The Building That Lasered Cars

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  • Опубліковано 5 вер 2020
  • The Walkie-Talkie Building’s short-lived career as a doomsday weapon.
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  • @mccabe8818
    @mccabe8818 3 роки тому +24307

    I can’t tell if this is a mini documentary or just a straight up British guy roasting a building

    • @SpicyMang0s
      @SpicyMang0s 3 роки тому +2077

      Or, the building roasting the British guy

    • @THE-MOES-SHOW
      @THE-MOES-SHOW 3 роки тому +73

      Hello prisbama

    • @101m4n
      @101m4n 3 роки тому +406

      In london, building roast you

    • @Antonio88870
      @Antonio88870 3 роки тому +162

      That's a british guy roasting a building that roasts cars.

    • @sharkcraft8568
      @sharkcraft8568 3 роки тому +28

      It’s both.

  • @krisdreemur918
    @krisdreemur918 3 роки тому +10439

    Just add rgb lighting and it's a giant gaming pc

    • @newfynate4611
      @newfynate4611 3 роки тому +108

      Before I saw the title that's exactly what I thought the thumbnail was!

    • @boosteddaily1294
      @boosteddaily1294 3 роки тому +75

      True. It looks like it has a handle which would be good for lan parties.

    • @energyvampire1672
      @energyvampire1672 3 роки тому +3

      >: D 50$ Dollor

    • @saifulbrine2391
      @saifulbrine2391 3 роки тому +17

      After using this PC instead of only exploding 100m TNT I can Now explode tnt that is the same power as discord white theme

    • @letssmile3564
      @letssmile3564 3 роки тому +5

      can't unsee that

  • @omnirhythm
    @omnirhythm 3 роки тому +485

    "The Walkie-Scorchy" is lazy, you have to go full reinvention - The Scorchy-Torchie

    • @joebleasdale5557
      @joebleasdale5557 3 роки тому +22

      The British are never particularly inspiring when it comes to nicknames. When the Millennium Bridge had a frequency problem and wobbled a few weeks after construction, it became infamously known as “The Wobbly Bridge”.

    • @hannamccarthyh
      @hannamccarthyh 3 роки тому +8

      Yes indeed, you need Dublin for excellent and immediate nicknames of public art and buildings.

    • @adonaiyah2196
      @adonaiyah2196 2 роки тому +2

      So true just go full off

  • @LogisticSleet8
    @LogisticSleet8 3 роки тому +520

    "has your car ever been lasered by a skyscraper?"
    man who owned that Jaguar: OMG LITERALLY ME SO RELATABLE

    • @randomname5646
      @randomname5646 3 роки тому +4

      A building, or edifice, is a structure with a roof and[1] walls standing more or less permanently in one place, such as a house or factory.[1] Buildings come in a variety of sizes, shapes, and functions, and have been adapted throughout history for a wide number of factors, from building materials available, to weather conditions, land prices, ground conditions, specific uses, and aesthetic reasons. To better understand the term building compare the list of nonbuilding structures.
      Various examples of buildings throughout history
      Buildings serve several societal needs - primarily as shelter from weather, security, living space, privacy, to store belongings, and to comfortably live and work. A building as a shelter represents a physical division of the human habitat (a place of comfort and safety) and the outside (a place that at times may be harsh and harmful).
      Ever since the first cave paintings, buildings have also become objects or canvasses of much artistic expression. In recent years, interest in sustainable planning and building practices has also become an intentional part of the design process of many new buildings.

    • @wolypt5377
      @wolypt5377 3 роки тому +3

      @@randomname5646 Ight then

    • @woresor5585
      @woresor5585 3 роки тому

      @@randomname5646 k

    • @oscard.lisboa6105
      @oscard.lisboa6105 3 роки тому

      @@randomname5646 why

    • @RayoTheTomato
      @RayoTheTomato 3 роки тому

      @@randomname5646 yeah

  • @JamesPetts
    @JamesPetts 3 роки тому +9835

    What a coincidence - I also tend to avoid shops that are on fire.

    • @davidjames579
      @davidjames579 3 роки тому +293

      Unless they're having a Fire Sale.

    • @JakeyG-eq1un
      @JakeyG-eq1un 3 роки тому +22

      Same!

    • @mardy3732
      @mardy3732 3 роки тому +37

      I can never seem to find what I need in them.

    • @carstarsarstenstesenn
      @carstarsarstenstesenn 3 роки тому +47

      you guys are weird. how can you live without blazing storefront

    • @cozzy124
      @cozzy124 3 роки тому +16

      @@carstarsarstenstesenn ikr smh

  • @cornel9472
    @cornel9472 3 роки тому +3013

    Building: *casually lasers car in half*
    Londoners: "Bit rude innit?"

    • @WesternWaster-2299
      @WesternWaster-2299 3 роки тому +136

      Rather schewpid innit?

    • @hamody238
      @hamody238 3 роки тому +22

      @@sugoha_2548 innit?

    • @firedrake110
      @firedrake110 3 роки тому +39

      Love it, pure sass mixed with that "if I'm not being lit on fire by the damn thing, I couldn't be bothered" energy

    • @theuselessboii9751
      @theuselessboii9751 3 роки тому +17

      Yeah bit rude innit they're shooting blimmin' lasers at our cars lad!

    • @elslappo6603
      @elslappo6603 3 роки тому +23

      @@theuselessboii9751 if it's london it's more likely "yo blud what is that building doin firing lazers at me mums ford K.A ima hav to stab him GANGWAY"

  • @RiceSolid
    @RiceSolid 3 роки тому +498

    Protagonist: The villains hideout could be anywhere!
    The villains hideout:

    • @Ilyena
      @Ilyena 3 роки тому +32

      The building also tries to set you on fire.
      Might be a giveaway

    • @paperclip9558
      @paperclip9558 3 роки тому +3

      Hahaha, New York's Titanpointe in a nutshell

    • @barneypaws4883
      @barneypaws4883 3 роки тому +1

      A Bond Villian?

    • @1224chrisng
      @1224chrisng 2 роки тому +1

      @@barneypaws4883 certainly not Goldfinger, he'd gone for something more neobrutalist and less HR-friendly

    • @chrispza
      @chrispza 2 роки тому +2

      There is a subreddit entituled Evil Buildings. This is a definite contender.

  • @jammin023
    @jammin023 2 роки тому +241

    As well as sunlight, the building also focused the wind downwards when it blew onto the concave side, turning the street below into a wind tunnel with gusts powerful enough to knock people over. The fact that Vinoly pushed ahead with this design when a previous concave building of his had already demonstrated the heat ray problem says a lot about the mindset of architects like him.

    • @TerryTheNewsGirl
      @TerryTheNewsGirl 2 роки тому +10

      Regarding the wind: same thing happened with the Leeds Dalek. They had to put a barrier on one side to stop it.

    • @kaitlyn__L
      @kaitlyn__L 2 роки тому +2

      Damn, it’s windy enough between the blocks of flats where I live, I can’t imagine how bad the ones from this building would feel

    • @BenHelweg
      @BenHelweg Рік тому +4

      They should have nicknamed it "the great destroyer".

    • @QuadMochaMatti
      @QuadMochaMatti Рік тому

      Incompetent priggish twats?

    • @lpsp442
      @lpsp442 Рік тому +6

      And for that matter, the total lack of oversight towards said architects - nobody watching and going "hmmmm, this Vinoly character really likes his giant death traps, eh? Maybe we should ask him *not* to do it again."

  • @pablotherock1061
    @pablotherock1061 3 роки тому +3381

    Person: Can I put my car here?
    Building: No
    Person: Why?
    Building: *-THE SUN IS A DEADLY LASER-*

    • @karlwilker579
      @karlwilker579 3 роки тому +179

      Not anymore there's a sunshade!

    • @omeee6064
      @omeee6064 3 роки тому +18

      The building can speak?

    • @semp224
      @semp224 3 роки тому +102

      I remember "history of the entire world, I guess" for some reason

    • @bradman7281
      @bradman7281 3 роки тому +49

      Unexpected bill wurtz

    • @cezarcatalin1406
      @cezarcatalin1406 3 роки тому +44

      We can make a religion out of this !

  • @ethlod
    @ethlod 3 роки тому +3180

    Imagine being homeless and laying down in a particular spot only to get melted by a building

    • @funnyvalentinedidnothingwrong
      @funnyvalentinedidnothingwrong 3 роки тому +150

      Considering the lengths many cities go to to shit on the homeless here in the U.S., I would just assume it was intentional.

    • @ttedder
      @ttedder 3 роки тому +10

      @@funnyvalentinedidnothingwrong not in the us lmao

    • @randommemechannel6066
      @randommemechannel6066 3 роки тому +35

      Perfect medium rare

    • @EEEEEEEEEEEE
      @EEEEEEEEEEEE 3 роки тому +3

      @@noobboss0 funny valentine best president

    • @claudianreyn4529
      @claudianreyn4529 3 роки тому +4

      You mean burned alive.

  • @RhymeMastaMasse
    @RhymeMastaMasse 3 роки тому +1333

    That building: "YO THAT CAR IS FIRE!"

  • @Kadz
    @Kadz 3 роки тому +2870

    Should’ve lasered Cars 2 instead

  • @dripplerIL
    @dripplerIL 3 роки тому +2654

    *doofenshmirtz evil incorporated*
    ah Perry the platypus. say hello to my car destroyer-inator.

    • @Eagle-od1im
      @Eagle-od1im 3 роки тому +29

      Lmao

    • @belalezzeldin3429
      @belalezzeldin3429 3 роки тому +52

      More like THE CAR DESTROYING BUILDINGINATOR

    • @thebonezone252
      @thebonezone252 3 роки тому +29

      Read that in his voice

    • @scorchx3000
      @scorchx3000 3 роки тому +8

      Good thing Doif didn't set fire to the sun, the buildings power would be too much if the sun was on fire.

    • @belalezzeldin3429
      @belalezzeldin3429 3 роки тому +1

      @@scorchx3000 no need , IT'S ALREADY ON FIRE 🌞🔥🔥🔥🔥

  • @chuckmcwippy6850
    @chuckmcwippy6850 3 роки тому +2295

    3:25 “I myself try to avoid shops that are on fire” this is the purest form of dry humor I have heard in a while and this is an informational video

    • @jerardogarcia4337
      @jerardogarcia4337 3 роки тому +35

      Lol I laughed more than I expected at that😂

    • @geraldfrost4710
      @geraldfrost4710 3 роки тому +62

      "Shops that are on fire tend to have fewer customers." Great line to use when reporting peaceful protests.

    • @IX_4
      @IX_4 3 роки тому +6

      Infinite:InfiniteInfinite "You, Giorno Giovanna, have a dream".

    • @chuckmcwippy6850
      @chuckmcwippy6850 3 роки тому +12

      @@IX_4 you have a very long name

    • @Doug_Fany
      @Doug_Fany 3 роки тому +4

      Of course, with all that direct laser beam the humor couldn't be wet!

  • @fallingbed1
    @fallingbed1 3 роки тому +2651

    Looks like a building from BO2 that’s about to fall over

  • @m-w-y7325
    @m-w-y7325 3 роки тому +203

    I'm from Pakistan faisalabad, one of the most driest and hottest cities in the world and a building melting cars and shop floor mats in London seems quite offensive to me cause nothing that awesome happens here despite roasting under 50c every summer.
    Quite an awesome documentary!
    Do share more!

  • @jeffhreid
    @jeffhreid 3 роки тому +4396

    There is the “cheese grater “ and the “pickle” building too. Londoners like nicknames for their buildings

    • @donaldboughton8686
      @donaldboughton8686 3 роки тому +298

      Fortunately the Tulip is not going to be built. As the locals would have most likely named it the Dildo.

    • @NoahLeMar
      @NoahLeMar 3 роки тому +18

      this is called the saw thumb

    • @georgeh-w5041
      @georgeh-w5041 3 роки тому +36

      In Portsmouth there is a building known as the lipstick

    • @kmula4409
      @kmula4409 3 роки тому +4

      su u fuckin bot

    • @chloechen5707
      @chloechen5707 3 роки тому +92

      nobody calls it the pickle lol

  • @SilentMemer
    @SilentMemer 3 роки тому +7432

    I would watch way more documentaries if they were like this

    • @frnnzy_
      @frnnzy_ 3 роки тому +3

      SAME

    • @flixical2624
      @flixical2624 3 роки тому +5

      just watch lemmino

    • @arniekuma
      @arniekuma 3 роки тому

      Hey I’ve seen two of your comments on videos I just watched

    • @ammonha
      @ammonha 3 роки тому +2

      @Főfasírozó How many useful facts have you learned from them and are able to recall? I'm not talking about how many miles an aussi treefrog walks a day, or the average hight of some canadian tree, nor Hitlers favorite chocolate.

    • @themanisworthit1022
      @themanisworthit1022 3 роки тому

      It be

  • @KryptoKn8
    @KryptoKn8 3 роки тому +37

    "Melted by Apollo's Fury" the best line ever

  • @ziggityzoo9681
    @ziggityzoo9681 3 роки тому +34

    "The Walkie-Talkie Building’s short-lived career as a doomsday weapon." Awesome description!

  • @grim5054
    @grim5054 3 роки тому +1986

    This guy's dry ass humor is actually hilarious and i cannot tell why

    • @yanihero129
      @yanihero129 3 роки тому +25

      If the dude who made the vid saw this comment its either a massive insult, a bitter sweet compliment or both

    • @zeidarul3954
      @zeidarul3954 3 роки тому +38

      Yanihero1 dry humor isnt an insult

    • @moose_ringo9161
      @moose_ringo9161 3 роки тому +84

      it's called sweet British sarcasm

    • @youreabot5885
      @youreabot5885 3 роки тому +1

      anyone goh a cigie brouv

    • @icecreamforcrowhurst
      @icecreamforcrowhurst 3 роки тому +12

      You don’t know many Brits, do you

  • @itsjustlukeRevive
    @itsjustlukeRevive 3 роки тому +2932

    Walkie-talkie building: lasering cars
    Jago: lasering the building

    • @geraldfrost4710
      @geraldfrost4710 3 роки тому +16

      Not exactly a laser; more a parabolic death star anchored to the ground.

    • @itsjustlukeRevive
      @itsjustlukeRevive 3 роки тому +5

      @@geraldfrost4710 definitely.

    • @gek0629
      @gek0629 3 роки тому +9

      Hotel: trivago

    • @-shakir5152
      @-shakir5152 3 роки тому +3

      @@geraldfrost4710 whats jago?

    • @madakage
      @madakage 3 роки тому +4

      Zares Shakir the person talking

  • @Cp-71
    @Cp-71 3 роки тому +100

    The architect be like: "Hm, how can I make this building both hideous AND dangerous?"

    • @adonaiyah2196
      @adonaiyah2196 Рік тому +3

      You haven't seen it. In person it really stands out amongst the other buildings

    • @pipeqez911
      @pipeqez911 Рік тому

      @@adonaiyah2196 I agree, in person it looks really cool.

    • @201hastings
      @201hastings Рік тому +1

      @@pipeqez911 it looks like a pc case

    • @TDSWar
      @TDSWar Рік тому

      @@201hastings lol ikr

  • @1AmGroot
    @1AmGroot 3 роки тому +284

    When a building you designed quite literally sets cars and shops around it ablaze, you might want to reconsider your career choices...

    • @slayridah
      @slayridah 3 роки тому +47

      What's especially funny about this is it was named worst building of the year probably independent of the laser issue. Double wammy.

    • @SWEclipse
      @SWEclipse 3 роки тому +1

      Yeah... Probably a good idea...

    • @Mario-us7ds
      @Mario-us7ds 3 роки тому +24

      What do you mean? This is clearly a masterwork of Evil Architecture.

    • @pankajsaroj8937
      @pankajsaroj8937 3 роки тому +1

      More like
      Reconsider the designs of the building

    • @mashihodpotatoetm4572
      @mashihodpotatoetm4572 3 роки тому +5

      @@Mario-us7ds You mean Doofensmirtz

  • @gododoof
    @gododoof 3 роки тому +508

    Archimedes: *slaps side of building*
    "You can burn so many Roman ships with this baby"

    • @bill392
      @bill392 3 роки тому +17

      Now if they would only just sail down this street...

    • @bill392
      @bill392 3 роки тому +11

      Military: great, we'll take 10, maybe down by the beach though bruh.

    • @Jack-mu4vu
      @Jack-mu4vu 3 роки тому +5

      @@bill392 bruv*

    • @FindecanorNotGmail
      @FindecanorNotGmail 3 роки тому +9

      The building is part of London's defence, in case the Romans would invade again

    • @albionranger3563
      @albionranger3563 3 роки тому +1

      heat ray

  • @brucemcintosh68
    @brucemcintosh68 3 роки тому +2110

    This chap is one of the best things on UA-cam. His videos are little gems.

    • @JagoHazzard
      @JagoHazzard  3 роки тому +114

      Thank you!

    • @elizabethspedding1975
      @elizabethspedding1975 3 роки тому +11

      I agree.

    • @ericcraig8205
      @ericcraig8205 3 роки тому +11

      We all agree i guess,hes a hoot and he is a railway modeller,he will be fighting the girls off if they find his location.

    • @kavorkaa
      @kavorkaa 3 роки тому +11

      Indeed

  • @DrathVader
    @DrathVader 3 роки тому +23

    I love the delightfully British humor that's present throughout the video.

  • @Savo34
    @Savo34 3 роки тому +93

    “Can we go on land?”
    “NooOoOOoo”
    “Why”
    “The Skyscraper is a deadly lazer”

  • @ChefRojo
    @ChefRojo 3 роки тому +532

    "Has your car ever been lasered by a sky scraper?"
    Classic intro. Best on UA-cam. No question.

    • @Natecaed
      @Natecaed 3 роки тому +6

      what about jaiden animations “ARE YOU NAKED?”

    • @vin6665
      @vin6665 3 роки тому

      Natecaed and Bellas World
      Wait gimme the sauce

    • @barneypaws4883
      @barneypaws4883 3 роки тому +1

      If so, you could be entitled to compensation!

  • @indoor_vaping
    @indoor_vaping 3 роки тому +2482

    “Walkie Scorchie” is so cutesy British. In America we would call it something like the Death Star.

    • @updated5709
      @updated5709 3 роки тому +91

      It’s called being subtle...

    • @indoor_vaping
      @indoor_vaping 3 роки тому +263

      Yeah we’re not known for that

    • @updated5709
      @updated5709 3 роки тому +26

      indoor vaping Yeah man. I guess not 😂

    • @Rocco-tb9ih
      @Rocco-tb9ih 3 роки тому +30

      I'm pretty sure he said "Walkie Talkie"

    • @updated5709
      @updated5709 3 роки тому +61

      Rocco he said both. It was the walkie talkie until it beamed up a gazzers car.

  • @donaldasayers
    @donaldasayers 3 роки тому +10

    Also known as the "Fryscraper", The architect who designed it, Rafael Viñoly, has previous for death ray buildings, he had previously designed the Vdara hotel in Las Vegas which was capable of scorching the guests using the pool and the patio area. The owners called it "Solar convergence", the staff called it "Death ray."

  • @KingArceus42
    @KingArceus42 2 роки тому +88

    I find it both hilarious and horrifying that the architect accidentally managed to weaponise the sun

    • @workonesabs
      @workonesabs Рік тому +1

      Probably was a SPECTRE agent...

    • @Hannah_Em
      @Hannah_Em Рік тому +6

      Especially as this isn't even the first building designed by this architect which had _exactly this problem_ . A previous building designed by him in Las Vegas (which imho is a lot less ugly; it's apparently called the Vdara hotel and Spa, more info on it (and the focusing problem) here: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vdara ) had *already had this problem* in 2010, but that didn't stop him from running headlong into the same issue again. Even if the design/planning/approval/construction process had advanced too far to significantly change the structure, you'd have thought that the developers might want to take some proactive steps _before_ they risked accidentally starting fires and/or hurting people.

    • @gavla3550
      @gavla3550 Рік тому +2

      The sun is a deadly lazer

    • @TfL1901
      @TfL1901 Рік тому

      It wasn’t even the first time!!

  • @vedant5293
    @vedant5293 3 роки тому +542

    "The Wrath of the Walkie-Talkie"
    I'm pretty sure I'm not gonna hear it anywhere else.

  • @gilles111
    @gilles111 3 роки тому +492

    Something similar happened in The Netherlands when they build the new Rotterdam Central Station, it has a aluminium roof that, at several days in the year at a specific stand of the sun, created a "flash" of sunlight which blinded the train drivers when they drove near the signals of the station... The architect of the station knew it might happen but had no idea that it would be classified as a high risk. That's why the station has nowadays a lot of dents in the roof, to prevent drivers being blinded by the sunlight when passing the signals...
    And at least, I can say I had a very important role in the design of the building (I was the safety-investigator who ordered the roof had to be changed).

    • @davidjames579
      @davidjames579 3 роки тому +62

      Was your official recommendation, smash it with sledgehammers?

    • @gilles111
      @gilles111 3 роки тому +39

      @@davidjames579 LOL

    • @iankemp1131
      @iankemp1131 3 роки тому +10

      Low sun blinding train drivers or reflecting off signal aspects can also be a problem; the latter may even have helped cause the Ladbroke Grove disaster.

    • @Cjnw
      @Cjnw 3 роки тому +14

      *G E K O L O N I S E E R D*

    • @CaptainJohn
      @CaptainJohn 3 роки тому +7

      Wow thanks for making our train stations safe!

  • @165Dash
    @165Dash 3 роки тому +52

    I’m pretty sure that Vinoly designed a building in Las Vegas that did the very same thing.
    These two are probably his worst buildings,

    • @nickryan3417
      @nickryan3417 2 роки тому +15

      Yes. Some of his previous designs did exactly the same thing, which makes his comment about "unexpected sunshine" much more a sign of incompetence or arrogance than anything else.

    • @TerryTheNewsGirl
      @TerryTheNewsGirl 2 роки тому +3

      Thaat's why I'm a Norman Foster fan. As far as I am aware his buildings have never been dangerous despite have glass fronts.

    • @willd1790
      @willd1790 Рік тому +2

      Not expecting sunshine in London is a bit silly but I can maybe understand how someone would make that mistake. Not expecting sunshine in Vegas, however...

  • @ChallengerNetwork
    @ChallengerNetwork 3 роки тому +24

    "Can we go outside?"
    "No."
    "Why?"
    "The building is a deadly laser."

  • @teawnagrove8541
    @teawnagrove8541 3 роки тому +461

    "The sun is a deadly lazer"

    • @houi4900
      @houi4900 3 роки тому +22

      History of the entire world I guess

    • @MechaLeo
      @MechaLeo 3 роки тому +33

      Have I missed my cue to add “not anymore, there’s a blanket”?

    • @Sobxdz
      @Sobxdz 3 роки тому +6

      @@MechaLeo the sUn haS LaSerD tHe blAnkEt

    • @SWEclipse
      @SWEclipse 3 роки тому +1

      CORRECT

    • @SWEclipse
      @SWEclipse 3 роки тому +7

      So it was a laser? 𝐚𝐥𝐰𝐚𝐲𝐬 𝐡𝐚𝐬 𝐛𝐞𝐞𝐧. 𝑆𝑢𝑛 𝑙𝑎𝑠𝑒𝑟 𝑚𝑒𝑙𝑡𝑠 ℎ𝑖𝑚

  • @Rog5446
    @Rog5446 3 роки тому +388

    Some one made a song about this place, it was called, Come on Building Light my Fire.

    • @cargy930
      @cargy930 3 роки тому +17

      ...And the car owner was likely playing the classic "This Wheel's on Fire" on his stereo, as he drove away that day.

    • @Punnery
      @Punnery 3 роки тому +7

      It certainly adds a new dimension to the old song, "On the Sunny Side of the Street."

    • @cargy930
      @cargy930 3 роки тому +5

      @@Punnery We could also possibly add The Sun Has Got His Hat On ...fire

    • @georgelinford5576
      @georgelinford5576 3 роки тому +6

      'We Didn't Star the Fire...it was the Walkie Talkie...'

    • @daddymememaster5432
      @daddymememaster5432 3 роки тому +2

      cargy930 Perhaps he even drove Through the Fire and Flames

  • @klaroxy7552
    @klaroxy7552 3 роки тому +18

    I would never imagine I will ever listen over a 6 minute documentary of roasting a building in many level I never could have imagine. But I'm glad it happened, nice video!

  • @wyattb9998
    @wyattb9998 3 роки тому +3

    This the type of video to have 20 million views in 6 years and get recommended to all of us again

  • @failtolawl
    @failtolawl 3 роки тому +166

    "It directed sunlight with a concave shape, there's a legend that archaemades built something similar to burn ships... nothing to do with this video related to a concave shape burning things of course."

    • @ayebray6720
      @ayebray6720 3 роки тому +2

      I seen this comment right as it got to that part🤣

    • @Locutus
      @Locutus 3 роки тому

      Wow. How did you do that? It must have taken you hours to write that quote and look through the footage. How did you that? So original. Failtolawl

    • @mvshenhon8966
      @mvshenhon8966 3 роки тому

      Rather hot i must admit

  • @davidjames579
    @davidjames579 3 роки тому +459

    Walkie Scorchie. Whoever invented should be tied to the building in July.

    • @dogucan97
      @dogucan97 3 роки тому +43

      But if you intend to execute the guy by heat rays (so you _want_ to get sunshine), you're not going to get any sunshine, as explained in 2:18. So, tying him there solves the problem altogether. That's really smart, actually.

    • @redking36
      @redking36 3 роки тому +3

      They should have called it the incinerator. Sounds way more menacing.

    • @Ginjitzu
      @Ginjitzu 3 роки тому +2

      Whoever named it the "walkie scorchie" is still an order of magnitude more valuable to society than the clown who designed this monstrosity.

  • @rabidOpossum87
    @rabidOpossum87 3 роки тому +47

    When I read the title I imagined a building whipping out a sniper rifle.

    • @dualitygrief576
      @dualitygrief576 3 роки тому

      Was that a Cars 2 reference perhaps?

    • @rabidOpossum87
      @rabidOpossum87 3 роки тому

      @@dualitygrief576 Nope never even watched it.

  • @jonistan9268
    @jonistan9268 3 роки тому +7

    "won't set you on fire"
    Generations Y and Z: and there goes my plan for the weekend

  • @RayMak
    @RayMak 3 роки тому +2897

    That's how we use sun light to cook too.

    • @TheMapGod
      @TheMapGod 3 роки тому +26

      No we don't.

    • @fritsze1535
      @fritsze1535 3 роки тому +10

      @@TheMapGod agree

    • @followthedamntrain9506
      @followthedamntrain9506 3 роки тому +2

      Lol

    • @Grepes2
      @Grepes2 3 роки тому +42

      You are everywhere like Justin Y

    • @LarisB
      @LarisB 3 роки тому +7

      You’re everywhere! On DancingBacons! And everywhere else!

  • @luobomu9747
    @luobomu9747 3 роки тому +760

    "... and the current owner is Lee Kum Kee..."
    Me, sarcastically: Ha, that name sounds just like the maker of my soy sauce! What a silly coincidence!
    "... a company that makes sauces ..."
    Me: *surprised Pikachu face*

    • @maryapatterson
      @maryapatterson 3 роки тому +14

      They do a good oyster ssuce!

    • @wendyokoopa7048
      @wendyokoopa7048 3 роки тому +42

      Well if you think about it most of lee kum kees sauces require simmering so you could make the case they've found a perfect home office

    • @archevenault
      @archevenault 3 роки тому +1

      @@wendyokoopa7048 dunno, stuff like vinegar and soy sauce are more fermentation

    • @lucaslucas191202
      @lucaslucas191202 3 роки тому +5

      Pretty balsy of you to dare eat soy sauce from lee *kum* kee

    • @Kitkat-xc2kd
      @Kitkat-xc2kd 3 роки тому +2

      Lee "Kum" Kee

  • @locuscades1906
    @locuscades1906 3 роки тому +24

    I like when someone designs a box they call them an "architect".

  • @jamiesachtleben2946
    @jamiesachtleben2946 3 роки тому +13

    "Hadn't expected London to get so much sunshine" literally throwing shade at Londoners xD.

    • @mossygreen2790
      @mossygreen2790 3 роки тому +1

      Yes , the myth is that it is always raining ! Actually we have 4 definite seasons, with the appropriate weather for each. Though sometimes it does mix around a bit.

    • @eattherich9215
      @eattherich9215 3 роки тому

      This is an indoor country where we get good weather in instalments.

    • @clickrick
      @clickrick 3 роки тому +1

      Shade is exactly what Londoners wanted in this instance.

    • @clickrick
      @clickrick 3 роки тому +1

      @@mossygreen2790 4 definite seasons, sometimes all in one day.

    • @cezarcatalin1406
      @cezarcatalin1406 2 роки тому +1

      The number one rule of english weather is that it never does what you want or expect it to do.
      The sunny corollary of english weather is that there are sunny days in Britain but only when you don’t want them.

  • @mathewperring
    @mathewperring 3 роки тому +820

    In an attempt.to look "different" they designed a slightly curved building which still looks the same, but uglier.

    • @leotrace9158
      @leotrace9158 3 роки тому +38

      I think it looks cool, but it's already dangerous so n o.

    • @MrS1ebee
      @MrS1ebee 3 роки тому +31

      The design also addressed a commitment by the developers to provide more public space than the footprint of the building by making it bigger at the top than the base and including a free to visit public garden at the top

    • @markwright3161
      @markwright3161 3 роки тому +18

      @@MrS1ebee Is that what another comment was referring to as 'the 3 potted plants' ? :)

    • @eclipse9304
      @eclipse9304 3 роки тому +2

      That's architects for you

    • @JustaQuad
      @JustaQuad 3 роки тому +1

      @@MrS1ebee unfortunately the 'garden' is nothing like what it was pitched as and why it was given permission

  • @LuizTheSnek
    @LuizTheSnek 3 роки тому +1078

    Didn't know that the ps5 had heat problems.

  • @GamersComputer
    @GamersComputer 3 роки тому +3

    This is so random. I didn't expect a chuckle, and I got multiple

  • @zorktxandnand3774
    @zorktxandnand3774 3 роки тому +8

    "I my self try to avoid shops which are on fire"
    Hmmm, never given it much thought, but you may have a got point there.

  • @collegegoer45
    @collegegoer45 3 роки тому +67

    "No one is going to come in if theres a fire at me front door" has got to be the most English thing ive heard all week

  • @JazzyJustin
    @JazzyJustin 3 роки тому +485

    Damn, “that building fires heat lasers every so often” is a way cooler excuse for a fire than “some idiot used a bomb to show their newborn’s gender”

    • @jonasgrill1155
      @jonasgrill1155 3 роки тому +5

      I get what you're referring to.

    • @sourpuss5951
      @sourpuss5951 3 роки тому +36

      Accidentally setting half the state of Cali on fire to celebrate having a boy/girl

    • @JazzyJustin
      @JazzyJustin 3 роки тому +55

      Accidentally having a boy/girl when trying to burn half the state of California

    • @Mike-739
      @Mike-739 3 роки тому +34

      Accidentally having half of California when trying to burn a boy/girl

    • @JazzyJustin
      @JazzyJustin 3 роки тому +26

      Accidentally having half the boy/girl when trying to celebrate burning California

  • @scruffstuff9903
    @scruffstuff9903 3 роки тому +16

    He really doesn't like that building, he GRILLED the life out of it

  • @petertullemans
    @petertullemans 3 роки тому +5

    Mike Myers had Dr Evil’s character say ‘Sharks with friggin lasers!’ And here’s a ‘Walkie Scorchy with friggin flame-throwing facade’

  • @TABBYMUSIC
    @TABBYMUSIC 3 роки тому +191

    Looks like you could grate the worlds biggest block of cheese on it.

    • @definitelynotafurryatall8618
      @definitelynotafurryatall8618 3 роки тому +6

      That's pretty much the only good reason for it's existence

    • @GBAPCLAN
      @GBAPCLAN 3 роки тому +20

      There is a building right next to it called the cheese grater ironically

    • @Proger-sj8cj
      @Proger-sj8cj 3 роки тому +1

      Cheese with wings on it : *Yeah Sure*

    • @yayeet1826
      @yayeet1826 3 роки тому

      Nah the cheesegrater is the building in the back at 3:50

    • @felixt808
      @felixt808 3 роки тому +1

      well if this building doesn't work, we can always try jfks abs

  • @kokaomf
    @kokaomf 3 роки тому +140

    Dude on the top of the building: what time is it?
    Secretary: it's high noon, sir.
    Dude: *You may fire when ready*

  • @supermal112233
    @supermal112233 3 роки тому +47

    Billionaire: "James my assistant, tell me why my car has been melted."
    *James:*

  • @migueltucabron
    @migueltucabron 3 роки тому +3

    Your dry humor is really great! Keep it up!

  • @mr.dinosuar7333
    @mr.dinosuar7333 3 роки тому +305

    "there are no accidents" - master Oogway

    • @troydreamer5939
      @troydreamer5939 3 роки тому +1

      I just stayed up after working all day. And being exhausted, to watch that movie.

    • @atlasflame5815
      @atlasflame5815 3 роки тому +1

      There is no accident in Lon Don Se

    • @hongkongshitposter
      @hongkongshitposter 3 роки тому

      Lee Kum Kei the sauce company bought this building so they could burn cars

  • @marcamant7258
    @marcamant7258 3 роки тому +71

    As a foreigner I do not intend to interfere in home affairs but I wish to express my gratitude to this masterpiece of british/english humor or/and nonsense. Especially @:2:17

  • @b.l.a.c.k.s.t.a.r
    @b.l.a.c.k.s.t.a.r 3 роки тому +4

    The sense of humor paired with how educational and clean this video, I could see it being played at schools. Really nice.

    • @svennoren9047
      @svennoren9047 Рік тому

      Hopefully architecture schools. "What not to do, and how to do it."

  • @Huss_110
    @Huss_110 3 роки тому +10

    This guy's dry humour is actually killing me for some reason 😂

  • @CityWhisperer
    @CityWhisperer 3 роки тому +55

    Wasn't this the building where the sun reflection was so hot it managed to fry an egg? There's even a video out there.

    • @CityWhisperer
      @CityWhisperer 3 роки тому +12

      Ah yes here it is ua-cam.com/video/hlRNO8xcrgU/v-deo.html

  • @organicpumpkin2147
    @organicpumpkin2147 3 роки тому +495

    “Can we go near the buildings?”
    “NO”
    “Why?”
    “THE BUILDING IS A DEADLY LAZER”
    “Oh ok”

  • @BilliamBillion
    @BilliamBillion 3 роки тому +10

    "I myself tend to avoid shops that are... on fire."

  • @RaptorCuddles
    @RaptorCuddles 3 роки тому +4

    When you said "walkie scorchie" I almost spewed coffee all over my keyboard. This is definitely an eyesore.

  • @abhilashmridha420
    @abhilashmridha420 3 роки тому +89

    First rule of English weather : We get plenty of sunshine when we don't want it.
    Seems legit !

    • @roaringbeardragon4531
      @roaringbeardragon4531 3 роки тому +3

      As a British person I can confirm

    • @macman975
      @macman975 3 роки тому +2

      I can't stand it in the middle of night when i'm trying to sleep

    • @LuckiFienin
      @LuckiFienin 3 роки тому

      ua-cam.com/video/phIrG9pYhlw/v-deo.html

  • @shy_mon2954
    @shy_mon2954 3 роки тому +107

    People were frying eggs in front of a cafe where the cafe melted.

  • @thesketchygamer9708
    @thesketchygamer9708 3 роки тому +15

    makes building
    gets the award for the worst new building
    melts the cars in half
    I am not sure but I can see a pattern here

  • @recht_voor_zijn_raap5506
    @recht_voor_zijn_raap5506 3 роки тому +3

    Well... I just found a new documentary channel to binge.

  • @vladimirad
    @vladimirad 3 роки тому +17

    I’m from Canada but this channel has me more interested in some of the most specific architectural features of London than in many parts of my own country or city. Well done!

  • @MarjaMariachi
    @MarjaMariachi 3 роки тому +175

    Correction: it wasn't the Carbuncle award they won. It was the Carbuckle, for excellence in causing cars to buckle via heat ray!

    • @Polyglot_English
      @Polyglot_English 3 роки тому +1

      ***VOTE THIRD PARTY*** ua-cam.com/video/OkoEKQLwIwg/v-deo.html

    • @perrincalzada9131
      @perrincalzada9131 3 роки тому +7

      That’s right! This is because the carbuncle ate itself :)

    • @LuckiFienin
      @LuckiFienin 3 роки тому +2

      ua-cam.com/video/phIrG9pYhlw/v-deo.html

    • @philipocallaghan
      @philipocallaghan 3 роки тому

      LOL, Noice!

  • @sirjulious101
    @sirjulious101 3 роки тому +1

    This guys sounds so not tired, Sarcastic and hilarious all the same time and I love it..

  • @EDDIELANE
    @EDDIELANE 3 роки тому +5

    Came here for a strange building story, stayed for the dry delivery of sarcastic remarks.

  • @SonKunSama
    @SonKunSama 3 роки тому +10

    I love this style of video. Informative yet riddled with British humour with the dry delivery that it's so famous for. Never ceases to be good for a nice chuckle.

  • @ProfessionalNamielleLewder69
    @ProfessionalNamielleLewder69 3 роки тому +82

    Imagine if the Eiffel Tower starting blasting people with lasers.
    So, Excalibur from Ace Combat Zero.

    • @jamestinsley3110
      @jamestinsley3110 3 роки тому

      Avalos Altair Miraos actually there is a movie that has that as a main plot point! It's call "Hostage Tower" released in 1980 that has Peter Fonda, Billy Dee Williams, and a bunch of other stars. You know it's not a bad flick and uses some pretty cool pre CGI effects. Look it up!

    • @EdgedPixie
      @EdgedPixie 3 роки тому +1

      So *that's* what Paris are planning...

    • @aakash9250
      @aakash9250 3 роки тому

      i'm dying of laughing wow haha

    • @Satters
      @Satters 3 роки тому

      as the eiffel tower was a radio transmitter, that's not as unlikely a prospect as you may think

    • @raedwulf61
      @raedwulf61 2 роки тому

      Don't give the Eiffel Tower any ideas.

  • @Foranzer486
    @Foranzer486 3 роки тому +10

    "What are we doing tonight, Brain?!" "Pinky, I have an idea to turn a building into a giant heat ray to TAKE OVER THE WORLD!"

  • @klewis2048
    @klewis2048 2 роки тому +1

    A great example of the incongruous nature of London architecture. On the one hand, you have the Walkie Talkie, and on the other, repeated glimpses of a little known Wren church, St Margaret Pattens. St Dunstons is very near here too, lovely to escape to at lunchtime for peace and quiet outdoors in the City.

  • @cityseby
    @cityseby 3 роки тому +23

    I think it's hilarious that it was heating things up. It reminds me of a little space heater

    • @davidjames579
      @davidjames579 3 роки тому +3

      A giant fan heater disguised as an office building.

  • @brucewilliams8714
    @brucewilliams8714 3 роки тому +54

    No comment on the building: I'm Antipodean. But full marks for your commentary and impeccable pronunciation of 'innovative'.

    • @Cjnw
      @Cjnw 3 роки тому +2

      needs more palatisaton

  • @danieljohnson1924
    @danieljohnson1924 3 роки тому +1

    I used to hate this building, but then I moved to London, and it grew on me the more I saw it. Now I really like it.

  • @maple_i_guess_7155
    @maple_i_guess_7155 3 роки тому +434

    Everyone: that building is a laser
    Me who has a bald head: *laughs*
    400 likes is a record for me thanks for that :D

  • @brian9731
    @brian9731 3 роки тому +147

    I love the City of London and its huge mix of buildings. I think it works because generally, the modern buildings have been constructed with a sizable budget and even if they're ugly (a matter of opinion), they're strikingly so, rather than just being a thrown-up concrete lump.

    • @failtolawl
      @failtolawl 3 роки тому +1

      they look really cool but also just as soulless if they all have the same designs and little passion. I can only really compare it to a city like New York which has, in my opinion, the best mix of both possible. Until you look at those central park monstrosities.

    • @lunapam2447
      @lunapam2447 3 роки тому

      failtolawl
      Amen to that!, for example imo The Empire state is an example of a skyscraper made with passion

    • @lunapam2447
      @lunapam2447 3 роки тому +1

      failtolawl
      I think the architect companies don’t really care and invest much on how the building will look like on the outside ,its more of what is inside ,unless it is skyscrapers that have a goal to be a Tourist spot

    • @BugattiBoy01
      @BugattiBoy01 3 роки тому +3

      @Lyka Dimond no

    • @deeznoots6241
      @deeznoots6241 3 роки тому +1

      Brutalist buildings are cool as hell

  • @whatthehack697
    @whatthehack697 3 роки тому +15

    "Let's shape one of the walls like a focusing mirror and cover it entirely with glass.
    What could go wrong?"

  • @alimalik2010
    @alimalik2010 3 роки тому +3

    I have just thought of a fix. Get convex glass installed on to our cars and vans and let’s laser back at the Walky talkie. Show it who the Daddy is. Cars Rule. Either you are with us or against us.

  • @pacificcastaway9972
    @pacificcastaway9972 3 роки тому +4

    They have one of these laser buildings in Copenhagen, but on a smaller scale. I felt like a fried egg as I walked past it. It was either June or July, so hopefully the same seasonal issue.

  • @firepowerg
    @firepowerg 3 роки тому +63

    You could tie a spy down, slowly walk them past and they'll say "Do you really expect me to talk?"

    • @firepowerg
      @firepowerg 3 роки тому +20

      @@sirkastic I am many things. Mostly water, a bit of carbon, oxygen and various other elements.

    • @sirkastic
      @sirkastic 3 роки тому

      @@firepowerg No U

    • @MarkMcCluney
      @MarkMcCluney 3 роки тому +10

      No, Mr Bond, I expect your wing mirrors to melt.

    • @TheAmir259
      @TheAmir259 3 роки тому +4

      @Thomas Lewis don't mind him. Made me wonder if he's actually a bot or just not well versed in English, judging from the "No U" response.

    • @mark314158
      @mark314158 3 роки тому

      @@MarkMcCluney *Ms Bond...

  • @JonathanAtAchean
    @JonathanAtAchean 3 роки тому +19

    I've been working in this area since April. Pretty much every day I'm there I'll wander up to Eastcheap to buy a sandwich. I'm profoundly conflicted by this building like no other. The sweep of the curves is dramatic, the impossibility of it being wider at the top that at the bottom is something to marvel at. It carries its self with poise and dignity when viewed from some angles. The trouble is from others it glares down at the Victorian Neo-Gothic in Eastcheap (themselves a vision inspired by laudanum and tertiary syphilis) like the administrative HQ of a repressive techno-state.

  • @linux750
    @linux750 3 роки тому +6

    If people came to accept The Gherkin and other non-rectangular buildings, people will come to love this building too.

  • @Jemini4228
    @Jemini4228 Рік тому

    I went up the Walkie Talkie a few years ago to see the Skygarden. Having coffee among beautiful plants while looking out over the metropolis is a fine way to spend a morning :)

  • @duchi882
    @duchi882 3 роки тому +24

    Thanks to UA-cam Recommendations
    I found this Underrated Channel

  • @Ryusola
    @Ryusola 3 роки тому +35

    Conclusion: Architects are disgruntled art majors that hate you.

    • @Punishthefalse
      @Punishthefalse 3 роки тому +2

      This explains brutalist architecture.

    • @are3287
      @are3287 3 роки тому +2

      @@Punishthefalse And modern architecture in general

    • @eruno_
      @eruno_ 3 роки тому +1

      @@Punishthefalse
      Brutalist architecture is unironically interesting and unique though

    • @Punishthefalse
      @Punishthefalse 3 роки тому +1

      @@eruno_ I am fond of Brutalist structures for no discernable reason. Maybe I just like how the *solid raw concrete, glass and steel* ease my insecurities.

  • @SirKolass
    @SirKolass 8 місяців тому +1

    Lucky for them, the shutters don't look ugly. It reminds me of the Copan building in San Paulo.

  • @philipwhiuk
    @philipwhiuk 3 роки тому

    Fun fact, it still generates a whirlwind at the base. The surrounding shops (particularly Boots) have done a great trade on rainy days in almost instantly trashed cheap umbrellas.

  • @randomness4989
    @randomness4989 3 роки тому +6

    I have never expected British sarcasm to be this eloquent and majestic while roasting the shit out of the architect guy

  • @R-.-y
    @R-.-y Рік тому +1

    Just come across this vid - I was involved in the design of this building on the periphery so I’m familiar with its early development. The original design team had taken this aspect fully into account with solar shading per floor also providing access for maintenance and window cleaning. The project was stopped after the basement had been dug due to the banking crisis and then Canary Wharf as builders and developers bought a major share of the development and the first thing they did was ‘value engineer’ it - ha ha ha - you can guess what they valued out and the rest was very expensive history putting it back in.
    PS the previous building on the site had a very interesting structural system whereby the floors were suspended from the central core which proved a challenge for demotion as it had to be reversed with temporary supports taking the load vertically downward which is how tower blocks are usually designed.

  • @hannamccarthyh
    @hannamccarthyh 3 роки тому

    I only came across this channel today....what bliss! A mixture of (my) personal obsessions, and a John Peel-style droll delivery. Thank you 👍🏽

  • @lieutenantbites5739
    @lieutenantbites5739 3 роки тому +7

    "Sorry I can't come into work today. Building melted my car."