British Couple Reacts to Tallest Buildings in Each U.S. State
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2:26 Capital refers to the city in which the state government is located. Capitol refers to the building in which the state government is based.
I can NEVER remember the difference.
@@PaulsWanderings I've been knowing the difference since January 6 lmao
You already said it
Capital also refers to money...
This girl is really dim lol I feel bad for James honestly
If you don't notice(haven't watched the video yet), the height of One World Trade Center(what we colloquially call Freedom Tower), is 1776 feet tall, the year of our independence, and it is a message: we are America, you may knock our buildings down but we will build them back better and we will never bend the knee to anyone.
That’s dope! Never realized that
I still think we should've put the same twin towers back up and bigger than before.
@@jamesmcbridenyc730 I was thinking the same thing. But instead of making it bigger. Build it back EXACTLY the same as it was. As if it was never knocked down, that way it wouldn't be a symbol to terrorists or anti Americans that they did anything.
Murica Murica Murica Murica
@@FEARNoMore whoever made the decision, definitely dropped the ball on that. We have the tallest residential buildings in Manhattan now, one of them is just a plain square looking building but I think its taller than the old towers were.
The spires do actually serve a purpose other than architect vanity: they act as lightning rods and broadcast towers. Both are exceptionally important in a country that has extreme weather conditions and huge spaces.
The Willis Tower (originally the Sears Tower) in Chicago has a glass floored enclosed balcony near the top.
Yes and I hate it lol
@@kimson305 LOL... Yeah, it's on my personal "Must Miss" list.
The Sears Tower is actually taller than One World Trade Center by roof and highest floor. The 103rd floor is still the highest observatory in North America found in any building. 🙂
"Capital" is the same in the UK, a capital city. "Capitol" is the spelled with an "o" when it refers to the building in the capital that houses the government, usually the legislature. That huge domed building in Washington that houses our Congress is the Capitol. But both words are pronounced the same way.
Interesting legend about the Georgia Bank of America Plaza building, it was allegedly originally designed by an Architecture graduate student's semester project for a course from a nearby technical university (my alma mater). Legend on campus has it the prof flunked him on that particular project. He allegedly went on to work for the firm who submitted the design.
Nashville (8:39) has the AT&T building a.k.a. the Bat(man) building. The architect hates that name but we the locals don't care. It is what it is.
You may find it interesting to learn that the very prominent snow-covered mountains in the background at Portland, OR and Seattle, WA are active volcanoes, Mt. Hood and Mr. Rainier, respectively.
Tennessean here. The AT&T Building (#24 on the list) is nicknamed the Batman Building because it looks very similar to Batman’s mask =)
The mountain in the background in Portland is Mt. Hood: 11,249 ft (3,426 meters).
The Tennessee building is the AT&T building also known as the batman building by us locals. Definitely check out Nashville's night skyline. You can see why we call it the batman building.
Best in Colorado is some at the ski resorts. Very expensive though. You want one with character. Trip Advisor has a category of unique hotels.
I've been to "Willis" tower (everybody still calls it Sears tower) in Chicago and there are these nauseating glass boxes you can stand in at the top and look down on the ground below you. I'm glad I tried it but it was frightening
And when it sways in the wind......
So, I assume if you come to Arizona, you won't be walking out on the all-glass Skywalk over the Grand Canyon on the Hualapai Reservation? It's a mere 800 feet from the canyon floor.
Bro that thing starting make cracking sounds and you can jump on it and shit
One of my favorite places about my hometown
In downtown Los Angeles at the US Bank building there was a ride called the Skyslide, where you could slide down from the 70th floor 45 ft down to the 69th floor in a clear glass slide. It was scary af for us afraid of heights. Too bad the pandemic shut it down. 🙁
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I'm sure some of you Tennessee fans already mention, but the building you giggle about in Nashville we generally refer to as "The Bat Building" it looks really cool like a Batman head on the horizon while it's lot up and you are driving through the city at night. P.S. Nashville is awesome.
If you can't have fun in Nashville, you can't enjoy anything.
We spell Capitol for the buildings and Capital for the cities.
People debate which is taller, the One World Trade Center in New York or Willis Tower (Sears Tower) in Chicago. The issue is do you count an antenna as part of the overall height.
Antennas don't count for height but architectural spires do count because they are considered part of the design of the building
@@jimmy_wang_ Yes you're right. In Los Angeles the tallest building in terms of floors. is technically the U.S. Bank building but the Wilshire Grand officially beats it with the spire.
One World Trade Center (Freedom Tower) is taller. It stands at 1,776 feet. Even the Center Park Tower (Nordstrom Tower) on Billionaire's row is taller than the Willis Tower. The Nordstrom Tower stands at 1,550 feet.
@@dougadkins7006 I forgot about that one. I stand corrected!
Here in Nashville the AT&T building is affectionately called the Batman building for obvious reasons. ✌🏻
I think my favorite one on the list is the one in Tennessee at 8:41. It’s sometimes called the “Batman Building” because it looks like Batman which is cool
There's a rule on when to count spires. Probably skews the list because while One World Trade is the tallest with the spire, Central Park tower, 432 Park Ave, and Sears Tower surpass it in roof height and occupied floor height according to Wikipedia. There are also two others that will do the same.
“What’s the best place in Colorado”
I didn’t get to spend much time in CO, but I’d definitely recommend Grand Lake CO. Very beautiful, especially at sunset.
Indeed! Very quiet area compared to many of the tourist spots in Colorado.
Estes park, colorado is a great place to go. A little touristy, but great for hiking through the mountains and amazing views
Learned something new. Thanks personally I like catching these vids of your, never know what you are going to put out there for us. Please keep them coming! Oh and thank you.
We use both Capitol & capital. Different meanings. And yes the spire is included in the height. In New York in 1930 when the 40 Wall building & the Chrysler building were racing to build the tallest. At the very last moment the Chrysler building wins by putting up a spire at the very last moment.
Not in Boston the prudential would be the tallest if you added the antenna at 907 instead of being second at 749
@@edwingonzalez3184 That's the difference, antennas aren't considered spires, so they only get measured to the roof height. If the spire is part of the design (like it is in One World Trade Center) then it's counted.
@@edwingonzalez3184 "It includes “spires,” but not “antennas, signage, flag poles or other functional-technical equipment.” Source: The Council on Tall Buildings and Urban Habitat, the international organization of skyscraper engineers, designers and builders that certifies a building’s height
That building in Boston was, in my opinion, the best one. It looked like a thin giant glass book balancing in the middle of a city. But the only building you guys didn't comment on? 🤣
I appreciate the variety of your videos. It gets depressing sometimes just seeing the worst of humanity in the U.S. Nice to see some positive stuff too.😉✌
ya things have went to hell in a hand bag lately
I lived in Colorado for 15 years. Colorado Springs would be my recommendation as a "home base" while visiting the state. Especially if you can spend 2wks or more. Located in the shadow of Pikes Peak (one of Colorado's 14,000ft mountains), Colorado Springs has plenty of great things to see and do; the Olympic Training Center, Garden of the Gods, the US Air Force Academy, just to name a few. AND it's situated on Interstate Highway 25, it is less than an hour drive north to Denver, or an hour south to Royal Gorge Canyon. The mountains are much more accessible from Colorado Springs than from Denver (IMO), but you'll need a vehicle in either city as public transit doesn't really cater to tourism. ❤️🙂
Can't miss the Garden of the Gods!
Living in Colorado Springs right now I totally agree with this. I also love to visit Cripple Creek for that old time town feel with legal gambling. :-)
The Salesforce tower is San Fransisco is taller than the one in LA if you count out the spire. The spire on the building only adds 30 feet of extra hight over the Salesforce Tower.
Denver, Colorado - the Hyatt Regency on 15th and California has a bar, Peaks Lounge, on the 27th floor. Next door at Le Meridien they have a rooftop bar. You don't need to stay at either hotel to go to the bar.
Also, they serve afternoon tea at The Brown Palace Hotel and Spa (really fancy place)
Took the family to Estes Park, Colorado for Christmas. Skied, rode a mountain coaster and just enjoyed the holiday decorations and festivities in that town. Also saw moose and elk ... in town! Plan to go back in summer to visit Rocky Mountain National Park.
I visit family in Durango Colorado each year and it's an awesome state to visit. Durango is a smaller city but packed with great shops and places to eat. I have seen some movie stars there several times eating at some of the restaurants. Such a beautiful place.
And there's also that pleasant drive up to Ouray.
Washington DC will get screwed in the skyline video, too. You should do a reaction to The National Mall (or even a DC travel video from the likes of Expedia).
I had my senior prom on the top floor of Columbia tower in Washington. It was really cool, we could even see a Mariner's game going on.
Spires are generally very tall for distancing the radio antenna from surrounding buildings so radio waves are not blocked. Some buildings do build them taller than needed though if competing for tallest building in a city, state, country, or even the world at some points. They do count towards the building’s total height.
Should do the video that popped up in the suggestion box showing the top highest buildings in order not just the biggest in each state
The Marriott hotel at the G.M. Renaissance center in Detroit was once in the Gennuis book of world records as the worlds tallest hotel when it opened in 1976 at 73 stories and 748 feet tall on its highest side/the river front. It still is the second and the tallest in the western hemisphere. In 1929 Detoit was to have two of the tallest in the world at the time which was the 800 plus foot Fisher complex and the sister tower of the Book tower at just over 1,000 feet. The depression hit before shovels broke ground. BTW the Sears tower in Chicago is actually taller than the Freedom tower in NYC if the added on spire of the Freedom tower is not counted.
My sister used to work in the IDS Center in Minneapolis (her law firm built a new building). She was on a higher floor & they have the express elevators that take you up 20+ floors in seconds. She took us to see her office once & the elevator was a bit freaky. I am in Northeastern Minnesota & Duluth is an hour away from my house & their tallest buildings aren't quite as high as the IDS Center is!
If you go to Colorado, almost anywhere you go you will love it. Rocky Mountain National Park, The Great Sand Dunes National Park, Black Canyon of the Gunnison , and my favorite Mesa Verde National Park. There are so many cute mountain towns. I lived there for 30+ years near Denver. The downhill anc cross country skiing is great. So much hiking everywhere.
Sales Force was BNC/ Bank One/ Chase Tower, and b4 that we had Indiana National Bank Tower that was the tallest! We set off our fireworks for Independence Day from INB Tower synchronized to music. It is a beautiful sight to see on 7/4 every year!
The Fort Restaurant in Morrison, Colorado is amazing! It’s also close to Red Rocks!
I knew that the IDS Center in Minneapolis was our tallest building in Minnesota, So I knew it would be up there in the ratings.
I think Minneapolis has a very pretty Skyline
Here’s a video of Oklahoma City’s Devon Tower at night. It doesn’t fully capture the colorful LED lighting effects that it does (as in what it looks like from the ground either downtown or from elsewhere in the city), but you can actually see the lights themselves doing it when the drone gets closer to the building. At 3:01 it pans out from the tower. Directly behind it is the Myriad Gardens. The blue long orb thing is a glass and metallic bridge building over the pond there. Inside it is a rainforest that you can go in and walk around...complete with waterfall. Outside in the gardens there’s play areas and a theater areas with seating, a stage, and lighting, and there’s lots of other really neat places to explore with beautiful plants and neat water fountains and water effects. A lot of people like to go there to take photos and there’s also lots of weddings. The round stadium building is the Paycom Arena. That’s where the NBA’s OKC Thunder play their home games. It’s also where there’s big music concerts and lots of other events. The big square building across the street is the former Myriad Convention Center that’s now owned by a film studio and contains numerous sound studios and set areas. If you look further in the distance past the Myriad Gardens you’ll see Scissortail Park and Scissortail bridge. The Scissortail Flycatcher is the state bird. The bridge is designed as a modern expressionist version of the bird in flight. The LED lights on it rotate in colors to match Devon Tower usually (though it is lit up at various times in specific themed colors like rainbow during Pride Month, red and green during Christmas, red/white/blue for 4th of July, etc....to be fair Devon Tower usually matches, too). The Scissortail Bridge is a walking/cycling bridge over the Interstate 40 highway that crosses through Scissortail Park. At 3:48 the camera is centered on the Bricktown Entertainment District neighborhood. It’s home to restaurants, bars, nightclubs, movie theater, a canal that connects to the Oklahoma River, parks, and of course the Bricktown Ballpark where the OKC Dodgers play and famous MLB baseball player from Oklahoma Mickey Mantle Place out front (complete with statue). The dark line you see separating it from the other side of downtown is the Amtrak rail line that connects to the Santa Fe station downtown. The Heartland Flyer is an Amtrak train that daily goes from Oklahoma City, Oklahoma south to Fort Worth, Texas and then back (and then there’s a train from Fort Worth into Dallas and then Dallas has a light rail train as well as streetcars). Oklahoma City has a streetcar system also using similar cars as Dallas does. It is part of OKC’s EMBARK mass transit system and connects neighborhoods in downtown and midtown with future expansion beyond that planned. The highway you see in the distance is Interstate 235 which is what one would take if wanting to get to the Oklahoma Capitol building. Which you’d normally see at 4:12 except that it’s not easy to make out by the camera lens for some reason (easier to see in real life if you were eating at the restaurant on the top floor of Devon Tower though). But at 4:12 it’s in the glowing yellow building in the left corner just next to the tall tv/radio masts. At 4:31 you’ll notice a tall building in the center of your screen surrounded by low rise buildings. Across the street from that is the Oklahoma City National Outdoor Memorial and Museum (which is a National Park/Monument). That’s the memorial on the site of the 1995 Alfred P. Murrah Federal Building bombing. The outdoor memorial is free to the public and open 24-hours 365 days a year. The reflecting pool at the outdoor site is where the street once was where the vehicle with the bomb was parked. One side is the actual area the building stood and the other side is the former parking lot. The museum costs money to visit and has specific hours it is open. The museum exists inside what was a local office building. It includes spaces left as they were after it was hit by the explosion. It’s actually worth the money to visit as it takes you through chronologically of the events that happened that day, weeks, months, and years after. If you sign the guest book you’ll see people from all over the world come to visit. The outside site still contains a small section of chainlink fence that had become a makeshift memorial after the bombing and before the official memorial was designed and constructed. People still leave mementos, messages, etc there and they’re collected daily and stored for survivors and victims’ families to look at. Likewise the outside children’s area where children can draw with chalk and leave messages also has a way where those images and messages are preserved by the memorial and museum so that survivors and victims’ families can see them. At 4:43 the building in the foreground is the Oklahoma City city hall building and the building across the plaza behind it is the Oklahoma City Civic Center. It’s a place where theater productions, including traveling Broadway shows, perform as well as where mid-sized concerts perform.
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In the US the word capitol refers specifically to the state government building itself where the state’s legislature and sometimes the executive officers and judiciary meet (in Oklahoma the two houses of the stare legislature as well as the governor’s office, lieutenant governor’s office, and some other executive branch officers’ offices are located still in the capitol while the state’s two highest courts: Oklahoma Supreme Court and Oklahoma Court of Criminal Appeals meet across the street now at the Oklahoma Judiciary Center. The Capitol complex consists of the Capitol building itself as well as other state government buildings, the history museum and archives, and a large grassy plaza. In front of the Capitol building there’s 14 flag poles. Originally they flew the 14 different flags of “nations” that claimed some part of land that makes up the state (France, Spain, US, CSA, Texas, etc). This was changed later in 1988 so that now it flies just the state flag on all 14 poles instead. On the other side of the Capitol there’s a plaza called The Meeting place where the flags of all the Native American tribal nations in Oklahoma fly. Anyways, otherwise we use the spelling capital for meaning like a capital city or like a capital letter. Capitol is just for the building and in some American English dialects you can actually hear the words pronounced differently at the end -ol sounding different than -al, but most American English accents/dialects you can’t usually hear the difference.
I think there’s definitely some beautiful skylines in the US. I live 4 hours drive from Dallas and just love seeing that skyline at night. And I have a cousin that lives in Denver, Colorado and works downtown so he gets amazing views of the skyline on his drive into work! A friend of mine sent me photos today from his drone. He lives across the bay from Seattle and OMG such a beautiful sight! One side he sees the Seattle skyline and the opposite direction beautiful mountains! One of my niece’s friends lives in Canada in a city right across from Detroit and from their front yard (which the neighborhood itself is on a hill) you can see the Detroit skyline and lakes, etc. So pretty! I mean I can see my small city’s downtown skyline from my house (south). It consists of four buildings all built in the 1920s. And if I look east I can see the really large grain elevators and the flour mill. Otherwise not much of a view where I live! LOL
Great video!
It's unreal that gay pride gets an entire month. But for the 4th of july only 1 day. what a shame
@@joshsecor9337 I mean the holiday is literally called 4th of July. And the US government didn’t even recognize it as an official holiday until late in the 19th century, otherwise it was state governments that often gave their employees the day off, etc. Gay Pride isn’t an official holiday day or month. Sure there are government officials and bodies at various levels that present official proclamations each year, bur that doesn’t make it official in the same way the 4th of July is. There have literally been years when Congress, the President, city councils, mayors, etc, etc, etc have not made an official declaration of Pride month...either because they forgot or it wasn’t considered a big deal at the time whether it was done or they opposed making such an official declaration. No one has to officially give a proclamation and declaration that on July 4th every year that it’s Independence Day in the US. Congress has established that is the day in which it will be celebrated as a holiday with all the privileges and requirements that such official statutory status gives the 4th of July. And the whole Gay Pride Month isn’t even from the LGBTQ+ community. That was mostly done via corporations who sponsored the events starting in the late 1980s early 1990s. It eventually caught on and in many ways is treated like LGBTQ+ History Month even though in the US that’s usually done in October by LGBTQ+ organizations (and it is done in different months in other nations for varying reasons). As a gay person I’m rather neutral about the whole Pride month thing. Sure it’s great to have a month to have where people can learn about this segment of our population’s contributions to our society and celebrate them. Much like all the various “[insert name of group of people] Month” is done. Yet, on the other hand it falsely implies that Pride events only occur in June and that is not the case. Pride events occur throughout the US and beyond in months beyond June. Even the Stonewall Riots occurred over several days from June 28 until July 4, so it’s not like they only happened in the month of June back in 1969. Some cities choose to hold Pride events around dates that are relevant to that city’s LGBTQ+ community. Other cities choose different dates due to the weather and environment in June and instead opt to hold events when the environment and weather is better. So Pride events aren’t just occurring in June, but by calling June Pride Month it certainly implies to people unfamiliar that that is the case. And amongst LGBTQ+ folks, especially those involved with community organizations, they usually wish each other a Happy Pride on the day of their event. It’s only non-LGBTQ+ folks and LGBTQ+ folks who aren’t involved in community organizations that usually wish folks Happy Pride at the beginning of June when suddenly corporations start posting “Happy Pride Month” and changing their logos, etc. I don’t mind. I mean, I’ve worked in retail and in restaurants and they usually don’t have specials on just July 4th for Independence Day (although oddly Veterans Day is always just a one day event in November, though). And I certainly know plenty of folks who celebrate July 4th on days many days/weeks before and after the specific July 4th holiday. This is sometimes done for convenience or sometimes done as longer celebrations. So no one is stopping people from celebrating the US’s independence longer than a day. I mean, people in my neighborhood usually start around mid-June with BBQs, fireworks, and other gatherings and it usually ends in mid-July when people change focus on Back-To-School activities, sales, and events. But yeah, the whole Gay Pride Month is a creation of corporations not the LGBTQ+ community. And while I appreciate the corporate support towards any and all human rights and equality, it is weird that they decided it needed to be a month long. Maybe sales go up and that’s why. I mean my birthday is in September and when I was a kid I remember stores would have a mixture of Back-To-School stuff on sale while also putting out Halloween stuff to buy. Now I walk into many stores like Walmart and other national chains and they have Christmas stuff out, too! When I have asked my employers of such a national chain location why the management says it’s to boost holiday sales. So I’m guessing the reason they adopted Pride Month is similar financial reasons. I can’t prove that, just a theory. But yeah, don’t think that it being an entire month hasn’t been contentious amongst LGBTQ+ people and their organizations. While not as contentious as it once was, there are still small segments within the community who don’t like that corporations, governments, etc have decided that the month of June is the one time of the year to acknowledge LGBTQ+ people, their history, etc. Within the LGBTQ+ community itself there’s lots of other days throughout the year that have related events. None of those have reached the mainstream recognition that Pride has which may be why so many mainstream LGBTQ+ organizations just have accepted the idea of June as Pride Month. It’s just easier to go along with what’s in the mainstream and use that as the vehicle for doing what so many of those other “holidays” were meant to do. Plus it being near Independence Day and corporations switching from rainbow logos to red-white-blue logos is just easy to go along with. Especially since many LGBTQ+ people are patriotic Americans, too, and it’s easy for them to make the switch, too. But until Congress puts LGBTQ+ Pride in the statutes as a federal holiday, I think it’s fair to say that the 4th of July being a statutory holiday for one day is still better than what Pride has. Please note that I am NOT advocating for Congress or any government to make LGBTQ+ Pride a statutory holiday for a day, week, or even a month. It’s quite fine if governments want to each year do the ceremonial proclamation thing. Honestly, the fact that the federal government basically did this for several decades for Independence Day until someone in Congress decided it should be added as a statutory holiday alongside Washington’s birthday, etc, is shocking. But no one I know is advocating for that for Pride or any other events LGBTQ+ community has to remember, celebrate, acknowledge, etc aspects of the diverse community and its history. So no worries.
My personal 'Woah!!' moment was watching an Army-Navy football game when a stadium section full of midshipmen we're going crazy and the railing gave way and everybody fell over...😮😮😮😮😮
The mountain in the background in Portland is an active volcano named Mount Hood.
And is where the national ski team practices in the summer on the Mt Hood Palmer ski run, which is snow-covered through the year.
I live in Philadelphia and the building in this video is now the 2nd tallest building. Comcast Technology Center is 342m high.
It would be great to see you guys do the 25 Best Skylines. In response to your question James. I could be wrong, but i believe the rule of thumb for measuring buildings with spires is that if it is a part of the building and could not be removed the height is the top of the spire. as is the case with the Freedom Tower which is 1776" tall. If the spire is an antenna the spire is not included in the height. case in point the Empire State Building here in NYC is listed as 1,250' or 380 m ′, but to the top of the tv aerial it is1,454′ or 443m
Fun Fact: The Willis Tower (Sears Tower) is actually taller than the One World Trade Center. The One World Trade Center however counts its broadcast antenna. The antenna cheated on a loophole technicality that was in the description of the "Council of tall buildings and urban habitat". The architects wrapped the antenna in a decorative wrapping and called it a spire. Even though it's a broadcast antenna. So due to this loophole, the council had a huge deliberation. And very reluctantly said it was a spire since it was a loophole and only because of the importance of the tower after 9/11. Aka..The council bent the rules to meet their "technicality". So they admitted there was a huge asterisk on the tallest building in the US in later interviews.
The Willis Tower actually has higher floors, a higher roof top, and a higher observatory than the One World Trade Center. In fact, the Willis Tower still can get people up higher than any other building for viewing in North America. Hence why most people still agree that the Wilis at the time losing its title to New York for tallest in the US, was a complete scam. LOL! 😅
@@waycoolscootaloo I hate to say it but the Willis looks better too!
You should visit the Ledge at Willis Tower/ Sears Tower in Chicago. You are literally standing on a glass box that extend out 4.3 feet from the Skydeck at 1,353 ft.
For Colorado, I'd suggest the "Snow Mountain YMCA Ranch" near Granby. It sits at nearly 2x the altitude of Denver, has plenty of activities you can do there including a wonderful tubing hill, horseback riding, hiking (lotsa red foxes running around if you like to see them), plus Granby is nearby with a lot of Colorado's famous outdoors activities. A high school friend was just in that area posting a lot of updates about all the fishing he was doing out on Lake Granby, and he was enjoying himself immensely.
Edit to add: For the Willis Tower in Chicago, the 2 radio masts are *not* counted toward its height, as they are removable. The height is measured to the top of the base stations that the masts are mounted in, but not the masts themselves.
Just for scale... just a short way outside of Las Vegas is the Hoover Dam - standing 726 feet / 221.3 meters high.
It's quite a view form the top... looking down.
Fun Fact, the tower in Louisville has been nicknamed it "Epcot on a stick." The top is hollow and lights up depending on the occasion. I recommend Googling the tower at night.
my city is #13 the Ids interesting fact if you walk around it i cant remember which side the building overhangs the sidewalk lol and he was right its not bad from being built in the 70's and has been hit by 100 MPH straight line winds from storms
I am in Colorado - Its pretty expensive here - but the best places would depend on what you want to see. Most people stay in the Denver Metro Area (Which is where I am) which is about 30-40 mins from the mountains. There are great mountain towns but they take longer to get to. Colorado Springs is an hour south, Fort Collins is an hour North and Grand Junction is all the way across the mountains, about 4 hours or more west. Denver is basically right in the middle of the state. If you come out and need a tour guide let me know I have lived here for about 37 years.
My 2nd wife worked in the Columbia Tower in Seattle (number7). Her company had 5 floors of offices in it from floor 52 to floor 56. I believe the building had 77 floors.
If you think that is high up, then the Grand Canyon will blow your mind as it is over a mile deep in places (and if you are lucky there is a guide rail on the edge, but in most places nothing.)
The architectural heights in this video includes spires but not antennas. I believe 1 world trade center is slightly shorter than the Willis tower based on overall height (including antennas) and in the roof height, but taller in architectural height.
My dad worked at the IDS Center back in the day. 1970's. I went to his new office and wow those elevators are fast! The elevators were/are specific to the floors...like 1-20, 21- whatever. The top of the building floor had exhibitions. One of which back then was about UFOs. It was so cool. Under ground was a movie theater. I don't think it's there anymore though. Mary Tyler Moore show filmed her flinging her hat into the air in front of the IDS Center.
As for Colorado, depends on where you want to stay. Out east closer to the airport, or downtown, or out west closer to the mountains
Did you notice how many of the tallest buildings were banks?? Does that tell you something?? The mountain in the background was Mt. Hood, a volcano in the Cascade range.
Cool facts: The tallest roller coaster in the U.S. is Kingda Ka at Six Flags Great Adventure in New Jersey at 456 ft/139 m tall, which is taller than the tallest building in 17 states. The tallest ferris wheel in the U.S. is the High Roller in Las Vegas at 550 ft/168 m tall, taller than the tallest buildings in 25 states.
The tallest (accessible) building in Missouri is actually the Gateway Arch in St Louis at 630' or 193m (≈6ft/2m taller than 1 Kansas City Place)
I'm from Arkansas, and to further blow your mind with the amount of them being banks, Simmons tower is also a partly a bank. The bank built the tower but doesn't use the whole thing so it rents out like half of it to other companies
Worse than windows breaking (which rarely happens) is that these buildings are built to sway to keep things like the windows from cracking/breaking. That is bad at 51 stories for me. The last two are well over twice that.
Having lived a chunk of my life in Colorado the best areas are, in my opinion, Colorado Springs and Manitou Springs.
Biloxi Mississippi's Beau Rivage is a casino and hotel. And the Nashville Tennessee building is nicknamed "The Batman Building". I'm in Mobile, Alabama and our Battle House was RE-built. We've had the Battle house since before I was born in 1952. It was the place to hold special events. I miss the old architecture of it.
Just for general reference, you can generally equate the number of floors in a building to its height divided by 10 as that is a fairly standard unit of measure for US buildings. This does not count for buildings with decorative tops (Transamerica Pyramid in SF for example) or buildings which count the lightening rods or spires atop them.
*The Willis Tower (Serers Tower) in Chicago is actually the tallest building on this list. It is taller than the One World Trade Center by building height. And it has higher occupiable floors and the highest observatory in the US as well found in any building. The only difference is that they count the broadcast antenna on top of One World Trade Center on a technicality. Its broadcast Antena has decoration wrapped around the actual antenna so it can be "quote" a "spire" rather than an antenna which the council on tall buildings recognizes. However, since then key architects from there have publicly admitted that the Wills Tower is the actual taller building. One World only gets it on a technicality.*
*So in the way that it matters, the Willis Tower (Sears Tower) is the tallest on this list. And still to this day has the highest observatory of any building. It can get you up higher than the One World Trade Center can.*
All True!
The Beau Rivage is a Casino and Hotel resort in Biloxi Mississippi. I worked there for 9 years.
My wife and i honeymooned in colorado! You have to go to boulder, Colorado! Its absolutely stunning, as you would say! Right against the rockies. Driving around there will make your hearts just melt with the beauty that surrounds you. I highly recommend it!
if you go to 7:17 - 7:18 and you look on the very right with the triangular shaped building that is the Baltimore National Aquarium where I worked once :)
I'm from Colorado and live in Colorado Springs (or "The Springs" for short.
I'd love to see you guys here! It's hard to recommend a hotel/town without knowing what you're looking for (i.e. night life, ritzy Aspen/Vail; cozy, picturesque nature, etc.)
I hate when a building height includes a tower spiral on the top. The One World Trade's top floor is actually lower in height than the Willis Tower's top floor in Chicago, but they count that 400-foot-high tower spiral on top of the One World Trade to get to 1776 total feet.
The one for Missouri is wrong. The Gateway Arch in St. Louis is the tallest, at 630 feet. Also a tourist attraction for us like the statue of liberty in New York
The Ren Cen in Detroit has a glass elevator on the outside of the building you can take to the top floor. When I was a kid the restaurant that was at the top sat on a rotating floor that way you could get a full view of Detroit & Windsor Canada. I’m not sure the restaurant is currently open, the pandemic saw the old restaurant close. If you are ever in Detroit it’s worth going up in the evening and watching the sunset
I see all these people steering you wrong in the comments. If you visit Colorado… Breckinridge, Aspen, Boulder, Telluride/Ouray, and Denver, are all places I would look up! Could always check out the national parks as well!
You guys need to react to the top 10 most Beautiful state’s
You could spend weeks in Colorado and not see everything, but start in Colorado Springs and Pikes Peak.
In the metro Detroit area, we have three major car company headquarters(Ford, GMC, Chrysler) and GMC owns the Renaissance Center. If you want to see a nice skyline, you should check out Detroit. The rivers really beautiful with Canada on the other side.
Although many of these are named for banks, most are not banks at all. Many don't have a bank in the building. Often "Naming Rights" are sold by the owner of the building to the highest bidder. The same thing is done with sports arenas. Sometimes you will have a building or arena named for a company that no longer exists. PSI Net stadium existed in Baltimore for 2 years after the company folded.
Capitol with an O is the building, Capital with an A is the city.
You should watch Geography King's video on his favorite state capitol buildings.
You guys are surprisingly good at critiquing architecture lol
Holy cow! I knew yall were young, but i didnt think 1999! You guys are doing awesome work for young adults! Cheers! Love your videos
Capitol and Capital are different words.
Capital = City or place (or money). "DC is the nation's capital" Capitol = Building used by a legislature. "The congress meet in the Capitol building"
The Capitol is located in our capital.
We call the ATT bldg in Nashville the Batman Building. I had my youngest grandson convinced Batman really lives there.
Capitol refers to the actual building where the government is housed. Capital is used for all other uses of the word, from capitalized letters, capitals on top of pillars in architecture terms, and Capital meaning the city where the Capitol is located. :)
“Capitol” just refers to the legislative building in a city. We still say capital in reference to cities where governments preside.
The mountain in the background of the Portland, Oregon image is Mt. Hood. Not far from Mt. Hood is Mt. St. Helens, which erupted in 1980.
If you want a unique experience in Colorado, ride the vintage/antique 1860s steam train....through the Rocky Mountains...round trip from Durango to Silverton.....they are old silver mining towns, and the line runs above a river gorge and you get AMAZING views! it's an incredible experience and I HIGHLY recommend it!
The previous tallest building on the West Coast was another skyscraper in Downtown LA, the US Bank Building.....the only reason that Wilsher building is taller is because of the Spire! it was finished only a few years ago.
I'm surprised that Philadelphia is #6. I am originally from there and there was a rule that no building could be taller than the statue of William Penn atop City Hall. That was changed a little while ago and then the Comcast Center was built.
It should be #3, but this is an older video. The Comcast Technology Center has since been completed and is currently the tallest building outside of NYC or Chicago.
I lived there in the mid-2000s and I remember hearing about there being some sort of curse if anything was higher - maybe related to sports, I don't remember, but I lived there when the Phillies won the World Series! Anyway, whenever I'd go passed City Hall I'd stare up at William Penn.
i actually work in the tallest building in NC and it's very big (my ears pop every time I go to my floor lol.) but charlotte is actually a pretty big city with a large downtown (we actually call it uptown in Charlotte) -- would definitely recommend that you guys look more into NC because it has a lot more than people expect
as a North Carolinian, i concur
The Epic Center one is in my hometown of Wichita, KS, there's another one that's close in height near by.
James in particular, you should really check out this place "The NYC Skyscraper Without Windows." It was originally built by AT&T to house NYC's primary telephone base and there was no need for windows since it was filled with just machinery and windows would make it less resistant to war with the Soviets. It's still there, it's really tall and it doesn't have windows.
look up the sand dunes in Colorado. Its wild to see sand dunes with snowcapped mountains behind them
You should find a video about Singapore's buildings! They're as far from Blocky Buildings as you can get.
the "Las Vegas Strip" with all the crazy hotels is located in Paradise, Nevada.
The Broadmoor Hotel in Colorado Springs...awesome hotel in a friendly beautiful city nestled at the foot of Pikes Peak and Cheyenne Mountain. Denver is ok but the Springs is heaven
Boulder Colorado is soo cool. And all the towns that are in the mountains like Aspen Vail and Idaho Springs
You should look at pics and vids of the PPG building in Pittsburgh PA. It’s seriously so beautiful. When I was a kid I would call it the Darth Vader building. Lol!
On 28 the Portland Convention Center, while not as tall, looks much cooler, just these two massive glass buildings jutting up from the city, and that mountain is Mt. Hood. You can get some gorgeous views of it from the Portland skyline, especially from Marquam Hill where OHSU(Oregon Health and Science University) is located.
The tallest structure in the country is a radio transmitter in North Dakota at 2,063 feet. It is grandfathered (built before federal law) in so as long as it stands will be the tallest. Now 2,000 feet is the federal cap, the federal government (technically the people) owns all space above 2,000 feet AGL (above ground level).