The High Life - Tale of Four Towers - Big Bigger Biggest
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- Опубліковано 30 гру 2021
- In southern China a stunning landmark rises above the clouds, a steel and concrete giant with waist of a supermodel. Rising 610 metres tall, the Canton Tower is the 2nd tallest tower on Earth. It’s a true symbol of China’s industrial power, a marvel of engineering that required great leaps in technology to be built. This Wonder of the East wouldn’t be possible without key inventions found in a series of landmark towers. In this 2011 film we explore the four historic towers that made these engineering breakthroughs - The Washington Monument, the Eiffel Tower, Canada’s CN Tower and the record-breaking Canton Tower. Travelling up the scale we’ll reveal the incredible stories behind these structures, and the innovations that allowed them to soar higher into the sky.
Episode from the “Big Bigger Biggest” documentary series exploring the engineering breakthroughs that have enabled us to develop some of the largest structures in existence.
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The CN Tower will always be my favourite tower. I remember visiting it as a kid and I loved it.
As a child living at Bathurst and King streets in Toronto I remember the giant hole dug when they built the CN tower. An amazing memory. We'd skip school & watch from the Bathurst St. bridge.
Now that…has to be the best excuse for being late…
“Why didn’t you turn up to class?”
“Oh…uhh, well, we were watching history being built before our very eyes”
I was working at Toronto General doing open hearts on the top floor of the Private Patient's Pavillion. We watched the Tower go up. The most exciting day was when the needle was put on the top with the Skorsky helicopter.
Used to be able to see it from Bowmanville on a clear day, was a long time ago….
The best😊😊😊
My special conpliment to Jem Stansfield for the terrific and understandable way he explains the physics of those towers.
Great documentary, love the CN tower, Tokyo sky tree and the Berlin TV tower so much.
But these iconic towers are awesome too.
I never knew these details of the Washington Monument’s construction. Specifically the leaning problem. I’ve read a lot about it and visited it many times but I don’t remember hearing about this problem thank you for the fresh revelations. The foundation must’ve already been buried to hopefully give the monument more stability when the work was stopped for 20 years. It’s fortunate that they had time to see how it was sitting before they built the rest
I watched the CN tower growing each day as a kid. It was amazing to go up in it and see the incredible view. The structure is seriously strong, apparently it can withstand an impact from a large jet and a magnitude 10 earthquake. It is one continuous pour of concrete reinforced, super tough.
this videos are great, I didn't realize there was a series I used to just watch the Burj Khalifa one and the longest suspension bridge. Glad to know theres others out there. Wish I could buy the series
Very interesting video. Id love to see a structural engineer digitize, model, and evaluate the forces and integrity of these (and other?) Iconic structures. Some interesting answers: how well did the designers meet integrity/ safety requirements? Do modeled high-stress areas predict actual signs of damage (particularly over time)? And, what about accepted safety margins? Basically, tests of design vs reality.
Me gustó mucho, GRACIAS.
36:08 - 37:53 that is genius
Thank you so much for the amazing video ❤️
Agreed
Where is the Tokyo Sky Tree? It's 634 m tall and completed in 2012
The video is from 2011. Please Read
I will never forget being up in the CN Tower one night, the city was lit up in mid summer, and i was at the highest floor we could go.... and i turned around and suddenly saw the rooftops of DT Toronto. wOw. what a view of the lake too. it was spectacular all lit up.
Amazing structures
It's so crazy to think that the construction workers are really the first ones to see it finished. Like. Imagine being the crew that puts on the very last piece. I'd probably cry.
What a great video. Informative and entertaining. It's tough to achieve both. Great work.
Dutch architecture.......
The firm probably has its own offices below see level.....
The urge to go up isn’t coincidental is the Dutch way of survival.
Short people and small country’s have that drive very often and presents the world with AWESOME gifts.
THANKS SO VERY MUCH 😍💪🍀❤️🌷🌷🌷🌷
26:11 What did you expect them to use if not cranes? Their biceps? Maybe catapult the structure and let the workers catch it at the top?
Gross - Grosse - Großter... Big bigger biggest... VPO.. TY!
"The views are stunning, and there's not a donut in sight"😂😂😂.....The video does an amazing job explaining engineering principles in simple but accurate terms.
ingenious!
Ive never heard of this tower and it doesn't seem like this tower is talked about. More about the French tower 🎉 that's a wonderful and shockingly amazing story
Big Ben is my favorite clock tower
I remember being amazed when I went up the cntower in 98 . But even now Canton has lost its crown to Tokyo tower. I'm thinking that won't be beaten for a long period.
Skytree is by far the most amazing. Not only is it taller but it is also the only one built on an extremely unstable fault and receives over 400 earthquakes a year and when the magnitude 9 hit japan the Skytree didn't even get any damage or necessitated any work.
THAT is what a marvel of engineering is. Put a magnitude 9 under the Eiffel tower the CN tower the Washington monument or the Canton tower and see what happens !
And nobody died in the construction of the Tokyo Sky Tree and they also never used underpaid slave labour.
Fascinating stuff, I would have liked to hear the power requirements on that tower in China. I couldn't help but notice that all the fire and smoke suppression devices require power to operate. I am sure there is a backup, but what? Generator, batteries, or a combination of both? I have worked in the field of fire alarms so this topic drew my attention.
What is that BS of a program. You act like the Canton Tower is the highest in the world but it is 610 meters high, while the Tokyo skytree is 634 meters high so Japan has the highest. And this is not all. Not only Japan has the biggest but when you talk about marvel of engineering, then report that to the Tokyo Skytree as not only is it the tallest, it is also the only one built on an extremely unstable fault and receives over 400 earthquakes a year and when the magnitude 9 hit japan the Skytree didn't even get any damage or necessitated any work.
THAT is what a marvel of engineering is. Put a magnitude 9 under the Eiffel tower the CN tower the Washington monument or the Canton tower and see what happens !
Is that a program sponsored by China, because Japan rules when it comes to building towers.
18:00 what genius to line up the four legs for the first level on the Eiffel tower
Toronto's bitter winter. LOL, Quebec City.
Or Montreal. Or Ottawa. Or Winnipeg.
I'm a Torontonian and even I laughed at "Toronto's bitter winter".
That said, it doesn't really bother me when it's actually -18°C out.
Director: How many twists do you want in this movie?
Producer: Yes
9:41 can someone please explain to me why the top of the tower flashes red twice in this shot?
Some people here in Toronto call it the "World's largest phallic symbol next to the world's largest diaphragm (Skydome)".
I just love that architects and engineers always have european accents
I feel like I just finished a session of Sid Meier's Civilization VI. Building is like a Chinese finger puzzle.
I'm finding the middle eastern accent with certain hints of Toronto, to be amusing to listen to, ay. :)
Bro where can I find this since the intro would represent A HISTORY series.
Not sure if an over use of glass is actually the best idea. Perhaps concrete, with glass at the top and overarching bridges that connect multiple buildings. Not a fan of square parameters, I think our roadways need to be twisted below each building. Blocks, increase lateralization whereas helixes promote diversification.
30:55 in .. I wonder how many takes they did to get him to actually hit it 🤣
👍🔥
Isn’t the Tokyo Skytree tower taller?
Tokyo Sky Tree is the Tallest Tower in the World
I'm curious how well the tower would hold up if a full size jet flew into it. Especially if it hits the thinner part of the structure. That's the problem with so many structures. Sure, they are very strong by design. But if any one part of that structure is compromised, the whole thing could collapse like a house of cards. And it might be the case that we don't have any structures that could withstand the kind of damage that a large jet would cause.
The CN tower was designed to take an impact from a large commercial jet aircraft. It is also able to withstand a magnitude 10 earthquake, it is a seriously strong structure.
@@208467 I'm curious what they did with the structure that would enable it withstand that kind of impact from a jet. One issue with that kind of structure, unlike a car, where they create many similar models to test in crash tests and such, you can't really do the same with that kind of large structure. It's not as if they will build replicas just to crash a few jets into them. So most of this is likely theory. Now I'm sure there's more to it than simply guessing. Obviously. They can run many tests in the field or run super computer simulations. But at the end of the day, you don't truly know until it happens. But I'm certainly no expert by any means.
Dito sa pinas yang Canton niyu kinakain lang namin 😩
The tallest tower is Tokyo Sky tree
Those fans that remove the smoke from the Can Ton Towah could be used daily for the metric tonnes of Halitosis that it must suffer.
They should have combined the metal and stone. Imagine what that could have become.
A mess.
Excuse me sir, can you elaborate on exactly how the air around the Eiffel Tower would weigh more than the tower itself? 🙄🤨
😅😅😅😅😂😂💔
Because air is actually rather heavy? And the Eiffel tower has a low density. There's a lot of empty space
@@elementalgolem5498 Really, Sir, sometimes it is better to remain silent 🤣. @Don Shew Sir, I heard a saying from Abraham Lincoln :"We shouldn´t believe everything that we hear on the internet" 😉
@@sasakalak4681 you don’t have to believe it but air has mass like anything else. If you condensed the air to a liquid (which makes it slightly easier to understand) it would weigh more than the tower. But even in gas form it has the same weight. The density is much different but the mass is still the same. Pretty simple.
@@TheScottbb1 we are talking about a glass around the tower here. 1L of air is 1g or 1m3 of air is 1kg at sea level. Since tower is 300m tall and 125m wide the cylinder (glass) around the tower has 3,681,553,890.93 L or 3,681,553 m3 of volume . Tower weighs 10 000 000 kg or 10 000t so the cylinder (glass) around the tower, filled with air weighs only 30% of the tower weight. If i did some miscalculation I stand corrected but that glass should be considerably bigger than the tower itself. Pretty simple.
Ok now, we all know that the REAL reason the the Eiffel Tower was so tall was so you can easily see a white flag flying from the top of it.
The robotic firefighters is great tech but what if they fail is there a back up solution?
theres ton of them in each floor, and there must be a backup, and the last thing, theres no 100% guaranteed
@@ezioauditore5616 Let me rephrase my question what is the backup solution just good old fashion sprinkler system, fire extinguishers etc.
@@maverick4220 of course they have them, every place, every door
Ok but the Suntower really looked so much more gorgeous then the Eiffel
For me too.
Of course, I'm not a engineer but the way the simulation look, seems strange to me. Eiffel and his friends was the only persons to say that it was impossible to build it in stones, that's more strange.
Eh, no.
Is it true
Burj Khalifa, the biggest
Sigh... the CN Tower was never 'the tallest structure in the world'. At the time, there were wire-stayed towers that were taller. As a boy living outside Toronto in the 1970s, I watched in fascination as it grew ever taller to eventually claim the ACTUAL title "the tallest FREE-STANDING structure in the world".
0:19 It aint the tallest tho tokyo skythree is more taller than canton tower
Tallest tower has views of smog most days .
Perhaps it should titled, Tall, Taller, Tallest.
Anytime I see or hear about the Washington monument all i can think of is "oh, and that's the Obama monument" 💀
Instead of building things people dont need, should focuse how to remove polution , and remove trash and plastic from the earth.
The tallest tower is the burj Khalifa
and there was taller buildings than the Washington DC Monument like the empire state building
😁
Tokyo Tower is like "Hold my beer." Tokyo towers technology makes this laughable.
I’m not a fan of the canton tower build. It looks like those plastic foam things that are put around wine bottles.
After 911 ill not be more that two stories high
im of the opinion that the taller the tower the wider and longer the base needs to be these mega tall skinny building is not idea of the ultimate luxury
i like living on the ground so that i can access my yard trees and garden is my idea of good living those rich people who pay millions to live in the sky
can have it they don't know what their missing
Note that the tower in this documentary is not the ultimate luxury tower for people to live in the sky. It is a transmission tower with antennas, a restaurant, an amusement attraction and an observation deck, so there is no need for any garden space. You don't have to be rich to pay for the elevator ride to the top.
Tokyo skytree is the tallest.... Canton tower is not the tallest tower on earth!!
It only took 13 months from breaking ground to complete the Empire State Building in 1930’s… Now that is impressive… 3years for a tower in the 21st century? Not so much.
If we built a copy of the Empire State today it would take about 3 months, if they tried to build a copy of, say, the Gherkin (London) it would take them decades.
The two buildings are of different types and require different planning and engineering, especially at the base.
The trade-off for going slower is fewer dead workers at the end of it.
It’s not really a tower, unlike these structures, it is actually a building. To define as a true building, over 50% of it has to have habitable spaces, like the Empire State Building does, all these towers on here don’t have that, which is why they are considered towers and not proper buildings.
What is that BS of a program. You act like the Canton Tower is the highest in the world but it is 610 meters high, while the Tokyo skytree is 634 meters high so Japan has the highest. And this is not all. Not only Japan has the biggest but when you talk about marvel of engineering, then report that to the Tokyo Skytree as not only is it the tallest, it is also the only one built on an extremely unstable fault and receives over 400 earthquakes a year and when the magnitude 9 hit japan the Skytree didn't even get any damage or necessitated any work.
THAT is what a marvel of engineering is. Put a magnitude 9 under the Eiffel tower the CN tower the Washington monument or the Canton tower and see what happens !
Is that a program sponsored by China, because Japan rules when it comes to building towers.
And nobody died in the construction of the Tokyo Sky Tree unlike the Canton Tower and they also never used underpaid slave labour.
It's an 2011 film it's not bias.
@@pom.........5383 Sky tree was complete in 2008 so yes it is bias !
@@kachi2782 Construction started in 2008, completed in 2012
CN Tower is losing its beauty with high rise condominiums being built all around it. Soon it may only be seen from the Harbour side.
The Eiffel Tower is pretty. The CN Tower is cute. The Canton Tower is ugly as sin.
Yes
Claim - it is impossible to build tall stone structure. Reality - the tallest things on the planet are stone structures. Not a single man made structure has even come close to the height of the tallest mountains. Second part, longevity - mountains and anything built from stone lasts thousands if not millions of years, whereas metal, concrete etc have a shelf life of maximum 100 years.
The problem wasn't stone - the problem was poor engineering, and later poor modelling. If you model the stone building just like Eiffel tower which is very similar to that of a mountain, you'd have different results.
what are you talking about?! the chrysler building in NYC is near 100 years old and it will be standing for another 50 yrs.
to reach mountain-like sturdiness and height would require such thick walls as to be rendered unusable for modern human use... 🤔
Burj Khalifa Is Taller,
It’s not a tower
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The Burge Khalifa is
... not a tower
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ok ... towers or buildings? ... cuz canton is not even close to dubai ok ..
Is it just me or do architecture designers seem to be narcisists?
they are just socially awkward high achievers.
Chinese safty sucks