Insane Megaprojects that were Never Built

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  • @MegaBuildsYT
    @MegaBuildsYT  2 ปีที่แล้ว +161

    Which of these projects would you like to see in reality?👇

    • @SR7_AMP2
      @SR7_AMP2 2 ปีที่แล้ว +9

      New york airport one

    • @JustWinJets
      @JustWinJets 2 ปีที่แล้ว +17

      Chicago Spire or Mile High

    • @benpenguin5961
      @benpenguin5961 2 ปีที่แล้ว +5

      The Chicago spire

    • @عبدالله-ن6ه2ص
      @عبدالله-ن6ه2ص 2 ปีที่แล้ว +5

      King Salman Bridge, which will link Egypt and Saudi Arabia with a sea bridge and link the two continents of Asia with Africa
      This is important for the Egyptian and Saudi peoples because of their national, religious, social and ethnic connection

    • @createdshocked4700
      @createdshocked4700 2 ปีที่แล้ว +6

      Illinois Skyscraper.

  • @kubalek1336
    @kubalek1336 2 ปีที่แล้ว +2642

    the nyc airport looked like some kid just unlocked an airport in cities:skylines and tried to put it as close to city center as posibble

    • @indee105
      @indee105 2 ปีที่แล้ว +126

      Imagine the noise pollution?!

    • @A_name_is_a_name
      @A_name_is_a_name 2 ปีที่แล้ว +70

      9/11 wouldn’t have happened.

    • @adrastos761
      @adrastos761 2 ปีที่แล้ว +39

      who in their right mind would want an airport there in NYC like that, the noise that would emanate from that all day every day for the rest of eternity would make that whole east side of Manhattan un-liveable. That is the worst idea ever, thank god it never happened, LGA is bad enough since it is in a residential neighborhood and we have planes landing and taking off every 30 seconds all day everyday....

    • @rja.p4826
      @rja.p4826 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@adrastos761 😂

    • @epicjason21
      @epicjason21 2 ปีที่แล้ว +12

      Would have made 9/11 a lot easier also 😢

  • @Saavik256
    @Saavik256 2 ปีที่แล้ว +708

    One of the reasons why the Great Hall in Berlin was never built was simple: terrain. They actually have built a bunch of massive concrete pillars to test the load bearing capacity of the soil but found out that the kind of terrain in that part of Berlin would never have been able to support a building that size.

    • @Lv-nq9qz
      @Lv-nq9qz 2 ปีที่แล้ว +22

      It would have been too close to the river, the soil around the Spree mist be very soft and sandy. They would have had to dig down to bedrock for something that big

    • @MyRegardsToTheDodo
      @MyRegardsToTheDodo 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@Lv-nq9qz Nazi buildings were never built to last. The stadium in Nuremberg where they had their party rallies was so badly constructed and built that it was crumbling apart in the 1990s already. The only real lasting building is probably the Westwall/Siegfried-line, and that nearly bancrupted the German Empire in the 1930s and drove up housing costs, because you couldn't get contractors anymore.

    • @Mowraq
      @Mowraq 2 ปีที่แล้ว +35

      Another interesting fact: the test pillar survived the war and was so massive it couldn't be demolished safely. Instead it got used for scientific experiments for a few decades and is now a monument with some informations provided there about the site and history.

    • @Saavik256
      @Saavik256 2 ปีที่แล้ว +6

      @@Mowraq Wow, that is amazing! Thank you so much for sharing! :)

    • @SmartassX1
      @SmartassX1 2 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      I'm sure they could have just built a that much bigger and deeper foundation then. If a million tons of concrete is not enough, make it a billion tons! With all the resources of Europe at their disposal, it would have been easy enough, just way more costly.

  • @augury2699
    @augury2699 2 ปีที่แล้ว +371

    Okay dream airport would've been a full on nightmare for anyone living in manhattan. The noise alone would've made living in New York City even less appealing than it already is

    • @julieleatherwood7898
      @julieleatherwood7898 2 ปีที่แล้ว +31

      9/11 would have been easy

    • @Zadesniper
      @Zadesniper 2 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      Not even just Manhattan, right across the water you'd definitely still hear that in jersey city/Hoboken

    • @augury2699
      @augury2699 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      @@Zadesniper As i am literally sitting across the river from where this was proposed to be built in LIC right now, I 100% agree. NYC would be almost totally unlivable if this succeeded.

    • @BlueTyphoon2017
      @BlueTyphoon2017 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@augury2699 maybe they could build it somewhere else? Question is where on a waterfront to put it?

    • @freezerio1069
      @freezerio1069 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      ​​@@julieleatherwood7898 No, the twin towers would never have ever been built if the airport was built where they were.

  • @SupremeLeaderKimJong-un
    @SupremeLeaderKimJong-un 2 ปีที่แล้ว +398

    Love how Gaudí dedicated his life to the Sagrada Familia....and nearly a century after he died, it's STILL under construction. People love to complain about our Ryugyong Hotel and how it's still unfinished, yet no one bats an eye when it comes to the Sagrada.

    • @denish2219
      @denish2219 2 ปีที่แล้ว +23

      Bruh

    • @Jonas.N
      @Jonas.N 2 ปีที่แล้ว +33

      Yeah, because it isn’t such a long build time for a cathedral. Cologne cathedral took about 600 years to get build….

    • @Sphagetti__
      @Sphagetti__ 2 ปีที่แล้ว +14

      @@Jonas.N The Dom only took around 300 years, between like 1250 and 1550 or something. Still makes de la Sagrada Familia seem like child's play at 140 but 600 in an overstatement and a half

    • @MikMoen
      @MikMoen 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@Jonas.N Terrorist: "Hey look, I made a pile of rubble. Only took me like, ten seconds. Eleven, tops."

    • @FaintAcrobat
      @FaintAcrobat 2 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      @@Jonas.N sure, but how many of them had the benefit of modern machinery to help them build it.
      At this point Sagrada is nothing but a scam. If they actually wanted to finish it, it would have been a long time ago.

  • @Rampant16
    @Rampant16 2 ปีที่แล้ว +82

    Illinois Tower was never more than a basic concept, there's no evidence Wright actually seriously considered trying to build it. The Cenotaph was also never considered as a project to be built. Most of Boulleé's most famous works are incredible concepts like the Cenotaph which were understood from the beginning as only acts of imagination.

    • @GarrettBShaw
      @GarrettBShaw 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      The Illinois was the skyscraper to rule them all... 😂

  • @e1123581321345589144
    @e1123581321345589144 2 ปีที่แล้ว +339

    Gaudi's hotel and the sphere planetarium sound like great projects which should be reconsidered with today's technology. The other ones are too far fetched to be realistic, with the exception of the Chicago spire, which also looks like a nice design.

    • @rottensquid
      @rottensquid 2 ปีที่แล้ว +22

      Gaudi may have spent 43 years on Sagrada Familia, but he got so hung up on details he didn't get very far. The art book I have of it from the mid 90s is just the front of the cathedral, with a few foundational elements behind it.
      Since the photos of that book were taken, construction on the cathedral was restarted, and now, the building is almost complete. And as the images in this video show, it's an easy contender for most astonishingly beautiful structure in the world. I'd never heard anything about this new construction, so when I went to Barcelona with friends and took my little tour of Gaudi buildings, I was floored by the building I'd expected to be a sad monument to what might have been, and ended up being potential fulfilled.
      Of course, when you actually look at the parts Gaudi worked on himself, you can see why he made so little progress. In comparison to the rest of the building, the original structure is just so detailed, so elaborate, with sculpture literally bursting out of the masonry as though trying to come alive, it's clear that, at the rate he was going, he wouldn't have completed the building even if he'd continued working on it to this day. It turns out that, sometimes, brilliance can be the enemy of accomplishment. He also abandoned construction on a smaller, more humble church over in the Guell colony, leaving only the lower chapel and an impressive model of what the final piece might have been. Of course, that lower chapel and the unfinished building around it are also stunningly beautiful, unparalleled works of art.
      In a magical world where Gaudi could realize all his impossible dreams, this hotel would surely have easily eclipsed all other buildings in Manhattan as the city's greatest attraction. Alas, we don't live in that world.

    • @moussamiller4812
      @moussamiller4812 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      The big airport is possible but will probably be halfway built and then abandoned like most mega-projects

    • @Lv-nq9qz
      @Lv-nq9qz ปีที่แล้ว

      The Gaudi hotel looks like a typical background building from Futurama, so maybe in the distant future, someone will dust off the design and build it somewhere in Manhattan (downtown wouldn't be good for it, maybe south midtown, somewhere it could stand out)

  • @AverytheCubanAmerican
    @AverytheCubanAmerican 2 ปีที่แล้ว +70

    Let's be honest, the only pyramid that matters is the Bass Pro Shops pyramid in Memphis. I mean you can stay at a lodge, inside a Bass Pro Shop, inside a pyramid...you can't do that anywhere else.
    And as a New Yorker, I'm so glad that airport wasn't built. Sure all the traffic heading to NYC and within the city sucks but if the airport was built, it would've been ten times worse. So be appreciative of the airports we currently have. Because having three main airports are definitely better than having just one when compared to other cities.

  • @Ls-uw3dn
    @Ls-uw3dn 2 ปีที่แล้ว +318

    The Illinois skyscraper looks like the Jeddah tower that Saudi Arabia is trying to build

    • @Ju-op9cl
      @Ju-op9cl 2 ปีที่แล้ว +44

      If I'm correct, I think the illinois skyscraper was the jeddah tower's inspiration

    • @stickynorth
      @stickynorth 2 ปีที่แล้ว +14

      @@Ju-op9cl Bingo!

    • @Bustycat
      @Bustycat 2 ปีที่แล้ว +13

      @@zaxisontherun An epic fail since 1/3 height has been built.

    • @ClementinesmWTF
      @ClementinesmWTF 2 ปีที่แล้ว +7

      The Jeddah Tower is an almost direct copy of the Mile High with a few tweaks. It was also originally planned to be a mile high, but they reduced it to a kilometer when they realized how much the cost would be for a mile

    • @indyhamilton698
      @indyhamilton698 2 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      @@ClementinesmWTF Is it just me, or does that twisted skyscraper in Chicago look an oversized drill bit?

  • @megacities
    @megacities 2 ปีที่แล้ว +186

    Love when architects come to engineers and say "hey, check out my new design"...engineer shakes his head...

    • @thepinkestpigglet7529
      @thepinkestpigglet7529 2 ปีที่แล้ว +43

      And then the engineer and the architect work together to design a very depressing box.

    • @lioninguccisuit
      @lioninguccisuit 2 ปีที่แล้ว +6

      @@thepinkestpigglet7529 I mean you have to know how to build a tall building without making it fall down, so in most of case it looks like triangles or boxes, due the wind and such.

    • @RK-cj4oc
      @RK-cj4oc 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      The world would look boring and no progress would be made if engineers would not be pushed by architects.

    • @adolfodavila6158
      @adolfodavila6158 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@RK-cj4oc but there wouldn’t be any kind of infrastructure if it wasn’t by engineers

    • @RK-cj4oc
      @RK-cj4oc 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@adolfodavila6158 very true. But it also would not progress and we would be stuck with wooden huts.

  • @venusiancreative1774
    @venusiancreative1774 2 ปีที่แล้ว +41

    I just checked an inflation calculator. The $3 billion estimate for the Manhattan airport would be about $45 billion in today's money!

    • @fasdaVT
      @fasdaVT 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      And wouldn't cover the land value

    • @mikatu
      @mikatu 5 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      The Fed could print that in two days. That wouldn't be a problem.

  • @staskouzmine
    @staskouzmine 2 ปีที่แล้ว +22

    Poor Chicago spire. The first one ruined by recession, second one gets started just in time for another one.

  • @joshuafraser3627
    @joshuafraser3627 2 ปีที่แล้ว +42

    that illinois tower would be great. Can hold all government offices. Cant see that going wrong in anyway.

    • @jozef667
      @jozef667 2 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      The part where we hear somebody call out : "Due to a breach in radiation the elevators are no longer working." bugs me a little.

    • @ibaba9209
      @ibaba9209 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      was looking for a comment about this lmao

    • @ibaba9209
      @ibaba9209 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@PotatoeSnow hes talking about 911 and how if a plane hit the government building Illinois tower than all government facilities are done for

  • @cinhh
    @cinhh 2 ปีที่แล้ว +46

    10:56 If I'm not mistaken, this is the 'GroBeKö', the Großbelastungskörper (german for "heavy load-bearing body"). A test if the ground in Berlin would withstand the heavy loads of such gigantic buildings. It wouldn't.

    • @sergeishabunin9469
      @sergeishabunin9469 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      Yes that's correct
      (I'm German)

    • @MegaBuildsYT
      @MegaBuildsYT  2 ปีที่แล้ว +13

      Yes, i think they wanted to test how much the soil could carry (For their planned Arc de Triomphe).

  • @SR7_AMP2
    @SR7_AMP2 2 ปีที่แล้ว +11

    Congrats for 500k hope you will hit 1 Million

    • @MegaBuildsYT
      @MegaBuildsYT  2 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      Thanks a lot!

    • @cursory9031
      @cursory9031 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      I remember watching him before 100k dang

  • @marlonm.7939
    @marlonm.7939 2 ปีที่แล้ว +15

    The airport would have been a crazy endeavor..

  • @niranjanr8075
    @niranjanr8075 2 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    The rooftop airport was definitely dumb. Offices are already stressful and thus, an airport with sound and vibrations? Wow a perfect office

  • @anishsaha9368
    @anishsaha9368 2 ปีที่แล้ว +36

    If we go back a bit in history, then The Black Taj Mahal visioned by Shah Jahan but was never built apart from the foundation could have been included in your list.

    • @ainsleyfrastructurekpopmashups
      @ainsleyfrastructurekpopmashups 2 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      But Hoping it will be Revived Once Again in order to Boost India's Tourism, Because We Need The Black Taj Mahal in Order to Make India a Superpower, High Income, and Developed Country.

    • @jahodovykrtkoofficial7746
      @jahodovykrtkoofficial7746 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@ainsleyfrastructurekpopmashups I dont think that tourism is going to help India right now. It can help a little bit

    • @briannelson3830
      @briannelson3830 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@ainsleyfrastructurekpopmashups I just feel like I’m going to get hit by a car sometimes 😅

    • @butt_cheeks269
      @butt_cheeks269 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@ainsleyfrastructurekpopmashups No, you don't need another Taj Mahal for that. These things will come, only with the reincarnation of Baba Sen

    • @isaiahc8390
      @isaiahc8390 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Pick up your cross and follow Jesus! The world is quickly headed for destruction, and sooner or later you will have to sit at the judgement seat and give an account for your actions. Belief in messiah alone is not enough to grant you salvation - Matthew 7:21-23, John 3:3, John 3:36 (ESV is the best translation for John 3:36). Call on the name of Jesus and pray for Him to intervene in your life! - Revelation 3:20.
      Contemplate how the Roman Empire fulfilled the role of the beast from the sea in Revelation 13. Revelation 17 confirms that it is in fact Rome. From this we can conclude that A) Jesus is the Son of God and can predict the future or make it happen, B) The world leaders/nations/governments etc have been conspiring together for the last 3000+ years going back to Babylon and before, C) History as we know it is fake. You don't really need to speculate once you start a relationship with God tho.
      Can't get a response from God? Fasting can help increase your perception and prayer can help initiate events. God will ignore you if your prayer does not align with His purpose (James 4:3) or if you are approaching Him when "unclean" (Isaiah 1:15, Isaiah 59:2, Micah 3:4). Stop eating food sacrificed to idols (McDonald's, Wendy's etc) stop glorifying yourself on social media or making other images of yourself (Second Commandment), stop gossiping about other people, stop watching obscene content etc and you should get a response. Have a blessed day!

  • @KrummyBrinkleJr.
    @KrummyBrinkleJr. 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Gaudi's designs are a visual nightmare to me, glad it never happened

  • @takumi2023
    @takumi2023 2 ปีที่แล้ว +21

    Ignoring Hitler's political views, i kinda like massive city redesign. I would have liked to see his whole plan for the city and whether it was efficient or just an entertainment center.
    kinda wanna build these buildings in cities skylines lol just to see how it'd look.

    • @Zadesniper
      @Zadesniper 2 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      He had great ideas, just really really shitty ideals lol

    • @wullewagner1840
      @wullewagner1840 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      Half of berlin would've been destroyed by building this.

    • @That_Guy2424
      @That_Guy2424 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@Zadesniper they literally lost the war because he was incompetent

  • @Plamie
    @Plamie 2 ปีที่แล้ว +85

    Fun fact: The Great hall would've been so big that the Moisture inside would create an own weather inside the hall itself

    • @YEAHKINDA
      @YEAHKINDA 2 ปีที่แล้ว +34

      Imagine walking into a building and the first thing you see is the building's weather forcast

    • @Plamie
      @Plamie 2 ปีที่แล้ว +25

      @@YEAHKINDA "Cloudy with bit rain inbetween Hitlers speech and Goebbels Propaganda"

    • @blub4108
      @blub4108 2 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      @@YEAHKINDA imagine going into a building and it rains inside

  • @njnikusha
    @njnikusha 2 ปีที่แล้ว +8

    The one in Chicago would have been faaaantastic

  • @joshuadabrowski0033
    @joshuadabrowski0033 2 ปีที่แล้ว +18

    That building would’ve looked so good in Chicago

  • @tylermyers200
    @tylermyers200 2 ปีที่แล้ว +5

    I love the early 1900s American history. Seemed our nation then had such charisma, and wanted to build the biggest, push the envelope in all areas.

    • @nunyabusiness5275
      @nunyabusiness5275 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      And then make America first and great again was deemed defensive

    • @ronibajralia7008
      @ronibajralia7008 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      Yup

    • @kieranhardy581
      @kieranhardy581 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      Apart from feeding and homing their people.

  • @limitlessbianca
    @limitlessbianca 2 ปีที่แล้ว +34

    This might not* be the biggest project or most expensive, but Jakarta (Indonesia) has abandoned beams that were supposed to be part of the new monorail system. It was halted and the then-new governor called it “The Monuments of Stupidity” due to the previous government’s negligence 😂 Would be great if you could cover it too!

    • @isaiahc8390
      @isaiahc8390 2 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      Pick up your cross and follow Jesus! The world is quickly headed for destruction, and sooner or later you will have to sit at the judgement seat and give an account for your actions. Belief in messiah alone is not enough to grant you salvation - Matthew 7:21-23, John 3:3, John 3:36 (ESV is the best translation for John 3:36). Call on the name of Jesus and pray for Him to intervene in your life! - Revelation 3:20.
      Contemplate how the Roman Empire fulfilled the role of the beast from the sea in Revelation 13. Revelation 17 confirms that it is in fact Rome. From this we can conclude that A) Jesus is the Son of God and can predict the future or make it happen, B) The world leaders/nations/governments etc have been conspiring together for the last 3000+ years going back to Babylon and before, C) History as we know it is fake. You don't really need to speculate once you start a relationship with God tho.
      Can't get a response from God? Fasting can help increase your perception and prayer can help initiate events. God will ignore you if your prayer does not align with His purpose (James 4:3) or if you are approaching Him when "unclean" (Isaiah 1:15, Isaiah 59:2, Micah 3:4). Stop eating food sacrificed to idols (McDonald's, Wendy's etc) stop glorifying yourself on social media or making other images of yourself (Second Commandment), stop gossiping about other people, stop watching obscene content etc and you should get a response. Have a blessed day!

    • @MrJstorm4
      @MrJstorm4 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      @@isaiahc8390 was that supposed to be response to anything?

  • @alparslankorkmaz2964
    @alparslankorkmaz2964 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Nice video.

  • @waters1801
    @waters1801 2 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    Always enjoy watching your videos while drinking some water!

  • @P4Tri0t420
    @P4Tri0t420 2 ปีที่แล้ว +16

    I guess im not allowed to say as a German which of these buildings would be nice to have :D

    • @trimlesscoasters
      @trimlesscoasters 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      LMAOO Ja Same :(

    • @P4Tri0t420
      @P4Tri0t420 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      @@trimlesscoasters Schade aber auch 😅
      Aber wenn man weiß von dem das geplante Deutsche Bauwerk kam, so isses doch besser so :D

    • @trimlesscoasters
      @trimlesscoasters 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@P4Tri0t420 ja 😂

    • @tylersoto7465
      @tylersoto7465 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      Lol I'm 1/4 German and I agree

    • @trimlesscoasters
      @trimlesscoasters 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@tylersoto7465 are you American?

  • @msbgone
    @msbgone 2 ปีที่แล้ว +14

    Not sure if it is good or bad to see two in Chicago on this, but we sure are building plenty of others now. Interesting vid, thanks!

  • @senorpardo
    @senorpardo 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    I'm sure Sully would have appreciated that airport on the Hudson.

  • @mmac2860
    @mmac2860 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Reaching out with big ideas always spurs others, these may not of been built but it certainly helped move other projects and ideas along

  • @kirill6850
    @kirill6850 2 ปีที่แล้ว +7

    1940s americans: let's build an airport in the middle of NYC
    Americans today: * instant 9.11 flashbacks*

  • @MrBreakmind
    @MrBreakmind 2 ปีที่แล้ว +5

    0:32 The first thingsl I thought was: "Immagine an airplane failing the landing and go straight for the building."
    The second thing I thought was:
    "Oh shit."

  • @beinghumanwthlove
    @beinghumanwthlove 2 ปีที่แล้ว +11

    There were engineers who dreamed projects much ahead of their time.. very impressive

  • @josephelledge7938
    @josephelledge7938 2 ปีที่แล้ว +13

    I would love if the Chicago spire could be finished

    • @salvab13
      @salvab13 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      Why? It's a fukin a dildo. Do something else

    • @MondoMiami
      @MondoMiami ปีที่แล้ว

      Chicago is a liberal hellhole. Its best days are long behind it.

  • @TVArtGallery
    @TVArtGallery 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    INSANE!

  • @phoenix5054
    @phoenix5054 2 ปีที่แล้ว +10

    “Atomic powered elevators”… yeah, no.

    • @dumbbellenjoyer
      @dumbbellenjoyer 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      Bro, like 3% of the worlds power is nuclear. Riding an elevator 30 times or so is basically one trip on nuclear power

  • @MarkFuchs
    @MarkFuchs 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Very interesting stories.

  • @ntatenarin
    @ntatenarin 2 ปีที่แล้ว +9

    I was so excited for the Chicago Spire. I would go to the build site to take pics. Of course, the building was never built, so I just have pictures of the giant hole.

    • @indyhamilton698
      @indyhamilton698 2 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      As for that great hole, it'd make a great diving well after it got cleaned up.

  • @TheJCJexe
    @TheJCJexe 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Love this channel!

  • @Kay.Kbngo10
    @Kay.Kbngo10 2 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    these vids be so entertaining

  • @Kevin-tz2lv
    @Kevin-tz2lv 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    I love the crazy ideas. People knocking them never had a idea any kind and certainly never had the balls to pursue them

  • @mikkelnpetersen
    @mikkelnpetersen 2 ปีที่แล้ว +4

    I remember hearing about someone who wanted cities to be build in layers, with an airport on top, imaginehouses build in "floors" with a "sheet" between them for the next layer to have a "blank sheet". the only thing I could think about when hearing was things like Mega City One (Judge Dredd), Coruscant (Star Wars) and hive cities (Warhammer 40k), none of them places I would want to live or even visit, it would end up as places where the higher up you lived, the higher in the social hierarchy you would see yourself, and sh*t would flow downwards.
    Not to speak of the danger of colapse, if there's not good enough support below, everything above would come crashing down.

    • @Lv-nq9qz
      @Lv-nq9qz ปีที่แล้ว

      I think your referring to LeCorbusiers city concept. He actually put the airport right in the middle of the city, on two major axial highways going north-south and east-west. Could you imagine living in a building with planes flying by it every 5 minutes? It'd be like living in hell.

  • @hariomsutar
    @hariomsutar 2 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    The black taj mahal was also insane but never got built 😢

  • @Otterdisappointment
    @Otterdisappointment 2 ปีที่แล้ว +9

    Germania is even dumber when you take into account the swampy environment of Berlin and how big a capitol building actually needs to be.
    Roman state buildings were only as big as they needed to be, regardless of the size of the senate. The Curia Julia, commissioned by Augustus, is noticeably smaller than more ancient structures, built more like palaces, and unlike its predecessor on Capitoline Hill, it stopped the following of a central location for the (imperial) seat of power and was placed in a more natural forum for the senate to convene. Places of worship, specifically synagogues, tended to have a similar design philosophy, if due to lack of resources and population.
    The US Capitol was also built on a swamp because the south is all swamp and southern governors wanted it in Virginia yet Northern governors wanted it in Pennsylvania so Congress put it right in the middle which happened to place it in a swamp no one else wanted; but it wasn’t originally meant to be a major population center; just a federal district. Yet DC’s planners never quite learned from a thousand and a half years of architecture. The only other possible cause of these mistakes is a cultural echo of esotericism mimicking the impractically grand scale of but a small period of the ancient world going back to the construction of the domed Capitol building. The White House has a smaller scale to it and its central location can’t be blamed on its original designers or any architect, really. It just generates more and more gravity despite its size staying roughly the same.
    The Pentagon sort of breaks the cycle. Arlington is rather out of the way and despite being the lone headquarters of our entire massive military (and already quite large for DC) the building is only as large as it needs to be to fulfill its purpose while holding personnel, including security, bureaucrats and general staff and has a mall with only the essentials to accommodate them. It’d be a hard building to downscale and modernize mainly due to all that’s packed into it being constantly active and needing constant sustenance (thus the mall). The underground sections highlight this. They prove the effectiveness of a balance of building upwards, outwards and downwards. Modern architecture should learn from it.

  • @PhilipMurphy8Extra
    @PhilipMurphy8Extra 2 ปีที่แล้ว +4

    Awesome video, So much history for sure.

  • @johndoe6011
    @johndoe6011 ปีที่แล้ว

    Very phallic video

  • @VX3LZ
    @VX3LZ ปีที่แล้ว

    This video was bomb.💀💀💀💀

  • @eyepixels5644
    @eyepixels5644 2 ปีที่แล้ว

    Amazing…. I love this channel

  • @kameronlyles7171
    @kameronlyles7171 2 ปีที่แล้ว +27

    Even though I was only a small child during the planning phases of the chicago spire. It still upsets me that the recession cost chicago the title of home to the country’s tallest skyscraper.
    One of my dreams once I become an architect is to help design and construct the nation’s largest skyscraper and place it back in chicago… where it belongs.
    No shade to the One World Trade Center and all those it honors 🙏🏾, but i dont like the cheat of the antenna being used to make it the tallest

    • @coolcat-nq4mj
      @coolcat-nq4mj 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      NOW A FUCKING TERRORIST COUNTRY HOLDS THE TITLE WTF

    • @rottensquid
      @rottensquid 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      Apparently, that's a grand old New York tradition. The builders of the empire state building did it too, so they could beat the Chrysler building's height.

    • @jalenthomas7210
      @jalenthomas7210 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      They could have called it the sphereamid

    • @ajgerbi
      @ajgerbi ปีที่แล้ว +1

      So you think vanity height is cheating? By that logic Shanghai tower should be the tallest skyscraper in the world instead of the Burj Khalifa since the Burj only has 684 m of usable height and Shanghai has 689 m of usable height. But that just wouldn’t make sense since the spire on the Burj Khalifa is much heigh than the vanity height on Shanghai tower. See how silly that is. It shouldn’t matter how well the architects hide their spires with vanity height, it’s not cheating. Also I doubt NYC will allow Chicago to take that title but fun goal 🙌

  • @jeffers.n
    @jeffers.n 2 ปีที่แล้ว +35

    The airport would’ve caused so much pollution from noise, light, and chemicals that Manhattan would’ve been a dead zone🦉😵‍💫

    • @A_name_is_a_name
      @A_name_is_a_name 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      9/11 wouldn’t have happened.

    • @Lv-nq9qz
      @Lv-nq9qz 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      They were trying to kill Manhattan all throughout the 20th century. The modernist architects and Robert Moses saw the city as a cesspool of tenement housing, narrow streets and pollution. They wanted to tear down the low rises and build 'tower in the park' style housing and office buildings. If Moses had had his way, Manhattan would have been an massive grid of supertalls and 6 lane highways.

    • @briannelson3830
      @briannelson3830 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      @@A_name_is_a_name it was a false flag so it would have happened regardless

    • @brentduanefoster
      @brentduanefoster ปีที่แล้ว

      Or, perhaps, the construction of NYC going forward would’ve been completely different. Guess we’ll never really know.

  • @Matix1715
    @Matix1715 2 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    The Illinois has a spire that goes up to 1739 meters tall.

  • @scott_thomasx
    @scott_thomasx 2 ปีที่แล้ว +4

    Perhaps these structures will one day be able to be experienced in VR

  • @_abelay
    @_abelay 2 ปีที่แล้ว

    Pretty interesting stuff

  • @juanmartinramallo6734
    @juanmartinramallo6734 2 ปีที่แล้ว

    Very good that all me gustan todos los vídeos muchas gracias che

  • @777Bviews
    @777Bviews ปีที่แล้ว

    Fun Fact: 1.Tigers have striped skin, not just striped fur.
    2. Most people fall asleep in 7 minutes.
    3. A cat has 32 muscles in each ear.
    4. Almonds are a member of the peach family.
    5. Cat urine glows under black-light.

  • @samuelmois690
    @samuelmois690 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    love it😀

  • @AeonStar1
    @AeonStar1 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    There was a German suggestion to dam the Straits of Gibraltar and turn the Mediterranean into land area. Top that for insane megaprojects!

  • @DanielWSonntag
    @DanielWSonntag 2 ปีที่แล้ว

    Cool. I never heard of these before

  • @SmartassX1
    @SmartassX1 2 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    That airport might have been a good idea. Saving a lot of space by having a sea port under it + lots of additional buildings inside it. It was just a stupid location for it. Maybe if they had built it something like a few miles out at sea and then had some kind of a road/railroad bridge connecting to it? Like maybe relocate it into that wider spot in the river, that seems to be only a couple of miles away from the proposed spot? Then there could have been bridges to the river banks on all sides and plenty of space for ships to pass on both sides.
    All of Petersburg (in Russia) was built on what was once a swamp.

  • @Aphrodave
    @Aphrodave 2 ปีที่แล้ว

    I like how quickly we brushed past atomic powered elevators.

  • @JoeBurgerCinematicUniverse
    @JoeBurgerCinematicUniverse 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    68 planes a minute, we were so close to glory

  • @Gnarlio
    @Gnarlio 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    That NYC airport woudlve been sick, I hate those $100+ ubers into the city from the other airports.

  • @asmith8947
    @asmith8947 ปีที่แล้ว

    Actually an elevated airport is a great idea. Very efficient use of all that real estate.

  • @greenghoul157
    @greenghoul157 ปีที่แล้ว

    The Illinois does look cool maybe one day we'll get something ridiculously tall like that

  • @abhishekmeena2074
    @abhishekmeena2074 2 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    Could you please make video about Indian Megaprojects future?

  • @d3ricc
    @d3ricc ปีที่แล้ว +1

    The Amazon Prime show The Man In The High Castle has a pretty good imagining of what the great hall was supposed to look like

  • @MrMrorzon
    @MrMrorzon 2 ปีที่แล้ว

    Fun that you mention Swedens Turning Torso.

  • @jans6252
    @jans6252 2 ปีที่แล้ว +25

    The Great Hall is simply my most desired project to have been built, just because of the sheer volume and atmosphere you‘d experience inside.
    Putting aside the nazi context and imagining it to be f.e the ultimate concert/ festival hall is just amazing, think about the acoustics resonating through the building and engulfing you 😮
    And on the other hand I’m german and I’d like to see some more structural engineering marvels and gigantic buildings in my country too :)
    Yeah, I’m a little gigantomaniac😬

    • @thedreamscripter4002
      @thedreamscripter4002 ปีที่แล้ว

      Check the Palace of Soviets project. It was no less grandiose and gigantic, but was fully constructable in reality, just very expensive one. Its construction even started, but was stopped because of WW2 and unfortunately never was continued.

  • @Abdulrasheed0001
    @Abdulrasheed0001 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Hi top luxury

  • @rawcoal1323
    @rawcoal1323 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    The chicago spire would have been great!

  • @JustWinJets
    @JustWinJets 2 ปีที่แล้ว +5

    Chicago Spire 😭

    • @mostluxury5075
      @mostluxury5075 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      Checkout amazing Megaproject and construction videos on my channel

    • @Ms666slayer
      @Ms666slayer 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      Good project with good utility that got killed by the recesion.

  • @avrinrose5457
    @avrinrose5457 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    In my fictional world, all this project is successful and already finished. All of this projects owned by fictional and made up people. In my fictional world, all of this project didn't have a bad things because of the latest technology

  • @RenataBurley-o4x
    @RenataBurley-o4x 11 หลายเดือนก่อน

    The man who proposed the New York airport definetly didn’t have a mind

  • @IKEMENOsakaman
    @IKEMENOsakaman 2 ปีที่แล้ว +15

    The Nazi dome looks super cool and dystopian! Glad we don't live in that world XD

  • @Gary_C
    @Gary_C 2 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    Since 1950 NYC population increased by 1 million and MSA increased another 5 million..... 70+ years and we still haven't done anything to ease congestion or make it easier to get to the airports

    • @mostluxury5075
      @mostluxury5075 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      Checkout amazing Megaproject and construction videos on my channel

  • @whyamiatree4177
    @whyamiatree4177 2 ปีที่แล้ว

    Today New Yorks Iconic Maga International Airport is an amazing feat of structural engineering but imagine what New York would be like without it.

  • @blckarts7161
    @blckarts7161 2 ปีที่แล้ว

    I liked the Isaac newton idea tbh out of all of them

  • @VashtiPerry
    @VashtiPerry ปีที่แล้ว

    I don’t know what makes people think we want to be in these big ole buildings

  • @owlypacks
    @owlypacks 2 ปีที่แล้ว

    Crazy

  • @ThrowSomePlates
    @ThrowSomePlates 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    3:51 That's not the Singer Building it's the Metropolitan Life Insurance Company Tower. The Singer Building is the one before it.

  • @joeewalker97
    @joeewalker97 2 ปีที่แล้ว

    Was waiting for a Sully reference

  • @blackJJseventeen
    @blackJJseventeen 2 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    I had to pause the video, because the idea of nuclear powered elevators was just too funny. But back then, this was the was people imagined the future I guess.

  • @namesurname7327
    @namesurname7327 2 ปีที่แล้ว

    That airport is dumb idea, but getting straightaway to the center of NYC after landing would be great

  • @BloodyKnives66
    @BloodyKnives66 2 ปีที่แล้ว +6

    You can see the Great Hall in the show "The man in the High Castle" in one of the second season episodes.

  • @apotheases
    @apotheases 2 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    In some alternative realities these buildings exist.

  • @stickynorth
    @stickynorth 2 ปีที่แล้ว +4

    I can only imagine had Germania been built it would have been some pretty awesome ruins where central Berlin is now... Thank goodness that never happened... And personally I think the East Berlin masterplan was cool enough... The Central TV tower... Palace of the Republic (RIP)... Classic modernist architecture!

    • @pohanabrokula2553
      @pohanabrokula2553 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Palace of republic has been rebuilt. You can see on internet. Pretty amazing

    • @trimlesscoasters
      @trimlesscoasters 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@pohanabrokula2553 umm… you mean the Schloss?!

    • @trimlesscoasters
      @trimlesscoasters 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@pohanabrokula2553 no it’s not been rebuilt

    • @Lv-nq9qz
      @Lv-nq9qz 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      The people's palace was awful. Then again, I saw it in 2007, when it was just a hulking ruin. The Schloss project is nicer, it restores some of Berlin's lost architecture and gave it a new purpose. If the palace hadn't been destroyed, it would probably have been renovated into it's current form anyway.

  • @AnixCo1990
    @AnixCo1990 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    I’m still hoping the Chicago Spire gets built eventually, perhaps build it twice as high. That way Chicago can be home to the tallest building in the world again.

  • @nakzum
    @nakzum 2 ปีที่แล้ว

    2:18 the houses have an amazing view

    • @stunningsathvik9712
      @stunningsathvik9712 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Would enjoy the view for a few days but would eventually get irritation by the planes sound pollution

  • @Legendary-zh9hd
    @Legendary-zh9hd 2 ปีที่แล้ว

    well that sphere building is being built in Las Vegas so thats kinda cool.

  • @CALLMEDOOKIE6
    @CALLMEDOOKIE6 2 ปีที่แล้ว

    I had a dream here that’s wild

    • @CALLMEDOOKIE6
      @CALLMEDOOKIE6 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      Like the red green diagram

  • @weckar
    @weckar 2 ปีที่แล้ว

    Atlantropa is easily my favorite.

  • @ukaszochojski8840
    @ukaszochojski8840 2 ปีที่แล้ว

    People in 1945: No more wars ! 2O22 flying cars and big ass projects from now on !
    People in 2022: No more wars ! 2050 flying cars and big ass projects from now on !

  • @somethinglame5472
    @somethinglame5472 2 ปีที่แล้ว

    Ngl 3 billion sounds great for that airport

  • @campbellrocksagain
    @campbellrocksagain 2 ปีที่แล้ว

    2 runways and electric planes would've been perfect

  • @mtvisionary
    @mtvisionary 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    I'm glad the nyc airport didn't get built. It would of been a nightmare

  • @Dreadnotus
    @Dreadnotus 2 ปีที่แล้ว

    The cenotaph 👌

  • @rolfdenver
    @rolfdenver 2 ปีที่แล้ว

    “Atomic powered elevators” 😂

  • @williamlouie569
    @williamlouie569 2 ปีที่แล้ว +5

    They had banned heliport in New York City because of several accidents. Imagine a plane crash with an airport in middle of Manhattan.

    • @AED10
      @AED10 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      We don't have to imagine

    • @Hotdogenthusiast
      @Hotdogenthusiast 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Imagine 2

  • @TheAviationYoutuber
    @TheAviationYoutuber 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    just a simple question: how do you make these type of video's