5 Massive buildings that were never built
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- Опубліковано 3 тра 2024
- Throughout history, mankind has created lots of impressive structures, but of course the very most ambitious, and sometimes perhaps even insane buildings that have ever been concieved have remained confined to paper. In this video, we take a look at 5 such projects, from the age of enlightenment to the 1950s, and from the democratic United States, to Hitler's Third Reich.
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"Bittersweet" Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com)
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"Dreams Become Real" Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com)
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Sorry about the weird audio at the end! There was a copyright claim, and I had to get rid of the music.
Gaudi wasn't a communist so that story is wrong. He most likely just cancelled it because he wanted to focus only on his masterpiece, the Sagrada Familia.
Please articulate better, and speak little bit slower. Sometimes its very difficult to understand what you say.
just redo it bro?
This had me thinking my headphones had broken! 🤣
@@fartfruit1157 then say ba bay to your views
So the saying goes:
“An architects dream is an an engineers knightmare”
*nightmare
@@jonahc2807 no no, he's got a point
@@symonalex2152 lmao
I can’t believe people thought big back then. I always think big in terms of buildings and I’m not an architect but it’s just dreams or wishful thinking.
What is the narrator say at 9:24 suburban edo?
A Spiral car tower? That sounds... safe...
Also a spiral tower for 1920s cars, reminder, cars from the 1920s had problems going threw the state/country (If you're in Europe)
Check out the Moto Ritz by Bruce McCall.
id throw my guts up driving around the tower for 30 mins
@@tylerfreeland602 Enchanting thought.
Several exist
"5 massive buildings that were never built"
Minecraft players: We'll see...
Don't forget Blender.
♧ This video. Wow.
(...) The Illinois. [Try and imagine if that design was (ever) used in a video game].
3-28th-2021, Sun.
especially the volkshalle
200
Sketchup ;)
The Austrian Painter and his love of gigantic buildings.
Actual Factbot Commenter?
@@yestermonth, potentially.
@@MatthewChenault based to meet you here, king
Somedays I think mustache man maybe had a point
Hol up
The real reason Gaudí didn't move to New York to build a hotel is because by that time he was obsessed with his beloved Sagrada Familia and he could not have continued that Barcelona project if he was in New York. He had been appointed Architect Director in 1884 so by 1909 he would have invested a full 25 years of his life as the master of works for the massive project which was not even close to completion. He is known to have turned down a South American project for the same reason.
If you knew anything about Gaudi you'd know he was a devout Catholic, served prominent industrialist clients and never had any communist sympathies. He was largely apolitical, but like all good Barcelonians he sympathized with Catalonian culture and independence to the extent that he was once arrested at a protest against the banning of the Catalan language.
@dlwatib; agreed. There are several websites about the New York city hotel which say that Gaudi was a communist. This makes no sense. He was always conservative and religious.
@@bb1111116 you can be Catholic and socialist/leftist
Stalinist, no
Most of these plans are nothing but theories not practical at all .
The builders at burj khalifa acknowledged that building like that are logistics nightmare and not practical at all .
Random delivery trucks get searched coz its such a security risk .
So, can you be a good Bacelonian if you are against Catalan independence?
@@FirstLast-uz6eq it isn't Stalin who says no, it is the Bishop of Rome.
6:15 Even Hitler’s likeness is unknowingly carved into as well...
Oh my gosh I literally only just saw that. 😂😂
Lmaooo
A bonus feature by the architect
I thought that also when I saw it. But take a closer look to see what it really is....
It's the Nazi eagle
I'm missing the 'Palace of the Soviets' in this list, that's one they even started building untill WW2 broke out.
For sure it would be built, if not WW2. In Stalin's Soviet Union there was nothing impossible!
@@TommySmokeChannel Except for like having a different opinion than the party of course.
@@urfriendlyneighborhoodbowl or food
@@Blank-km4qr or freedom
@@Blank-km4qr the average person in the Soviet Union had a higher calorie intake than the average american
I miss when we humans where more daring and creative with our builds.
Nowadays such thing cant really be built because of social, political and econimic barriers.
Back then if a king, tyrant or someone with power says he wants something built, it will be built.
There was a Finnish satire comic where people of 2050 are walking in our capital and Museum guy shows totally ruined houses from 2020 explaining old architechture not lasting... while in Picture buildings from 1900s are still shiny and standing :D
In this day and age daring and creative is just higher.
@@nathaniellutao1520 True, the great builds happening these days are in the Arab monarchies and China. It's actually amazing to see what they are able to build in such a small amount of time. I hope we'll see western governments in the future who pick large projects to build
@@argon7479 why?
The Germania Capitol actually looks pretty cool, and is somewhat reasonable. Yes the dome is huge, but could be accomplished. It's unfortunate that it is of Nazi origin, as it will always be viewed negatively and probably won't exist. Just based on an architectural standpoint, it looks very impressive, and I like that it kept with classical design.
Evil people cannot build, they can only destroy.
@@guyincognito320 This is obviously false lol
@Nobody yeah but your dad was for bequeathing us you
big building in neu berlin
@Nobody thank you random internet nazi
The human imagination is amazing no matter the time .although most of this buildings are purely for artist's aesthetic I would love to see it in real life.
Exactly most are not practical
utility alone in a building is cringe. we deserve to look at pleasing things even in everyday life. architecture should be held up to standard.
... most of these* buildings ... would love to see them* ...
They could make a believable version of buildable proportions.
Honorable mention: Palace of the Soviets. Was planned to be over 400 meters high, with a huge statue of Lenin on the roof.
This channel is criminally underrated, I’m glad I found it
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why are you glad, unable to read, need videos?
One giant and emblematic building is missing: the House of Soviets that was to be errected in Moscow. Moreover, this one was already under construction when Hitler invaded USSR and the steel beams had to be used for the defence of the capital.
wait... didnt they try to build it after a war but just before they started stalin died and they cancel it? also what was it... 200 meters statue of stalin on top? i saw some video long time ago about it
@@jebise1126 The statue had to be of Lenin. They didn't try after the war because, as V Suvorov explained, the war didn't turn out the way they expected. The foundation was turned into a swimming pool. Today it is a church.
@@morning_glorymonster3473 guess i remember it wrong than. thanks for explaining
not to be nitpicky or anything but if anyone wants to read about it its actually called palace of the soviets. House of soviets was in Kallingrad
@@Tuoppios1 Yes, my mistake, quoted from memory.
You can see Germania in The Man in The High Castle, they do its scale justice as well.
Also in the new Wolfenstein series
Too bad that show had a lot of missed potential
Don't forget HOI4's TNO
I remember seeing the “Volkshalle” in the Man In The High Castle.
And wolfenstein the new order also
I know it as the big building in Neu Berlin
Me to. @The Liamster
@@robertobaird1015 Me,* too*.
MITHC is not the first alternative-history about nazi-Germany not losing the war featuring such buildings. An older novel is "Fatherland" which MITHC heavily borrowed from (also made into a movie starring Rutger Hauer).
I think I saw in a documentary that the sheer scale of some of Germania's buildings would have caused them to sink.
Even the foundations for the planned buildings they laid down before the war were too heavy and sunk.
@Estex and it was. even to this day, the volkshalle's massive foundation is in berlin, but other buildings stand on it
just make it deeper... southern railway from vienna to triest had some foundation 40 meters deep since it sunk in ground but they just added new layers and yes it was finished and still very much in use 150 years after it was build
For everyone in this thread: No, the foundation of the Volkshalle was never even started and most certainly doesn't still stand today. You can simply look at google maps. At the proposed location for the Volkshalle you can only find the Spree and a little park.
What you guys are remembering, albeit wrongly, is the so called Schwerbelastungskörper in Tempelhof, a few kilometers south of the Volkshalle. This is a huge concrete pillar foundation (18 m tall and 11 m wide) with an even bigger concrete block (14 m tall, 21 m in diameter) on top of it, that was constructed in 1941 (aka not before the war) to test the ground for the proposed triumphal arc. This test construction did indeed sink into the ground (19.3 cm in the first 2.5 years after construction) thereby showing that further soil compaction would be necessary for building the triumphal arc (test constructions like this one would have been the reason why HitIer's Germania would not have sunk into the ground; the Nazis were not complete morons).
The Schwerbelastungskörper is still standing today, but there are no other buildings standing on its foundation by virtue of there being a solid 5000 cubic meter concrete block in the way.
I hope this cleared all confusion and I wish you a nice day.
Are you surprised? I think it exemplifies the nazis perfectly all delusions of grandeur and not a single rational mind among them. I am reminded of when the chief of the german industrial group quit because Hitler said he couldn't hire jews. He told Hitler to his face that if they didn't they would put Germany's technological development back a century, and Hitler who mind you were planning the world war at the time, said then it would have to be put back a century. Such morons.
Not only was Hitler's building "not built", it was "architecturally impossible" to build. They actually started to "reorganize" Berlin. You can still see the effects today. They moved the victory column and created one straight road that led directly to the Brandenburg Gate.
The building was too heavy. They did a test: it would sink in the grond.
@@dragonmartijn
You’re thinking of the Victory Arch, not the Volkshalle.
At the turn of the Millennium, Melbourne was making a bid for the highest building in the world. The Australians were planning to build a structure called the Grollo Tower, which would have been slightly taller than Petronas Towers in Kuala Lumpar, Malaysia, the then holder of the tallest building title. It was hoped to have been completed in 2004, but the project was abandoned when, as so often happens, sufficient funds couldn’t be raised.
Melburnians would have loved that clam to fame.
They would never stop talking about it.
Amazing channel which I stumbled upon by accident! Thank you for your work!
Great video! Really interesting. I’d love to see more future videos on this topic.
My new goal in life is to become rich enough to commission the construction of the first building, the Cenotaph for Isaac Newton. Probably the most incredible building concept I've ever seen
It really looks unimaginably beautiful. I’m not at all religious, but I think it would be impossible not to feel a palpable spiritual connection to something greater than yourself in such a place; almost other worldly.
@@thebatman8815 There's a place I've been that's had this sort of impact on me: The Sultan Hassan Mosque in Cairo, Egypt. It's a massive structure that serves as testament to human ingenuity and ambition.
It is a pity that there are no more works of Gaudí outside of Spain so that the world can contemplate his art
Excellent presentation and delivery.
Appreciate the metric conversion.
Vielen Dank.
3:55 "Gaudì being a comunist decided it would be wrong to partecipate in building a palace for the wealthy."
Are they talking about the same man who worked for Güell family and designed Sagrada Familia?
I his youth, Gaudi was interesed in works of Marx and Bakunin. But after his 30th birthdays, he changed his political view and become traditionalist and devoted catholic. Project of that hotel is from 1908, so I am sure that Gaudi wasn't communist in that time.
The biggest thing that would prevent a Berlin like Germania from happening: the city's soil is too swampy and soft.
You deserve so much more recognition. I had no idea about these. Subscribed
Wow, I looked down and expected at least 300k plus views and 100k plus subs.
This was an great video. Very well thought out and done correctly. Keep up the great work!
Thanks alot! :)
I was surprised he didn't mention the Дворец Советов aka ''The Palace of the Councils (Soviets)'' which was supposed to be built in Moscow in the 1940s and be the tallest building in the world but when the Second World War started, its materials were used for creating city defense structures so it was never finished and turned into the world's largest open-air swimming pool!
...and later turned into Храм Христа Спасителя, aka "Christ the savior's cathedral"
Communist aesthetics were never that appealing to me. It looks so outdated, like I'm walking in to my grandmas house made in the 60s or something.
@@ziinx5899 Because... It was made in the 60s. Communist architecture stems from around that time.
@@NavidIsANoob True, im just saying that their aesthetic feels outdated and is not very future proof.
@@ziinx5899 That I agree with. Some of it holds out but most of it does feel outdated. Though that's a pretty prevalent issue in architecture. Visually sustainable architecture is hard.
imagine driving to the top of the lighthouse to find that the car park was full
Lol
Underrated comment
Do what Peter Griffin does, just park on top of a car
Thank you for having that beautiful shot of the Nashville State Capital @9:39. Its such a wonderful shot form the amphitheater to the building. Again thanks.
I mean...nobody can argue that "Germania" woulnt be a nice looking city...Speer was a great Architect....Pitty that he was appointed as the minister of war industry where the all war crimes came from...
It was not the ministry of industry where "all" the war crimes came from. The most were committed by other authorities, mostly the SS and Wehrmacht.
@@einundsiebenziger5488 Yes, the problem begun when Speer became Minister of Armament...Even Wehrmach didnt commit so many war crimes...some of it officers were even key people that were after the war rebuilding Bundeswehr like Hans Speidel..and even some former Wehrmacht Generals were in the Eastern Block arsenal after the war... The problem is that WW2 is a very confusing conflict and theres so many questions still not answered yet, so people in modern day became confused of what is a warcrime and what is simply a war and who did what...etc..etc...
I mean...hell..Goering wasnt even a dedicatet nazi...he was more of a Acquisitive Despotic Bureaucrat that only wants fame, money and art.
Man, seeing the concept for “Germania” and hearing it described as the visualized “Capitol of the world” is really fucking chilling
Fun fact about the volkshall and germania. Hitker bought white sandstone from sweden during the early war for tests. The’re still slabs of stone waiting for him
Any time I see a video about a list of things, I'm very skeptical, but this time I took a risk and clicked.
What a great surprise. No clickbait, no begging for "clicking that bell" etc.
That and the quality of the video made me subscribe instantly. Well done, and thanks for the content!
"It would also contain all the government offices of the city of Chicago." Oh, that wouldn't cause ANY problems at all...
How are there not more comments about the Cenotaph for Isaac Newton? It would have been incredible
Why is no one talking about the issac Newton one
Interesting video. Thankyou for posting it. Good viewing.
Atomic powered elevators? That's so 50's. I love it.
Atomic elevators and room for helicopters. That's almost a parody of what people in the past thought the future would be.
Wonderful, thank you! Could you, in relation to large buildings never build, do a film on Sir Edwin Lutyens design for the Roman Catholic Cathedral of Liverpool, of which only the base and crypt were build?
Amazing video, amazing soundtrack, awesome, keep the good work
Seems like Frank Lloyd Wright should be credited as the conceptual designer of the Burj Khalifa and especially the Jeddah Tower, which will look nearly identical to the proposed "Illinois".
wow. i love buildings like this. they're absolutely sublime
This is such a great channel
Amazing video, no time wasted with plugs, and very interesting! I subbed
a direct comparison of the volkshalle and the monument to newton would be interesting
The Gaudí building would have been a wonderful addition to the city's skyline. AG was a visionary with the organic lines, textures and colors...whimsical yet functional. He and Zaha Hadid are two of my favorite architects.
I have read that the actual reason that Gaudi didnt build the skyscraper is that he wanted to focus more on the construction of the Sagrada Familia...
Looks shite.
How is it that hundred year old drawings have better architecture than modern day real buildings?
money
Money is more important than looks I guess
Modern day "architects" are more like concept designers for movies. They try to make something look good visually with CGI models. They don't bother with the actual logistics of how it could work. And they certainly don't bother with physical blueprints. Figuring all that stuff out comes after you sell it. Then there's the problem that a lot of them come from Ivy League schools that didn't actually teach them architectural skills. Again, like Hollywood, you have people who don't even know basic art skills like the rule of thirds or storyboarding, getting $200 million movie deals.
When it comes to residential buildings, it is because symmetry, beauty and gigantism often have a negative impact on the standard of living. What we like to see as beautiful are symbols of power and oppression. But we should love architecture that was made for the well-being of people and sometimes one window is larger than the other or tarasses protrude too far because the window should let in more light and the tarasse should offer more space, e.g. for a beautiful one Barbecue evening in summer with friends and family.
Degenerates like modern artists are in charge this era. Just glass and concrete boxes or weird shapes to be famous for.
Germany and the Soviet Union both had plans for giga projects for their respective capitals. Neither was made due to war and lack of funds. While Germany wanted their big government building, the Soviets had an idea for a skyscraper that would have a statue of Stalin on top that would be the largest statue in the world. And the skyscraper would be the tallest in the world as well. It would of never worked since the center area at the bottom had a large open space, and everything above would of fallen. Also, the building would be so high that no one would see the statue much as it would rise above the clouds.
Really well put together video. Really interesting. Sub!
You should definitely do another video mentioning the stadium the Nazis wanted to build and even began building in 1937 in Nuremberg, the "Deutsches Stadion". Planned capacity of 400,000 people. It would have been the largest stadium ever built.
The construction pit however got filled with water and the lake "Silbersee" that was the result of that still exists today but is contaminated with sulfur.
The foundations of a test stand are still in a forest near Nuremberg.
Yes, true. The „Belastungskörper“.
Underrated video but a good one.
It's sad that modern architecture has become so stale, lack of soul and culture. It really shows what our modern society has become. Lack of identity and pride.
This was fascinating! Thank you! :)
interesting! way to satisfy my fix for insane building concepts and larger than life architecture!
@ 6:23 the statue is positioned to appear as a face from far away. If you down size your screen , it becomes visible.
That's quite a familiar face too, a famous Austrian painter. quite fitting don't you think?
@@angrypepe7615 yeah, im also pretty sure he disliked jews as well
bruh, thats actually really creative and cool
I dont think that is intentional.
The original plan for the Fisher building in Detroit would have been monumental. Due to the crash of Wall Street it was scaled back. Still a very impressive structure as is .
This channel is so beautiful, thank you!
Great work - well done.
I think the funniest thing about the spiral tower is that if it was actually built people would have felt sick after ten minutes of uninterrupted curves
The Palace Of The Soviets was another huge building that was never built.
Criminally underrated channel
A mile high building with 548 floors using elevators going 60mph?! Never. Imagine trying to navigate in and around such a building.
And imagine how to evacuate and seal off the building in case one of the nuclear-powered elevators has a melt-down ...
Considering FLW designed hotels that withstood Richter 7 earthquakes, despite him having no training for it. I have no doubt the Illinois is possible.
0:20 What building are you showing here? It looks absolutely magnificent!
Exactly, that's cool af
It is another concept imagined by Boullée (the Guy who imagined Newton's cenotaph). Gigantism was one of his main interests.
Any idea on it's name?
@@Dafoodmaster Sorry, dunno exactly. There's a big book in French that lists all of his drawings but I don't have it. If you type his name on the internet, you might find more infos in the image section. Whole name is Étienne-Louis Boullée
Thank you, i appreciate the help.
if i ever get it built (don't count on it) i'm putting your username on the first stone
That frank lloyd wright building could definitely be tweaked and reworked to be built today.
Imagine tokyo-drifting down the spiral tower
i love tuned mass dampers i think about them so much
Gaudí was not communist. Actually, he worked half of his life for the richest people of Barcelona.
That's because those where the people who could offer him a job. He was a self described utopian socialist
@@oskarfagerberg1480 No he wasn't.
@@oskarfagerberg1480 Its known that Gaudi was a Christian. He couldnt be a communist. Actually it happens that communists are those who burned almost all of his designs for the Sagrada familia...
I'm glad The Illinois made the list! its always been one of my favorite architectural concepts :)
Mexico has the “Monumento a la revolución”, that was going to be a massive capitol for the country. It was another of these.
"Another of these"
Which one did you mean?
@@pashauzan these as in the buildings in the list
@@carlospcpro so... Mexican Volkshalle?
The 1950s' solution to everything: use atomic power. Lift too slow? Atomic! Trains, planes, automobiles? Atomic! Cook dinner? Atomic!
The building you drive round and round and round to get to the restaurant at the top is about the stupidest idea I ever heard of.
Nowadays, Wright is remembered and respected. His critics who thought he was a Has-Been, forgotten. The architect mentioned in this video for "designing" box-like buildings, also forgotten. Heck, I doubt many would have even heard his name in the first place. Wright had real talent. It takes no talent to make buildings or structures centered around the concept of a basic box.
The first won would've been amazing to see, imagine that being built in the 18th century no less
They should build that gaudi building. I would love to see it!
The mile high Illinois is freakin beautiful. Frank Lloyd Wright was quite the architect
Quite the bastard as well, as I learned recently.
@@SamAspden architects are quirky and even quite freaky
The Cenotaph for Newton was absolutely perfect for him.
... would* have* been* ...
As I recall a television show did a segment on the Berlin great hall. They located an engineering ground weight test site among some trees. A heavy concrete cylinder that was still slowly sinking.
Most of these, a shame they were never built
All of them are totally insane, so it's a blessing they weren't.
Hitler might have been overcompensating for some thing.
The legislative palace in Mexico, a great proyect not finished, today is the revolution memorial
... project* ...
Great video!
Man imagine going to Germania on vacation, everything in the city would make you feel small
Never knew I wanted to ride a 60 mph nuclear elevator to take me to my 120th floor DMV appointment.
Great Video! :D
One of my favorite never built giants is the Chicago civic center by Daniel Burnham in early 20th century
im sure 5th one could stand but question is on how much useful space would it have in percentage and how much of that would just be walls
Ants can build some incredible structures also. Considering their size some ant mounds are the equivalent of the tallest human structures in relative terms.
Cmon UA-cam algorithm get behind this great channel. Great work.
Cats and puppies rates higher with the great unwashed masses.
the Volkshalle would have kinda look cool not gonna lie
You forget to mention Moscow's "The Palace of the Soviets" with Lenin statue on top. They even start to build it in 1930's, but WWII has began, and they use this metal for guns and cannons
Так точно!
Although it was just conceptual in nature, would Freeman Dyson's Sphere fit on this category?
Perhaps see also Achilles Rizzoli.
(never *could* have been built, but fantastical nonetheless.)
Gaudi was not a communist
""""Movement of reason and rationality""""
nice pfp bro
Enlightment and its consequences have been a disaster to the human race
Thanks Interesting!
The X-seed 4000 concept is also crazy, altho never ment to be actually build it was a test in seeing the capabilities of modern construction.
There are also some insane project concepts that aren't typical buildings, like the airfield over Manhattan, or the Tokyo Bay City ideas
I just noticed that the Capitol from The Hunger Games was inspired by Germania :0