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Ground News has merely demonstrated that right wing sources sensationalize every subject that they touch and will outright refuse to publish subjects that counter their narrative. The same cannot be said for other sources.
You might want to improve your research a bit. 11:43 the crest IV spaceship is from the Perry Rhodan universe and according to the decription which belings to the picture you have used, it had a crew of 5000 people, not 300.000. also, the picture was published in Perry Rhodan 421, released in 1969
I don't really have any interest to go to Las Vegas but I would love to go to the sphere. The studios where I guess they probably test things out is in Burbank California where I live and wow is it getting dirty but I think it's some really cool innovation It's taking theater in the round to a whole new level
Ignore those ol' fuddy-duddy naysayers, Stewart. Your opening line was funny, and so were the rest of your puns. Nothing wring with a little immature humor every now and then!
As soon as I heard that I knew it would be another one of Stewart’s unhinged videos. Not sure what broke him, but damn, I like it. Guess comedy comes with the Hicks name.
"Yes, I will make a video about your Sphere. Yes, I will quote all those facts. No, I will not try to denigrate the projects. I mean, other than mention the sponsor-you know Brilliant, or Ground News, or Factor. Haven't decided yet."
Brings me back to the 1970s when I was fascinated with geodesic domes ... including seriously considering living in one. Two things killed that dream: 1. House sized geodesic domes leak at the edges, the structural integrity is ruined if you run plumbing or wiring in the exterior wall/ceiling, and they're almost impossible to insulate well. 2. A different Stewart, of Whole Earth Catalog fame, also lost his love for domes, saying (I paraphrase) Vertical walls are useful. We are vertical,"
A sphere lit up with more electricity than any other building on the strip houses a theater that shows a film that lectures people about caring for the environment.
one of the startling moments of my youth has to do with the Expo 67 dome in Montreal. I went to art school in a campus in a medium rise building at Delorimier Ave and Sherbrooke St, on the 6-8 floors. We got used to looking south during our classes to where the old Expo site was, about 2 or 3 Kms south in the middle of the St Lawrence river. I was there the day the sphere burned, and had probably the best grandstand view over the conflagration. Wow. huge plumes of toxic black smoke from the plastic infill windows didn’t seem so ecological to us. the dome structure did what probably only a dome could: survive. But there were no discussions about restoring it, since you couldn’t fix that little flammability issue. before it went, the best thing was that each hex in the dome had a kind of parachute system that could retract or extend to blank that area from sun. Without this, the cost of cooling the dome would have been ruinous; but while it was there, the Expo dome (which was the US pavilion during Expo) was an incredibly impressive example of building, technology, and environmental design.
You forgot to cover the largest spherical building in the world (before the MSG Sphere) The Ericsson Globe/Avicii Arena in Stockholm. It's a multi-purpose arena that can host 16 000 people and i has an diameter of 110 meters and is 85 meters tall.
I think one of the main reasons the Coney Island Sphere Scam worked was because it seemed like it was fixing the main problem with most all of these designs: wasted space. Which is why I'm funding an exploratory tunneling project to dig down to the earth's core, hollow it out, and built luxury condominiums in an extravagant prototype inner-earth terraforming biome I like to call "Subcosm". Get in at the ground floor? Don't make me laugh. You're getting in at the FOUNDATION. With all the resources mined during the excavation process, we'll also be building the first self-funded space station. ... ... This is now reminding me of that Pinky and the Brain episode where they recreate Earth with papier mache and chia seeds, trick everyone on earth into visiting, using Free T-Shirts, and then REAL Earth gets destroyed by a meteor, meaning they now have to take over Chia-Earth.
Digging this editorial style! In the UA-cam-sphere - it's got to be difficult to fall somewhere between VOX, That one-guy-who-used-to-be-part-of-vox-and-kind-of-looks-like-you, Public Radio podcasts like DNA, Freakanomics, Radiolab, and the exhaustive tantric-learning and sharing of the Huberman Lab. Also, there's the by-the-numbers-spreadsheet-deadpan-surfer snark of CityNerd. Somehow, this fart-bubble stands out from all the others and I'm glad to have Stewart Hicks as one of my favorite content creators on youtube.
It shouldn't be a sphere but a some kind of structure based on catenary curves! Not a parabola, as what was thought for a long time, but the curve you get when you suspend a chain between two stable points, the curves followed in the construction of La Sagrada Familia, in Barcelona.
I don't remember when the humour started to creep through in your videos, but as it's increased I think I've appreciated your already great content even more
Ah, it's good to be reminded that people have always had weird architectural ideas. I suspect the Pantheon gets more of pass, though, both for having innovative and thoughtful design, as well as for the fact that while it's based on the proportions of a sphere, it's really a dome with a cylindrical base. I'd like to see a discussion of domes and why they do (or don't) work better than full spheres (my guess is that they're way easier to support).
All 52 White Houses in the United States are based on classicist architecture and their eggshaped domes are the best shape in existence for supporting massive loads.
Do you have any recommendations for any books related to some of the topics you cover? I have been really enjoying your videos and would like to learn more
How about a StewartSphere? ❤🙌🏼😇 I’d definitely be into your sphere, Stewart! But not as much as you & your incredible execution of another perfect video. Thanks again for fantastic Stewart. 🥰
The thing I like about Las Vegas Strip architecture is the theatrical design of it all. It’s just meant to awe and entertain. Nothing is permanent. Nothing is for posterity. Just like people, the buildings have a life span of well under 100 years. No developer pretends that there is something more important than right now. What are you appreciating RIGHT NOW. 😀
Yeah, I'm typing a second comment on this video. We went to Vegas last year for my daughter's wedding. They live there. We stayed at a hotel on the strip and went sightseeing one day. The craziest thing I saw in Vegas was outdoor, uncovered escalators. They are all around the hotel across from us. They weren't really needed, plus they are outside and I am imagining the nightmare when it rains. It's insane because the stairs next to them aren't that high, and if it's for those with mobility issues, elevators might be better, or at least covered escalators. The $12 cup of regular plain coffee was also over the top
The escalators are needed to save pedestrian lives. Vegas has 24-hr liquor, including allowing walking with said drink on the sidewalks. Each set of escalators has an elevator.
Ok Stewart. You had fun. I’m not gonna defend the various debacles throughout history. This MAY be one of them. But there’s no denying that it’s shape and LED accoutrements are a major attractant - which is what Vegas is all about. Vegas is Vegas - and this ball belongs here most. Also, not for nothing but it worked at Epcot and other places for the same reason. Harpooning the impracticality can easily backfire on other designs. Too many times history has taken swipes at new buildings only to have premature opinions brushed aside and the structure prevails.I expected a little more balance here. Why not talk about what engineering was required - it must have been complicated. Will screening the outside of the structure here lead to other designers yearning for less rigid colour choices? Love it or hate it I fail to see how this doesn’t symbolize our ability to break barriers in design in the same way Gehry does. What’s missing here is your own personal experience. What do you think when you walk up to it? Walk through it? Get entertained inside it? How does it make you feel when you’re there? I know my tours of buildings in Chicago changed my perspective by standing in front of them. Well? How about you?
The sphere in Montréal was built as the US Pavillion for EXPO 67 by the USA. Architech: Buckminster Fuller. . He got the contract for the EXPO 67 by US government after doing a smaller dome for the US pavillion for commercial exposition in Kabul in 1958. The "habitable" (with floor) volume was limited but it did sport then longest escalator in the world at the time. Visitors would first rise to the top of concrete structure in middle and then wind their way down the various exhibits hung/floating inside the sphere, including much of actual space vehicles that had flown. The US Pavillion also had one of the 2 automated monorails systems pass through it. After EXPO, the building remained unused until some refurbishement to be tourist attraction for the 1976 Olympics. In spring, a blow torch too near to the plexiglass lighted the whole place up with no way to stop the fire. As a result of the fire, special measures were taken at the Olympics because the skylights at the Vélodrome were made of same material and were near the strong lights below them. Firemen were stationed on the roof whenever the lights were turned one for events. as well, the covers over fluorescent lights in the métro cars were replaced with perforated metal manels to provide some light diffusion without the risk of fire. The former US pavilion remains bare and abandonned until the 350s anniversary of Montréal where the feredal government wanted to do a gift and made thsi small museum inside the concrete structure inside the still bare geodesic structure. It never got its skin back.
Very weird video which doesn't bring up what this building has copied and developed, the former biggest sphere building Avicii Arena (or Globe Arena) in Stockholm, Sweden.
@@Josh-yr7gd That's a weird comment. I didn't "remember"it, it just struck me as gratuitously scatological. I'm ok with expressions like that, they don't offend me, just his use of this one seemed like he was just trying to sound outrageous for no reason. If he had the opinion that the Sphere was just an abomination period, then it would've been appropriate, but he didn't say that.
@@itsROMPERS... He made a number of grade school jokes, like those about “balls”. I wondered if he would go there and sure enough he did. His older videos actually seemed a bit more stuffy with a lot of architectural jargon…informative and interesting, but a bit presumptuous. In his later videos, he’s definitely lightened the mood and doesn’t appear to be taking things so seriously. If I were you, I wouldn’t take things too seriously either and just “roll” with it!
I don’t know if you are aware of The Venus Project circular city designs. It would be interesting to hear what you think about it. To me it is the best city design that I am aware of.
Loool you didn't even change the tone of voice for the ad read and it just sounds like more passive-aggressive sarcasm like the rest of the video was. bet the sponsor won't be too happy about that
Some call it 'snark' and associate it with a loss of dignity. But what they consider dignified is really just pompous and as Voltaire demonstrated, the most potent antidote to pretension is humor. As for the one geometry to rule them all, do not acolytes of fractal geometry have a stronger case than the virility incubator admirers?
Domes are the most efficient shape. The most durable, strongest shape. Cranium is a dome for a reason. Try to cross-crush an egg. It's REALLY difficult.
Sir Isaac Newton’s spherical idea would have been amazing to see! Britain could be reminded of the other side of the world where they’d have more treasures to pilfer.
More impressive than The Sphere was the amount of shade cast by this article. Impressive, most impressive. The mention of the Geonosians (and not just the Emperor) was appreciated.
Me: So why do you hate spheres?? Stewart Hicks: Oh, I don't hate spheres! They're monuments of human achievement! (But here's five reasons why I think they're not worth the hype) Also, Ground News actually sounds like an interesting platform. But I find it funny that the actual reporting spin off project from the Babylon Bee, a.k.a. The Catholic Onion, shows up under bias. I'd be surprised if they were more than a tiny bit serious
I wanted to hear more about the Globe Arena in Sweden. It was for years the largest spherical building in the world and represents the sun in the largest scale model of the solar system ever built.
Assuming that Plato really did believe in the Theory of the Forms -- not a given, being that the dialogues present us with many possible layers of irony -- he certainly didn't believe that the Forms reside in the mind alone. The Forms famously have objective existence in some timeless realm, and our souls encounter them between our lives.
sure someone already said it but pretty ironic to claim "even canadians get in on the action" while showing the montreal biosphere which was... built by the us as their pavillon in the expo 67... kind of a weird oversight to mention it and talk about fuller designing it yet not clarify that its context was uniquely american simply so you could pull off that line. should have gone for our iconic gibeau orange julep instead (which is, funnily, older than the biodome)
Always thought why half sphere or full sphere shaped buildings are not the obvious choice when designing wind resistant buildings and houses. Makes no sense to me they do not consider aerodynanics to save lives and lots of money...🤔
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Ground News has merely demonstrated that right wing sources sensationalize every subject that they touch.
Ground News has merely demonstrated that right wing sources sensationalize every subject that they touch and will outright refuse to publish subjects that counter their narrative. The same cannot be said for other sources.
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You might want to improve your research a bit. 11:43 the crest IV spaceship is from the Perry Rhodan universe and according to the decription which belings to the picture you have used, it had a crew of 5000 people, not 300.000. also, the picture was published in Perry Rhodan 421, released in 1969
I don't really have any interest to go to Las Vegas but I would love to go to the sphere. The studios where I guess they probably test things out is in Burbank California where I live and wow is it getting dirty but I think it's some really cool innovation It's taking theater in the round to a whole new level
“Emerging from the desert like a fart bubble floating defiantly “ will go down as one great opening lines in all of film, right up there with Rosebud.
Thank you for the high praise.
Sounded like trashy, ironic, reddit speak
Ignore those ol' fuddy-duddy naysayers, Stewart. Your opening line was funny, and so were the rest of your puns. Nothing wring with a little immature humor every now and then!
As soon as I heard that I knew it would be another one of Stewart’s unhinged videos. Not sure what broke him, but damn, I like it. Guess comedy comes with the Hicks name.
Rosebud?
The Stewart Hicks Attitude Era is really something
"Yes, I will make a video about your Sphere. Yes, I will quote all those facts. No, I will not try to denigrate the projects. I mean, other than mention the sponsor-you know Brilliant, or Ground News, or Factor. Haven't decided yet."
Great men with ball-shaped dreams… you’re killing it Stuart.
The brothel design is equal parts genius and absolutely nuts 😂😂😂
No pun intended
there was SO many innuendo's in this episode, I bet you had so much fun making it
Brings me back to the 1970s when I was fascinated with geodesic domes ... including seriously considering living in one. Two things killed that dream:
1. House sized geodesic domes leak at the edges, the structural integrity is ruined if you run plumbing or wiring in the exterior wall/ceiling, and they're almost impossible to insulate well.
2. A different Stewart, of Whole Earth Catalog fame, also lost his love for domes, saying (I paraphrase) Vertical walls are useful. We are vertical,"
What cracks me up about “The Sphere” is that if you designed THAT in architecture school in the 70s you would have absolutely been trounced on.
I like the sphere. Back in the 70s everyone smoked and drank while pregnant. Does that mean we should do it today(
This feels like one of those high effort April Fools videos
Wrong date, though I hope you will come up with one, as a response by then. 😮😊
As a structural engineer, the best shape for a building is clearly a square!
The Borg agree.
What about triangles?
Incidentally, the least best shape for a building is clearly the gömböc 🙃 💕
A sphere lit up with more electricity than any other building on the strip houses a theater that shows a film that lectures people about caring for the environment.
As Alanis said, "Isn't it ironic?".
Just the right amount of snark.
All of it?
‘fart bubble’ was a bit dumb, but yea other than that
As always, a well-rounded narrative to start my weekend.
Top tier comment. The nod is masterful.
The pun-master.
Well done. You deserve a round of applause!
one of the startling moments of my youth has to do with the Expo 67 dome in Montreal. I went to art school in a campus in a medium rise building at Delorimier Ave and Sherbrooke St, on the 6-8 floors. We got used to looking south during our classes to where the old Expo site was, about 2 or 3 Kms south in the middle of the St Lawrence river.
I was there the day the sphere burned, and had probably the best grandstand view over the conflagration. Wow. huge plumes of toxic black smoke from the plastic infill windows didn’t seem so ecological to us. the dome structure did what probably only a dome could: survive. But there were no discussions about restoring it, since you couldn’t fix that little flammability issue.
before it went, the best thing was that each hex in the dome had a kind of parachute system that could retract or extend to blank that area from sun. Without this, the cost of cooling the dome would have been ruinous; but while it was there, the Expo dome (which was the US pavilion during Expo) was an incredibly impressive example of building, technology, and environmental design.
You forgot to cover the largest spherical building in the world (before the MSG Sphere) The Ericsson Globe/Avicii Arena in Stockholm. It's a multi-purpose arena that can host 16 000 people and i has an diameter of 110 meters and is 85 meters tall.
It's also designed as the center of a to scale solar system
pour one out for the MEP engineers having to do HVAC load calculations on these things
I think one of the main reasons the Coney Island Sphere Scam worked was because it seemed like it was fixing the main problem with most all of these designs: wasted space.
Which is why I'm funding an exploratory tunneling project to dig down to the earth's core, hollow it out, and built luxury condominiums in an extravagant prototype inner-earth terraforming biome I like to call "Subcosm". Get in at the ground floor? Don't make me laugh. You're getting in at the FOUNDATION. With all the resources mined during the excavation process, we'll also be building the first self-funded space station.
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This is now reminding me of that Pinky and the Brain episode where they recreate Earth with papier mache and chia seeds, trick everyone on earth into visiting, using Free T-Shirts, and then REAL Earth gets destroyed by a meteor, meaning they now have to take over Chia-Earth.
Sphere Snark and A Death Star joke. Stewart out here killin it!!!
Sounds like you had lots of fun making this video. Bucky would be proud!
I would love to hear more examples of architectural frauds throughout history
As soon as he said "ground floor chance", I knew it was a scam. Saw it a mile away.
Learn about Victor Lustig and his affiliation to the Eiffel tower.
The. Shade. The. SHADE. Of. It. All.
Stewart Hicks throws more shade than The Sphere on a sunny day, lol
I literally thought the same. Wow, he's throwing a lot of shade!
The tone in this one is fantastic! "Kill me now"
... and it's true that museum is very boring unfortunately.
I never thought I'd live to see snarkitechture become a thing, yet here we are. Love this!
Stuart Hicks, Windy City Snarkitect!
In my day, my favorite Sphere was Brittany! She still is, Brittany Spheres. Ah!
LEAVE BRITNEY ALONE!!! 😆
Mysticat will definitely love this architecture.
Digging this editorial style!
In the UA-cam-sphere - it's got to be difficult to fall somewhere between VOX, That one-guy-who-used-to-be-part-of-vox-and-kind-of-looks-like-you, Public Radio podcasts like DNA, Freakanomics, Radiolab, and the exhaustive tantric-learning and sharing of the Huberman Lab.
Also, there's the by-the-numbers-spreadsheet-deadpan-surfer snark of CityNerd.
Somehow, this fart-bubble stands out from all the others and I'm glad to have Stewart Hicks as one of my favorite content creators on youtube.
It shouldn't be a sphere but a some kind of structure based on catenary curves! Not a parabola, as what was thought for a long time, but the curve you get when you suspend a chain between two stable points, the curves followed in the construction of La Sagrada Familia, in Barcelona.
Why don't you get off the fence and tell us what you really think Stewart? 😉 Joking aside, it's great to have such an honest appraisal. Keep it up.
this feels like a fever dream
I don't remember when the humour started to creep through in your videos, but as it's increased I think I've appreciated your already great content even more
Ah, it's good to be reminded that people have always had weird architectural ideas. I suspect the Pantheon gets more of pass, though, both for having innovative and thoughtful design, as well as for the fact that while it's based on the proportions of a sphere, it's really a dome with a cylindrical base. I'd like to see a discussion of domes and why they do (or don't) work better than full spheres (my guess is that they're way easier to support).
All 52 White Houses in the United States are based on classicist architecture and their eggshaped domes are the best shape in existence for supporting massive loads.
Do you have any recommendations for any books related to some of the topics you cover? I have been really enjoying your videos and would like to learn more
How about a StewartSphere? ❤🙌🏼😇 I’d definitely be into your sphere, Stewart! But not as much as you & your incredible execution of another perfect video. Thanks again for fantastic Stewart. 🥰
The thing I like about Las Vegas Strip architecture is the theatrical design of it all. It’s just meant to awe and entertain. Nothing is permanent. Nothing is for posterity. Just like people, the buildings have a life span of well under 100 years. No developer pretends that there is something more important than right now. What are you appreciating RIGHT NOW. 😀
Yeah, I'm typing a second comment on this video. We went to Vegas last year for my daughter's wedding. They live there. We stayed at a hotel on the strip and went sightseeing one day. The craziest thing I saw in Vegas was outdoor, uncovered escalators. They are all around the hotel across from us. They weren't really needed, plus they are outside and I am imagining the nightmare when it rains. It's insane because the stairs next to them aren't that high, and if it's for those with mobility issues, elevators might be better, or at least covered escalators.
The $12 cup of regular plain coffee was also over the top
Wait a minute...you went to a hotel on the Strip in Vegas...
That explains it-in vegas i went to strip in a hotel!😉😎
@@Charlz1980tv based
The escalators are needed to save pedestrian lives. Vegas has 24-hr liquor, including allowing walking with said drink on the sidewalks. Each set of escalators has an elevator.
naw, theyre needed.
Stewart, I love your increased use of sarcasm and humor. Keep it up. Great video!
The moment when you think "yes, that *was* what he meant."
Fantastic commentary Stuart. Love it 😂
I use spherical crockery. The plates look GREAT!!! but the food keeps on falling off.
(Not a true story.)
You never mentioned the Globe in Stockholm -the worlds largest ballshaped indoor arena.
@@roxpaceindeed it is, you're right. I have corrected it. 👍
Huh
Ok Stewart. You had fun. I’m not gonna defend the various debacles throughout history. This MAY be one of them. But there’s no denying that it’s shape and LED accoutrements are a major attractant - which is what Vegas is all about. Vegas is Vegas - and this ball belongs here most. Also, not for nothing but it worked at Epcot and other places for the same reason. Harpooning the impracticality can easily backfire on other designs. Too many times history has taken swipes at new buildings only to have premature opinions brushed aside and the structure prevails.I expected a little more balance here. Why not talk about what engineering was required - it must have been complicated. Will screening the outside of the structure here lead to other designers yearning for less rigid colour choices? Love it or hate it I fail to see how this doesn’t symbolize our ability to break barriers in design in the same way Gehry does.
What’s missing here is your own personal experience. What do you think when you walk up to it? Walk through it? Get entertained inside it? How does it make you feel when you’re there? I know my tours of buildings in Chicago changed my perspective by standing in front of them. Well? How about you?
I totally agree with your comments, but we may be too rational for a comment section.
I went & thought it was mis-purposed & too big.
Yuri Gagarin flew into space in a sphere, the Vostok 1
I think you beat around the bush a little in this video.
I can tell you hate this thing.
This one was better than the brutalism one. It still ties in as a rounded (or maybe a spherical) video which is easy enough for viewers to follow.
I love the backhanded editorial approach :)
The sphere in Montréal was built as the US Pavillion for EXPO 67 by the USA. Architech: Buckminster Fuller. . He got the contract for the EXPO 67 by US government after doing a smaller dome for the US pavillion for commercial exposition in Kabul in 1958.
The "habitable" (with floor) volume was limited but it did sport then longest escalator in the world at the time. Visitors would first rise to the top of concrete structure in middle and then wind their way down the various exhibits hung/floating inside the sphere, including much of actual space vehicles that had flown. The US Pavillion also had one of the 2 automated monorails systems pass through it. After EXPO, the building remained unused until some refurbishement to be tourist attraction for the 1976 Olympics. In spring, a blow torch too near to the plexiglass lighted the whole place up with no way to stop the fire. As a result of the fire, special measures were taken at the Olympics because the skylights at the Vélodrome were made of same material and were near the strong lights below them. Firemen were stationed on the roof whenever the lights were turned one for events. as well, the covers over fluorescent lights in the métro cars were replaced with perforated metal manels to provide some light diffusion without the risk of fire.
The former US pavilion remains bare and abandonned until the 350s anniversary of Montréal where the feredal government wanted to do a gift and made thsi small museum inside the concrete structure inside the still bare geodesic structure. It never got its skin back.
The only thing engineers fear is sphere itself.
The most acerbic and sarcastic video of Stewart that I have seen to date. Extraordinario! Please keep it up! 😂
Stuart Hicks, Windy City Snarkitect!
From Ai thumbnail to Ai description you might wanna rethink who you hire to produce those videos for you.
That was a phenomenal segue into the sponsor
Yeah, that was perfect 😆
Fun Fact: Sphere is the most round object possible.
This episode felt personal.
Very weird video which doesn't bring up what this building has copied and developed, the former biggest sphere building Avicii Arena (or Globe Arena) in Stockholm, Sweden.
just for the record, the portrait you show at 8:20 is a portrait of Louis the sixteenth, not Etienne-Louis Boullée
Great vid though
Yes, very awkward mistake!
Stuart, why a "fart" bubble?
It's just a bubble.
The fact that you remembered that line, means it served its purpose!😅
@@Josh-yr7gd That's a weird comment.
I didn't "remember"it, it just struck me as gratuitously scatological.
I'm ok with expressions like that, they don't offend me, just his use of this one seemed like he was just trying to sound outrageous for no reason.
If he had the opinion that the Sphere was just an abomination period, then it would've been appropriate, but he didn't say that.
@@itsROMPERS... He made a number of grade school jokes, like those about “balls”. I wondered if he would go there and sure enough he did. His older videos actually seemed a bit more stuffy with a lot of architectural jargon…informative and interesting, but a bit presumptuous. In his later videos, he’s definitely lightened the mood and doesn’t appear to be taking things so seriously. If I were you, I wouldn’t take things too seriously either and just “roll” with it!
@@Josh-yr7gd oh it's not like I actually care.
Always happy to see a new Stewart Hicks video pop up.
That's most certainly not Louis-Etienne Boulée but rather King Louis XVI...
"more and more" and "progressively" mean the same thing.
It's like saying "roundly circular".
The Ontario Place Cinesphere could use some love right now.
Did you propose that idea before the construction?
A house like that would be cool but hanging curtains would be a nightmare
Its both scintillating and pixelating at the same time!
love all the zingers! "enough steel to build yourself train tracks all the way to los angeles, a great way to get out of las vegas"😂
I can't express how happy I am that they got told to jog on with the London one. This nonsense belongs in Vegas.
This nonsense created jobs and tax revenue, along with advancing visual and audio technology.
@@carlgemlich1657 There are less wasteful ways to do all of that
I don’t know if you are aware of The Venus Project circular city designs. It would be interesting to hear what you think about it. To me it is the best city design that I am aware of.
So much snark in this one. Edgy high school presentation vibes.
Yeah. I'm not a fan. I came for information but I'm picking up too much emotion.
Hey Stewart are you an architect?
I passed all the ARE exams...
Loool you didn't even change the tone of voice for the ad read and it just sounds like more passive-aggressive sarcasm like the rest of the video was. bet the sponsor won't be too happy about that
8:17 this is king Louis XVI not Etienne-Louis Boullée
Some call it 'snark' and associate it with a loss of dignity. But what they consider dignified is really just pompous and as Voltaire demonstrated, the most potent antidote to pretension is humor. As for the one geometry to rule them all, do not acolytes of fractal geometry have a stronger case than the virility incubator admirers?
Your from content to ad transitions are dangerous.✨🤣💅✨
Domes are the most efficient shape. The most durable, strongest shape. Cranium is a dome for a reason. Try to cross-crush an egg. It's REALLY difficult.
Spherical buildings do pretty well in hurricanes. *Edit... half spheres.
Oh my god the roman pantheon dome is brutalist
What's the thumbnail?
Sir Isaac Newton’s spherical idea would have been amazing to see! Britain could be reminded of the other side of the world where they’d have more treasures to pilfer.
More impressive than The Sphere was the amount of shade cast by this article. Impressive, most impressive. The mention of the Geonosians (and not just the Emperor) was appreciated.
Me: So why do you hate spheres??
Stewart Hicks: Oh, I don't hate spheres! They're monuments of human achievement! (But here's five reasons why I think they're not worth the hype)
Also, Ground News actually sounds like an interesting platform. But I find it funny that the actual reporting spin off project from the Babylon Bee, a.k.a. The Catholic Onion, shows up under bias. I'd be surprised if they were more than a tiny bit serious
My dude, are you okay?
I wanted to hear more about the Globe Arena in Sweden. It was for years the largest spherical building in the world and represents the sun in the largest scale model of the solar system ever built.
Not me... I'm from Albany, NY. We don't do spheres. We do Eggs.
Assuming that Plato really did believe in the Theory of the Forms -- not a given, being that the dialogues present us with many possible layers of irony -- he certainly didn't believe that the Forms reside in the mind alone. The Forms famously have objective existence in some timeless realm, and our souls encounter them between our lives.
I am interacting with the content
damn, now I want to visit that non-existent day-night-switch sphere.
sure someone already said it but pretty ironic to claim "even canadians get in on the action" while showing the montreal biosphere which was... built by the us as their pavillon in the expo 67... kind of a weird oversight to mention it and talk about fuller designing it yet not clarify that its context was uniquely american simply so you could pull off that line. should have gone for our iconic gibeau orange julep instead (which is, funnily, older than the biodome)
The designer of octagional houses [ fowler ?] Also said his design wad ideal but i still love hypars
AC/DC's Big Balls should have been the soundtrack for this episode. Missed opportunity 😁😁
Why stop there?! Bring out spherical mobile homes and buses! Roll out the future!
As always! Great job 👏🏼 Love ur videos :)
Spit my drink out when the muppets showed up
Came hoping to see a snarky reference to the Sunsphere. Leaving disappointed.
I thought this was an april 1st joke or something 😆 Amazing video!
A new thing to enjoy on earth .But i am worried about meteorites,asteriods,.
Puns and zingers in abundance on this one 😄
And don't forget about the golf ball in Stockholm, Sweden.
I'm a big fan of circles, but up and down is different because of gravity. I don't think that means spheres *are* ideal forms, at least on earth.
Always thought why half sphere or full sphere shaped buildings are not the obvious choice when designing wind resistant buildings and houses. Makes no sense to me they do not consider aerodynanics to save lives and lots of money...🤔
I love it when you’re sassy 😅