Gdańsk Falowiec: The World's Biggest Apartment Block?

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  • Опубліковано 13 тра 2024
  • Today this channel asks another vitally important question: where should I live if I want to have the largest possible number of neighbours living with me in the same building? I went to beautiful Gdańsk in northern Poland, where they might just have the answer...

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  • @juvemaniakk1o
    @juvemaniakk1o 3 роки тому +862

    Fun fact about this block -you can actualy catch a bus from one end to another ... and there is a stop in the middle xD

    • @mjl8115
      @mjl8115 3 роки тому +83

      S: Halo, Pani Kasiu, pożyczy Pani szklankę mąki?
      K: No pewnie, przywiozę kolejnym autobusem.
      N (a neighbor): halo, Ms Kasia, could you lend me a glass of flour?
      K (Kasia living in the same building): Sure, I'll bring catching another bus.

    • @ittohere
      @ittohere 3 роки тому +3

      XDDD

    • @jacksonmacmanus1001
      @jacksonmacmanus1001 Рік тому +3

      the Karl-Marx Hof has 4 tram stops down it

    • @AGKoole
      @AGKoole Рік тому

      Our appartment blocks has also three bus stops. One on the north, east and southside. But here it is not that big and long.

  • @Silvarret
    @Silvarret 4 роки тому +953

    God I love this channel. Glad the algorithm brought us all here.

    • @TheTimTraveller
      @TheTimTraveller  4 роки тому +75

      Silvarret! What an honour and pleasure to see you here. Big fan of your artistry since the old "Dutch City" Cities:Skylines videos :)

    • @timohalofan
      @timohalofan 4 роки тому +9

      Well then didn't expect to see you here

    • @Silvarret
      @Silvarret 4 роки тому +25

      @@TheTimTraveller I'm honoured that you've seen it! I hope you don't mind if I say this here, but a new Dutch planning series - backed up by a now slightly more knowledgeable me - is in the works! While I'm at it - thank you for your amazing videos.

    • @DennisLongstream
      @DennisLongstream 4 роки тому

      Same here, I accidentally came on this channel because I was looking for videos about the Afsluitdijk, and I love it!

    • @DrZark
      @DrZark 4 роки тому +2

      Yes praise the algorithm.... And now I need to go watch the Karl Marx Hof Video....

  • @LuPoj
    @LuPoj 4 роки тому +454

    I admire your effort to pronounce Polish words. Pretty good job! I am so happy you visited Poland. Come back anytime!

    • @anakoART
      @anakoART 3 роки тому +3

      O, miło zobaczyć Twój komentarz randomowo w internecie! :D

    • @generalfeldmarschall3781
      @generalfeldmarschall3781 3 роки тому +1

      But Danzig is not in poland ...

    • @anakoART
      @anakoART 3 роки тому +14

      @@generalfeldmarschall3781 It's "Gdańsk" ;) and it's in Poland!

    • @krzywygeneral
      @krzywygeneral 3 роки тому +3

      @@anakoART well, for some Polish citizens it is still "Danzig", especially in Silesia, but it doesn't change the fact it is in Poland.

  • @13jmilne
    @13jmilne 4 роки тому +710

    In terms of percentages, Blok P in Nuuk, Greenland, housed 1% of the population of the country before it was demolished. The population of Greenland is only about 50 thousand, though, so 1% is only 500 people.

    • @TheTimTraveller
      @TheTimTraveller  4 роки тому +171

      Oof, great shout Jeff! That's a new one on me. Just looked it up on Wikipedia - it reminds me a bit of Whittier, Alaska, where the whole town (200 people) lives in one building. Blok P would definitely win the prize in terms of percentage of national population. Shame they demolished it really, or I'd be booking tickets right over there to make a video about it...

    • @frankupton5821
      @frankupton5821 4 роки тому +16

      The local people hated it.

    • @AbiGail-ok7fc
      @AbiGail-ok7fc 4 роки тому +26

      In terms of % of population, the winner is probably the largest (in number of people) research station on Antarctica.

    • @The_NSeven
      @The_NSeven 4 роки тому +46

      @@TheTimTraveller Eeehhh, not so fast. In the Vatican you would only need a building to house at least 8 people to have it be more than 1%.

    • @jesusgonzalez6715
      @jesusgonzalez6715 4 роки тому +2

      @@AbiGail-ok7fc That would be McMurdo (in the summer)

  • @OleksandrRiabyi
    @OleksandrRiabyi 4 роки тому +863

    Finally you've got your very first ukrainian subscriber who may help you to do some research. :D One of the biggest ukrainian TV channels says that the apartment block in Lutsk has 15 000 windows, 170 entrances and about 3000 apartments with 10 000 residents living inside. According to Wikipedia block is 2 775 meters long. The whole structure combines 40 buildings with 5-9 floors each.

    • @Mgoblagulkablong
      @Mgoblagulkablong 3 роки тому +34

      Thank you for sharing! I found one even bigger apartment building and one of similar size, there might be more in China but I couldn't find any numbers for chinese buildings, so the biggest numbers for apartments / residents I could find were:
      Kiew Teremki (4490 / 12000), Kudrovo Oblastnaya ( 3708 / ? )

    • @solderbuff
      @solderbuff 3 роки тому +51

      Fun fact: the Lutsk building is not only one of the largest, it's also admittedly one of the uggliest 😂. But the upside is that they supposedly offer rooftop excursions there.
      As for why Kiew Teremki and Lutsk Vulyk have this weird shape - this is because it allowed the architects to minimize distances to schools, shops and bus stops. All of these distances were regulated in the Soviet Union by the state norms.

    • @joeydr1497
      @joeydr1497 3 роки тому +13

      @@Mgoblagulkablong your never gonna get info on anything in China

    • @ErtywekPL
      @ErtywekPL 3 роки тому

      @@joeydr1497 why?

    • @Piteroski
      @Piteroski 3 роки тому

      Arent you jewish ?? Riabyi means rabin in Polish and rabbi in English

  • @siriusczech
    @siriusczech 3 роки тому +98

    Funny fact about this building - it has corridors leading trough the whole building, but due to length of the building they are not in the same floor number through the whole project. So when you would go in on one side, take the elevator to 8th floor, you would find yourself on the other side in 10th floor or so
    I don´t know exact numbers of floor and there use to be only like 5th and 9th floor connected for safety reasons in such buildings, but I remember there is about 2 numbers difference between ends here.

    • @jackpower4457
      @jackpower4457 2 роки тому +10

      Reminds be of my high school which was built on a hill and had 5 floors, all with ground level entrances. I wonder what the building with the most "ground floors" is?

  • @Andrew-jv7tc
    @Andrew-jv7tc 4 роки тому +237

    This channel is great because it makes me want to ditch all the normal stuff to see in places and just go find the largest buildings, holes, and weird border railways, which honestly, is a lot more fulfilling.
    Like when I suggested to my professor that our bus enter Luxembourg through Schengen and then everyone was awoken from their naps to look at an ok monument while I had a religious experience.

    • @berndhoffmann7703
      @berndhoffmann7703 4 роки тому +4

      😂🤣🎉👏 guess you have visited Maastricht before?

    • @Andrew-jv7tc
      @Andrew-jv7tc 4 роки тому +4

      You bet, although I saw the normal stuff that time. It’s a lovely day trip from Brussels.

    • @hopepunk6847
      @hopepunk6847 4 роки тому +2

      Yeah, labour - and especially the kinds most of us wind up forced into - is pretty unfulfilling at best, compared to living life. Plus, we could totally help with stuff and do odds and ends that need doing while there. Wager would do more good, too. Oh well; in a better world, once we rise to it.

    • @romaniangamer1
      @romaniangamer1 4 роки тому

      What religious experience did you have man

  • @magic71
    @magic71 3 роки тому +30

    I grew up in this building, dead smack in the middle of it! Thank you for bringing up some good memories from my childhood. Love your videos, keep up the good work!

  • @JoeMama-tq2eq
    @JoeMama-tq2eq 4 роки тому +25

    I mean, if you count the old Kowloon walled city as one building that was probably once bigger, but as for modern buildings I don’t think there is anything better. Really enjoying your channel btw, keep up the good work 👍

  • @uscars9207
    @uscars9207 4 роки тому +38

    Born in Poland 34 yrs ago, been few times here and there in Gdańsk and never heard about falowiec before...till learnt about it just now from a British guy! Got to love that channel...:D

    • @Piteroski
      @Piteroski 3 роки тому

      Where are you from (city) ? Skąd jesteś ?

    • @KaKtuSeeK
      @KaKtuSeeK 3 роки тому +1

      @@Piteroski pewnie radom XDD

    • @hwdp2558
      @hwdp2558 3 роки тому

      Ja jestem z Pomorza i byłem sporo razy w Gdańsku a też niesłyszałem.

    • @wladjarosz345
      @wladjarosz345 3 роки тому

      this guy is French-made...

  • @amkval
    @amkval 4 роки тому +298

    I might have a contender
    Ulitsa Grizodubovoy 4, Moscow
    18 floors and about 690m long
    I have no idea how much plumbing though

    • @amkval
      @amkval 4 роки тому +4

      @@johncoolberg thanks! My russian is non existent, so it was a little hard to find information about it

    • @Fred_the_1996
      @Fred_the_1996 4 роки тому +11

      @@johncoolberg *only* 1241 apartments...

    • @stanislavkostarnov2157
      @stanislavkostarnov2157 4 роки тому +18

      @@johncoolberg soviet standards (what you were supposed to be allocated) were 12 meters per person, so it is not so tiny in comparison to some others in the area

    • @anic131313
      @anic131313 3 роки тому +10

      @@johncoolberg wait wait. 54m2 is tiny? I live in 37m2 with 2 other people and a cat. Next to me lives family of 5 with a dog. Tiny is my bed xD Or bathroom. Or will to live.
      (I mean, yeah it's not that huge, but depends on who is living there. 37m2 would be completely fine for a couple even with a kid)

    • @anic131313
      @anic131313 3 роки тому

      @@johncoolberg well in my block all apartments are almost the same. In my grandparent's block... things are nuts xd We have 3 bedroom apartament next to a 1 room apartament (+ bathroom in a separate room, but bedroom and kitchen in the same room, so 1 room apartment), so yeah. You might be right!

  • @Jazzaconda
    @Jazzaconda 4 роки тому +79

    I've said it before, and I'll stat it again! Great Channel!

    • @TheTimTraveller
      @TheTimTraveller  4 роки тому +5

      Thanks Jazzaconda!

    • @w2brad918
      @w2brad918 3 роки тому

      @@TheTimTraveller i think in Germany is the biggest

  • @mikeblatzheim2797
    @mikeblatzheim2797 4 роки тому +33

    Some Chinese blocks may be bigger, since they've started building apartment complexes consisting of several towers rising out of a 2 or 3-storey commercial section, filling an entire block. Meaning that you have a single building 500 metres long and 250 metres wide, with 10 or 14 towers of 15 to 20 storeys (or more), with a park in the middle, restaurants on the street and usually subterranean parking. They are especially common as newer developments in Northern Beijing around the 5th ring road (Huilongguan). Don't know if that counts though.

    • @philt4346
      @philt4346 4 роки тому +3

      I cannot comprehend the level of social engineering required to make those places tick.
      But thanks for the (entirely appropriate) density of information, Mike +

  • @KoW4LsKy
    @KoW4LsKy 3 роки тому +65

    It is stunning how well you can say messed up words like Przymorze.

    • @Tycini1
      @Tycini1 3 роки тому

      Pgymodgé

    • @sebastiankrajewski2029
      @sebastiankrajewski2029 3 роки тому

      messed up words?? it's virtually the the most common word here...get your facts straight please...

    • @MuppetsSh0w
      @MuppetsSh0w 3 роки тому +21

      @@sebastiankrajewski2029 Nie dla obcokrajowców baranie

  • @the_jurny3442
    @the_jurny3442 3 роки тому +269

    *_"Idź z psem dookoła bloku"_*

    • @Okoi05
      @Okoi05 3 роки тому +2

    • @adamwell1498
      @adamwell1498 3 роки тому +1

      xd

    • @ChuckNorris-fz3zi
      @ChuckNorris-fz3zi 3 роки тому +7

      Spacer z psem dookoła tego falowca to nie całe 2km 😀

    • @krzychu3940
      @krzychu3940 3 роки тому +7

      Pies to nic, mieszkam niedaleko, znajdź tu parking wolny.

  • @thomasmoll8822
    @thomasmoll8822 4 роки тому +28

    Someone will probably already have mentioned it:
    Le Lignon in Geneva is reportedly 1065m long, up to 12 floors high and houses thousands of residents (although the number might now be much lower than initially planned due to its aging population).

    • @bmxnev1
      @bmxnev1 3 роки тому +4

      en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Le_Lignon
      Ha! Like you said, I knew someone would have mentioned this place.
      2780 units according to wikipedia. I almost rented one once, but decided I wouldn't be able to get the pink floyd song out of my head!

    • @rachelcookie321
      @rachelcookie321 Рік тому +2

      That is made of three buildings though. We are looking for the biggest singular building.

  • @darrenwilson8042
    @darrenwilson8042 4 роки тому +18

    New to the Tim Traveller......where has it been??? Brilliant - quirky and interesting and superbly presented - deserves much wider viewing.

  • @marcinbisaga1678
    @marcinbisaga1678 3 роки тому +131

    - Honey I'm going on the walk with dog around the building, see you in 2 days.

    • @gracz24PL
      @gracz24PL 3 роки тому +2

      uunderated comment xD

  • @robbiedibble556
    @robbiedibble556 4 роки тому +2

    Found you channel 2 videos ago! And I'm delighted I did! 😊

  • @elizabethneave4000
    @elizabethneave4000 3 роки тому +2

    I love these, they're so funny and remembering which tv shows the music comes from! So glad this popped up.

  • @krcb197
    @krcb197 4 роки тому +1

    I really like this style of Tim’s video, the amusing commentary is what makes it for me.

  • @killermon117
    @killermon117 4 роки тому +7

    I enjoy all of your videos!

  • @robertszkorup7964
    @robertszkorup7964 3 роки тому +6

    10 July 2019- i miss the prepandemic times. Great videos, i like of them. Greatings from Poland, Katowice.

  • @philipfrancis7303
    @philipfrancis7303 3 роки тому +1

    So glad you mentioned this. I thought it was just me who considers this the most stunning building in Gdansk! Love it, and it raises a lot of questions for architects, such as do the residents feel happier living in what must feel like a long big village? Tourists, definately put it on your list of sights to see!

  • @worldspottingexhibit
    @worldspottingexhibit 3 роки тому +3

    I used to visit my aunt who lived near by this block during summers when I was young and I was shook by how massive it was year after year - thanks for this!

  • @mremumerm
    @mremumerm 4 роки тому +2

    wow. lovely. I have seen Mamutica in Zagreb which is only 5000 people, so new place to go and visit

  • @LuizSMatos-dr9tz
    @LuizSMatos-dr9tz 4 роки тому +3

    I am glad I've found this Channel. I Wonder however how is living in one of these massive buildings.
    I would try for while despite the fact I prefer houses. Thanks for this Channel.

  • @Misselfilmen
    @Misselfilmen 4 роки тому

    I love the quality of your content, the history you tell of such interesting places and the general theme. As an American I must say I yearn to travel to such beautiful places outside of the sterile and standardized environment of this country.
    Keep it up! The algorithm Gods have blessed you I see.

  • @mayagame
    @mayagame 3 роки тому +23

    Surprisingly it was quite nice to live in it, I used to for few years when I was maybe 3-10yrs old, nice memories! It was clean and safe, people grew nice flowers beside their balconies on the back. I could only see how it would turn into slum in many other places!

    • @jaibhatt2796
      @jaibhatt2796 3 роки тому +2

      Hi Maja you are lucky you live there it’s really very beautiful city I have been there ❤️👌🙏

    • @mayagame
      @mayagame 3 роки тому +3

      @@jaibhatt2796 I dont live there anymore, now Ireland, close to ocean ;) but love Gdansk for holidays!

    • @jaibhatt2796
      @jaibhatt2796 3 роки тому

      @@mayagame ok I also have been in Gdańsk ❤️so where are you from ?

    • @mayagame
      @mayagame 3 роки тому +1

      @@jaibhatt2796 ? Im form there like I said in first comment ;)

    • @jaibhatt2796
      @jaibhatt2796 3 роки тому

      @@mayagame ok so now you live in Ireland ?

  • @soin74
    @soin74 3 роки тому +3

    You pronounce things very well, well done. I used to live next to these blocks. It was a bit of a slum back in the 80. Impressive though, for sure. And indeed very close to the sea.

  • @rbybus4363
    @rbybus4363 3 роки тому +1

    Glad you enjoyed this hidden gem of my city! Have a nice day! :-)

  • @piotrhoff8264
    @piotrhoff8264 3 роки тому +1

    sensational movie about the wave in my hometown 👍tramwaj line 8, a great combination of two most beautiful beaches in Gdańsk, i.e. Stogi and Jelitkowa .... the journey takes an hour but you can get to know a bit of the history of the city of Gdańsk .... wave in Przymorze, Zaspa, Dolny Wrzeszcz around Gdańsk Shipyard, Main Railway Station, Dolne Miasto and Stogi ....
    thank you for the beautiful movie, best regards

  • @Terrus_38
    @Terrus_38 4 роки тому +10

    Dzień dobry :)

  • @Kw1q51lv3r
    @Kw1q51lv3r 4 роки тому +17

    Not sure if it counts as a single building by your reckoning, but the Pinnacle@Duxton in Singapore is 7 50-storey tower blocks linked by continuous public park skybridges in the middle and at the top. 1848 apartments, the skybridges stretch 500m along a winding path in a 2.5 hectare plot. no information on how many residents, or how much plumbin.

    • @PuzzleQodec
      @PuzzleQodec 4 роки тому

      I was thinking of that one too! It's enormous even on Google Earth.

    • @Banom7a
      @Banom7a 4 роки тому

      and the tallest public housing, too (built by HDB)

  • @regular-joe
    @regular-joe 4 роки тому +1

    If I hadn't already subscribed, I would have after this video! Golden!

  • @222maggs
    @222maggs 3 роки тому +9

    Every building that's that kind of shape in Poland is called Falowiec. I urge you to go to a town called Kłodzko where there is a building with 101 entrances. The street name is Rodzinna - which translates to Family street.

    • @karolwroblewski3259
      @karolwroblewski3259 3 роки тому

      Ciekawe...nigdy nie słyszałem żeby był taki budynek w tyn mieście 🤔

  • @VauxhaIIOpel
    @VauxhaIIOpel 3 роки тому +6

    The wavy shape of the building also makes sure the damn thing doesn't fall over. It's 11 floors tall but like 50m thick. It'd topple over if it was flat.

  • @nisiu007
    @nisiu007 3 роки тому +241

    Pozdrawiam wszystkich gdańszczan, którzy to oglądają

    • @Progres100
      @Progres100 3 роки тому +8

      A myślałem że ja jedyny jesten

    • @zuzanna3021
      @zuzanna3021 3 роки тому +6

      Pozdrawiam z Gdanska

    • @DrKnow186
      @DrKnow186 3 роки тому +5

      KtorZy musza się wstydzić za coś tak paskudnego

    • @Progres100
      @Progres100 3 роки тому +2

      @@DrKnow186 +1

    • @Colidace
      @Colidace 3 роки тому +4

      @@DrKnow186 Nie musimy sie niczego wstydzic, zobacz jak wyglada Detroit lub San Francisco teraz w USA.

  • @Robert89349
    @Robert89349 3 роки тому

    Your pronunciation of Gdansk as Goodansk is the reason I gave a like to the video.

  • @utetopia1620
    @utetopia1620 4 роки тому +32

    In SimCity2000, this would be an Arcology.

  • @hoshimaruhajime7933
    @hoshimaruhajime7933 3 роки тому

    Congratulations you have your first American subscriber that's from New York and love or like your content

  • @frankupton5821
    @frankupton5821 4 роки тому +4

    The places you go to are much more interesting than most of the touristy places, where what you mostly see is other tourists, as well as stuff that was important centuries ago.

  • @L3GHO5T
    @L3GHO5T 3 роки тому +6

    That’s absolutely cool as hell. I’m Canadian and I’ve never seen anything even remotely close to this. Thank you!

    • @rhalfik
      @rhalfik 3 роки тому +4

      @Ork It's because we never had a revolution and historically our struggle was nation-based instead of class-based. We were under centuries-long of occupation, including communist times which to us were just an extension of Russian occupation. The last Polish feudal peasant died in 20th century, and mentally we are now closer to this system than the westerners.
      But to say that most of Poles are like that is very rude and maybe even not true. The mentality is divided between generations and it's difficult to understand why older generations are different to a young outsider with limited insight. Recent presidential elections showed that young poles are predominantly progressive.

    • @rhalfik
      @rhalfik 3 роки тому +2

      ​@Ork Correct, but What I'm pointing to is that it was the young generation that took it to the streets. If you can find breakdown of the election, you'll see that the elected conservative candidate was less popular among sub-30-year-olds, who by major part voted cultural left.

  • @berndhoffmann7703
    @berndhoffmann7703 4 роки тому +28

    @Tim an interesting building with a history: "Prora" on the island of Rügen - it would have consisted of 8 blocs of 550m length each, but it was never finished (Nazi Architecture), partly blasted, reused as army quarter by the Russian army, NVA and Bundeswehr, now it hosts the "One World Camp Youth Hostel" - allegedly the biggest youth hostel, hotels, holiday apartments etc. Maybe something to report on

    • @RalphEllis
      @RalphEllis 3 роки тому +1

      Ah yes, because HitIer was a socialist. He had a:
      Prora socialist holiday camp
      VW socialist car.
      Gustav socialist cruise ship.
      Autobahn socialist road system
      etc etc.
      RE

  • @gianlucagaleotti8917
    @gianlucagaleotti8917 3 роки тому +2

    nice video. check also Corviale in Rome. it has a main 990m body of 9 floors + underground parking with a connected second structure of like 300m X 3/5 floors. it has 1300 appartenente but also a whole floor of shops (which was occupied by people for a long time) and other things

  • @davidanalyst671
    @davidanalyst671 3 роки тому +1

    This was a great vid, but some of us are stuck in quarantine, USA, and we want to see more of Europe!! Can you put more footage of the other places? Maybe be like the apartment building is at minute 15 or something. Thanks!!

  • @leoboivin3224
    @leoboivin3224 2 роки тому +5

    There actually is a building longer than the Karl Marx-hof in Fermont, QC : the "mur-écran" or "Place Daviault", which is 1300 metres long. It has 300+ appartments, but also municipal offices, a community radio station and stores.
    It was built in the remote town of Fermont to block the very fast winds from the rest of the town

  • @tractakid
    @tractakid 4 роки тому

    Watched this video a few weeks ago. Went on a spontaneous trip to Gdansk this weekend. Literally walked down this road. I had no clue! I only just made the connection now 😂

  • @ndaruharv655
    @ndaruharv655 4 роки тому +1

    I like your channel. Its so informative and fun to watch. But what makes it funnier is that you looks and sounds like Benji from Mission Impossible movie.
    Please keep posting videos 😁.
    Greetings from Indonesia

  • @danielforget9311
    @danielforget9311 4 роки тому +4

    How about the "wall" in Fermont (Quebec), it might be only 1.3km long but its a huge self-contained structure containing apartments, post office, bowling, arena, stores, schools, bars, a hotel, restaurants, a supermarket and swimming pool which shelters a community of smaller apartment buildings and homes on its leeward side. The only thing they don't have is a gas station 😊 . The structure was designed to be a windscreen to the rest of the town.

    • @lagtvfan2128
      @lagtvfan2128 3 роки тому +1

      Je suis venu vérifier si quelqu'un avait déjà mentionné le mur.

  • @martinesproduction
    @martinesproduction 3 роки тому +1

    Great trip and experience. Imagine having a walk around the block with a dog, approx 30 minutes :)

  • @Bhartiya969
    @Bhartiya969 4 роки тому +4

    This could be the building/residence were after staying 50 years in the same building two neighbors never seen each other.
    They should add school at one end and store on other so that children can go to the school by walking on corridor and people can bring shopping cart to their home.

  • @BerndVonTrollhausen
    @BerndVonTrollhausen 4 роки тому +37

    You might be interested in "Die Schlange" (The Snake) at Schlangenbaderstr in Berlin. It isnt larger ('only' 1215 apartments, 46m high on 550m length) but one of the residents is the Autobahn.

    • @bonjeben4750
      @bonjeben4750 4 роки тому +3

      But whenever I go inside that thing or even through the car park below I get the "I might get stabbed here" vibe. Still a very interesting (and ugly) building.

  • @darius2640
    @darius2640 3 роки тому +16

    the residents know very well the feeling of being all in all just another brick in the wall

    • @syntaxerror8955
      @syntaxerror8955 2 роки тому

      It can still be a sweet home, despite not being in Alabama, and the sky can still be so blue.
      Maybe someone named Luka lives on the second floor.
      Someone else there may be playing the guitar on the MTV, getting money for nothin' and chicks for free.
      Sweet dreams are made of this. Who am I to disagree? I've traveled the world and the seven seas. Everybody's lookin' for something.

  • @jk5042
    @jk5042 3 роки тому

    Great video

  • @Illyrian_Adventures
    @Illyrian_Adventures 3 роки тому +2

    the "Mamutica" (little mammouth) building in Zagreb is also home to around 5000 people and has about 1160+ apartments. Its only 250m long thought but is 19 stories high and has a plateau across its lenght.

  • @n00b2b3r
    @n00b2b3r 4 роки тому +1

    Great video! Have you ever thought about doing the worlds largest office building or commercial building?

    • @themoviedealers
      @themoviedealers 4 роки тому

      I recall reading in the Guiness Book decades ago that the largest building (commercial) based on cubic footage interior space, was an airplane hangar/assembly building owned by Boeing in the Seattle Washington USA area.

    • @Glove513
      @Glove513 3 роки тому

      The Movie Dealers They give tours. I stumbled upon a cool “phenomenon” when I went to the flight museum in Everett with an old WW2 airplane part I was trying to identify. I was immediately given a behind the scenes shop tour of the place and saw stuff no one gets to see. Same thing happened at other museums as well. Got to crawl through a B-29 that was off limits to the public. Free tour of a B-17, etc.

  • @didierjud8086
    @didierjud8086 4 роки тому +3

    Another candidate is a Building near Geneva, Switzerland. It is named "le Lignon" (in the city of Vernier). The building is 1km long and includes about 2800 appartments. Originally it was built for about 10'000 people.

    • @GVASpotter
      @GVASpotter 4 роки тому

      I was looking for that comment! I exactly thought of Le Lignon while viewing this video

    • @Vinyacardo
      @Vinyacardo 4 роки тому

      Having lived in Le Lignon I was thinking about this one too. Wikipedia claims it has 2780 apartments. There are two towers however, but I'm pretty sure that would still be more than the 1782 flats of the Falowiec. With 75 contiguous street numbers with at least 11-15 floors, it's at least a very strong contender.

  • @nwcitroen2222
    @nwcitroen2222 4 роки тому

    This charming episode of The Tim Traveller has been brought to you by the letter G and the letter R...gladiators- ready!
    Which links to the Judith Chalmers-related tune by virtue of them all having an orangey skin tone...?

  • @AlphaProGamer
    @AlphaProGamer 4 роки тому +2

    I’ve stayed in this exact building last year during my visit, weird to see it in a video now 😁

    • @frofrofrofro900
      @frofrofrofro900 3 роки тому

      Airbnb? I hope you spent nice time in Poland

  • @michaelcarey
    @michaelcarey 4 роки тому +2

    50K subscribers! Seems like only last week I saw it tick over to 10K. Hang on, it WAS only last week! :-)

  • @magdalenawojtenko6112
    @magdalenawojtenko6112 3 роки тому +1

    I used to there for 2years! In fact, I didn't know any of my neighbours. But falowiec is still great, love it.

  • @frofrofrofro900
    @frofrofrofro900 3 роки тому +1

    Greetings from Tricity in Poland 😁 i am.from Cracow but now we live by the sea , 10 min by car from this place 👍

  • @gymnastalexliang
    @gymnastalexliang 3 роки тому +1

    So glad I found this video - I actually visited the Falowiec in Gdansk when I was there because it was featured in the American reality TV programme The Amazing Race.

  • @Dangbroo
    @Dangbroo 4 роки тому +1

    It's always nice to see my city on english channel

  • @yannick1220
    @yannick1220 3 роки тому

    Very good video. I think Le Lignon, near Geneva is bigger. 1065 meters long and 15 floors.

  • @DV-13
    @DV-13 4 роки тому +5

    I live in a house which has 3708 apartments, 20-25 storeys and is around 1 km long if you unwrap it. Plumbing length is unimaginable. Russia, Kudrovo, Oblastnaya 1. I don't think I've seen any bigger.

    • @Mgoblagulkablong
      @Mgoblagulkablong 3 роки тому

      Wow, that is huge. Are those numbers for the whole apartment complex or just one single building?

    • @DV-13
      @DV-13 3 роки тому +1

      @@Mgoblagulkablong the whole complex is one building. It has 35 entrances and was being built for 5 years in 4 waves, but it's still administratevly one building. "Fun" fact is that I have to pay fees for repairs, because the oldest part of the house is 7 years old, even though I live in a part which is only 3, and you have to pay when a building turns 5.

    • @Mgoblagulkablong
      @Mgoblagulkablong 3 роки тому

      @@DV-13 wow, someone needs to make a video on this

    • @hydrocharis1
      @hydrocharis1 Рік тому

      ua-cam.com/video/n-TwGOTCM9c/v-deo.html

  • @rfv618
    @rfv618 4 роки тому +1

    Parque Central complex in Caracas has eight 45 story height residential towers with 317 apartments each. They are all connected by sky bridges at the top so you could argue they are a single structure and thus the biggest residential building? However I don't advice visiting Venezuela any time soon.

  • @alexzamer7679
    @alexzamer7679 4 роки тому +25

    Ok now you have to visit Lutsk and get to the bottom of this mess!

    • @alexzamer7679
      @alexzamer7679 4 роки тому +3

      @@rsmth43
      No, no bald has now become a corrupted Russophile, I miss his old videos about India and Belarus :(

  • @TheHiszpanTV
    @TheHiszpanTV 3 роки тому

    How crazy is it that, i got this recommended to me - I'm from Gdansk and I know exactly where it is, but i've not lived in Poland for about 10 years, that's still so dope tho.

  • @alcamto
    @alcamto 3 роки тому +1

    Fremont, Quebec in Canada has a very long building in a very small town. Built to break the wind.

  • @Littlemelaniefan123
    @Littlemelaniefan123 9 місяців тому +1

    I’m currently in the building right now.there are 7500 neighbors.(August 12,2023,11:12 pm)

  • @ilpc6811
    @ilpc6811 4 роки тому +1

    Do many buildings connected via underground common structure count? Helio City (헬리오시티), Seoul KR is an apartment complex consists of 80+ buildings and 9500+ apartments. It shares a massive 3-story underground parking lot which covers the whole ground. Its kinda insane.

  • @goodluck1070
    @goodluck1070 3 роки тому

    thanks for video.
    i think we can compare these buildings by theirsquare: number of floors multiplied on squere of that building

  • @ajgelado
    @ajgelado 3 роки тому

    Florazar 2, at Cullera, is one of the biggest apartment buildings of Spain. It has about 900 apartments in a single wave-shaped building 190 meters long, 15 meters wide and 21 floors high. As it is a vacation resort, few people live in it permanently, but in summer it can house about 4,000 people.

  • @cigarrette1400
    @cigarrette1400 3 роки тому +1

    "Le Lignon" in Vernier, Switzerland, is bigger around 1,07 km, more than 1800 appartments

  • @kubek77
    @kubek77 3 роки тому +1

    Greetings from Poland ☺

    • @jaibhatt2796
      @jaibhatt2796 3 роки тому

      Poland 🇵🇱 is very beautiful country I have been Gdańsk

  • @icreatedanaccountforthis1852
    @icreatedanaccountforthis1852 4 роки тому +6

    That place has more people than the town I grew up in.

  • @finlaylavery8408
    @finlaylavery8408 2 роки тому

    Oh its the Gladiators theme tune! That one took me a minute.

  • @shagrat6686
    @shagrat6686 3 роки тому

    So ... right now ... i seee ... this building from my window ... , for ... 16 years .... and i never knew that ... just wow

  • @koningbolo4700
    @koningbolo4700 4 роки тому +1

    Near Gdansk is a canal without locks...It has though railroad tracks which hoist boats up and down inclines...hope you have seen those and possibly are planning a video about... google for the Elblag Canal.
    PS: Falowiec could also be translated (though loosely) as Wiggle Room...

    • @TheTimTraveller
      @TheTimTraveller  4 роки тому

      Yes someone else mentioned the Elblag, I'd love to do a video there some time!

  • @wiebedej04
    @wiebedej04 4 роки тому +45

    You love trains... You love big buildings...
    I'm guessing that the next video will be about the biggest train station?

    • @TheTimTraveller
      @TheTimTraveller  4 роки тому +24

      Haha, guess I have to book some flights to New York then :D

    • @haraldgrundetjern2184
      @haraldgrundetjern2184 4 роки тому +7

      @@TheTimTraveller then you should also check Canfranc International railway station, in the spanish pyrenees its main bulding is 240 meters long and is the 2nd largest railway station in europe

    • @josephdadey
      @josephdadey 4 роки тому +9

      @@TheTimTraveller It would be awesome to have you visit NYC. Wait until our evil dictator is ousted though.

    • @photograffael5214
      @photograffael5214 4 роки тому +3

      Leipzig Hauptbahnhof, built in 1915 is a recommendation of me. Even though it's not the largest train station in Europe it's big, and beautiful

    • @xeroxquantum
      @xeroxquantum 4 роки тому +2

      @@TheTimTraveller Don't you mean Shinjuku Station in Tokyo?

  • @wportegijs
    @wportegijs 3 роки тому

    You might want to look into Nuovo Corviale
    Technically not sure if it counts but as a whole it is a almost a km long. And unofficially (Italy) a lot of appartements.
    Situated in Rome so another reason to go there

  • @leehaseley2164
    @leehaseley2164 4 роки тому +2

    This video was stupendous in how pointless it was. But I loved every bloody minute of it. Great work Tim.

    • @TheTimTraveller
      @TheTimTraveller  4 роки тому +1

      Haha, yep, that's this channel for you... :) Thanks!

  • @msw2312
    @msw2312 3 роки тому +1

    That building in Lutsk is called Beehive House, or Будинок-вулик - there's some info about in on Ukrainian wiki.

  • @Codraroll
    @Codraroll 3 роки тому +2

    There is a massive residential complex in Pyongyang too, which may compete for the title. 38.976277 N, 125.75114 E. Google Maps doesn't make it very easy to count the number of stories, but it's more than 20, and the building is some 600 meters long.

    • @enchantedspider8842
      @enchantedspider8842 3 роки тому

      found it too, based on the satelite image its 18 stories high

  • @stieeleon99
    @stieeleon99 4 роки тому +13

    The Autobahnüberbauung Schlangenbader Straße has 1785 Appartments and a six lane highway runs through it all the way. It may be bigger.

    • @TheTimTraveller
      @TheTimTraveller  4 роки тому +12

      Ooh - thanks for the tip! Yes that might be bigger, and even if it isn't, it still looks like an interesting thing to go and see

    • @RegebroRepairs
      @RegebroRepairs 4 роки тому

      @@TheTimTraveller The main building has "only" 1064 apartments, and it's kinda split in two... So it becomes opinion again, I guess.

    • @Weisior
      @Weisior 4 роки тому

      When "apartment is located on the street" gets a new meaning...

  • @snailie
    @snailie 3 роки тому

    Geez... I was literally shopping across the street last summer and NEVER even noticed that building!

    • @rudzwal2314
      @rudzwal2314 3 роки тому

      I see this building everyday, I live in Gdansk

  • @nicks4597
    @nicks4597 3 роки тому +1

    I lived in Gdansk a few years in one of those next door

  • @micesserono2966
    @micesserono2966 3 роки тому +2

    In Geneva, Switzerland you have Le Lignon :
    1.1 km - 6800 residents (2010)
    en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Le_Lignon

  • @alex-solo
    @alex-solo 4 роки тому +4

    You can find even bigger residential buildings in Kyiv (more apartments than in Lutsk one), there's two of them just next to each other, one of them has approximately 8k residents, and the other has about 12k. I lived next to them almost my entire life. If you are curious to see them, I would like to show around.

    • @TheTimTraveller
      @TheTimTraveller  4 роки тому +1

      Hi Alex - thanks, I might take you up on that offer one day! What road are the buildings on? I'd like to take a look on Google maps

    • @alex-solo
      @alex-solo 4 роки тому +1

      The Tim Traveller, the biggest one is on Akademika Zabolotnoho st and the smaller one (but not that small) is on Akademika Hlushkova st. They kind of 90 degrees to each other, but they are not straight and more like hexagonal shaped. You can find them here: goo.gl/maps/JUCiCCQbmXQfixcs8

    • @Mgoblagulkablong
      @Mgoblagulkablong 3 роки тому

      @@TheTimTraveller I found some numbers online, apparently the bigger of the two alone has 4490 apartments and over 12000 residents. Maybe the world's biggest.

    • @iamarizonaball2642
      @iamarizonaball2642 Рік тому

      Anyone wanna commission a 1 mile long building with literal transport just to get to points in the building? Basically the line, but a lot smaller and not funded by oil and corrupt governments?

  • @naruciakk
    @naruciakk 3 роки тому

    Holy shit, it's my city, how nice :D
    And it's actually a district of my childhood, Falowiec was always the big wall that separated our part of Przymorze from the other one.

    • @naruciakk
      @naruciakk 3 роки тому

      It's actually pretty strange to look on this building as some special place, because it's so natural

  • @TheDuke4100
    @TheDuke4100 4 роки тому +2

    what is the piano music at 4:45? ive heard it around for years and I lov it

    • @robdickerson8697
      @robdickerson8697 4 роки тому +1

      It's from the TV show 'wish you were here'.

    • @rongardener4142
      @rongardener4142 4 роки тому

      It's called "The Carnival", and was written (and originally recorded) by Gordon Giltrap.
      I don't know who's playing on this version, though.

  • @thepatriot3341
    @thepatriot3341 3 роки тому +1

    Hi everybody from Gdańsk! 🇵🇱

  • @robertzerkowski4522
    @robertzerkowski4522 3 роки тому

    I lived in Gdansk for 8 years, never thought someone would make a video of this apartment building that I found comically too long lmao

  • @Blaa_Boi
    @Blaa_Boi 4 роки тому +386

    2019: Come to Poland, the beaches are lovely and not full of Brits.
    2020: Cholerny angielski rujnuje nasze plaże

    • @janjurkiewicz9317
      @janjurkiewicz9317 4 роки тому +49

      More like "cholerni anglicy rujnują nasze plaże" XD

    • @remlatzargonix1329
      @remlatzargonix1329 4 роки тому +12

      Jan Jurkiewicz ......sure, that's easy for you to say?

    • @koningbolo4700
      @koningbolo4700 4 роки тому +5

      Come to Poland, where the men are men, and the boats go tsjoe tjsoe (on the Elblag Canal)

    • @RobFeldkamp
      @RobFeldkamp 4 роки тому +15

      @@koningbolo4700 ''where the men are men'' ...I laughed until i realized it is actually noteworthy these days :(

    • @hellelujahh
      @hellelujahh 4 роки тому +12

      Yup, as Jan pointed out, Google Translate didn't quite catch the subtlety 😁
      It seems that it translated "the English" as the language rather than the people. Jan's version is correct.

  • @MrGreatplum
    @MrGreatplum 3 роки тому +1

    I’m a town planner - this looks like a challenge... I wonder what the good people of Surrey would think about it :)

  • @IlTrojo
    @IlTrojo 3 роки тому

    Have you investigated the Biscione complex in Genoa, Italy?

  • @terrencewalsh9098
    @terrencewalsh9098 4 роки тому +2

    Tim, this video has 9 dislikes against 1,5000+ likes. Good stuff.

  • @stefcio75
    @stefcio75 3 роки тому

    Hi ,check the serpentone(big snake),in the corviale area in rome.It's a 950meters long 9 floors High monster.thanks