Lost Beauty: The Decline of America's Architecture
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 26 ส.ค. 2024
- The great architecture was once in abundance in America. Buildings that would lift and inspire a sense of pride in where one was from. Upon the dawn of the auto revolution, many of these great landmarks were razed. A symbol of a city and a point of pride destroyed for more parking. Many caught fire and were never built again. Some were demolished to make room for larger, more efficient buildings purely functional but void of character. This was so widespread in the US and Canada that an example could be found in almost any city. In this video, I’m going to focus on 4 examples of great architecture from the past.
I think it disappointing that apparently no one in the comment section has addressed the automobile's role in the destruction of America's architecture; this is one of the main points of the video.
That's a bit of a reach as only two of the examples even touched on transportation, the most egregious being a parking lot. I wanted to say that times have changed but Americans still pull down statues and buildings without regard to the past.
@@tiebei2548Well in my defense, this was described (if briefly) in the video’s introduction. I would say that attitudes may be changing in certain cities. I can think of several examples of old buildings reconstructed and restored in recent years to their original state after being “remodeled” during the 1950s, 60s or 70s. It seems to me that preservation is stronger in Midwestern cities, such as Chicago or Detroit.
The automobile industry, it's lobbyists, the politicians who wrote the policies, the architects who designed these soulless/alienating, were not just responding to some inexorable set of circumstances that arose by dint of the automobile's existence. These were all decisions made by people, people that could have charted a different course. Those same people could have made a different policy. Thus, changing the nature of the American's relationship to the automobile and much more.
There were protests back in the day against the automobile-related deaths of children and destruction of our neighborhoods. Even here in California, the city of Pasadena successfully protested against a freeway being run through their city at around the Fremont Avenue / Huntington Drive alignment. The people knew where their priorities were and voiced their concerns. We can not ignore the fact that Boyle Heights was demolished but not Pasadena.
Also post war efforts to change the world into a dystopian alternate one where everything is ugly and looks the same
Art, and in this case architecture, is an expression of a culture's philosophical beliefs. When a society turns away from beauty, we get the ugliness of untethered human imagination.
In more ways than one.
Beauty _is_ untethered human imagination. These mid-tier takes are so tired
@@user-sf4fy8bq1h No, human imagination can obviously imagine ugly things, the opposite of beauty.
@@ario2264 I rather think that ugliness in architecture is not consciously imagined; rather, it is a symptom of beauty being made subordinate to less desirable qualities, such as profitability and greed.
@@ario2264 show me where I said the human imagination can _only_ conjure beauty
Why is logic not common core
I miss seeing the old buildings! Lots of memories 💕
It's amazing how some people seek out hidden truths while others vehemently defend deception.
The deal is this: "Nobody, either here or out in the infinite universe, has EVER been as smart as WE ARE !!! So, we eliminate ANY sign of indisputable evidence which contradicts our myopic narrative".
That's just the way they roll...
we are living in such a shitty simulation..........
It’s temporary until Satans reign is done which is soon. He was supposed to create goodness and beauty and this is what happens when free will us abused. It will be restored soon. God is so good. Jesus came to destroy the works of the devil and that’s what is happening. All that has been hidden will be brought to light as per His promise. ❤
I think you mean a capitalistic/kosher reality.
@@melissaabbeywhatever helps you sleep at night.
@@melissaabbeyso true
@@hardluck8732dog, this started in the 1600s and 1700s with the enlightenment and rationalist movements.
Great photos . .thanks. From a different humanity.
Glad you enjoyed it
Thanks
I agree. Everything is functional, with little thought given to art, in spite of the architect's design-babble about the lines. Although I mourn the tragic loss of life on the morning September 11, 2001, I hated the Twin Cartons on the New York Harbor entrance from the moment I first saw the buildings growing like two long tumors from Midtown. Thank you for presenting your perspective.
Not only in America. Brazil also lost a lot of historical buildings. São Paulo and Rio de Janeiro had a lot of beautiful buildings inspired in European styles.
2:49 I grew up in Indianapolis, Indiana and I have never heard of or seen this building.
I didnt go down town hardly ever though. Interesting, something so close to home.
It's very sad to see history destroyed forever.
I really feel lucky to live in europe
I feel lucky to have lived there for 9 years. Came back to the states a changed human being. Left part of my heart there....its good to bloom where planted though. ✌️❤
''...Almost a negative achievement.'' That is good wit right there.
I live in the Tri Cities in Washington state, and Pasco has an absolutely beautiful courthouse. I hope they never tear it down. My girlfriend and I recently visited Boise, and I had to go downtown to see their classical federal buildings and I am so glad I did. The size and beauty of them inspired so much awe, and gave the city so much character, the fact that one main road led directly to the magnificent courthouse, so it could be viewed from afar made it even more mesmerizing. City's underestimate the tourism that classical buildings can attract. I would not have gone downtown otherwise. The interior of these buildings were amazing too, everything was white marble and all of the hardware was polished brass. It almost didn't seem real. I will never forget walking up the huge flight of stairs and into the massive main hall.
6:58 Another important point: not only do glass and steel structures lack character, but due to heating difficulties they are bad for the environment as well. In fact, preservation organizations are often allied with environmentalism for this very reason.
An Amazon, Walmart or Target coming your way! Strip malls full of shoe box buildings. Same with the auto industry, SUV's and monster trucks only, so it seems.
Stone caught fire 🤦🏼♂️🤣🤣🤣 yeah right. Lmao
Stone buildings can catch fire because the upper floors and roof is wood usually, and there are many things in the interior which could be flammable.
they weren't built again, cuz they didn't KNOW HOW to rebuild an equivalent.
Uh, no. They're not rebuilt because it would insanely expensive to do so now without the immorally cheap (or forced) labor of the past, greatly diminished reserves of fine materials, and the fact that none of them would be up to code. And a reminder: the codes are strict *because people died.*
We are incredible creatures. We can build skyscrapers fantastically high, with proportions thinner than a #2 pencil. One just went up in my city. You seriously think we can't handle some Richardsonian Romanesque, lmao?
Don't project your own ineptitude onto the rest of us, please.
@@user-sf4fy8bq1h A soulless person defending soulless architecture...what a surprise!
@@user-sf4fy8bq1hold buildings are rebuilt in countries like germany pretty often now, just look at the humboldt forum and potsdam city palace, they can be made pretty easily with good working conditions due to modern technology, there just needs to be political willpower behind it
@@UlmanistLatvia your statement is known as a false premise. They're not defending the architecture on the same ground but rather stating facts that occurred throughout history. I know that national socialists don't agree with facts but you could try better than committing to logical fallacies again and again.
@@kooptt Right. 🥱
the most sustainable architecture is that which you don't have to rebuild every 20-50-100 years!
You have to go to Europe to see how American cities used to be😢
Unfortunately, one cannot find Art Deco and Chicago School skyscrapers in Europe! At least some Northern cities, such as Chicago and Detroit, have realized the value of and endeavored to preserve their historic architecture in the last decades.
@@rumplestiltskin951 there are plenty of art deco buildings throughout Europe.
Not so many Chicago style skyscrapers sadly 😉
Two things to say:
A) The narrator´s voice is very nice and I do NOT care if it is computer-generated. Some people seem to be annoyed by that forgetting how many interesting videos are ruined by ugly voices and poor pronunciation.
B) The video is very good, although its author could have chosen far better examples of American greed and indifference towards beautiful architecture. The bottom line is that from around 1960 PROFIT became the slogan of American society and since then everything has been sacrificed to the "Almighty Dollar".
The Cliff House in San Fransisco (cover image) is and has been open.
Underrated channel. If only the creator manages to actually do a real voice-over, then this channel would be great. No one loves a robot voice.
I don't see it this way, there are some very nice computer-generated voices (like this one). On the other hand, there are some uneducated or vulgar people whose voices are fairly disagreeable and ruin the experience. I prefer a computer-generated voice to some human examples.
Indeed. Is sucha incredibly beautiful building and arqitecture😢😅❤❤❤❤❤😎💯
Those buildings weren't built in the late 1800's. No how, no way.
We have pictures of tons of these under construction, it got pretty easy by the end of the 1800s due to industrially produced ornate detail, allowing for way easier and cheaper detailing on buildings, making buildings more ornate and detailed than ever before and ever since, since the ornament industry never really recovered after the depression and due to minimalism/modernism, there wasn’t much interest or motivation in bringing it back
You are not smart and will fare poorly
@@kooptt cool story
It seems a lot of people started watching vids like this after (My Lunch Break) opened our third eye upon the nonsensical narrative we're sold 😅
If you look at the sumerian origin story and the hindu epics it gets even weirder lol
The truth is the golden ages were during the 1000 year of peace with Lucifer locked away; and Lord Jesus Christ reigning. We are living in Satan’s little season before the final war against God’s beloved city (perhaps hidden away at the North Pole), and final great white throne of judgment
And yet your third eye can't see this video is made by ai.
You are not the ones who are in the know.
Unfortunately, I have seen many wonderful old homes demolished to make way for progress and concrete blocks.
The grand buildings were already here before the 'settlers' came
Exactly.
Then they disappeared to not raise future questions via BS Wars, BS Fires....(a favourite of theirs)
But the questions have come... We know the story...but unfortunately most do not...
Bingo.
Who said settlers “came here”?? That is begging the question.
Who said the white race has not always been here and the official narrative is attempting to hide the truth.
There has always been massive amounts of Whites here and whites have built everything we see in these pictures. The question is, which tribes of Whites and how old are they really?
How old are these photos and videos really? Photography is not that complicated btw.
Whites could build these structures but couldn’t document them?
That is gravely naive thinking.
tartaria
@@ciaranmcmahon1991 how vague…
This is the most obviously AI narrator I've ever heard. It ruins the entire video
First of all, thank you for these pictures. But you know that the official construction dates can not be correct, but are much older. Also the original purpose was different. Kind regards from Roman from Germany.
we didn't build them - they are from previous civilization and totally different humans
We didn't build them. The old Indian story is false
They were the ones we know for sure were here,but nobody is asking them?
@@crowmagnon what I'm saying is the Indians were living among the people that built all this stuff all over north America...
@@rickbucket664I always say this too, and I always look for native accounts of the old world, if these buildings were seemingly still here, but I can never find any sources when I ask. Does anyone know where I can read about the native’s perspectives on the old world buildings??
@@astralenlightenment1743they say they were already here from the ones before.
@@Val.Kyrie. where can I find any sources please??
Funny you should talk and spend much of our time about jacksonville's post office ... When there are hundreads of gorgeous buildings that have been destroyed, not to mention quasi whole neighbourhoods in city centers and around. Major cities in the US looked in the 80s as if they have been even more bombed than some european ones in world war two
One thing I find about mostly AngloSaxon populations is that there isn't an appreciation for retaining architecture. I say this because if you go to cities like New Orleans, Montreal, Quebec City you can find their cities filled with architecture going back to the 17th century. But Anglo-cities like Toronto, New York that have been established as long have only a few buildings from that period of the 1800s.
The British had a weird history back then that consisted of destructive behaviors. Whether it was architecture or even populations. It’s crazy how Canada was on professional terms with the Native population due to fur trading until the British took over Canada. I don’t really think it’s because anyone’s Anglo-Saxon, but maybe due to the Anglo-Saxons that moved to America were the psycho puritans
@@cache_dl In general you are right. The horrible nature of the Puritans who were dogmatic fanatics obsessed with making money, like their "heroes" from the Bible (a.k.a. the "chosen people") shaped the character of the American people and society. The American expression "Time is money" tells you a lot.
Great video, the only problem is your not even questioning the mainstream narratives of when, and how these buildings were built.
Americans in these cities did not have the manpower, nor even electrical tools to have created these buildings, they were in existence long before their cover stories. You will find no legitimate construction photographs of any of the buildings you have shown. The most you will find are scaffolding around a building which proves nothing.
HH Richardson was a bogus character.
You can find under construction photos for a lot of buildings actually, penn station and the singer building come to mind
You need to get on, or off, those meds buddy
You are gullible and too arrogant to question your gullibility; you will be taken advantage of by people who are smarter than you and you will thank them for the privilege.
Please, tell us about the great mud flood of whenever the hell it supposedly happened.
Would you like a narrator for your videos?
So so sad😢
The US just likes pumping out ugly, cheap, uninspiring buildings nowadays. You have to go to the Northeast or Chicago to see actual beautiful architecture from times past.
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Those buildings were around the World Wide landscape ! Nice try though
One guy told m that
the only one problem
why we couldnt find out
*Where those*
who built such huge buildings
with perfect desing and quality *disappeared?* ?
The answer is that
*They left by opened portal*
To some different place.
Thats why they keep it quite from us, because if they would show us
Then all of the qiestions would b answered.
The whole race cant disappear just like that- so, they left.
And they brought us, the settlers, instead.
Along with genetics
I assume the narrator is an American discussing the decline of American architecture; but with his accent, one can't be sure.
The narrator is a voice-over software program, and AI generated monologue. This is true with pretty much all videos of this type.
Since we've gotten culturally enriched, there's no point in building anything nice because it'll just get covered with graffiti vandalism.
What a creative way of saying “I'm a racist!”
@@user-sf4fy8bq1h When I drive my car through Los Angeles, I look around and notice stuff. Stuff you might call "art." When you learn how to read it, it'll tell you which gang's territory you're entering.
@@teastrainer3604 Your experience in a single city is not the standard. There are plenty of cities with stable economies and residents who actually care about their communities.
@@rumplestiltskin951 I've lived in five states. People are OK with graffiti vandalism as long as it doesn't deface their own property. And elected officials want to ban gas stoves but not regulate the sale of spray paint.
@@teastrainer3604 Nevertheless, numerous cities do care about their image and have endeavored to combat graffiti vandalism in cities and not just on residents’ property. As for your comment about gas stoves, I am not sure why that is relevant.
America used to be beautiful. Nowadays, you need to drive everywhere, and it all looks the same. It’s been that way since the 50s. Living there for seven years while attending medical school, were some of the worst days of my life. Everything was ugly, everything. I regret my decision of accepting that CoE from America, over the one I got from the UK and Ireland, everyday, and will for the rest of my life. I could’ve lived in human-centric, walkable cities, that are not car dependent for seven long years. Oh, and I’m from a country that simply copy-pasted the American system, when it comes to urban planning, architecture, suburbs, and last but not least, parking lots.
Unfortunately with the Tacoma courthouse being built with masonry and in a seismic zone, it might have been a better idea to demolish the structure. Washington State is overdue for a massive subduction earthquake at some point in the future. We agree on ugly shopping centers but this is what the developers want, cheap, quick, easy.
One world civilisation ☺️👍🏻
Sad losses
😢
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TTS voice. Not watching. If you are going to make videos, at least make them with a little bit of soul, especially since that is what you seem to want to preach about.
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proof that were losing hummanity history
Oy vey I wonder why
Read a book
Robot voice, thumbs down