La Defense (new business district of Paris) is far enough from the Eiffel Tower. The perspective of the shot just made it look closer. You dont see it, if you are in the "old" Paris. ... ... I forgot: even La Defense is an attraction today because its not built like in the US. 😉
I think that we have an unexplicably close relationship with our old architecture. Even inside the country, every region loves their local castle and people are proud of it. I live near a fairytale-like castle that I can see from my window, it's the treasure of our valley and the local people keep visiting it very often. After 30+ years, I can't get enough of it, just walking around it every now and then or seeing it in the distance. It never stops amazing us. Some people are there every weekend. In 1950 the castle caught fire and people in the region ran away from work to look at it, crying and desperate, it was considered a huge tragedy. It took only one year to repair it thanks to the pressure of the people. The castle was already standing in the year 1111, so it is almost thousand years old and loved across the time and generations. It's crazy to think that your ancestors in year 1111 could see it too. People come and go, but the castle stays there. And the same goes for every region of Slovakia and their local architecture.
Im from the Netherlands and one ot the problems we have here with skyscraper is that they are just to expensive. The ground in and around rhe bigger cities are not strong enough to hold a skyscraper so you have to build not only up but also really deep down
Just wanted to let you know that I am a big fan of your channel and love listening to your thoughts about things... You are part of a very few people,I don't fe uncomfortable with at the beginning, which is very rare for me... Keep doing it in the way you did it the whole time Peace and love from Switzerland 🇨🇭 ✌️ P.S. 1st 😂🎉
You guys should check out the Architecture we have here in Manchester England. We’re not afraid of mixing old and new. Everything from black and white mediaeval buildings and Roman ruins to Incredible new buildings like The Imperial War Museum North which breaks all the architectural rules known or John Rylands Library which is like being in Hogwarts
The sky scrapers in London some how blend really well with the old architecture that runs between...clever designs and planning is everything...here On the Isle of Wight, buildings are not allowed to be built over a certain height as the island is predominantly allocated as an area of outstanding natural beauty (AONB) and so nothing must dominate the landscape...this applies to many other areas of the UK too....😊✌🇬🇧
Wasn't the skyscraper in London which was build like a lense? I think it reflected the sun so much, you could literrally cook on top of the parked cars there. I think they had to "dim" the windows because the whole street was cooking
The two skyscrapers named "vertical woods" are in Milan. A good example of how to build high rise with a different take. However, I wouldn't build skyscrapers in Rome or Florence city centers.
The reason for the "simplicity" of modern architecture lies in the Bauhaus movement of the 1920s, in which the main emphasis was on practicality. And that fit architecturally very, very well with American capitalism. By the way, as well as to Soviet post-Stalinism. Today, fortunately, people are once again beginning to build according to human needs.
I work in city of 1 million here in Sweden but I can’t imagine living in the big city like that…. I like what we call a “small town” area. Peaceful , yet only 40min away with train.
I think the video cut short a bit on the reason. The cities in the EU have to keep a line of sight from specific points where you could see the historic landmarks. Take Paris e.g. In the video you could see the skyscrapers on the other side of the Seinne. They are build there, because there weren't any defined "viewing points for the historic landmarks like the Eiffeltower. This limited the height of new buildings for the sightline in the older parts. The whole financial skyscraper district is called "La defense" (the defense). There is only one skyscraper in the old part of Paris, which, according to everyone who has seen this thing gives you the best view of Paris, because you can't see the skyscraper. It was build in the 70s (I think) and is ugly as f.... (look it up on Google Maps and you know what I mean). Other reason cities don't build skyscrapers. Berlin is literrally build atop of a swamp. Heavier buildings would just sink in time.
Yes. I was going to mention that. The skyscraper area of London ((Canary Wharf) is magnificent but doesn’t interfere with the historic centre or block any views.
If I understood correctly, you are of Mexican origin and your wife is of Egyptian origin, so it would be cool if you could react to Mexican and Egyptian culture in general and the differences between them and America.
i might be a little late, and not really any of my business, but the way u set up your camera, and where u have the screen u are looking at, is kinda perfect for the vid u are reacting to, to be shown in the middle buttom, as u both are looking that way... just have to angle the camera a little down, so your heads are at the top, and the vid have enough space to be there... then it will seem like u and the viewers are looking the same thing
If you built a skyscraper in the shape of a rifle - think nearly everyone in the world would think it was in the USA - that's your culture 🤣 Because - building it in the shape of a Big Mac would take up a real huge amount of land to be also labelled as a skyscraper 🤪
Having pearls like "La Grand Place" here in Brussels depicting 5 or so old styles of building is just such a jewel to still have around.(Gothic, Neo-Liberal, etc.) I'm not a fan of preserving EVERYTHING but at the same time to get rid of all of it is equally offensive to me. The only good potential about skycrapers to me is saving space and maybe through that lowering housing and renting prices. This is a positive. But at the same time the wealthy owns a lot of buildings and will never allow them to be used do lower housing prices anyway.
There have been many experiments to emulate old styles on new buildings. The results are mostly underwhelming, and some really nasty looking constructions came from it. Trying to be something you aren't (e.g. trying to be a building from the 17th century, when in fact, you are a building from the 21th century), creates impractical, high maintenance buildings, basically a disneyfication of construction. It's something, that could be fun for a day, but nothing to endure for the rest of your life.
Skyscrapers are not a bad thing as such, but most of us around the world don't want to live near them. I think Europe has the right attitude when it comes to skyscrapers, they build them in designated areas that are usually away from where people live and tend to be business centric, they also tend to be more unique with their designs compared to what we see in North America and Asia which tend to be bland and souless as the video puts it. In truth, there's not really many of us around the world that wants to live near them, they look ugly, especially in North America and Asia, they also block out a lot of the sun and scenery, which kinda makes those areas feel a lot more compact. We should also remember that skyscrapers in the early days were seen as a power symbol, something that the US wanted to prove to the world that it's a rising power and something Asia is doing now, it's something Europe never had to prove because it's had a long history of being a major power, it probably also explained why Europe is by far the number one spot when it comes to holiday tourist around the world, it's a safe region that has a mixture of old and new whereas a lot of the world are going mostly new, if you were someone going on holiday, you can easierlly see the appeal of Europe over the rest of the world.
I allways wonder why you guys dont move if you feel negative about the usa? Is it because of family that you have there or cultural differences between the US and other countries? Just a question from a west european :v
So tell me: what kind of capitalism is the one that buids larger and even larger domes and cupolas or longer and even longer tubes and tunnels? A capitalism that builds all of these, you'd call porn capitalism?
The USA is not an Island it's a continent, Why build sky scrapers for when you have so much land to build on? if you we're an island i would get it that you need to build sky scrapers. Like Japan for example. But America has a lot of land to build on and acomodate living space for a bigger population. Sky scrappers is to show off. Besides Sky scrappers are most likely to fall durring an earthquake or tornado. It dosen't make sense. But yeah :D
@@soundclipsforvideos2923 So you wanna tell me the USA is an Island? From what i know the USA shares land borded with Canada. And you tell me you not on a continent? Besides everyone knows the USA is a country but that dosen't mean you live on an Island, You are on a continent that connects the USA with Canada by land, But Okay Silly :)
What you call european architecture has it's origin in Europe but also in Anatolia Egypt and North west Africa. . The continent of Europé is one thing but the european culture is large and is all of North Africa Anatolia and levant. The Old Boston State house is hidden among skycrapers. It should be sourended by residential houses of equal size to the old Boston state house.
interesting video? Who did this ? and why? follow the money? Finland is a political mess imho now. we really do not need far right . So Mr Orpo what are u going to do ? ( Finnish citizen) Mayybe u will comment tomorrow?
Thanks for your reaction! You both are so awesome and cute..)! I live in Northern Europe 🇪🇺, a lot of historic buildings, plenty of space; no need for skyscrapers..)) ❤💯🙏🌺🌹😘
Its not that europeans is more concerned about our history.. its rather, there is more history to preserv! There is other topics to understand and that is property prices, one cant build a small building in New York city and make it profitable! And to Sweden.. oh so you want to build a skyskraper in our city.. nice, but you altso need to build roads, schools, shoping center, a subway, a library, kindergarten.. everything that those living there needs! Or you build your tower where the comunity anyway wanted to build and expand.. now the price for your lot have gone up a lot.. its in a development area! Some swedish skyskrapers; en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Karlatornet en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Norra_Tornen And our moste famous, where everyone involved get fired becuse high costs/nepotism/meglomania/putting Malmö on the map; en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Turning_Torso
La Defense (new business district of Paris) is far enough from the Eiffel Tower. The perspective of the shot just made it look closer. You dont see it, if you are in the "old" Paris. ... ... I forgot: even La Defense is an attraction today because its not built like in the US. 😉
I think that we have an unexplicably close relationship with our old architecture. Even inside the country, every region loves their local castle and people are proud of it. I live near a fairytale-like castle that I can see from my window, it's the treasure of our valley and the local people keep visiting it very often. After 30+ years, I can't get enough of it, just walking around it every now and then or seeing it in the distance. It never stops amazing us. Some people are there every weekend. In 1950 the castle caught fire and people in the region ran away from work to look at it, crying and desperate, it was considered a huge tragedy. It took only one year to repair it thanks to the pressure of the people. The castle was already standing in the year 1111, so it is almost thousand years old and loved across the time and generations. It's crazy to think that your ancestors in year 1111 could see it too. People come and go, but the castle stays there. And the same goes for every region of Slovakia and their local architecture.
Im from the Netherlands and one ot the problems we have here with skyscraper is that they are just to expensive. The ground in and around rhe bigger cities are not strong enough to hold a skyscraper so you have to build not only up but also really deep down
Just wanted to let you know that I am a big fan of your channel and love listening to your thoughts about things...
You are part of a very few people,I don't fe uncomfortable with at the beginning, which is very rare for me...
Keep doing it in the way you did it the whole time
Peace and love from Switzerland 🇨🇭
✌️
P.S. 1st 😂🎉
same from germany
Thanks for watching! Haha we appreciate the love 🙏🏻
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You're welcome 🙏
Luckily, it's possible to support you without doing anything...
Love it...😅
You guys should check out the Architecture we have here in Manchester England. We’re not afraid of mixing old and new. Everything from black and white mediaeval buildings and Roman ruins to Incredible new buildings like The Imperial War Museum North which breaks all the architectural rules known or John Rylands Library which is like being in Hogwarts
+1, that's why I watch them, they seem real & unpretentious 🥰
The Shard in London is spectacular. Look it up. It doesn't fight its surroundings.
The sky scrapers in London some how blend really well with the old architecture that runs between...clever designs and planning is everything...here On the Isle of Wight, buildings are not allowed to be built over a certain height as the island is predominantly allocated as an area of outstanding natural beauty (AONB) and so nothing must dominate the landscape...this applies to many other areas of the UK too....😊✌🇬🇧
Wasn't the skyscraper in London which was build like a lense? I think it reflected the sun so much, you could literrally cook on top of the parked cars there. I think they had to "dim" the windows because the whole street was cooking
@@Geheimkuenstler Cooked someones plastic muscle car......the males version of fake ti......
The two skyscrapers named "vertical woods" are in Milan. A good example of how to build high rise with a different take. However, I wouldn't build skyscrapers in Rome or Florence city centers.
The European high rises do look very interesting!
The reason for the "simplicity" of modern architecture lies in the Bauhaus movement of the 1920s, in which the main emphasis was on practicality. And that fit architecturally very, very well with American capitalism. By the way, as well as to Soviet post-Stalinism. Today, fortunately, people are once again beginning to build according to human needs.
I work in city of 1 million here in Sweden but I can’t imagine living in the big city like that…. I like what we call a “small town” area. Peaceful , yet only 40min away with train.
I think the video cut short a bit on the reason. The cities in the EU have to keep a line of sight from specific points where you could see the historic landmarks. Take Paris e.g. In the video you could see the skyscrapers on the other side of the Seinne. They are build there, because there weren't any defined "viewing points for the historic landmarks like the Eiffeltower. This limited the height of new buildings for the sightline in the older parts. The whole financial skyscraper district is called "La defense" (the defense).
There is only one skyscraper in the old part of Paris, which, according to everyone who has seen this thing gives you the best view of Paris, because you can't see the skyscraper.
It was build in the 70s (I think) and is ugly as f.... (look it up on Google Maps and you know what I mean).
Other reason cities don't build skyscrapers. Berlin is literrally build atop of a swamp. Heavier buildings would just sink in time.
Yes. I was going to mention that. The skyscraper area of London ((Canary Wharf) is magnificent but doesn’t interfere with the historic centre or block any views.
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Here in Denmark we have started to build a 20 levels high-rise...................in wood and old wind turbine wings.
La Defense is like 3.5 miles away from the Eiffel Tower.
The building in Warsaw you called cool is widely hated for its look amoung locals 😂
Not all skyscrapers are ugly. There are also very beautiful examples, both then and now.
If I understood correctly, you are of Mexican origin and your wife is of Egyptian origin, so it would be cool if you could react to Mexican and Egyptian culture in general and the differences between them and America.
2:24 I've been to that place, really nice, in Copenhagen
I is called Nyhavn
@@johanswede8200 i know
i might be a little late, and not really any of my business, but the way u set up your camera, and where u have the screen u are looking at, is kinda perfect for the vid u are reacting to, to be shown in the middle buttom, as u both are looking that way... just have to angle the camera a little down, so your heads are at the top, and the vid have enough space to be there... then it will seem like u and the viewers are looking the same thing
There is only one City with a skyline, that is Frankfurt, also called "Mainhattan"😂
If you built a skyscraper in the shape of a rifle - think nearly everyone in the world would think it was in the USA - that's your culture 🤣
Because - building it in the shape of a Big Mac would take up a real huge amount of land to be also labelled as a skyscraper 🤪
Having pearls like "La Grand Place" here in Brussels depicting 5 or so old styles of building is just such a jewel to still have around.(Gothic, Neo-Liberal, etc.)
I'm not a fan of preserving EVERYTHING but at the same time to get rid of all of it is equally offensive to me.
The only good potential about skycrapers to me is saving space and maybe through that lowering housing and renting prices. This is a positive.
But at the same time the wealthy owns a lot of buildings and will never allow them to be used do lower housing prices anyway.
Just one second in and hearing amazing things.
There have been many experiments to emulate old styles on new buildings. The results are mostly underwhelming, and some really nasty looking constructions came from it. Trying to be something you aren't (e.g. trying to be a building from the 17th century, when in fact, you are a building from the 21th century), creates impractical, high maintenance buildings, basically a disneyfication of construction. It's something, that could be fun for a day, but nothing to endure for the rest of your life.
Skyscrapers are not a bad thing as such, but most of us around the world don't want to live near them.
I think Europe has the right attitude when it comes to skyscrapers, they build them in designated areas that are usually away from where people live and tend to be business centric, they also tend to be more unique with their designs compared to what we see in North America and Asia which tend to be bland and souless as the video puts it.
In truth, there's not really many of us around the world that wants to live near them, they look ugly, especially in North America and Asia, they also block out a lot of the sun and scenery, which kinda makes those areas feel a lot more compact.
We should also remember that skyscrapers in the early days were seen as a power symbol, something that the US wanted to prove to the world that it's a rising power and something Asia is doing now, it's something Europe never had to prove because it's had a long history of being a major power, it probably also explained why Europe is by far the number one spot when it comes to holiday tourist around the world, it's a safe region that has a mixture of old and new whereas a lot of the world are going mostly new, if you were someone going on holiday, you can easierlly see the appeal of Europe over the rest of the world.
I allways wonder why you guys dont move if you feel negative about the usa? Is it because of family that you have there or cultural differences between the US and other countries? Just a question from a west european :v
she is a little tipsy, isn't she?😂
Macho capitalism (mine is longer and goes higher) may be a cause.
This is true
So tell me: what kind of capitalism is the one that buids larger and even larger domes and cupolas or longer and even longer tubes and tunnels?
A capitalism that builds all of these, you'd call porn capitalism?
@@rosshart9514 Yep.
i have no idea what a blog channel or whatever you said is. I am old so excuse me but I will ask my 10 yr old grandson to explain it to me.
0:00 prost Lynda.
The USA is not an Island it's a continent, Why build sky scrapers for when you have so much land to build on? if you we're an island i would get it that you need to build sky scrapers. Like Japan for example. But America has a lot of land to build on and acomodate living space for a bigger population. Sky scrappers is to show off. Besides Sky scrappers are most likely to fall durring an earthquake or tornado. It dosen't make sense. But yeah :D
the USA is a country, not a continent. Silly.
@@soundclipsforvideos2923 So you wanna tell me the USA is an Island? From what i know the USA shares land borded with Canada. And you tell me you not on a continent? Besides everyone knows the USA is a country but that dosen't mean you live on an Island, You are on a continent that connects the USA with Canada by land, But Okay Silly :)
The US isn't an island...I didn't say it was an island, YOU did.
The US is a country in the continent of North America. @@Alexandru0687
No, its a country on the continent of North America. I said nothing about it being an island @@Alexandru0687
What you call european architecture has it's origin in Europe but also in Anatolia Egypt and North west Africa. .
The continent of Europé is one thing but the european culture is large and is all of North Africa Anatolia and levant.
The Old Boston State house is hidden among skycrapers. It should be sourended by residential houses of equal size to the old Boston state house.
Don't glorify Europe too much. It's not what it used to be and it's not getting better.
interesting video? Who did this ? and why? follow the money? Finland is a political mess imho now. we really do not need far right . So Mr Orpo what are u going to do ? ( Finnish citizen) Mayybe u will comment tomorrow?
Thanks for your reaction! You both are so awesome and cute..)! I live in Northern Europe 🇪🇺, a lot of historic buildings, plenty of space; no need for skyscrapers..)) ❤💯🙏🌺🌹😘
Its not that europeans is more concerned about our history.. its rather, there is more history to preserv!
There is other topics to understand and that is property prices, one cant build a small building in New York city and make it profitable!
And to Sweden.. oh so you want to build a skyskraper in our city.. nice, but you altso need to build roads, schools, shoping center, a subway, a library, kindergarten.. everything that those living there needs!
Or you build your tower where the comunity anyway wanted to build and expand.. now the price for your lot have gone up a lot.. its in a development area!
Some swedish skyskrapers;
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Karlatornet
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Norra_Tornen
And our moste famous, where everyone involved get fired becuse high costs/nepotism/meglomania/putting Malmö on the map;
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Turning_Torso