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There is a growing trend for "groundscrapers" - effectively the opposite of skyscrapers - being designed and built in cities. We find out more about these ground hugging buildings. For more videos by The B1M subscribe now - ow.ly/GxW7y
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@sarcasmo57 6 лет назад

I invented the time scraper, it's just a single small room that everyone in the company takes turns at using as their office.

@Volodimar 6 лет назад

What a underrated comment! )

@ginglyst 6 лет назад

did you invent the loo ?

@unhelpfulrevelations7989 6 лет назад

sarcasmo57 ha I love it

@andrewschulzsd 6 лет назад

Lol

@Q99g 6 лет назад

wow it could also be very long on the w axis (the fourth one)

@VictorStuber 6 лет назад

So...a regular building? Also, the whole point of a skyscraper is that you get tons of space in a tiny footprint.

@Sahadi420 6 лет назад

yes, in cities where an acre of land runs you 8 million dollars, skyscrapers are the way to go. However, in more rural areas, they (the people that live there) don't want 1000 ft buildings screwing up the view. The builders would never get the permit to put up an "eyesore" skyscraper. So, they buy land that isn't uber expensive outside of the city, and then build a skyscraper sized building, in the form of a groundscraper, that cost 60% of the price. Not to mention the layout is: 1) better for the people to interact with each other. 2) easier to move people horizontally, then vertically 3) easier to take care of maintenance-wise 4) Groundscrapers FTW in case of a fire!! Many more exits, and no need to come down from heights unreachable by emergency personnel. The building would be cleared way quicker, with a much smaller % of the building being in imminent danger.

@braydenkarpinski3637 6 лет назад

Well it’s a building that is the opposite also it’s a waste of space

@rosshanley6110 6 лет назад

Agreed just a stupid name for a big building wasting tons of space that could be used for housing or parks, is this going to be a new thing now in Manhattan, a ground scraper taking up 15 block 😂😂groundscraper, probably the stupidest name I've ever heard 👎🏻

@butchmcqueen5625 5 лет назад

Victor Stuber the video isn’t disputing the purpose of a skyscraper and more so, goes into detail about groundscapers and their benefits to some. And yeah, it’s a regular building and so are skyscrapers.

@zoiuduu 4 года назад

@@Sahadi420 screwing up the view? u said word that french ppl said before the eiffel tower lo

@ajkelley1012 7 лет назад

I feel like these are illogical? The whole point of a sky scraper is to use little land for a lot of office space, this does none of that.

@hitemwid1t 6 лет назад

Drew Kelley land is cheaper than global warming

@ThePrickTrollSpammer 6 лет назад

And they use up nature and old buildings

@kostirkodanylo 6 лет назад

Drew Kelley but they link workers and workspaces

@kalebbruwer 6 лет назад

It makes sense if land is cheaper. And that one is build over a train station- space that would otherwise not be used. If the land a groundscaper stands on becomes too valuable to be wasted like that, someone will demolish it and build a skyscraper in its place.

@allamericandude15 6 лет назад

Building designers don't always care about minimizing land use. Skyscrapers are common in cities because land is expensive and densely packed, so minimizing land use is a priority. But in other places outside a city, it isn't as much.

@bristoled93 6 лет назад

Groundscrapers in London, It's not like London is crowded or anything.

@TheB1M 6 лет назад

+bristoled93 wait, you’re being sarcastic aren’t you?

@bristoled93 6 лет назад

Yes I am, groundscrapers are very space inefficient.

@ligametis 6 лет назад

well if you think more it makes that particular area less crowded than skyscrapers would :)

@ds15ful 6 лет назад

@@ligametis a groundscraper will be more stable during an earthquake as well, and yes I know that skyscrapers are also safe as it can be seen in Japan, but still a groundscraper will have more stability due to the way it is constructed.

@dereban5654 6 лет назад

@@ds15ful relative to the original comment, earthquake resistance isn't really relevant due to the lack of earthquakes in the UK. I think earthquake resistance would also depend on where exactly the building is constructed, as it takes up a large area on the ground

@JorgeOrpinel 6 лет назад

Groundscrapers are not a thing. It's just called a "large building".

@TheB1M 6 лет назад

+Jorge Orpinel Yeah. But that doesn’t sound as cool.

@megaswenson 6 лет назад

Jorge Orpinel, EXACTLY!

@moshambles 6 лет назад

Classic example of commenting, before watching the whole video

@Minptahhathor 6 лет назад

“ that moves “

@pneumonoultramicroscopicsi4065 6 лет назад

@@TheB1M click bait jesus christ what a dumb fuck I learned a false information

@hououinkyouma9438 6 лет назад

I thought this would mean they would go underground.

@Yudicopter 6 лет назад

I guess this would be called "earthscrapper". There are some projects about it, but they're all speculations.

@iMergeAndSee 5 лет назад

i think they call em underground scrapers.

@mashy712 4 года назад

Look up iceberg houses. Those what I thought of ground scrapers

@thecreep5123 4 года назад

El psy kangalee...

@Ruddpocalypse 3 года назад

Only a mad scientist would think that

@russodee4354 4 года назад

What I think people seem to be forgetting is that groundscrapers are perfect for building over the kind of existing infrastructure that people may not want to have below them in living in a house or apartment, such as a railway tracks, industrial facilities or even a freeway. ( you would build them simultaneously)

@jamescrowther1234 7 лет назад

Can't imagine there's a lot of land going for this to massively take off in the UK... I may be wrong

@samueldent3159 7 лет назад

jamescrowther1234 I

@ThePrickTrollSpammer 6 лет назад

Couldn't agree more

@DavidDewis 6 лет назад

Outside of current Cities, its possible. Big companies like Google can practically build anywhere and have a village built up around them. This happened with Toyota in Japan. There is literally a Place called Toyota City which houses the thousands of workers of the factory.

@Stinkmeaner420 6 лет назад

Disko H yh, because it's not practical to build anywhere else.

@justauser 6 лет назад

Over top of streets perhaps?

@liamtahaney713 4 года назад

"large amounts of office space needed for global corporations" Not anymore....

@moorfang 6 лет назад

What groundscraper? Nonsense. It's just a short building that's occupying a lot of land which renderers it impractical in cities where land is precious. Skyscrapers create a lot of space with limited use of land and are the logical way for urban development. If groundscraper is even a term, a stretch of townhouses would essentially be a groundscraper as well.

@Sahadi420 6 лет назад

Totally right Sen. But the point here is that these companies DON'T WANT TO BE IN THE CITY. LOL So, instead of making an eyesore 1000 foot building in the middle of nowhere, they basically make their office space similar to a local mall setup. No worries about getting permits to put up a 1000 ft building, and all the added cost of making such a building. I love this concept, as long as the rooftop of these buildings is put to use. I think a huge park on top would be cool, with plenty of space for "eyesore solar panels" that no one would ever see.

@DesA-hj7ms 6 лет назад

Building on top of train tracks is genius though. So many kilometres of track that can be built over. And if you make the building provide some form of indoor tram or shuttle for transport....it creates a very viable space for essentially 0 land cost.

@aussiecarl6970 6 лет назад

+Desmond Aranha You right! That's seriusly smart!

@feynstein1004 6 лет назад

+Desmond Aranha That seems like a good idea tbh.

@befer 4 года назад

@@Sahadi420 trust me, the real eyesore is a big ass ugly ass block of concrete that doesn't end rather than a slim, good looking building that points to the sky.

@BrandonRamirezJ 7 лет назад

buildings this length should include some sort of mechanical transportation to transport to each side of it like a small scale subway or elevators that move horizontally as well as vertically.

@Hillelize 7 лет назад

Brandon Ramirez or allowing people to use their feet. working in an office in a tower, sedentarity gets really bad

@BrandonRamirezJ 7 лет назад

Hillel Cohen while i'm all for exercise, time is money and you can't make people walk the distance of a horizontal skyscraper every time they need to go to visit different departments or when they need to get to a meeting on time.

@Hillelize 7 лет назад

I hear you. I am working on 7th floor and I often need to do meeting on the 9th. I spend so much time waiting for those stuffy elevators that I often have to take the stairs. With a system as we can find at the airport things could work.

@Sahadi420 6 лет назад

Real easy, treadmills. Pennies on the dollar in cost to elevators that need to go 1000 feet up. Hell, I bet they'd even have bike lanes inside.

@BrandonRamirezJ 6 лет назад

Sahadi420 ok but how wide shall they be without compromising square footage? it’s not a bad concept but can you imagine how many people will be trampling over each other every morning even on conveyor belt that are typically very tight (even the ones in airports)? remember you’ll need them to be going both ways and they need enough space for people to move at their own pace.

@martineyles 6 лет назад

If going for a groundscraper, why not build a campus, with separate buildings and open space.

@BassGuitarGuy128 6 лет назад

more buildings = more exposed surfaces = more heat gain/loss

@decc0484 6 лет назад

less density too

@CarvedParachute 5 лет назад

The Eyles exactly

@joermnyc 4 года назад

I think that’s why Apple built a circle with a private park inside.

@lzh4950 4 года назад

@@BassGuitarGuy128 But more exposed surfaces also means more natural light & less energy consumed by artificial lighting

@LC-pv9xh 4 года назад

I've always thought a ground scraper was basically a horizontal skyscraper and didn't really think of the Pentagon being considered one. I pass The Squaire in Frankfurt at least once weekly since it's at the airport. The building is so huge that it contains two Hilton Hotels with the office space as well as an entrance to the long distance train station. I actually think it's a marvelous piece of architecture.

@ruhri0411 4 года назад

1:36 Frankfurt loves skyscrapers. The only reason why a groundscraper was built there is the airport megahub, to which the building belongs. A skyscraper at this location would therefore not be possible at all.

@juschku8273 3 года назад

plus the Train Station below was already existing so there was no extra land required

@puffinjuice 6 лет назад

There is absolutely nothing remarkable about groundscrapers

@ligametis 6 лет назад

same can be said about skyscrapers that are destroying ancient European church tower skylines.

@idocare1954 6 лет назад

@@ligametis it's 2018 not that much people even care about religon, just imagine in 2030 less people are gona care

@ligametis 6 лет назад

@@idocare1954 There is still magnificent beauty in churches and even non religious people have a strange unexplained feelings when they visit them. Churches are highest level of art, they combine history, masonry, drawings, sculpture, overall best what people have achieved. New buildings can be art but they are still ages away from church architecture.

@idocare1954 6 лет назад

@@ligametis Yea true what you said, but you can't let religon hold science back you have to always progress.

@lonestarr1490 5 лет назад

@@idocare1954 It's not like skyscrapers are the home of science (at least not in the same way churches are the home of religion). They're more like the home of money.

@georgesealy4706 5 лет назад

For a number of years I worked in a large horizontal building that housed a Fortune 100 company. It was 4 stories tall and spread out over many, many acres. One thing that was nice was that parking was under the building and so one's car was only a short elevator ride away. That was great in the cold, snowy winters. You never would fall on your butt getting to your car and never had to scrape your windows. The car was always moderately warm. But the bad thing about such a building was the walking and walking involved to meet with associates. My office was at one of the extreme edges, so I was always walking. It's not a bad thing from the fitness point of view, but it does get old when you have 3 or 4 meetings and sometimes back to back.

@baraodascolinas979 2 года назад

horizontal elevators or travelators (capable of both vertical and horisontal movement) can be used to solve the internal displacements problem, they should be standard for this type of building.

@toddbonin6926 6 лет назад

This is the best channel!!!

@TheB1M 6 лет назад

Thank you! ✊️✊️

@cheungch1990 6 лет назад

I wonder what the life of pedestrians looks like under these "groundscraper". They may look stunning from afar, but it must be a quite monotonous experience to walk 15 min on a street sided with one single building. They should have at least make it more stylistically eclectic and allows a variety of small shops and public space to flourish on the ground level. Instead, what they have created is simply something that looks pretty from the drone's/god's perspective, not from a pedestrian's perspective. I mean, it might be acceptable for this kind of lifeless "groundscrapers" to be built in the countryside, but to occupy a huge space in city center? No thanks.

@dernwine 4 года назад

In Frankfurts Squire at least I can promise you that as a pedestrian you wont be walking alongside it for long.

@ta192utube 4 года назад

So, who walks these days?

@oggyreidmore 2 года назад

What about a "Corescraper" which is like a skyscraper but is built hundreds of stories downward underground. This eliminates the need for complicated temperature controls because the temperature is fairly constant underground. It also doesn't impact the skyline, and if built large enough and in the proper location can have a geothermal generator that powers the building on the bottom floor.

@saybanana 5 лет назад

Los Angeles has a groundscraper - residential building called One Santa Fe. You can google images. I feel it mimics the subway train yard next to it but also is similar to the long building across the street.

@benthejrporter 4 года назад

I live in a groundscraper. It's a caravan which lost its wheels... Boom boom!

@fuckfannyfiddlefart 6 лет назад

Google is too big, time to break up the monopoly.

@AnonymousUser77254 6 лет назад

fuckfannyfiddlefart Do I detect a Bryan Lunduke subscriber?

@fuckfannyfiddlefart 6 лет назад

No, but I'll take a search

@kalebbruwer 6 лет назад

The internet is built around them being one company. I guess breaking off youtube wouldn't cause problems, but their advertisement income would be hard to break up since its point of sale is that it is the internet's single stop for people who want to post or host adverts.

@RebusForever 4 года назад

I think I prefer the term 'sidescraper'. Save groundscrapers for when we build big, underground.

@MrKostkapotocki 4 года назад

outdated after coronatimes. we just need homes and internet connection.

@dorettflorett 4 года назад

jan prokop That is the interesting point of watching videos years later, it was my thinking, too, when seeing the Apple and google headquarters - having been empty now for 4 months or so and still for quite some months to come (due to COVID-19 - for those who read these comments years later). Me too, for 4 months just a laptop and my mobiles, no printer, no fancy office, no canteen etc, nothing than the screen, with my colleagues on it, once in a while 🙂- but the work goes on and - it works.. So..?

@jameskelmenson1927 5 лет назад

One of my favorite videos from this channel

@sandradermark8463 3 года назад

One of my fave too

@robertc7896 6 лет назад

So a skyscraper is a building that is taller than it is wide and a groundscraper is a building that is wider than it is tall ...

@ligametis 6 лет назад

wow there are a lot of medieval skyscrapers in Amsterdam :)

@david0aloha 6 лет назад

I love the German building built around a train station. That's ingenious.

@Jesuis-qe8ql 4 года назад

The groundcrapers most resemble a high-speed train station or central, but it is in the United States where nala trains do not exist and only diesel and coal trains exist.

@dorcasslane299 4 года назад

You have a calming voice

@goodtimes333888 5 лет назад

You guys have the coolest videos!

@knowledgejoy3554 6 лет назад

Informative

@MilciadesAndrion 4 года назад

Great video and explanations.

@ReneeStevens98 6 лет назад

This is brilliant! They can be built above highways in urban areas, saving both money and space!

@grelymolycremp7838 6 лет назад

Amazing building, love the design and layouts. Sadly cities have space problems and building up is the only choice.

@dustywaxhead 6 лет назад

I see good use for this in car centric metro areas and perhaps near airports. Skyscrapers are better in nearly every way

@kalebbruwer 6 лет назад

Caleb Gallegos Skyscrapers are more expensive to build per m^2 of floor space you get, but they save you on land space. You could draw a graph of what height is the most cost effective for the land value and this will be at the opposite end where land is laughably cheap compared to downtown areas.

@drmodestoesq 6 лет назад

I like the Apple headquarters. It seems easy to defend from external attack. You could hole up in there for months to resist a long siege.

@veggieboyultimate 4 года назад

As ambitious this may sound, it could be worth a try in order to help environments. It could also save some people whenever a mass extinction occurs (though hopefully it won’t be soon).

@Odin029 6 лет назад

These 'groundscrapers' strike me as a horrible idea. I just think of all of the land beneath these buildings that could be used for something else. There could be 3 buildings with the office space of the new Google London headquarters situated on the same footprint. It's almost like pretentious tech people got together to figure out the least efficient use of land possible.

@MarkEdisonAlviz-official 4 года назад

West: Groundscrapers Philippines: MALLS

@fahaamkhan6045 4 года назад

Here in Karachi Pakistan is a ground scrapper known as finance and trade center it's really an incredible building.

@DailyDiscountNL 6 лет назад

1:40 I have seen that one on the 'autobahn'! Thought it was a ship!

@GavinStCyr-nn4xn 4 года назад

“Time to go to lunch just have to walk a mile through this building”

@skyscraperfan 5 лет назад

As a work enviroment groundscrapers can be very nice. In a skyscraper the floors seperate people quite a lot. Of course you can take the elevator or stairs between floors, but you usually won't, unless you have a specific reason. In a groundscraper more than a thousand people work at the same floor and you do not feel like in a cage. I love skyscrapers very much an outside spectator, but they have some downsides. Usually you can't open the windows and you are quite disconnected from the city.

@mattiacecconi7631 4 года назад

What about “il lingotto”, a former FIAT (FCA) production plant? I think it is one of the earliest examples in Italia

@palmolive2005 4 года назад

Or Ford's River Rouge plant in Detroit . . .

@kreaturen 6 лет назад

Groundscrapers seldom create more socially inclusive spaces around them. Most often they create totally dead spaces around them, and pretty much becomes walls for anyone who needs to get past them. The examples in this video weren't too shabby, but most groundscrapers are boring dead slabs that get in the way of further city development. Especially development that are friendly and interesting for pedestrians.

@ThePrickTrollSpammer 6 лет назад

This is a very dumb idea. A lot of nature and Iconic architecture will be needed to sacrificed for this waste of space. We already suffer great lack of space, so why not just go for the skyscrapers and stack instead of spread?

@kalebbruwer 6 лет назад

YORAMRW II Not all areas lack space that much. There are vast suburban areas where I live and I assume those close to city centers are being replaced by larger buildings with time. This wouldn't be such a waste there. Just a regular building taking up its own block entirely.

@brickman409 6 лет назад

While there may be a lot of crowded dense cities in the world, there's also a lot of wide open spaces out there as well.

@Sahadi420 6 лет назад

not at all. Think about all the strip malls you pass by as you go down roads in your area. Now think about if they were all linked together under one roof, how much space would be saved. Just make the roof a green one, like google's at 0:25, with solar panels, and maybe even wind turbines on top to boot. Looks like Apple's "spaceship" is one massive solar panel roof!!! The one in Germany, over the train tracks is my "how not to do it" style. Yes, it's over train tracks, which is cool.....but it looks like a giant ship in dry dock.

@aussiecarl6970 6 лет назад

+Sahadi420 I like the design

@Bronze_Age_Sea_Person 6 лет назад

Nature and Iconic archictecture can even be improved with them.five-story buildings were common since roman times or even more ancient than that,so you could take the space of ugly,inexpensive five-story buildings and transform into a giant and beautiful groudscraper that could even have a neoclassic style fused with lots of solar panels and plants like Apple's HQ.I would love to see some Neo-Gothic,Neo-Baroque and Neo-Victorian style buildings. Actually,like the guy said about strip malls being transformed into a big building,in my city,the two most beautiful(and quite big compared to the rest of the buildings here) buildings are "groundscraper-ish" Shopping malls located in the heart of the city.One's style is victorian,while the other is baroque,and both are facing two large parks.It should be noticed that our public transport is way better than most of US cities(I'm from Brazil)as the culture of using cars to go everywhere doesn't quite exist here(most things we buy in the suburbs at walking distance,malls here are for fancy or unusual stuff).

@jsponson 6 лет назад

I sort of get it. It's like connecting a series of conventional low-rise buildings. To go from one corner of the building to another, you don't have to get to the ground floor, go out, go back in at the other side and then go up to whatever floor. It eliminates crossing any vehicle traffic too (a "groundscraper" can span more than a small city block).

@YTBKd 6 лет назад

Nice info. Also, one more advantage I see in groundscapers is evacuation. A person can climb down 5 floors easily compared to 100 and also fire won’t propagate that fast horizontally. Also, fire brigade can reach affected area quickly and easily.

@kalebbruwer 6 лет назад

Kedar Kshirsagar I doubt that modern, up to standard skyscrapers are that flammable. I know old ones are known to catch fire from time to time. But I agree these buildings will evacuate much faster.

@iwilitu6591 6 лет назад

What's the point? I thought we were lacking space?

@jeremiahperry1958 4 года назад

Should have released this on April 1!

@dlwatib 6 лет назад

Looks to me like a silly term in search of a definition. I've never heard of the Pentagon being referred to as a groundscraper, and I don't think it adds anything to the language to refer to it as such. A groundscraper by my definition is a large mechanical device for shaping the earth, like e.g. a grader for roads or agricultural fields. Even skyscraper is a rather silly term that smacks of hyperbole. A large building that is not a skyscraper is a low-rise. High-rise is preferable to skyscraper as being more accurate. No building no matter how high can actually scrape the sky. If you feel the need for another gradation, you can always use mid-rise.

@pamsimonson5500 5 лет назад

Seriously my train station mall idea ideas for every major city of the future. Do everything with it

@elkid6743 5 лет назад

Please limit 'your facetime' on the videos, add text to video when you say things like names of the buildings. Nice videos, thank you for sharing.

@pamsimonson5500 5 лет назад

This seriously makes such sense

@robertwoodward4992 6 лет назад

Love this channel

@TheB1M 6 лет назад

We love our viewers more!

@davidandresduenas3326 6 лет назад

Gran canal!

@yaboi-km2qn 6 лет назад

The problem is it takes up loads of floor space so you have to buy loads of land which makes them very expensive.

@firesurfer 4 года назад

Not necessarily. You have to compare it to alternatives already existing.

@ONECOUNT 4 года назад

Back in 1963 at the New York world's fair At&t built a brethtaking ground scraper even as a kid I saw the possibilities of it. It looked like a large space ship resting on its cradle. You took escalators up to what we could call a sky lobby and sat on an endless row of seats that carried you sideways through the whole building. If you like that building check out the Ford, GM, IBM and Kodack pavilians as well. Oh and AT&T waz Ma Bell the telephone monopoly.

@lytken 6 лет назад

a little about i huge offices building we have here in Denmark: The story of Bøje Nielsens Center Syd, which is called "Bøjes's memory" - is symptomatic of the failure from failure to success at Avedøre Holme: Denmark's longest office center Syd was recorded in record time in 1982, but immediately became a failure. There was a refurbishment before the house became the success that companies today stand in line to get into. All of the Center South's 70,000 square meters are now leased to companies like L.M. Ericsson, Skandia and Hvidovre Kopicenter. Just as the owner's owner, RD, lives there. Alone building pace and scratched architecture contributed to the disappearance of customers in the beginning. Bøje Nielsen got into a concrete element factory on the site, and it became 2,000 square meters a day, which was the prerequisite for the rapid expansion of the center: 70,000 square meters in just 10 months. But the rent did not come at the same rate, and the office building became one of the millestones that contributed to the fall of Bøje Nielsen.

@nitelite78 6 лет назад

What about earth scrapers? Buildings built down into the earth. When or if we get to a stage that energy is extremely cheap e.g. with nuclear fusion, perhaps building down will become viable for things like living spaces. Densely populated areas with little room for new buildings might benefit from this a lot. If energy is cheap enough you can create comfortable environments and cost effectively mimic natural lighting and temperature.

@DaHitch 6 лет назад

So what you are saying is that a larger building can contain more stuff? I hope someone puts you up for a Nobelprize or something, because that is fucking genius.

7 лет назад

el precio por m2 sigue siendo un factor en contra de los "groundscrapers"

@fuzzythinker3533 6 лет назад

People... a groundscraper is not a skyscraper. Also, it is also easier to fight a fire in a short building than a tall one. Fire fighting cannot effectively be done from outside the building if the building is over eight stories tall. The exceptions would be if you have a very tall crane nearby, air-drop water or some other extreme method.

@kysputnikable 6 лет назад

Why not dig deep down like how Umbrella Corp did?

@zentraveler1834 4 года назад

Admire your work, and nice to put a face to the voice.

@rpminternet2805 6 лет назад

I like these concepts....

@I_Ansari 6 лет назад

Please make detail about the groundscrapers

@austinnrood951 6 лет назад

These buildings seem to forget that the point of skyscrapers are to save space. It would make more sense for groundscraper to be the name of a building that goes below ground for many stories.

@technojunkie123 6 лет назад

Okay I can see how these can be more aesthetically pleasing that giant skyscrapers that can puncture a city skyline, but how would there be enough space for many companies to do this?

@lilaclizard4504 6 лет назад

This would work really well in regional towns in Australia. These companies tend to be linked to everything via the internet & there's networks of small rural cities in Australia trying to attract big companies & investors to increase local city size & decrease urban sprawl in places like Sydney & Melbourne evocities.com.au/evobusiness/ Armidale would be perfect for the types of businesses profiled here - they could buy as much land as they liked, build their huge campus/building/whatever they want to call it, build accommodation for their workers on the same space if they wanted to, or just have the government build new roads or public transport infrastructure for their every need/vision. I can't see this working for many companies in existing cities, but if they choose the right location, in an established area that's not a true city but wanting to become one, this would work brilliantly

@gojewla 4 года назад

These are not “new” types of buildings. It’s just that nowadays people keep coming up with stupid names for everything, regardless of whether they are needed or not.

@a.b.h.washere857 4 года назад

Wow! Both the first skyscraper and groundscraper were in Chicago

@tanithrosenbaum 6 лет назад

Phenomenon. A phenomenon, many phenomena. NOT a phenomena.

@TheB1M 6 лет назад

+Tanith Rosenbaum you’re right, sorry!

@goobot1 6 лет назад

What about a groundskyscraper?

@KaraKhitan 6 лет назад

lots of land gives you lots of space. wow.

@edwinfelix2419 6 лет назад

Wow, so much hate in the commentsection. Do you realize that (atleast in Europe) you cant just build sky scrapers everywhere, because it will ruin the historic view and atmosphere of the city?? They usually put a limit on how high you may build in which area.

@lilaclizard4504 6 лет назад

In Australia building heights & areas are limited to stop people interfering with the sunlight of others (for personal enjoyment, growing gardens & powering solar panels that are on so many homes & office buildings). We like our sun :)

@adamsmailes5484 6 лет назад

Many typical British cities (IE not Birmingham or London) suffer from 3 major drawbacks 1. Hills. Newcastle and Bristol are both built on or in hilly areas, as are many other large towns and cities. These means that to build out, rather than up, you need to terraform vast tracts of historic or beautiful hills and cliffs, some pre-dating humanity. By building up, this can be negated. 2. Most British cities have road networks dating back to the Victorians, if not much older. This means that to build a several-hundred-meter long office block, road and rail networks will have to be redesigned. In congested towns and cities like Gateshead and Edinburgh, this simply is not practical 3. As mentioned in the video, and in the above comments, British cities lack space. Conurbations cover hundreds of square miles and sprawling buildings like these only make things worse. I don't want to seem like a complete hater mind! I did like the German idea of building above train stations. Open, ugly and cheap stations, as often found on lightc rail and local rail services in the UK, might be improved with offices, cafe's ETC above them. It'd at least keep the rain at bay!

@bigMACDavey 6 лет назад

Hatescraper

@frenkvortice3858 6 лет назад

fuck history.

@ligametis 6 лет назад

for me history and heritage is a lot more important than future and skyscrapers

@HellsToyMaster 3 года назад

Why did no one ever think of this? Oh wait, they did. The reason Sky scrapers came into being was because of the price of land made it cheaper to go up rather horizontal.

@EnjoyFirefighting 3 года назад

in some places like the example from Frankfurt am Main the space on the ground is occupied already but it used for another purpose right above its primary use ...

@michalmilko8347 5 лет назад

Scientific Center for Electronic and Computing Technology in Moscow is 763m long, I really expected you mention this building.

@LeZylox 6 лет назад

This is just a long building...

@MilanKazarka 4 года назад

We called it "the wall" in my home-town - a very loooooooong building.

@cs_fl5048 4 года назад

Traffic flow doesn't rely on small elevators so people moving can be amazingly faster. Fire control, should it happen, is WAY easier. Lots of advantages.

@FarsightAE 3 года назад

Ah, a building. So innovative.

@Peizxcv 6 лет назад

Wow, I didn’t know the strip mall I visited the other day is a marvel of engineering. That building must be 500m end to end

@QuarioQuario54321 4 года назад

The term groundscraper to me sounds like a building that goes very deep into the ground. Would something that goes underwater be a called a seascraper?

@memexpert 2 года назад

There's a reason why skyscrapers exist...

@rekless1875 6 лет назад

Sky scraper gets its name because from the ground it looks as if its scraping the sky. So Ground scraper is just a long building and ocean scraper is oceananic metropolis. Oceania would make a good city name.

@sunpictures7053 4 года назад

Awesome voice

@MJofLakelandX 6 лет назад

Baltimore rowhouses are great example of this concept. Once one building burns to a fire, they all burn together like a domino.

@Timmyval123 6 лет назад

Wtf, you defeat the purpose of a sky scraper.

@agbag8185 3 года назад

That's why it's not a skyscraper?

@MakeMeThinkAgain 6 лет назад

Some disadvantages: Because there are no efficient high-speed intra-building transportation systems, it takes longer to get from point to point in a groundscraper that in a skyscraper. (Though the additional walking could have health advantages.) Unless the city street grid continues under the groundscraper, they would tend to fragment cities the same way freeways do.

@ringracer6203 6 лет назад

The longest Groundscraper is the big Hotel on Prora, Germany. It was built by Adolf Hitler during the WW2 and was designed to be a Hotel that every (German) could effort but it was never completed. The building structure was completed but the interior weren't completed because they needed the money for the war. It is 4,5km/2,8miles long but only 2,5km of this colossus can be used because the USSR destroyed 2km by busting. Some blocks are restored. In one of them is a youth hostel and in another is a museum. This building is absolutly gigantic.

@aacmove 5 лет назад

My office has 5 floors. Floor 1 is underground so you can imagine the view (yes nothing but a 50 foot mud bank) Took me forever to find my way around as not all floors cover the whole space. We have a walkway on level three (same as reception) and my floor (4) is at ground level, because there is nothing beneath us. Very tiring trying to find meeting locations. Up, down, up down, left right, across, and back to where you started. But, there is a rule where we work. No building can be higher than the surrounding landscape as we are in a national park, in the South of France.

@sandradermark8463 3 года назад

In the Camargue?

@sandradermark8463 3 года назад

In the Camargue?

@somaskhan 6 лет назад

problem is land prices where in new york one square meter can cost 100000 or even more.

@knutrokne3653 5 лет назад

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Palace_of_the_Parliament This really should have been included as it's something like 10% bigger in floorspace than the Pentagon. Although I could see it being argued it's not purely an office building.

@morriemukoda45 4 года назад

I hate architects labelling every building with a catchy term which become the flavour of the month and everyone rushes in to do the same thing for the next decade.

@henrikpettersson2886 6 лет назад

I looove this chanel

@palm0607 7 лет назад

This page needs a lot more subscribers !!!!!!

@TheB1M 7 лет назад

We know!! :-)

@passenger8705 6 лет назад

You forget about the second largest office bildings in the world. Chaushesko palace in Budapest.

@dimitristsekeris1821 4 года назад

"A groundscraper is a building that expands more horizontaly rather than verticaly". Apparently we became so accustomed to skyscrapers that we forgot lowrise buildings exist.

@lothean2099 4 года назад

The downfall to groundscapers is that they take up much needed land. If all businesses adapted this concept, cities would be even larger and we still have less land.