The Problem With Hyper Real Renders
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- We’re firmly in the age of photorealistic renders - but how accurate are these images when compared with their final reality? For more by The B1M subscribe now - ow.ly/GxW7y
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When there are blue skies in London... That's when you know it's a render
LMAO
Haha - it is sunny here sometimes!
Today I would've thought we were in the Middle East it was so hot 😥
@@TheB1M How many days in "sometimes?" It is measured in days, right? Not months or any long term like that. Although global warming is changing that, isn't it.
😃 never thought of that. Lol
Ah, so basically clickbait in architecture?
More like that type of photoshopping you tend to find in ads for make-up.
🤘🤘🤘🤘
Nailed it!
All Revolutionary architecture is clickbait.
And makeup on women
A architects dream is a engineer's nightmare
Well said
Well the renderer's dream is the engineer's horror too
@@ohasis8331 He was a physicist, what was he supposed to tell them?
@@DirectorBird Indeed I would listen to a former physicist on a topic about physical impossibilities. The other people seem close minded.
@@zntei2374 I'd say they were egotistical. The biggest issue with modern "architects".
The lighting indoors in about every render makes it seem as if every room and even the outdoors are a lighting store lol
I watched another video about rendering in Blender where the person described how render programs often lack wide dynamic range (the difference between the brightest and the darkest part of an image) which creates those harsh lighting effects.
@RAYfighter wow that's a lot of arguments cough*
@@MJBold_1 this isn't correct. Most arch viz renders are created from either the vray or corona rendering softwares, which both have a huge amount of dynamic range
@@rockingheadbangers only saying what I saw in a particular video. I've not used any of those softwares myself so likely that person had things badly set up.
@@MJBold_1 It's flat out wrong... as in outdated. This used to be the case before Blender had the ''filmic'' option, which adds the extra dynamic range steps. Used to be an addon iirc. It is now the default in Blender and has been since version 2.79 which released in September 2017.
Fake renders Starter Pack:
- Distort perspective with ultrawide lens
- Fill every space possible with beautiful trees and flowers
- Use dramatic sunset lighting
- Put white blonde girls and kids on skateboards in the area.
Reality: Concrete monster building surrounded by pollution and traffic jams
Put like a 1000 people in one image
that's because the goals of renders is to make the best possible scenario for the building. 9 times out of 10, those "best case" scenarios never end up happening, either because of budget concerns or practicality. I could say that in the future I will become a billionare and win the nobel prize. Obviously, neither of those things are likely to happen for me, but that's just the best case scenario. Same for this.
And the Michael bay inspired lens flares
Lense flair and chromatic abberaation to 1.0
Lmfao that is true.. When I look at some of the renders of projects in my country Philippines, the people in the background and foreground were white people.
cat fished by a skyscraper! pff what's this world coming to
clivepereira123 Girls be like: he said he’s 600ft. tall but he’s only like 589ft. Ew..
@@phoenix5054 ping an finance center : i'm a megatall
girls : eww he's only 599m
That 200m antenna at the top doesn't count IMO.
haha
We truly live in a society!!
Next thing you know people will notice their hamburgers don't look like the ones in the commercials.
Yeah, but architecture often lasts for 50 years, while a hamburger might last 5 minutes.
only if you get your burger from a multinational that needs to advertise
😂😂
@@sailikatakdhond790 the cost of making 1 skyscraper is a lot more expensive than a million of hamburgers
Honestly I feel like the burger is closer to reality than some of these renders
As someone who is a Landscape Architect who spends his day making these renders, great video on a very serious topic. Some companies take it to the point of criminal false advertisement deleting near buildings so you don't see there's a building blocking your view or removing "Unsightly areas"
This is so true but I kinda see their point tho lol. Probably because the saturation of the surrounding buildings may accidentally overshadowed the building project
@@obidean3964 But it also misrepresents the finished product.
The architect would not be required to put in surrounding buildings unless asked to. Ommiting them is not criminal. Has an architect or firm ever faced charges for anything?
Wolfvale 1965 something might not sit right morally but not be necessary illegal, it’s still misleading and not transparent
I have even seen that developers in renders artificially move city landmarks closer to the project.
Thank you for bringing this to light. My viewers always think the renders I use are the real skyscraper. The background and sky are usually easy give-aways.
Photoshop or gow to bring ib the other building
“People appearing in renders” - Used to see this all the time in renderings for Houston Texas, downtown Houston is notoriously bare thanks to the underground tunnel system and lack of downtown apartments (meaning no ones around after 5pm of on weekends) but every single new building rendering was always packed with shoulder to shoulder people.... as I’d this was the magic building that would turn the downtown into a popular hang out destination for tourists and Houstonians
I wonder if the pandemic will have an effect on that rendering trend, making overly crowded places look even less believable.
Yeah it might work on mixed use developments.
@@lonestarr1490 Ah yes I need to see this one rendered with everyone in masks. And could you put a palette of toilet paper in view to show the wealth of the people.
I used to work in the Chase Tower and I attest to this.
The Sly Fox - The renderings in Houston also suck because the creative talent in Houston sucks (they’re driven out by hyper-conservative tendencies, who hate change with a NIMBY-ism attitude on par with the best of ‘em; but love their beer, red meat, football, oil money and bureaucratic office jobs). I can speak to that because I lived in ‘H-Town’ for 22 years.
As a facade engineer myself, I couldn't agree more on this topic. Great Work.
This is partly why I love it when renders have rain or (realistic) clouds, especially in the UK.
I've always taken issue with weird people choices in renders, but never noticed the "green washing" before.
Nice to see a video looking at these things!
aren't UK clouds just... gray all over all the time
Just to remind everyone that there is more rainfall than in the UK in much of the world. (Even some of the USA and Australia.)
The newest residencial towers in madrid have a lot of greenwashing
Hmm, funny how they always exclude the various homeless people huddled out of the cold...
You call them hyper real renders, I call them building pr0n.
what is a pron
semi-atomic he means porn
Is the B1M family friendly for hearting this?
@@hamad-pz3rp Trying not to get my comments deleted. :P Now to go salivate over renderings on tallest building under construction lists on Wikipedia.
semi-atomic it’s similar to Lebanese pron but with guys included
Instagram: has lots of filters and filter apps to distort people’s selfies.
Architects: “Do those filters work on buildings?”
Always has been.
The other thing is that many renders and buildings themselves are designed to be instagrammable so they gain popularity.
Bruhh Canberra gets a mention on the b1m never thought I’d see the day
And those towers really do look NOTHING like the renders so far in real life lol
@@PainfullyMintE Who puts the con in Geocon?
Is the city any nice? While I haven't been to Australia, I got to visit Brasilia which is also a designed city and it's ugly and soulless, I wonder if it's the same there
As opposed to Melbourne which gets plenty of mentions and views.
*b1m
Well, that's kind of like "concept cars" on auto shows...
Except some of those they actually build. The cars often look better than the renders. imo
Yeah, some initial concept cars would be awesome to drive... in GTA V. The reality is often that car actually looks ridiculous in the flesh so designers tone it down a bit. Plus road-legal specifications often alter the final result.
@@flavoursofsound not anymore...cars have officially lost their charm for me. No future car/ heist game will ever make me really want to play it. I gave up after the 90s but officially lost hope after seeing the new bus designs where you don't drive....
there's different concept cars with different intentions. Some are close to production, some are there to introduce a new design language for the brand, some are cars they would like to sell but need to find out whether people would want it, some are far-fetched ideas for the future. So different intentions lead to different-looking cars that can be more or less close to the reality. :) But yeah, most images from new cars are renders, few use photography. Like that no one is likely to catch it in flesh and leak pictures before you reveal it :)
A bit off topic but the lighting in renders always looks so wrong
So wrong yet so comfy
As far as I understand, lighting is almost always the hardest part of any render or even a real-life cinematography as well. I guess people's eyes depend on lighting to determine the shape of the objects and things like that and are just insanely good at spotting any inconsistencies. The same applies to recognition of human faces and is the reason why there are so few animated films that even try to portray humans in a realistic (non-cartoony) manner.
@@YuriyNasretdinov
People often use shaders to provide lighting and shadows, which is evident in certain games as well
Ray-tracing: Allow us to introduce ourselves.
It's surprising how much realism you can achieve by just that. Check out the Minecraft Ray tracing videos. Truly fascinating stuff
@@YuriyNasretdinov lighting is easy in Blender 2.8+
because it's not "hyper real" renders in all those examples. It's just poor models and lighting for artistic showcase and illustrations for PR.
Hyper Renders are building shaming! They don't show the realistic bodies of real buildings!
Ugly buildings should be shamed..
@@unfurling3129 SHAMED
LOL
unfurling I tell one building it’s dummy thicc and I am the bad guy? Come on, look at that foundation!!!
mmsL125 You clearly the one who spend too much time on looking at foundation then the real thing.
I really am annoyed when a brochure/website/video shows a rendered building without the surrounding area it is placed in, or coincidentally omits ugly or near standing buildings. I suppose these sale tactics work, but I find them sleazy and underhanded.
That's not the meaning of sleazy
There is a new building in front of our building, and as its shown our building is now a tree and there apperently is a perfect road running trough, not to mention the sky oh my
@@HELLO7657 3d scans or 2d skybox image?
@@rey4874 A 2D skybox image...for a building next to the one you're rendering???
@@somdudewillson true
They never show dust, smog, dirt in these.
Just like the old renderings of futuristic elevated highways, encircling city skyscrapers.
@@JohnnyAngel8 Highways through cities was a massive mistake. Basically, everything done with urban planning in the 1950s and 60s was a mistake.
@@bindukopparapu2795 Agree.
Or weathered materials.
I'm sure adding particulates to the render will help during the planning and consulting phase of the project lol
It’s interesting how some renders seem almost completely transparent, as if the windows used ultra thin glass that light can easily pass through, while the reality is the building looks more “solid” and less ethereal
This should be titled "The Problem with Marketing."
As an Arch vis artist, I cannot stress enough how many of the issues you raise come from direct requests from developers or the architects themselves. Especially the people comments and the greenery. You also missed a massive point. Which is that these renders are usually completed at the beginning of a project, well before cost engineering changes them completely.
Funny enough, there's one particular developer in my City that now has a reputation for seriously under-delivering on its "promised" design/render.
Yeah. He missed a lot of points in this video, but I guess that'd need a dedicated video for archviz.
I don’t think anyone’s blaming the visual artists, but the developers themselves. Promising something and not delivering in the end.
A render is what makes or breaks a building. If it's unrealistic, it will desapoint. If it's too lackluster, it won't even be build.
Good video as always 👌
The new Munch museum in Oslo is a great example of this. It looks like a huge crash barrier.
Olav M. Lol
Not a good example imo, the renderings look just as dull as the finished product
@@narcis3720 Bad from the beginning until the finished product. LOL.
The renders showed all glass but the actual building is the ugliest kind of concrete.
Jeez, some of these renderings are starting to look like scenes of Coruscant from Star Wars!
Bravo, B1M! The Best of the 'Net!
Can’t forget to hold the developer accountable, many times it’s not the architects fault, but rather the owner cutting costs as projects go over budget.
If the architect has dreamt up something that isn't possible on a reasonable budget, are they not also at fault of incompetence?
@@nicolaim4275 didnt you read? people sometimes get excited and say yes to everything even when they know the price will be high, just to step back in the middle of the project
@@rennycepeda6576 Didn't read what? OP wrote three lines and I gave a counterpoint. I didn't disagree that developers should be held accountable, but rather felt that _both_ developers and architects are selling dreams over reality.
Like in every advertising campaign, we must tell everyone is "an artist impression", we are trying to sell a product, but ultimately must face the real challenges of our design. Great work as usual, you are becoming an standard for construction/architecture videos
Once more, your videos are on an BBC documentary level...
Just amazing, you are increasing the standard on TH-cam dramatically.
love your channel, I have been a subscriber since you had 300.000 subs!
Thank you so much!!!
@@TheB1M thank you !!!
I've been a subbie since 37k.. Definitely great quality then even..
Legislation should be implemented to avoid huge exaggeration, the same way publicity is regulated
That would be great.
Agree, but hard to do.
While that would be nice, I hardly consider it neccessary. There are a million other things more in need of regulation than renders almost noone will see.
Not everything you don‘t like should be regulated by government. Besides, you are not even a 'victim' of these hyper realistic renders or exaggerations. If you have a problem with an architecht bureau because they exaggerate, go to another one or tell them to do it how you want it, you would be the client paying for it, so you could demand the render be more accurate to reality
Need to have actual measurements of exaggeration otherwise it is subjective. Would be impossible to convict.
This is really neat to see. And it is truly incredible to see is it how far rendering and raytracing technologies have come.
2:08, reality looks better
Then again the photo is enhanced like crazy as well so not exactly real
My school of architecture I attend harps greatly on this subject. There is a threshold indeed! Premature steps should be recognized throughout the design process no matter how many iterations are needed. I look forward to the next B1M ❤️
"People complain that there is not enough diversity or there is too much forced diversity."
That little bit was so underrated, the thing I love about this channel is that it never pushes an agenda beyond the love of construction feats and just states facts!
Yes that comment was funny. You can't win these days!
@@Tom_Hadler as a black guy in love w/architecture i have often thought where are the black n brown folks in renderings.
Are they selling people or buildings?
@@whatisbow2865 A pertinent question, buildings are nothing without people.
This never occurred to me and I'm really happy that the B1M did a video on this. I love it when plans for skyscrapers are proposed no matter the city but I think we should all keep rendering images in mind and its stark differences to the reality. Great video B1M
Honestly a pleasure watching your videos . They are so well thought out. I really would love a breakdown of your process.
When he said "In the 2020s" I started to feel old
Yeah crazy to believe we’re in the 2020s three decades ago people would’ve never thought we’d get here and here we are
It is a shame when false hyper real rendering is used, the sun doesn’t stay half set all day and night to allow buildings windows to shine brighter than the North Star, creating a constant picturesque moment! We see these renders with such planned projects as that in Cairo’s New City development (I cannot judge this city yet as it still under construction however). I do still put a lot of faith in many hyper render images however!
"Render is not reality" someone should tell the investors of Nikola trucks.
whats a nikola truck, do you mean tesla truck, or is this something else ive never heard of?
Lmao POLYGON PICKUP BABY WOOHOO
@@nickgrant2940 ah, ok
Socks VR It’s not referring to Tesla. It’s referring to Nikola, a Tesla competitor that has been hyped up by investors
what if i say your sense of reality is a render by your brain? :D
so if a render is not reality, what is reality?
I swear these videos are way too short. Every time I start getting into it, it ends.
As an architecture student I really appreciate this video. Thanks!
Archviz is the term within the industry. I had never thought about the green-fakery being used in this way. Great video.
This is the best and most complete video you have posted in months. Welcome back.
Another absolutely top notch video B1M! I'm an architect in California and love your productions.
Yes this is an excellent topic. You can see how this occurs in automobile concepts, when the final product looks nothing like its renderings. So we need to keep in mind when designing new bldgs., are we really able to build it and will it be practical.
The Music is amazing!, Never Bores Me
it just feels so good once your building is complete and standing.....
whenever you pass by it , it feel proud and good
Your channel is growing like crazy as it really needs to be....
1 Mil to 1.3 Mil subs in 2 weeks!!!!!
they showed us renders of the construction behind ours that looked fine.
but now they're build and we have a lot less privacy and sunlight than expected... so this hits home. ty!
Perfect video as always. Good job.
Thank you 🙌🙌
Many of my professors prefer a good collage than something super hyper realistic (also it's not very common to see it either), but sometimes it is necessary to convey the ideal of space, materials or sensations with a simple and clean render maybe by hand or collage works perfectly. Not always a photograph of what it would be literally is the right way to go, at least during arch school. Sometime hyper realistic renders take away the potential to imagine "all the possibilities of what could be"
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Always love your work in these videos. A suggestion perhaps..The Serpentine Gallery Pavillion.
Perhaps following the process of making a one off pavillion a reality and how BIM perhaps assists in stream lining the design work-flow of the project and how the projects supply-chain was impacted by B1M in its construction/fabrication
B1M : The Problem With Hyper Real Render
Me : The Problem Rendering With My Potato PC when Rendering Image & Video Spent Half A Day
I had to render an animation for an upcoming video and it literally took about 15 hrs for a 5 sec video 😓
Rio de Janeiro's Museu do Amanhã looks like a render even in real life.
Love that you finished on Melbourne
Awesome video! Can you make another video on hyperloop? It’s actually coming through
Antwerp Port Building ruined by that eye sore built on top of it
Could you do more videos on 'buildings that made India' only for different countries. I found that video esspesliy interesting
Your video quality is really nice! especially the music!
Great video as always, been a problem I’ve been noticing as well so really glad you touched on it.
I notice this especially bad in middle eastern projects. Every render shows a lush green jungle around the building.
Reality: Sand, sand, and more sand
3:48 “Painful diversity box-ticking.” WOW, I’ve never heard that one before, but have literally been seeing it going on everywhere.
In short it's called forced diversity
Totally true in communities without diversity but hey when you find a person with the perfect posture what can you do haha
BIM, this is a strict educational perfect video. I wish that your channel gets this spirit from now on. This educate two individuals. The architects/engineers and the clients.
Well done.
Love The B1M!! However I would love to see some buildings or projects that look nothing like the renders. Keep up the great content!!
We have had quite a few shocks from that in Norway, some really hideous buildings are left as a result.
It’s awful. I’m sure more buildings will follow.
All modernist buildings are horrific. That's why people go on vacation to "picturesque" towns (that is places with buildings not newer than World War II), so they don't have to see the things.
@@marlonbryanmunoznunez3179 Covid Around the Coast.
@@MrKnutriis This year sure, because we're all living in Hell, but every other year actually quite pleasant.
@@marlonbryanmunoznunez3179 I don't think all of them are horrible, Zaha Hadid as an example has made some truly stunning modern buildings. But sadly most do not reach her level.
4:30 a render is never reality, no matter how close it looks.
WOW, conclusion of the whole video with 1 line.
True.
Stating the obvious.
First time I'm hearing about the Namdaemun Tower! Gonna have to go check it out.
A fascinating video about a really interest and important aspect of construction and architecture. Really well explained and discussed, nicely done!
Who in here is a 3d artist. . . I'm a lighting and shadow excerpt. . .for me this is not hyperreality
What would you consider to be hyper realistic?
@@rally5005 I wish I can explain it . . . Have you ever seen a building and taught wow nice 3D model. . .
@@ShazmilNassar yes I have. So what you're saying is that hyper realistism is when you can't tell the different between CGI and reality?
"Hyperreality" is such a normie clickbait term. In archviz these are just called marketing images.
Im obsessed with analyzing renders to find what is making them more/ less believable. I too was looking at these renders presented like. 😏🤓 props for you for being a lighting and shadow expert. This area of archvis is currently my weakness.
This feels like a gap filler video to feed the algorithm
I honestly think that addressing the problems plaguing the construction industry of this last decade is a fascinating topic, and one we actually need to acknowledge and address if we want future construction to be useful, successful, sustainable, culturally sensible and affordable.
I’ve noticed this a lot in residential real estate here in Melbourne. So many new builds show interior shots with unrealistically small furniture to make rooms look huge, when in reality, that 4 seat sofa in the living room render would be a 2 seat at absolute maximum. Also, outright lying about surrounding areas - a row of townhouses was built next door to me and the render from inside the kitchen showed a large window with a leafy green park across the road, when in reality all you could see out that window was an old brick factory less than 10m away and the freeway running overhead.
my retired grand dad once came upto me and said"hey look, this is the building of the future(pointing to an image on his phone)" It broke my heart to tell him that "granddad, that is an edit". i could see the excitement fade away from his eyes.
"Lack of diversity or painful diversity box ticking"
If I wasn't in 2020, I'd think this is a parody.
How about leave pesky humans out of... RENDERS?
This line is as dense as it can get.
Mostly it’s because everyone uses the same free cutout people made in a Eastern European country.
buildings made for... people having renders with... people in them? blasphemy
@@user-hy6cp6xp9f People doing long exposures in the city to remove pedestrians because photos look better without them? Must be sacrilege.
@@diatomsaus there are many ways to take a photo or render of a place. But if you are designing a building meant for people to occupy, and trying to sell it, it helps to show how the space is being used. I wasnt saying every photo of architecture needs people in it.
Come on, it's easy to tell that all these buildings are renders, even to the untrained eye.
A video I’ve always wanted!!! Keep it up B1M!!!
I love rendering of building projects... pleaseeeeeee B1M keep this stuff coming along with all the other beautiful projects you produce
This presentation consistently makes the following error. The word "render" is not a noun. It is a verb. Use "rendering" instead.
en.wiktionary.org/wiki/render#Noun
Why don't you just say: "it encourages Liars to lie even more!"
Why is every B1M video clear.....I mean
Very very clear❤👌
Great channel
*"A render isn't reality, no matter how close it looks"*
yOuR rEnDeR hAs A lAcK oF dIvErSiTy
Wow imagine being that person
Being critical about your own sector of activity is a very healthy thing indeed.
This video has take my respect for this channel to the next level. I think most architectural or building related publications fail to call out some of the bad habits us professionals continue to promote.
Thanks - we were pretty nervous about it! 😬
The problem is not renders, it's why some ugly buildings are approved for money. Just look at London's skyline, it's been butchered with monstrosities like the Walkie Talkie. Or New York new toothpick skyscrapers.
The diversity of people in architectural renders... That must be the single most idiotic comment that any one has made... Like ofc you would put people from the region that you are making the building at, but bringing the quality of the architecture to question because of some random and unconnected thing is really stupid...
👍🏿
These morons are driving me nuts yo!
Yes, so true. Same with Disney putting in an extremely diverse cast in movies about mediveal European fairy tales.. But I guess if you design a building for a city in Norway, you are racist if you don't put in extremely diverse CGI people ..
I guess shooting in the construction field is the theme. Very good.
I hope you will continue to do great/unchangeable activities. ^O^
It’s great to see comments about this channel not on about how much they wait all their lives for a new video. Now that we’re passed that, brilliant channel guys.
I’m not first :(
First
What an interesting show! B1M always has a new take on things.
Found this really interesting and would love to see a more enhanced look at this topic. Also, was @2:31 the Birmingham city library? Thanks
It is the library!
Oh my god you included Melbourne Aurora! I asked about that render a few months back and yah, so much more beautiful than the actual building!!
When B1M uploads, I even don't flush and come here instantly.
They did it AGAIN! They showed my beloved Milan at 3:14! That's the giardini verticali towers btw and they're one of the best things to look at in Italy's best city
For Love or Money 1993 movie with Michael J Fox has a form of rendering of a hotel he wanted to build which consisted of a design on a see through piece of glass so the viewer could see what the hotel would look like by looking through it towards the property. I loved that scene and thought of it when watching your excellent video.
please do a video on the significance of buildings and architecture in movies like natural distasters or history!!
As someone who renders full time- at the end of the day, the purpose of rendering is to sell. It needs to be sexy to bring in the $$$. We would fake the lighting, the people, the lens to make the image "pop". Most of the time we know the image looks off internally, but often times the client (the architect/designer) may request to emphasize certain parts.
Unique episode, and a good reality check! Thanks B1M o/
Living here in Toronto, a city who’s skyline changes weekly, I completely agree with what you’re saying. I am often on a website called urban toronto.ca, which shows all buildings proposed, under construction, or built, and that’s one thing I’ve noticed a lot. Between the proposed stage and the completed stage something changes and often, The finished product looks much different than the proposal, and not in a good way. The one thing I’ve noticed at least here in Toronto, when a proposal is put forth, they draw the building in question, but completely neglect to incorporate all the buildings that will be around it, so that when it’s built, you can’t even see half of the building. I would almost go as far as calling at false advertising, because instead of showing us how it’s going to look blending in with all the buildings surrounding it, we’re only showing what the building would look like if there was nothing else around it, plus the aforementioned tricks that you mentioned, resulting in a building that’s very different looking than what was proposed originally. Several of my friends have purchased units in these new buildings that are going up so fast that it’s almost unbelievable, tell me that when they move into the building it looks nothing like the pictures that they were shown, but unfortunately, the laws here regarding real estate is buyer beware, once you sign that document, you don’t necessarily get what you pay for, but you pay for whatever you get, even if it isn’t what you expected, which is often the case in today’s market. All I can tell you is, before buying anything, visit the exact site where the building is going to go up, so you’ll know if your view is going to be completely blocked by another building right beside it that isn’t shown in the renderings, as is so often the case in Toronto were population density is constantly increasing. By the waterfront of the city, which is now called the self core, dozens a skyscrapers have been built, almost all condominiums, a friend of mine bought one, but neglected to actually go to the site, so when he moved in, he was shocked to see that there were buildings on both sides of his new condominium blocking his view completely. I even told him when he eat about buying there, to go have a look at the neighbourhood first, but he was so ignorant, telling you because he was moving to the 70th floor, it would be impossible for his view to be blocked, how wrong he was, the south core consists of several incredibly tall condominiums, all of which are over 200 m, the tallest, Once finished is going to be a super tall, At 312 m tall I believe, and 98 stories. So just a word of advice to any potential buyers out there, never ever purchase a unit based solely on what you can see from the renderings, before you sign anything or give any money over, go to the site the building is going to be constructed on, look for how tall the neighbouring buildings are how close they are and if there’s any proper infrastructure, like hospitals, schools, shopping malls, public transit, etc. There’s been A lot of architectural disasters built here in the last 10 years, especially the new ones by the waterfront. Almost every week you hear about panes of glass falling from windows in balconies, often from 45 all the way up to 70 floors high. There’s actually a great documentary on TH-cam, done by the CBC, just google CBC condo scandal documentary, it’s a bit long but worth the watch, and applicable not just to Toronto, but to all major world cities. You’ll be shocked at what you see. People buying a condominium before the building has even begun construction, moving into the units they purchased that look nothing like what they were promised, and built with the cheapest materials imaginable that are already falling apart, less than a few years after moving in. They even moved major facilities in the building like the gym, the pool, party rooms, and things like that. The friend that I mentioned who has no view, also was told the pool would be on the rooftop, but after all the units were sold, for whatever reason they changed the plans and put the pool in the basement, which is a despicable thing to do because a lot of people purchased in that building thinking they would go up to the roof, enjoy the incredible view and go swimming, not go down to the basement where there’s no windows at all. Anyways, enough said, I trust my point is clear, thanks for the video as always, you raised a very good point this time, so I repeat, buyer beware, and make sure you know the real estate laws of your city/area before you buy, so if you want to back out due to conflicts like the ones mentioned above you can without losing your down payment as has happened several times in Toronto.