S: Halo, Pani Kasiu, pożyczy Pani szklankę mąki? K: No pewnie, przywiozę kolejnym autobusem. N (a neighbor): halo, Ms Kasia, could you lend me a glass of flour? K (Kasia living in the same building): Sure, I'll bring catching another bus.
How about the "wall" in Fermont (Quebec), it might be only 1.3km long but its a huge self-contained structure containing apartments, post office, bowling, arena, stores, schools, bars, a hotel, restaurants, a supermarket and swimming pool which shelters a community of smaller apartment buildings and homes on its leeward side. The only thing they don't have is a gas station 😊 . The structure was designed to be a windscreen to the rest of the town.
Every building that's that kind of shape in Poland is called Falowiec. I urge you to go to a town called Kłodzko where there is a building with 101 entrances. The street name is Rodzinna - which translates to Family street.
If you're ever in Poland check out Przyczółek Grochowski. It's ery long and squiggly, not in a straight line. The architect also had other interesting ideas about linear buildings, cities, entire linear countries.
That's more like it! Nice green space down below. Not all squeezed in to make room for the cars, like you get in "canyon cities". All they need to do is make a lot of the green space available to gardeners, who can make it untidy, and so more attractive - more full of unexpected nooks and things. Parks are nice, and necessary, but gardens are probably better. There's enough space there for everyone to "have a swimming pool" - if having swimming pools ever makes sense in that climate. Commission a small private splash pool, and "put it in the pool pool". Let residents register as users of said pool on "the pool app", and if it turns out too many of them are queuing up for it, ask for suggestions about the kind of qualities the next one could have. Re-iterate. But why should they register? Because the idea that this would be a *private* pool - from a practical point of view. You'd want a nice wall around it and a locked gate. While you're using it it's yours, all yours, and everyone else Stay Out. There's also enough room for the tennis court. There's probably more use for a tennis court in that climate. Same deal. Same "expansion programme". So now if you live in this block you'd live in a "house" (we'll get to that by and by) with its own pool and tennis court. Maybe they need a table tennis room and private pool tables to supplement the more social ones you find in bars, too. Shouldn't cost too much if you split the cost 6000 ways? Or even 3000 ways. Or even 1500 ways ... and so on. So your house has a swimming pool, tennis court, and rumpus room. It's starting to sound almost like a proper house now (in certain suburban terms). One thing a proper house needs is guest rooms. And one thing a humane housing development needs is "doss rooms" where the "outies" (down and outies) can shelter from the cruellest of the weather. So what you need is either a single boarding house section or two of those if you think people who fall through the net are Untouchables. Have some rooms that just have either a single or double bed, and a "cell furniture" - of the monastic kind, I'm thinking here. They don't necessarily need views, and would work fine with shared ablutions. (Anyone who's used shared ablutions know they work just fine. So that would be everyone? Yes, for the long term, or when you're not just looking for something better than a nice sheet of cardboard that keeps off the frost, an own bathroom is a nice little luxury, but it's not an absolute necessity. Especially for your guests. You want your guests to eventually decide it's time to move on, after all.) Use the guest room app to make your house into a 6 bedroom unit. That's not a lot of bedrooms, but it's probably enough for most purposes. And it's probably more economical to just rent short term when you find you need more. So ... 6 bedroom house (with rumpus room, pool tennis court). I think quite a lot of people would think that's pretty nice. And it's not stuck in the middle of some uniform suburban Nowhere! There's a pub just around the corner. You can walk there and stagger home. No more being arrested and beaten up by the cops just for Driving While Blind. But the sad thing is this still doesn't beat suburbia, which is how to win the game. Lots of people have maybe less rooms - but nicer ones, they'd claim - and both pool and tennis court. We need something more. I suppose it might be possible to have the ten car garage ... but that's ecologically septic. No. ... I mentioned the private public art galleries somewhere else, so there's that ... I know! How about a driving range/ golf course (they could probably turn those gardens into a golf course if they wanted)? And stables and bridle path? I don't see why not? I've seen suburban places with pool, tennis, big garage, lots of rooms, and a stable out back, but they're far from the night life, and they're (apparently) very expensive - which these versions of the same things I'm proposing would not be (expensive - not very very expensive, anyway - great value for money, lets say). The thing is as soon as you gather the sleeping and TV-watching quarters up into one place, and leave the space you create green, you open up otherwise impossible possibilities. You _can't_ do something like this in a wall-to-wall paved canyon city, and you can't do it in suburbia as we know it, either. It's against the law to develop something like this, so I suppose just from that point of view such talk is all hot air. But at least it's not the kind of hate speech suburbia as we know it can provoke in those who can see it for what it is.
Having had spent all my childhood in one, and then some, I can say they are fine in general. More important is how they are managed, who lives there, etc. So you might have o nightmarish one, an OK one or even really fine. Surely, it's not a villa ;)
I've lived in 3 different commieblocks, one house, one nice tenement building, and I gotta say, I enjoy myself in the blocks the most. Boring, repetitive and uninspiring on the outside, and it depends what kind of neighbours you get, but it's just so convenient and comfortable. Flats are quite small, too. Currently living very near the falowiec from the video, I love my city :)
Nope, the biggest apartment block in the world in Lutsk, Ukraine: Lutsk beehive house VS Gdańsk Falowiec Stories: 5-9 - 10 Length: 2'775m - 850m Occupants: 10'000 - ~6'000 Apartments: about 3'000 apartments - 4 staircases in each segment of 110 apartments Here is about Ukrainian building from Lutsk city called "Budynok Woolyk" (Beehive house): uk.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%91%D1%83%D0%B4%D0%B8%D0%BD%D0%BE%D0%BA-%D0%B2%D1%83%D0%BB%D0%B8%D0%BA
The falowiec is divided into segments marked with letters. I lived in Falowiec at Piastowska Street No. 100B, apartment 27. Each segment is 10 apartments long and 10 floors.
Probably because of a large Dutch population that we had ca. 16th century ;) There are entire villages named afted the Dutch like Olędry (old spelling for Holendrzy/Hollanders)
The Dutch did a lot of trade in the area when part of the Hanseatic League, and after their independence from Spain. There are a lot of ties between the Dutch and a lot of ports in the Baltic Sea area.
@@TheTimTraveller I'm honoured that you've seen it! I hope you don't mind if I say this here, but a new Dutch planning series - backed up by a now slightly more knowledgeable me - is in the works! While I'm at it - thank you for your amazing videos.
In terms of percentages, Blok P in Nuuk, Greenland, housed 1% of the population of the country before it was demolished. The population of Greenland is only about 50 thousand, though, so 1% is only 500 people.
Oof, great shout Jeff! That's a new one on me. Just looked it up on Wikipedia - it reminds me a bit of Whittier, Alaska, where the whole town (200 people) lives in one building. Blok P would definitely win the prize in terms of percentage of national population. Shame they demolished it really, or I'd be booking tickets right over there to make a video about it...
Finally you've got your very first ukrainian subscriber who may help you to do some research. :D One of the biggest ukrainian TV channels says that the apartment block in Lutsk has 15 000 windows, 170 entrances and about 3000 apartments with 10 000 residents living inside. According to Wikipedia block is 2 775 meters long. The whole structure combines 40 buildings with 5-9 floors each.
Thank you for sharing! I found one even bigger apartment building and one of similar size, there might be more in China but I couldn't find any numbers for chinese buildings, so the biggest numbers for apartments / residents I could find were: Kiew Teremki (4490 / 12000), Kudrovo Oblastnaya ( 3708 / ? )
Fun fact: the Lutsk building is not only one of the largest, it's also admittedly one of the uggliest 😂. But the upside is that they supposedly offer rooftop excursions there. As for why Kiew Teremki and Lutsk Vulyk have this weird shape - this is because it allowed the architects to minimize distances to schools, shops and bus stops. All of these distances were regulated in the Soviet Union by the state norms.
Funny fact about this building - it has corridors leading trough the whole building, but due to length of the building they are not in the same floor number through the whole project. So when you would go in on one side, take the elevator to 8th floor, you would find yourself on the other side in 10th floor or so I don´t know exact numbers of floor and there use to be only like 5th and 9th floor connected for safety reasons in such buildings, but I remember there is about 2 numbers difference between ends here.
Reminds be of my high school which was built on a hill and had 5 floors, all with ground level entrances. I wonder what the building with the most "ground floors" is?
@@johncoolberg soviet standards (what you were supposed to be allocated) were 12 meters per person, so it is not so tiny in comparison to some others in the area
@@johncoolberg wait wait. 54m2 is tiny? I live in 37m2 with 2 other people and a cat. Next to me lives family of 5 with a dog. Tiny is my bed xD Or bathroom. Or will to live. (I mean, yeah it's not that huge, but depends on who is living there. 37m2 would be completely fine for a couple even with a kid)
@@johncoolberg well in my block all apartments are almost the same. In my grandparent's block... things are nuts xd We have 3 bedroom apartament next to a 1 room apartament (+ bathroom in a separate room, but bedroom and kitchen in the same room, so 1 room apartment), so yeah. You might be right!
I grew up in this building, dead smack in the middle of it! Thank you for bringing up some good memories from my childhood. Love your videos, keep up the good work!
This channel is great because it makes me want to ditch all the normal stuff to see in places and just go find the largest buildings, holes, and weird border railways, which honestly, is a lot more fulfilling. Like when I suggested to my professor that our bus enter Luxembourg through Schengen and then everyone was awoken from their naps to look at an ok monument while I had a religious experience.
Yeah, labour - and especially the kinds most of us wind up forced into - is pretty unfulfilling at best, compared to living life. Plus, we could totally help with stuff and do odds and ends that need doing while there. Wager would do more good, too. Oh well; in a better world, once we rise to it.
I mean, if you count the old Kowloon walled city as one building that was probably once bigger, but as for modern buildings I don’t think there is anything better. Really enjoying your channel btw, keep up the good work 👍
Some Chinese blocks may be bigger, since they've started building apartment complexes consisting of several towers rising out of a 2 or 3-storey commercial section, filling an entire block. Meaning that you have a single building 500 metres long and 250 metres wide, with 10 or 14 towers of 15 to 20 storeys (or more), with a park in the middle, restaurants on the street and usually subterranean parking. They are especially common as newer developments in Northern Beijing around the 5th ring road (Huilongguan). Don't know if that counts though.
I cannot comprehend the level of social engineering required to make those places tick. But thanks for the (entirely appropriate) density of information, Mike +
Born in Poland 34 yrs ago, been few times here and there in Gdańsk and never heard about falowiec before...till learnt about it just now from a British guy! Got to love that channel...:D
Someone will probably already have mentioned it: Le Lignon in Geneva is reportedly 1065m long, up to 12 floors high and houses thousands of residents (although the number might now be much lower than initially planned due to its aging population).
en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Le_Lignon Ha! Like you said, I knew someone would have mentioned this place. 2780 units according to wikipedia. I almost rented one once, but decided I wouldn't be able to get the pink floyd song out of my head!
Not sure if it counts as a single building by your reckoning, but the Pinnacle@Duxton in Singapore is 7 50-storey tower blocks linked by continuous public park skybridges in the middle and at the top. 1848 apartments, the skybridges stretch 500m along a winding path in a 2.5 hectare plot. no information on how many residents, or how much plumbin.
Yup, as Jan pointed out, Google Translate didn't quite catch the subtlety 😁 It seems that it translated "the English" as the language rather than the people. Jan's version is correct.
@@TheTimTraveller then you should also check Canfranc International railway station, in the spanish pyrenees its main bulding is 240 meters long and is the 2nd largest railway station in europe
Well it's was ugly but at least it was solid from urban planning point of view. Like schools, shops, clinics, kindergartens, and public transport are all nearby. In today's Poland many developers build things that are just slightly better looking without any crucial infrastructure.
@Tim an interesting building with a history: "Prora" on the island of Rügen - it would have consisted of 8 blocs of 550m length each, but it was never finished (Nazi Architecture), partly blasted, reused as army quarter by the Russian army, NVA and Bundeswehr, now it hosts the "One World Camp Youth Hostel" - allegedly the biggest youth hostel, hotels, holiday apartments etc. Maybe something to report on
Ah yes, because HitIer was a socialist. He had a: Prora socialist holiday camp VW socialist car. Gustav socialist cruise ship. Autobahn socialist road system etc etc. RE
It can still be a sweet home, despite not being in Alabama, and the sky can still be so blue. Maybe someone named Luka lives on the second floor. Someone else there may be playing the guitar on the MTV, getting money for nothin' and chicks for free. Sweet dreams are made of this. Who am I to disagree? I've traveled the world and the seven seas. Everybody's lookin' for something.
The wavy shape of the building also makes sure the damn thing doesn't fall over. It's 11 floors tall but like 50m thick. It'd topple over if it was flat.
Wow. A foreigner that actually puts an effort to pronounce polish words instead of "I probably butchered those pronunciations lol (no surprise if you dont put an effort in to it)"
There actually is a building longer than the Karl Marx-hof in Fermont, QC : the "mur-écran" or "Place Daviault", which is 1300 metres long. It has 300+ appartments, but also municipal offices, a community radio station and stores. It was built in the remote town of Fermont to block the very fast winds from the rest of the town
I live in a house which has 3708 apartments, 20-25 storeys and is around 1 km long if you unwrap it. Plumbing length is unimaginable. Russia, Kudrovo, Oblastnaya 1. I don't think I've seen any bigger.
@@Mgoblagulkablong the whole complex is one building. It has 35 entrances and was being built for 5 years in 4 waves, but it's still administratevly one building. "Fun" fact is that I have to pay fees for repairs, because the oldest part of the house is 7 years old, even though I live in a part which is only 3, and you have to pay when a building turns 5.
Surprisingly it was quite nice to live in it, I used to for few years when I was maybe 3-10yrs old, nice memories! It was clean and safe, people grew nice flowers beside their balconies on the back. I could only see how it would turn into slum in many other places!
This could be the building/residence were after staying 50 years in the same building two neighbors never seen each other. They should add school at one end and store on other so that children can go to the school by walking on corridor and people can bring shopping cart to their home.
There is a massive residential complex in Pyongyang too, which may compete for the title. 38.976277 N, 125.75114 E. Google Maps doesn't make it very easy to count the number of stories, but it's more than 20, and the building is some 600 meters long.
You might be interested in "Die Schlange" (The Snake) at Schlangenbaderstr in Berlin. It isnt larger ('only' 1215 apartments, 46m high on 550m length) but one of the residents is the Autobahn.
the "Mamutica" (little mammouth) building in Zagreb is also home to around 5000 people and has about 1160+ apartments. Its only 250m long thought but is 19 stories high and has a plateau across its lenght.
Parque Central complex in Caracas has eight 45 story height residential towers with 317 apartments each. They are all connected by sky bridges at the top so you could argue they are a single structure and thus the biggest residential building? However I don't advice visiting Venezuela any time soon.
nice video. check also Corviale in Rome. it has a main 990m body of 9 floors + underground parking with a connected second structure of like 300m X 3/5 floors. it has 1300 appartenente but also a whole floor of shops (which was occupied by people for a long time) and other things
I used to visit my aunt who lived near by this block during summers when I was young and I was shook by how massive it was year after year - thanks for this!
In Warsaw (Poland) there is another huge building - "Przyczółek Grochowski" (aka "Pekin"), which has ca. 7 000 inhabitants living in 2330 flats. www.google.pl/maps/@52.232342,21.078951,486m/data=!3m1!1e3 it looks like that.
No candidates in China or Hong Kong? In news and films you always see these huge high rises and often they are linked. I can't find any info on number of apartments or residents, but here are some pictures: www.wired.com/2013/08/unbelievable-photographs-of-hong-kongs-crazy-high-rises/
Another candidate is a Building near Geneva, Switzerland. It is named "le Lignon" (in the city of Vernier). The building is 1km long and includes about 2800 appartments. Originally it was built for about 10'000 people.
Having lived in Le Lignon I was thinking about this one too. Wikipedia claims it has 2780 apartments. There are two towers however, but I'm pretty sure that would still be more than the 1782 flats of the Falowiec. With 75 contiguous street numbers with at least 11-15 floors, it's at least a very strong contender.
You pronounce things very well, well done. I used to live next to these blocks. It was a bit of a slum back in the 80. Impressive though, for sure. And indeed very close to the sea.
The places you go to are much more interesting than most of the touristy places, where what you mostly see is other tourists, as well as stuff that was important centuries ago.
To count how many apartments there i belive would only need to got to say 3 1) the first door 2) third door (this should show you how the numbers work ) 3) last door (this should give you the number of apartments) If this maths is wrong please correct me but show your how you would do it
@Ork It's because we never had a revolution and historically our struggle was nation-based instead of class-based. We were under centuries-long of occupation, including communist times which to us were just an extension of Russian occupation. The last Polish feudal peasant died in 20th century, and mentally we are now closer to this system than the westerners. But to say that most of Poles are like that is very rude and maybe even not true. The mentality is divided between generations and it's difficult to understand why older generations are different to a young outsider with limited insight. Recent presidential elections showed that young poles are predominantly progressive.
@Ork Correct, but What I'm pointing to is that it was the young generation that took it to the streets. If you can find breakdown of the election, you'll see that the elected conservative candidate was less popular among sub-30-year-olds, who by major part voted cultural left.
There is the "Cité les Courtillières" in France, a set of large contiguous blocks in France. The longest one is 320 meters (certainly not as long as this one!) but the whole set is more than a kilometre long. It was built by the failed architect Emile Aillaud who is also responsible for the "Tours nuages" and other monstrosities.
I am glad I've found this Channel. I Wonder however how is living in one of these massive buildings. I would try for while despite the fact I prefer houses. Thanks for this Channel.
You can find even bigger residential buildings in Kyiv (more apartments than in Lutsk one), there's two of them just next to each other, one of them has approximately 8k residents, and the other has about 12k. I lived next to them almost my entire life. If you are curious to see them, I would like to show around.
The Tim Traveller, the biggest one is on Akademika Zabolotnoho st and the smaller one (but not that small) is on Akademika Hlushkova st. They kind of 90 degrees to each other, but they are not straight and more like hexagonal shaped. You can find them here: goo.gl/maps/JUCiCCQbmXQfixcs8
@@TheTimTraveller I found some numbers online, apparently the bigger of the two alone has 4490 apartments and over 12000 residents. Maybe the world's biggest.
Anyone wanna commission a 1 mile long building with literal transport just to get to points in the building? Basically the line, but a lot smaller and not funded by oil and corrupt governments?
