The Never Ending Race to Build High

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  • @ASLUHLUHC3
    @ASLUHLUHC3 2 ปีที่แล้ว +938

    Looks like the Creek Tower stopped because the Jeddah Tower stopped. But it's ready to continue if anyone else tries something.

    • @Ingenius_
      @Ingenius_ 2 ปีที่แล้ว +55

      Idk about that, Creek tower wouldn’t count as a building as he said, so you can’t advertise it as the tallest building, if Jeddah tower ever finishes

    • @__isagani4208
      @__isagani4208 2 ปีที่แล้ว +75

      @@Ingenius_ it’s still can be the tallest tower in the world and that’s perfectly fine for them. Something similar has happened in the past in the case of CN tower wherein the world struggled to even beat its height until Burj Khalifa came along with its stupendously large vanity height.

    • @XtrAMassivE
      @XtrAMassivE 2 ปีที่แล้ว +41

      yep, exactly. Even if it won't be the tallest building, it will still be tallest something. And tallest something is what draws tourists.

    • @muhammadhaziq8157
      @muhammadhaziq8157 2 ปีที่แล้ว +22

      @@__isagani4208 it is valid. But tallest tower won't be as popular as tallest building. For example, a lot of ppl don't even know the existence of Tokyo SkyTree, which is currently the tallest tower n the 3rd tallest structure, behind burj khalifa n pnb118

    • @TheGeoSami
      @TheGeoSami 2 ปีที่แล้ว +5

      The end is near :/

  • @bananawitchcraft
    @bananawitchcraft 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1054

    I can totally see the allure of being an architect. Imagine being responsible for a gigantic sculpture that towers over an entire city, you'd never again worry about dying without leaving your mark on the world.

    • @khaldrago911
      @khaldrago911 2 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      And if you’re building a skyscraper, it’s like you’re pitching one of the world’s biggest schlongs! And it lasts way longer than an hour.

    • @OXIR
      @OXIR 2 ปีที่แล้ว +12

      Sounds like a dream

    • @arryn786
      @arryn786 2 ปีที่แล้ว +69

      Tbh most modern buildings generally look shit. Architects aren’t artists and it really, Really shows🤷‍♂️

    • @manusinghgill8707
      @manusinghgill8707 2 ปีที่แล้ว +39

      It's is designed by structural design engineer, not architect.

    • @xK3NY0x
      @xK3NY0x 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      This is my first video of your channel watching and I am loving it. Can you share please the music in the background while you were talking about the Jeddah Tower

  • @Freak80MC
    @Freak80MC 2 ปีที่แล้ว +425

    Honestly would love to see a bar graph where each tall building is a bar that is the height of the ENTIRE STRUCTURE (so, counting stuff like radio antennas) and then a bar overlayed on top that is the height of the usable floors. Would be interesting to see how the tallest buildings truly stack against each other like that.
    EDIT: Also would be cool to see the total area of usable floor space of each tallest building as well.

    • @JonMartinYXD
      @JonMartinYXD 2 ปีที่แล้ว +34

      What you are talking about is called "vanity height". B1M did a video on it called "The World's Tallest Buildings Are Shorter Than You Think". If it was up to me, buildings would be ranked by the height of their highest usable floor.

    • @JonMartinYXD
      @JonMartinYXD 2 ปีที่แล้ว +15

      @LTNetjak Burj Khalifa's top occupiable floor is at 585.4 m (70.55% of its "architectural height"), the original 1 World Trade Center's was at 413 m (99.04%). New One World Trade Center, an utterly uninspiring replacement, is 386.5 m (71.4%).

    • @timokho20
      @timokho20 2 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      The shanghai tower would be the tallest by top floor and among the tallest buildings the Guangzhou CTF finance center would hold the most usable floor space (when you count the abraj al bait tower only and not the entire complex).

    • @JonMartinYXD
      @JonMartinYXD 2 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      @@timokho20 According to the Council on Tall Buildings and Urban Habitat (CTBUH), the Burj Khalifa's highest occupied floor is 585.4 m and the Shanghai Tower's is 583.4 m.

    • @timokho20
      @timokho20 2 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      @@JonMartinYXD yeah I’ve been seeing conflicting statistics too

  • @TheElizondo88
    @TheElizondo88 2 ปีที่แล้ว +154

    The concept of the Oblisco Capital as the centerpiece for theNew Administrative Capital in Egypt is really cool; however, it doesn't need to be that tall. The Iconic Tower (which is also being built in the NAC) will already be the tallest building in Africa at just over a third of the height. If Egypt scales the Oblisco down to say the size of the One World Trade Center, not only would it will still surpass the Iconic but would be a much more manageable and realistic objective.

    • @seifeldin.
      @seifeldin. 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      Yes true

    • @Nugcon
      @Nugcon ปีที่แล้ว +13

      An obelisk skyscraper just sounds like a really cool concept. Even when scaled down it'll still be the tallest obelisk in the world

    • @3nityC
      @3nityC ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Why only in Africa, when you can be the World because the architect aren't Mediocre.

    • @extragoogleaccount6061
      @extragoogleaccount6061 6 หลายเดือนก่อน

      @@3nityC Because Egypt will go bankrupt and their people will overthrow the government to install a government that doesn't waste their money on such things.

  • @eddyk3
    @eddyk3 2 ปีที่แล้ว +60

    I was speaking to the Architect of the Strata tower in London which opened in 2010 as the 'Tallest Residential Building in London'. He told me to take the title off of 2009s Pan Peninsula Tower they made the aircraft warning lights at the top of the Strata Tower 5cm higher than originally planned.

    • @eddyk3
      @eddyk3 2 ปีที่แล้ว +15

      I forgot to mention they both still claimed the title as the Pan Peninsula tower had the highest apartment even though the building was a few cm shorter.

    • @jihadi-against-oppression
      @jihadi-against-oppression 2 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      "One of the signs of Doomsday is the rivalry of bare-footed and poor shepherds (Nomad Arabs) in constructing high buildings and boasting about it."
      ~ 𝗣𝗿𝗼𝗽𝗵𝗲𝘁 𝗠𝘂𝗵𝗮𝗺𝗺𝗮𝗱 (𝗽𝗯𝘂𝗵)

  • @alexc.7274
    @alexc.7274 2 ปีที่แล้ว +13

    Background music w/ transitions is so on point, loving the production quality.

  • @eringanley1796
    @eringanley1796 2 ปีที่แล้ว +114

    Absolutely loving all the latest uploads we've been getting so far! The 3d modeling here is incredibly top notch, and also it's really a fascinating topic. I wonder which one will eventually be the tower to dethrone the Burj Khalifa. Maybe we can get a follow up update if that ever happens? Anything to get more great content!

  • @mrmangoberry8394
    @mrmangoberry8394 2 ปีที่แล้ว +558

    I don’t even understand why people want to build such tall buildings, like sure, it gives more space by going up, but when you can’t get to the top easily and safely, there’s no point.

    • @blava3155
      @blava3155 2 ปีที่แล้ว +164

      The point is publicity. Everywhere people talked about Dubai when they built theirs, so the next city knows it will be instantly famous around the globe (and ofc also hope that that fame will bring tourism).

    • @glennbabic5954
      @glennbabic5954 2 ปีที่แล้ว +51

      The Burj Khalifa had so many problems with plumbing they need an endless convoy of tankers moving sewage. Definitely there is a practical limit on building height.

    • @DylanDalal
      @DylanDalal 2 ปีที่แล้ว +26

      It’s cool

    • @dan-theodordorobat2216
      @dan-theodordorobat2216 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      They wany the world to make oral sex to the buildings.

    • @tranium67
      @tranium67 2 ปีที่แล้ว +38

      Tourism/attention= MONEY

  • @nikolatasev4948
    @nikolatasev4948 2 ปีที่แล้ว +43

    What really impresses me with Burj Khalifa is that it is the tallest regardless of definition. There is no "it's the highest building, but not the tallest structure" or any of this sort. It is the tallest. Period.

    • @idosounds
      @idosounds ปีที่แล้ว +4

      There is a 1.43km tall oil rig in the Gulf of Mexico called the Magnolia Platform. However, it hardly counts as a structure or a building by anyone.

    • @nikolatasev4948
      @nikolatasev4948 ปีที่แล้ว +6

      @@idosounds The weight of the top of the oil rig is not carried by the bottom, so it's not really tall. It's just deep. Just as we don't say the Kola Borehole was 12km tall, even when there was a structural element going from the surface to 12km depth.

    • @idosounds
      @idosounds ปีที่แล้ว +3

      @@nikolatasev4948 Yea, you’re right. I never really considered it a structure but thought it challenged the Burj Khalifa. I mustn’t have done research lol.

  • @TheRealLink
    @TheRealLink 2 ปีที่แล้ว +24

    Love this video as a skyscraper fan! Had the opportunity to visit Burj Khalifa back in 2015 and man, what a sight! Really spot on with your numbers, facts, and research!

  • @free_spirit1
    @free_spirit1 2 ปีที่แล้ว +97

    "You have to measure from the base, and firmly push the ruler into the pelvis"
    - Council on Tall Buildings and Urban Habitat, probably

    • @ClementinesmWTF
      @ClementinesmWTF 2 ปีที่แล้ว +26

      “And if there’s a hair sticking out the tip, count it too, but only if it’s a structural hair”

  • @Redman147
    @Redman147 2 ปีที่แล้ว +343

    Honestly the Burj Khalifa didn't really use crazy complicated tech to build it. It still uses a massive amount of concrete in it's overall construction which is nuts. It's defining factor is how many pylons they poured under the sand to hold that monstrosity up.

    • @sk-pp8uj
      @sk-pp8uj 2 ปีที่แล้ว +77

      I find it has a more pleasant look than the American ones, they all look like giant red birthday cakes.

    • @bamsuth9650
      @bamsuth9650 2 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      @@sk-pp8uj true

    • @xxDxxism
      @xxDxxism 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      @@sk-pp8uj NYC be like

    • @einundsiebenziger5488
      @einundsiebenziger5488 2 ปีที่แล้ว +5

      ... its* overall construction (it's = it is)

    • @xxDxxism
      @xxDxxism 2 ปีที่แล้ว +29

      @@einundsiebenziger5488 settle down grammar police this is the internet

  • @Horus100
    @Horus100 2 ปีที่แล้ว +91

    the egyptian tower looks so good

    • @alexandervandevelde2311
      @alexandervandevelde2311 2 ปีที่แล้ว +18

      Ye, a giant obelisk tower would've been pretty cool.

    • @The-ZebraFinch-Channel
      @The-ZebraFinch-Channel 2 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      🇸🇾🇸🇾🔥🔥

    • @vomm
      @vomm 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      But it is just stupid propaganda and a hoax. Each floor would have dozens of rooms without a single window because of the insane space per floor. Nobody would want to live in such a building or buy an apartment.

    • @The-ZebraFinch-Channel
      @The-ZebraFinch-Channel 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@vomm cry harder hater

    • @WuffiePhoenix
      @WuffiePhoenix 2 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      @@The-ZebraFinch-Channel that's The Syrian Flag, not The Egyptian.

  • @g-rated-g
    @g-rated-g 2 ปีที่แล้ว +38

    Love too see all the videos you've been producing lately! Keep up the good work

  • @zombieat
    @zombieat 2 ปีที่แล้ว +134

    interestingly the 8.5m Tower of Jericho in palestine held the record of tallest structure for 4,000 years (8,000bc-4,000bc). i don't think humans will ever break this record again. the egyptians were the with closest with their Great Pyramid of Giza which held the title of tallest structure for 3,881 years. but the egyptian record was cut shorter than 4,000 years by the Lincoln Cathedral of England in 1311.

    • @lexprontera8325
      @lexprontera8325 2 ปีที่แล้ว +8

      Well, for a neolithic structure such as the Jericho tower we do not know the EXACT year, or often even exact century.
      However, it's more like c. 8000 BCE - c. 2650 BCE, so the record stood around 5350 years (give or take)
      (if we assume it was succeeded in 2650 BCE by the Pyramid of Pharaoh Djoser)

    • @zombieat
      @zombieat 2 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      @@lexprontera8325 according to "Tallest historical structures" in the "List of tallest buildings and structures" article on wikipedia. the tower of jericho was succeeded by the Anu Ziggurat in Uruk in 4000 BCE and preceded by Göbekli Tepe in Anatolia before 8000 BCE.

    • @lexprontera8325
      @lexprontera8325 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      Ah, yes, the Sumerians!

    • @akalion213
      @akalion213 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      It's almost like it didn't matter back then and still doesn't matter now lmao

  • @richardschofield2201
    @richardschofield2201 2 ปีที่แล้ว +126

    Architects do t figure out how to make building resist wind, gravity etc.
    Engineers do.
    Architects are responsible for the vision of the building.
    Engineers make it work.

    • @rahul__sharma__
      @rahul__sharma__ 2 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      very true

    • @annmshoeb2692
      @annmshoeb2692 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      form vs function

    • @mehyomollem4763
      @mehyomollem4763 2 ปีที่แล้ว +12

      an architect`s dream is an engineer`s nightmare 🙃🙃😉

    • @hananirtaza3861
      @hananirtaza3861 2 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      So true it's the job of a Structural engineer not an architect to make the idea come to life nevertheless they are never given the true credit they deserve..

    • @arolemaprarath6615
      @arolemaprarath6615 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      @@hananirtaza3861 The Structural Engineer has a full say of the project than the architect.

  • @slowknife2873
    @slowknife2873 2 ปีที่แล้ว +15

    This Reminds of this verse from hadiths:
    When the Prophet (ﷺ) was asked about the signs of the Final Hour, one of the signs he mentioned was "when you see the barefoot, naked, destitute shepherds competing in constructing tall buildings.”
    It's crazy how 40 years ago the villages of Bedouins exited where they use to travel via Camels on these lands and now look at them they are competing with each other for who builds the tallest skyscraper

    • @_emminowithoutl4995
      @_emminowithoutl4995 2 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      Ah yes flying horse fantasy

    • @slowknife2873
      @slowknife2873 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@_emminowithoutl4995 The audacity of a hindu pagan to mock someone for their beliefs smh

    • @alpha-particle6585
      @alpha-particle6585 2 ปีที่แล้ว +6

      ​@@_emminowithoutl4995 Much much better than believing in "a blue man god" "a demon who had *10 👹head and 20 💪arms* " "a flying chariot" and most funny part 🤣 "a flying talking size changing monkey🐵 god"
      And there are many such endless wierd stories....
      Our god is not such fictional superhuman, he's one and there's nothing like him, if you able to compare his attributes with someone he's not a god. He can make anything possible(not a big deal for him to bring your fantasies to existence). And there are many explanations behind it(like burak means light, so on) which I don't care about, Allah knows best

    • @alpha-particle6585
      @alpha-particle6585 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      ​​​@@_emminowithoutl4995 Don't know why I'm wasting my time and efforts on dumb ppl like you.....
      But let's see who's fantasies/beliefs come true when we wake up to see the reality ✌️

    • @splintercell5551
      @splintercell5551 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@_emminowithoutl4995 do you know how to read?

  • @benwillvv
    @benwillvv 2 ปีที่แล้ว +6

    Thanks for this level of clarity!

  • @ph11p3540
    @ph11p3540 2 ปีที่แล้ว +148

    The really sad part about all these structures is how wasteful and impractical they logistically speaking. They also have a nasty habit of turning their surrounding into urban deserts where the streets are barren and inhospitable to 24/7 friendly street life. Super tall building make for bad neighbors.

    • @EbonySaints
      @EbonySaints 2 ปีที่แล้ว +53

      To be fair and flippant, it's not like Saudi Arabia or the UAE were verdant, lush oases with a vibrant and healthy community to begin with.

    • @blopblop8970
      @blopblop8970 2 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      @@EbonySaints 😭🤣

    • @Omar-uk1dq
      @Omar-uk1dq 2 ปีที่แล้ว +9

      The concept of walkability in urban design tends to only work in areas that don’t become scorching wastelands for at least 3/5ths of the year,hence why most of these projects are in the Middle East

    • @floriank
      @floriank ปีที่แล้ว

      @@EbonySaints I've live in Downtown Dubai for 5 years, and the Burj Khalifa turned it into that.

    • @Rizefix
      @Rizefix ปีที่แล้ว +2

      No, the twin towers were economicly astounding and made great office space. It was well designed too. Although some things are impractical, most of these are very useful buildings

  • @TheUpcomingPayday
    @TheUpcomingPayday ปีที่แล้ว +18

    “We just built the tallest building! We’re better! Tax put to good use!”
    An airline:

  • @Accuraid
    @Accuraid 2 ปีที่แล้ว +8

    I’m liking because of how calm and informed you sound over this video. Please continue. I love your content. Thank you for how seamless the attachment and conciseness of your sponsor was as well. Phenomenal.

  • @princeofchetarria5375
    @princeofchetarria5375 2 ปีที่แล้ว +66

    I wish the world would embrace more traditional architecture styles like classical, neoclassical, Byzantine etc. These buildings are so elegant, beautiful and functional. Nowadays we seem to just be building glass and concrete monstrosities. The Romans build structures that lasted a thousands years. Most buildings built nowadays I wouldn’t want to see standing in a hundred years tbh

    • @Kendndnd
      @Kendndnd 2 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      So turn your home to church 🤣🤣😁

    • @ihavenoideahowtocallmyself3849
      @ihavenoideahowtocallmyself3849 2 ปีที่แล้ว +10

      It depends on where you live, but when it comes to megatall buildings, it is just not possible to build 1km high Tower in that style.

    • @lly_09
      @lly_09 2 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      You've to consider the culture and tradition of the place if you're gonna build them in classical etc style

    • @gurunhitam3414
      @gurunhitam3414 2 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      Well you need to examine culture first, people don't favor Baroque or classical or victorian style of life anymore, they just love postmodernistic liberalism.

  • @mcrazza
    @mcrazza 2 ปีที่แล้ว +22

    7:14
    Looks like the Atlantis city spaceship from Stargate Atlantis.

  • @momojafar9385
    @momojafar9385 2 ปีที่แล้ว +10

    “When you see barefoot destitute shepherds competing in constructing tall buildings.”
    Another prophecy comes true.

  • @adhdmonster1369
    @adhdmonster1369 2 ปีที่แล้ว +60

    Every building in Egypt should look like a futuristic extension of its Bronze Age kingdoms just like their proposed tower. That would be amazing.

    • @Footballeditforfun
      @Footballeditforfun 2 ปีที่แล้ว +11

      I don’t think Egypt wants to only portrait one point of time, they also want to portrait there current Islamic culture….

    • @azzamkhalil26
      @azzamkhalil26 2 ปีที่แล้ว +7

      They should clean the disgusting nile river before anything

    • @adhdmonster1369
      @adhdmonster1369 2 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      @@Footballeditforfun I don’t care what they want to do. I want it to look like Stargate, dammit!

    • @adhdmonster1369
      @adhdmonster1369 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@azzamkhalil26 Fair enough.

    • @RedRocketthefirst
      @RedRocketthefirst 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@azzamkhalil26 Their whole country. Its fucking disgusting. But yeah I'm saying that from the Netherlands.

  • @ripwednesdayadams
    @ripwednesdayadams ปีที่แล้ว +2

    those radio masts are crazy tall. i watched a video of a worker climbing one to change the red blinking lightbulb. it was the most nerve-wracking, anxiety inducing video i have ever seen.

  • @seifeldin.
    @seifeldin. 2 ปีที่แล้ว +6

    I’m glad you mentioned Egypt, I honestly thought you will just ignore it

  • @benmcreynolds8581
    @benmcreynolds8581 2 ปีที่แล้ว +56

    I've never been a big fan of super tall buildings and skyscrapers. I find engineering and architecture design that is way more ground based, a totally more enjoyable, useable, effective, productive and engaging than anything a tall building could ever provide.

    • @mishXY
      @mishXY 2 ปีที่แล้ว +14

      have you ever woken up above the clouds/fog and only see some other peaks sticking out.... it is quite breathtaking.

    • @jovimathews
      @jovimathews 2 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      It’s ok, some people are afraid of heights. Many mainland China still live in villages

    • @stickynorth
      @stickynorth 2 ปีที่แล้ว +5

      That's sooooo 2000 and late... ;-) I like both and they both have a roll to play if you ask me. Good design is good design no matter what form. As is bad design. Too many cut-rate towers ruined the reputation of the format the way that rock and roll was ruined by... oh let's say... Nickelback!

    • @stickynorth
      @stickynorth 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      @@jovimathews To each their own. Tall buildings for some, mini pinwheels and walk up flats for others!

    • @stickynorth
      @stickynorth 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      @@jovimathews Me? I'm a rowhouse fan... I love not having people above and below me, just next to me hopefully with proper sound and insulation!

  • @leocremonezi
    @leocremonezi 2 ปีที่แล้ว +6

    Very nice video! Greetings from Brazil 🇧🇷👊🏻

  • @BearsNCigars
    @BearsNCigars 10 หลายเดือนก่อน +3

    Sears Tower is still my favorite building all time been fascinated with it since a kid

    • @Joshthetornadodude
      @Joshthetornadodude หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      I’m still a kid I didn’t know it existed until i saw the life after people episode and I still love and I don’t understand how people think the petronas towers are “taller”

    • @BearsNCigars
      @BearsNCigars หลายเดือนก่อน

      @ yea me neither I was like 7 when I visited it wanna go back to see the sky deck such an awesome building

  • @user-vj9qz3br6l
    @user-vj9qz3br6l 2 ปีที่แล้ว +5

    If I was a building architect, I would design the world’s biggest volume based building and make it wider than it is higher - designed like a giant rectangle

  • @vinncentmann
    @vinncentmann 2 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    Not gonna lie, I was waiting to hear the regular intro music the whole time. Great video by the way!

  • @istheyear-ry1el
    @istheyear-ry1el 2 ปีที่แล้ว +20

    It's super hard and challenging to build one in this decade considering unexpected events happening around the world. For example the Merdeka PNB118 has been delayed its completion 4 times already. Mainly due to covid

  • @andreybushev3020
    @andreybushev3020 2 ปีที่แล้ว +5

    Burj khalifa developer (EMAAR) owns 70% of developments in downtown Dubai so yeah they benefit a lot

  • @AllocatorsAsia
    @AllocatorsAsia 2 ปีที่แล้ว +22

    It’s a video I’m thinking of doing myself, wtf is up with Malaysia’s obsession with tall buildings? The twin towers, the exchange 106, and now Merdeka 118. Madness haha but really interesting !

    • @damani662
      @damani662 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      to show how high the corruption in the country

    • @dariusz501
      @dariusz501 2 ปีที่แล้ว +7

      Malaysia's obsession with tall building has been started long before Dubai's obsession with tall building. So i might say, it's already inside the dna😅. If malaysia has tonnes of money, they will overshadowing Dubai at no time.

    • @zaxisontherun
      @zaxisontherun 2 ปีที่แล้ว +5

      But China have more skyscrapers than Malaysia

    • @baraodascolinas979
      @baraodascolinas979 2 ปีที่แล้ว +7

      Probably because it is a recent emerging economy, new asian tiger, that had few urbanism before very recently (The urban population only surpassed rural population after the 1990s), a lot of economical growth, small land area (in the peninsula), so demand and money to build high in Kuala Lumpur is available. To @Cat, of course China has more skyscrappers, it has several times the population, economy, cities, etc, but Malaysia is a rather small country that punches way above its weight in tall buildings.

    • @AllocatorsAsia
      @AllocatorsAsia 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      @@baraodascolinas979 appreciate ya answer! That’s an awesome insight

  • @berlineczka
    @berlineczka 2 ปีที่แล้ว +40

    The most crazy thing is that Burj Khalifa has no connection to sanitary sewers. So, every day hundreds of tank trucks take out the faeces collected in the tower's cesspits and move it out. Just imagine building the biggest building in the world and not connecting it to sewerage. And imagine seeing everyday a long chain of tank trucks full of shit from Burj Khalifa driving through the city.

    • @as1m_
      @as1m_ 2 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      Wasnt this old news? And fixed now

    • @evilapple3427
      @evilapple3427 2 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      @@as1m_ nope, they still haven't fixed that yet. To connect such a tall building to sewage would require significant changes to the sewage system. Trucking might actually be a much cheaper option.

    • @luluatalmadam7331
      @luluatalmadam7331 2 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      @@evilapple3427 THE SEWARGE SYTEM IS UNDER CONSTRUCTION ESTIMATED TO FINSH AT THE END OF 2023

    • @tyronejones5657
      @tyronejones5657 2 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      As my dad is an expatriate, he told me that the sewage system in Dubai for the Burj Khalifa isn’t even an issue. I think people need to wake up from making stupid comments; if you want to see for yourself, fly out and you may be suprised.

    • @berlineczka
      @berlineczka 2 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      @@tyronejones5657 I did some research and it looks that this is an issue for the whole of Dubai, since at least 2010. Most of its skyscrapers are not connected to the sewerage, because it would overload the system. Instead, the waste is being transported via tankers.
      Basically, the sewerage system remembers 19th century and is long too small and too little for the fast developing metropolis.
      They are currently building a new sewerage that is planned to be completed in 2025.
      Nonetheless, it tells you enough about the people who rule Dubai: starting with a shiny show-off objects had priority over developing underbelly infrastructure first.

  • @JoJoUchiha07
    @JoJoUchiha07 2 ปีที่แล้ว +6

    a Hadith where the Prophet stated "The hour will not be establish when you see barefoot, naked, destitute shepherds competing in constructing tall buildings.'"

  • @goldenfloof5469
    @goldenfloof5469 2 ปีที่แล้ว +8

    Imagine if the worlds tallest structure suddenly because a 10 km tall hoola hoop because someone decided to test how active support could work.

  • @narmale
    @narmale 2 ปีที่แล้ว +24

    i would LOVE to see the Oblisco Capitale in person if it were built, its would be amazing... a real tribute to their heritage

    • @stickynorth
      @stickynorth 2 ปีที่แล้ว +9

      Same. That would be one cool stop on a dream tour of The New Egypt! I have faith in Egypt building this because let's face it with an dictator with ambition and a huge army to construct it like a brand new capital east of Cairo makes it pretty easy to dream up, design and build in due time. Even if I'm not a fan of dictators by any means. Just saying that you tend to get what you want a lot faster for better or for worse... I'm glad Egypt is about modernization of trains and cities, infrastructure and not war like some others...

    • @narmale
      @narmale 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@stickynorth yeah i dont care about a political leader like that, they are almost always crooks, but this would be amazing to see standing 1km tall, would be so epic

  • @wolfenstien13
    @wolfenstien13 2 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    Another awesome video as usual. I really enjoyed this one.

  • @Yora21
    @Yora21 2 ปีที่แล้ว +25

    "Proposal" in the world of engineering feats means nothing. Everyone can draw plans for something stupidly big that they have no way of building. Proposed buildings can very well be bajilions of meters high. It's just making stuff up, even if the construction plans would be structurally sound.

  • @R.-.
    @R.-. 2 ปีที่แล้ว +65

    Would someone with engineering materials knowledge like to speculate how long these structures will last and what will eventually happen to them?
    Will older steel frame structures outlive modern tubular designs with open floorspace?
    Will we see more collapses in a few centuries or could they start leaning like the tower of Pisa?

    • @MVargic
      @MVargic 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Without maintenance, reinforced pre-stressed concrete core skyscrapers will last centuries more than steel load bearing structures like the WTC twin towers or Sears Tower. With maintenance and repairs, basically any skyscraper on a stable foundation can last indefinitely and materials dont really matter

    • @julmdamaslefttoe3559
      @julmdamaslefttoe3559 2 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      i too think of this regularly, like surely there will be a disaster at the scale of 9/11 but instead structural collapses from shoddy construction, im 22 now, Was alive but not cognative during 2001, and means i got another 50 years maybe, and I just think, whats happened in the world since the 1970s, and 30 years before that there was a damn "world war"
      what will happen by 2070?

    • @Greippi10
      @Greippi10 2 ปีที่แล้ว +12

      Who knows what will happen over a time scale of centuries. I'd assume the tallest buildings would have to be demolished like they we're built, bit by bit from the top down, until it's small enough to be blown up. But what if Dubai is bankrupt by then?
      There's currently a hirgh-rise building in San Francisco that has sunk and is leaning slightly. It's still safe to live in but it seems they haven't even managed to stabilize it yet, even though it was noticed over 5 years ago! However considering how many of these buildings are around the world I think our understanding on soil movements and foundations is a lot better than when the tower of Pisa was built.

    • @xyzmediaandentertainment8313
      @xyzmediaandentertainment8313 2 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      Probably carbon fiber buildings

    • @hiftylonghead892
      @hiftylonghead892 2 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      All it takes is 1 war to ruin these vanity projects

  • @Mad_Martigen
    @Mad_Martigen 2 ปีที่แล้ว +19

    The proposed Sky Mile High tower in Japan....a country that's prone to earthquakes? I'm not an engineer but curious as to why would they propose to build such a mega high structure where earthquakes are prone to happen?

    • @notpassword
      @notpassword 2 ปีที่แล้ว +17

      The 3rd tallest structure in the world is in Tokyo. I guess they've figured it out. (I'm also not an engineer)

    • @ahmeddarwich9267
      @ahmeddarwich9267 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      I remember watching a video about megastructure I think 6 years ago and it showed some kind of machine or pendulum swing that counters the earthquake

  • @captain_noodles
    @captain_noodles 2 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    amazing video!!!
    your videos are amazing

  • @sjajsjsja4523
    @sjajsjsja4523 2 ปีที่แล้ว +7

    I care most about highest occipied floor. Seeing how tall we can build purely for spectacle is cool, but I just don't care about it as much.

  • @Mhavespass
    @Mhavespass 2 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    Finally seeing something from Malaysia 🇲🇾💙 in neo

  • @reggiep75
    @reggiep75 2 ปีที่แล้ว +13

    There'll come a time when there'll be a serious collapse, or series of accidents (that money can't cover up), and that'll be all that's need to make people reconsider competitively build upwards.

    • @lamchunting856
      @lamchunting856 2 ปีที่แล้ว +10

      Na, flexing never gets old

    • @kazisamir3411
      @kazisamir3411 2 ปีที่แล้ว +5

      Most middle eastern countries don't get natural disasters like earthquakes so it's not a big problem

    • @user-pr9qb6yi9w
      @user-pr9qb6yi9w 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@kazisamir3411 Aleppo disagrees

    • @reggiep75
      @reggiep75 2 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      @@kazisamir3411 - The human rights investigations into worker living conditions are still a problem and they know it. Workers coming from outside of the UAE are not respected in the same manner as workers native to the country.

    • @reggiep75
      @reggiep75 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@lamchunting856 - Until the building flexes and bends over to kiss it's own feet. You just know that there's someone who wants something, no matter what, and their money says they're allowed to have it...
      Until the dead bodies are pulled out of the bent steel.

  • @BoydXplorer
    @BoydXplorer 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Wow nice upload. Interesting to watch. Tnx 4sharing full watched 👍

  • @cojack5080
    @cojack5080 2 ปีที่แล้ว +40

    Wait wait wait. Tokyo thinks its a good idea to put a mile high tower, with WIND slots, on a small man-made ILSAND on the WATER'S edge of a tsunami prone ocean?!

    • @red_moon_7760
      @red_moon_7760 2 ปีที่แล้ว +13

      ...and on islands with around 1500 earthquake a year.

    • @MarkWTK
      @MarkWTK 2 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      from a demography point of view, how are they going to occupy it with their declining population

    • @RK-cj4oc
      @RK-cj4oc 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      @@MarkWTK not. They are building it to keep their real estate market up. Which will help keep the current population wealthier.

    • @doublejumpvideogames....
      @doublejumpvideogames.... 2 ปีที่แล้ว +7

      Also godzilla

    • @Perririri
      @Perririri 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      1600 meters

  • @PapiJuancho312
    @PapiJuancho312 2 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    As a Chicagoan.. thanks you for calling it the Sears tower

  • @glennbabic5954
    @glennbabic5954 2 ปีที่แล้ว +74

    I wonder if these architects detail all the materials, stresses and logistics of building their designs or they just sell them based on cred and pretty pictures.

    • @thewelshdragon1567
      @thewelshdragon1567 2 ปีที่แล้ว +28

      Well they don’t, most of that it passes on to structural and civil engineers who validate the design

    • @phillbozz853
      @phillbozz853 2 ปีที่แล้ว +14

      They don’t care that’s what I’ve heard studying civil engineering

    • @timo5229
      @timo5229 2 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      Architects do some of it but they mainly focus on the design, a structural engineer will figure out how to actually build it

    • @reggiep75
      @reggiep75 2 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      Those people are 'edge lords' and not architects/engineers. The same type of people who'll pass the project to construction companies who use physical labourers from other nations as they matter less to the nation in question that is getting its 'super, I'm the best, high tower' built.

    • @Yora21
      @Yora21 2 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      I propose a solid stone pyramid that is 100 kilometers high.
      Unlike those towers, my design is even structurally sound.
      Please include me in these videos for the largest currently proposed structure.

  • @whoisthis345
    @whoisthis345 7 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Oblisco Capitale looks really good. I'd love to see it in person, what a beautiful history. Go Egypt!

  • @rutvikrs
    @rutvikrs 2 ปีที่แล้ว +16

    Imagine being in one of these buildings during a violent storm let alone an earthquake. 😂

    • @Brmeel
      @Brmeel 2 ปีที่แล้ว +15

      They’re designed to hold their place in these situations but yeah it would be quite scary

    • @jihadi-against-oppression
      @jihadi-against-oppression 2 ปีที่แล้ว +5

      "One of the signs of Doomsday is the rivalry of bare-footed and poor shepherds (Nomad Arabs) in constructing high buildings and boasting about it."
      ~ 𝗣𝗿𝗼𝗽𝗵𝗲𝘁 𝗠𝘂𝗵𝗮𝗺𝗺𝗮𝗱 (𝗽𝗯𝘂𝗵)

    • @potatoeskimos
      @potatoeskimos ปีที่แล้ว

      @@jihadi-against-oppression People are not trying competing anymore.

    • @weinser7278
      @weinser7278 10 หลายเดือนก่อน

      @@BrmeelI wouldn’t care tbh

  • @tehdusto
    @tehdusto 2 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    The way you said "Toronto" as "Toronno" let's me know that you're a real one.

  • @CharliMorganMusic
    @CharliMorganMusic 2 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    The BK may be the tallest, but it's also the only one that requires a convoy of poop trucks to service it on the daily.

  • @kward0321
    @kward0321 10 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    What about the CN tower in Toronto which was completed in 1976 and was only surpassed by the midpoint construction of the Burj in the early 2000s

  • @sHaKe2702
    @sHaKe2702 2 ปีที่แล้ว +4

    Umar ibn al-Khattab reported: We were sitting with the Messenger of Allah ﷺ, one day when a man appeared…. we did not recognize him…. The man said, “Tell me about the final hour.” The Prophet ﷺ said, “The one asked does not know more than the one asking.” The man said, “Tell me about its signs.” The Prophet ﷺ said, “…..you will see barefoot, naked, and dependent shepherds compete in the construction of tall buildings.”
    (Source: Ṣaḥīḥ Muslim 8)
    Once barefoot, naked and dependent shepherd, now competing for the construction of tallest building, سبحن الله, the hour is nearby. Let’s all fear the day when we need to stand in front of ﷲ.

  • @ClunFunDun
    @ClunFunDun 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    So helpful. Thank you for making the video

  • @robertschneck8583
    @robertschneck8583 2 ปีที่แล้ว +11

    One of these days, Dubai should consider putting in a sewer system.

    • @stickynorth
      @stickynorth 2 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      With all that black gold coming in before... And now tourism dollars... You'd think so... especially since sewage is actually a huge resource that could be turned into cheap biofuels and electricity with little effort besides an aerobic digester the way some cattle farms here in Alberta use 'em to create enough power to run a city, I shit you not! Or YES in this case... My crappy home town could in theory be run entirely be waste from its High Density Feedlot aka its local "Bovine University Campus." But you know...

    • @troyarrington5492
      @troyarrington5492 2 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      The city is a boom town. It won’t last too long. No need for a long term investment like a sewer system

    • @User-qz2wz
      @User-qz2wz 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Sewage systems have been fixed a while ago

  • @florentwozniak7059
    @florentwozniak7059 7 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Malaysia is incredibly underrated when it comes to skyscrapers ... They've got sooo many of them in Kuala Lumpur, I was amazed when I saw that there

  • @ascott2168
    @ascott2168 2 ปีที่แล้ว +5

    Thanks for clearing up the Sears Tower vs. Petronas Towers height controversy in 3D 👏🏽

    • @vomm
      @vomm 2 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      "Controversy". 99% of all people on the planet immediately see that the Sears Tower is taller. The rest would be Malaysians and a few coked-up academics.

    • @ameybirulkar7503
      @ameybirulkar7503 10 หลายเดือนก่อน

      ​@@vomm yes right.

  • @lokingbob
    @lokingbob 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Thats the Handcock building in chicago not the Willis Tower at 5:20

    • @Riptionator
      @Riptionator 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Hancock not Handcock 😂 but yeah. Came here to say the same.

    • @lokingbob
      @lokingbob 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@Riptionator pretty sure it's handcock XD

  • @youcantalwaysgetwhatyouwan6687
    @youcantalwaysgetwhatyouwan6687 2 ปีที่แล้ว +27

    Race for building the tallest empty buildings

    • @MVargic
      @MVargic 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      China likely has more empty skyscrapers than rest of the world combined

    • @stickynorth
      @stickynorth 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      That's the spirit! And besides the office vacancy rate don't matter when you pull in $200M in tourism revenue from slack-jawed bumpkins from Nebraska and Liverpool paying $99 a pop! Hence why every super tall tends to add them. Are they tacky? Yes! But they are very profitable!

  • @randy25rhoads
    @randy25rhoads 7 หลายเดือนก่อน

    An video comparing Minoru Yamasaki’s skyscrapers would definitely be interesting.

  • @CookingwithYarda
    @CookingwithYarda 2 ปีที่แล้ว +8

    ''Build the Jedi tower, you must''
    Yoda

  • @kenocontreras
    @kenocontreras ปีที่แล้ว +1

    This has become my favorite channel to binge! Thanks a lot for creating such amazing content!

  • @charbelh.boutros4971
    @charbelh.boutros4971 2 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    With Tokyo's seismic activity, it's nauseating enough to be on the 5th floor - imagine being on the 200th when a 7.0 strikes... Sky Mile Tower? No thanks! (PS: I love Tokyo)

  • @mysteriousDSF
    @mysteriousDSF 2 ปีที่แล้ว

    Amazing video, I love your channel!!

  • @qpwoeiruty108
    @qpwoeiruty108 2 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    in my opinion this is all about people's willing and passion. those were years of competing, prosperity and growth, and Dubai had made everything possible to prove themselves as the one of the biggest tourists cities in the world.
    but now we're living in the era of global pandemic, conflicts or maybe even on the brink of world war 3

  • @grahamturner2640
    @grahamturner2640 2 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    0:27 what's the proposed tower furthest to the left?

  • @T21608JR
    @T21608JR 2 ปีที่แล้ว +10

    How can you miss PNB118 which is almost completed 2nd tallest tower in the world?

    • @booaks2980
      @booaks2980 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Because this video is about the tallest building in the future not 2nd or 3rd

    • @T21608JR
      @T21608JR 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@booaks2980 what is future about if they can't be completed? Just a joke 🤣

  • @saranbhatia8809
    @saranbhatia8809 2 ปีที่แล้ว

    Nicely put together!

  • @Ragnarok540
    @Ragnarok540 2 ปีที่แล้ว +18

    The tallest building requires a massive number of poop trucks (you read that right) because it is not connected to a sewage system. A bigger building will require a poop train. Why they didn't build a sewage system first? Is not as flashy as the tallest building, that's why.

    • @Anti_degenerate
      @Anti_degenerate 2 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      Cope

    • @RyanTosh
      @RyanTosh 2 ปีที่แล้ว +6

      This is a myth

    • @ab.h440
      @ab.h440 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      At least it’s better than London, when they flushed all the poop and shit into their river when the sewage system couldn’t handle it

    • @revenger211
      @revenger211 2 ปีที่แล้ว +6

      You people will jump on whatever wagon that passes by to justify getting mad at something... this was an old problem that got fixed years and years ago. Hence why all the videos of the "poop trucks" are in crappy quality. That's how old this is.

  • @spencer8035
    @spencer8035 ปีที่แล้ว

    i love tall buildings. I live in utah and I was excited because they are building the new tallest building in SLC right now which is going to be a whopping 451 foot tall building! Nothing compared to other cities!

  • @lifeisgood141
    @lifeisgood141 2 ปีที่แล้ว +6

    China still has the most tall skyscrapers. However, It comes to senses that super tall skyscrapers are no longer practical other than for vanity and status statement.

    • @baraodascolinas979
      @baraodascolinas979 2 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      China also recently installed a height limit of 500 meters for new buildings because of economical soundness. A move that many countries could also do, with lowers heights too.

  • @TheRandomTurtleOfficial
    @TheRandomTurtleOfficial ปีที่แล้ว

    Amazing video

  • @drabberfrog
    @drabberfrog 2 ปีที่แล้ว +15

    2:40 I love the fact that there are people in this world who genuinely believe the building on the right is taller than one on the left. It really shows that you can be a genius while lacking any common sense.

    • @Dazzle-Delight
      @Dazzle-Delight 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      Yeah, it should really just be given on absolute height, which sears tower is clearly taller. Even the antennas have a limit to how tall they can be on the roof of a building. So if the petronas really wanted to be officially taller, just add taller spires.

    • @giraffestreet
      @giraffestreet 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      B1M also made a video about these building heights controversy (The Worlds Tallest Building is Shorter than You Think).
      Edit: Also B1M made another video about overall combined floor space of these super tall building. And when compared it with Burj Khalifa, the Burj Khalifa has less floor space than many of the top ten worlds tallest building (The True Scales of the Worlds Tallest Building).

  • @BLWard-ht3qw
    @BLWard-ht3qw 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    "Highest occupied floor"...that 'structural' descript language does make me wonder what the actual occupancy rate is with any super tall building, because, other than architectural vanity/bragging rights, I just don't get them. Some interesting looking concepts though and whatever that building is in that fantastic shot @3:59), looks quite nice, but gotta admit I'm still a fan of the Chrysler building.

  • @saladsalad9991
    @saladsalad9991 2 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    "Growth for the sake of growth is the ideology of the cancer cell" - Edward Abbey

  • @cadbimtech7481
    @cadbimtech7481 2 ปีที่แล้ว

    Really good presentation and knowledgeable video

  • @ensemfunny
    @ensemfunny 2 ปีที่แล้ว +5

    Proud to be Malaysian 🇲🇾 we are the city with mostly had spire 😂

  • @technologic21
    @technologic21 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    All these structures are dwarfed by The Citadel in Half Life 2. It's 8,406 meters tall, 860 meters wide, and goes 230 meters underground.

    • @bella_ciao4608
      @bella_ciao4608 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      Looks like you got the height wrong, pretty sure it’s actually 8400 FEET tall. Your other measurements seem right though

  • @NomaDI0I
    @NomaDI0I 2 ปีที่แล้ว +11

    7:15 "Tokyo population challenge" LMAO. THE only population challenge they're having is declining Birthrate

    • @Perririri
      @Perririri 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Good! Less Anime!!

    • @baraodascolinas979
      @baraodascolinas979 2 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      Japan as a whole is, but big cities and Tokyo specially are still growing, from internal migration from rural and small and even medium cities, and international migration too in Tokyo. Since anime and cultural stuff is more consumed by urban people with more money and acces to it, i'm sure there will be more anime in the future, not less. Maybe less anime for children, and more anime towards japanese adults and internacional exportation.

  • @alparslankorkmaz2964
    @alparslankorkmaz2964 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Nice video.

  • @pencilpauli9442
    @pencilpauli9442 2 ปีที่แล้ว +13

    Imagine projects to reduce homelessness, replace shanty towns and be of some utility other than a landmark for capital
    Not forgetting the lack of sustainability of vanity projects

    • @Yora21
      @Yora21 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Those are poor people problems. They don't concern rich people.
      Also, the working conditions on Arab construction sites are borderline slave labor. They trick workers to sign up with what looks like decent contracts, but once there they are effectively slaves.

    • @pencilpauli9442
      @pencilpauli9442 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      @@Yora21 Absolutely.
      I won't be watching the Soccer World Cup Finals because of the atrocious treatment of workers in Qatar.
      Too many have suffered and died to make the finals happen

    • @narmale
      @narmale 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      you realize alot of homeless people choose to live that way? they dont WANT to be with normal people

    • @Yora21
      @Yora21 2 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      @@narmale Ah, that explains it all.
      "Poor people are lazy". How did nobody ever think of that before?

    • @narmale
      @narmale 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@Yora21 😋

  • @michaelyemane2063
    @michaelyemane2063 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Can you make a video about the Ethiopian Mesob tower please?

  • @aaquib2010
    @aaquib2010 2 ปีที่แล้ว +38

    When asked about the last hour (Doomsday) The Prophet replied, “That you see barefoot, unclothed herdsmen (the bedouin Arabs as explained by the prophet himself) competing in the construction of tall buildings.”
    Ref: Sunan Ibn Majah-Hadith 63, Musnad Imam Ahmad bin Hambal-Hadith 2924

    • @aaquib2010
      @aaquib2010 2 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      @@absttractive Different books give numbering differently sometimes. Search for the words and u will find it. This is a commonly known hadith indeed.

    • @absttractive
      @absttractive 2 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      @@aaquib2010 I've found it now that I searched by words, JazakAllahu Khair. :)

    • @aaquib2010
      @aaquib2010 2 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      @@absttractive wa iyyakum brother. Look more into it, u will find that it is indeed about the situation today in UAE and KSA

    • @MrMountainchris
      @MrMountainchris 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      Your sky wizard is imaginary. 🤣

    • @akuheikeiserllen3078
      @akuheikeiserllen3078 2 ปีที่แล้ว +7

      @@MrMountainchris the best you guys can do is ignore a fact by making fun of whom made it, honestly pathetic

  • @WeldersDisease
    @WeldersDisease ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Eventually this just becomes a game of who can build the first space elevator

  • @Muffin_Top20
    @Muffin_Top20 2 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    can we get much higher, high, so high...

  • @JustAPersonWhoComments
    @JustAPersonWhoComments ปีที่แล้ว

    Me: Watching this video hoping to see a new tallest building announced.
    Also me: Grows a beard and starts getting senior discounts
    Burj Khalifa: I ain't budging folks. I'm here to stay

  • @IllusiveDude
    @IllusiveDude 2 ปีที่แล้ว +5

    so Spires are like high heels

    • @zaxisontherun
      @zaxisontherun 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      You still confused about architectural height?

    • @troyarrington5492
      @troyarrington5492 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@zaxisontherun obviously you are if you count spires over floor count😂imagine that

  • @ThePratech
    @ThePratech 2 ปีที่แล้ว

    Very Nicely Done Video

  • @benjaminowiadolor8379
    @benjaminowiadolor8379 2 ปีที่แล้ว +13

    Egypt 's skyscraper is obviously more viable than anything else under construction

    • @zombieat
      @zombieat 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      the design is not aerodynamic enough for a 700m+ building, having four flat sides instead of 3.

    • @jihadi-against-oppression
      @jihadi-against-oppression 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      "One of the signs of Doomsday is the rivalry of bare-footed and poor shepherds (Nomad Arabs) in constructing high buildings and boasting about it."
      ~ 𝗣𝗿𝗼𝗽𝗵𝗲𝘁 𝗠𝘂𝗵𝗮𝗺𝗺𝗮𝗱 (𝗽𝗯𝘂𝗵).

  • @finn7530
    @finn7530 2 ปีที่แล้ว

    i like the music you include :)

  • @youssefelmasry95
    @youssefelmasry95 2 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    The Obelisco Capitale 🫶🏼🇪🇬

  • @theplasmatron3306
    @theplasmatron3306 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Imagine having to take the stairs all the way up to the top floor in the tallest building in the world.

  • @Freak80MC
    @Freak80MC 2 ปีที่แล้ว +13

    Isn't it weird that humans are able to put so much time, energy, and motivation into these super tall vanity projects, but can't put that same amount of time, energy, and motivation into treating each other well?

    • @ShipsandGames
      @ShipsandGames 2 ปีที่แล้ว +7

      You don’t understand people do you?

    • @javierpacheco8234
      @javierpacheco8234 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      People are selfish and that won't change. Building tall has no reason yet we do it, this is the rat race for architects.

  • @maanmallak8953
    @maanmallak8953 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    ففي حديث جبريل المعروف عندما سأل النبيَّ صلى الله عليه وسلم عن الساعة وقال: أخبرني عن أمارتها. فقال صلى الله عليه وسلم: أن تلد الأمة ربتها، وأن ترى الحفاة العراة العالة رعاء الشاء يتطاولون في البنيان. رواه مسلم

  • @chosenone5536
    @chosenone5536 2 ปีที่แล้ว +5

    It costed the burj khalifa $1.5b to be built. That's the average price of a NFL stadium.

    • @cojack5080
      @cojack5080 2 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      And profits 1.55 billion a year- paying for itself after only one year is the true accomplishment here

    • @russelllukenbill
      @russelllukenbill 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      NASA's budget for three weeks. What a joke.

    • @emrefifty5281
      @emrefifty5281 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      Because it was built with Slave Labour without any Safety Regulations lol

    • @chosenone5536
      @chosenone5536 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@cojack5080 lol...nfl owners don't make that much...look at the green bay packers. they made less than $100m.

    • @cojack5080
      @cojack5080 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@chosenone5536 wrong reply bud, I didn't mention the NFl

  • @toenailcheeseman
    @toenailcheeseman 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Anyone know the name of the background song at 9:00 ??