I live in Melbourne and think that this video has done this building and city perfect justice. Thanks B1M so excited to see my city finally being praised
So, you've just bought an expensive apartment in this development, then find out an even BIGGER tower is being built opposite, obscuring your amazing views?!
Well, depending on what side of the apartment you live in, yes. This is to be expected in Melbourne's Southbank suburb though as it's where all the tallest buildings in Melbourne are built.
They're clearly there to launder Chinese money. They'll be owned but unoccupied most of the time. I don't think they'll care much; like the Russians "in" London don't.
@@dsnodgrass4843 Won't they be surprised when the financial house of cards built by money laundering collapses. Suddenly their multimillion dollar apartments won't fetch more than $100K in a supersaturated market.
@6:50 When the bathtub is infront of a floor to ceiling window, these things matter. If it's under a flightpath, the pilots might glimpse a view of more than they should.
I kind of like it. It's neither too flashy, nor too bland. It's got this subtle distinctiveness to it, and I really love the fluid shape of the facade. Hope someone makes a city skylines asset based on it. I'd love to have residential towers like this in my cities :D
@Kevin Johnson Do you like empty houses with no one living in them and paying more for yours because people are buying them all up and leaving them empty to sell in the future? No. Only the people selling them like that.
Looking forward to the finished product. What I keep telling people though is how bizarre it is that New York built a 330m tower in 1930...and in 2019 we still haven't got a tower that big in Melbourne!
This video gave me a little bout of home sickness haha. I'm living in NYC and it amazes me how Melbourne is playing catch up with New York's supertalls.
@@hhhydra2397 I work in urban planning and property development. It was a big goal of mine to work here in New York. There are many opportunities and it's a great place to learn.
I've got next to no construction experience, But I've always loved this type of content for my favourite definitive video channel for construction, the B1M
I want to say I've been watching your channel for a few months now and I find your videos incredibly fascinating. I had to look up what B1M stood for before subscribing, but I figured I may as well after watching like 50 videos from this channel with such a strange name! You have earned this subscriber with the quality of your content, I love all your insights on architecture!
I like the green structure more, it really stands out from all the other smooth glass structures. The style is unique, at least to the surrounding structures, here's hoping it gets built. If I ever visit seeing these buildings would be amazing.
In terms of residential, yeah it'll be the tallest for a while. However just a bit closer to the river a hotel tower is going to be built that will be taller than both 108 and Q1 on the Gold Coast (by like 2 metres or something, a very small margin). I think it's called One Queensbridge, and will be the newest addition to the Crown Complex
well, here we are years later and the One Queensbridge has been cancelled. at least we've still got the STH BNK ready to start construction even though it looks fugly and seems like an engineering nightmare
Yes, Fred Mills has worked very hard to clear up his voice-over diction clarity. That is much appreciated as we can enjoy the high-end content of his excellent architectural channel. Thanks for your effort and consideration!
Damn i thought that "starburst" level was a horrible monstrosity until i watched this and learned its supposed to be the commonwealth star.. now i find it inspiring
You should know that the Commonwealth Star is a seven point star. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Commonwealth_Star This is 8 points. It's not a real Commonwealth Star, no matter what they claim.
It's impressive, not to mention that the main highway into Melbourne gives you a perfect view of the skyline. I've driven a few people from elsewhere in the country into Melbourne, and I always hear a "wowwww" when you come around the bend and see the skyline. Not as much of a wow as when visitors get off the train at southern cross and walk out only to be right next to enormous skyscrapers...
Both city roads are crossing through everywhere make it look like a rubbish dumb from birds eye view. I wish it look like a massive rectangular parcel roads.but it isnt
@@soldierinchristsplatoon1540 Being an Australian, I've grown up my whole life without guns. I love it! One less thing you have to worry about down here.
I'm never going to be in the mix for it but i gotta admit: A chance to live in the highest residential (residencial?) building in the southern HEMISPHERE is quite the pull ^^ Great video, as always. Still, this one is as special to me as the Billionaire's Row projects. Wow, calling it projects gives it a whole new spin ^^
That Green Spine tower looks super nice in the renderings. II saw a similar concept for Japan but I don't remember the name. I wish more towers would look like that.
A truly stunning piece of architecture. The U.S. used to be so on top of this, but now we build boring, uber-thin buildings. Blah... This is distinctive and beautiful.
Great video and great tower! Although I wish that all Southbank's tower proposals would be more spread out instead of clumped together. Each building needs space around it to shine and to show its personality.
@YT11Many Chinese are the developers & some are importing sub standard building materials. A lot of the buyers are Chinese, so they are victims as well. The real problem is that if you have a faulty toaster you can send it back and get refund, but currently if you spend thousand or even millions of dollars on a property, after 6 years if the fault doesn't appear then your stuffed. That's the fault of the NSW government.
For 150 years they couldn't build anything over 2 stories high in that area because it was a drained swamp. Then in the 1980s they started building taller and taller buildings. There is a concert hall nearby that has it's foundations surrounded by a sealed membrane so it can float if the foundations subside.
Hi all at the B1M, thanks for your outstanding videos. May I request that you consider doing a video on tower crane removal after a skyscaper topping out. Thanks in advance for your consideration of the idea. V.H. Hill
you would think there would be more tall building in the southern hemisphere, since the building are hanging upside down and wouldn't have to hold up so much weight......
I love the architecture of this building! I can’t wait to see a Green Spine video in the future! Thanks for the great videos! 👍 Edit: Nevermind there already is one! But it would be cool to see more information when it is actually under construction!
@@wilwick756 Yeah they're pretty tall and all but nowhere near as tall as Melbourne's. My point is that Sydney is the economic engine of Australia, so they will naturally need skyscrapers, particularly tall ones.
can you please make a video about the infrastructure projects being undertaken in melbourne at the moment? - metro tunnel, rail loop, NE link - it will be interesting to see how so much progress is happening in melbourne in such little time
When you live in a hot place what you are looking for is a villa with a swimming pool , a garden with a top pergola and a super outside kitchen/bbq to entertain certainly not getting stuck in a tower. And if you are super loaded the same villa but on the sea front with a private little pier for your boat ...ideally in a place where you are also not going to pay a penny in taxes .
The imperial square project on the Gold Coast ha started and its tallest tower will be 108. So the battle between the Gold Coast and Melbourne to have the tallest buildings will continue
Amazon's HQ in Seattle is wrapping up. The main 3 towers are not particularly tall, but the entire 5 tower project would be an interesting subject to cover.
I live on the gold coast and love the Q1, it was the tallest residential building in the world since 2005 until Dubai surpassed it in 2010, bus is still the tallest in australia yet to be passed by Imperial City tower 1 and the Orion Towers in the near future. at around 335m tall
My dream is to live in Australia 108 one day, I've been following it's construction progress from Hobart (looking online for photos since I don't live in melbourne) since Jan 2018. As a skyscraper enthusiast who wouldn't want to live anywhere but Australia, this is a dream come true... a very expensive, out of my price-range dream :(
@@Spyros_SP Hey, living in Melbourne is still one step closer to living in Australia 108 than me, good job for hanging out in Australia's best city (IMO).
Awesome looking building, much better than the original design. Looks much better than Eureka tower as well. Not sure why the architect didn't make it only several meters taller, so it could surpass Gold Coast's Q1 Tower in height.
I live 10 minutes from this tower and I’ve driven passed it everyday and watched it rise, it’s beautiful 😍
Good for you bro ! :D
108 likes!
@@urmum156 208 Likes already.
My mum designed it
And I live 50mins Away from it in Country Victoria,and Really don't Give 2 FU****'s
I live in Melbourne and think that this video has done this building and city perfect justice. Thanks B1M so excited to see my city finally being praised
Your city is awesome, mate. Would love to visit some day
@@bofacee Don't just visit, it's worthy of moving here :D
Yes so worth moving there!
people hate on australia for no reason so yeah (btw i live in melbourne aswell)
So, you've just bought an expensive apartment in this development, then find out an even BIGGER tower is being built opposite, obscuring your amazing views?!
Well, depending on what side of the apartment you live in, yes. This is to be expected in Melbourne's Southbank suburb though as it's where all the tallest buildings in Melbourne are built.
They're clearly there to launder Chinese money. They'll be owned but unoccupied most of the time. I don't think they'll care much; like the Russians "in" London don't.
@@dsnodgrass4843 Won't they be surprised when the financial house of cards built by money laundering collapses. Suddenly their multimillion dollar apartments won't fetch more than $100K in a supersaturated market.
@6:50 When the bathtub is infront of a floor to ceiling window, these things matter.
If it's under a flightpath, the pilots might glimpse a view of more than they should.
That might just be a good thing. It means you might be the second target for a terrorist with a vendetta.
Melbourne is one of my favourite cities in the world. Beautiful place.
What do you think of Sydney?
Cant say I'm fan of the design but I have watched its progress when I visit the city periodically
Same here......that thing in the middle Is throwing it all off for me....
It will look better at night when you can see the LED's on the building. Also it will look a lot better when the last 30 floors are done.
Yeah I live in Melbourne. Dosent look too flash, I think Q1looks better than both the eureka and Australia 108.
I kind of like it. It's neither too flashy, nor too bland. It's got this subtle distinctiveness to it, and I really love the fluid shape of the facade.
Hope someone makes a city skylines asset based on it. I'd love to have residential towers like this in my cities :D
The star thing in the middle ruins an otherwise pretty building.
"the penthouse sold to a chinese businessman for x million"
he's never going to set foot in it is he?
nope. Funny to because I thought the federal government was cutting down on foreigners buying up Australian property.
@@The.Drunk-Koala Only on already existing residences, newly build are the only ones foreigners can purchase.
@@Panda13572 oh. Thanks for the info
No, but it's not your home so you shouldn't care what he does with it.
@Kevin Johnson Do you like empty houses with no one living in them and paying more for yours because people are buying them all up and leaving them empty to sell in the future?
No. Only the people selling them like that.
I adore living in Melbourne! It’s an awesome place to live and I love seeing this tower going up.
Stop it you are making me homesick mate
Looking forward to the finished product. What I keep telling people though is how bizarre it is that New York built a 330m tower in 1930...and in 2019 we still haven't got a tower that big in Melbourne!
These are some of the best looking contemporary buildings I’ve ever seen. Very unique and futuristic in appearance.
The building at night is amazing
This video gave me a little bout of home sickness haha. I'm living in NYC and it amazes me how Melbourne is playing catch up with New York's supertalls.
MAy I ask why you moved there?
I'm going to have to check whether these tall structures are a marker for the end of an economic boom.
Hardy Hydra why does it matter?
Melbourne already has taller skyscrapers than Sydney. More of them too.
@@hhhydra2397 I work in urban planning and property development. It was a big goal of mine to work here in New York. There are many opportunities and it's a great place to learn.
i'm from Melbourne it's such a cool place
hows lockdown going
Plututo good because my suburb is not in it
Thank you B1M for covering Australia 108. It’s impressive to look at up close. Love your content :)
You're welcome - thanks for the great feedback!
That gold star building is absolutely gorgeous in my eyes. Thanks for this, The B1M. Beautiful architecture throughout!
I've got next to no construction experience, But I've always loved this type of content for my favourite definitive video channel for construction, the B1M
I want to say I've been watching your channel for a few months now and I find your videos incredibly fascinating. I had to look up what B1M stood for before subscribing, but I figured I may as well after watching like 50 videos from this channel with such a strange name! You have earned this subscriber with the quality of your content, I love all your insights on architecture!
Its nice to see Melbourne getting a bit of a high rise face-lift.
Music is on point!
Thanks! 👍
@@TheB1M Title of the first song?
@@TheB1M still hoping to get the title. please! it's blissful
I like the green structure more, it really stands out from all the other smooth glass structures. The style is unique, at least to the surrounding structures, here's hoping it gets built. If I ever visit seeing these buildings would be amazing.
I've been waiting 5 months for this video! Thank YOU! 🙏 💖
Channels like this deliver news that actually matters, ironically unlike most news media today.
Love your videos B1M. Thank you for showcasing Melbourne's beautiful skyline 🙂
Thanks!! You’re welcome 😉
*Melbourne, one of the world's greatest cities!*
@Steve Muhammad 3rd World City when it comes to infrastructure.
Steve Muhammad Most liveable city must be pretty shit aye
But understand what you mean, the traffic and transit is shithouse
@Steve Muhammad typical jealous Sydney person
Definitely a city
This is seriously one of the best channels on TH-cam.
Wow - thank you SO much!! 👍👍👍
I don’t even particularly like architecture but this channel really got me interested!
I hear the quality of apartment buildings in Sydney and Melbourne is some of the best in the world
Is that sarcasm I detect?
Especially when they start cracking ;)
Thurston Kuriata
You detected correctly 🙂
@@killionaireunggoy3144 Or sinking
Channel here is too BUMmed out to cover that topic, ain't it?
I'm continually amazed at the design and innovation in the world today.
Big thumbs up and subbed!
Thanks ...and welcome!! 👍👍
Melbourne is low key the most mesmerizing city on the globe.
its fuckning shit
Nah
What about it makes it so special? It looks like just another globalized territory
Agree, I've seen nearly all of the supposed great cities of the world and Melbourne wins handily. as a place to live it cant be beat
@@stealthtowealth2167 have u seen the winters there... horribly depressing
Congrats Melbourne!! Awesome building!!
I bet such nice apartments will command a small fortune!
In terms of residential, yeah it'll be the tallest for a while. However just a bit closer to the river a hotel tower is going to be built that will be taller than both 108 and Q1 on the Gold Coast (by like 2 metres or something, a very small margin). I think it's called One Queensbridge, and will be the newest addition to the Crown Complex
Q1 is bullshit. You shouldn't be able to just attach an antenna to it to claim the no.1 spot... It really is a shitty way to get that no. 1 spot...
well, here we are years later and the One Queensbridge has been cancelled. at least we've still got the STH BNK ready to start construction even though it looks fugly and seems like an engineering nightmare
As much as I love modern construction, I came here for the mesmerizing pronunciation. Keep up the good work my man!
Yes, Fred Mills has worked very hard to clear up his voice-over diction clarity. That is much appreciated as we can enjoy the high-end content of his excellent architectural channel.
Thanks for your effort and consideration!
Melbourne has some really beautiful and modern skyscrapers.
Damn i thought that "starburst" level was a horrible monstrosity until i watched this and learned its supposed to be the commonwealth star.. now i find it inspiring
You should know that the Commonwealth Star is a seven point star. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Commonwealth_Star This is 8 points. It's not a real Commonwealth Star, no matter what they claim.
The starburst looks amazing from afar, i can see it 30 kilometres away and it looks striking
I live in Sydney and am very jealous of Melbourne's skyline. Wish Sydney would build skyscrapers like this soon.
Can't build anything higher then centre point in Sydney.
It's impressive, not to mention that the main highway into Melbourne gives you a perfect view of the skyline. I've driven a few people from elsewhere in the country into Melbourne, and I always hear a "wowwww" when you come around the bend and see the skyline.
Not as much of a wow as when visitors get off the train at southern cross and walk out only to be right next to enormous skyscrapers...
Both city roads are crossing through everywhere make it look like a rubbish dumb from birds eye view. I wish it look like a massive rectangular parcel roads.but it isnt
The production of these videos are awesome! Keep up the great work!
Melbourne my dream city 🌃
@@soldierinchristsplatoon1540 Being an Australian, I've grown up my whole life without guns. I love it! One less thing you have to worry about down here.
@@soldierinchristsplatoon1540 hahahaha you're a troll right? even your name
You can shoot guns if you really want to but firearms are highly regulated.
I'm never going to be in the mix for it but i gotta admit: A chance to live in the highest residential (residencial?) building in the southern HEMISPHERE is quite the pull ^^
Great video, as always. Still, this one is as special to me as the Billionaire's Row projects.
Wow, calling it projects gives it a whole new spin ^^
Thank you for featuring my city.
I get the impression this channel really likes buildings ;) Big ups always a pleasure to watch!
We do!! Thanks for watching! ✊️✊️
Awesome video, love how you make content about cities outside the major megacities. Awesome content!
While there's no reason to artificially limit the scope to mega cities, are there any mega construction projects happening outside the mega cities?
B1M knows exactly what he's doing, great Vlogs.
Nice video, with one of the best narrators.
That Green Spine tower looks super nice in the renderings. II saw a similar concept for Japan but I don't remember the name. I wish more towers would look like that.
Very good subjects, top notch filming and first class narrative make for great programs. Thank you.
Great... I like this channel ... Thanks all member of this channel...
A truly stunning piece of architecture. The U.S. used to be so on top of this, but now we build boring, uber-thin buildings. Blah... This is distinctive and beautiful.
The voice of the video's narrator is majestic
Thanks!
Great video and great tower! Although I wish that all Southbank's tower proposals would be more spread out instead of clumped together. Each building needs space around it to shine and to show its personality.
exactly.. most cities make that mistake big time.. take London for example
Dani Malik they’re tryna be New York
hope it doesn't crack like the ones in Sydney.
milkybar06 😂 I heard about that shit
Well it's in Victoria, not NSW.... so don't worry
They will!
@YT11Many Chinese are the developers & some are importing sub standard building materials. A lot of the buyers are Chinese, so they are victims as well. The real problem is that if you have a faulty toaster you can send it back and get refund, but currently if you spend thousand or even millions of dollars on a property, after 6 years if the fault doesn't appear then your stuffed. That's the fault of the NSW government.
Luckily Victoria is run by a Labor government unlike NSW. So they won’t approve dodgey buildings for the quick $$$. Dirty Liberals
Please do a video about Lakhta Centre in Saint Petersburg. Its the tallest buildin in Europe. Would love that!
Every time i fel in love with the narrative voice.
These videos are my meditation.
love the way they supported the facade
Imagine buying a condo on the top floor! The views from this tower would be AWESOME!
Wow! Great building and as usual a nice video.
Very impressive. Thanks.
I have lived on the 12th floor of the Eureka tower for a few months. The amenities were the best, the view from the apartment less thrilling
Beautiful building!
Now that is one beautiful building
Would love a full video on the landmark tower competition 😍
I find the gold star tacky but the rest of the building looks beautiful. Great video as always.
Although I love Australia 108's height, the currently under construction Premier Tower in Melbourne has a much more interesting, futuristic design.
Excellent video as expected.
Thank you!! 👍👍
Melbourne, kicking Sydneys arse in the Skyscraper game.
Sydney are building this though - th-cam.com/video/IIXvMPPuxvw/w-d-xo.html
I live right across this tower and have been witnessing it goes higher and higer day by day, and I am an architecture student lol how lucky
Lucky, man.
meanwhile, Sydney's opal tower and mascot apartments are cracking.
just like San Francisco's millennium tower
Dodgy builders
This thing has started creaking as well now lol
such an excellent presentation,, I had to watch twice,, Fred Mills is the best in the business!!
I’m very proud and feel lucky to be living in this great city and country
I'd love to see a video by you that covers strategies in designing and building skyscrapers to overcome the problem of subsidence :)
For 150 years they couldn't build anything over 2 stories high in that area because it was a drained swamp. Then in the 1980s they started building taller and taller buildings. There is a concert hall nearby that has it's foundations surrounded by a sealed membrane so it can float if the foundations subside.
Hi all at the B1M, thanks for your outstanding videos. May I request that you consider doing a video on tower crane removal after a skyscaper topping out. Thanks in advance for your consideration of the idea. V.H. Hill
This is amazing. Someday I want to help design buildings like that for new Zealand
New Zealand doesn't have that big of a population for big cities quite yet though. Plus, we all know Straya is better, Kiwi. ;)
you would think there would be more tall building in the southern hemisphere, since the building are hanging upside down and wouldn't have to hold up so much weight......
I love the architecture of this building!
I can’t wait to see a Green Spine video in the future! Thanks for the great videos! 👍
Edit: Nevermind there already is one! But it would be cool to see more information when it is actually under construction!
Or SIFC
As a native New Yorker I have to give ,Melbourne credit fir a gorgeous building. I would not mind a vacation place there.
Fascinating, interesting and well presented. Thanks from Orlando Florida
You've got your own Melbourne in Florida, right?
Sydney needs to get their act together and build tall sky scrapers like these
WWell there the international towers and one barangaroo/crown Sydney that have been completed
@@wilwick756 Yeah they're pretty tall and all but nowhere near as tall as Melbourne's. My point is that Sydney is the economic engine of Australia, so they will naturally need skyscrapers, particularly tall ones.
Impressive.
This is my most beautiful city..Melbourne ❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️
Very cool building. I like it
Hopefully, I get an opportunity to work on the design of Southbank by Beulah, which will dwarf the Australia 108. Love being in this world-class city.
can you please make a video about the infrastructure projects being undertaken in melbourne at the moment? - metro tunnel, rail loop, NE link - it will be interesting to see how so much progress is happening in melbourne in such little time
Melbourne is just absolutely booming. I've lived here all my life and would never live anywhere else.
Great tower. Great city.
Can you do a video of how they furnish skyscrapers? That itself must also be crazy
I live in Melbourne and I go past that building every week
When you live in a hot place what you are looking for is a villa with a swimming pool , a garden with a top pergola and a super outside kitchen/bbq to entertain certainly not getting stuck in a tower. And if you are super loaded the same villa but on the sea front with a private little pier for your boat ...ideally in a place where you are also not going to pay a penny in taxes .
Thank you.
Awesome
The imperial square project on the Gold Coast ha started and its tallest tower will be 108. So the battle between the Gold Coast and Melbourne to have the tallest buildings will continue
great channel great video. well done
Thank you...Enjoyed
Amazon's HQ in Seattle is wrapping up. The main 3 towers are not particularly tall, but the entire 5 tower project would be an interesting subject to cover.
Thanks for the suggestion, we’ll take a look!
Great Video, Keep it up!
Greetings from Sydney
A fantastic looking building in a great city. Sydney's been left so far behind it's not funny.
Please can you do a video on the Heathrow Extension Masterplan.
I live on the gold coast and love the Q1, it was the tallest residential building in the world since 2005 until Dubai surpassed it in 2010, bus is still the tallest in australia yet to be passed by Imperial City tower 1 and the Orion Towers in the near future. at around 335m tall
Never a disappointment...💪💪💪💪💪
My dream is to live in Australia 108 one day, I've been following it's construction progress from Hobart (looking online for photos since I don't live in melbourne) since Jan 2018.
As a skyscraper enthusiast who wouldn't want to live anywhere but Australia, this is a dream come true... a very expensive, out of my price-range dream :(
I live in Melbourne and would like to live in the 108 too, or an apartment just as good as it. :(
@@Spyros_SP Hey, living in Melbourne is still one step closer to living in Australia 108 than me, good job for hanging out in Australia's best city (IMO).
Please can you do a video on the new Greenwich Peninsula and Silvertown Tunnel?
Awesome looking building, much better than the original design. Looks much better than Eureka tower as well.
Not sure why the architect didn't make it only several meters taller, so it could surpass Gold Coast's Q1 Tower in height.
it was going to be taller but it interfered with the flight path of planes from the airport hence why they made it smaller
Nice video.
I want you to take us to one of the already completed apartments and give us a tour.
Also share the price of these apartments.
Great channel. Love it.