brands and doing better then ever. In fact the guy who owns the most luxury brands briefly became the worlds richest man recently.
You'd need the yacht in Miami because of how often the bottom of your tower block will be flooded :D I definitely wouldn't buy property there until climate change is going back the other way and sea levels are lowering.
Could have used the extra room in the condos, but now rich people don't have to stand up for 2 minutes in the elevator to get to the garage, so that's a win.
I wish you guys could check on some constructions on Balneário Camboriú ans its relation to its colappsing beaches (in a way) or see how they are straighting up crooked buildings on Santos. It is just insane to reallign it with people living in it.
Luxury buildings are truly the new fad. I have a moderately big city, definitely top 10 in Canada and we've had so many such buildings being built within the last decade. They're almost all full. People love the idea of doing nothing, not even having to call someone to get things done on their property while also having everything nearby and a view. Houses just don't get as high and again, even if you pay someone else to take care of your property, you have to call them and manage them. When reasonably affordable those buildings are pretty cool. I enjoy my condo.
Would you live in one of these?
Lmao no
No, cant get past the waist of space
No way!.
Why would anyone park their dirty car in their living room?
Free. Yes.
I don't need it.
I am an elevator technician for over 38 years in NYC. I work for one of the EMANY corporations. And actually they are the largest in the world. Having serviced and built units in some of the most prestigious addresses in the Manhattan, I can tell you, these custom made units, will present challenges not foreseen by the builders. And consequently will have unpredictable consequences for service. There is the possibility of good outcomes if they designate regular maintenance, during off hours, because once someone has an appointment and their Porsche is stuck on the elevator, they will change their tune. Especially if the tech is some 40 minutes away stuck in traffic. I for one would love to see that email.
@BilyShears Re: "...that email." So would I, LOL!!! And the lawsuit that would quickly follow!
Maybe they will still have a parking garage where they can keep their emergency Ferrari.
Hater lol
There was another B1M video saying many of these Manhattan apartments sit half-empty. Billionaires just use them to park money. So maybe it doesn't matter if the car elevator is broken.
they fill the elevator with shark lawyers, lol
just imagine more than four people come back home at one time and your stuck waiting forever to get the car elevator
I’ve spent a considerable amount of time and money making all of my cars fantastic places to spend time inside. I’ll be fine.
@@negativeindustrialok please waste an hour of your life every day in a lift cause then we dont have to see you 😂
These are 100% investor properties so you won't have to worry about people on a normal rush hour schedule lol
But in this area self driving (parking) cars with AI - make sense. I don't want to see self driving cars on the streets, but coming to such home, leaving car in queue to let it park itself sounds good.
@@jestestuman thats not going to work 😂
This is a perfect illustration of what is meant by “obscene wealth.”
3:58
The American dream.
The car and the girl and the penthouse
What's obscene?
They did stuff other people wanted and so they got a lot of money in return. Good for them.
More likely they participated in corruptly extracting wealth from autocracies.
There is always one like @@MrCmon113 Did you go beyond the initial thought and ask youself why those people wanted those things?
@MrCmon113 i agree. I don't get why people hate Jeffery epistin. He did nothing wrong. He was a true business man. Thats why people like Bill gates when to him. As you said, he did nothing wrong
Instead of luxury brands, could we get Dacia houses?
I would love to be able to afford a home
100%
Yes! I would love to see this channel tell me something positive about a block of flats that's been designed in the Tiny House style (houses, not the ones with wheels that should accurately be called caravans and are nothing new). It should be obvious by now that solving the climate and housing crisis should involved large buildings full of cheap starter homes that are cunningly designed with small studio, one bed and two bed flats laid out as perfectly as possible for modern life. And probably communal facilities for exercise, parking, storage and so on.
Fun fact: Porsche houses are the best quality houes ever built in the US. It scored 96,7/100, while American build houses score a solid 77,3 points.
@@azumishimizu1880 they cost more than my entire street, I'd hope they'd be well built
@@Mireaze Even the most expensive house in the US scored a 88,5, so its not only the cost.
As a kid I would have been much more easily able to simply appreciate the feats of engineering in projects like these. However, I find that the older I get and the more I know about the state of the world I find myself less and less able to enjoy these things.
The truly obscene degree of luxury on display makes me feel nothing but literal revulsion given how a lot people live in the very same countries these buildings stand in.
None of this does anything to diminish the quality of the video though so... thumbs up I guess.
...give how people live *LITERALLY right underneath these buildings*
like for example the Las vegas ball, its so lavish, yet there are literally homless people hidden below the stormdrains
Many useful invention started as toys for the ultra rich, like indoor plumbing or electricity. As for poverty and inequality, it is what it is.
@@madoxxxx06 "iT iS wHaT iT iS" you realise these car companies could have a major impact on homelessness if they so desired, yet they don't. Same goes for most rich people. It's 100% greed.
@@madoxxxx06 if you're comparing the usefulness of car elevators to indoor plumbing i think you're missing the mark by several orders of magnitude.
@@crogon-ytso who decides what is useful or not, now and into the future?
Interesting and all to watch from afar - however, I think many viewers would be equally interested in a video researching genuinely affordable and innovative housing projects around the world
I guess it's kind of boring. There are already a lot of videos on youtube about "missing middle" housing, so the solutions are known and they are not flashy. Basically, you build lots of 3-8 storey housing (smaller buildings do not offer enough density, taller buildings require more complex and expensive construction methods and materials) and build transit and amenities at the same time. It is not that the solutions are unknown or require innovation, it is just that this is not the way to generate maximum profit. So you need an entity to step in and take control of housing provision that is not focused on making money, e.g. government or non-profits.
The majority of this channel's videos feature just that. They cover a huge variety and the whole range from social housing, to occasionally luxury construction.
Hey commoner, you know climate right? Don't forget to take cold showers and turn off your AC - because some billionaire in Miami needs to haul his 3000 kilos up 150 meter in the air for no reason.
🎯
Most energy and material use is done by corporations and industry. Not personal use.
Step 1 to solve climate change: Compost the rich.
@@AL-lh2htnot entirely correct.
Companies on their own might have incentive to be less harmful to the environment.
it's the rich, eg. the people behind the companies, investors, and so forth that are the real cause of that material usage. They could decide to just stop creating trash and destroying the environment, but that wouldnt make them more money.
Is this a indirect “how dare you” to those companies?
I wish we could have companies competing in REAL affordable housing market.
Who's going to pay them?
That isn't profitable for them, and that's why it'll never happen.
@@Dac_DT_MKDthat’s why housing should be the responsibility of the government. They can provide reliable well built housing with the basic necessities instead of designer interiors with luxury materials everywhere
@@blushdog I agree, and in the eastern side of the iron curtain proved that it can be done (I know since I live in an ex-Yugoslav nation). But we know that in the USA these days that will be labeled as "communism".
They already have tents out front for the maintenance staff to live in.
I like to watch this channel to give me hope for the future.
Neither cars, nor luxury appartment, or even greater brand presence all around us does that.
This just bummed me out.
Likewise! Well said.
As an intern architect, I worked on the Nordstrum's department story in San Francisco in the mid 1980's. The building had two elevators that could handle semi-tractor trailers, taking them from street level to three (?) levels of loading docks below grade. Building also had the first use of curved escalators in the US.
Hello fellow Mainer! I like your maritime flag. Also that’s a very interesting elevator.
This seems really Dystopian by having your own home branded by huge companies, I hate the idea of my bed frame saying Porsche on it, a frame that I can't change unless I splash out a couple of million.Lot of these don't seem homely.
i bet jerry seinfeld would luv it tho. he's a porsche maniac, lol
No one’s forcing you 😂
sour grapes😂
Because naming the towers, “More Money Than You, Nany-Nany-Boo-Boo”, was a little too on the nose.
The world is really becoming GTA parody world
GTA is literally a parody.
@AL-lh2ht Idiocracy was meant to be a parody as well. Look around you today 😢
Money don't buy taste, that's brutally evident
Absolutely. They people are relying on someone else to tell them what good taste is, but that person is selling them ugly luxury to charge them a lot of money and make huge profit. What they think they're doing is going to a middle aged Saville Row tailor who really knows what they're talking about and positively drips style, taste and distinction.
But they're buying Paris catwalk fashion and baseball caps instead and they're too ignorant to realise :)
Or good grammar
@@jonevansauthorbro here just dissed baseball caps.
@@AL-lh2ht yes because they're awful. :) They're not something you wear for style, right? Much like driving a Porsche doesn't make you look like you have taste.
Every day I hear about luxury homes being built but not a peep about helping out the regular people and the massive housing crisis we are facing. The part that really makes me sad is that most of these will sit empty while people sleep in the street in front. Man's greed knows no bounds!
Absolute bullshit.
There's huge social housing projects everywhere.
Also there's plenty of empty houses outside of city centers. You are taking the resources from places with empty houses with force and pumping it into already popular places. And you don't see how this will lead to those places always staying expensive.
That's cool, but I think I'll be happy with a basic apartment that I could afford.
I understand "my money I do what I want" but... how much is enough? What does it take for someone to realize that... enough is enough, the rest can go to back to the community? (obviously if you think like that, you don't get to own a condo with a car parked at the door)
It's a fantastic project.
I salute the architects and workers that made it possible.
But damn.
yeah it's kind of sickening isn't it? Having a cool car is one thing but this is just grotesque
Why stop at enough when you can have more?
The amount of engineering skills that are being wasted on stupid things like this instead of being used anything else which would not be making the world actively worse. By God, we have enought problems we need bright minds to solve.
@@shedefinitelylikes can't imagine what this amount of talent could accomplish towards efficient building and affordable living. There already are insanely talented people working towards those, but WE NEED MORE. sigh
@@cloverhighfive Affordable housing isn't as profitable as this kind of housing. Most talented people move towards the higher paying jobs, those jobs will prioritize these types of construction projects.
I think this development is really cool but also the essence of excess.
"The essence of excess" would be a perfect name for a skyscraper like that. lol (big gold letters of course)
Coffee and the B1M. Gonna be a great day!
Minion. Indeed.
It will be a nightmare.
Aside from the Bugatti one, the building designs are pretty good and the car lift is neat. I hate pretty much everything else about the concept :D
Yeah it's a nice safety net to have your car with you. Those people won't get their cars or garage broken into. People buy into those for the peace of mind, the view and everything it includes without hassle.
Dunno I like the Buggati one, has a lot more open space/balcony design versus others which are same old bland boring skyscrapers with special elevators.
In a context of housing shortage, it looks like a pretty efficient way to show you social status and your contempt to the rest of the world
There isn’t a housing shortage, it’s just being hoarded as speculative assets instead of as places for people to live
This is just depressing. So much money gets wasted on these things while there are so many people who can't even afford to rent a place. It's not that these supercar skyscrapers have gone too far. Capitalism has gone too far.
well most people dont have money(even though we work more hours than ever) so now we just build things for billionaires who don't even go to their apartment while people are homeless and starving. Capitalism best system C:
It's human nature, not capitalism.
What would you suggest? We confiscate their money and hand it to the poor. These people have in many cases created wealth by employing others, not least in building these apartments. I don’t begrudge them a penny, cent, people like Jeff Bezos or Elon Musk got their riches through hard work and innovation.
Bullshit.
There's plenty of houses completely empty.
When people can't "afford rent" that means they want to live somewhere where a lot of people want to live. Naturally such a place becomes more expensive. Now your solution is to give extra money to the places people already want to live and take it from the places with empty houses.
@@jramseier
Who is starving?
Who is starving in the West? Only thing that comes to my mind is Venezuela - people starving as a direct result of socialist policies.
Rich people will tell regular people they’re out of touch for wanting higher taxes or a social safety net and then live in a car skyscraper where they literally never need to go outside. Wild.
They build this tower out of compassion for people who sleep in parking lots.
No surprise most of these are in the old/rich persons tax haven...florida.
Architecturally interesting ✓
Gross example of excess ✓
Likely high failure rate ✓
Environmentally irresponsible ✓
Elitist concept ✓
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I want a Toyota house. Given the reliability reputation of these brands theres a 99% chance all the houses and towers break by next year
Imagine the service break when that lift breaks
Ig it's worth pointing out that Porsche Design is _not_ actually owned by the Porsche car company, but by the holdings conglomerate that owns controlling stakes in Porsche, Volkswagen etc (formerly VW group). AFAIK, they're pretty independent
The principle is the same, they're just strcutred that way for tax/libailty reasons as you don't really want this kind of 'investment' on the main balance sheet of your core operations. Aston Martin works in a similar way with other investors
I just want whatever the home equivalent of a VW Golf is: Practical, efficient, reliable and affordable. That apparently is an impossible ask, because all they build near me are luxury apartments, retirement housing and student flats. Nobody needs a car lift.
- "Nobody needs a car lift."
Don't you have any items that you don't actually need (or items that are unnecessarily fancy for their use), but bought them anyway because you liked them ? If you had a lot of money, wouldn't you buy any more such items?
I thought of this idea, now a reality 23 years ago - nice to see it come alive hahahaha
I know this might be an absurd question to ask, but why are they building some of these skyscrapers in Miami? I am scratching my head in bewilderment at the appeal of such a place.
American Dubai. People spend big money on appearances.
In future these elevators will be useful for parking your boat.
Nice weather, and full of other rich people.
They will just transition from apartment to car to other exclusive venue, no real interaction with the city itself.
It's one of the hot spots in the annual migration circle of the rich elites. I think Wendover did a video about this.
Your having trouble finding the appeal of Florida? Really?
I would like to see the Russian "Lada Towers". Now with hand crank winch comrade.
Powered by vodka!
I was thinking "Trabant Manor" 🤣
in soviet russian tower, everyone hand cranks lol
Go to any city with the Trump name brand on skyscrapers. Full of Russians I assure you
I refuse to believe these lifts are silent enough to not disturb sleeping residents. Someone is going to have to invite me to come stay a few nights to test this theory.
Luckily for them there will hardly ever be any residents present as is the case with most super wealthy luxury apartments
To go with the Riverwalk building Aston Martin are also making a limited Aston Martin Miami Riverwalk Edition car.
4:52 - So apparently the concept of parking in a garage and going up an elevator without a valet coming to help you just DOESN'T OCCUR to people of this level of wealth.
Diversification reduces risk.
Very enjoyable as always 👍
Diversification for the company. The consumers have all their eggs in one basket.
Keeping workers happy reduces risk 😄
Fantastic as always! Wish you all a happy day! 😊😊😊😊😊😊
I find this extremely goofy that someone would like an apartment where you can park your freaking car.
Its great if you dont want to meet the annoying neighbors and just walk out of your car and jump on the sofa.
Well one thing it definitely makes it harder to steal there car , also saves on bringing messages/Groceries home .
The rich people are bored they’re running out of ideas as usual
Try living in Hong Kong or center London where density and infrastructure for parking is limited. In Manhattan I would see $200K+ cars illegally parked on the street in front of condos going for $10 million each. There was no place for their guests to comfortably park on the street. If the guests could elevate their cars to the floor they are visiting life would be great
Can the weight capacity hold all these cars and etc
As someone who hates car centric infrastrucutre this has ELEVATED my rage! against the car machine.
Fascinating video, but I hope I’m not the only one who recognises this as grotesque.
There's housing shortages everywhere, the construction sector struggles to adapt to environnemental changes and rich people have fun driving to their FLATS.
They somehow managed to extend car-centric infrastructure to a ridiculous point.
the ultra rich, reminding us how thin is the ice they're on 😂
everytime i think of like "impending disasters" and super rich I think of things like that 2012 movie where all the super rich get on boats and let all the poor people die. Then its like who's going to do the work that these super rich used to underpay poor people do do? Theyre all going to just die anyway, only they will have long slow deaths, not just washed away in whatever natural disaster 1 shots everyone else
It’s called a “brand mashup” to sell more units
This is beyond ridiculous. Would be great if corporations were able to find a way to make affordable homes instead.
Why
Affordable housing is not profitable, so it's not the work for corporations but for the government. And not just building it but also distributing it in a way that prevents scalping, otherwise all the affordable homes will be quickly gobbled up by same corpos and resold for unaffordable prices.
the "best" part is that most of these people didnt work for it and all of this is made on the back of the poorest people
what a clown world
@@TheLaXandroYou should move to China. Everything is free there, except the people and speech. And you don't have to worry about voting.
@@mountainjeffI really don’t know how you got socialism that. It’s true that corporations aren’t obliged to building cheap apartments where they won’t make a big profit and could potentially lose money. Not sure if you understand this but that’s a capitalist opinion, not a socialist one.
Miami has so many car companies building skyscrapers here it’s not even funny
The first one seems like a recipe for a car driving through a 30th story window...
fast and the furious something something... after it had turned into a spy franchise
Have supercar skyscrapers gone too far? Why no! They seem like a very efficient way to make the world a better place with just a small investment in C4.
Congratulations 3milion subscriber my bro
If you need any footage of the Ashton Martin near completion, I've climbed it with a 4k GoPro and captured the views you get from the penthouse, and pool, etc. Happy to work with your team. Keep up the quality content!
My main problem with my current living space is that it lacks the smell of rubber and oil. This sounds perfect!
Realistically your apartment would smell like car brakes cause your a fast driver 😂
Meanwhile I live in a Ground floor Condo and I take two steps outside to my car door for 1% the price
imagine explaining to yo homie u got a bentley house
Or new pick line "You wanna go back to my bentley house in my bentley speed"
@@ArcticPrimal "I park my Bentley in a Bentley."
Spent almost a century building nothing but habitats for cars in North America. Now taking that concept to an absurd new place.
Will they allow me to use the fancy car elevator if i have a 2012 hyunday getz?
No. You are very poor.
Or a Reliant Robin?
Or a bicycle
Sounds Great on Paper, hoping the Buildings stand the test of time as both NYC, and San Francisco have had Nightmare problems with new construction Tall condo buildings. The weight is continually added into budlings exceeding what the foundation can support.
This country loves building the most ridiculous things yet we can’t have affordable housing, healthcare and education. But sure. Let’s build a skyscraper where you can park your car 500 feet in the air.
If there’s any proof that the rich aren’t taxed enough, this is it
It' heartening to know that in a world facing economic hardship and environmental catastrophe there are still people who couldn't care less.
1:10 The tenant living in the $4m unit must feel like the riff raff of the community.
Isn't that the whole idea?
Those units are for renting out
You can be certain that Insurance providers will take a very hard look at a hole that penetrates floors and is hauling gasoline or electric battery powered vehicles.
I'd love to see someone park a clapped out Nissan Altima in their apartment
some lotto winner spends all their winning on the place but cant afford a better car. But hey why not send their rust bucket up the lift
I just cant get that voice out of my head about rising sea levels.
I'm pretty sure the Walkie Talkie was the second building that architect built that focused lethal light on the street, wasn't it? I'm sure that's what was said at the time - it wasn't the first time they'd done it so it was either less or more shocking depending on how you looked at it.
You are correct, they had previously designed a building in Las Vegas that cooked people in the pool area. That one only curved horizontally, the Walkie Talkie had a horizontal and vertical curve. It sure seems like a deliberate progression in death ray effectiveness.
@@JonMartinYXD there might have been others as well, although perhaps there just aren't that many with a concave curve or weren't until recently? I'm sure it's an Architecture 101 courses now, along with the one about why bridges shouldn't vibrate themselves to collapse and how Brutalism made the world hideous beyond belief.
Man this is taking car-centrism to a whole new level lmao
Great for the top 1% while 99% gets it harder by the day...
It does surprise me that so much real-estate money is pouring into a State (FL) that is amongst the most susceptible to sea level rise. I'd be looking for a condo that has a boat lift rather than a supercar lift.
Because the poor keep getting poorer and the rich are getting richer and real estate is the safest place to park their money and drive up prices.
Love you bro
Or like Evergrande building electric cars, it signals the end of their capability of extracting the returns shareholders expect from their core business.
"Can we please have walkable cities?"
"Nah, howabout you can bring your car up and into your 30th floor condo??"
Another B1M Banger
Driving around NYC. The last thing I want in my living room, is my car. I don't even want to bring my shoes in the house.
This is appalling. There is a shortage of affordable housing and developers are building for the wealthiest 0.1% of society.
How much does anyone want to bet that when sea level rise causes Miami property values to drop to zero, the owners of these ultra-luxury apartments are going to cry for a taxpayer funded bailout?
Technically Porsche, Bentley, and Bugatti are all owned by VAG so it makes sense they all have elevators. Furthermore they likely are not meant to compete with each other but to give the customer feeling of choice.
Where’s my VW Golf house?
Just shows you how much money they are raking in
Do hope they have a good system to keep the car exhaust from getting into the living space, plus something to keep the grime on the tires off the floors....
Simple overpressure would do the trick, blow in air at the door and suck it out at the furthest point.
Buy an apartment in one of those and drive a "Trabant", with it's _wonderful_ stinking two-stroke engine.
Mwahahaha
Buy one of those and only have money for a helicopter
That's a real good model designed
Feature history heading 2024
Beautiful performance
Pretty sure it's just investment portfolio diversification for these brands. I still very much appreciate the video and all that, but that they're built by car manufacturers is not all that relevant to the construction.
Jesus Christ this thing looks like an absolute nightmare. Whatever happened to trying to stray AWAY from car centric infrastructure? Imagine wanting to live here rather than a humane place made for people, not cars.
"The real estate market has matured" is such nice way of saying "Sht so expensive no one wants to buy anything anymore so we make pointless amenities for the superrich so at least someone buys something."
The upper class has done very well the last few decades. There is more money then ever, but said money is going more towards the upper class.
So high end luxury brands and doing better then ever. In fact the guy who owns the most luxury brands briefly became the worlds richest man recently.
Looking forward to some Renault building, where I will be able to park my 2009 Renault Twingo 2 !!
How empty do you have to feel inside to need something like this? Sad for those people, bad for the planet.
It just occurred to me, this could be an awesome motel! 😂
I never wished more for rising sea levels...
If you ever want to feel poor go to Miami and Miami Beach. Supercars and ritzy condos everywhere you turn
You'd need the yacht in Miami because of how often the bottom of your tower block will be flooded :D I definitely wouldn't buy property there until climate change is going back the other way and sea levels are lowering.
As a big petrol head and longtime viewer, great watch
Well this is nice. I like your content. It's well made, informative, and I love architecture soo.....
This really updates that scene from Ferris Buellers Day Off.
I want the Oldsmobile Town Homes.
In Detr😁
Could have used the extra room in the condos, but now rich people don't have to stand up for 2 minutes in the elevator to get to the garage, so that's a win.
Because rich people are narcs.
Absolutely brilliant 💯%
Thanks to B1M for an amazing "documentary" about awesomeness.... cheers to you 🤟🎶
I believe mercedes benz and vw are two of the biggest private finance companies in Europe
I wish you guys could check on some constructions on Balneário Camboriú ans its relation to its colappsing beaches (in a way) or see how they are straighting up crooked buildings on Santos. It is just insane to reallign it with people living in it.
Funny that all of Brazil’s recent skyscrapers have gone to a place with no people in the off season 😅
To be fair there’s one thing Balneario Camboriu and Miami have in common: obscene latino wealth parked into empty skyscrapers 😭
Luxury buildings are truly the new fad. I have a moderately big city, definitely top 10 in Canada and we've had so many such buildings being built within the last decade. They're almost all full. People love the idea of doing nothing, not even having to call someone to get things done on their property while also having everything nearby and a view. Houses just don't get as high and again, even if you pay someone else to take care of your property, you have to call them and manage them.
When reasonably affordable those buildings are pretty cool. I enjoy my condo.
The fact that this is happening while most of us struggle to afford rent and groceries...
Capitalism sure is great 🙂
will have to check out the NY ones... being a realtor has its perks!
That Bentley tower is NICE looking through. Reallllly sleek and gorgeous.
Carvana been real quiet since this dropped
The Bugatti's skyscraper is dope af!! If they're actually building it like that! Second place for Bentley!
And the elevators run on W16 engines