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Yes it is. This is what has made these cities beautiful and unique. Every country will soon have huge cities with countless glass towers. But unique architecture and history is what creates atmosphere and urban identity.
Unfortunately, the floor plates of many of those older buildings were insufficient for mid 20th Century office layouts and modern open plans were all the rage.
That new building is a testament to the hideous, bland, cost cutting designs of the 1960's and 1970's. Looks like a huge computer server. How could anyone say that is a beautiful building and is better than the one it replaced??
Money. Greed always wins over aesthetics. If the City government didn't start protecting historic buildings, by today 90% of the classic structures would've been demolished
@@sergei5106regulations and taxes played a bigger factor. Many neoclassical buildings were built when taxes were near non-existent. Ask to build a restaurant that took 3 stories vertically like the Palm Court in the Plaza Hotel in NYC, along with accompanying preparation area, all taking up longitudinal space and your going to get a cost analysis on property taxes. Every. Story. Has to capable of being used for any number of purposes to get maximum value, and NYC isn’t cheap, and they don’t give tax breaks to modern passion projects even if beautiful.
@@sergei5106ground floor space is premium for traffic. In taxes and regs, you’d need to justify a restaurant taking 3 stories and lots of longitudinal space, like the Palm Court in the Plaza Hotel.
I hope you find more of these former architectural masterpieces that were sadly neglected and torn down before they could be recognized and preserved. We don't need to lose anymore of them.
"We don't need to lose anymore of them" The Rawitser building is New York's most endangered old building. It was built in 1897 and does not have any landmark protection.
@@Novusod @Novusod Just looked it up, another lovely building, hopefully they don't pull it. I live in Scotland and even though people often think all of our history is preserved over here it's unfortunate that that isn't true, for example my sons old primary school which was built in 1887 was pulled down to be replaced by horrible grey apartments instead of being renovated into apartments. It's a shame that our history isn't respected by the councils that run our towns.
Fun Fact: There is a small group of single-family homes on Manhattan Island at the north/east corner of West 217th street and Park Terrace West. And by single-family homes, they have front-back and side yards also they have garages. They are homes and not museums. Very rare today. Thank you for another great watch.
It's crazy how much architecture and infrastructure was lost to time. The Roman Empire (Overthrown in 476 CE) had a very large aqueduct system that had many uses from decorative fountains to supplying farmers with water, plumbing, and heating/cooling in their buildings. Jump to London in (1660 CE) and they were throwing fecal matter out the window and onto the street.
I think you should do one on the old Hotel Astor. It's another lost NYC marvel torn down in the 1960s to make way for One Astor Plaza, located in Times Square. It's looks like the Singer Buildings base. Fun fact: The Hotel Astor was designed by William Van Allen. The same person who designed the famous Chrysler Building. Luckily, that masterpiece still stands. Oh, and I hate One Liberty Plaza even more somehow.
I love the old Astor Hotel. I worked at 1515 Broadway which was the building that replaced it. I also which the original Times Building façade wasn't replaced in the mid-1960's and the old Claridge Hotel where the Camel "smoking man" billboard blew steam rings out toward Broadway. It was on the SE corner of 43rd and Broadway and torn down in the early 1970's.
My favorite part about this is that you made history making this video. I’d never know this building existed had I not seen this, thank you for the hard work you put into your content! ❤️
You should do a series on the old hugh hotels of Atlantic City before they were lost to the gaming industry. There is lots to tell about their history.
Funny mispronunciations are a regular feature of Ryan's videos, and I used to complain about it but I've given up and enjoy the videos for their overall good content. I just call them part of the charm, as it were.
Thank you for this interesting video of a beautiful building lost to the history books. I can guarantee when time comes to demolish One Liberty Plaza, nobody will care. 🤔
great job as always. its so sad that this building is not still standing. her in detroit dan Gilbert restored the book cadillac building after sitting empty sence the 80s, and now he's started restoration on the book tower. ford is turning the michigan central train station in to there ev headquarters. one building that i love and my dad worked in is the guarding building, i was told it was first built using mob money but not sure. i think it would be great content for you
Robert Moses through "Urban Renewal" and "Redevelopment" (compulsory) programs financed (largely) by the federal government, took so much more of NYC's historic skyline than private deals could ever come close to.
I really enjoy your videos! I was excited to see you do a video on this forgotten tower. I've been hoping you would do a video on it since you did one on the Singer Tower. My only critique of your videos is your narration. While I don't have too much to criticize, I would suggest you work on your speech breaks and cadence. It's inconsistent. Also, in all of your videos you have many misused or mispronounces words. Honestly, your videos are great, and I look forward to all of them. Just minor things I noticed that might help you become even more successful.
It never ceases to amaze me the amount of engineering know how, and good ol ingenuity that went in to designing and constructing these old buildings. Not to mention the blood sweat and tears from fearless construction workers.
The race to build the tallest skyscrapers reminds me of the Italian town San Gimignano with it's towers built hundreds of years ago. It was a strict hierarchy regarding the hights of the towers. The person with the highest rank could build the tallest tower, the 2nd highest ranking person could build the 2nd tallest tower and so on. At some point there was over 20 towers in this tiny town, 14 of the medieval towers are still standing and it does look like a min Manhatten from afar
Why did I just watch 2 ads to get to your video just for you to start off with another ad? I’m starting to hate RU-vid as a whole. Not just this channel. It’s almost like there’s a secret competition to see how many ads content creators can cram in a 10 minute timeframe.
It was torn down, because you really needed to watch your step and be ready at any time to dodge debris falling from the building and with several people having been killed by falling pieces of the building, resulting in headlines.
It is a pity that Americans have so little respect for their own history. The buildings were icons of their time with unsurpassed elegance. Money is not everything.
Talking about New York skyscrapers and yet standing in front of PKiN in Warsaw... (not that it matters). Anyway, US Realty Building was finished in 1907, not 1905. Also, when finished, City Investing Building was not only the largest building in the world, but also the second tallest.
@@jetfan925 I've never been there but I heard they ripped every historical element out except for one conference room and that the original brick facade is still there beneath that mirrored glass.
This channel should do a video on the Mohawk iron workers. They were called skywalkers and the had a large part in building most if not all the tallest skyscrapers in NYC.
Its sad we will never seen Singer building and beninson building again. I hope someday some billionaire, will build these two awesome looking skyscrapers. On that same location. I like modern skyscrapers, but demolish one of the first and most beatiful new york skyscrapers.... Really? and also these skyscrapers give new York such a big prestige. Its just sad and disgusting.
Oh man. You went backwards. Maybe you completed editing on this one before the phone company video. Disappointed to see the antique movie effects again. It just doesn't make sense, guys.
Late 19th/ Early 20th century Chad European American: "These skyscrapers will stand forever in their metaphorical splendor, and will be outdone in the future!" Boomers mid 20th century, "ugh, too much metaphysical allusion, too much color, too much guild, too fancy! These glass boxes and tissue paper metal will look fantastic!" Modern 21st century soy millennial: "Skyscrapers will always be ugly, bigot"' Dégénération!
Interesting and cool to know , but also sad so mutch history is forgotten by most And btw you are a very handsome and good looking guy 😊 Hope you can take a compliment from a gayguy 😊
There is a special place in Hell for whoever destroyed these amazing buildings in favor of a truly ugly black box. I hope they haunt the block and cause the black building to waste away in idleness! Shame forever attached that hideous monstrosity!
No wonder American cities are in social decay. Most of today's glass and steel monstrosities, enclosing robot-like tenants, do not allow for the preservation of healthy human lives and souls.
This video only confirms the fact that we all have been lied to about our history, as there is no way that lost skyscraper was built in less than 2 years. The reason most all of these gorgeous buildings were quickly destroyed was to remove all evidence of a previous advanced civilization who built them. If you research America and Canada and Mexico, you will see that these areas once looked like Rome and Greece, and almost all the land was decked out with gorgeous architectural wonders, buildings of such detail and grandeur there was NO WAY these numerous cities could have been built in the horse and buggy or dark ages era (as we have been falsely told). All the fires, floods, and earthquakes (which conveniently happened between the end of the 1800's and early 1900's) destroyed most of these massive architectural wonders, and a new narrative was formed to make us think America was founded by Columbus, and never inhabited before, except by Indians. Not so! The State Capitols of the USA remain from back in that time, and show us just how magnificient these structures were. We are told they were built in the late 1800's, but you will be hard pressed to find photos that show construction (and if you do, they are faked). Most of Europe and Russia still have those old buildings and thus why their cities are gorgeous, but America got rid of them, leaving us with a modern-style mess. The entire world looked like Rome and Greece back before the1850's, and all buildings used similar design and detail.
