As a retired builder, i don't know how many times I have had to revise building specs or retain an engineer because the architect supplied plans didn't meet code. Many times it's not stupid builders, it's incompetent architects. bets there are many builders below who feel the same.
Where I am from plans need to be submitted to the Building Department and approved before anything is even started and you are not going to have those types of issues unless someone makes changes after being approved and deviates from the plans.
@@vanhattfield8292 That's pretty much how it works everywhere, I'm talking about submitting plans that pass the first time. sorry to inform you that I have had at least a few architect's plans where it was obvious that these architects were not up to speed on code & either had to correct specs. or have an engineer do his magic and that's just the way it was.
I've been painting new residential high rise apartment buildings around my city, and I know which architects did each one just walking in. The stuff they do to max out square footage is nuts. I'm not sure if they ever come to the site.
My husband has always fussed about how unnecessarily complicated some architects draw plans. He has gotten a picky about what jobs he decides to take because of that.
One hypothesis for the Chesterfield church spire was that the oak they used for building it wasn't aged first, it was fresh from the forest, & it warped as it dried. As I'd heard this from an archeologist who studies things like that, I tend to take that theory as being more accurate than most.
I was going to say the same thing. This makes more sense than the lead and shingle twisting the entire structure. The wood frame will be a lot stronger than the outer covering. Of course, one thing could compound the other, I guess.
I live in chesterfield the spire was made from green oak 300 tonnes of it Green oak aka not seasoned “dried” will warp over time as it dries out This is why it is twisted Also the spire is not attached to the building It just sits on top of the stone work An old wives tail says that the spire will straighten when a virgin bride walks down the aisle!! Not sure about that one 😂😂
In Novi Sad, Serbia there is a tower clock from 1750 with its hands opposite to what one might expect; longer hand is showing hours and shorter is showing minutes. The explanation is: you needed to tell the time even if you are far away, so longer hand is easier to see from distance. Back in the day, people didn't really care about minutes as much as they did about hours. That clock is still working, still pretty accurate and still with "opposite" hands. Today, it is nicknamed "the drunk clock".
I'd be the type to yeet something between it just to see if it'd go through or if it's a glitch in the universe (likely outcome busting out a car window or hit someone)
Originally it was to be a door leading to a fire escape but the stairs weren't long enough. They only had part of the opening cut when the stop order came thru so they made it a window. In nice weather there's a clothes line reaching across to the next building.
At my university, TWO buildings were almost finished before major flaws were discovered - A building designed to become the campus's primary Library, was found to be TOO weak for that use. The architect failed to add in the weight of the books! The second building was nearing the finishing stage, when one of the construction workers came into the work shack, and asked: "I was just wondering, where the stairs between the floors are going. I can't find any". A 4 floor building with no way to get to them. They had to add the stairs on the exterior of the building, and it ended up looking like a medieval castle, compete with turrets!
My ex's dad decided to not use a architect or engineer on the plans for his house and got some idiots to help him build it. Instead of footers under the house they tried cender block columns without anything other than a solid block on the bottom. And yeah you can do that with mobile homes and in some other cases which worked until he decided to make a second story that was bigger than the first. He thought he was a world class genius in his mind until we got hit with the remnants of a hurricane and had torrential rain and wind for a few days, his house decided to migrate about 20-30 yards down the hill. He got hit with about 15,000$ in fines for building with no inspections or permits or anything and had to bulldoze everything and start from scratch. It probably makes me a bad person but I enjoyed every bit of it.
I suppose it could be that the counter top misfire could be upside down... except, the mistake would have happened during the cutting rather than installation. One little-known fact about counter tops is that they aren't finished underneath. So the bottom is rough and not nearly as pretty.
The ramp in Mexico is not for the disabled individual, but for the resident to pull their own luggage upstairs guided by the "luggage ramp". The design, the "luggage ramp" can be found in many train stations across China.
The church in Chesterfield, England with the crooked spire was caused because they built it with unseasoned timber. The spire is built around a wooden framework and, as the wood dried, it twisted and it has remained that way ever since.
They would always have used green oak for construction because seasoned oak is too hard to cut with hand tools. The church records suggest that the spire was originally covered with wooden shingles and that these were later replaced with lead, which is much heavier. The increased weight caused the wood to start to twist and then extra struts were inserted inside to stop the movement. It is still the original lead on the spire.
I was at a conference in the outskirts of Paris where the only lavatory for wheelchair users was at the top of a very long and steep flight of stairs. There was no other way to reach that lavatory - I checked. I’m not a wheelchair user but felt sorry for anyone there who was. My guess is that local building regulations required a lavatory suitable for wheelchair users but the same regs said nothing about access.
I'm assuming the clock that they added to the church spire is offset for mechanical reasons. I'd guess that the gearing or mounting system for the clock extends straight backwards. However that spire looks like it's also a bell tower, and the hanging parts of the bell would descend straight through the center of the tower. If you installed the clock face directly in the center, its internals would likely have run into the bell.
Thank you for a great video as usual! I just would like to say that at 21:54 you converted 4 inches to 2.54 cm. However, 2.54 cm equals 1 inch. 4 inches would be 10.16 cm. Keep up the good content 😊
@@marchelandersen6839not necessarily, it's a pretty easy mistake when googling a quick conversion and if the editor has no idea about the conversion they're not gonna question it
As someone with a degree in AET, I know that the process of making a building has 4 key steps; The engineer and architect figure out the structure and design of the building, which is then given to a drafter to make the blueprints using that information, then the blueprints are reviewed and any mistakes are fixed in the prints or anything is scrapped and then taken out of the prints, and then those approved blueprints are sent to the contractors to use as reference while building. The review section and alterations are the part that can cause weird little things, like a column of windows being scrapped and the drafter missed one, and it getting approved anyways, or a handicap spot is added where there wasn't one, and the drafter didn't correctly change the area enough to convert it into a usable spot. The contractors wouldn't know it was unintended, they'll just refer to the blueprint as their Bible, and transfer any mistakes on the blueprint into the building. Being a drafter is more important to get right than you would think, and anybody can make mistakes if they're tired, so I'm not surprised that some weird mistakes may pop up where you wouldn't expect one.
Yeah. That’s the way it’s supposed to go. I’m an electrical contractor and we literally only look at prints for locations which aren’t always to code. It’s the same on every single job. Architects and engineers should be forced to spend at least 6 months on the job with each trade. Maybe then they would get it right 50 percent of the time.
An integrated staircase on a kitchen counter isn't bad, you just need a wall to seperate this, and you're done! Honestly, this seems to be looking forward to a new trend.
Having an architect is no guarantee things will go disastrously wrong e.g. 1. Sydney Opera House. When they started building it they realised the roof would collapse under its own weight. 2. London millennium Bridge. Stopping it bouncing cost nearly as much as building it in the first place. 3. My local council (Luton) build a multi-storey car park. It was to be opened by the mayor driving to the top and breaking the ribbon. On the day the corners were too tight for his car to go round them and he had to walk to the top and cut the ribbon with the scissors. Oh, and by the way it was the black death not the black plague we had over here.
We often found them to be a pain many have never been on a construction site and while everything may be to code and well fitting on the computer when it's designed they have no concept of how their drawing are going to work in reality
Thanks for the info. I'm a retired Computer Aided Drafting and Design Engineer, I wouldn't have design any of those flops, my reputation is too important.
at 2:50, the deck did not fail because of its legs. It failed because the joists tore free of the plate connecting it to the house - almost certainly because they didn't use joist hangers.
When it comes to wheel chairs, the opera in Cologne is designed perfectly at the main entrance for such disabled people. Why? Very easy, for the look! the designer made a big stairway to the entrance of the building. Now you could say, that happens a lot, but in Cologne it is very special! After entering the building you have to go down the same amount of stairs as the ground inside the building is just at the same level as outside. This forces all depending on a wheel chair to enter the opera at the back entrance, where normally just personal would enter the building. I would have chained the designer to the stairs, and force him to carry everyone needing a wheel chair across that "fantastic" stairway into the building, just for learning purposes.
My theory for the 3rd floor garage door is for a piano. I used to stay in an open loft, and when they covered up the opening, we had to leave a hinged door to get bed(s) and furniture in and out.
I think the original explanation fits. It was a former bakery or dry goods building that is possibly almost a century old or older. They'd probably plugged the hole with a large window that ended up damaged or broken at some point and they salvaged an old garage door to plug the gap til they could afford a replacement.
The "Crooked Church" is actually a "crooked spire". The photo looks like it is the famous (uk) Crooked Spire in Chesterfield, Derbyshire. It is said that the spire was built after the Plague, which wiped out a large proportion of Derbyshire's population. Nearly all the seasoned wood was used up making coffins, so when the spire was built, green wood was used. Naturally, as it dried out, the weight of the roof tiles caused the beams to buckle, and the spire twisted. It is, however, a tale in the area, that upon one occasion a virgin was to be married in the church, and the spire was so astonished, it bent down to have a look.
9:01 I've heard about the twisted spire of Chestfield myself. I've read there were a number of theories on how it got like that... from a local blacksmith shoeing the Devil badly, so that he leapt up in pain and kicked the spire out of kilter... to the idea that the spire was so surprised to hear that one of the brides who got married there was actually a virgin, so it leaned over to take a look! XD
Bro doesn’t realize he’s probably qualified engineer qualified for over 10000 jobs because of how much he learned over the years of making all these videos doing the research he actually has become very smart, and he with some basic practice and some basic learning and teaching he could definitely be become qualified engineer, so he could easily become a pro. I don’t know several years of constantly making these videos and gathering so much information about engineering, which is one of his main topics, considering engineering used, he could become engineer and there’s a difference between engineer engineer build stuff function, architect build stuff for looks
I think that one window on the concrete windowless side of the building is for letting sunlight in and make for a bit more open lighter space inside, maybe a cramped office area or a unlit part of an apartment.🤔
10:05 I think it's cool that he put a reference to that science fiction series. Most people probably remember The Outer Limits or The Twilight Zone, but One Step Beyond was a similar series and in my opinion just as good.😎👍👌
I saw some issues on the video which could be caused some similar mistakes in the video. Eg.: at 21:55 - 4 inch is not equal to 2.54cm, the correct unit conversion is 1 inch = 25.4mm (2.54cm), therfore 4 inch is 101.6mm (10.16 cm). I know this may be switched off the fuse at some people, but it shows the importance of the conversion between units.
18:06, early 20th century (and before) multi-apartment buildings used to have a top floor furniture loading bay (with crane attached to the roof), I think this guy just used a garage door as a cheap way of making a modern one.
The dumbest part about sinking feeling with the outlet in the sink is that if you look up to the top left theres a light switch with an outlet right there LMFAO 😆😆😆😂😂
9:28, it looks like the wall underneath the ATM is meant to have something attached to it (like a set of steps for example) that hasn't been installed yet (it seems to have the mounts for it). Wouldn't surprise me if this was just people joking around with a not in service yet work in progress.
I've had the pleasure of doing a final walkthrough with the builder to inspect my painting, and my painters had rehung doors that were 3" narrower than the frame, and obviously hadn't even closed them to check the fit. When he swung the first door closed I was quite embarrassed. By the third, I was angry.
My guess is that they knew the doors were too small, but didn’t want to be involved in resolving the issue, and they left all the doors open so they could leave the site without anyone noticing the problem.
@@Innesb They were just stoned, I'm pretty sure. Hanging doors is evening work and it was empty, so I wouldn't care if they'd have just done their job. They probably stood around yapping and then rushed through the work.
Some of these design flaws are an example of when a worker tries to tell the Boss that something is off or wrong but Boss arrogance dismisses anyone's input and demands to "Just do what I told you". I've seen it happen.
I've been building stuff my whole life and could come up with many examples, where it would have been better not to ask an architect... "You think that's gonna hold up as planned?" "Archi said it would...." Boooom!
Not sure of all the details, but you need to get a bridge in your next video on this topic. It is the Silver Beach Bridge in Daytona Beach, Florida. Took years to get done like any typical infrastructure project and I think went the standard amount over budget, etc. I guess no one saw it coming, but it ended up having one side illegal. Which law does it break? Just the ADA. The slope of one side is too steep and doesn't comply with the ADA guidelines.
I was thinking the same thing, but remembered that a perfect kilo used to be the equivalent of a perfect cubic decilitre of water at a specific temperature (what that temp is, I can't remember). Perhaps hotter water weighs more? Just a theory because it's too damned late for me to look it up!
@@y_fam_goeglyd If i remember correctly the mass-size can change with temperature🤔 I think the weight it's the same but it might be lighter when it turns to steam🤷♂️
Haha! I never expected my home town to be on one of your videos. The Crooked Spire in Chesterfield is rumoured to stand up stiff when a virgin walks past it.. Well that’s what the locals say.
For the last 15 years of my fathers construction career, he was hired to travel North America and the world to "unscrew up' projects and make them work and work safely. As a teenager he had apprenticed with a boat building firm where much of your work is in constantly changing angles and distances. An unbelievable amount of contractors could not understand an architect's plans, and sometimes neither did the architect! When the phone rang it was usually someone with a big problem and off he would go, making very good coin. Not bad for a fellow with a 1930's GED, yet could do complex fractions and formulae in his head.
The benefit of having years of experience and learning the trade specific skills and math needed to do it. Also, a GED back then merely meant that your parents didn't pay to send you to a school that handed out diplomas. High Schools didn't really start handing out diplomas as a standard until the 1950s, IIRC. My grandparents had GEDs, not because they didn't complete school (well, one grandfather didn't) but because their schools didn't hand out diplomas.
The four inch door gap is a house renovation. Testing how certain internal doors look hung. Builders often do this with fussy clients. You notice the skirting boards have been removed?
4:42 ahh i just recently went to Europe and the colosseum was one of my favorite places we went, its literally so beautiful and the backstory is kinda interesting to me! If you go to Europe definitely go there, its soo worth the money 🤗
Looking at the Heiliger Virgil church spire, I think the answer for the off-center clocks is obvious. The spire's primary function is to be a belfry, and those bells weigh a ton, literally. The bells are in the center, and cannot be moved to make room for a clock. I'd guess trying to move the heaviest bell to the side could imbalance the load on the walls and endanger the whole structure. Anyway, the pictures clearly show that the mechanism for the clock is in one corner of the tower, with matching clock faces on all four sides.
Ohhhhh I thoroughly enjoyed watching this video 😮😂 But Fantastic to see the crooked spire of Chesterfield again ❤ The folklore used to be that the Devil had sat on the spire causing it to twist 😮😈 He must have had an arse of steel for that to happen though 😂😂 I lived in the next town for years and my late partner was from Chesterfield too. When travelling once you could see that spire in the distance you knew that you were nearly home ❤ Fabulous video, you've definitely got to make more in this series please 😊 As always wonderful entertainment, thank you ❤
@@dannydaw59well yeah, it is Chesterfield 😂😂😂 Construction of the church started in 1234 and the creation of the spire finished about 1360. It's pretty amazing how twisted it is yet still standing. The UK has amazing architecture 😊
22:16 if that Colorado Springs location was ever a "Best Products" store (not Best Buy), they outfitted a LOT of their showrooms to have very unusual architectural features. The one in Sacramento CA for example had a corner of the building that moved out on tracks when the store opened in the morning and slid back into the main building at closing time! We called it The Notch. Ironically, it is now a Best Buy (who redid the front to eliminate the distinctive Notch. They hate innovation, which is reflected in their showrooms).
@@petuniasevan What does that have to do with the building? BB isn't a place that I would recommend to anyone for tech support. A late friend of mine took his computer to them for repair. He had to take it back, several times and it still didn't work. I opened it up to find that they had installed three IDE interface cards, all at the same address. The one on the motherboard was also at that address. I found that the IDE interface cable was bad, and replaced it. It worked great, after removing the three unneeded cards. A few years ago I needed a SSD for a project, and BB was the only source for about 70 miles. The idiot in the omputer area bragged that he was 'The Windows Expert'. Then he stated that the first version was Windows 95. I told him that he was ignorant, because the first was 100 and ran on the original 640KB PC. He insisted that I was thinking of Win 10. I haven't gone back. Then he did a sloppy google search to 'prove' his point. I was repairing TVs at 13, in 1966 and I repaired my first computer in 1982 I use mail order rather than go there.
19:34 This is still better than the story an engineer told me. He said the specs for the wall to be built was ... let's say 4 ft high (can't remember all the details now). When he went to inspect, the wall "started" at 4 ft high from the ground and continued nice and straight and *level.* Except that the ground underneath sloped up the further along you went. lol.
Even engineers can make stupid mistakes and not all architects are equal. In the US at least I think you need to graduate from a properly accredited engineering program (and maybe also have a certification/license) to legally practice engineering. Similarly an architect must be properly licensed to be a professional architect. When it comes to personal property and privately owned structures there is a lot more leeway, but you still have to comply with building, fire, and electrical codes.
I was fortunate enough to be able to travel Europe when I was a kid, with my family, of course. We went to Pisa, Italy to see the leaning tower. My dad, brother, and myself walked up to the top, but on the way up, I noticed very quickly there was no hand rail. On one side, you would think you might fall out the door to the street below. On the other side, you would think you were going to fall into the giant pit in the middle. Pretty scary.
Specific gravity about 1.008? They're allowing for some sort of dissolved salts. Not a ridiculous allowance: blood, seawater, or urine typically starts at 1.020.
18:13 - He got the delivery part right, but I doubt it was a pully system. They probably purchased a forklift that can lift things up to the 3rd floor, and simply made a garage door to drop things off to them from the outside. As for the dent, I'd guess bad driver driving the fork lift.
Depends on the age of the building. Buildings from the early 20th Century had designs like that which were meant for a pulley system. Many in use still have the pulley systems or at least the mounts for them to this day. I work in a manufacturing complex which still has part of it that is over a century old and we can still see the mounting points for the external pulleys for where there used to be cargo entances that are now sealed (i.e. the doors removed and then bricked over).
You would love the Philadelphia Naval Yard. There are buildings that were designed in artistic fashion, including one that is purposely twisted, as if it's a snapshot when an earthquake hits. Combine modern architecture with some really old buildings, and it creates a mystique that is unrivaled in the area. It's other-worldly and calming. No wonder people come here to jog or just spend a day. And yes, it's open to the public. Just take Broad Street straight onto the base. No guards will stop you. ;)
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As a retired builder, i don't know how many times I have had to revise building specs or retain an engineer because the architect supplied plans didn't meet code. Many times it's not stupid builders, it's incompetent architects. bets there are many builders below who feel the same.
Where I am from plans need to be submitted to the Building Department and approved before anything is even started and you are not going to have those types of issues unless someone makes changes after being approved and deviates from the plans.
@@vanhattfield8292 That's pretty much how it works everywhere, I'm talking about submitting plans that pass the first time. sorry to inform you that I have had at least a few architect's plans where it was obvious that these architects were not up to speed on code & either had to correct specs. or have an engineer do his magic and that's just the way it was.
I've been painting new residential high rise apartment buildings around my city, and I know which architects did each one just walking in. The stuff they do to max out square footage is nuts. I'm not sure if they ever come to the site.
Yeah same
My husband has always fussed about how unnecessarily complicated some architects draw plans.
He has gotten a picky about what jobs he decides to take because of that.
One hypothesis for the Chesterfield church spire was that the oak they used for building it wasn't aged first, it was fresh from the forest, & it warped as it dried. As I'd heard this from an archeologist who studies things like that, I tend to take that theory as being more accurate than most.
I'm a luthier, and I know what wood can do if not dried properly. You're absolutely right about going with that theory.
I was going to say the same thing. This makes more sense than the lead and shingle twisting the entire structure. The wood frame will be a lot stronger than the outer covering. Of course, one thing could compound the other, I guess.
Sounds plausible to me.🤔
I went to college next to the church there and most locals tell the story along the lines of the wood being damp causing it to warp
I live in chesterfield the spire was made from green oak 300 tonnes of it
Green oak aka not seasoned “dried” will warp over time as it dries out
This is why it is twisted
Also the spire is not attached to the building
It just sits on top of the stone work
An old wives tail says that the spire will straighten when a virgin bride walks down the aisle!!
Not sure about that one 😂😂
some prime examples of what happens if you leave everything to the architects
Agreeable. Beavers are better than architects.
@@Walker__91 How dare you, Beaverton. I see through your disguise.
@@That_Damn_Plaid_Ram😂😂😂😂❤
I’m not even a patreon of RCE. Or subscribed to him.
@@Walker__91lol. And yet here we are, with you understanding the reference without someone having to point it out to you.
“It was probably an architects fault”
-Any engineer ever
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I built my bloxburg house irl
Yeah! Architects are trash. BRIDGES!
"It was definitely the architects fault"
-every construction worker....
In Novi Sad, Serbia there is a tower clock from 1750 with its hands opposite to what one might expect; longer hand is showing hours and shorter is showing minutes.
The explanation is: you needed to tell the time even if you are far away, so longer hand is easier to see from distance. Back in the day, people didn't really care about minutes as much as they did about hours.
That clock is still working, still pretty accurate and still with "opposite" hands. Today, it is nicknamed "the drunk clock".
The same in Liefering, Salzburg!
22:20 Respect to the designer who designed the air cushion strong enough to distribute the weight of the roof to the supporting pillar.
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I live in Colorado Springs, and this has always baffled me
I'd be the type to yeet something between it just to see if it'd go through or if it's a glitch in the universe (likely outcome busting out a car window or hit someone)
22:20 the building in front looked like AI
16:16
That lonely window is for throwing out anxiety and self-hatred
Please tell me that's not the name of your two cats…
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@@Sylfa of course not...
(Who will ever call their cats like that)
Originally it was to be a door leading to a fire escape but the stairs weren't long enough. They only had part of the opening cut when the stop order came thru so they made it a window. In nice weather there's a clothes line reaching across to the next building.
@@сільськаприбаханаmy cats name is literally “Eyelash”
At my university, TWO buildings were almost finished before major flaws were discovered - A building designed to become the campus's primary Library, was found to be TOO weak for that use. The architect failed to add in the weight of the books! The second building was nearing the finishing stage, when one of the construction workers came into the work shack, and asked: "I was just wondering, where the stairs between the floors are going. I can't find any". A 4 floor building with no way to get to them. They had to add the stairs on the exterior of the building, and it ended up looking like a medieval castle, compete with turrets!
Really? I love to see pictures
My ex's dad decided to not use a architect or engineer on the plans for his house and got some idiots to help him build it. Instead of footers under the house they tried cender block columns without anything other than a solid block on the bottom. And yeah you can do that with mobile homes and in some other cases which worked until he decided to make a second story that was bigger than the first. He thought he was a world class genius in his mind until we got hit with the remnants of a hurricane and had torrential rain and wind for a few days, his house decided to migrate about 20-30 yards down the hill. He got hit with about 15,000$ in fines for building with no inspections or permits or anything and had to bulldoze everything and start from scratch. It probably makes me a bad person but I enjoyed every bit of it.
@@OmarRodriguez-vl2tq wow that would really suck. You lose at least part of your house, then your job because of losing your house
I am feeling bad for laughing
The two doors and stairway on the outside of a tall building were an art installation.
I suppose it could be that the counter top misfire could be upside down... except, the mistake would have happened during the cutting rather than installation. One little-known fact about counter tops is that they aren't finished underneath. So the bottom is rough and not nearly as pretty.
Someone flipped the template upside down.
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The ramp in Mexico is not for the disabled individual, but for the resident to pull their own luggage upstairs guided by the "luggage ramp". The design, the "luggage ramp" can be found in many train stations across China.
I love the fine ai craftsmanship of the kitchen with the stairs on the counter
The church in Chesterfield, England with the crooked spire was caused because they built it with unseasoned timber. The spire is built around a wooden framework and, as the wood dried, it twisted and it has remained that way ever since.
No. It was twisted by the devil! That's the true story! 😈
They would always have used green oak for construction because seasoned oak is too hard to cut with hand tools. The church records suggest that the spire was originally covered with wooden shingles and that these were later replaced with lead, which is much heavier. The increased weight caused the wood to start to twist and then extra struts were inserted inside to stop the movement. It is still the original lead on the spire.
@@PercyPruneMHDOIFandBarsIf you want to believe that, do you really want to use a place that was warped by the devil?
I was at a conference in the outskirts of Paris where the only lavatory for wheelchair users was at the top of a very long and steep flight of stairs. There was no other way to reach that lavatory - I checked. I’m not a wheelchair user but felt sorry for anyone there who was.
My guess is that local building regulations required a lavatory suitable for wheelchair users but the same regs said nothing about access.
I'm assuming the clock that they added to the church spire is offset for mechanical reasons.
I'd guess that the gearing or mounting system for the clock extends straight backwards. However that spire looks like it's also a bell tower, and the hanging parts of the bell would descend straight through the center of the tower. If you installed the clock face directly in the center, its internals would likely have run into the bell.
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@@ma.lowelasalarda5835 thanks lol
@ma.lowelasalarda5835 it will soon
Bruh
technically right cuz human makes mistakes
Thank you for a great video as usual!
I just would like to say that at 21:54 you converted 4 inches to 2.54 cm. However, 2.54 cm equals 1 inch. 4 inches would be 10.16 cm.
Keep up the good content 😊
it's on purpose to create comments,
@@marchelandersen6839maybe
@@marchelandersen6839not necessarily, it's a pretty easy mistake when googling a quick conversion and if the editor has no idea about the conversion they're not gonna question it
the editor is american :)
@@theintegercyclolcyc - that says everything 😉
As someone with a degree in AET, I know that the process of making a building has 4 key steps;
The engineer and architect figure out the structure and design of the building, which is then given to a drafter to make the blueprints using that information, then the blueprints are reviewed and any mistakes are fixed in the prints or anything is scrapped and then taken out of the prints, and then those approved blueprints are sent to the contractors to use as reference while building.
The review section and alterations are the part that can cause weird little things, like a column of windows being scrapped and the drafter missed one, and it getting approved anyways, or a handicap spot is added where there wasn't one, and the drafter didn't correctly change the area enough to convert it into a usable spot. The contractors wouldn't know it was unintended, they'll just refer to the blueprint as their Bible, and transfer any mistakes on the blueprint into the building. Being a drafter is more important to get right than you would think, and anybody can make mistakes if they're tired, so I'm not surprised that some weird mistakes may pop up where you wouldn't expect one.
Yeah. That’s the way it’s supposed to go. I’m an electrical contractor and we literally only look at prints for locations which aren’t always to code. It’s the same on every single job. Architects and engineers should be forced to spend at least 6 months on the job with each trade. Maybe then they would get it right 50 percent of the time.
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Architects design thing that look good, engineers design things at work well, builders build things that work
I feel like this one is going to be the beginning of a full series.😅
An integrated staircase on a kitchen counter isn't bad, you just need a wall to seperate this, and you're done! Honestly, this seems to be looking forward to a new trend.
I agree, it just needs some sort of divider between the "staircase" side and the kitchen side.
They also need to change the surface on the counter/step, otherwise you'd break your neck trying to walk down the stairs in your socks.
9:55 everybody ganster till Shaq O'Neal comes to the ATM
How could some people get permits for some of these builds?
You nailed it! No permit was filed. Ingenuity vs a degree to get the job done.
Man I never get tired of your funny comments. Always something new with funnier jokes comes out of you. Big fan.
Having an architect is no guarantee things will go disastrously wrong e.g.
1. Sydney Opera House. When they started building it they realised the roof would collapse under its own weight.
2. London millennium Bridge. Stopping it bouncing cost nearly as much as building it in the first place.
3. My local council (Luton) build a multi-storey car park. It was to be opened by the mayor driving to the top and breaking the ribbon. On the day the corners were too tight for his car to go round them and he had to walk to the top and cut the ribbon with the scissors.
Oh, and by the way it was the black death not the black plague we had over here.
We often found them to be a pain many have never been on a construction site and while everything may be to code and well fitting on the computer when it's designed they have no concept of how their drawing are going to work in reality
Thanks for the info. I'm a retired Computer Aided Drafting and Design Engineer, I wouldn't have design any of those flops, my reputation is too important.
Another hilarious,"Be Amazed" video; especially the raconteur amazing (and at times hilarious) narration skill😁
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Question: "Do you know the real answer?"
Answer: "Yes, it's called Photoshop!"
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at 2:50, the deck did not fail because of its legs. It failed because the joists tore free of the plate connecting it to the house - almost certainly because they didn't use joist hangers.
When it comes to wheel chairs, the opera in Cologne is designed perfectly at the main entrance for such disabled people. Why? Very easy, for the look! the designer made a big stairway to the entrance of the building. Now you could say, that happens a lot, but in Cologne it is very special! After entering the building you have to go down the same amount of stairs as the ground inside the building is just at the same level as outside.
This forces all depending on a wheel chair to enter the opera at the back entrance, where normally just personal would enter the building.
I would have chained the designer to the stairs, and force him to carry everyone needing a wheel chair across that "fantastic" stairway into the building, just for learning purposes.
That door thing has happened to me 😂 it was seriously one of the times I’ve felt the most dumb.
Unbelievable videos.
Without anyone's notice till end😂
You are a very good choreographer to modify those videos.😂😂
My theory for the 3rd floor garage door is for a piano. I used to stay in an open loft, and when they covered up the opening, we had to leave a hinged door to get bed(s) and furniture in and out.
I think the original explanation fits. It was a former bakery or dry goods building that is possibly almost a century old or older. They'd probably plugged the hole with a large window that ended up damaged or broken at some point and they salvaged an old garage door to plug the gap til they could afford a replacement.
The "Crooked Church" is actually a "crooked spire". The photo looks like it is the famous (uk) Crooked Spire in Chesterfield, Derbyshire. It is said that the spire was built after the Plague, which wiped out a large proportion of Derbyshire's population. Nearly all the seasoned wood was used up making coffins, so when the spire was built, green wood was used. Naturally, as it dried out, the weight of the roof tiles caused the beams to buckle, and the spire twisted. It is, however, a tale in the area, that upon one occasion a virgin was to be married in the church, and the spire was so astonished, it bent down to have a look.
9:01 I've heard about the twisted spire of Chestfield myself. I've read there were a number of theories on how it got like that... from a local blacksmith shoeing the Devil badly, so that he leapt up in pain and kicked the spire out of kilter... to the idea that the spire was so surprised to hear that one of the brides who got married there was actually a virgin, so it leaned over to take a look! XD
hilarious 😂
Ha! That's pretty good...lol.
I've been watching you for about 8-13 years you make AMAYZING content keep it up!!!!!!!!!!!
I LOVE your videos - you always make me feel better and you've a wicked sense of humour! Keep up the great work and keep 'em coming!! 🤣💙
Thank you so much!
Bro doesn’t realize he’s probably qualified engineer qualified for over 10000 jobs because of how much he learned over the years of making all these videos doing the research he actually has become very smart, and he with some basic practice and some basic learning and teaching he could definitely be become qualified engineer, so he could easily become a pro. I don’t know several years of constantly making these videos and gathering so much information about engineering, which is one of his main topics, considering engineering used, he could become engineer and there’s a difference between engineer engineer build stuff function, architect build stuff for looks
4 inches is not 2.54cm, you sure it wasn't you that installed that door 🤣 Another great video btw 👍👍
He can't help it, we live in a country that uses the imperial system😂
1 inch is 2,54 cm, so 4 inches is 10 cm. Approximately.
@@winniethepooht5776 I live in a country that (mostly) uses metric. I still understand inch.
@@winniethepooht5776 That's no excuse, and insults those of us who use both. Are you just projecting your own failings on everyone else?
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Dude. This is cool as always. Keep up the good work.
Thanks a ton!
Wall art at its finest.it’s beautiful.😊😊😊😊😊😊😊😊😊😊😊😊
I think that one window on the concrete windowless side of the building is for letting sunlight in and make for a bit more open lighter space inside, maybe a cramped office area or a unlit part of an apartment.🤔
used to be a fire escape there
10:05 I think it's cool that he put a reference to that science fiction series. Most people probably remember The Outer Limits or The Twilight Zone, but One Step Beyond was a similar series and in my opinion just as good.😎👍👌
will never stop watching be amazed😎😎😎😎
I saw some issues on the video which could be caused some similar mistakes in the video. Eg.: at 21:55 - 4 inch is not equal to 2.54cm, the correct unit conversion is 1 inch = 25.4mm (2.54cm), therfore 4 inch is 101.6mm (10.16 cm). I know this may be switched off the fuse at some people, but it shows the importance of the conversion between units.
21:54 4 inches =/= 2.54 cm, it would be around 10.16 cm (I use both, found it weird, and did the conversion lol)
Thanks for make a slow and boring monday... A Great Day 😀😀... Regards
gotta respect the guy who photoshops every failed construction right.
I love you videos ❤ keep it up I have been a fan for years
Thanks for the upload!
18:06, early 20th century (and before) multi-apartment buildings used to have a top floor furniture loading bay (with crane attached to the roof), I think this guy just used a garage door as a cheap way of making a modern one.
Perfection per usual. 😂😂❤
The dumbest part about sinking feeling with the outlet in the sink is that if you look up to the top left theres a light switch with an outlet right there LMFAO 😆😆😆😂😂
Great historical content! Just goes to show idiots have been around for thousands of years 😅😅.
Wonder if the Darwin awards have a section for architects?
It's has not have
Maybe.
I don't think so ...they just nominate persons for the award 😂
But did they die
Thank you you cheer me up after school ❤❤❤
9:28, it looks like the wall underneath the ATM is meant to have something attached to it (like a set of steps for example) that hasn't been installed yet (it seems to have the mounts for it). Wouldn't surprise me if this was just people joking around with a not in service yet work in progress.
Keep it up on your work and this video and channel
I love this video and channel
Thanks you for your video and channel
I've had the pleasure of doing a final walkthrough with the builder to inspect my painting, and my painters had rehung doors that were 3" narrower than the frame, and obviously hadn't even closed them to check the fit. When he swung the first door closed I was quite embarrassed. By the third, I was angry.
My guess is that they knew the doors were too small, but didn’t want to be involved in resolving the issue, and they left all the doors open so they could leave the site without anyone noticing the problem.
@@Innesb They were just stoned, I'm pretty sure. Hanging doors is evening work and it was empty, so I wouldn't care if they'd have just done their job. They probably stood around yapping and then rushed through the work.
21:55 If the gap is 4 inches, then the metric equivalent would be 10.16 cm, not 2.54 cm (which happens to be *one* inch).
Your video is always the best
Some of these design flaws are an example of when a worker tries to tell the Boss that something is off or wrong but Boss arrogance dismisses anyone's input and demands to "Just do what I told you". I've seen it happen.
17:32 Who else had the words of "No Capes!!" (The Incredibles) come to mind? 😁
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I suspect the seats at 1:00 were never meant to be sold. They were installed as a place for stadium personnel (vendors, security, etc) to rest.
I've been building stuff my whole life and could come up with many examples, where it would have been better not to ask an architect...
"You think that's gonna hold up as planned?" "Archi said it would...." Boooom!
Not sure of all the details, but you need to get a bridge in your next video on this topic. It is the Silver Beach Bridge in Daytona Beach, Florida. Took years to get done like any typical infrastructure project and I think went the standard amount over budget, etc. I guess no one saw it coming, but it ended up having one side illegal. Which law does it break? Just the ADA. The slope of one side is too steep and doesn't comply with the ADA guidelines.
1798 liter water is 1798 kilograms of water, not 1814 kilogram like he said.. This is why the metric system is so great👍🏻
I was thinking the same thing, but remembered that a perfect kilo used to be the equivalent of a perfect cubic decilitre of water at a specific temperature (what that temp is, I can't remember). Perhaps hotter water weighs more? Just a theory because it's too damned late for me to look it up!
@@y_fam_goeglyd If i remember correctly the mass-size can change with temperature🤔 I think the weight it's the same but it might be lighter when it turns to steam🤷♂️
16:05 It's a window sticker!
Haha! I never expected my home town to be on one of your videos. The Crooked Spire in Chesterfield is rumoured to stand up stiff when a virgin walks past it.. Well that’s what the locals say.
I was so surprised to see chesterfield on here too 😂
Same here 😂
That fire hydrant at 16:57 is not blocked by the rails. The rails can be detached when needed. Tiy can clearly see the joints in the rails 😉.
For the last 15 years of my fathers construction career, he was hired to travel North America and the world to "unscrew up' projects and make them work and work safely. As a teenager he had apprenticed with a boat building firm where much of your work is in constantly changing angles and distances. An unbelievable amount of contractors could not understand an architect's plans, and sometimes neither did the architect! When the phone rang it was usually someone with a big problem and off he would go, making very good coin. Not bad for a fellow with a 1930's GED, yet could do complex fractions and formulae in his head.
*FATHER'S
*NUMBER OF CONTRACTORS
The benefit of having years of experience and learning the trade specific skills and math needed to do it. Also, a GED back then merely meant that your parents didn't pay to send you to a school that handed out diplomas. High Schools didn't really start handing out diplomas as a standard until the 1950s, IIRC. My grandparents had GEDs, not because they didn't complete school (well, one grandfather didn't) but because their schools didn't hand out diplomas.
The twisted spire is fabulous. It loos like a cornucopia.
21:50 HE UNLOCKED THE INFINITE LIFE CHOICES GLITCH! WOW!
The four inch door gap is a house renovation. Testing how certain internal doors look hung. Builders often do this with fussy clients. You notice the skirting boards have been removed?
18:26 He looks like Shaggy.😂
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Wow those were interesting thanks Mr Amazing be safe warm 🐾🍀🙏💯
I believe the last one was a joke.
4:42 ahh i just recently went to Europe and the colosseum was one of my favorite places we went, its literally so beautiful and the backstory is kinda interesting to me! If you go to Europe definitely go there, its soo worth the money 🤗
18:49 Someone either threw bricks, rocks, or both at it
Looking at the Heiliger Virgil church spire, I think the answer for the off-center clocks is obvious. The spire's primary function is to be a belfry, and those bells weigh a ton, literally. The bells are in the center, and cannot be moved to make room for a clock. I'd guess trying to move the heaviest bell to the side could imbalance the load on the walls and endanger the whole structure. Anyway, the pictures clearly show that the mechanism for the clock is in one corner of the tower, with matching clock faces on all four sides.
Is when we were kids : Lego = tallest skyscraper
Ohhhhh I thoroughly enjoyed watching this video 😮😂 But Fantastic to see the crooked spire of Chesterfield again ❤ The folklore used to be that the Devil had sat on the spire causing it to twist 😮😈 He must have had an arse of steel for that to happen though 😂😂 I lived in the next town for years and my late partner was from Chesterfield too. When travelling once you could see that spire in the distance you knew that you were nearly home ❤ Fabulous video, you've definitely got to make more in this series please 😊 As always wonderful entertainment, thank you ❤
1 of the 10 commandments must've been broken in that church.
@@dannydaw59well yeah, it is Chesterfield 😂😂😂 Construction of the church started in 1234 and the creation of the spire finished about 1360. It's pretty amazing how twisted it is yet still standing. The UK has amazing architecture 😊
Staveley Chesterfield oi oi
The church steeple looks like something from an AI art program made into reality.
22:16 if that Colorado Springs location was ever a "Best Products" store (not Best Buy), they outfitted a LOT of their showrooms to have very unusual architectural features. The one in Sacramento CA for example had a corner of the building that moved out on tracks when the store opened in the morning and slid back into the main building at closing time! We called it The Notch.
Ironically, it is now a Best Buy (who redid the front to eliminate the distinctive Notch. They hate innovation, which is reflected in their showrooms).
Maybe it was cheaper to replace it than to maintain it?
@@michaelterrell Maybe but Best Buy sucks in myriad ways even so.
@@petuniasevan What does that have to do with the building? BB isn't a place that I would recommend to anyone for tech support. A late friend of mine took his computer to them for repair. He had to take it back, several times and it still didn't work. I opened it up to find that they had installed three IDE interface cards, all at the same address. The one on the motherboard was also at that address. I found that the IDE interface cable was bad, and replaced it. It worked great, after removing the three unneeded cards.
A few years ago I needed a SSD for a project, and BB was the only source for about 70 miles. The idiot in the omputer area bragged that he was 'The Windows Expert'. Then he stated that the first version was Windows 95. I told him that he was ignorant, because the first was 100 and ran on the original 640KB PC. He insisted that I was thinking of Win 10. I haven't gone back. Then he did a sloppy google search to 'prove' his point.
I was repairing TVs at 13, in 1966 and I repaired my first computer in 1982
I use mail order rather than go there.
23:35, hey mr. Be Amazed, I'm from Mexico and I find thst joke offensive
19:34 This is still better than the story an engineer told me. He said the specs for the wall to be built was ... let's say 4 ft high (can't remember all the details now). When he went to inspect, the wall "started" at 4 ft high from the ground and continued nice and straight and *level.* Except that the ground underneath sloped up the further along you went. lol.
The real pros are the engineers, not the architect, in rare cases it might be the architect though.
Even engineers can make stupid mistakes and not all architects are equal.
In the US at least I think you need to graduate from a properly accredited engineering program (and maybe also have a certification/license) to legally practice engineering. Similarly an architect must be properly licensed to be a professional architect.
When it comes to personal property and privately owned structures there is a lot more leeway, but you still have to comply with building, fire, and electrical codes.
@@jnharton an architects dream is an engineers nightmare
I was fortunate enough to be able to travel Europe when I was a kid, with my family, of course. We went to Pisa, Italy to see the leaning tower. My dad, brother, and myself walked up to the top, but on the way up, I noticed very quickly there was no hand rail. On one side, you would think you might fall out the door to the street below. On the other side, you would think you were going to fall into the giant pit in the middle. Pretty scary.
2:41 As a German I just can laugh at seeing 1798L of water equals 1814kg x'D
Specific gravity about 1.008? They're allowing for some sort of dissolved salts. Not a ridiculous allowance: blood, seawater, or urine typically starts at 1.020.
18:13 - He got the delivery part right, but I doubt it was a pully system. They probably purchased a forklift that can lift things up to the 3rd floor, and simply made a garage door to drop things off to them from the outside. As for the dent, I'd guess bad driver driving the fork lift.
Depends on the age of the building. Buildings from the early 20th Century had designs like that which were meant for a pulley system. Many in use still have the pulley systems or at least the mounts for them to this day. I work in a manufacturing complex which still has part of it that is over a century old and we can still see the mounting points for the external pulleys for where there used to be cargo entances that are now sealed (i.e. the doors removed and then bricked over).
ive had a horrible day & watching this & listening made it a lot better. thank you
so glad to hear that, really means a lot! hope today is better for you 😇
Love this
7:27 seen this issue at warsy france. Hated the clock at warsy france. Is this common in mainland Europe?
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Really enjoying the animations! Thanx
15:41 only in Ohio as they say
You would love the Philadelphia Naval Yard. There are buildings that were designed in artistic fashion, including one that is purposely twisted, as if it's a snapshot when an earthquake hits. Combine modern architecture with some really old buildings, and it creates a mystique that is unrivaled in the area. It's other-worldly and calming. No wonder people come here to jog or just spend a day. And yes, it's open to the public. Just take Broad Street straight onto the base. No guards will stop you. ;)