Paris's Fake Buildings (And The Story Behind Them)
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- Опубліковано 26 сер 2024
- The beautiful houses at 145 rue la Fayette, 29 rue Quincampoix, and 44 rue d'Aboukir have one thing in common: they're fake. Why does Paris have so many fake façades and what hides behind them? I went on a quest to find out more...
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Explore inside 145 rue la Fayette with Vintage Tran:
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(in French, but you don't really need to speak the language)
London's Fake Houses by Half-Asleep Chris:
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Just like a game not everything can be interracted with lol xD
npb, non playable building
We really are living in a simulation
Lol
what if all the fake buildings in games are actually supporting ventilation functions for subplatforms that we don't interact with
@@Creating_Space then that's a lot of ventilation
Its like a gta games where you can't enter every building.
You telling me the reason i cant enter buildings in gta is because the developers are fucking baguettes?
Gta 4 allows you to do it more or less
@@pedroferreira9234 because that would take a unreasonable amount of power to render and load multiple interiors in every single building
well there are law to keep design to match.. since it is a toursit city..
@@pedroferreira9234 is that exclamation or a verb ?
Imagine somewhat rents one of those fake homes on airbnb
Bonne idée !
Kolkata army💪💪
Don't give them ideas
Satan: Write that down, write that down!
Once I booked (and payed) a hostel that didn't exist. I found that out when I arrived, at midnight. It was depressing 😔
So what Tim is saying is it would be really easy for you to build your supervillain-style underground bunker in Paris. You'd just have to preserve the original building's facade, and everyone would assume it's just another ventilation shaft.
The developer hasn’t enabled access to that area.
Maybe try wall glitching.
Dabi?
dont go there! you'll get desynchronised
These are not video game like GTA
Nah man if you try noclipping you’ll go to the backrooms
Do you want to pay 5£ to access this area?
"and right around this corner, next to this protest" Lmao describing France perfectly
America in June: omg sameeeee
XDranzer000 way to be racist or elitist (at best).
It's normal for a poor department that is given little to no attention and finances, to not be a tourists' magnent.
The French are better at republicanism than Americans
Why are there so many protest
Mixamaka how do I become an alpaca?
It's so funny how both the French are just like "Hey we need to put a ventilation shaft here for a train station" and are just like "Just make a fake building to hide it."
i mean imagine if you had a giant hole between 2 building in a street
Same in London
@@habib6499 yeah. Theres a whole row of fake houses hiding the metropolitan tube line.
@@glorf3558 I know
Actually that is really cool!
The 70's are the worst thing that happened to buildings
My house is from the 70's
@@Behindthecurtain20 rip
70's has some good buildings/architectural ideas though. The 80's were the real crimes.
@@Myownchanelhere Yes indeed. It sucks.
This.
"Any attempt to actually do this would be extremely dangerous and hugely illegal, which means, of course, there's a youtuber who's done it!"
And that was the moment I subscribed :D
@@pxl-cube I was going to subscribe. But I already am.
i'm not subscribed and i wont subscribe since i'm not easily impressed
@@The-Cat
K.
@@TamaoMizuki SQUIREL 👉 (O_O)
Imagine running away from a murderer and finding a door to escape only to find out it’s fake......I would be pissed
Knocking on the door to find help and nobody's answering you.. and its 6 pm
Would never work even if the door was real most of not all building entrance doors in Paris have codes you have to put in to enter
No, you would be dead.
no, you'd be dead
Imagine chasing someone and seeing them go through the door, only to try it yourself and find out it's fake....I would be terrified.
*me, a parisian, that had no idea this was even a thing*
Are you sure a Parisian? Been to Paris, haven't seen any French or Parisians.
@@vladnikolaev1558 what do you mean by that ?
@@Spitfirator Meaning i don't see any White French Parisians in Paris.
@@vladnikolaev1558 ... This comment is racist, wrong and completely stupid. Of course, there are lots of white people in Paris...
@@olivierlarrieux8261 No your thinking is racist. Why do you think you have the right to call ethnic black people French or Parisian if their roots are not from that region.
Bringing them to your country so they become second class citizens who perform low paid jobs and urging them to learn French and forget their native language, letting them forget their native culture = the biggest legal racist system.
It would be better if you give Paris to those people and make Arabic the first language and Islam state religion. I'm all in for that. Because what you French are doing is very racist.
I've seen the one next to Centre Pompidou and I just thought it was some weird ending of the buildings where they'd put technical facilities and therefore didn't build windows, as they are more expensive. Or what you sometimes see in cities: where one building has been demolished in between two other buildings, exposing the blind facades. Just thought they wanted to make that look nicer like street art. This is a waaaaay cooler explanation.
"Just around the corner next to this protest". Most French thing I have ever seen
TheTechfo would love to see you sat “let them eat cake” in Paris 😈
Oh yeah 😂 That never stopped we love it 😂
Except when they gave everything to the Nazis
@@bitchface235 Look up the figures and battles for the battle of France. The French put up a harder fight than most give them credit for. The speed of the conquest doesn't reflect the French opposition/determination.
@Faceless Propagandist You mean virtually every country in the world. These are the achievements of capitalism. "All that is solid melts into air".
"And just around this corner from this protest..."
I feel as though you can use that as a segue for introducing anything in Paris. Protesting and revolting is the favorite French pastime since 1789.
Saying "the French are revolting" has two different meanings, both always correct.
And the entire UK is currently in a revolting shambles. Double entender intended.
Better than clutching your ankles for whatever government is in power.
NO
It's not a pastime. It's a full time job
So inaccessible buildings in games aren't that inaccurate
Time traveler: where are we?
His companion: well, there is a fake facade next to that protest going on.
Time traveler: we're in Paris
We don’t have fake facades, Pyongyang is quite a real city
Kim Jong-un
Real hungry too
@matthew O Kim has plenty of food just not his people
Kim and me went to an orgy party in South Seoul last night, he wasn't recognised. He looked like any Korean. So, North Korea is doing well, you know?
The entire country is one big fake facade...
Sadly, yes
I have lots of favourite things about this channel, but one of my favourite favourite things is the music choices, like 1:23. 🏆
Mr. Foreman you are great please keep making videos so I can chuck em into my consumption holes.
He's too modest to say, but he has a whole channel of them ...
ua-cam.com/channels/01WKZP5JlfWWeSGxpQyaeQ.html
And so, two universes collide..
This is like finding Dolly Parton in the audience of a Taylor Swift concert.
a jay foreman comment on a tim traveller video featuring a reference to half asleep chris.... geeky british youtube culture came through for each other today damn
Did anyone else notice "Saravanaa bhavan"(4:30)😅
It’d be interesting to see the ventilation structures designed in such a way as to be aesthetically pleasing, but not while trying to fake being a typical historical building for the neighborhood. The ventilation buildings in and around NYC tend to be quite obvious (if you know what to look for), but also somewhat ugly.
i imagine you'd want to have massive walls around ventilation shafts anyways, regardless of trying to make it fit in the neighborhood or not.
i had an idea of surrounding the shaft with guard rails and trees and stuff, so it's basically a park where you can peek into the subway trains passing underneath, but i'd also bet that place would quickly get plastered with... at the very least, certain helpline numbers
Calling them "fake facades" would imply that they're not real facades, meaing they're acually real right...
Yeah... they're technically facades but just not of real buildings
It's like a double negative
The definition of facade is “the face of a building, especially the principal front the looks onto the street or open space” so the front of a building (looking onto a street) is the facade of a building so it’s correct
@@dinosaurtoothbrushwithninj7760 oooh play on words, the facade is a facade
@@dinosaurtoothbrushwithninj7760 however, the *point* of a facade is to disguise what is inside, by definition, making it a lie.
I'm French, have lived in Paris for nine years, and had never known about this before.
Moi aussi et ce mec vient de m apprendre que edf veut dire elecricité de france 🤣
@@frjazz7677 EDF c'est l'equipe de France
@@frjazz7677 Pareil! 😂
You're in the wrong part of Paris. You're always in the wrong part of the city.
I was The 100th - Like ! - and I am Not Even PARISIEN ! When I saw Gretzkys # 99 - That is Retired in All of Canada !
North Korea: that’s cute.
It would be interesting to know if they do this here in Tokyo. But I don't think they would because there's something about a well-designed subway ventilator that makes you think, "Oh, there's a well-designed subway ventilator--how nice!" If I could share photos here, I would quickly go out a snap a rather conspicuous one on the west side of Shinjuku.
This reminds me of how Los Angeles has buildings just to disguise oil pumps in the city.
Wait.
.
.
.what!?!?
Really?
@@wandowander9360 yeah I believe Thoughty2 has a video on it.
Yep
There from the 1930s
Michael Capomolla yeah they’re usually warehouses but they exist
Never thought, that ventilation shafts could be so exiting.
Don't you mean exciting?
@@ufx808 Correct spelling would ruin the pun.
Well I find them quite entering but to each their own
And not to mention HUGE!
I love your mix of fun and interesting, hope you make loads more.
2023 and the UA-cam algorithm is still working its magic. This vid is like an xmas hit record - just keeps going ;-)
Really appreciate the channel - The train restaurant in Vienna was awesome. Keep up the great work. J.
The main thing I learned from this video is that Paris has a lot of graffiti.
I was just thinking the same thing
Sayit AsItIs really sad, vivement la r...
Mooga That’s the glitzy tourism side the media shows you, you’ll never know the REST of Paris until you go there & see it yourself. It’s like Miami or California
Mooga it is, just depends on where in Paris you are but also your mindset and what you choose to focus on
The most dirty city I've been on my travels so far.
No idea why it was recommended to my by YT but in fact, that was suprisingly fun to watch. :)
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Shut up
Me too 😂
me too
I feel like the substation was made in spite... "You thought is was ugly, I'll show you ugly!"
I am *definitely* doing this walk (and more!) on my next Paris trip!
Is there such thing as a fake façade? Or is it just a standard façade without a standard house behind it?
Buckingham Palace has a fake facade with another building behind it.
Very good point. It rather should be „fake houses“
tru but it’s also painted on windows so it’s pretty fake
That's a good point
True. I'd rather say it's just a facade.
"COME ON DOWN TO REAL FAKE DOORS!! FOR ALL YOUR FAKE DOOR NEEDS!!"
I was looking for this.
Fakedoors.com
Rick and Morty squad 😎
I was four months too late to make this comment 🤣
Not this one. Not this one. Won't open. Won't open.
Hell yeah
I love how you called it fake facade despite the word fake being (often) implied in the word facade already, yet it makes perfect sense
i live in Buenos Aires, Argentina, and there are several of these fake building fronts, usually in art nouveau or art deco style, that conceal electrical substations and water pumps. The most notable is Palacio de las Aguas Corrientes (1884) that has been voted one of the most beautiful and beloved buildings in the city
"I'm not a big fan." Gotta say, that was a good one.
Gotta say, looong-bearded.
Made me laugh out loud 😄
I just got it
I came to the comments section for this.
Just a quick note, those buildings built by EDF used to house employees who would maintain and run the substation. Being directed by the central office. Most of them are now empty, but if you ever get to visit they have rooms, kitchens, office spaces and dorms. Now that all substations are run remotely, nobody lives there.
That's just sad. So many people would benefit from being able to rent that space. I wonder if those places are for sale.
In all honesty it's not funing being in them. And in case of faliure you need to make sure because can stay there. It doesn't happen ofter, but sometimes a control cable and the backups will be cut sabotage etc) so people go back and run them institute.@@CricketsBay
You just got a fan for that fan joke! Hahaha! Loved the whole concept of the video and it made me want to go out and discover the secrets of my city as well.
this is hands down one of most weirdest and intriguiing videos I've watched. Ever. Wonder how many fake buildings there are in other cities.
He did this entire video around the "fan" joke, didn't he...
Of course he did... and I am a fan
But that joke was fan-tastic
... and then the video ended shortly afterwards. Fin.
I'll go and get my coat.
Ventilation jokes are a load of hot air
that fan joke kind of blows
Plot Twist: They’re actually Portkeys to Hogwarts but they don’t want the public to know.
Your mom's name is 'Hogwarts'?
@@guillermojrboy3292 why being rude?
Guillermo Jr Boy Yeah bruh- your mom’s name Mudblood?
Good one
More like Beauxbâtons duh
Wow! I have waited for the bus many times right in front of 145 rue La Fayette and have never noticed that! I'll check it out next time. Thanks Tim!
I live in Paris and didn't know any that, thanks !! (loved the little protest at the beginning)
I love how he can pronounce things right, whether German, Dutch, French.
It’s pretty impressive. His French is really good.
He is Multi Lingual ?
@MrTruboy Actually it isn't. In this case facade means "front of a building". In this vid they're all fake, but a facade doesn't have to be. So he's 100% correct.
@MrTruboy If you wish to believe that... But a facade is just a front, and that doesn't have to be fake. When it's about a person's behaviour/personality it is fake, when about a building not necessarily. So when you say "The facade is made of brick" it means the front of the house is made of brick, NOT that it's fake. Hence, NOT redundant. The man knows his language.
@MrTruboy Haha, I admire your tenacity. But... get educated. Have a good weekend.
Thanks for the shoutout! 😁🙏
Ah c'est avec plaisir @Vintage Tran! Incroyable ta vidéo, et toute ta série sur les immeubles factices d'ailleurs, ravi d'avoir trouvé un tel trésor pendant mes recherches :)
Merci d'honorer ma mère patrie qu'est la France 🙏🇫🇷⚜️
Trop mignon ton accent anglais quand tu parles français
You remind me of Paul Whitehouse off the Fast Show.
"Paris has loads of fake doors and guess what, they're BRILLIANT!"
Very Interesting. I work on Rue d'Aboukir. I pass number 44 every day and I never knew if wasn't "real".
Thank God - There are UA-camrs - to Open ALL THE DOORS to Gates ! Merci
BRILLIANT.
So you're telling me that Paris can be exploded from multiple locations like the death star?
Yea but you gotta do the trench run down the seine and the turbolaser turrets are hard to avoid!
"Paris" "exploded". FBI party van coming in 3, 2, 1...
Kwaq84 lol I know right. FBI entered the chat 😭😭😭😭
@WolfyGirl2077 you mean run away in fear.
@WayStedYou Dont you get any weird idea's now
I have no idea how I found this channel But I can’t stop watching
So, you’re telling me, if i go on google maps and look at paris, i’ll find a whole lot of these fake buildings?
*Ventilators:* _"I wanna be a cosplayer!!!"_
*Paris:* _"Welcome!!!"_
This looks like 1984
a protest? in France? well i never
We must take to the streets and wave signs to combat such a thing!
As a French person it is so damn annoying to have a strike every week so no public transports to get to work and of course protesters blocking streets and roads... every single week, sometimes several times a week, and I am not even living in Paris where there is multiple protests every day
@@arthemis1039 You should protest about it.
France is the world champion to protest and critisize. It's cultural in our country. This protest was about animal cruelty.
@@gdclemo It happened when the yellow vest movement was at its peak, people protested against them. But it should be avoided because counter protests often lead to violence
It’s such a shame there’s so much rubbish and graffiti in Paris.
Guess who does these.
Most major Western cities are turning into these souless urban cesspools, the future is looking bleak.
@IBrainedMyDamage they where pillaged by themselves in their civil wars and terrorism. And they are brining that with them here
@IBrainedMyDamage that counts for 45%of them
I prefer my city with those graffitis. Since Hip Hop culture came to Paris in the 80’s, people dedicated their all life to graffiti, even if every day they are erased, people kept doing there art.
Sometime you take a metro all painted in beautiful graffitis and I think it’s freaking cool to see some expressive people keeping the art alive
“There’s only so many jokes I can make about ventilation shafts, and tbh, I’m not a big fan.”
When this guy speaks, it's like he's reading from a book in school.
@Debra Frazier some people think everything's a complaint or insult, even if they mean appreciation or banter.
He is That GOOD ?
What is His 1st Language ? French / Dutch / English or some other ? When You make an UA-cam Video - You have to have a Storyboard !
Growing his youtube following while getting his diploma. Good thinking, Tim!
1:22 actually, Sherlock told me about that :D
I was looking for this comment hahahah
4:32
A perfectionist's nightmare
I wish we could do this in Detroit here in America
We did once when we hosted the Super Bowl
I'd have to admit it was a lot more welcoming then seeing buildings falling apart or empty due to high rent costs.
Shaun Collins
Detroit has high rent costs?
I like how he didn't get political: "and right around this corner, next to this protest"
It was a fake protest, organized by the railway, to distract you from the fake facade concealing a fake ventilation-shaft.
How French!!
Fred Blonder Wow 🤦♀️
It's France
This was for a good cause, we can see: " condition animale, paris doit montrer l'exemple" witch means "animal condition, paris must lead by example"
A friend of mine pointed out the painted facade back in '81, my first time in Paris. And I, in turn have pointed it out to other.Thanks so much for enlightening me, after all these years, on the reason this is the way it is.
UA-cam recommend me this video,
I thought its weird that simon pegg are reviewing paris fake building.
And yeah it is, but this video is not a weird video.
Great video and very informative.
0:09 The most British knock I have ever seen. I love it
We used to have fake facades on old ratty buildings in town that hid the rotten, decaying, falling apart inner structures that were never maintained correctly. But they kept the exterior up with windows with shades and curtains, flower pots with fake flowers in the windows, making it appear as though the buildings were occupied. Then in the late '80s and early '90s, they tore down these buildings and began constructing new apartments for the colleges and hospital staff and the downtown working professionals. The new buildings are modern designs - but they look great and brighten up our downtown.
"If you hang out in the same bits of youtube as I do" - yup guilty!
Definitely
In Vienna they don't waste time with fake facades. They simply put huge ugly grey cylindrical (sometimes also rectengular) ventilation shafts randomly across streets.
I was born in Paris in '72 and what you just showed me was unreal.
Isn't fake facade a double negative? Oh my I've made it a triple negative.
I saw a building in Brooklyn, NY that looked like a small cathedral, only the windows were all louvered. I later heard that it was a vent, but there is also a "brownstone" (4 or 5 story townhouse) in Manhattan that's really some kind of electrical substation for the subway system. I'll bet there are buildings like this in most cities.
Omg cameo by one of my son’s favorite Lego masters, Half-asleep Chris. Now I’m wondering if this video was recommended because of my viewing history or his, lol.
1:24 nice use of the Paddington bear theme tune!
“You can knock on it, and wait for as long as you want, but no one will ever let you in... and not just cause they’re Parisien.” 🤣
When the Roadrunner/Wile E. Coyote painted-tunnel joke, is taken too far:
XD
This is the most British explanation of fake buildings I could imagine. The video should have been sponsored by Twinings tea.
I’ve heard the term “ventilation shaft“ more times in this five-minute video than if I worked 15 years as a receptionist for Ventilation Shafts R Us.
BTW: When you ever come to Hamburg, you could have a look at the Schellfischtunnel.
But what if he's allergic?
I'm going very soon
Isn't it only open at certain times?
@@1258-Eckhart Yes. And I don't know exact dates for this year.
That'd be very selfish.
Finally I know now why I couldn't get access to some of these buildings in battlefield 3 hmmmm... 😊
Been to paris twice and never ever EVER expected to hear anything of this sorts!! My mind is utterly blown.
I appreciation that you used a _cedilla_ in your spelling of façade in a video about French façades.
I've never thought about this! But of COURSE they need ventilation, and of COURSE the neighbors don't like looking at it. Thank you Tim for the "facepalm" :) and now I'm wondering about fake buildings in cities like New York and Chicago.
C'est surtout que cette ventilation pollue beaucoup 😑😅
@@MONSTER_FR oui et ça change rien de mettre une fausse façade.
New York City has at least one fake building facade (probably more) to disguise a subway ventilation facility.
Narrator: “It would have been less ugly as a ventilation shaft...”
Me: “Well, that’s bitter French humor for you. Some employees of the power company are still laughing about it I’m sure.”
You: “Well, that’s bitter French humor for you. Some employees of the power company are still laughing about it I’m sure.”
Me: “:D True.”
That one is true.
Love the homage to Rodin at 0:29
Thank you so much Tim that was quite interesting to know.
To me it all seems like a huge façade!
@Gonzalo Araujo Cause it is french at origins :p
Is This Real PARIS ? - or One in China ?
Oh, my mistake. I thought this was a video about my ex.
😂😂
lmao
Ze Rubenator ... you thought your ex is a fake building
Babyhowdy233 it’s a joke I highly doubt he is talking about his actual love life
@Babyhowdy233 Well then, since you're so interested let me tell you about my love life in way too much detail. I only have one ex and she's perfectly nice and I don't have anything against her. But we were awkward teens, both each other's first kiss and everything, so mistakes were made.
It was good between us for a while, then I started to realise her parents hated me, which had a hand in making things uncomfortable. They'd be nice to my face, but whenever she was alone with them she'd come to me afterwards crying because they'd said horrible things about me. She never went into detail, probably because she didn't want to hurt me. Additionally, she had (understandably) real problems dealing with my depression, bestowed upon me by the bullies I had to endure a few years prior.
In the end it didn't work out and it all culminated in an extremely uncomfortable and funnysad breakup. Sad for me (and by proximity her), funny for everyone else at school. Oh well. I'm not going into details on this one.
I've been together with my current girlfriend for 6 years, which sounds insane now that I say it out loud. She's not really relevant since she's not an ex.
About my original comment, I just thought the idea of an ex being a "fake facade of Paris" to be kind of funny. What's the facade? Does she wear a lot of make-up? Is her personality fake? Is she really French or does she just live there? Who knows!
*TL;DR*
Only the last paragraph is relevant. I see no reason why anyone would be interested in the rest.
Ooo ventilation shaft 😂 you've got me wondering now if everything I see is hiding one now, Tim.
"wE dOn'T liVe iN a sImUlAtIoN"
The Paris electric company could have disguised the electric substation as ... an electric substation.
Électricité de France was known for its technocratic morons that hated classical beauty and wanted Paris to look like New-York.
There are beautiful electric substations from the late 19th and early 20th century in New York they could've used as a reference
"... and be honest, I'm not a big fan..."
I see what you did there.
I must admit that it leaves me cold, too.
Literally every single person that has ever watched this video saw it...
How dumb and pointless is a comment saying anything about it.
@@SPFLDAngler Some people age like wine... You seem to age like milk
That wasn't what I expected but was still very interesting. Merci beaucoup. Laissez-les venir.
Just the game devs trying to fill in space
Always glad to see a new Tim Traveller vid! As an Australian, its great seeing unique, obscure European spots like this!
"He's talking about fake buildings, I wonder if he knows about 23 Leinster Gardens...."
> 1:20 Mentions Geoff Marshall's vid for the Londonist.
....why did I assume poorly of Tim?
the painted windows look surprisingly good
Could be worse.. could be as bad as wireless carriers trying to hide their antennas like trees 🤣 ty for the smile this morning.
Your switch from french to english pronunciation is amazing
*And yet these buildings are more "realistic" than my "friends". sad days*
@vawies they didnt say anything about women. why you assume hes an incel
"I'm not a big fan".... I lost it!
Just wanna congratulate you for how good your pronunciation of french words is