Inside London's "Gotham City" Skyscraper
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This channel is pure gold, every video is so interesting and well produced
Ah thank you so much! We work SO hard behind the scenes, you have no idea how good it makes us feel to read comments like this.
@@TheB1M You've really turned up the quality of production with this video. Being on site, interviewing people, and taking in the scope first hand all lend heavily to the quality of the end product here, and great editing as always. Well done!
@@TheB1M it's one of my favs, and probably the one I've been recommending to people the most
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"I'm standing next to a massive hole in the middle of London." - sounded like something Tom Scott would say.
I imagined that exact thing as I heard tgat...LoL
Collaboration time! 🙌🏻
"I'm standing next to a massive hole in the middle of London. It is located in the nether regions of your mum" - Tom Scott
I imagined the same
Let's wait for a tom scott plus video featuring Fred lol
Videos where Fred goes out in the field are the best!
Thanks! Hoping to do a lot more of them as life hopefully gets back to normal.
It really does add to the video
What field? What are you talking about? He's in a city.
@@TheB1M it’s certainly more immersive when we see you on the ground walking the site.
@@howtogaintime739 it's an expression for outside
Loving this channel at the moment. Keep it up B1M!
Wasn’t expecting to see you here
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Hey it's our favorite British Racecar driver.
Are you safe? Are you in the realm?
@@michagabo8819 be gone superstitious man
I'm not entirely taken with the design of the building, but I absolutely love propped basement works. Thanks for highlighting this complex work in such a simple way. Great video!
I agree, with the amazing designs around the world, this is just dull. It looks like a 60's development.
@@JohnRushton Did you not see the entire part of the video where they compare it architectural design to the bauhaus movement and early skyscrapers?
@@pontiff3053 I did see it and was still not impressed. Underwhelmed.
@@julm7744 modern architects have ZERO artistic talent.
As an illustrator who designs classical facades of varying cultures I'm disgusted with anything post 40s 95% of it looks terrible. Barring a few skyscrapers in Tokyo, and quatar which do have artistic talent to considerable degrees. But as for brutalist and post modern styles only 1% of them could be considered 'beautiful' and that's giving them generous numbers.
British architecture is awful, anything from the las 70 years anyway. Sometimes it pisses me off because it makes a town or city look depressing af and it really can effect peoples outlook. In Preston they built two big apparent buildings and decided to paint them both yellow and because they don't get maintained, that yellow has turned in a faded piss looking colour. i like how NYC buildings still hold their own after 80/ 90 years but British buildings look dated after 10 if not less.
Once again, I learn something new.
It had never occurred to me to take other building's foundations into consideration when excavating the basements.
Probably why I'm not an engineer.
Bravo,keep up the excellent work and keep injecting that humor in your vids.
B1M has taught me so much about skyscrapers, cities and weird buildings in the future and that is why i love B1M.
Yh same !
You like weird buildings? 🙁
You should finish your degree, why watch youTube?
Do this better!
@@javierpacheco8234 Cheap ! China levels!
Building Information Modelling, China = crap!
The corrupted Wall Street Brexit people in London! Banking skum!
@@lucasrem ratio
interesting video as always, but im still not sure whats so different about this building that it will entice workers back to the office? just seems like any other office building
Yeah tbh it doesn't really stand out in London, doesn't harken to classical architecture in any way, it won't bring people back by itself. Probably a lot of amenities inside it might though.
Residential floors for workers so they don't need to get on the train every day would work, but that would be too sensible for our reality.
what's point of going back to the offices full time and wasting a significant chunk of your precious little life transiting to and from these offices anyway? most of the issues with WFH could be solved by just a bit of self discipline.🤷
I would HATE to live in the same building I worked in. I mean, personally, I hate working from home and am dying to go back to some sort of office that is separate to my house. But I recognise I'm in a minority there.
Can't say this building different enough to stand out it's just going to blend in with the other boxes
@3:27. Seems like that's the plan.
And why should it need to standout?
@@Alucard-gt1zf Finally somebody that understands
@@Alucard-gt1zf The real question is why if they were going to make an ugly box, didn't they just make it a bigger more square box and maximize space efficiency?
@@EcnalKcin London has height restrictions and line of sights restrictions and also I doubt the market is even there for anything bigger.
Every Gotham City Skyscaper needs a *Batman Summoning Spotlight.*
Hope that won't be necessary as Batman needing to be summoned probably means the crime rate is pretty high xd
I hope this doesn’t become like the Empire State Building after completion, as for a long time it was called the “empty state building” as it dumped tons of new floor space into a low demand market.
Hopefully, this new project will encourage the return to a new normal.
ESB completed at the height of great depression.
@@neeljavia2965 I believe it wasn’t fully occupied until well after the war ended though.
@@joermnyc Yes because the depression wasn't ended.
Not a chance in London.
Interesting video. But I'm not really sure how a skyscraper due to be finished in years to come is going to help entice workers back into the city, pitching that seemed like abit of a cop-out to put a relevant covid-spin on it to be honest.
Agreed, it would have been in planning long before covid as well no doubt
Complete marketing nonsense
The construction workers I guess
Agreed, I thought that these sort of building are there to entice employers not employees. Who'd want to work in that building, as nice as it is, when they can work in their home office?
I laughed when I heard that. "Oh look, more cages to lock up your careerist rats" Really hate the trend of building soulless glass buildings with no character and marketing them as anything else.
"This could just be the new development London deserves and the one it needs right now"
I see what you did there 😉
Lmaoo
I don’t get it how it *needs* yet another skyscraper. Isn’t there enough overpriced real estate already?
Did the image of Batman on the screen give it away, perchance?
@xiss burg : I believe it is a play on words, mimicking something that was said in one of the Batman movies.
development London?
This is just the Trump skum, i need money now skum, trash it all!
why this ugly China crap?
This architectural style is by far my most favourite, I hope it will have a huge comeback 🙏🏻
Idk I prefer classical Roman architecture
I like the old building being integrated with the new one, also hi impartur =)
Can't wait to see it in one of your cities.
What is? Glass Boxes? Really? Crappy Mid-Century Post-War glass boxes? That’s all this is.
An ugly box. Nice. .... There's nothing to like about this style.
I work in construction and have worked on most of the buildings around this are over the years and I have to say it saddens me to see more steel and glass going up. So much identity on London is being lost to offices.
All looking very bland, I don't even know why they are building more offices anymore. It would appear that it's not the way forward if you can work at home.
@@ashyclaret yeah it kind of ironic that the marketing about Autodesk was showcasing the cross-collaboration between employees who presumably could not meet up due to the pandemic. This is the same cross-collaboration which should be making big buildings like that obsolete....
What do they even do i these offices? Shuffle paper?
@@chatteyj Stupid comment, try educating yourself.
Nice to hear someone who works in the building industry has this opinion.
I legitimately enjoy the way you’ve managed to integrate Autodesk’s advertising into the content of the video. It’s both informative on its own *and* relevant to the rest of the information about this construction project. The resulting transition to and from the sponsorship message is thus natural and seamless. Very few educational channels manage to do that so effectively, most opting for a much more obvious segue.
Also, I like that you’re able to get on site and interview project leaders and workers now, too. That adds a wonderful human element to what would otherwise be an almost abstract subject for those of us who live so far away from the site.
Follow for definitive construction content and amazing information of an international scope given here on The B1M
Finally we got to see the man behind this high quality channel.
Love this channel.
Haha, I've been in a lot of the past videos....
Striking design? That looks like pure specimen of "Give them the standard package".
hey if you would have work on british buildings, you would know there is bunch of strict planning and regulations you have to follow , which greatly restrict the freedom of design
London has been my favourite city since childhood. I am glad to see the change taking place in this city today. Thank you so much for making the video. 🌷
You can just see the pure passion Fred and the B1M have for design and construction. As always, thank you for bringing these well-thought out stories to us
Oh wow, yet another grey glass and steel box, how exciting and appealing
investors love to trash the neighborhood!
move uphill you need, fck this Brexit Gotham evil crap!
How exciting and appealing ??? Are you a Gotham freak???? love the Devil????
@@lucasrem Are you okay?
appealing and appalling
You guys are really going above and beyond on pushing the professionalism and production possible for a youtube channel. Love seeing how far you've come.
I'm obsessed with Skyscrapers, and I've known about this project for some time. Thank you for telling us even more cool information about it, can't wait to see this building added to London's Skyline, it will be a key asset!
Just terrible for london architecture.
Same
Parkview Square in Singapore is the real Gotham city building, they went all out on the art deco and everyone there calls it the Gotham building. That place deserves a video it's completely insane!
Thanks for mentioning that, I agree completely after watching this video tour of it: czcams.com/video/zl_ccvV8VH0/video.html
many Gotham evil buildings, many Trump people that need money!
fck the Wall Street skum that do this!
Absolutely lovely building! Despite the amazing technology used building this skyscraper ill call it the ‘ugly stairs’
Finally a video about this! I walk past this site everyday and I’ve got no idea what they’re building 🤣🤣
Those massive beams holding the foundation walls are astounding, it looks huge! Wow.
@@donaldstanfield8862 France can sell those diesel subs to Taiwan
A new skyscraper that's gonna rise above The B1M's head. Sounds impressive
Another great video. I don't think the City needs another skyscraper and I'm not keen on the design, but that doesn't take away from your great work.
My friend is an engineer on big construction sites, it's absolutely insane the coordination that has to go on. For instance he spent literal weeks just LABELING air vents. I like how this video lightly touches on that, and the other considerations like pressure from other foundations. Very neat
Lol China does it everyday
Honestly, would love to see more wood skyscrappers in cities, would give some life to the cities
Seriously?
Wood carries a fire hazard and whatnot...🤓
@@donaldstanfield8862 the new engineered lumber products have good fire safety performance.
@@donaldstanfield8862 Have you even seen previous videos on B1M on the subject? That's a lie, in fact it can just as fireproof as steel with the right treatments.
Another CZcams bot supporting the destruction of forests. It's asinine to build anything out of wood.
The comments on my favourite channel The B1M makes me to watch the video twice first while reading comments second admiring the engineering
In the early 80s, I worked on the building shown bottom right one block back from the river at 1:03, and excavations for the basement and foundations put a crack down the middle of Pudding Lane. We had to install steel support struts to stop the sides falling in
This looks really cool. Love the videos.
Excellent, I like how architects and structural engineers are taking efficiency and greenery implementation so seriously now. Hope to do the same when I get my degree in the future!
That architecture is ugly but I guess good for the environment.
@@javierpacheco8234 Yeah I didn’t particularly like it when I first saw it either
I absolutely love these videos. Informative, just the right amount of detail, excellent presentation, no agenda. THIS is what media should look like.
One of the most professional looking videos from you guys yet! The quality keeps getting better and better
They should have turned that office in to a medium income high rise apartments
That's what I thought too. Office work can also be done in apartments or from home.
Medium income in city of London? 😂 Good one
It would be expensive
We have figured out how to make things every expensive, why can't we find was to make something of a good quality for the middle income?
Best channel ever! I love architecture, engineering, and everything here. And this channel pumps out high quality content! Never stop!
You got skills, BIM, revit skills, or real skills?
Create or trash skills?
Never stop trashing the neighborhood!
Why you cry quality? are you mad?
Your quality of good architecture is trash.
The overall quality and visual fidelity of this video certainly exceeds what you would see on history channel, nat geo etc. Keep up the good work!
Construction really is one of the forefronts of human ingenuity, spirit and achievement.
I love this channel, it's always inspiring and interesting, a rare combo.
Excellent video, learnt so much about construction in just 10 minutes.
Wow, this is an impressive build. It's amazing how much digital technological advancements are improving building. Great video!
digital technological advancements?
what did you meant, autocat? or the Revit barcode system? BIM? what did you call improved here?
You need skills badly, just install Autodesk, Revit etc, import the blue prints. Forget the barcodes!
impressive corrupt investors building it is, are you expat skum in London too?
Absolutely love this channel. Very much looking forward to seeing this awesome building next time I’m in London.
Gradjevine su impresivne.Svaka cast proektantima i izvodjacima radova.😍
I don't really see the "Gotham City" on that building. Are there measures to prevent destruction of historical artefacts in the excavated ground?
Thats what I thought, too. And a lot of historic buildings musst have been torn down for it.
“Gotham” city is named that because of the neogothic style architecture of many of the buildings. There is nothing neogothic about this particular design. Also, I think 1930’s and think Art Decco. Nothing to suggest that here.
@@gojewla it's not a Gotham city skyscraper. He calls it Gotham city becuase of the night time but the style is art deco or neo gothic which are much more beautiful than a modern one.
evil people! Gotham City!
who needs this investors crap? BIM and Revit, why that China crap?
The fact that we get free documentaries on CZcams by The B1M is truly a gift 👍
Thank you, you're reinvigorating my love of architecture, and in this video, reminded me of why I love London.
I retired from construction little over two years ago. Thanks Fred for keep showing me something new that’s going on out there!
Shiny soulless Boxes. Is this the new headquarter of INGSOC Ministry of Loves
Building tall so must be good.
Why do people still think like this?
@@cholloway0046 Because it's efficient, land is finite.
1. Land is finite (virtually).
2. This is anything but efficient.
@@CrankyHermit What about Beauty
@@Aeternuss Thank you for that -- and precisely to the point. INGSOC and our elitist real-world equivalents must undermine and devalue our natural love of beauty, to kill individuality and maintain control.
Loving the Batman theme at 0:59, great editing
To bad this is not a Gotham city skyscraper.
Walked past this building site just the other day and wondered what on earth was being built.
And then Fred comes along with a video explaining all. Perfect.
Love it when you’re on site for the videos. You sound extra enthusiastic and you look like you’re having the time of your life!
Haha, thanks! Was mostly pleased to be out of the house after lockdown
Can you hear yourself? The new mega-huge skyscraper, to entice people to go back to the workplace? Is that REALLY the best use of a new building in the center of the city? The city, where so many people working there, cannot actually afford to live.
Yeah, should've been mixed-use including affordable residential units.
I was thinking the same thing. New office space isn't what society needs.
London needs more affordable housing. I know lots of people that would love to be able to affordable rent in zone 1 and 2
LMFAOO yeah I was thinking I was hearing it wrong but no
I would love to see a series of going through all the future and already-built skyscrapers seen in London, Its such a wonderful place, every time I visit there are a number of new skyscrapers 😂
There’s another 6 that are almost ready to start plus this one and another 2 just rising with possibly a 10th if planning authorise it and that is the Tulip which will be an amazing building. The tallest will be 1 Undershaft aka The Lattice 😉
@@dannyward673 Just evil bankers, wall street Brexit skum investors are ugly people!
Why the China Revit BIM crap?????
I think @cheddar has a video on that!
Hey Fred, great vid as always, very lucky to have the privilege of being a subscriber and enjoying your content. I also like the fact that you have a knack for releasing vids on my lunch break! 👍🏻😄
Hands down the best channel I ever subscribed to. Excellent work guys!
Amazing! Would be great to see a video on Toronto's construction boom!
it'll be great to see Toronto even more gentrified that it already is. Complete with unnocuppied luxury appartments and mansions constructed for real estate money that don't live in them.
This particular project looks a lot like The Well in Toronto. The Well is much better executed though.
@@vistarox I agree, I saw the resemblance immediately. There are a lot of cool projects going on in Toronto
I absolutely love this channel. I'm an architecture nerd and have always been curious about big construction and how its done at scale, and the B1M really scratches an itch I never knew I had. Thanks Fred and the team for all the work you do, great content!
Great video. Looking forward to seeing this building completed
Great video, thanks The B1M. I lived and worked in London or years and have not been back in over 15 years so the skyline really has changed.
Massive hole in London also known as tottenham's trophy cabinet
Oooof.
They need fans to spur them on.
Very good video . Very professional. Keep up the good work . Much appreciation from Pakistan.
Fred has the coolest job in the building world…he gets to go to all the newest, greatest projects and get up-close, insider views and reviews. He then puts together among the most interesting and insightful (and perhaps, most important) videos on CZcams. Kudos!
Please do more on how various buildings are built! I absolutely loved learning more about that here.
a gotham city skyscraper would be 20s style art deco. this looks like a glass attrocity
Yup. Zero artistic talent.
They are trying to be like an American city or the Real Gotham which is obviously NY
0:07 "This skyscraper is going to rise above my head in the coming years"
😏
great video and work.. love that you're getting out onsite for these videos! :)
Can't wait for the building to be finished ...... looks awesome !!!
Awesome video as usual. Could you do a video about the "the Link” tower in Paris, la Defense, which will become the biggest skyscraper in France ?
I doubt the Link will ever happen.
@@LV-426... they actually started construction. Previous building already demolished ! Soon foundation
i never thought i would find construction this cool, but you've managed to do it lol
Seriously this channel's content is just so awesome
Very informative and interesting watch, B1M doing the biz!
Wish the estimated cost was mentioned at some point. Also would've been interesting see the estimated cost with and without each new construction technology mentioned.
I love the design, but if they used a stone facade rather than glass (or even a stone look plastic facade) then it would be even better. Right now it looks like another glass box, and while that's impressive. We have one of them in 22 bishopsgate.
Fred allways shows one of best youtube contents on engineering!!
i have exactly 0 connections to architecture, construction or anything similar, yet this channel has made and has been making so interesting, yet easy-to-understand videos that even i am hooked.
Really excited to see this new skyscraper
Looks incredible!
its a freaking box
B1M You guys just never miss, make a video on Melbourne skyscrapers!
Would love that!!
@@donaldstanfield8862 yesssss
Great content! Would love to see more vids on historical buildings!
I look forward every week to see something amazing from this channel. everything is just so astonishingly great knowledge to know what futures would be like ,in transportation and architectures. I love it and I can listen too Fred's dreamy accent all day and beyond. Sooo beautifully soothing too my ears ❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️
Not sure retail space and good lighting are incentivizing enough to leave the comfort of working from home.
It really is a twentieth century project.
@@fredfredrickson5436 It certainly has the outlook of a twentieth century executive who thinks people want fancy offices and views over work life balance and time with family.
from what I understand, they are trying to make a more comfortable work environment that will help keep people focused on work instead of wanting to be back home. Though I can easily see this becoming like the major airliners, brand new spacious interior, cram it with more seats instead of leg space.
@@mykeh3155 Advertising rhetoric.
Firstly, Awesome video?
The interesting thing is, how these developers are still proceeding with a commercial building in these times, here in South Africa our shift has been towards Residential with many businesses working from home, and will be so for the foreseeable future.
Love this channel, keep up the good work.
Absolutely loved this video, but the true highlight is the fact that Fred literally got a B1M hardhat and vest! Love that touch.
Not convinced the City "needs" another new big tower right now, but perhaps by 2023 it will. Who knows. Nevertheless, I like the sleek understated design. The broken up forms really do help it to blend in more. Unlike some other recent towers around it! Well done Make.
Hope we can put this virus behind us soon - all the best from usa!
Not if you keep those communist dictator pro vaccine liberals in office
@@thenotoriousc8846- bet you never left the US have you mate, do you even have a passport??
@@thenotoriousc8846 can you even get into london? pretty sure theyd send you back home mr anti vaxx
@@AW-lq9bf awe cute the liberal soy boys chimed in. I actually used to work in London - had my own office in that shithole. I live in California on the coast and the weather is perfect year round while I’m staring at the beach here in Newport. Remember that britts
You know it’s going to be a good video when it’s got Fred talking about a “massive hole” in the first few seconds 🤩
Enjoyed watching, Thank you!
Love the in person interviews!
5:32 I never thought about the pressure surrounding skyscrapers would exert on the ground. I find this fascinating. I'll be looking for ways this concept shows up in other disciplines like medicine for instance (med student here). Thank you for making such knowledge so easy to access and giving us things to chew on. 🥰
That medicine weighs upon the buildings around it?! lol
This channel is fantastic
Thanks!
B1M is great. following them from the first
keep it up
Beautiful design, awesome project! Looking forward to seeing the completion. 👌🏼
I want to play a city game whre there's an option to build your own structure :))
Simcity buildit? Or cities: skylines
@@willcolman6948these are city building games, not structure building games
@@alfie2891 I want a game that can do both...I hope there's a perfect game like that
does get to the point where its tedious
Knock yourself out, gameboi
When the engineers finally have robots that will build their vision for them they will finally be able to justifiably take all the credit for these “modern marvels “ but until then this is just mostly the work of the tradesmen who put in their manual labor to build these.
Wow. London just keeps getting better and better
Love the onsite footage keep up the great work guys.
Very interesting. The money involved in the construction of Gotham City must be astronomical, taking into consideration a global pandemic and its effect on businesses worldwide, this project is questionable, at best. The construction aspect is cutting edge, however.
GeneralBrandonLee
The Gothems evil investors need Revit and BIM, build Chinese Slave Cities!
cutting edge of evil crap it is! FCK the evil investors and banking skum!
What an amazing construction 🤩
@Hello Alexander Carder, How are you doing?
@@lydiaanderson4020 Lydia, I adore that name 😉☺️😘
@@lydiaanderson4020 and as for your question 🤔 I’m pretty ok 👌
@@alexandercarder2281 sorry
Really good video
Also the real time information modelling is amazing
This channel really got me into architecture.
The Empire State Building is an Art Deco design, not Neo-Gothic
destination offices? Neo-Gothic?
i would call this Jeff Besos design, block all culture!
evil office space!
I find both styles hard te seein the building. Looks pretty generic and like the international style.