Great mixed use building. Detroit is looking like it will revitalize into one of the most livable cities in the US in the coming decades. Especially as water shortages in the south west force migrations to the more water rich areas of the country.
@@paulsawczyc5019 And all the local crooked politicians and their buddies line their pockets with the cash. Detroit is a cesspool just like what was shown in Robocop.
That is the coolest thing since “TTG highrise” (TH-cam search it) the Russian mission video from the 1970’s. I learned about this in 2014 but the company I worked for are followers instead of leaders in the industry and were to afraid to try something new. Too bad for them, good for you!!! Best of luck to you all!!! Jim
It’s great to hear all the positive comments from the skilled, UNION, construction trades actually working on the project. The construction industry has to do something to make up for the shortage of people who want to work in construction. Modern life is only possible because of skilled craftsmen who are out there actually building and maintaining the structures needed for everyone else to do their jobs.
Ship Mexican to Detroit. It’s just blacks don’t work all they wanna do it sports and entertainment. How do u starve a black man hide his ebt card in his work boot
I think it's the maintaining that scares people off - building something that works is vastly different from being repeatedly called back to repair-respond to 'behavior' and watching points getting shaved off of good work. Really good work, out of the weather and fast!
That is brilliant! I would not have thought of component building an entire floor, but why not? The savings (!!!) makes it worth a look. Export this a lot!
Detroit back in the spotlight again for something positive...and with the Lions about to win the Super Bowl, Detroit is reinventing itself!. in a few years Detroit is going to be how it was in the 80s...full of life and prosperity!
@@seanwhatshisname1831they take the bottom two sections apart then slide the elevator out for repair then back in. Then slide the building back in place like a, “ Lego “! 🫤😐
I watched an Extreme Engineering of Sky City 1000 in 2013 when I was 11 years old. There was a building that was being built in Japan using robots and this building was built in the 1990s through barcode scanning on of the concrete sections without a human worker in sight. It was the Big Canopy. Also top down construction is nothing new a skyscraper that was built in the 1960s in Madrid was built using that style of technique.
The top down building with 'train cars' of parts could also do building on the moon. The robots could get started as soon as in position. An Orion heat shield 'pop out' system could rapidly deploy a contained atmosphere in space.
They said this is a 16 story building, I think this type of construction would be limited by the height of the building. I've worked construction on buildings as high as 55 and 60 stories. I don't believe this type of construction would work there because of the amount of weight that would be at the top of the building. You don't want top heavy construction before the base is there for support.
That could be dealt with by tapering the pillars. Thicker at bottom and thinner up top. Lessening the square footage and structure the higgher you go and growing the lower you go. It could still be implemented in higher construction but would have to change design a bit more.. even along the line of suspension bridge maybe?, Attached at the top coming down or like a prism/diamond from top and from bottom
@@J1WE but lessoning the square footage of higher floors don't seem like it would be worth using this system. Those higher floors and penthouse units are where they make a substantial amount of their money back.
Not true! Check out the Rainier Building in Seattle for example. It’s skinny at the bottom. One of the most earthquake resistant buildings in the city.
For those complaining about "the windows not lining up"... Look at pictures of architecture in Rotterdam, the Netherlands, one of the great cities in the world for modern architecture. Asymmetrical windows are common.
Americans don't know that other countries have modern architecture . They think Africans live in huts, Asians live in sheds and they think Europeans live in old cathedral looking buildings
How do you build the core ?still got to lay the foundation, pour day be more difficult to me it's more dangerous taking work from the concrete carpenters from what I see.
When it comes to what drives up the cost of most housing in cities, which is a lack of housing due to how expensive it is to build new developments (supply/demand), in theory a system like this, which is supposed to make construction more efficient and potentially cheaper (and therefore more desirable for developers), over time could lower the cost for "consumers." Will that actually be the case? who knows, but at least it's a promising idea.
Just to clarify something. This is far from innovation, there is a building finished in 1987 - KNSB building in Sofia, Bulgaria, built in same technique. I also guess KNSB building is not the first one built in this way
It's not so groundbreaking because the shear walls will have to be built first. This is the sequence of construction, foundation, basement, shear walls, and cranes, and other vertical elements are built, and then the construction start from up
Nice innovation on the building, but Detroit is 100+ years behind on a subway and 35 years behind on a skytrain system. Hope this new structure doesn't get turned into another parking deck.
This is so much safer than being so far up in the air. I imagine you could get more work done if you're not fearing for your life every second of the day...
"deficit of labor in the workforce" You know what solves this? Offering more money for the job! IF an extra buck or two does not solve the problem, then increase it further. This was understood back in the 70s, and guess what, it worked. People will move across the nation if you offer a good paying job!
Seams reasonable, so each floor is not taking the weight of all floors above it. Transferring all load to the two rigid pillars attached to a deep solid foundation.
it sure looks like about 60% of the floor space is used by those 2 gigantic elevator shafts. and why are you comparing it to some 60 story sky craper. this thing is maybe 15?
I know guys working on that site there's tons of issues and have been since they started it was supposed to be done way sooner but seeing it's the first one done in north America it's like the first pancake
This METHOD may or may not, but THIS BUILDING doesn't need to. Michigan doesn't get the natural disasters that so many other parts of the country experience.
You see lots of videos on TH-cam about China doing crazy projects but none of America’s innovations are shown in the same light. We really need to do more to highlight our country’s innovation
The Chinese can build a 20-story building in a week, all the walls are pre-fab brick and concrete, and they build it like it's a meccano set A bland concrete block *should* be easy to build
This technique will live or die by the cost and the design. Most of the new high-rises I see going up in Austin and Dallas are not perfectly vertical like that. The developers these days want a design that defies gravity, breaks up the verticality, floats and curves around etc. in order to get attention, which is a nice break from all the ugly glass boxes that went up in the 70's and 10 years later were out of style and sitting half empty.
This is when Detroit politicians give the buildings billion owner, millions of tax dollars. After allocated funds make it to the right media oligarchs, telling how wonderful it will be, and the jobs it will bring. Then it gets turned into a parking structure, for people to pay to park. And another school in the city goes under.
This is not very new it's been done a long time ago. The trouble is you have to fasten them together so you're dependent on you're Fasteners not to fail.
not from detroit but glad to see detroit winning and inovating
Great mixed use building. Detroit is looking like it will revitalize into one of the most livable cities in the US in the coming decades. Especially as water shortages in the south west force migrations to the more water rich areas of the country.
Silicon chips use a lot of water to be produced, why are they being built in Phoenix and not the Motor City?
@@DiogenesOfCa Cuz the people running the show would rather live in the Silicon Valley and it’s warm weather.
Even the Los Angeles water problem would vanish, let alone in Flint. A mixed component building like this makes it all kinds of possible.
@@DiogenesOfCa Because common sense is not so common. Why were cities built in the Desert in the first place?
WOW!! Shine a positive light on D-Town with some amazing 21st century innovation. It started in Detroit!
Looks like nothing but a gimmick to me - like drones bringing the workers their tools - so what.
D-town is dead and is never coming back, my advice is to move far away from it.
@@kdmigloo Hoods never come back - I have seen them try in Newark and Paterson, but whatever they reconstruct, just gets destroyed.
@@paulsawczyc5019 And all the local crooked politicians and their buddies line their pockets with the cash. Detroit is a cesspool just like what was shown in Robocop.
@@kdmigloo Why don't you take your own advice?
Mix use is probably the best thing I heard when watching this report. A city can not be vibrant without it! Good job guys!
Incredible innovation construction! Glad to have witnessed this with you all!
Thank you guys for documenting this!
60 years ago we built like that in Bulgaria, that is not an innovation for us 😅😅😅
That is the coolest thing since “TTG highrise” (TH-cam search it) the Russian mission video from the 1970’s. I learned about this in 2014 but the company I worked for are followers instead of leaders in the industry and were to afraid to try something new. Too bad for them, good for you!!! Best of luck to you all!!!
Jim
My aunt and uncle just brought a unit in this built last week. Can’t wait until it’s complete.
Joking right ?
If the Illitch family was building it, it would be a parking lot
Where did they take it to?
@@janeblogs324they “ brought a unit” in the building “.
Meaning they purchased a unit somewhere else and then brought it to this building.
😐🫤
Tell your aunt and uncle that I have magic beans for sale.
Love seeing Detroit come back. Keep it up Detroit! You got this!
It’s great to hear all the positive comments from the skilled, UNION, construction trades actually working on the project. The construction industry has to do something to make up for the shortage of people who want to work in construction. Modern life is only possible because of skilled craftsmen who are out there actually building and maintaining the structures needed for everyone else to do their jobs.
too bad the industry is toxic and full of douches
Ship Mexican to Detroit. It’s just blacks don’t work all they wanna do it sports and entertainment. How do u starve a black man hide his ebt card in his work boot
I think it's the maintaining that scares people off - building something that works is vastly different from being repeatedly called back to repair-respond to 'behavior' and watching points getting shaved off of good work. Really good work, out of the weather and fast!
That is brilliant! I would not have thought of component building an entire floor, but why not? The savings (!!!) makes it worth a look. Export this a lot!
Wow.... beautiful building
wow Detroit back in the spotlight again and again for GOOD THINGS!! So appropriate!! Go DeeeTroit!
Detroit back in the spotlight again for something positive...and with the Lions about to win the Super Bowl, Detroit is reinventing itself!. in a few years Detroit is going to be how it was in the 80s...full of life and prosperity!
Lions winning Super Bowl? Sarcasm right?
One can I always dream?
@@ABossIsTalking hell no.. RESTORE THE ROAR!!!🦁
lol sink your savings into detroit
Lions are a team on the rise
Scary buying into new construction like that the cost of Maintenance and upkeep could be astronomical but we'll see how it holds up
What happens when the elevator breaks?
@@seanwhatshisname1831they take the bottom two sections apart then slide the elevator out for repair then back in.
Then slide the building back in place like a, “ Lego “! 🫤😐
@@seanwhatshisname1831 They fix it.
@@prestoncheapbtheadphoneste3010 LMFAO!
@@seanwhatshisname1831 what happens when an elevator breaks in a regular building?
I watched an Extreme Engineering of Sky City 1000 in 2013 when I was 11 years old. There was a building that was being built in Japan using robots and this building was built in the 1990s through barcode scanning on of the concrete sections without a human worker in sight. It was the Big Canopy. Also top down construction is nothing new a skyscraper that was built in the 1960s in Madrid was built using that style of technique.
Thank you for your comment! I must have a look. This will certainly drop the price of housing.
Toronto has many Top designed Buildings..
The top down building with 'train cars' of parts could also do building on the moon. The robots could get started as soon as in position. An Orion heat shield 'pop out' system could rapidly deploy a contained atmosphere in space.
They said this is a 16 story building, I think this type of construction would be limited by the height of the building. I've worked construction on buildings as high as 55 and 60 stories. I don't believe this type of construction would work there because of the amount of weight that would be at the top of the building. You don't want top heavy construction before the base is there for support.
That could be dealt with by tapering the pillars. Thicker at bottom and thinner up top. Lessening the square footage and structure the higgher you go and growing the lower you go.
It could still be implemented in higher construction but would have to change design a bit more..
even along the line of suspension bridge maybe?, Attached at the top coming down or like a prism/diamond from top and from bottom
@@J1WE but lessoning the square footage of higher floors don't seem like it would be worth using this system. Those higher floors and penthouse units are where they make a substantial amount of their money back.
Not true! Check out the Rainier Building in Seattle for example. It’s skinny at the bottom. One of the most earthquake resistant buildings in the city.
Oh stop making sense.
@@noahjhs ...most earthquake-resistant buildings so far ..... Just wait until Antifa-Seattle with their "Riot Snack Van" show up.
Visitor - What floor are you on?
Owner - We are on the 4th.
Visitor - (looks up confused)
Awesome!
Wish the lines and windows would be uniform. Drives me nuts to look at
Beautiful to see such an innovative project.
Finally the Jetsons coming true 👍🏽
I think they misplaced some modules on the top floor
How neat 💕 so cool. The bottom floor is super great top 😊❤️💚💙💚
For those complaining about "the windows not lining up"...
Look at pictures of architecture in Rotterdam, the Netherlands, one of the great cities in the world for modern architecture. Asymmetrical windows are common.
Americans don't know that other countries have modern architecture . They think Africans live in huts, Asians live in sheds and they think Europeans live in old cathedral looking buildings
Yeah but pretty sure they got one on backwards here
If that's "modern architecture" then take me back in time. Atrocious.
Odd that no one has used the building itself as a crane until now.
Go Detroit. There is so many positive things going on in Detroit right now.
yes like the daily car jackings in which no one dies.
This is my husband's company's owners building. Very smart man.
Oooooooooooooooooooooo
So your husbands building? Or maybe someone else owns his company. Or maybe he works for a company whose owner's? Hmm 👀 either way, seems smart man!
@@ayten3617 my husband's boss owns multiple companies, and paid to have this building built. Sorry, I should have clarified 😂.
This is honestly ingenious!
That foundation must be really strong
I really love these innovations..
Soon they can automate the whole process too.
How do you build the core ?still got to lay the foundation, pour day be more difficult to me it's more dangerous taking work from the concrete carpenters from what I see.
What a run in sentence ain't gonna get it done you know try that again maybe howdy doody and rip rip van winkle alright ready set hold up ok go
This was done like 50 year ago in Colombia with the UGI Building in Bogota, search it please!
Im pretty sure the top to bottom construction was already used about 50 or 40 years ago in Madrid, but nonetheless I love D-Twon being revitalised
It's amazing how they didn't build any foundation at the bottom. Truly gravity defying. Wow !
@1:56. Can you imagine being on the lowest floor doing a number two then the structure suddenly gives away? Couldn't imagine a more undignified death.
Lets go, Mega City 1!
👏🏻Awesome, just hope apts aren't too expensive.
Let’s just say they wont be affordable to most
@@charleskavoukjian3441 To me that's wrong,just chumping off Detroit residents wanting improvement.
When it comes to what drives up the cost of most housing in cities, which is a lack of housing due to how expensive it is to build new developments (supply/demand), in theory a system like this, which is supposed to make construction more efficient and potentially cheaper (and therefore more desirable for developers), over time could lower the cost for "consumers." Will that actually be the case? who knows, but at least it's a promising idea.
Let's just say, "It won't be a place for 'Pookie & Ray Rae'".
Let's check back in 10 years to see what problems have occurred to the structure from this type of construction.
good to see union trades building this site
The real question is, can it withstand office fires for a few hours without miraculously demolishing itself...?
Wow!! was wondering what was going on with that building
They almost done with The Exchange, five more floors to go!!
This is nice! I love being in the construction trades #Electricians #IBEW #OAKLAND
Just to clarify something. This is far from innovation, there is a building finished in 1987 - KNSB building in Sofia, Bulgaria, built in same technique. I also guess KNSB building is not the first one built in this way
very cool!
Look like a building roller coaster,hope it holds..
It's not so groundbreaking because the shear walls will have to be built first.
This is the sequence of construction, foundation, basement, shear walls, and cranes, and other vertical elements are built, and then the construction start from up
That does look fun!
Amazing! Talk about thinking outside the box. It’s like the Tesla of high rise construction. Great feat!
Nice innovation on the building, but Detroit is 100+ years behind on a subway and 35 years behind on a skytrain system. Hope this new structure doesn't get turned into another parking deck.
This is so much safer than being so far up in the air.
I imagine you could get more work done if you're not fearing for your life every second of the day...
The criminals are out in the suburbs at those rock climbing places honing their skills as we speak.
@@kdmigloo I think burrows make more sense.
@@kdmigloo And working on that Cardio too! Got to be able to out-run the PoPo's FurMizzle.
This IS truly how urbanity SHOULD be built.
It preserves Natural Environment on terra firma AND preserves WATERSHED.
Amazing!
The windows not lining up are going to cause some OCD issues..
"deficit of labor in the workforce" You know what solves this? Offering more money for the job! IF an extra buck or two does not solve the problem, then increase it further. This was understood back in the 70s, and guess what, it worked. People will move across the nation if you offer a good paying job!
So every floor is cantilevered from the two cores?
Seams reasonable, so each floor is not taking the weight of all floors above it. Transferring all load to the two rigid pillars attached to a deep solid foundation.
it sure looks like about 60% of the floor space is used by those 2 gigantic elevator shafts. and why are you comparing it to some 60 story sky craper. this thing is maybe 15?
I know guys working on that site there's tons of issues and have been since they started it was supposed to be done way sooner but seeing it's the first one done in north America it's like the first pancake
Color me impressed.
This is awesome
It's not the buildings ruining these cities it's the people
bingo
Hype over reality.
What is final words from engineers and costs ?
So, will this bldg. pass the Dade County (now called "The Florida") hurricane bldg. codes? Or will it cost the 20% saved plus another 35%.
This METHOD may or may not, but THIS BUILDING doesn't need to.
Michigan doesn't get the natural disasters that so many other parts of the country experience.
There are prefab concrete buildings that easily could.
I hated the Demon Drop. Why did they rebuild it here?
Lol Cedar Point..nice reference
@@nathanielthomas2502 Seriously this reminds me of it for some reason.
Sorry but you have to start all over again, the windows on the upper floor are not aligned.
Does it dodge the bullets?
You see lots of videos on TH-cam about China doing crazy projects but none of America’s innovations are shown in the same light. We really need to do more to highlight our country’s innovation
That is cool!
did they mess up on the windows? it hurts my OCD that they don't line up :D
The Chinese can build a 20-story building in a week, all the walls are pre-fab brick and concrete, and they build it like it's a meccano set
A bland concrete block *should* be easy to build
looks like the first white floor was installed the wrong way. I dont understand how these windows line up so poorly at 2:12
The thumbnail looks as though looters stole the bottom floors.
Looks like they messed up the window layout.
This technique will live or die by the cost and the design. Most of the new high-rises I see going up in Austin and Dallas are not perfectly vertical like that. The developers these days want a design that defies gravity, breaks up the verticality, floats and curves around etc. in order to get attention, which is a nice break from all the ugly glass boxes that went up in the 70's and 10 years later were out of style and sitting half empty.
That’s dope…
Wow!
This is like the first new building in 60 years in Detroit 😂
We will see
I ordered on that
It look like the teen titans house
Needs to be a giant "T" overlooking a harbor.
Should have hired Cyborg
Your income earnings has to be high as well.
BMW did something very similar in 1973 Munich HQ.
this same thing was constructed in Vancouver Canada in 1969. It's called the Qube.
And Colombia did the same thing
Wtf what's up with window alignment
Here come the cyberpunk mega buildings
Detroit: Become Human. Have you heard of that game? This is so exciting to me.
2:53 she's the engineer? Nah, I'm out. Good luck to the people who are going to live here.
What's wrong with her?
So, they couldn't line up the windows on that upper floor, in spite of how smart they think they are?
2:53 what do you expect she's the engineer 😄
Top down sounds about right...
how much is going to settle over the years causing problems later on
Don't know how I would trust the construction. They couldn't even match linearly the design on the face of each section.
Can't nobody afford to live In that I'm tired of then making apartments people can't afford
Was the giant elevator and base built from the top also?
@@wientz spectacular, never would have guessed!
❤wow!!!
Looks like it's not line up straight
We built a large commercial building for Intel in India in such a way
This is when Detroit politicians give the buildings billion owner, millions of tax dollars. After allocated funds make it to the right media oligarchs, telling how wonderful it will be, and the jobs it will bring. Then it gets turned into a parking structure, for people to pay to park. And another school in the city goes under.
Well if Detroit had subways or a skytrain there wouldn't be so many parking decks downtown 🤔
You're talking about Detroit, a decade ago.
Monthly cost?
Detroit - Destroy historic building and then build brutalist structures.
This is not very new it's been done a long time ago. The trouble is you have to fasten them together so you're dependent on you're Fasteners not to fail.
The Jetsons 🛸
Its starting to look like what the Jetsons had going on. Living high above while below others turn into Flintstones.