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A permanent spire isn't really. Hope you realise that putting a large spire at the top of a building induces a lot of horizontal forces from wind resistance, so it is actually a challenge in of itself. You'd imagine that all of the building have considered putting or extending the spire, but the design limitations have put them exactly where they are.
An interesting video. I am curious to know why you missed the Petronas Twin Towers of Malaysia. They are taller than the Empire State Building and they were the tallest in the world in the late 1990s.
@@jays233 CN tower is not a 'building' in the same way as the Sears Towers, Petronas Towers, and Taipei 101 are. It's a tower a.k.a a concrete pole with an observation deck at the top. It's not occupied along the whole length of the tower.
An architect's dream can sometimes be a structural engineer's nightmare, yet every completed structure stands as proof that structural engineers are skilled at transforming those nightmares into reality. 👷
The Merdeka tower is the most impressive!! how they had to invent new special cement to make the structure stable!! is mind boggling… well done Malaysia 🎉
You're viewing this matter on a rather one sided perspective, in addition to lack of evidence to support your claim. While I do agree with reallocating these funds to benefit society, I don't think schools or hospitals are in great demand. This would be evident if the local population oppose these projects, of which I'm yet to hear.
@@Sev.Schwalbe Are you 16 years old? Only a child would think about this problem in this way. Some things in life are self evident. You provide no support of your claim that schools and hospitals are not in great demand, and perhaps you are only thinking about in the one country in which you happen to live. And who opposes projects "blessed" by the magnificent Mr. Bone Saw (MBS) in the Kingdom of Saud? People don't get to vote on what the people running a society (the people with money) decide to do. Keep reading .... keep learning .....
PNB118 is the project under the Barisan National (BN) former government. The criticism of the PNB118 project stems from opposition leaders and supporters who claim that it is a waste of money and that the funds should be used to alleviate poverty in Malasyia. Notably, since independence, Malaysians have been taken care of with massive subsidies on petrol, goods, foods, and so on. Even with free healthcare for all Malaysians.
Crazy times we live in. The Chrysler building was the first 1,000 ft building in the world just less than a century ago. Now we're talking about 1,000 meter buildings. To the kids that's roughly 3,300 ft!
You should be consistent with the conventional approach to measuring height. The spire or antenna only count if they are a permanent part of the building.
I agree, as does the Council on Tall Buildings and Urban Habitat. Overall height includes spires that are part of a building's architectural design (Burj Khalifa or Merdeka 118) but not antennas (Willis Tower) In my opinion, however, it should be height to roof.
The heights of the Jeddah Tower and Oblisco Capitale haven't been confirmed yet. The only thing we know is that they'll be over 1000 meters so it would be misleading to put down an exact height.
Burj Khalifa: not connected to sewerage. Numerous waste lorries are needed everyday to remove the residents’ sewage. You can take the horse to the water, but you can’t make it drink.
Here's the thing...no one needs giant buildings anymore. Office space is becoming obsolete, and the livability of giant skyscrapers diminishes the higher up you get.
Lots of people need giant buildings, for so many reasons. We will continue to see lots of them being built for a long time. In places like New York where there is little to no horizontal space to build, you must build vertically. Even putting the office space thing aside for a sec -- People still need a place to live, a place to shop or eat, or a place to have their industry. And then, office space is far from obsolete. Yes, certain fields have gone more remote, and will continue to go more remote, but many haven't and there are still many millions of people who commute to work... and there are many jobs that by their very nature cannot be remote, like the hotel/tourism/hospitality industry. And even if we are completely remote (realistically probably will not ever happen but if it does it is probably more than a century away) that still wouldn't solve the problem of where people live -- I don't think expecting a mass exodus from cities is realistic. While cities can be expensive to live in at the individual pocketbook level, there are many economical reasons for humans to live in cities on the macro-level, like not needing a physically large power grid/infrastructure and not needing to transport things as far. Humans will continue to live in cities, where there will be less and less space and the skyline will grow taller because of it.
@@tye829 I appreciate your well thought out and presented analysis. I still disagree, and simply point you to vacancy rates. We are expected to peak at around 9 billion population, with the majority of that population growth in underdeveloped nations. Will the median apartment building in many of these cities increase? Likely. With that being said, there is a reason most new construction scrapers are in the low to mid 400m range. It's simply not cost effective nor practical to build much larger.
@@brentharrington9235He's right about the inner city aspect, there literally is no place to build but up and population growth depends on several factors like diminished resources, living conditions and whatnot. It's entirely possible to beat those limits through future technological developments. We're constantly undergoing shifts in the dynamics of how cities operate and it could always shift back for other reasons, we might want to build multiple level farms someday for instance. Multiple level factories, living spaces, even places that provide all of that and more in a smaller footprint. We could see the advent of entire self sustainable cities in one large structure so you never know.
The spire of Merdeka tower is only 23% of its height while the BURJ KHALIFA's SPIRE is 29% of its height. Then why so many people criticize Merdeka 118's spire while not even talking about Burj Khalifa's spire? 👇Click if you agree and at the same time tell me your opinion.
Great video. I've been working on medium size high rises for decades. Worked at Flour City Architectural Metals until 1995. Then co-worked with them on a joint venture, the 4 Seasons Hotel and Tower on Brickell Avenue in Miami (now 2nd tallest in the city).
The fact that the model for One World Trade Center actually sits exactly where it's supposed to during this Building Height Comparison really amazes me.
At the same time his model of New York is missing the other WTC towers 2, 3 and 4. Unless he purposely deleted them to make space for the ones he puts in.
The stubbornness is unreal... 200 years from now are you still gonna call it sears, even though that name would only be used for 1/5 of its lifespan? People wouldnt know what the fuck youre talking about. Embrace the change already
If Egypt builds the Oblisco Capitale quickly it could temporarily retake the title that it lost when Lincoln Cathedral surpassed the Great Pyramid of Giza in 1311.
Though, Egyptians as we know them today aren't the same people who build the Pyramids. They were Mediterranean peoples. Arabs came much later through conquest.
Should have mentioned the names of the architects who designed these skyscrapers. Most of these buildings were designed by just two American architecture firms: 1) Taipei 101 - C.Y. Lee and C.P. Wang (Taiwanese) 2) Willis Tower - SOM (USA) 3) CITIC Tower - KPF (USA) 4) Tianjin CTF Finance Centre - SOM (USA) 5) Guangzhou CTF Finance Centre - KPF (USA) 6) One World Trade Center - SOM (USA) 7) Lotte World Tower - KPF (USA) 8) Ping An Finance Center - KPF (USA) 9) Abraj Al Bait - SL Rasch GmbH and Dar Al-Handasah Architects (Lebanon) 10) Shanghai Tower - Gensler (USA) 11) Merdeka 118 - Fender Katsalidis (Australia) and RSP KL (Malaysia) 12) Burj Khalifa - SOM (USA) KPF - Kohn Pedersen Fox Associates SOM - Skidmore, Owings & Merrill Fun fact, Samsung C&T was the lead construction contractor for both Merdeka 118 *and* Burj Khalifa!
We, as contractor, are almost never mentioned when talking about building. Still we are faced with great challenges when building it and it sometimes need very innovative solutions. My company was also main construction contractor for Burj Khalifa and a lot of other high rise. It is a Belgian company, BESIX.
@@AuntyMabele Because America will and do so when the need arises? Post-COVID, commercial real estate needs have changed. There may never be a tower that surpasses the Burj Khalifa because it will not be financially viable.
2:27 This seemed just wrong. Checking Wikipedia, it is just wrong. It was meant to house the Sears offices for all office work in Chicago, not be literal housing.
One important lesson that nobody learned from 9/11, is the fact that these tall buildings are all nice to look at, but once you pass a certain floor, and disaster hits, nobody is coming to save you. There’s not a ladder tall enough or a hose long enough to reach those heights. Yes everyone is saying they are safe and nothing will happen, but again that is what they said about the twin towers and the titanic.
I love super tall skyscrapers, I always did. It's fascinating what mankind achieved already. Yet there are limits of usefulness. 1000m is already so high, that it takes significant time to get in and out. Who wants to live or work in a building, where it takes 10-15 min. just to leave the house? I would say, the limit for usefulness is at a hight around 500m, everything beyond that is just hunting for new records.
But if someone lives or works away from a city center than in would take longer than 10-15 min to reach the city center while the skyscraper is in the right location.
@@bristoled93 The crucial point is, this adds up. When you work in a skyscraper and live outside the city, you need both 10-15 min. to reach the city center and another 10-15 min. to get to your desk.
There is also competition in archaeological tourism between Egypt and Saudi Arabia, and perhaps several other countries, regarding the largest living archaeological museum in the world: Egypt is building what it believes is the largest open museum in the world.” Egypt is on a date to attract everyone's attention again with the "Road of Rams"... Restoring the archaeological corridor and linking the Karnak Temple, the Luxor Temple, the Temple of Mut, and the ancient ruins of Thebes. Saudi Arabia is building what it believes is the largest living archaeological museum in the world with a tram project to link ancient Arab civilizations to each other in the city of Al-Ula. ua-cam.com/video/C3tfEc-xs8I/v-deo.html
I would never agree that the Willis Tower should be the highest than One WTC, we do have different opinions about it and still even if the spire of Willis Tower counts, it is still shorter than One WTC, but yes roof height it’s practically higher just like Central Park Tower. It’s probably cuz ya’ll didn’t even know this since way back in 2009, Willis Tower’s spire was removed and reattached for a few months later, meaning the spire of the Willis Tower is used for radio broadcasts and, it is REMOVABLE. As long as One WTC’s spire counts, did they even remove the spire? No! Willis Tower’s roof is literally an ARCHITECTURAL HEIGHT. So to conclude, like what the policy of CTBUH, no matter how tall the roof height is, the spire should always be included as long as the spire isn’t removable or radio broadcast purposes. IDC if depending on how ya’ll still tryna complain about the difference between roof height and antenna/spires. So ya’ll better study skyscrapers, that’s just my advise.
17:30 - - - - 18:18 - - - 18:22 8:09 - - QUESTION: “to avoid interference with these trains, the 4 subterranean levels had to snake their way over + between the metro lines.” Could you please show a visual (map, diagrams or animations) to explain what this means?
A great vidoe on mega-tall buildings. Working in high-rise buildings for 2 decades. My sole supertall building project was Four Seasons Place in KL, next to Petronas Towers. Working on various structural systems suitable for tall buildings independently.
there is a new challenger the dubai creek tower which is a project which had started construction in 2017 not cpleted yet which is rumoured to stand taller than jeddah tower at 1345 m
Dampers are mainly used to counter swaying due to wind, which lasts longer and moves slower than earthquake waves. Dampers do not move quickly enough to counter the very quick sideways movements caused by an earthquake. That is taken care of by the flexibility of the structure and the envelope, which will allow the building to temporarily deform then return to its original shape.
There is a new competition, which is that Saudi Arabia is now investing heavily in beach and island tourism to compete with the most beautiful islands in the world, such as the Maldives, Hawaii, etc., with projects such as the Red Sea Islands Project, the Sindalah Project, and the Amaala Project, and it is betting on its success on the multiple competitive strengths of tourist attractions, such as the diversity of their geology and topography on those islands. Its many virgin islands, its location in the middle of the world, etc. Saudi Arabia has about 1,285 islands that it has not invested in, and it wants to invest many of the islands in economic sectors such as beach tourism and island tourism, such as recreation, health, marine sports, etc.
Burj Khalifa has a lot going for it. The 2 biggest positives (my opinion) are (1) the tripod structure, for great lateral stability, and (2) its irregular vertical-axis features, to minimizing vortex-shedding twisting and fatiguing of the tower. I strongly suspect that the current replacement wannabe towers--not having or minimally having those features--will eventually run into trouble. NOW.. For a 2km-tall tower-- having those 2 advantages as dominant features in its design--to be built. Spectacular and sustainable!
You got many things wrong about the Merdeka 118 Tower but i will only highlight a few 1. It is Malaysia 1st Prime Minister not President. 2. The spire is not mere decoration. The visitors can climb up into it to experience the highest open air observation deck. 3. Many Malaysian opposed? You are confusing between the political parties and public. The project itself is a private property. There is no single Malaysian taxes use to build that tower I know it is hard to grasp the idea of a little country especially the developing nation like Malaysia build this big tower but please impose your negative energy elsewhere
@@plutoxxxxxxx I can appreciate pointing out content errors however your “negative energy” bit is more than a bit harsh. Did the creator set out to offend anyone?
Even if I was given a penthouse in one of these for free I would pass...the idea of having to evacuate such tall structures when needed makes my knees shake.
While the video is entertaining, it is badly done. Some buildings are ignored for no reason, and example of existing building is the Petronas Towers. Why didn't you talk about it ? You talk about Oblisco Capital which is not started yet, you talk about the Kingdom tower which is stopped but you don't mention Dubai Creek Tower which is started but on hold but supposed to reach 1300m, so higher than the two you mentioned. Very lacking informations I am sorry
The most innovative design feature of all these towers is the inertial damper of Taipei 101. I'm surprised that more of these towers, especially those in China, don't have one.
These are designed to break in a certain direction if they are subjected to shaking greater than the expected level. Attitudes towards safety vary from country to country.
@@nannerz1994 I’ve been to a couple of talk structures. While they are fun for tourists, they are also incredibly expensive from the group up , and hard to maintain, so it’s no surprise a lot of companies in US just don’t want to take the risk
I really thought that the One World Trade Center was a little bigger... its antenna is also quite misleading, however, of all the ones on the list it is the one I have the most emotional connection to (because of what it represents today) I will always be an eternal fan of the Twin Towers
I was in Taipei 101 when it was the tallest and then in The Shanghai Tower. All other skyline buildings don't do justice but the ones that come close have 270-360 degree views of water and not just a city.
Merdeka 118 is NOT funded by govt money and stop inferring malaysia as a poor country we already had petronas towers since 1998 and tht also NOT funded by govt money..both are privately funded projects both financially capable of having big skyscraper projects
Rich with big buildings, but poor with manners. The one trick pony country, adds long ass spire for useless height and gets extremely butthurt when opposed.
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@@UltimateBlueStar-MCan we get a round of applause for this dude 👏👏👏👏🤓
@@UltimateBlueStar-M First idiot.
This dude is super! Horray for Magebuilds
Petronas Tower?
measuring to pinnacle rather than flat roof feels like cheating
many think so, that's why they use roof height, spire height, pinnacle height, antenna height when using a diagram to compare
A permanent spire isn't really. Hope you realise that putting a large spire at the top of a building induces a lot of horizontal forces from wind resistance, so it is actually a challenge in of itself. You'd imagine that all of the building have considered putting or extending the spire, but the design limitations have put them exactly where they are.
@@kpwnage97 what's more difficult, putting a 100 meter spire on top of a building, or adding 100 meter worth of floors of the same building?
@@lemonnade5974 pls stfu and mind your own country business
Australia 108 agrees.
An interesting video. I am curious to know why you missed the Petronas Twin Towers of Malaysia. They are taller than the Empire State Building and they were the tallest in the world in the late 1990s.
Yeah the Sears Tower was the tallest in the world for 25 years until those things came along!
Yes, I noticed that too!
Also , one of the more architecturally interesting designs, with that bridge linking the 2 towers together!
Probably the same reason why the CN tower isnt allowed on the Wikipedia list of worlds tallest buildings.
@@jays233 CN tower is not a 'building' in the same way as the Sears Towers, Petronas Towers, and Taipei 101 are. It's a tower a.k.a a concrete pole with an observation deck at the top. It's not occupied along the whole length of the tower.
Twin towers in malaysia are mostly fake too, occupied spaces are probably not more than 10-20%
Yeah, I will never call it the Willis Tower. It’s forever the Sears Tower.
Couldn’t agree more. And I’m not even from Chicago.
As a Chicagoan: Forever
It will always be knows as the Sears Tower! The tallest building in the U.S. for some 30 years.
I had no idea it had even changed its name - and pictured Arnold saying "Whaty'a talking about Willis?" when I heard.
Who cares it’s a shit building
An architect's dream can sometimes be a structural engineer's nightmare, yet every completed structure stands as proof that structural engineers are skilled at transforming those nightmares into reality. 👷
The Merdeka tower is the most impressive!! how they had to invent new special cement to make the structure stable!! is mind boggling… well done Malaysia 🎉
While those poor people live all over Malaysia..... Yeah, it is really "impressive"
well done saudi arabia !
@@K5MF Yes, well done for curing the sheickdom's "crown prince"'s pe-n-is envy
@@TWOCOWS1 what do u mean by poor?
@@TWOCOWS1 what’s poor people got to do with the engineering behind the building!!! Poverty or not it’s very impressive….
As an American the Shanghai Tower is literally one of the absolute coolest-looking skyscrapers in the world. I like how it “twists” 😃
seeing it in person is other wordly
Twisty twisty
And have the highest top floor in the world. Surpassing Burj Khalifa.
What do you mean "as an American"?
i think so too
Spires shouldn't count, it's silly. Only floors that people can go up to (live or work) should count
Merdeka 118 not spire ..can go to deck
You can go to the top if the spire of Merdeka 118
Nope, the standard is ‘walkable space’. Yes people can walk in spire.
Maybe, maybe not.
Agreed !
Otherwise I’ll erect a 829 metre aerial on top of my house roof and bingo ! The tallest building in the world! 😂
Whilst I get building these is kind of fun, how many hospitals, schools and care homes could you build for the price of just one of these buildings?
Who’s gonna pay for those? Sky scrapers are built by investors for profit. Nobody is giving away money to build schools and care homes
You're viewing this matter on a rather one sided perspective, in addition to lack of evidence to support your claim. While I do agree with reallocating these funds to benefit society, I don't think schools or hospitals are in great demand. This would be evident if the local population oppose these projects, of which I'm yet to hear.
@@Sev.Schwalbe Are you 16 years old? Only a child would think about this problem in this way. Some things in life are self evident. You provide no support of your claim that schools and hospitals are not in great demand, and perhaps you are only thinking about in the one country in which you happen to live. And who opposes projects "blessed" by the magnificent Mr. Bone Saw (MBS) in the Kingdom of Saud? People don't get to vote on what the people running a society (the people with money) decide to do. Keep reading .... keep learning .....
@@ClarkeDesign since when Merdeka 118 is government a.k.a taxpayer money?
It’s still the Sears tower … always will be. And also as a New Yorker we all still call it the freedom tower..
PNB118 is the project under the Barisan National (BN) former government. The criticism of the PNB118 project stems from opposition leaders and supporters who claim that it is a waste of money and that the funds should be used to alleviate poverty in Malasyia.
Notably, since independence, Malaysians have been taken care of with massive subsidies on petrol, goods, foods, and so on. Even with free healthcare for all Malaysians.
@@fooveyron3080 even the Merdeka 118 itself is not made by Malaysian money. People can be a bitch sometimes if thing dont go to their way
And education too
Dude if that steel counterweight in the Taipei ever came loose, it’s not taking any prisoners. 😬
If that happened, China could walk right in without firing a shot.
scary thought
Crazy times we live in. The Chrysler building was the first 1,000 ft building in the world just less than a century ago. Now we're talking about 1,000 meter buildings. To the kids that's roughly 3,300 ft!
Wonder how long it'll take to reach 1 mile high. You KNOW someone will wanna try it, lol
You should be consistent with the conventional approach to measuring height. The spire or antenna only count if they are a permanent part of the building.
And measure in English measurements
@@casmatori What is English measurements? This video uses pretty conventional measurements, aka : the metric system.
I agree, as does the Council on Tall Buildings and Urban Habitat. Overall height includes spires that are part of a building's architectural design (Burj Khalifa or Merdeka 118) but not antennas (Willis Tower)
In my opinion, however, it should be height to roof.
@@casmatori No
@@georged9234 keep crying about it white people
Burj Khalifa 828 meters
Jeddah Tower 1008 meters
Oblisco Capitale 1080 meters
jeddah tower is +1008 so it could be 1100 meters
The heights of the Jeddah Tower and Oblisco Capitale haven't been confirmed yet. The only thing we know is that they'll be over 1000 meters so it would be misleading to put down an exact height.
Burj Khalifa: not connected to sewerage. Numerous waste lorries are needed everyday to remove the residents’ sewage. You can take the horse to the water, but you can’t make it drink.
Jeddah tower was scaled down to 600 meters recently
Same with Oblisco i think
Here's the thing...no one needs giant buildings anymore.
Office space is becoming obsolete, and the livability of giant skyscrapers diminishes the higher up you get.
Yeah but it’s the only way that Islam knows how to pretend to be modern .
But they are nice to look at, and the only reason I want to go to Dubai and Hong Kong.
Lots of people need giant buildings, for so many reasons. We will continue to see lots of them being built for a long time. In places like New York where there is little to no horizontal space to build, you must build vertically. Even putting the office space thing aside for a sec -- People still need a place to live, a place to shop or eat, or a place to have their industry. And then, office space is far from obsolete. Yes, certain fields have gone more remote, and will continue to go more remote, but many haven't and there are still many millions of people who commute to work... and there are many jobs that by their very nature cannot be remote, like the hotel/tourism/hospitality industry. And even if we are completely remote (realistically probably will not ever happen but if it does it is probably more than a century away) that still wouldn't solve the problem of where people live -- I don't think expecting a mass exodus from cities is realistic. While cities can be expensive to live in at the individual pocketbook level, there are many economical reasons for humans to live in cities on the macro-level, like not needing a physically large power grid/infrastructure and not needing to transport things as far. Humans will continue to live in cities, where there will be less and less space and the skyline will grow taller because of it.
@@tye829 I appreciate your well thought out and presented analysis.
I still disagree, and simply point you to vacancy rates.
We are expected to peak at around 9 billion population, with the majority of that population growth in underdeveloped nations.
Will the median apartment building in many of these cities increase? Likely. With that being said, there is a reason most new construction scrapers are in the low to mid 400m range. It's simply not cost effective nor practical to build much larger.
@@brentharrington9235He's right about the inner city aspect, there literally is no place to build but up and population growth depends on several factors like diminished resources, living conditions and whatnot. It's entirely possible to beat those limits through future technological developments. We're constantly undergoing shifts in the dynamics of how cities operate and it could always shift back for other reasons, we might want to build multiple level farms someday for instance. Multiple level factories, living spaces, even places that provide all of that and more in a smaller footprint. We could see the advent of entire self sustainable cities in one large structure so you never know.
The Ping An Finance Center is the tallest structure that looks like an obelisk.
that is true!
I like how the Sears Tower is a 1980's knight rider kind of look.
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The spire of Merdeka tower is only 23% of its height while the BURJ KHALIFA's SPIRE is 29% of its height.
Then why so many people criticize Merdeka 118's spire while not even talking about Burj Khalifa's spire?
👇Click if you agree and at the same time tell me your opinion.
At the same time, I noticed the video not really explain the structural details of Merdeka 118.
For real..I love merdeka tower
oh yes whataboutism. always a fun argument technique. You even added the the nonsense that people don't criticize the Burj Khalifa's spire
The difference is that burj khalifa's spire is seamless with the building, while merdeka's is just a stick that sticks out like a sore thumb
@@AL-lh2ht why whataboutism cant be used here since the main point here is people not talking about burj khalifa spire
Eradicating poverty? Have you been to Malaysia? There are more homeless people in your country.
Yes indeed. New york is a trash dump site. Old kind of city.
Relax he just got info from certain source..definitely opposition political parties in malaysia...not from population itself
pnb tower 118. every window has been bought by a rich company.. before construction. so it's not from malaysian government money.
@@azmanhamat1314 where that rich company from? from malaysia right?
Their most endearing feature is they are nowhere near me.
As a malaysian, I did not know that Malaysia has a president. 🤣🤣 It's our first Prime Minister.
Same
Great video. I've been working on medium size high rises for decades. Worked at Flour City Architectural Metals until 1995. Then co-worked with them on a joint venture, the 4 Seasons Hotel and Tower on Brickell Avenue in Miami (now 2nd tallest in the city).
I hope the last tower does not get their languages confused... 😂
Sears tower. Never want to hear it as Willis again
i love how we just made skyscrapers to have space, but other countries just do it to flex
except for in europe where big tall metal and glass buildings are not needed to flex 😁
@@orbytl2799 Londom, paris, moscow,
@@crownalgodoo8095 no buildings in them places that make this list though and likely never will have
@@crownalgodoo8095 so you are gonna cry about it? Don’t be petty if your home country cant do shit
It was, and is and will always be called the Sears Tower.
Good luck trying to get the rise up there
The fact that the model for One World Trade Center actually sits exactly where it's supposed to during this Building Height Comparison really amazes me.
At the same time his model of New York is missing the other WTC towers 2, 3 and 4. Unless he purposely deleted them to make space for the ones he puts in.
How can Taipei be the tallest building in the world from 2004-10 when a building older than it (Willis Tower) is taller?
It’s because apparently the Willis towers antenna doesn’t contribute to its height as it’s not structurally part of the building if that makes sense.
they jumped over the petronas towers (tallest in 1998) and they had spires taller than the roof level of sears tower
measured by highest floor
So irritating that it seems like only the most minimal effort was made to learn how to pronounce the names of the names and companies in the video.
You don't understand anything about skyscrapers
It’s not the Willis tower. It’s the sears tower forever
just keep saying the old name. problem solved
The stubbornness is unreal... 200 years from now are you still gonna call it sears, even though that name would only be used for 1/5 of its lifespan? People wouldnt know what the fuck youre talking about. Embrace the change already
dude keeps fucking up. it's sears tower, nothing else.
Facts. I grew up calling it the sears tower and I’m from Michigan
It's the same tower. You're not defending a name, you're defending what you're used to. Get on with the times.
If Egypt builds the Oblisco Capitale quickly it could temporarily retake the title that it lost when Lincoln Cathedral surpassed the Great Pyramid of Giza in 1311.
Though, Egyptians as we know them today aren't the same people who build the Pyramids. They were Mediterranean peoples. Arabs came much later through conquest.
Should have mentioned the names of the architects who designed these skyscrapers. Most of these buildings were designed by just two American architecture firms:
1) Taipei 101 - C.Y. Lee and C.P. Wang (Taiwanese)
2) Willis Tower - SOM (USA)
3) CITIC Tower - KPF (USA)
4) Tianjin CTF Finance Centre - SOM (USA)
5) Guangzhou CTF Finance Centre - KPF (USA)
6) One World Trade Center - SOM (USA)
7) Lotte World Tower - KPF (USA)
8) Ping An Finance Center - KPF (USA)
9) Abraj Al Bait - SL Rasch GmbH and Dar Al-Handasah Architects (Lebanon)
10) Shanghai Tower - Gensler (USA)
11) Merdeka 118 - Fender Katsalidis (Australia) and RSP KL (Malaysia)
12) Burj Khalifa - SOM (USA)
KPF - Kohn Pedersen Fox Associates
SOM - Skidmore, Owings & Merrill
Fun fact, Samsung C&T was the lead construction contractor for both Merdeka 118 *and* Burj Khalifa!
Why don't they create buildings of these heights in America then?
We, as contractor, are almost never mentioned when talking about building.
Still we are faced with great challenges when building it and it sometimes need very innovative solutions.
My company was also main construction contractor for Burj Khalifa and a lot of other high rise. It is a Belgian company, BESIX.
@@AuntyMabele Because America will and do so when the need arises? Post-COVID, commercial real estate needs have changed. There may never be a tower that surpasses the Burj Khalifa because it will not be financially viable.
@@AuntyMabele I think America needs better roads and bridges, rather than skyscrapers…
@@batagnam main contractor is samsung . U idiot
2:27 This seemed just wrong. Checking Wikipedia, it is just wrong. It was meant to house the Sears offices for all office work in Chicago, not be literal housing.
600 + floors = nuts.
600 = nuts - floors
Bro i love ur vids
One important lesson that nobody learned from 9/11, is the fact that these tall buildings are all nice to look at, but once you pass a certain floor, and disaster hits, nobody is coming to save you. There’s not a ladder tall enough or a hose long enough to reach those heights. Yes everyone is saying they are safe and nothing will happen, but again that is what they said about the twin towers and the titanic.
Of all the buildings featured in this video, the Empire State Building is the only one assaulted by a giant Gorilla.
I love super tall skyscrapers, I always did. It's fascinating what mankind achieved already. Yet there are limits of usefulness. 1000m is already so high, that it takes significant time to get in and out. Who wants to live or work in a building, where it takes 10-15 min. just to leave the house? I would say, the limit for usefulness is at a hight around 500m, everything beyond that is just hunting for new records.
source: I made it up.
I think they are reasonable until 1,300m after that it's probably just gonna be ridiculous.
Wow, I hate super tall buildings😂😂
But if someone lives or works away from a city center than in would take longer than 10-15 min to reach the city center while the skyscraper is in the right location.
@@bristoled93 The crucial point is, this adds up. When you work in a skyscraper and live outside the city, you need both 10-15 min. to reach the city center and another 10-15 min. to get to your desk.
FACT CHECK: You forgot the Makkah Clock Royal Tower Hotel (1972ft/602m tall). $16 billion to build
Those buildings in New York just make the Skyline look so much more better
yes and 1WTC is at its real-life location
15 years later as a Chicagoan, im still mad they changed it and we still call it the Sears Tower lol
Kuala Lumpur twins tower?
Only the tallest twin tower around the world
side note: Abraj Al_Bait clock tower holds the record of the highest occupiable space on any structure to this day.
There is also competition in archaeological tourism between Egypt and Saudi Arabia, and perhaps several other countries, regarding the largest living archaeological museum in the world: Egypt is building what it believes is the largest open museum in the world.”
Egypt is on a date to attract everyone's attention again with the "Road of Rams"... Restoring the archaeological corridor and linking the Karnak Temple, the Luxor Temple, the Temple of Mut, and the ancient ruins of Thebes.
Saudi Arabia is building what it believes is the largest living archaeological museum in the world with a tram project to link ancient Arab civilizations to each other in the city of Al-Ula.
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It'd be nice mentioning who designed and raised these buildings. That's an interesting detail.
I'm still waiting for a skyscraper so tall that if someone jumps from top, he/she can write a whole last will and testament before hitting ground.
The buildings are really impressive.
U never mentioned the existence of Petrona towers situated in KL, malaysia.
I would never agree that the Willis Tower should be the highest than One WTC, we do have different opinions about it and still even if the spire of Willis Tower counts, it is still shorter than One WTC, but yes roof height it’s practically higher just like Central Park Tower. It’s probably cuz ya’ll didn’t even know this since way back in 2009, Willis Tower’s spire was removed and reattached for a few months later, meaning the spire of the Willis Tower is used for radio broadcasts and, it is REMOVABLE. As long as One WTC’s spire counts, did they even remove the spire? No! Willis Tower’s roof is literally an ARCHITECTURAL HEIGHT. So to conclude, like what the policy of CTBUH, no matter how tall the roof height is, the spire should always be included as long as the spire isn’t removable or radio broadcast purposes. IDC if depending on how ya’ll still tryna complain about the difference between roof height and antenna/spires. So ya’ll better study skyscrapers, that’s just my advise.
Over a mile tall!!! That's nuts!!
Yeah It would be nuts but no building is over a mile tall. That would be 5,280 feet or 1,600 meters. Can't build that high.
Finally! The video I had been waiting for 3 years.
Please stop calling Willis Tower. It is Sears Tower. Willis is just a sponsored name but the building is Sears and will always be.
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@@TheSmokeofAnubis What you talkin' 'bout?
@@AG-gp1kd Willis.
Ha ha. Yeah. I'm not gonna suddenly start calling it something different because they got a new sponsor.
Not from Chicago, but I 100% agree.
Not on the list, but it will always be the “TransCo” tower in Houston; not Williams tower.
If I had to go to work on floors higher than 600 ft my safety feature would be a parachute.
Before Taipei 101, the Petronas Twin Towers were the tallest.
2001 : not any more
How was Taipei 101 the tallest for those years when the Sears Tower predates it?
I figured the Petronas towers would have made this list.
I think this channel effed up and missed them.
And they are TWIN
Womp womp
17:30 - - - - 18:18 - - - 18:22
8:09 - - QUESTION: “to avoid interference with these trains, the 4 subterranean levels had to snake their way over + between the metro lines.” Could you please show a visual (map, diagrams or animations) to explain what this means?
It means the basements aren’t connected to and couldn’t interfere with the subway while under construction
@@Mouritzeen no - untrue
@@_Breakdown what
@@Mouritzeen your facts are mistaken.
@@_Breakdown what
Super video ! thank you very much!
A great vidoe on mega-tall buildings. Working in high-rise buildings for 2 decades. My sole supertall building project was Four Seasons Place in KL, next to Petronas Towers. Working on various structural systems suitable for tall buildings independently.
You could feel the Asian power in this episode 😂
Great video. Even better editing. Thanks!
Malaysia's Petronas Towers is taller than the Empire State building.
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Agree
From the Great Pyramids to The Rise, humans are always fighting the small wee-wee energy.
Burj Khalifa! Those 3 aren't even built yet!
there is a new challenger the dubai creek tower which is a project which had started construction in 2017 not cpleted yet which is rumoured to stand taller than jeddah tower at 1345 m
I heard the Jeddah tower is being reduced. So it might night even be that big
Dampers are mainly used to counter swaying due to wind, which lasts longer and moves slower than earthquake waves. Dampers do not move quickly enough to counter the very quick sideways movements caused by an earthquake. That is taken care of by the flexibility of the structure and the envelope, which will allow the building to temporarily deform then return to its original shape.
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That final 600 floor tower will cost 5 Billion.??? Heck - that's what an American sports venue now cost to watch a football game.
There is a new competition, which is that Saudi Arabia is now investing heavily in beach and island tourism to compete with the most beautiful islands in the world, such as the Maldives, Hawaii, etc., with projects such as the Red Sea Islands Project, the Sindalah Project, and the Amaala Project, and it is betting on its success on the multiple competitive strengths of tourist attractions, such as the diversity of their geology and topography on those islands. Its many virgin islands, its location in the middle of the world, etc.
Saudi Arabia has about 1,285 islands that it has not invested in, and it wants to invest many of the islands in economic sectors such as beach tourism and island tourism, such as recreation, health, marine sports, etc.
who tf wants to be in saudi
@@mark_egzafierYour company manager, Mohamed Al-Abbar, is always in Saudi Arabia and invests in Saudi Arabia.
Believe tourism is a side thing nobody thinks like that they don't want to attract tourists but primarily they want to attract investors
Saudi Arabia and all there plans looks like scams to me. Also the Burj Khalifa, nit even connected to a sewer system
@@mark_egzafier buddy saudi arabi is one of the most visited nations on earth.
Burj Khalifa has a lot going for it. The 2 biggest positives (my opinion) are (1) the tripod structure, for great lateral stability, and (2) its irregular vertical-axis features, to minimizing vortex-shedding twisting and fatiguing of the tower.
I strongly suspect that the current replacement wannabe towers--not having or minimally having those features--will eventually run into trouble.
NOW.. For a 2km-tall tower-- having those 2 advantages as dominant features in its design--to be built. Spectacular and sustainable!
You got many things wrong about the Merdeka 118 Tower but i will only highlight a few
1. It is Malaysia 1st Prime Minister not President.
2. The spire is not mere decoration. The visitors can climb up into it to experience the highest open air observation deck.
3. Many Malaysian opposed? You are confusing between the political parties and public. The project itself is a private property. There is no single Malaysian taxes use to build that tower
I know it is hard to grasp the idea of a little country especially the developing nation like Malaysia build this big tower but please impose your negative energy elsewhere
Good points 🙏🏾
Thank you for correcting the video's mistake
yea Malaysia actually built a whole bunch of mega skyscrapers.
@@AL-lh2ht is that a sarcasm?
@@plutoxxxxxxx I can appreciate pointing out content errors however your “negative energy” bit is more than a bit harsh. Did the creator set out to offend anyone?
Even if I was given a penthouse in one of these for free I would pass...the idea of having to evacuate such tall structures when needed makes my knees shake.
Egypt tryna summon gods with that obelisk lol
Cats will take over the country again
Very well done, I enjoyed every minute of it!! 👍👍👍
While the video is entertaining, it is badly done.
Some buildings are ignored for no reason, and example of existing building is the Petronas Towers. Why didn't you talk about it ?
You talk about Oblisco Capital which is not started yet, you talk about the Kingdom tower which is stopped but you don't mention Dubai Creek Tower which is started but on hold but supposed to reach 1300m, so higher than the two you mentioned.
Very lacking informations I am sorry
It's AI what would you expect
@@abdurrahmanjawad4849 Absolutely...No real person is animated like that and hiding behind a pop filter..give me a break ...😂😂😂
The most innovative design feature of all these towers is the inertial damper of Taipei 101. I'm surprised that more of these towers, especially those in China, don't have one.
Antennas don’t count for a building height, only spires cause they are part of the building design
Your logic falls apart really easily. If I had a spire above my house standing at 1000m, does that make my house the tallest building in the world?
the last one is the tower of babel
WHERE IS LAKHTA CENTER???
The ping an finance center is absolutely amazing, especially durinh the light show !
We still call it SEARS tower don't come to Chicago and say Willis
Nah I'm not going to no stubborn city
5 billion dollars for the Rise. 10 billion for the James Webb! Puts into perspective what a mega project that must have been!
i am from malaysia
These are designed to break in a certain direction if they are subjected to shaking greater than the expected level. Attitudes towards safety vary from country to country.
Missing Petronas Towers?
FYI- the building used as a placeholder for the Rise Tower is the envisioned Dubai City Tower
you said Willis Tower and I was like what?....oh The Sears Tower.
Stubborn af huh
@@archimetropolis no just normal
yeah dude is clueless. Nobody calls it the W word, we only say Sears.
@@0fficialdregsdidn’t the name change
$1M just to put a proposal together! And a 1 in 5 chance of getting any of your money back. Thats one hell of a gamble
Damm USA really got outdone with these tallest skyscrapers
basically all of these are goverment backed projects with often dubious benefit, while the US is all private invested and made.
For US tall building aren't a statement anymore. you don't need tall buildings.
@@southside2459You ever been up in one of them? it's pretty fun
@@nannerz1994 I’ve been to a couple of talk structures. While they are fun for tourists, they are also incredibly expensive from the group up , and hard to maintain, so it’s no surprise a lot of companies in US just don’t want to take the risk
after 9/11...no thanks
I really thought that the One World Trade Center was a little bigger... its antenna is also quite misleading, however, of all the ones on the list it is the one I have the most emotional connection to (because of what it represents today) I will always be an eternal fan of the Twin Towers
The rise looks like the Dubai City Tower
yeah same comment
Sears Tower is just so bad ass looking to me, its hard to top. If Egypt pulls off that giant obelisk I'll give it #1, that things unbelievable.
2 km is just overkill
Lol just build a space elevator already
I was in Taipei 101 when it was the tallest and then in The Shanghai Tower. All other skyline buildings don't do justice but the ones that come close have 270-360 degree views of water and not just a city.
I wish my country had buildings like these
the tallest here in sweden is the "karlatornet" 246m tall, a pretty good height. so what's the tallest in your country?
yeah france do absolutely nothing except this awful tower eifel
@@NinoPurple awful??? do you even understand how impossible it was to build in the 1880's
@@krisstopher8259 yes awful and now they can do many thing they do absolutely nothing
@@NinoPurple thats the case for my country too
Arabs never tire of vanity projects
Merdeka 118 is NOT funded by govt money and stop inferring malaysia as a poor country we already had petronas towers since 1998 and tht also NOT funded by govt money..both are privately funded projects both financially capable of having big skyscraper projects
Malaysia still poor in south east asia only singapore is developed
@@yamana5313An island country south of Singapore claim they have the highest tower in the world.
Rich with big buildings, but poor with manners. The one trick pony country, adds long ass spire for useless height and gets extremely butthurt when opposed.
How can the tower in Taipei have been the tallest building in the world from 2004-2010 if it’s shorter than the “Sears” Tower which is older?