The Steinway Tower: The Skinniest Skyscraper in the World

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Komentáře • 713

  • @megaprojects9649
    @megaprojects9649  Před rokem +19

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    • @rachelblake2350
      @rachelblake2350 Před rokem

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    • @meetoo594
      @meetoo594 Před rokem

      @@pingpong7810 free willy? oh wait, im naked already...

  • @GODEYE270115
    @GODEYE270115 Před rokem +229

    3ft sway in something that tall? Hats off to whoever lives in the top floors. They’re more brave than I could ever be

    • @davidwright7193
      @davidwright7193 Před rokem +29

      1m isn’t much sway on a building that tall. I lived on the 23rd floor of a sky scraper in Astana and that swayed more than that in winter storms. You could see the curtains moving in the windows.

    • @bobfg3130
      @bobfg3130 Před rokem

      @Saffron-Terrorism(trends top on internet)
      If you believe that bs you're in fot a surprise.

    • @erroltheterrible
      @erroltheterrible Před rokem +18

      How do you walk on a floor that moves by 1m?! The penthouse should have hammocks instead of beds!

    • @tomtheplummer7322
      @tomtheplummer7322 Před rokem +9

      You would never feel it.

    • @stevenr5149
      @stevenr5149 Před rokem +24

      A billionaire buys this for a novelty and investment, or for a place to stay when visiting NYC. I bet less than 25% of those apartments have people living in them full time.
      Yes a billionaire can buy a 20 million apt and not even miss the money.

  • @AndyanaJones
    @AndyanaJones Před rokem +357

    Please do a video on Seabed2030, the megaproject to map 100% of the ocean floor by 2030. Such a cool project and not getting nearly the attention it deserves.

    • @viktor_v-ughnda_vaudville_476
      @viktor_v-ughnda_vaudville_476 Před rokem +9

      Def sounds interesting

    • @slymarbo4046
      @slymarbo4046 Před rokem +1

      This

    • @aceundead4750
      @aceundead4750 Před rokem +6

      Is that still being done? It's been so long since i heard about it that i thought it had been abandoned

    • @kevinsierra482
      @kevinsierra482 Před rokem +5

      isnt there a similar project to map like the amazon and all the lost temples/civilizations?

    • @aceundead4750
      @aceundead4750 Před rokem +6

      @@kevinsierra482 last i heard about a project like that was when a group of archeologists tried to claim a Canadian kids find as their own after claiming that he hadnt found anything, all because the archeologists were butthurt by the fact a kid using widely available software was able to find a sturcture that had avoided their detection for so many years

  • @Dank-gb6jn
    @Dank-gb6jn Před rokem +119

    2:05 is when the video truly starts.

    • @matthewwebster3143
      @matthewwebster3143 Před rokem +16

      Not all heroes wear capes!

    • @Dank-gb6jn
      @Dank-gb6jn Před rokem +5

      @@matthewwebster3143 thank you sir!

    • @tsbrownie
      @tsbrownie Před rokem +4

      @Matthew Webster I saw a documentary about superheroes and capes were deleted from all uniforms by their uniform supplier. ;)

    • @davidwood9966
      @davidwood9966 Před rokem

      Although it was fun watching him drink that green stuff too.

    • @joselenyoung
      @joselenyoung Před měsícem

      True.
      That said I even recommend to straight get to 2:40 👀 tbh …

  • @user-dg9pu4pe9d
    @user-dg9pu4pe9d Před rokem +124

    Cutting corners is always a sound building practice. Nothing ever goes wrong. Just ask the Millennium Tower.

    • @Greg-yu4ij
      @Greg-yu4ij Před rokem +11

      After their financial success it bugs me that they didn’t take care of their workers

    • @milk-it
      @milk-it Před rokem +2

      🤣 Too true!

    • @leroy420b
      @leroy420b Před rokem +5

      Yeah it would be super sad if all those billionaires building happened to fall down with them in it 🤣

    • @wendalboy
      @wendalboy Před rokem +5

      so true - ask the grenfell residents - shocking on a building of this scale

    • @schwarzerritter5724
      @schwarzerritter5724 Před rokem

      If you don't cut corners, you couldn't afford to build at all.
      Everyone can build a bridge that stands, it takes an engineer to build a bridge that barely stands.

  • @SuperPerfectMan
    @SuperPerfectMan Před rokem +24

    69% of the video is an ad

  • @sweetpeaz61
    @sweetpeaz61 Před rokem +17

    There is absolutely NO FREEKING WAY you would get me high up in that thing...3 Ft sway = just no way

    • @alisondale979
      @alisondale979 Před rokem +2

      Concur. Hell no!

    • @TitularHeroine
      @TitularHeroine Před rokem +1

      You couldn't even get me into the elevator much less the topmost floors.
      .....without the promise of Scooby Snacks.

    • @jpdemer5
      @jpdemer5 Před rokem +1

      Probably too slow a motion to even be noticed.

  • @ericmason349
    @ericmason349 Před rokem +65

    It is amazing how listening to this video of the skinniest skyscraper increases my anxiety of acrophobia. Between the labor practices (dealing with NYC unions would have been a nightmare also) and the questionable building inspectors I would not have any faith in the integrity of the building.

    • @tomtheplummer7322
      @tomtheplummer7322 Před rokem +4

      A trip to CN tower in Toronto might not help...or maybe it will cure you. The external elevator, clear floor and an outdoor hike about the observation deck might do the trick.

    • @BlackDoveNYC
      @BlackDoveNYC Před rokem +14

      How would dealing with unions been a nightmare? Because they’d be able to get paid what they’re worth? Because they’d have the right to insist on safety? Or perhaps the fact that they’d have the training and expertise to do the job?

  • @robertasirgutz8800
    @robertasirgutz8800 Před rokem +9

    Tragic. As a lifelong resident of NYC, I've had the pleasure of attending a concert at Steinway Hall, celebrating the partnership of my husband, with another dentist. His wife was performing.
    I love this town, and to see these grotesque projects keep cropping up, especially in light of the crisis of affordable housing,
    is very depressing.

    • @Menstral
      @Menstral Před rokem

      Virtue signaling nitwit

    • @robertasirgutz8800
      @robertasirgutz8800 Před rokem

      @@Menstral Amazing. What about offering a comment of your own? I guess it's more fun to insult others with a rude
      reply.

    • @Nuvendil
      @Nuvendil Před 11 měsíci +1

      If you're upset about housing affordability, your anger is quite misdirected if it's aimed at these buildings. The problem in NYC is that the regulatory enviornment that permitted it's growth, prosperity, and made it a melting pot for people from all walks of life has been replaced by the same controlling, restrictive, and downright destructive framework that has a stranglehold on US cities everywhere. So long as all of that remains in place, the issues will contine. And they will get worse. Even if you blocked every single construction project of this type.

    • @Johnny2Feathers
      @Johnny2Feathers Před 15 dny

      @Menstral you comment deleter !

  • @stewpacalypse7104
    @stewpacalypse7104 Před rokem +6

    If "Let them eat cake." was made into a building.

  • @rogaineablar5608
    @rogaineablar5608 Před rokem +5

    No way in hell would I live in something that tall. Imagine a fire drill or actual fire evacuation? And then there's the wind thing...

  • @Vile_old_Bastard_3545
    @Vile_old_Bastard_3545 Před rokem +23

    I lived on the 22nd floor in a tower block in Woolwich in 1987 and when the hurricane hit I felt the swaying when I woke up. The light fitting was also swaying. It was a bit scary but I fell back to sleep 5 minutes later and the rest was history.

  • @PatMcCarthy420
    @PatMcCarthy420 Před rokem +8

    You don't have to be in a union to qualify for overtime. It's federal law that anyone who works over 40 hours in a week automatically qualifies for OT. I'm sure the state of New York offers overtime and workers' compensation to undocumented workers as well.

    • @jameswilson5165
      @jameswilson5165 Před rokem +1

      Yep. Illegal alien non-profit groups were probably all over this. Someone pocketed a lot of that money.

    • @Ecosse57
      @Ecosse57 Před rokem +4

      there you go ruining the narrative.

    • @Ashannon888
      @Ashannon888 Před rokem +1

      YOu're right but if a lot of the workers are undocumented, they might not know. PLus even if they do, their bosses might tell them , "As k for overtime/benefits and you'll be on the first train back to Mexico"

    • @Johnny2Feathers
      @Johnny2Feathers Před 15 dny

      When I drove for FedEx , anything over over 8 hours a day was OT. Not the law but it should be.

  • @ABentPaperclip
    @ABentPaperclip Před rokem +8

    wow, so a super tall skyscraper built _specifically_ for the ultra rich was built by exploiting the ultra-poor. i am SHOCKED. shocked i tell you.

  • @robsquared2
    @robsquared2 Před rokem +229

    It is pretty impressive. What would be more impressive? Affordable houses during a massive housing shortage.

    • @republicoftexas3261
      @republicoftexas3261 Před rokem

      No housing for us! Seems to be the sentiment. If you don't have a high wage dual income I hope you like one bedroom apartments in bad areas. Oh and they'll be old apartments. Only the government subsidized non workers or the wealthy get the new apartments.

    • @oke518
      @oke518 Před rokem +25

      A building built using unethical practices for people with more money than is By any stretch of the imagination reasonable. Just what New York City needed.

    • @SF-eo6xf
      @SF-eo6xf Před rokem +20

      There is no housong shortage. You all just want to live at the center.

    • @flakgun153
      @flakgun153 Před rokem

      Affordable housing is just a scam for taxpayers to get fucked.
      What we need is a shitloads of market rate housing.
      Studies show that subsidized housing doesn't reduce gentrification or prices but market rate housing actually does.

    • @republicoftexas3261
      @republicoftexas3261 Před rokem +23

      @@flakgun153 I definitely don't want subsidized housing. I just want somebody to build small houses on tiny plots of land so that we have starter homes. Those don't exist anymore. Now the smallest thing anyone builds is a 4 bedroom with a 2 car garage.

  • @fredorman2429
    @fredorman2429 Před rokem +42

    I expect to see the Steinway tower on a future “great engineering disasters” video.

    • @somedude4805
      @somedude4805 Před rokem +8

      Same, but out of spite. I just enjoy seeing vanity projects fail spectacularly. I'm not an "eat the rich" type, but I do enjoy when narcissistic elitists lose.

    • @sayuas4293
      @sayuas4293 Před rokem +4

      you mean if that thing collapses? It'd take a significant chunk of manhattan with it

    • @seand67
      @seand67 Před rokem +1

      Exactly

    • @moeinnowrouzi
      @moeinnowrouzi Před 10 měsíci

      Why do you admire them when China and UAE build skyscrapers (while they were built by enslaved Bangladeshi immigrants and without wages), but when it is built in America, you hate it and wish for its destruction?

  • @jacara1981
    @jacara1981 Před rokem +6

    1%: I'm not going to pay unions for their work
    Also 1%: HEY why is my building falling apart?

    • @ephennell4ever
      @ephennell4ever Před rokem

      Just because it's 'Union', it's structurally sound? And having a piece of paper with "P.H.D." on it makes you smart, of course! Jeez ...

    • @MrTexasDan
      @MrTexasDan Před rokem

      Right, unions guarantee quality?
      NY unions guarantee apathy, organized crime, and high cost.

  • @lonebison
    @lonebison Před rokem +2

    Even with all the obstacles that went into building this tower it's truly an engineering marvel in my humble opinion. Every time I go to NYC I make it a point to see it up close as it was being built and now that it's finished it's amazing to see in person. Love the retro style of the of the terracotta and the preservation of the Steinway Hall. Sunlight makes different patterns of shadows and colors during the course of the day. Gorgeous!

  • @Justwantahover
    @Justwantahover Před rokem +4

    10:47 I was cleaning the windows of a newly refurbished high building in Brisbane (like 14 stories up). I was cleaning the inside windows of the building when a window fell out of the building (that broke loose) and fell down with a loud thud (just a few meters from a woman and baby in a stroller). After which was a big investigation. But I already knew what the problem was. Plastic fittings instead of metal ones. It easily broke due to age. All the window fittings would have to have been replaced (hopefully NOT with plastic fittings). A lot of windows. They were swing-around windows allowing the outside of the window to be cleaned inside (I swung the window around and it went down). Good idea for cleaning outside but the material for the pivot sucked. Why make it out of plastic? What were they thinking?

  • @serephita
    @serephita Před rokem +9

    The fact that it sways up to 3ft each way is enough to give me a huge amount of anxiety. I doubt I'd be able to be in there, the motion would give me vertigo.

    • @Narangarath
      @Narangarath Před rokem +3

      The slight sway of my 20 story building is plenty to be nerve tickling in high winds, I absolutely can not imagine living with a 3ft sway. That is such a big nope.

    • @sydneyfong
      @sydneyfong Před rokem +2

      As a Hong Konger that used to live on the 22nd floor of an apartment building and familiar with the regular seasonal typhoons, I can definitely attest to that. Even a couple inches of sway feels a bit disorienting.

    • @serephita
      @serephita Před rokem

      @@Narangarath I remember in I think it was 2019? when we had a 4th of July earthquake here in Vegas, like 30 seconds before it started I thought I was falling sideways. It was terrifying

  • @ActressNikiHart
    @ActressNikiHart Před rokem +62

    I rarely care about architecture, but this building is an eyesore in a beautiful city

    • @jXmikeX
      @jXmikeX Před rokem +3

      It's terrible

    • @brolohalflemming7042
      @brolohalflemming7042 Před rokem +5

      I get the feeling it won't be around for long. Especially given the construction practices and corner cutting. Downside is most of the victims aren't likely to be residents, because these are investments, not homes.

    • @two-bit8502
      @two-bit8502 Před rokem

      They don't go to that city.

    • @SnifferSock
      @SnifferSock Před rokem +14

      New York beautiful? Maybe at skyscraper height 😂

    • @rubiconnn
      @rubiconnn Před rokem +3

      @annefrankvapepen2064 lol it's always been terrible people.

  • @lucasjames7524
    @lucasjames7524 Před rokem +43

    If I had the money to buy one of those apartments, the last place I'd want to live is NYC. I'd have a massive estate in the country and nobody would ever see me.

    • @kennixox262
      @kennixox262 Před rokem +16

      People who buy in those buildings already have large estates, country homes, other apartments, yachts, Worldwide. This is just another place to stay but mostly these are places to stash money.

    • @anix712
      @anix712 Před rokem +4

      @@kennixox262 Exactly this. As Simon mentioned towards the end of the video, most of these apartments will NEVER be lived in. At best they may be "stayed at" a few days a year while their owner's in town, but even that's unlikely.

    • @michaelwhalen2442
      @michaelwhalen2442 Před 5 měsíci

      Yep! And no more than one story high. That way, its' not much of a problem if you fall out the window.

    • @joevecchio4687
      @joevecchio4687 Před 14 dny

      Thank god

  • @boris2342
    @boris2342 Před rokem +6

    That thing will blow over in a stiff wind ( LOL )

  • @ignitionfrn2223
    @ignitionfrn2223 Před rokem +5

    3:10 - Chapter 1 - History & design
    6:40 - Chapter 2 - The build
    11:25 - Chapter 3 - The finished product

  • @feekalphabeet9217
    @feekalphabeet9217 Před rokem +5

    Sounds like the tower is truly symbolic for the social & cultural situation in the US.

  • @russellfitzpatrick503
    @russellfitzpatrick503 Před rokem +9

    Is the big red structure, on the one side of the tower, actually meant to be there ... and is it a piece of scaffolding left over from the build, a crutch ... or the emergency stairway?

    • @kennixox262
      @kennixox262 Před rokem +7

      A crane that has already been removed.

  • @lovro4744
    @lovro4744 Před rokem +7

    Maybe do a mega project video on a big budget film like, LOTR of avatar or like the old Ben Hur. That would be interesting to see.

  • @sp3lllz
    @sp3lllz Před rokem +5

    its funny cause from the few people i know that live in NYC almost all newyorkers hate this thing

  • @TitularHeroine
    @TitularHeroine Před rokem +8

    Hi, Simon; Interesting episode! I'd like to suggest a Megaprojects vid about Long Now, the mechanical (ie not electronic) clock that's meant to run for thousands of years. Thank you!

  • @patrickdurham8393
    @patrickdurham8393 Před rokem +12

    Can't wait for Plainly Difficult to document this disaster waiting to happen. Simon talks them up and Plainly dissects the remains.

    • @janelleamber
      @janelleamber Před rokem +1

      Even if I were a billionaire I would never buy that thing!
      It can split off anytime

    • @janelleamber
      @janelleamber Před rokem +1

      Merry Christmas to you and happy new year in advance

    • @janelleamber
      @janelleamber Před rokem

      I would
      LOVE TO KNOW YOU BETTER THAT'S IF YOU DON'T MIND LEAVING ME A REPLY

  • @somedude4805
    @somedude4805 Před rokem +3

    Simon should do an episode on Lake Point Tower in Chicago. It's the only residential address east of Lake Shore Drive, and it's construction was fraudulent from it's very conception. It's another one of those places where rent starts at 5 figures per month.

  • @garimasinghkilpatrickart

    Love your content. So well researched. My husband just showed me an older video on your channel, where the artwork on the wall behind you is more clearly visible. It is so beautiful. If it's not too much trouble, could you please share the name and details of the artist? Thank you!

  • @Rambl3On
    @Rambl3On Před rokem +12

    I love how they incorporated modern art deco elements to the building. Brings back some old new your design

    • @RoySATX
      @RoySATX Před 3 měsíci

      I agree, although snobby Simon and the other commentors here would say we are horrible people for liking the building.

  • @eaphantom9214
    @eaphantom9214 Před rokem +4

    Lol 😂
    Even if I were a billionaire, I wouldn't buy a penthouse in that thing.
    It looks so unstable and could split in half at any moment!

  • @spencerwiltse2855
    @spencerwiltse2855 Před rokem +22

    If this isn't the most American construction project ever

    • @dudepool7530
      @dudepool7530 Před rokem +2

      Damn, you beat me to it.
      My question though: where the hell are all the "liberal progressives" in NY to stand up for the poor Mexicans?

    • @RCAvhstape
      @RCAvhstape Před rokem +1

      @@dudepool7530 They're all up in that tower they built, thinking of new ways to restrict you and make you poorer.

    • @dudepool7530
      @dudepool7530 Před rokem

      @@RCAvhstape pretty sure at that level of power, Left and right are meaningless.
      As for everyone else...Left wing, right wing, they're all tantrum throwing children.

  • @makeracistsafraidagain
    @makeracistsafraidagain Před rokem +14

    An engineering marvel, no doubt.
    But I wouldn’t trade my regular house for one of those apartments. My backyard has opossums, raccoons and especially skunks. We have fruit trees and roses and Christmas lights up. I wouldn’t be happy without those things.

    • @jmchez
      @jmchez Před rokem

      I have all of those critters in my yard and I can see the Steinway tower if I climb on my roof. Yes, I live right across the river in New Jersey.

    • @RCAvhstape
      @RCAvhstape Před rokem +3

      Steinway Tower has skunks living in it, so there's that.

  • @phdtobe
    @phdtobe Před rokem +1

    I consider it an utter music history tragedy of epic proportions that the Steinway & Sons store was destroyed in order for this toothpick of a skyscraper to be built.

    • @3markaw
      @3markaw Před rokem +2

      It was not destroyed. Where do you get your information ? Steinway moved the showroom but the Steinway building and Steinway Hall is still there.

    • @phdtobe
      @phdtobe Před rokem +1

      @@3markaw Phew! I thought they destroyed it to make room for that space needle.

  • @cikame
    @cikame Před rokem +1

    That picture of it cutting through the park makes me sad

  • @baylorairbear
    @baylorairbear Před rokem +2

    I already have (admittedly irrational) fear of skyscrapers. No way I could set foot in this wafer.

  • @MikeBaxterABC
    @MikeBaxterABC Před rokem +2

    12:00 .. did anyo0ne else notice the door handles are a replica of the building itself!
    Awesome Iove it!

  • @greyfriars6540
    @greyfriars6540 Před 15 dny

    An elegant building and engineering feat, but I'll admire it from a distance through a pair of binoculars.

  • @gradyeger313
    @gradyeger313 Před rokem

    I just came across this video today. Something about the name seemed very familiar. I reached out to my father about the building and I guess our family's manufacturing company was the one who made all the doors for the complex. And my father stated during one of his trips to the building that he actually had to work on the entryway to the penthouse. Really really cool building and cool to find out that my family has a little part in that complex every time the door opens. I have been a long time subscriber of the channel and really appreciate all the incredible videos your team produces.

  • @waverod9275
    @waverod9275 Před rokem +6

    It's almost as though, by trying to build it on the cheap, the builders had issues with quality.....

  • @eliezra6098
    @eliezra6098 Před rokem

    Excellent video. Thank you

  • @ggrreeggy
    @ggrreeggy Před rokem +2

    so when you bend a paperclip over and over it will break. What is the time for the sway to do the same to this building/

  • @aceundead4750
    @aceundead4750 Před rokem +3

    Still holding out for a Megaprojects video on the Galileo Project

  • @Ayamechan1113
    @Ayamechan1113 Před rokem +2

    I hope every billionaire who lives there gets seasick in their gilded age themed ultra luxury condos.

    • @anix712
      @anix712 Před rokem

      That would imply they ever actually spent any time living there. They won't.

  • @modulator7861
    @modulator7861 Před rokem +3

    Alas, these new ultra-tall buildings are the *Skinny Jeans* of Architecture. But a cautionary tale:
    10+ years ago, I saw some hip young skate punks wearing Levi's skinny jeans at the local Skatepark where I used to take my kids. I liked the overall look - so I bought some skinny jeans, and shoehorned myself into them. They were slimming - and surprisingly stretchy (due to recent advances in elastic fabrics) - so I figured I could rock the look... However, the challenging physics of my Size 37 ass disagreed... I spent all the next day at the office trying to hide 3-4" of exposed ass-crack.
    In short, just because recent advances in engineering and materials science makes something possible, doesn't mean it's a good idea.

  • @mikefarough8806
    @mikefarough8806 Před rokem +4

    Requesting the Glencor Kidd Mine in Timmins Ontario, deepest mine below sea level.

  • @J3scribe
    @J3scribe Před rokem +3

    Skyscrapers have been shedding exterior cladding on pedestrians since they were developed in the 1800s. The Standard Oil building in Chicago (now the Aeon tower) dropped huge chunks of its Italian marble exterior because that Mediterranean marble did not react well to the temperature swings of Chicago's climate. Remarkably, the same Italian marble that was used to clad the Grande Arche in Paris reacted the same way, 20 years after the lessons learned by the Standard Oil building in Chicago. Lesson learned: If you live in a city, avoid living in a city. lol

    • @aodhganmerrimac
      @aodhganmerrimac Před rokem

      Add to that Boston's John Hancock tower-we called it the Plywood Ranch, all the windows kept popping out & the whole were patched with plywood. The whole damn thing could have collapsed at one point & the public was never told. The had to install a giant concrete counter weight to dampen the sway!

  • @EmilyJelassi
    @EmilyJelassi Před rokem +3

    Fascinating video! I don’t care what engineers say, buildings and bridges shouldn’t sway!!

  • @stewiewonder2601
    @stewiewonder2601 Před měsícem

    From the architectural point of view it's simply beautiful - so is their Brooklyn Tower. Especially compared to latest addition to NYC skyline, One Vanderbilt and Chase headquarters, it's good to see there's some good architecture happening once in a while. But hearing about workers not getting paid, or getting paid the minimum, for apartments sold for so much money, is just beyond my comprehension. I think we all need revolution.

  • @CHMichael
    @CHMichael Před rokem +3

    How far does the top floor swing in 40mph winds? (13:08) People get seasick in normal skyscrapers.
    I bet only 10 units are occupied.
    But it looks really cool

  • @littlejon2683
    @littlejon2683 Před rokem +2

    I just don't understand why you'd want to live in that place for that much.

  • @joevecchio4687
    @joevecchio4687 Před 14 dny

    I’m on the 40th floor at 56 and first and admire this building from my balcony
    I always wondered what the story is behind it

  • @stevec404
    @stevec404 Před rokem +1

    A 'sway' of up to three feet?! I'm getting my deposit back!

  • @adamstein2054
    @adamstein2054 Před rokem

    All this time I’ve been taking vitamins when I should have been taking vitamins

  • @naswinger
    @naswinger Před rokem +2

    a project of 2 billion dollars and probably a ridiculous profit margin, but they still had to rip off workers and commit various kinds of fraud. i guess that's how one gets rich.

  • @dylanb3431
    @dylanb3431 Před rokem

    When is the episode of megaprojects: all of Simon's CZcams channels?

  • @dreytucker4464
    @dreytucker4464 Před rokem

    I really enjoy this Chanel, nothing against this video but I love the military videos. Thanks for all the content.

  • @alistairmcelwee7467
    @alistairmcelwee7467 Před rokem +1

    So, if there’s a fire, and mostly, no one above the 6th floor can be within reach of fire departments, what happens if you are in some enormously high floor?

    • @gallakochar4245
      @gallakochar4245 Před 6 měsíci

      ⛳️No fire in those apartment as those billionaire owners don’t cook at home.. lol 😅😅

  • @theemissary1313
    @theemissary1313 Před rokem +1

    Yeah, getting vertigo just looking at it!

  • @jetsons101
    @jetsons101 Před rokem +2

    What a creepy place to live, a three-foot sway. I think I'll stick to my SFH in the suburbs. Thanks to Simon and team for posting.....

    • @pavelow235
      @pavelow235 Před rokem

      @FN-1701AgentGodzillaRangerPrime Ω Cities 🤣

    • @jetsons101
      @jetsons101 Před rokem

      @FN-1701AgentGodzillaRangerPrime Ω Suburbs, a front yard, back yead and side yards. Getting with neighbors and shooting off fireworks for the fourth of July, having "driveway BBQ's" New Years Eve with neighbors and setting off firecrackers and midnight and so on. Have a great day.....

    • @davidwright7193
      @davidwright7193 Před rokem +1

      @@jetsons101 American suburbs? Little boxes made of ticky tacky that all look just the same and are cooking the planet? Personally I would rather live in a Kruschevskya at least there my kids have a playground in walking distance (if not 3 or 4) and there is a grocery shop on the ground floor so I won’t starve to death without a car.

    • @jetsons101
      @jetsons101 Před rokem

      @@davidwright7193 You sound like one sad angry little man. You must say "Oh mommy, he lives different than us--He's bad" Our house is not little, it's not a box and it's custom built---a unique look. As for "cooking the planet" bitch to china and India for burning more coal and everyone else put together. I worked to buy a SFH, If you want to live in a tower block fine. If you want to take a bus fine, if I drive a car fine. Get off your mommy's lap, go outside, get some sun and grow a pair and go and live your life and quit bitching to everyone that lives different. Merry Christmas and Happy New Year.....

    • @davidwright7193
      @davidwright7193 Před rokem

      @@jetsons101 ah yes just because I know what a Kruschevskya is and would rather live in one than your “custom designed” little box of ticky tacky in a car dependent hell scape with no shops, cafes, schools, playgrounds, parks, theatres, or even cinemas within walking distance I must be angry.
      I once lived for 3 years in a tower block and mainly lived in houses or bungalows but I have never lived without having basic amenities within walking distance. I strongly suspect that I have seen much more of the world than you have living in your racist isolation.
      It must be living in an isolating environment with no social amenities that is wrecking your mental health. Try going out and using those appendages on the bottom of your body, oh you can’t because you have chosen to have to pollute the environment any time you do anything.

  • @The1stDukeDroklar
    @The1stDukeDroklar Před rokem +2

    Anyone that's worked in construction knows that union work is of a higher quality than non-union work. The fact they used non-union workers on this project means I would not live there if it were free.

  • @---l---
    @---l--- Před rokem +1

    I enjoyed the dramatic prediction of such foolish and stupid buildings.
    High-Rise is a 2015 British dystopian film directed by Ben Wheatley from a screenplay by Amy Jump, based on the 1975 novel of the same name by British writer J. G. Ballard.[4] The film stars Tom Hiddleston, Jeremy Irons, Sienna Miller, Luke Evans and Elisabeth Moss.[5] It was produced by Jeremy Thomas through his production company Recorded Picture Company.
    Via Wikipedia

  • @ebw16256
    @ebw16256 Před rokem +1

    Crazy how people lived stacked up like that.

  • @chuck1prillaman
    @chuck1prillaman Před rokem +1

    This building will be knocked down before its even 10 years old. A 60 ft wide tower full of Billionaires? Quite the target.

  • @anthonyC214
    @anthonyC214 Před rokem +36

    You forgot to mention how much in bribe money to City officials had to be paid to even start the project. It is too tall and casts a shadow over Central Park which in violation of the zoning codes
    By the way, the building moves so much that most of the times the elevators do not work as the safety switches shut down the system in high winds.
    I can not wait until it is condemn.

  • @rustyshaklferd1897
    @rustyshaklferd1897 Před rokem

    I can see the people on the top floors mocking those on the lowers. “ how’s the view of surrounding buildings peasant?”

  • @Nextempus
    @Nextempus Před rokem

    Should totally do a video on the Elbphilharmonie in Hamburg. Even if for the budget blowout alone!

    • @friddevonfrankenstein
      @friddevonfrankenstein Před rokem

      C'mon, 80M€....800M€...it's just a single digit difference, that digit being zero and everyone knows that zero means nothing.

  • @edwardhamm5535
    @edwardhamm5535 Před rokem +1

    The architects, Shop Architect's, used Revit Autocad to design each piece of the buiilding,s outer skin and worked with glazed terracotta and cast bronze contractors to restore those materials to modern uses as well as using purchased air-rights to preserve adjacent historic structures.

  • @dominicwaghorn6459
    @dominicwaghorn6459 Před rokem +3

    Did you loose your desk? Also can you start a mega projects channel for fantasy builds? First episode: the Death Star

  • @bondisteve3617
    @bondisteve3617 Před rokem

    Wow. Thanks Simon.

  • @davidrobertson5700
    @davidrobertson5700 Před rokem +1

    How to aim for a toilet when the stream of wee would have a 3 foot variation ?

  • @reddwarfer999
    @reddwarfer999 Před rokem

    That dark green liquid he's drinking looks absolutely revolting.

  • @Luscious3174
    @Luscious3174 Před rokem +1

    $66M buys me a beachfront on Santa Monica, a high rise apartment in downtown LA and a cozy winter mountain log cabin in Big Bear, with plenty of spare change left over. New York City is so unlivable it's not even a joke any more. And when the apocalypse hits those inflated Manhattan real estate prices will drop faster than a wet turd. You would have to pay me to go live there, and even then I wouldn't be comfortable - that's the future of New York City.

  • @rustyshaklferd1897
    @rustyshaklferd1897 Před rokem +1

    I’m sure the people on the 30s and 40s floors look at the billionaires on the first 29 floors as peasants 😂

  • @markwalsh2340
    @markwalsh2340 Před měsícem

    "The Steinway is unsinkable"...-Cpt. Smith

  • @pardn
    @pardn Před rokem +1

    The city is facing a housing crisis and one of the tallest buildings in the country doesn't even house 50 households, some of which probably won't even live there full time. 😂😂😂

    • @TheHikeChoseMe
      @TheHikeChoseMe Před rokem +1

      housing is expensive. private builders arent going to build for poor people who cant afford rent. just the facts, not being mean.

  • @donsandsii4642
    @donsandsii4642 Před rokem +1

    Not sure if you have covered Empire State building, Chrysler Building, Willis Tower and the other super tall buildings

  • @Hillbilly001
    @Hillbilly001 Před rokem

    Only if it has easy access to Lombardi's on Water St. Cheers from Tennessee

  • @jj-ry2db
    @jj-ry2db Před 6 měsíci +1

    I think this is one the most beautiful building in new york.

  • @frye11229
    @frye11229 Před rokem +1

    There’s not nearly enough ads in this video

  • @taitjames
    @taitjames Před rokem

    Did this mans just drop a chicken little reference in a damn megaprojects video. GOAT status.

  • @adamblack6867
    @adamblack6867 Před 4 dny

    Sways 3 feet on the wind I imagine your furniture would need to be bolted down and imagine what that would do to the plumbing and elevators.

  • @raoultesla2292
    @raoultesla2292 Před měsícem

    "reboot of Chicken Little" AHAHHAHAHHAHAHAHHA

  • @Un_Abandoned
    @Un_Abandoned Před měsícem

    "and now todays video" jeez man you sounded so lively until you were done. lmao

  • @lbwlawyer
    @lbwlawyer Před rokem

    Ok, seriously, that is approaching a “dead Russian poet” level of beard.

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    @leither-truth4414 Před rokem +18

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      @nissan38p69 Před rokem

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      @Richardson238 Před rokem

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      @marshallbsanz2068 Před rokem

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  • @annoyed707
    @annoyed707 Před rokem

    How did I ever live without learning of the Vitamin Pack Tower and its 46 servant apartments, or whatever this might be about.

  • @martinstallard2742
    @martinstallard2742 Před rokem +1

    3:03 history and design
    6:36 the build
    11:19 the finished product

  • @kaspar_1982
    @kaspar_1982 Před 9 měsíci

    It's not for living in, it's a safety deposit box masquerading as a living space.

  • @Henchman_Holding_Wrench
    @Henchman_Holding_Wrench Před rokem +22

    I'm in the "it's an eyesore" camp. I already hated it when construction was half way. These tall, thin buildings just poke into view when you're trying to enjoy nature inside Central Park.

    • @ephennell4ever
      @ephennell4ever Před rokem +8

      "... enjoy nature inside Central Park." You are kidding, right?🙄 You'll have to travel at least several miles away from Manhattan Island to "enjoy nature". But if you've spent your life on the island, you may not be aware of that. Strolling around Central Park is an enjoyable walk, but you're *not* partaking of nature. And, yes, I have been there; as I said it's an enjoyable walk, no question. And as far as I'm concerned, the view of the rising city-scape around it is one of it's better features ... the juxtapositioning of the tops of the trees, against the surrounding buildings is fascinating!
      Central Park is, essentially, an ultra-huge open-topped terrarium! Fascinating yes! But resembling 'nature' about as well as an extremely well-done terrarium does.

    • @niklausvonhouck4320
      @niklausvonhouck4320 Před rokem +2

      Who goes to Central Park to enjoy nature?

    • @anactualseagull5980
      @anactualseagull5980 Před rokem

      Central park is man made its not nature lmao

    • @qwerty112311
      @qwerty112311 Před rokem

      Look north if you’re so concerned about buildings.

  • @lyht5626
    @lyht5626 Před rokem

    Dear AG1 marketing department, NOBODY EVER WANTS TO WATCH A 1:55 SPONSOR SPOT EVER! The only thing people will remember about your brand is that they hate you for interrupting what we’re trying to watch

  • @Mithras444
    @Mithras444 Před 9 dny

    No, no and NO way I would even visit this property!!!😮

  • @kingofnara
    @kingofnara Před rokem

    How many channels does this guy do he must work 24/7 surprised he not on Netflix or something yet

  • @cliveashleyhamilton
    @cliveashleyhamilton Před 11 měsíci

    I like this video just for the bit about the sponsor

  • @williamchamberlain2263

    What's the fire suppression system like?

    • @patrickdurham8393
      @patrickdurham8393 Před rokem +2

      They give everyone three buckets and a note to make sure the servants keep them full. 🙃

  • @markchip1
    @markchip1 Před rokem

    I was amazed that it isn't even on Google Earth!!!

  • @JimAllen-Persona
    @JimAllen-Persona Před rokem

    Not fit-eh-min… v-eye-ta-min😂😂😂 I wonder how they got around the ground width to height ratio.