Gdańsk Falowiec: The World's Biggest Apartment Block?
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- Опубліковано 30 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...
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
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.
XDDD
the Karl-Marx Hof has 4 tram stops down it
Our appartment blocks has also three bus stops. One on the north, east and southside. But here it is not that big and long.
God I love this channel. Glad the algorithm brought us all here.
Silvarret! What an honour and pleasure to see you here. Big fan of your artistry since the old "Dutch City" Cities:Skylines videos :)
Well then didn't expect to see you here
@@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.
Same here, I accidentally came on this channel because I was looking for videos about the Afsluitdijk, and I love it!
Yes praise the algorithm.... And now I need to go watch the Karl Marx Hof Video....
I admire your effort to pronounce Polish words. Pretty good job! I am so happy you visited Poland. Come back anytime!
O, miło zobaczyć Twój komentarz randomowo w internecie! :D
But Danzig is not in poland ...
@@generalfeldmarschall3781 It's "Gdańsk" ;) and it's in Poland!
@@anakoART well, for some Polish citizens it is still "Danzig", especially in Silesia, but it doesn't change the fact it is in Poland.
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.
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...
The local people hated it.
In terms of % of population, the winner is probably the largest (in number of people) research station on Antarctica.
@@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%.
@@AbiGail-ok7fc That would be McMurdo (in the summer)
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.
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?
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.
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 / ? )
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.
@@Mgoblagulkablong your never gonna get info on anything in China
@@joeydr1497 why?
Arent you jewish ?? Riabyi means rabin in Polish and rabbi in English
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!
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.
😂🤣🎉👏 guess you have visited Maastricht before?
You bet, although I saw the normal stuff that time. It’s a lovely day trip from Brussels.
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.
What religious experience did you have man
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 👍
I might have a contender
Ulitsa Grizodubovoy 4, Moscow
18 floors and about 690m long
I have no idea how much plumbing though
@@johncoolberg thanks! My russian is non existent, so it was a little hard to find information about it
@@johncoolberg *only* 1241 apartments...
@@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
@@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)
@@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!
*_"Idź z psem dookoła bloku"_*
xd
Spacer z psem dookoła tego falowca to nie całe 2km 😀
Pies to nic, mieszkam niedaleko, znajdź tu parking wolny.
J*bać psa, o siebie się martw.
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
Where are you from (city) ? Skąd jesteś ?
@@Piteroski pewnie radom XDD
Ja jestem z Pomorza i byłem sporo razy w Gdańsku a też niesłyszałem.
this guy is French-made...
It is stunning how well you can say messed up words like Przymorze.
Pgymodgé
messed up words?? it's virtually the the most common word here...get your facts straight please...
@@sebastiankrajewski2029 Nie dla obcokrajowców baranie
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.
I cannot comprehend the level of social engineering required to make those places tick.
But thanks for the (entirely appropriate) density of information, Mike +
I've said it before, and I'll stat it again! Great Channel!
Thanks Jazzaconda!
@@TheTimTraveller i think in Germany is the biggest
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).
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!
That is made of three buildings though. We are looking for the biggest singular building.
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!
Hi Maja you are lucky you live there it’s really very beautiful city I have been there ❤️👌🙏
@@jaibhatt2796 I dont live there anymore, now Ireland, close to ocean ;) but love Gdansk for holidays!
@@mayagame ok I also have been in Gdańsk ❤️so where are you from ?
@@jaibhatt2796 ? Im form there like I said in first comment ;)
@@mayagame ok so now you live in Ireland ?
- Honey I'm going on the walk with dog around the building, see you in 2 days.
uunderated comment xD
New to the Tim Traveller......where has it been??? Brilliant - quirky and interesting and superbly presented - deserves much wider viewing.
Pozdrawiam wszystkich gdańszczan, którzy to oglądają
A myślałem że ja jedyny jesten
Pozdrawiam z Gdanska
KtorZy musza się wstydzić za coś tak paskudnego
@@DrKnow186 +1
@@DrKnow186 Nie musimy sie niczego wstydzic, zobacz jak wyglada Detroit lub San Francisco teraz w USA.
I love these, they're so funny and remembering which tv shows the music comes from! So glad this popped up.
10 July 2019- i miss the prepandemic times. Great videos, i like of them. Greatings from Poland, Katowice.
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!
I really like this style of Tim’s video, the amusing commentary is what makes it for me.
I enjoy all of your videos!
Found you channel 2 videos ago! And I'm delighted I did! 😊
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!
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.
Je suis venu vérifier si quelqu'un avait déjà mentionné le mur.
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.
I was thinking of that one too! It's enormous even on Google Earth.
and the tallest public housing, too (built by HDB)
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.
wow. lovely. I have seen Mamutica in Zagreb which is only 5000 people, so new place to go and visit
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.
Ciekawe...nigdy nie słyszałem żeby był taki budynek w tyn mieście 🤔
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
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.
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.
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
Dzień dobry :)
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.
Hi everybody from Gdańsk! 🇵🇱
@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
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
In SimCity2000, this would be an Arcology.
😏😏☑️😃😃
Glad you enjoyed this hidden gem of my city! Have a nice day! :-)
I used to there for 2years! In fact, I didn't know any of my neighbours. But falowiec is still great, love it.
Gdansk is very beautiful city
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.
That’s absolutely cool as hell. I’m Canadian and I’ve never seen anything even remotely close to this. Thank you!
@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.
@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.
Your pronunciation of Gdansk as Goodansk is the reason I gave a like to the video.
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
If I hadn't already subscribed, I would have after this video! Golden!
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.
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.
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.
I was looking for that comment! I exactly thought of Le Lignon while viewing this video
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.
Great trip and experience. Imagine having a walk around the block with a dog, approx 30 minutes :)
the residents know very well the feeling of being all in all just another brick in the wall
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.
Great video
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 😂
Congratulations you have your first American subscriber that's from New York and love or like your content
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.
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.
Greetings from Tricity in Poland 😁 i am.from Cracow but now we live by the sea , 10 min by car from this place 👍
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
Thank you - I'll do my best!
I’ve stayed in this exact building last year during my visit, weird to see it in a video now 😁
Airbnb? I hope you spent nice time in Poland
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.
It's always nice to see my city on english channel
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.
Wow, that is huge. Are those numbers for the whole apartment complex or just one single building?
@@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.
@@DV-13 wow, someone needs to make a video on this
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Very good video. I think Le Lignon, near Geneva is bigger. 1065 meters long and 15 floors.
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.
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!!
50K subscribers! Seems like only last week I saw it tick over to 10K. Hang on, it WAS only last week! :-)
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.
Ok now you have to visit Lutsk and get to the bottom of this mess!
@@rsmth43
No, no bald has now become a corrupted Russophile, I miss his old videos about India and Belarus :(
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...?
Fremont, Quebec in Canada has a very long building in a very small town. Built to break the wind.
The Autobahnüberbauung Schlangenbader Straße has 1785 Appartments and a six lane highway runs through it all the way. It may be bigger.
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
@@TheTimTraveller The main building has "only" 1064 apartments, and it's kinda split in two... So it becomes opinion again, I guess.
When "apartment is located on the street" gets a new meaning...
Greetings from Poland ☺
Poland 🇵🇱 is very beautiful country I have been Gdańsk
Great video! Have you ever thought about doing the worlds largest office building or commercial building?
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.
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.
This video was stupendous in how pointless it was. But I loved every bloody minute of it. Great work Tim.
Haha, yep, that's this channel for you... :) Thanks!
That place has more people than the town I grew up in.
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.
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.
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.
found it too, based on the satelite image its 18 stories high
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.
It's actually pretty strange to look on this building as some special place, because it's so natural
That building in Lutsk is called Beehive House, or Будинок-вулик - there's some info about in on Ukrainian wiki.
So ... right now ... i seee ... this building from my window ... , for ... 16 years .... and i never knew that ... just wow
Geez... I was literally shopping across the street last summer and NEVER even noticed that building!
I see this building everyday, I live in Gdansk
Oh its the Gladiators theme tune! That one took me a minute.
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.
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
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
@@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.
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?
Ten budynek jest tak ogromny że po jego 2 stronach (południowej i północnej) są zupełnie inne warunki klimatyczne.
It is surprisingly attractive.
thanks for video.
i think we can compare these buildings by theirsquare: number of floors multiplied on squere of that building
2019: Come to Poland, the beaches are lovely and not full of Brits.
2020: Cholerny angielski rujnuje nasze plaże
More like "cholerni anglicy rujnują nasze plaże" XD
Jan Jurkiewicz ......sure, that's easy for you to say?
Come to Poland, where the men are men, and the boats go tsjoe tjsoe (on the Elblag Canal)
@@koningbolo4700 ''where the men are men'' ...I laughed until i realized it is actually noteworthy these days :(
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.
Your Polish is on the spot!
what is the piano music at 4:45? ive heard it around for years and I lov it
It's from the TV show 'wish you were here'.
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.
"Le Lignon" in Vernier, Switzerland, is bigger around 1,07 km, more than 1800 appartments
G'day from Australia. My 13 year old daughter thinks the biggest apartment building is Novy Okkervil apartment complex in Saint Petersberg. Not an easy place to visit at present.
Have you heard of Le Lignon in Geneva ? It might be worth of your visit. 2,780 units for 6,000 residents. Not the biggest though, but sits well within the category of the Biggest Apartment Block.
As a Pole and architect, I'm still rooting for Falowiec to hold the title ;)
Hello from poland! 1:12 my mom works in that square brick building
Impressive! I wonder what would be the biggest in Britain. The Red Road flats in Glasgow housed 5000 but they've now been demolished!
Park Hill in Sheffield? 995 dwellings in linked buildings.
I’m a town planner - this looks like a challenge... I wonder what the good people of Surrey would think about it :)
I’m currently in the building right now.there are 7500 neighbors.(August 12,2023,11:12 pm)
Tim, this video has 9 dislikes against 1,5000+ likes. Good stuff.
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...
Yes someone else mentioned the Elblag, I'd love to do a video there some time!