The Never Ending Race to Build High 

Looks like the Creek Tower stopped because the Jeddah Tower stopped. But it's ready to continue if anyone else tries something.

I can totally see the allure of being an architect. Imagine being responsible for a gigantic sculpture that towers over an entire city, you'd never again worry about dying without leaving your mark on the world.

Honestly would love to see a bar graph where each tall building is a bar that is the height of the ENTIRE STRUCTURE (so, counting stuff like radio antennas) and then a bar overlayed on top that is the height of the usable floors. Would be interesting to see how the tallest buildings truly stack against each other like that. EDIT: Also would be cool to see the total area of usable floor space of each tallest building as well.

The concept of the Oblisco Capital as the centerpiece for theNew Administrative Capital in Egypt is really cool; however, it doesn't need to be that tall. The Iconic Tower (which is also being built in the NAC) will already be the tallest building in Africa at just over a third of the height. If Egypt scales the Oblisco down to say the size of the One World Trade Center, not only would it will still surpass the Iconic but would be a much more manageable and realistic objective.

What really impresses me with Burj Khalifa is that it is the tallest regardless of definition. There is no "it's the highest building, but not the tallest structure" or any of this sort. It is the tallest. Period.

Architects do t figure out how to make building resist wind, gravity etc. Engineers do. Architects are responsible for the vision of the building. Engineers make it work.

This Reminds of this verse from hadiths: When the Prophet (ﷺ) was asked about the signs of the Final Hour, one of the signs he mentioned was "when you see the barefoot, naked, destitute shepherds competing in constructing tall buildings.” It's crazy how 40 years ago the villages of Bedouins exited where they use to travel via Camels on these lands and now look at them they are competing with each other for who builds the tallest skyscraper

love the comments on this video of people who havent made it to the end yet. seen 4 mentioning about how the jeddah is on hold and people mentioning the various towers that dont count as buildings, despite the fact neo has talked about all of this

I was speaking to the Architect of the Strata tower in London which opened in 2010 as the 'Tallest Residential Building in London'. He told me to take the title off of 2009s Pan Peninsula Tower they made the aircraft warning lights at the top of the Strata Tower 5cm higher than originally planned.

I’m liking because of how calm and informed you sound over this video. Please continue. I love your content. Thank you for how seamless the attachment and conciseness of your sponsor was as well. Phenomenal.

Honestly the Burj Khalifa didn't really use crazy complicated tech to build it. It still uses a massive amount of concrete in it's overall construction which is nuts. It's defining factor is how many pylons they poured under the sand to hold that monstrosity up.

I don’t even understand why people want to build such tall buildings, like sure, it gives more space by going up, but when you can’t get to the top easily and safely, there’s no point.

Absolutely loving all the latest uploads we've been getting so far! The 3d modeling here is incredibly top notch, and also it's really a fascinating topic. I wonder which one will eventually be the tower to dethrone the Burj Khalifa. Maybe we can get a follow up update if that ever happens? Anything to get more great content!

“We just built the tallest building! We’re better! Tax put to good use!” An airline:

Love this video as a skyscraper fan! Had the opportunity to visit Burj Khalifa back in 2015 and man, what a sight! Really spot on with your numbers, facts, and research!

interestingly the 8.5m Tower of Jericho in palestine held the record of tallest structure for 4,000 years (8,000bc-4,000bc). i don't think humans will ever break this record again. the egyptians were the with closest with their Great Pyramid of Giza which held the title of tallest structure for 3,881 years. but the egyptian record was cut shorter than 4,000 years by the Lincoln Cathedral of England in 1311.

Background music w/ transitions is so on point, loving the production quality.

the egyptian tower looks so good

Love too see all the videos you've been producing lately! Keep up the good work

"You have to measure from the base, and firmly push the ruler into the pelvis" - Council on Tall Buildings and Urban Habitat, probably

Thanks for this level of clarity!

The really sad part about all these structures is how wasteful and impractical they logistically speaking. They also have a nasty habit of turning their surrounding into urban deserts where the streets are barren and inhospitable to 24/7 friendly street life. Super tall building make for bad neighbors.

7:14 Looks like the Atlantis city spaceship from Stargate Atlantis.

I wish the world would embrace more traditional architecture styles like classical, neoclassical, Byzantine etc. These buildings are so elegant, beautiful and functional. Nowadays we seem to just be building glass and concrete monstrosities. The Romans build structures that lasted a thousands years. Most buildings built nowadays I wouldn’t want to see standing in a hundred years tbh

Very nice video! Greetings from Brazil 🇧🇷👊🏻

So helpful. Thank you for making the video

I like the narrator's very clear and unhurried voice. I can understand it perfectly even though English is my second language. Also, the script is well-written ably supported by wonderful images and videos. Kudos! New subscriber here.

Burj khalifa developer (EMAAR) owns 70% of developments in downtown Dubai so yeah they benefit a lot

"Proposal" in the world of engineering feats means nothing. Everyone can draw plans for something stupidly big that they have no way of building. Proposed buildings can very well be bajilions of meters high. It's just making stuff up, even if the construction plans would be structurally sound.

Another awesome video as usual. I really enjoyed this one.

Wow nice upload. Interesting to watch. Tnx 4sharing full watched 👍

i would LOVE to see the Oblisco Capitale in person if it were built, its would be amazing... a real tribute to their heritage

“When you see barefoot destitute shepherds competing in constructing tall buildings.” Another prophecy comes true.

Not gonna lie, I was waiting to hear the regular intro music the whole time. Great video by the way!

those radio masts are crazy tall. i watched a video of a worker climbing one to change the red blinking lightbulb. it was the most nerve-wracking, anxiety inducing video i have ever seen.

The proposed Sky Mile High tower in Japan....a country that's prone to earthquakes? I'm not an engineer but curious as to why would they propose to build such a mega high structure where earthquakes are prone to happen?

It's super hard and challenging to build one in this decade considering unexpected events happening around the world. For example the Merdeka PNB118 has been delayed its completion 4 times already. Mainly due to covid

amazing video!!! your videos are amazing

Nicely put together!

If I was a building architect, I would design the world’s biggest volume based building and make it wider than it is higher - designed like a giant rectangle

I've never been a big fan of super tall buildings and skyscrapers. I find engineering and architecture design that is way more ground based, a totally more enjoyable, useable, effective, productive and engaging than anything a tall building could ever provide.

Amazing video, I love your channel!!

Really good presentation and knowledgeable video

The most crazy thing is that Burj Khalifa has no connection to sanitary sewers. So, every day hundreds of tank trucks take out the faeces collected in the tower's cesspits and move it out. Just imagine building the biggest building in the world and not connecting it to sewerage. And imagine seeing everyday a long chain of tank trucks full of shit from Burj Khalifa driving through the city.

Imagine if the worlds tallest structure suddenly because a 10 km tall hoola hoop because someone decided to test how active support could work.

Sears Tower is still my favorite building all time been fascinated with it since a kid

Malaysia is incredibly underrated when it comes to skyscrapers ... They've got sooo many of them in Kuala Lumpur, I was amazed when I saw that there

a Hadith where the Prophet stated "The hour will not be establish when you see barefoot, naked, destitute shepherds competing in constructing tall buildings.'"

When asked about the last hour (Doomsday) The Prophet replied, “That you see barefoot, unclothed herdsmen (the bedouin Arabs as explained by the prophet himself) competing in the construction of tall buildings.” Ref: Sunan Ibn Majah-Hadith 63, Musnad Imam Ahmad bin Hambal-Hadith 2924

I love the old wtc and I'm sad that everyone could not eat they're breakfast because of the innocent

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Would someone with engineering materials knowledge like to speculate how long these structures will last and what will eventually happen to them? Will older steel frame structures outlive modern tubular designs with open floorspace? Will we see more collapses in a few centuries or could they start leaning like the tower of Pisa?

Thanks for clearing up the Sears Tower vs. Petronas Towers height controversy in 3D 👏🏽

All these structures are dwarfed by The Citadel in Half Life 2. It's 8,406 meters tall, 860 meters wide, and goes 230 meters underground.

Very Nicely Done Video

It’s a video I’m thinking of doing myself, wtf is up with Malaysia’s obsession with tall buildings? The twin towers, the exchange 106, and now Merdeka 118. Madness haha but really interesting !

Every building in Egypt should look like a futuristic extension of its Bronze Age kingdoms just like their proposed tower. That would be amazing.

I’m glad you mentioned Egypt, I honestly thought you will just ignore it

In a number of narrations, Prophet Muhammad ﷺ expressed the fact that the Day of Judgment would not pass until the appearance of high-rise buildings among the inhabitants of the Arabian Peninsula. Thus, in Sahih al-Bukhari we read that among the signs of the Day of Judgment is “when the destitute (al-buhm) camelherds compete in building tall structures.” In Sahih Muslim it is written: “you shall see the barefoot, naked, indigent (al-`âla) shepherds compete in building tall structures.”

Wait wait wait. Tokyo thinks its a good idea to put a mile high tower, with WIND slots, on a small man-made ILSAND on the WATER'S edge of a tsunami prone ocean?!

I care most about highest occipied floor. Seeing how tall we can build purely for spectacle is cool, but I just don't care about it as much.

i love tall buildings. I live in utah and I was excited because they are building the new tallest building in SLC right now which is going to be a whopping 451 foot tall building! Nothing compared to other cities!

"One of the signs of Doomsday is the rivalry of bare-footed and poor shepherds (Nomad Arabs) in constructing high buildings and boasting about it." ~ 𝗣𝗿𝗼𝗽𝗵𝗲𝘁 𝗠𝘂𝗵𝗮𝗺𝗺𝗮𝗱 (𝗽𝗯𝘂𝗵)

i like the music you include :)

I wonder if these architects detail all the materials, stresses and logistics of building their designs or they just sell them based on cred and pretty pictures.

One of these days, Dubai should consider putting in a sewer system.

Finally seeing something from Malaysia 🇲🇾💙 in neo

Eventually this just becomes a game of who can build the first space elevator

The tallest building requires a massive number of poop trucks (you read that right) because it is not connected to a sewage system. A bigger building will require a poop train. Why they didn't build a sewage system first? Is not as flashy as the tallest building, that's why.

There'll come a time when there'll be a serious collapse, or series of accidents (that money can't cover up), and that'll be all that's need to make people reconsider competitively build upwards.

Amazing video

great video

Many of these vanity phallic symbols are functionally impotent. They often have trouble filling up their space and when they do it's dysfunctional. In New York the tallest residential skyscrapers have elevators that frequently break down (imagine with having to walk 80 stories worth of stairs or being stuck in an elevator for hours at 1000ft) and to this day Burj Khalifa's septic system relies on a long line of trucks retrieving its sh!t each day because the tower could not be connected to the city's sewage system.

''Build the Jedi tower, you must'' Yoda

This has become my favorite channel to binge! Thanks a lot for creating such amazing content!

7:07 - 7:30 This reminds me so much of Mirror's Edge futuristic metropolis

Imagine being in one of these buildings during a violent storm let alone an earthquake. 😂

Great video but you shouldn't say Architects used techniques to deal with forces. That's the role of the structural engineer not the architect. In Burj Khalifa's case the chief engineer was William Baker. In my experience as a Structural Engineer there are Architects that don't even consider such aspects and focus solely on the aesthetic.

Nice video.

Imagine having to take the stairs all the way up to the top floor in the tallest building in the world.

i think the sears is way more impressive then the petronas

7:15 "Tokyo population challenge" LMAO. THE only population challenge they're having is declining Birthrate

Your channel is just the best! Keep doing this amazing work.

Amazing😎

Jeddah tower (now named King Salam tower) is planned to restart work at the end of 2023. The work of the economy city is still going on. Only the main tower work is paused

in my opinion this is all about people's willing and passion. those were years of competing, prosperity and growth, and Dubai had made everything possible to prove themselves as the one of the biggest tourists cities in the world. but now we're living in the era of global pandemic, conflicts or maybe even on the brink of world war 3

MI 4 for someone who is a daredevil loves roller coasters and heights and is mildly afraid but enjoys the fear of being in them and having been to the Sears Tower w my dad in 1998 when it was tallest building in America and later witnessing the 2nd tallest waterfall in the world Yosemite Falls and praying one day to go to S America n Africa to see Victoria and Angel falls. I never got to before my dad died of stage four cancer but I will never forget the time we spent together even the small things like being on the Amtrack on our way to Las Angeles watching of all movies ironically a film called City of Angels and as it ended....crying and trying to hide it as tough men from one another but letting that go and seeing him cry and letting him see me will go down as one of my favorite moments w my father whom i still miss and I know is w Jesus in Paradise right now because he had faith like no other man i ever knew in person He stood for me like a Giant a man that had the courage of Harry Potter and the enjoying of life of otters and riding waves on a boogie board was his favorite thing to do in life period and Good Vibrations by the beach boys was appropriately his favorite song and his favorite other song w my mom was Time in a Bottle both amazing songs but for me Pet Sounds and going to Ocean City MD makes me cry thinking of my father and anytime I get in a skyscraper anytime I go fishing for he spent most of his days mornings and nights out on the Susquehanna River or a pond or lake near our Cecil County Home in Conowingo MD and I always hated them but we went to the west for one main reason to see Lighthouses on the rocky Pacific coast for my dad and we saw 3 near Seattle and between there and Lake Tahoe Oregon but on the coast so about 200 miles of windy 30 mph coastline but so gorgeous i got why he loves those beacons of light for ships that would otherwise wreck and I think of my dad now w tall buildings in general

As a Chicagoan.. thanks you for calling it the Sears tower

so Spires are like high heels

Prophet Muhammad peace be upon him said "One of the signs of Doomsday is the rivalry of bare-footed and poor shepherds in constructing high buildings and boasting about it.” (Bukhari, Fitan: 25; Ahmad bin Hanbal, Musnad, II/313) How can the prophet muhammad ( peace be upon him ) know about this 1400 years ago? Read about Islam everyone, Islam is the Truth. ❤️

500 years later: the citadel's on full alert i've newer seen it lit up like that!

Can you make a video about the Ethiopian Mesob tower please?

Imagine projects to reduce homelessness, replace shanty towns and be of some utility other than a landmark for capital Not forgetting the lack of sustainability of vanity projects

Proud to be Malaysian 🇲🇾 we are the city with mostly had spire 😂

I love your videos great stuff can't wait for more

VERY VERY GOOD

China still has the most tall skyscrapers. However, It comes to senses that super tall skyscrapers are no longer practical other than for vanity and status statement.

This is one of Prophet Muhammad's prophecies about the future, he mentioned this race 1400 hundred years ago. The Hadith records that Muhammad (pbuh) was asked about the signs of the “Last Hour” and amongst other things, said: “When you see barefoot, naked, destitute shepherds competing in constructing tall buildings.”

I llve these videos

The way you said "Toronto" as "Toronno" let's me know that you're a real one.