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@MrBanaanipommi Год назад

i dont like skyscrapers, i dont like big cities, i dont like new cars... what am i? maybe i am just too simple young guy from finland who just likes to live peacefully and far away from cement jungles and all the noise

@ok-vk9fv Год назад

Nice i love somija from latvija:)

@MrBanaanipommi Год назад

@@ok-vk9fv somija?

@ok-vk9fv Год назад

@@MrBanaanipommi finland in latvian👍

@GutsEnthusiast Год назад

Also from Finland and I like how big cities look with all the cool skylines, but no chance I'd live in a concrete jungle like that💀

@ok-vk9fv Год назад

@@GutsEnthusiast i am from latvia and we only have 7 skyscrapers and i wish we had more because they make the place look more developed

@mmauddify Год назад

I'm originally from Paris and couldn't imagine skyscrapers in the center. I think keeping them at the edge of the city is a good compromise. The "vertical forest" in Milan (those weird buildings with trees you were kinda creeped out by lol) are a great idea too. Each building has the equivalent of about 2.5 acres of trees/plants on it! (+ solar panels to power them and water filtrated by the plants...pretty smart)

@tiefseehase9503 Год назад

Also the greens on buildings are a very good natural isolation, meaning it keeps the room warmer in the winter and cooler in the summer + plants bind a lot of Co2 so it wont get into the environment.

@chubbymoth5810 Год назад

They are also rather mosquito heavy who will find puddles everywhere.

@maxwellmakenzi Год назад

@@chubbymoth5810 and in hot ares snakes can creep up.

@asjaosaline5987 Год назад

Europe can fit easily more than 300Million another people without building single skyscraper, and personally i dont like scycrapers they are ugly, but if i have to choose between cut down some forest to build new living space or build a skyscraper i choose skyscraper, couse i love nature.

@carisio 6 месяцев назад

@@chubbymoth5810 I feel like it's been 10 years or more since they built them and I haven't heard anything like this. It's like staying in a house with a garden. For cities, if solutions are found that compensate for the destruction of trees to build them, it would be better for everyone. This is an attempt to find some solution to traditional skyscraper systems..

@codadivolpe Год назад

Imagine the Colosseum in Rome overshadow by skyscrapers.... i cant!

@TheDemouchetsREACT Год назад

Obviously not.

@petragrevstad2714 Год назад

I’m Swedish, I live nearby Gothenburg, Sweden’s second largest city (but I did live there for a bunch of years growing up). I don’t mind a few (we have a few) but I prefer old architecture and open spaces over walking between tall buildings that says nothing really. But they’re not there to look at so as I said, I’m fine with a few, I guess they fill some purpose. But I wouldn’t want to live like that. I’ve been to NYC, which was amazing, but only for visiting.

@TheDemouchetsREACT Год назад

A few is good enough. Our tall builrings are usually just in downtown areas.

@johnlittle3430 Год назад

Skyscrapers are hideous. Europe has the right idea.

@krystiankara6972 Год назад

Loved these 2 buildings with gardens/forests (🙂) on them.

@arnodobler1096 Год назад

These skyscrapers are located in Milan Italy "Bosco Verticale" and are a wonderful idea to green and thus cool a city and houses.

@juampisito Год назад

What usually happens is that historic city centers are protected so almost nothing new is buildt there, most people that live there have huge restrictions in how they can modify the exterior or even interior of their properties. Skyscrapers are usually built (if done) around and in the most exterior areas of the cities, places we can call business districts. There is also the factor that not many countries in EU are overcrowded so there is no neccesity of that huge amount of vertical space. Moreover, most people in EU live in modern flats, not in houses, so we are already more packed than most USA citizens.

@harukaru84 Год назад

my small town(11.000 population) has a law up that buildings can not be more than two floors(ground +1), to preserve the beauty of a village.

@MrBanaanipommi Год назад

exactly, big buildings ruins the beauty of nature.

@grischad20 Год назад

The oldest building in the US can't be older than like 300 years. on the other hand, most of the churches you've seen in that video are anywhere from 300 to 1000 years old. It's not in any way comparable. Also, considering the rise of working from home, i don't foresee a rise of skyscraper buildings. instead I think people are gonna spread out where they live further from their work because they don't need to go there that often, and it's cheaper and less urban.

@profg5tv785 Год назад

I prefer open space where fresh air can penetrate with beautiful greener environment.

@DanielNistrean Год назад

Europe has a history of thousands of years while US is an ex european colony that is 300 years old. That's why Europe sticks to it's traditions and preffer to see the clear blue sky instead of glass buldings over their head.

@cartmann227 Год назад

Skyscrapers: Outdated, inefficient, ugly. Thanks, but no thanks

@katydaniels508 Год назад

I love this video. I could go on for days about urban heat islands (cities), but I won’t. The green buildings and skyscrapers you saw are amazing at absorbing some of the city heat and carbon. It is def something to think about 🤔

@TheDemouchetsREACT Год назад

Oooh!okay, that's practical!

@Niki91-HR Год назад

The greenery on skyscrapers as far as I know exists also in Asia. It is great for the environment as well. It has a lot of benefits. I cant imagine skylines like in NYC for example here in Croatia. It would totally ruin our places visually. I am not against designed districts like the one in Paris but city centers are most of the time our cultural heritage and where I live, near Split the city centre is literally a palace from the Roman Empire. Our coast belongs to the Mediterranean and skyscrapers wouldnt fit in. But we also dont have the need for them. Also there was kind of a rule in Europe no building was allowed to be taller than the church tower. We love the sun as well... skyscrapers block the sun if there are tooo many at one place though. I think they work for the US, Canada and some other places more than for Europe. We Europeans love our historic buildings and what was left behind by our ancestors and it would be a shame to bring these buildings down to make the city more modern.

@Jurjen_Warrel_Ottenhoff Год назад

Another factor contributing to the need for highrise buildings could be average house size. The average house size in the US is close to twice the size compared to european average. Basically causing a city to run out of space twice as fast. Increasing the need to go up instead of sideways to keep things close enough together to be useful or beneficial to a city. If office/workspaces have a similar size difference it could compound that need.

@aldocuneo1140 Год назад

In Europe in many countries skyscrapers are not allowed close historical sites, and all Europe is an hustorical site. Can you imagine a skyscraper close Westimster Abbey, or Cologne chatedral, or Colosseum ? Aniway many cities have, In Milan, Paris, Frankfurt, London etc but out of center .

@mischa676 Год назад

In Vienna we have Hundertwasserhaus....is one of the most beautiful buildings in the city...art and nature together...that is a unique piece of art with many trees on balcony.

@isomario Год назад

This is a big debate in Jamaica, in our urban areas like Kingston & St Andrew. A lot of high rise apartments going up in historically single home areas, most times there aren't infrastructure in place like water and sewage to handle that load.

@rmyikzelf5604 Год назад

One of the reasons there are no real skyscrapers in the Netherlands (besides the aesthetic argument) is that the soil just is not suitable for building anything higher than, say, 200 meters. Certainly, the western, most populated half of the country where most of the larger cities are, is basically a giant river delta and prehistoric swamp area. The soil is to weak and firm bedrock is too deep for building real skyscrapers.

@carisio 6 месяцев назад

The vertical forest of Milan was an attempt to find solutions to the problem of cities that eat up land that could have trees in order to build them. Little by little, other solutions will emerge, perhaps even better than this one. Still better than a squalid glassed-in skyscraper, similar to many others in the world, which can also be beautiful to look at but not as beautiful as the green of the trees which also oxygenate the air and limit pollution in the city.

@aletheiahenosis5962 Год назад

The population isn't a factor to skyscrapers, Europe actually has more than double the population of America but America has more skyscrapers, the difference we see in architecture merely comes from the fact that Europe has been around for significantly longer thus there's more of a cultural loss if it would tear down old buildings or build around them. Since the buildings in America are much more recent you can afford to tear them down or build around them as there's not much culturally you would lose compared to let's say, in Europe where in my town you come by 300-500 year old buildings near the old town almost at every step.

@tawansrithrachaikul4573 Год назад

That’s not necessarily true. Almost every modern city (with skyscrapers) has an old town with low rise buildings and ancient stuffs. But they have a modern district with skyscrapers. Both can easily coexist.

@olivierdk2 Год назад

1:06 The reason is simple, we don't want to "brusselize" our cities.

@therocpd Год назад

I do want tall buildings in our cities (European) but I want them to be unique to the cities they're in, that they're unique, green, playful. Not just glass and chrome towers. Looking at some of these tall buildings now a fair few are quirky in shape or features in response to their environment. London's skyscrapers mostly are designed not to obscure views of St Paul's so we get odd shapes which makes them have way more character than a boring rectangular block

@ONCE_A_MOA_ALWAYS_A_MOA Год назад

Im from the Netherlands and i dislike skyscrapers but it also doesnt really work here. Most of the country is underneath water level the soil is not steady enough for large skyscrapers

@Rosaninyei Год назад

I lived over a decade in Vienna, Austria and their principle is very "nature based". If you build these skyscrapers, you disrupt the birds flight path.

@africa_explained_tv Год назад

Skyscrapers create a lot more problems than they solve. They concentrate a lot of people in a small footprint, while it may sound great, in car-dependent cities this dramatically worsens congestion, noise and air pollution and reduce overall quality of life. Not to mention social isolation and a steep increase in mental health issues. They're great for posturing and shouting "progress!" tho

@maarius030 Год назад

Skyscrapers are not much useful. There are barely any flats or apartments in skyscrapers. They’re mostly used for offices for big companies. If you want to build buildings for many people to fit in you build these blocks like in the Soviet days and Eastern Europe (but they’re ugly and boring). Skyscrapers are such an American thing. “Bigger = better” For example in Germany most (like 99%) of the skyscrapers are in Frankfurt in the bank district. They’re used only for offices. In Frankfurt are all the banks. Even the European Central Bank. In other cities like Berlin there are no skyscrapers because there’s no need for it

@jeezlewiez161 Год назад

The housing build in sobiet union and rest of eastern europe is called blocks and it was a free housing for every body if someone was homeless he could live there but he had to get assigned to any job also it was free to everybody my grandma got her apartment when she was 20 and IT helped her a lot since she was from poor vilage she could finally go to university without a need to travel for 2 hours everyday it was a really good concept and we want it to return couse it was litearlly saving lives

@chubbymoth5810 Год назад

When it comes to building regulations Belgium is a bit unique in that there are/were few. As a result it is full of road villages and fancy buildings as well as whatever gave the most bang for the buck in returns, leading to the most horrid distopian constructs. Most old cities have modern high rise areas on the edge of them, connected by excellent public transport. Very few people live there though, they are mainly offices.

@nualisplace Год назад

Please look for and watch documentary material on that forest building & explore them up close. They are really beautiful & make sense. In Singapore or is it Hong Kong 🤔 they have commercial vegetable farms on top of sky scrapers

@reekoor Год назад

I don't see Skyscrapers as something particular good or bad. If they are built, so they fit in and it's well regulated and they add something, then it's a good thing, no need to avoid them "just because", but building skryscrapers just for some people/cooporations or just for the sake of it, then nah, I'm good, :) As I would see that as a step back in city development, not forward. For me it's more about prioritizing high standard public transportation, above most other thngs, and everything else will work out just fine and problems regarding city planning are easier to solve.

@alakntvr7179 Год назад

10:22 actually we do but it's done on the outskirts of the cities mainly like in Paris... i live and work hibrid between Bucharest and Prague and honestly i`d hate to see any of these cities centers changed, being a romanian from Bucharest i know how painful it feels to not witness the full history of my city(former known as Paris of the east) as the comunists ruined a good part of it with their ugly and tasteless grey blocks... thank god this didn't happen to Prague(altough it has it's fair share of comunist buildings but it's mainly in the outskirt neighbourhoods) P.S. those weird buildings with trees are actually a good thing for the air quality, it looks creepy but also gives some lively vibes to that tower! Cheers!

@jassidoe Год назад

Nice video, thank you. I have a few thoughts on this one. I can only speak for southern Germany, Bavaria, to be exact, but government's strategy isn't really to build skyscrapers in cities that are incredibly expensive (like Munich) anyway, but to relocate structures to smaller, less developed cities. Infrastructure is subsidized and the aim is to have different offices, industries and so on in different cities all around instead of having one crowded hub where all the jobs are. There are difficulties to this approach, of course, but on the flip side you can create jobs in less developed areas with lower cost of living and less need of highrises. I have never really been to a city with lots of highrises. Only Frankfurt, but I think I'd feel claustrophobic with all those huge buildings all around. I love smaller old towns with history (history nerd here). You can walk around our neighbourhood and see bullet holes in some walls. From when Napoleon came to visit or from the 1700s. Or even Roman times. It's a matter of preference, but I love old cities that transport you back in time. 😄 Do you happen to know the Japanese Anime "Hetalia"? It's a 5 minute shorts series where countries of the world are personalized. They work a lot with stereotypes, of course, but maaaan, do they get a lot of the inter-country relationships right. America and England are especially funny 😂

@patnic8190 6 месяцев назад

I live in the historic part of the city and I can't imagine some disgusting skyscraper in such a place full of architectural beauty :D There are a few skyscrapers in our city, but they are located on the periphery, nobody minds. For us, they are just buildings of "necessity" uninteresting and soulless, where one only goes to the office and away again. Of course, I cannot speak for all Europeans. And it is clear that an American who is born in New York, for example, surrounded by mostly concrete and glass blocks, will hardly understand the emotional attachment to the architecture of a person who lives, for example, in Rome, Prague, Vienna, etc. etc. To a person from NY it may look outdated and "inefficient" and I totally understand that, but for most of us Europeans there is a soul and a story behind every house here :)

@Navy-Seal-Ninja90 5 месяцев назад

the narrator said it perfectly. skyscrapers are soulless bland and just ugly. i would feel so boxed in. especially in a city like new york. it takes away all the natural sun and also blocking the birds flight paths..

@williamwilkes9873 Год назад

Neat outlook, sir!

@BatsiraiMusuka Год назад

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@reacts6790 Год назад

Its easy answer. Europe is most into the culture and legacy. Special like Prague, Czech Republic its city and country with such strictly law about building like thats because UNESCO. Prague its most best city about culture and some legacy. Same like other cities in Europe. Europe want give childeren legacy. And not awful buldings like New York, Hong Kong etc. And if some cities have large bulding its mosty far from center or city. Because the visual and culture things.

@a4kata40 6 месяцев назад

I like old buildings

@Jantzku Год назад

No thank you

@andyt8216 Год назад

This video is a bit misleading. Some other cities like Warsaw, Poland are fast becoming skyscraper cities. And as mentioned, London, Frankfurt and Paris’s La Défense area have lots.

@christorn8499 Год назад

Thx for FFW

@richie_bodo Год назад

Go to Frankfurt, London , Páris or Rotterdam

@Jamiro_Van Год назад

i would hate skyscrapers in our city centre but i dont mind if they make a new zone for it somewhere else

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@maxwellmakenzi Год назад

I find those houses with trees a little creepy too.

@TheDemouchetsREACT Год назад

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@gerdahessel2268 Год назад

They are in Italy where it can get very hot in the summer. The plants give shadow and cool down the building which saves energy and money for an AC. The plants are home to birds and butterflys - nature is right at your window and balcony. I think thats a great idea.

@maxwellmakenzi Год назад

@@gerdahessel2268 What about mosquitoes and snakes?

@gerdahessel2268 Год назад

@@maxwellmakenzi If you don't want mosquitos you shouldn't leave the house ;-) No snakes up there. Maybe squirrels. Don't you have plants on your balcony? Don't you sit in the sun sometimes?

@maxwellmakenzi Год назад

@@gerdahessel2268 I love plant vases as many as can be. "Don't you sit in the sun sometimes?" where I come from this isn't an option 😂