Tokyo's Toranomon-Azabudai Development Project is the biggest urban development project in Tokyo's history, it took more than 30 years to plan and start the construction, I went pass the project a few times and it's enormous!
It's an interesting project but with the Japanese government trying to persuade people to leave Tokyo, even offering relocation payments, what do they expect to replace with this?
@@metrognomy1215 This project mostly consist of commercial facilities and office buildings, there are some residential towers but you have to be multi-millionaire to live here. Japanese gov's target are not those, the target is low-mid income people.
@@trainsandmore2319 yep, tax cut for the rich and corporations, they used to have Zaibatsu, now they have Keiretsu, same wine different bottle. And after this project started the land price around it kept rising for years now.
im always happy to see Frankfurt represented. Its a city with only about 700.000 inhabitants while all of these others are far over 1.000.000 most of the time. Im not from Frankfurt myself but from a town near it but im always happy to see Frankfurt anywhere cause its the closest thing i get to international coverage here
The way Japan has created and managed a massive city like Tokyo should be an example for the whole world. So much can be learnt from this city in terms of infrastructure development. Greetings from Pakistan
You know, I am not so sure if I agree? I went to Tokyo in the Autumn and I loved it! But I was a little underwhelmed with the infrastructure and housing. (Maybe because the expectation was so high) The underground was well organised, but not noticeably better than London for example. It all looked a little outdated imo. It also shut really early, so It was always a huge scramble to catch the last train. Night buses aren't really a thing either, meaning you were stuck.. It was quite walkable, but I would say most European Cities are more pedestrian and bicycle friendly.. And finally the housing is all so small. Tiny windows and low ceilings. The architecture for the most part is quite dull, rectangular and grey.. It is definitely a well-organised and super interesting place to visit! But I think the infrastructure of Tokyo is overrated a little in my opinion. Again just my first impressions and opinion from a short trip. I'm sure I could be wrong.
@@brendangonzalez3435 Tokyo has to be built that way, not sure what this "example for the whole world" thing is all about - you'd actually expect New York and Tokyo conceptually to be switched since Japan needs to fit its housing on that one island while the US is more flattened out but Japan is more hilly and lies on a fault line so taller, densely packed buildings aren't feasible. These comments are what I like to call "advertisers", they sound like public speakers constantly announcing to the world that x city exists, holding up their big cardboard signs with arrows painted on them, which turns me off from actually appreciating a nice looking city that is Tokyo.
@@brendangonzalez3435 its totally okay to have different opinion and not like certain things. For me personally, Tokyo is very interesting coz first it is very densely populated, very well prepared to deal with natural calamities, public transport links to every part of the city, very walkable and clean, small gardens and parks are spread out in every neighborhood, very very safe for a city of this size, the high rise districts are spread out throughout the city premises instead of confining it to one area which decreases the congestion and list goes on.. Afterall its a big deal to run a city of this scale and population with this much efficiency. Thats all 😊
Melbourne is on the international scale when it comes to skyscrappers; from Australia 108, to Premier tower, Rialto towers, Eureka tower and now Sapphire by the Gardens. Makes me proud
Lol, cute, but 308 isn’t even Australia’s biggest engineering project finishing this year. The scale and city-wide impact of the Rozelle Interchange makes 308 look small.
would love to see a video at the end of the year of all these buildings and the ones that didnt get complete. Great video as allways, happy new year team.
Here I am looking back through the channels catalogue to see if I've missed watching anything and a brand new and perfect video lands! Can't wait to see what Thet B1M brings to 2023.
In regards to Paris, one place that is definitely seeing a lot of investment ahead of the Olympics however is the public transit. Especially the city's brand new Metro line, Line 15, a ring line, part of the "Grand Paris Express" project, which is specifically planned to link Olympic sites, while also serving as a brand new ring line railway around central Paris, helping to make suburb to suburb trips easier and relieving the existing Metro and RER lines in the city centre
@@karankapoor2701 that's debatable depending on what you define as ghettos. But scientifically speaking one of the best ways to improve conditions in a ghetto is to provide good transit links. More often than not ghettos appear because of relative isolation, aka poor links to the rest of the city. That means people in there have a harder way to get to jobs and the alike, kinda creating an island in the urban region, and as such allowing for the formation of parallel societies.
Politically motivated project. They are making new capital far away from general population, so that a popular uprising like tahrir square can't repeat.
It’s very encouraging to learn that instead of using resources to help fight real problems such as poverty and global warming we’re building the most wasteful unimaginative structures in history like a giant sphere 👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽
Some time in the 23rd century: "Californian high-speed rail expected to complete by the end of the decade. Now let's take a look at the newest chandelier city being built in the Europan ocean."
As always, it is a pleasure to watch and listen to B1M - by far the best in their field. Fantastically well done interesting content every time - many thanks B1M.
This is way in the future, but considering they've substantially changed the plans again, I'd love to see you make a future video on the Washington DC Union Station Redevelopment project. If/when realized, it will surely make Washington Union Station the most modern and capable train station and transit hub in the United States, something we typically fail at over here.
@@dr3754 I love the improvements at both GCS and Penn, but aside from the Moynihan Train Hall at Penn, the changes that are talked about are mostly about connecting new lines of service and the required infrastructure that is needed for these services, such as the East Side Access Project at GCS and the Metro-North project at Penn. What's proposed at Washington Union is a total revamp. Aside from the historic main hall and terminal, the rest of the station is going to be essentially brand new. Improvements include multiple new access points, dedicated pickup/drop off areas, a bus terminal, multiple new concourses, and modernized and widened platforms. The renderings look amazing with train platforms running visibly on the level above the main concourse. While the improvements at GCS and Penn are definitely welcomed and needed, the breadth and scope of what's proposed at WUS is just so extensive. They're basically building a totally brand new station from the ground up behind a the historic building.
Something tells me that the Vegas Grand Prix could prove problematic with the locals. Montreal experienced something like that with the electric formula race being held right in the center of downtown instead of at the race track a few kilometers away. Montreal has a metro system which makes it a lot easier to move around. Vegas does not have that, so without those streets, the problems that Vegas experiences will be far worse.
The thing is Vegas is a completely different city, it's more of a giant tourist attraction than a place to live. Most people in the city centre during the time of the race will only be there to watch it
@@CaliRed1865 Virtually nothing but Casino... You do understand that you are talking about tens of thousands of jobs and several times that many tourists?
2023 really is going to be amazing for construction. The first and last entry really hit one of my favorite architectural styles and I would love to visit them some day
It would be nice to talk or comment on the ecological impacts of such constructions from time to time. I feel like channels like B1M glorifies projects from another era without considering their long term consequences
I agree. They might be impressive but often the do more harm then good, especially projects in the middle east. I think one of the most important things of construction projects is what their implications are and do they really solve the problem they are claiming to solve. This often falls a bit short in B1m videos.
Every single project done here has had environmental impact studies done locally. If you are concerned, you can go and look them up. This is a channel about infrastructure, not trans vegans.
The worst thing about your comment is that you are probably proud of your provocation. I am neither trans nor vegan. I am, however, deeply concerned about the current trends of climate change (so should you by the way) and I believe it would be much more interesting to go in depths about infrastructure projects rather than cheerfully and enthousiastically scratching the surface with no critical thinking. At some point we will have to change the way we construct buildings and infrastructures. Some type of buildings will have to be modified, others will simply be abandonned. This shift is already a key part of engineering. I believe that channels like B1M should encourage and raise awareness about this rather than advertise despendable projects that are frankly harmful for the environment. So yeah, I pretty much think that these "trans vegans" concerns should be talked about, especially on videos about this topic. You should stop opposing ecological concerns and infrastructure projects.
Might I request that the B1M look into the current restoration processes going on within Detroit? There is something very amazing going on with the current restoration of Book Tower at the present moment.
Happy new year Fred and the entire B1M family! I just can't wait to see these projects being completed as scheduled. Keep bringing the good contents on.
How many of these are actually viable and sustainable projects though? Regardless... your videos have sparked a love for engineering I didn't know I had. Looking forward to more good things to come from The B1M in 2023!
France's swimming pool seems like the best, while the title of worst goes to Egypt's dictator city-palace. If there is empty space, especially in a desert, there is absolutely no reason to build skyscrapers. Mid-rises and smaller highrises are really all you need if you want density and costs saving.
My first thoughts seeing Mexico's rail plan: - Aren't there already lots of tourists at these ancient sites? - Why, as a tourist, would I want there to be even more tourists? - What about the nature in between? Personally, I'd rather take a bus than a train full of people visiting exactly the same place. I guess many infrastructure projects these days hit the same question: do we really need them? And also: do we really want the world to be like this?
@@cockiesun that first question is Nonsensical, the fact that there's already lots of tourists is one of the main reason why the project go ahead. The region's potential growth and development is hampered by the fact that the road systems could only handle so much and the government want to make it easier to get around, once that's achieved further growth and development would be possible now that there's two modes of transport in the region instead of one and that's really the ultimate goal not strange at all for a tourist attraction region. The other two questions is a bit more complex so I'd suggest you just watch the B1M's video about it.
Meanwhile my town is (hopefully) finally reopening a main street after a many centuries old house collapsed because it simply was abandoned. Seeing those amazing construction projects around the world makes it feel like I'm living in the middle ages. Keep up the great work, here's to a good 2023!
As a German, i'm honestly upset at the tower in Frankfurt. It shows how the money here in Germany is only going into financial hubs, offices, and businesses. We're richer than even Japan, yet Japan has earned itself a reputation of expertly crafted public transit, beautiful landscaping and architecture, in a place where everything could be shaken to the ground by an earthquake at any moment. I wouldn't have much of a problem with the tower, if we stopped pouring all our money into Bavarian car companies and used that money to actually improve infrastructure and provide the rest of the country with good-looking architecture, not just the places where all the rich people go.
A nitpick: the "main tower" of Azabudai Hills' Japanese name is メインタワー (transliteration of English words "main tower") indeed, but it's not "主塔" as shown in the video. "塔", while does mean "tower" in Japanese (and Chinese), it's mostly reserved for its original/narrower meaning: for structures like Eiffel Tower or Tokyo Tower, or traditional Asian tower a.k.a. pagodas. "Tall buildings" usually aren't referred as 塔. タワー and 塔 are not interchangeable. If you ask Japanese people, they probably have no idea what "主塔" is in this context. I get it the author used "主塔", the kanji, for stylish reasons, but you can't randomly translate katakana loan words to kanji like that.
Thank you for commenting. After reading your explanation, I tried google's translate for "main tower" and it indeed returns "主塔" - I guess that's what they did for the video to add stylish sparkle.
Excellent video, production and script. Liked the humor and the pace. Of course, the upcoming projects are amazing. Would love to see more material from Latin America. I'm sure there might be a couple of interesting things under construction these days.
8:01 Not a single green bridge in sight, just a long dividing line as far as eye can see. I don't know much about local ecosystems, but from where I came from animals migration is quite common. I'm certainly looking into this and will let you know about my finding on this issue.
Happy New Year Fred and the team. Never a dull moment in the building game. Thank you for your time and finally: Ouch! The ballooning cost of that sphere is ridiculous. At the same time as being an evermore common occurrence around the world. Hope that the London one doesn't go the same way, but we have QSes here... How long before it's covered in film promos and toothpaste ads, I wonder? Cynic!
Didn’t expect to see the Tren Maya in it! BTW, have you heard of the “Corredor interoceánico del Istmo de Tehuantepec”? It’s going to be the alternative and competition to the Panama Canal. Supposedly it will transport containers faster across the land than the canal. And a lot of industrial parks will be built alongside the railway, and ultimately it will be connected to the Tren Maya as well.
Another project that's not as big but just as impactful as these mentioned is Montreal's new light rail REM system! After 5 years of prep and construction, the west half will be finished this year and also led to the construction of the Samuel Champlain bridge, an elegant suspended one that gives incoming travellers a perfect view of the Montreal Skyline which is getting two new towers this year as well! Thought this was worth a mention!
We need WAY more transit projects, starting with internet, so people don’t have to transport themselves to work, pedestrians, bikes, busses, brt, light rail/tram, metro, rail, high speed rail, maglev/hyperloop, ferries, plane, and cars, more or less in this order, start with the cheapest, fastest to construct, and most environmentally friendly, and put the megaprojects at the very end, instead of starting with those, and not starting from the ground up, like the pyramid of needs, you need to have a strong foundation, or everything on top will be unstable.
You should have included mthl mumbai, coastal road mumbai, delhi's new convention centre ,central vista,mumbai metro 3,Pamban bridge,delhi mumbai expressway, omkar 1973,lokhandwala Minerva,image tower hyderabad, bangaluru airport terminal2 ,Google new office in hyderabad (biggest outside America),supernova Spira,Raheja revanta, bhutani cyberthum and grandthum,dedicated freight corridor ,katra srinagar baramula rail line,goa international airport,
Excellent video to start 2023 with! Can’t wait to see the completed Azabudai Hills in Tokyo when I’m next there- it was still being completed when I last visited in September last year. By the way, Japanese pronunciation can be difficult, think of it as “tor-a-no-mon az-a-boo-die”
@@sreyasbiswas6169 Azabudai hills is the project featured in the video- it just completed the main tower and the others are following suit. Sure the economy isn’t doing the best here, but it isn’t all doom and gloom.
Sydney’s Rozelle Interchange, opening 2023, is easily Top 10 material here. A gigantic undertaking which will be one of the biggest, if not THE biggest, underground road tunnel interchange in the world. And it will have an amazing impact on transportation around the Harbour City.
Imagine how New York city regulates air rights based on how much of the block you own, or bought air rights above other properties, thankfully no (AFAIK) property owners own both sides of a block enabling them to take the area a street occupied to enlarge their footprint.
The way all these other countries have amazing infrastructure projects or improving community/cities and america's is just a really nice race track and a movie theater sphere. I'm begging for some high speed rails pleaseeeeee
The new capital as a whole is opening in 2023 not just the economic center which is the 20 towers you shown in the video Also the new city is about 20 minutes drive from Cairo and close to multiple mega cities it's not in the desert or remote as much as you think
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