Michigan Central Station in Detroit opened earlier this year. Ford also restored the Book Depository building next door. It is a high-tech incubator for start-up businesses.
And it looks amazing now. I went up on that roof in 2007-08 when I was attending CCS in the city. It is one of the most incredible structures I've been in, each floor was a wreck with debris everywhere, I used to have these old brackets from the electric sockets I kept with me. My friends used to enter through the back loading bay (@9:28 if you look to the right of the frame, that road that splits, we would park up that block), go back a bit, and roll under the rotted grater. ... (I remember the Mexicantown market down that street! And you can see where Pony Ride, an artist collective to the far left, IDK if it's still there but thanks to Phil Cooley, thank you for giving me a chance to check it out. If only I stayed...) Once we got in, it was pitch black, and the floor would freeze over in the winter. And on the way up the stairs (opposite the camera angle @8:55), the window frames were blown wide open, and the iron stairs were creeping so long that we almost had to jump over some steps that were all but gone. Once you get up to the top, the ladder to the roof stairs has a huge gap, and you would have to leap to the step and then come up through the double doors. I still have the pics on my Facebook to this day, and I'll never forget the experience (and the view from the roof! You can see the Ambassador Bridge, and the Motor City Casino isn't far away.)
@@discodirk48The Michigan Central Station was the tallest train station in the world when it opened. Read Wikipedia and you'll learn it shares the same architect as Grand Central in NYC. Detroit was the richest city in the World in the 1950s. It continues to be a beautiful city on the Detroit River, sharing an international border. It's very much revitalized and continues its growth and reinvention. Detroit is great city.
The train station is now beautifully restored and Bill Ford spent millions of dollars restoring every detail. The city of Detroit is beautiful and you should visit sometime. The station btw is completed and open for tours while also a functioning office center. @@discodirk48
Clearly, there wasn't much effort put into research at least for the Michigan Central Station. It reopened this summer. I know it's easy to take a dump on Detroit when it comes to holding it as an example of poverty and urban decay but get your facts right before uploading your videos because you clearly got it wrong on the current state of this building.
The Baker Hotel in Texas has a sort of a sister in the Chamberlin Hotel, Hampton, Virginia. The current building is the second on that site along the Chesapeake Bay. It was one of two resort hotels that catered to the wealthy traveling by ship to Europe. Located on a branch end of Huntington's rail road, guests could wait in comfort for the arrival of their ship. Then rest, landside before traveling home. In its glory days, the Chamberlin boasted numerous spa features. It operated a golf course (now operated by the City of Hampton) and a hunting lodge west of Williamsburg. The indoor and outdoor pools remain. The indoor pool would be filled with salt water from the Bay during the Summer. The main floor was once completely surrounded by a wide porch, a popular place to walk or rest. Over time, parts of this porch were closed off to expand the restaurants. A passenger ferry took tourist to Norfolk who could travel by street car into Downtown Norfolk. The nearby military base expanded over time and during times of war, occupied the building. There was once an underground passenger tunnel to the HQ building across the street. Now the Chamberlin operates as senior housing for elderly military.
FUN FACT: The skyscraper shown at the beginning of the movie "A Christmas Story" is the Terminal Tower in downtown Cleveland, once the tallest building outside of NYC.
Love your videos. Love ur channel and this video was good as well, but the world's second tallest building is the PNB 118 in Malaysia not the Shanghai tower anymore. It's the third tallest now. Also, the jeddah towers construction has resumed again.
Very informative. Such a waste of money. I often wonder how the grafiti gets onto the highrises, like in the structures in Los Angeles. Thanks for the video and Happy New Year!!
Abandoned skyscraper on Manhattans Financial District. 161 Maiden Lane (also known as One Seaport, 1 Seaport, or Seaport Residences) is an incomplete 670 ft (205 m) tall residential skyscraper on Maiden Lane in the Financial District of Manhattan, New York City, United States. Designed by Hill West Architects, the building overlooks the East River and topped out in September 2018. The building leans 3 inches (76 mm) to the north as a result of the method used to construct its foundation: instead of using the piling method like other neighboring skyscrapers, soil improvement methods were used where chemicals or other material are added to the soil to strengthen it. As of 2024, only half of the finishes, including windows, have been installed.
Why would North Korea even attempt to build a skyscraper hotel? How many people visit North Korea? The American people are not allowed to visit North Korea and tourism in general is so restricted that you can't go anywhere without a guide. The other problem is they have the worst power supply. You can't run an elevator when the power supply is so unreliable. They would need a backup generator just to get an elevator to the top floors. Either that or wait 3 to 8 hours until power was turned back on. It probably drains the city of power just to run those lights at night. I can't imagine what life is like living in North Korea. The citizens of that country are treated like inmates at a maximum security prison. Try to leave and face a firing squad. They rather kill their people instead of letting them go free.
same thought. Doesn't LA have a really expensive housing market? A really tall residential skyscraper would help a lot with that. Just finish it now, before decay damages it so much that bringing it up to usability becomes more expensive that demolishing it and building something new.
Global housing crisis solutions but governments either to greedy or stupid to reallocate resources to bringing there countries up to actually becoming 1st world economies🤨😒 what a complete waste of engineering and architecture! Only one that seems to have renewed the Building is Detroit and I honestly hope that trend continues there because of all the amazing history attached to that city! Well done Detroit 👏
I helped my grandfather bring about 300 bricks on top of the roof when I was a kid. They laid there around for no reason. Does that count as an unfinished mega project.
Are the "instigators", the leaders and the architects of these structures, not compensating (in particular the males), for certain physicals inadequacies? Just a thought. Rod Morgan
The maintenance man would be the most over worked underpaid and most threatened and harassed individual in building recycled for low income. They complain the most, work the fewest hours and do the most drugs.
Who are ”they”? Do you really think that a private owner should allocate money towards purposes that doesn’t lead to profit for the company? Sorry to be blunt but this is just mindless whining.
0:07 I wish people would stop tagging like this! It’s disgusting and unsightly (probably like you!) and no one can read it or cares that it says your name or something similar!
Michigan Central Station in Detroit opened earlier this year. Ford also restored the Book Depository building next door. It is a high-tech incubator for start-up businesses.
I believe they call it putting lipstick on a pig haha
And it looks amazing now. I went up on that roof in 2007-08 when I was attending CCS in the city. It is one of the most incredible structures I've been in, each floor was a wreck with debris everywhere, I used to have these old brackets from the electric sockets I kept with me. My friends used to enter through the back loading bay (@9:28 if you look to the right of the frame, that road that splits, we would park up that block), go back a bit, and roll under the rotted grater.
... (I remember the Mexicantown market down that street! And you can see where Pony Ride, an artist collective to the far left, IDK if it's still there but thanks to Phil Cooley, thank you for giving me a chance to check it out. If only I stayed...)
Once we got in, it was pitch black, and the floor would freeze over in the winter. And on the way up the stairs (opposite the camera angle @8:55), the window frames were blown wide open, and the iron stairs were creeping so long that we almost had to jump over some steps that were all but gone. Once you get up to the top, the ladder to the roof stairs has a huge gap, and you would have to leap to the step and then come up through the double doors. I still have the pics on my Facebook to this day, and I'll never forget the experience (and the view from the roof! You can see the Ambassador Bridge, and the Motor City Casino isn't far away.)
@@discodirk48The Michigan Central Station was the tallest train station in the world when it opened. Read Wikipedia and you'll learn it shares the same architect as Grand Central in NYC. Detroit was the richest city in the World in the 1950s. It continues to be a beautiful city on the Detroit River, sharing an international border. It's very much revitalized and continues its growth and reinvention. Detroit is great city.
The train station is now beautifully restored and Bill Ford spent millions of dollars restoring every detail. The city of Detroit is beautiful and you should visit sometime. The station btw is completed and open for tours while also a functioning office center. @@discodirk48
A magnificent job of restoration done in Detroit and so glad they did the Book Depository too. Urban decay is choice.
Fascinating. Thanks for creating this.
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Thank you very much for this fascinating video! I really, really enjoyed it!
Clearly, there wasn't much effort put into research at least for the Michigan Central Station. It reopened this summer. I know it's easy to take a dump on Detroit when it comes to holding it as an example of poverty and urban decay but get your facts right before uploading your videos because you clearly got it wrong on the current state of this building.
Agree
Looks great from I75!!! Looks a whole lot nicer than in the video!!!😂😂😂😂
The Baker Hotel in Texas has a sort of a sister in the Chamberlin Hotel, Hampton, Virginia. The current building is the second on that site along the Chesapeake Bay. It was one of two resort hotels that catered to the wealthy traveling by ship to Europe. Located on a branch end of Huntington's rail road, guests could wait in comfort for the arrival of their ship. Then rest, landside before traveling home.
In its glory days, the Chamberlin boasted numerous spa features. It operated a golf course (now operated by the City of Hampton) and a hunting lodge west of Williamsburg. The indoor and outdoor pools remain. The indoor pool would be filled with salt water from the Bay during the Summer. The main floor was once completely surrounded by a wide porch, a popular place to walk or rest. Over time, parts of this porch were closed off to expand the restaurants. A passenger ferry took tourist to Norfolk who could travel by street car into Downtown Norfolk.
The nearby military base expanded over time and during times of war, occupied the building. There was once an underground passenger tunnel to the HQ building across the street. Now the Chamberlin operates as senior housing for elderly military.
I believe I attended my junior prom at the Chamberlin Hotel. That would have been 1978
I mean stuff from the early 1900's are lovely to look at. Everything else is a damn eye soar especially Saudi Arabia.
FUN FACT: The skyscraper shown at the beginning of the movie "A Christmas Story" is the Terminal Tower in downtown Cleveland, once the tallest building outside of NYC.
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Love your videos. Love ur channel and this video was good as well, but the world's second tallest building is the PNB 118 in Malaysia not the Shanghai tower anymore. It's the third tallest now. Also, the jeddah towers construction has resumed again.
Just wanted to write the same 😅
Very informative. Such a waste of money. I often wonder how the grafiti gets onto the highrises, like in the structures in Los Angeles. Thanks for the video and Happy New Year!!
Lazy research with lots of inaccuracies. Click bait
The U.S.A. has >771,800 homeless people, and these abandoned hotels.
Something about that doesn't make sense.
Abandoned skyscraper on Manhattans Financial District.
161 Maiden Lane (also known as One Seaport, 1 Seaport, or Seaport Residences) is an incomplete 670 ft (205 m) tall residential skyscraper on Maiden Lane in the Financial District of Manhattan, New York City, United States. Designed by Hill West Architects, the building overlooks the East River and topped out in September 2018. The building leans 3 inches (76 mm) to the north as a result of the method used to construct its foundation: instead of using the piling method like other neighboring skyscrapers, soil improvement methods were used where chemicals or other material are added to the soil to strengthen it. As of 2024, only half of the finishes, including windows, have been installed.
0:30 Due Torri in Bologna, Italy, the last remaining towers of many in the Middle Ages.
I'd love to live on the top of one of those buildings.. the views would be amazing
Except in case of fire. Watch the movie « Towering Inferno » released in 1974.
You'd be exposed to the weather...
interesting to hear theres a building in Brazil named after an old american president
Awesome video! Just a quick note, the Insignia Tower is not abandoned, since 2022 it has been occupied by Mexico's City heath department. 😁
You didn't include the Spivy Building in East St Louis. Wide open its a favorite of urban explorers brave enough to visit the wilds of East Boggie.
Sad. Some of those are very beautiful.
Lots of Abandoned buildings in Johannesburg
The Carlton center specifically is abandoned and traces the ANC's 30 year destruction of south africa
The bells were a gift from the Bell-gian government.
Chris Kane showed The view to a kill😅
by any chance are you referring to Chris kane from western n.y.
I would love to own the Baker Hotel, as my family name is Baker. If I won the powerball I would buy it.
Torre Insignia was never the tallest building in Mexico....as a consequence it was never the tallest in Latin America.
Why am I so obsessed with urban blight?
What a waste of resources
Why would North Korea even attempt to build a skyscraper hotel? How many people visit North Korea? The American people are not allowed to visit North Korea and tourism in general is so restricted that you can't go anywhere without a guide. The other problem is they have the worst power supply. You can't run an elevator when the power supply is so unreliable. They would need a backup generator just to get an elevator to the top floors. Either that or wait 3 to 8 hours until power was turned back on. It probably drains the city of power just to run those lights at night. I can't imagine what life is like living in North Korea. The citizens of that country are treated like inmates at a maximum security prison. Try to leave and face a firing squad. They rather kill their people instead of letting them go free.
Oceann wide Plaza could be brought up to code and would be great for affordable housing in DTLA.
same thought. Doesn't LA have a really expensive housing market? A really tall residential skyscraper would help a lot with that. Just finish it now, before decay damages it so much that bringing it up to usability becomes more expensive that demolishing it and building something new.
Global housing crisis solutions but governments either to greedy or stupid to reallocate resources to bringing there countries up to actually becoming 1st world economies🤨😒 what a complete waste of engineering and architecture! Only one that seems to have renewed the Building is Detroit and I honestly hope that trend continues there because of all the amazing history attached to that city! Well done Detroit 👏
I just love your introduction before revealing the abandoned buildings.
This was really good, really interesting and nice to listen to clear well pronounced words. Thank you. 🦋♥️🎧
Korea: lot-tay.
Thank you.
Impossible. Korea isn’t a country anymore
That is some beautiful graffiti on Oceanwide Plaza. I would save that.
I helped my grandfather bring about 300 bricks on top of the roof when I was a kid. They laid there around for no reason. Does that count as an unfinished mega project.
Which
The first five minutes were completely unnecessary. Get to the point.
Are the "instigators", the leaders and the architects of these structures, not compensating (in particular the males), for certain physicals inadequacies?
Just a thought.
Rod Morgan
They should refurbished the buildings for low income housing.
The maintenance man would be the most over worked underpaid and most threatened and harassed individual in building recycled for low income. They complain the most, work the fewest hours and do the most drugs.
Who's gonna pay for it? You?
Who are ”they”? Do you really think that a private owner should allocate money towards purposes that doesn’t lead to profit for the company? Sorry to be blunt but this is just mindless whining.
Cut the bullshit padding.
0:07 I wish people would stop tagging like this! It’s disgusting and unsightly (probably like you!) and no one can read it or cares that it says your name or something similar!
I hate it too
Michigan train station is not abandoned. Do your research before putting out videos like this.
Please calm your skin down.
Please its ego that's all.
What a waste!
The construction of the Jeddah Tower has restarted
What a waste.
Bells from Belgium? The irony...
I'm surprised that on projects with multiple buildings that there aren't connecting air bridges.
Сколько же тама наркоманiв можето поместiтосi...
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2,000 story tower with mold cockroaches 🪳 broken moldy pipes poop and piss everywhere steel and concrete falling apart
There is no 2000 story tower anywhere in the world unless you were being sarcastic
@ I’m just joking
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I need to say this.....
I LIKE LEGOS.
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