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The powers that run this world stop making buildings like this so future generations can control the narrative of history like they do today. And the best way to do that is to use materials in buildings that will rot and decay in a relatively short space of time. Stone buildings like those of the last last for thousands of years. A lot of people know that the history we are taught is a load of deal and the ancient architecture of the last shows that more than anything else. It's all about control 😓
@@thedarkenigma3834 I don't know exactly, but something is very wrong. When limestone and marble are destroyed 50 years after building according to their script . Go back and look at this behemoth of a building. .
My dad took me to NYC in 1964 at age 6. While there, he took to a huge hole in the ground ringed in plywood and said, "Son, you are looking at one of the greatest crimes of the 20th century."
If anyone wants to get an idea of how it's like to walk in the waiting area of the old Penn Station, visit Ottawa in Canada. The Senate of Canada building was the former central train station, and the main waiting room was also inspired by the Baths of Caracalla. It looks almost exactly the same as the old Penn Station's, but in 3/4 scale.
The brutalist designs that became more popular around 30-80 were pretty bad, but the Art Deco was not a downgrade, the Chrysler Building is still one of the most beautiful edifices in the entire world. Just saying.
Mister klein. Thank your rome hating people who are architects, civil lawyers and ngo owners who pressed for modernist stuff bcause they hate everything european
It definitely looks striking but it's not remotely close to the top 10, and it's not even its fault. It's simple and sleek but not to a degree that makes it THAT beautiful.
Yeah cause the J’s seized control via the Federal Reserve the same time we started making money, hijacking’s our ability to be something more than we are today.
You can still visit the Croton Aqueduct. Parts of it have been preserved as historic sites and greenways for walking and biking. It's a pretty nice day trip, if you live close by.
why do people act like nyc isnt 100x better now than it was in the 70s to 90s. Back then NYC looked like war torn berlin. NYC is much more beautiful than ppl give credit for
@@lechosenone7016 NYC has been preety ugly for a while now, unsafe streets, gangs and drug addict capital since the 1950s after all, a ney yorker is more likely to bite you in NYC than a shark in the ocean, after all. But it didn't take such a toll on the city back then and not at the scael it does now, the sheer lack of maintenance overshadows the newer works. It is certainly not better, and it hasn't been in a while. On the other hand I'd say New Jersey is looking good now.
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My father used to work at the (now defunct) Grand Prospect Hall, a beautiful 1903 Victorian style banquet hall in Brooklyn. Between my fascination with that building, and reading the Great Gatsby in HS, I found great admiration for early 20th century NYC and used it as a reference in art classes, so it's the version of the city I'm used to seeing. But whenever I see what they've done to the skyline in person, I feel disgusted. In the never ending tale of NYCs destruction, that aforementioned Grand Prospect Hall was torn down in 2022 to make way for an apartment block.
As always, an interesting video with cool facts that enrich what I knew. Can't wait to visit New York again and look for the hidden Roman architecture!
New Yorker here. Not sure how new Tom's is but love the Seinfeld reference! Also I be was hiking the Old Croton Aqueduct trail just this weekend! Amazing feat for it's time
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A lot of smaller American cities still have skylines like this, but on a smaller scale. It's pretty neat to see a skyline untouched from the depression era.
There’s a lot of places where you can still catch the vibe to be honest especially around lower midtown and Wall Street. There’s even some Babylonian looking buildings with wild stone work.
@@dbyspae122 Tartaria was the name given to the Eurasian Steppes by Medieval historians It was inhabited by Tatars and it was a hellish wasteland In Greek "Tartarus" was the name for hell...Medieval historians were fluent in Greek and Latin Not hard to see why they called that land Tartaria
@@Svenburchard The Empire State Building took less than 18 months. There's MOUNTAINS of evidence documenting how it was done. Hard work and loads of planning can do all sorts of incredible things. Nothing "suspecious" [suspicious] about it if you understand anything about project planning.
@@byEFoxjust because someone doesn’t believe the whole ratardian empire theory, doesn’t mean they advocate just blindly following the official narrative without question. And if the original commenter thought asking questions was bad as you implied, why would he tell people to look it up for themselves in his comment?
@@udontknowhoiambutiknowhereuliv Don't listen to these...ugh, beings, they make everything sound like the end of the world, and have zero hope in their tone of mind. I'm going to drink a delicious cup of fruit punch with shaved ice now, and give the middle finger to these freaks of nature that have started popping up from god knows where.
I visited New York in the early 1980s when it seemed to still retain something of its earlier style , at least as I strolled amongst it. I would have loved to have experienced the ferry ride around it to see its skyline in 1945 or even 1950. Most of what has grown up all over Manhattan seems boxy and the same as everywhere else now.The city of London ,meaning the district around the St Pauls Cathedral has been tragically built all over by weird shaped buildings which drown the famous cathedral which survived the Blitz, when they could have added interest to the modern new Financial Quarter at Docklands further along the river.
The empire state building is a mix of late art noveau architecture (similar to the busch tower in midtown built in 1917) and art deco facade stone geometry.
@@Minptahhathor arches were an important step in ARCH-itecture bc the skill it takes to make them based on mathematical principles the egyptians never mastered. it's a higher evolution, so are domes.
@dudeidontcare3430 elaborate? Which mathematical principle, google says alot of crap, like egyptians didn't know certain mathematical principles, yet built structure. Do you mean an arch like bridges? They also maybe didn't need arches, or care about it? Like some tombs have an arch shape so idk, u gotta elaborate there?.
It seems like back then , people had a drive to make things beautiful based on historical precedent but nowadays people just assume these things have just been there and will cpntinue to be there, thus not needed the drive needed in order to build like this
I wonder if when America ever falls, will a bunch of little feudal and monarchic societies develop that evolve into nation states over 2,000 years and a plethora of wars?.. that would be optimistic. Lol
Then the most shitty ass nation state (the delaware kingdom idk) proceeds to conquer half the world an one of the conquerer places becomes independent and global power, they will build cities in the likeness of ancient America.
It's from the 1893 Columbian exposition that was held in Chicago, which is what the first World's fair was called. I'm sorry that nobody answered your question for so long.
Most everything modern today is either simple squares or looks like something misshapen created in a kindergarden art class. Some buildings like the Thompson Center in Chicago look like a McDonalds Playland, and Soldier Field has been updated to look like a toy spaceship. The statues of figures look mostly like that too, misshapen and simplistic. Its like humanity is regressing idk We also kick down the old statues with any excuse and raze the old buildings that everyone can see were made with much more skill and craftsmanship. Its very strange. Nobody knows why but this appears to be happening worldwide, everywhere.
Just a small clarification to note. The design of the grid streets of New York can be traced not to the Roman city planning but, more originally speaking, back to the hippodamian city planning in ancient Greece, where Hippodamus of Miletus designed the city of Piraeus, than can even be seen today (it's traces)
What people don't realize is a fast growing American had not the time for architecture that would take long effort & extraordinarily skilled men to make. And so we went for speed & efficiency over beauty.
Guys, we need to bring back Gothic architecture and gargoyles. I want every major American city to look like gotham had a baby with an imperial hive city.
This is a great documentary piece, but the 1893 Chicago Columbian Exposition was already there, there's no way they built 600 greco roman stone buildings in less than 2 years
You're joking, right? Ask anyone who's familiar with how World's Fairs are built. The majority of the structures are temporary, built like movie sets. They look good on the outside but are mostly plaster and lath because they're not intended for permanent use. E.g. only about half a dozen buildings at the Paris 1900 Exposition were permanent, even fewer at Expo 64, and almost nothing from the 1876 Centennial. I've visited three fairs - the vast majority of the exhibits were built specifically for the company or country sponsoring them and couldn't easily be repurposed. As strange as it sounds, it was far cheaper to trash them than to disassemble, move, and rebuild them. Yes, really.
@@JayKarpwick I have, and others have, the story doesn't add up. Preposterous. Even if they could build this fast and structurally sound, they wouldn't use a newly made up substance like "staff" and use it everywhere. There were subsequent Worlds Fairs after 1915, like the Golden Gate Exposition on Treasure Island which were man made, and they are not as ornate, and do look like they are made with plaster, or poured concrete. This is too big for you perhaps, leave the thinking for the big boys.
@@GazerBeam420 I'll ignore your puerile insults, and put my family's experiences in construction, my studies, and my education against the TartarSauce fables any day. No one, NO ONE, has ever provided one shred of verifiable evidence like contemporary accounts - let alone artifacts - that would support the fantasies of non-human intervention in recent history. I've been interested in unexplained events ever since I was a teenager. I absolutely agree there's A LOT we don't know about *truly* ancient history. But FFS things like World's Fairs have been around for less than 200 years. That encompasses the time of newspapers, journals, photographs, and even films. No one has _ever_ offered verified documentation of the purported supranatural buildings and events .. or if it existed, how every single piece has been erased all over the world and replaced with perfect counterfeits.. If anything "doesn't add up" it's the idea that there's some kind of world-wide version of an MiB neuralyzer that can fiddle the brains of billions of people without leaving a trace anywhere. Ever.
@@OldWorldNY Try paying more attention in English class. The word "history" has as much to do with "his" and "story" as "pineapple" has to do with a fir tree and a Golden Delicious. FFS the word comes from GREEK where the syllables don't have a farking thing to do with your claim. It's the same as Jon Levi's loony equation of "found" with "founded". Just 'cause the words sound similar doesn't mean they're related. They even come from two unrelated roots - "found" comes from *German* and "founded" from *Latin.* Playing word-games may be great fun in elementary school but it's really shïtty scholarship.
The decline of classical architecture in NYC started after WWII with the rise of modern architecture, imported from Europe, and changes in the economics of real estate investment.
An even truer clarification to note .The design of the grid streets of NY traces and suits perfectly the typical ROMAN city grid plan : go & check the 1st historic map of New Amsterdam isle to realize it, the two main axes cardum ( North & South) and decumanum ( E/W) configuring the entire city with forum ( downtown) at the centre, reported by same cardinal pts in odiernal Avenues and Streets. That's something does not exist at all in the hippodamian plan designed as a chess desk with regular sized squares that did not suite the specific morphology of territory like the Roman plain instead used to do. Our greek friends always on🔥 trying to lift up the ancient greek so called architecture that was wide inferior compared to the Roman architecture science...
@@werideatdusk look deeply into everything. There's a lot of buildings that were destroyed that is impossible for us to construct even with today's equipment.
@@gulfy09 todays equipment!? Todays equipment!???!! What even is today, we haven't built anything impressive that maintains itself structurally sound. Today is a huge gimmick of everything we used to be, we stick a digital screen on a refrigerator and call it a new appliance. That's the grand extent of modern technology and just how ""far"" we've come. These are famous architects who CREATED these concepts who were alive then, spent EVERY day researching and being paid for their professionalism and majestry. It is vindictive and insulting to pretend like today can do any better anyway, when we have completely left this structural style of building and design behind for stupid geometry art showcases made of glass today. There is no structural support in modern buildings, famously the Twin towers, which had zero columns in the center of the tower, all A pillar design around the edge of the building. Of course they could build it back then, we live in throw away culture you huge idiot, where we get rid of blue prints and move away from beautiful and important styles for zero reason except loss of appeal. To even think we could build what they built and studied for every single hour of the day then, is downright offensive and that's barely the start for the right word I want to use. No it's probably some ancient civilization that built buildings with WINDOWS.
Why? The Romans themselves just copied and built upon the Greek tradition, so what is wrong with nations over the ages copying and building off of the Roman tradition?
So who do north Americans copy? British? Spain? French? Dutch? Germany? Romania? Bulgaria? Former Yugoslavia? Albania? Greece? Turkey? Middle East? Egypt? Libya? Algeria? Morocco? These were ALL former states of Rome. All those countries have romanized architecture that evolved mainly from Greece aka Hellena in ancient times, who themselves evolved from Persia's Persopolis, and Mesopotamia's city of Ur which is older than Egyptian architecture. But yet no one ever talks about India ancient architecture which is the oldest civilization to exist and was trading with the Egyptians before Greece and Rome were founded. If you look at ALL ancient civilizations they ALL have common classical architectural design with thier flavor but its still streamlined classical. Even the Mayans and Incas had classical stone structures. So really who do we copy? Abstract? Cubism? De-constructivism? Minimalism? Steampunk? Roccoco/Baroque? Victorian? Oriental? All glass? All plastic? Industrialism? Industrialist architecture can become very gloomy and static, just saying.
@@ctlspl This is a very weird take. Why should we not celebrate the great works of the past by creating new works in their style, even as we incorporate the modernity of the present? Leaving such grandeur to the ruins of the past is shameful, in my view. Look at the Neoclassical skyscrapers that still stand in New York, shown in this video--a perfect blend of modern needs and technology with the beautiful facade of a Roman temple or civil building, on a scale grander than any the Empire's individual works. Would that every building could be adorned with glittering bronze statues, vaulted and coffered ceilings, marble facades, and beautiful murals!
Was always wondering why the Americans didn't go for beautiful architecture. As they had the opportunity to build from scratch with all the knowledge from the past
I think of those memes where old person tells kid to go outside and then "picture of outside" showing an average Anerican town street with nothing but gas stations, giant ad. signs, and telephone wire webing across the sky. We no longer live in a society. We are all just living life next to one another. No shared commons, no shared race, creed, religion, or sense of unity... Just a nonsociety built for the average person who drives to work, drives to the grocery store, or drives home. College/univerities i think are the last vestige of what a society or community looks like with shared common areas, a shared dinning area, walkable commune, and a sense of honor rising and falling as we are all kind of forced to interact with one another and people gain and lose reputation. People claim men are leaving society because the women suck (and that's true to a degree), but i think this is the larger blanket issue that is the source of all other issues and is a much greater reason why America is falling apart.
For the spanish cities, the template was the town of San Cristobal de La Laguna in Tenerife island. Not Rome. Lovely city to visit! :) great video fr.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/San_Crist%C3%B3bal_de_La_Laguna See history or heritage on wiki
All of these buildings were here before from a previous civilization they're in every city even little towns think about it they all have buildings that we can't build today and spent every war destroying evidence
During that 1960s to 1980s period so much went under the wrecking ball. Crime and decay rampant, depopulation, bankruptcy. It was rock bottom. It recovered some before 9/11, but it was never the same. Sort of like how Constantinople recovered after the Justinianic plague, but never with quite the same energy. At least that's kind of how I see it. @@robroy6374
@@robroy6374 Never been to the US but when I think about a US state in their peak from 1960's and onward, I think mainly of California. When I think of NewYork, I always picture the city imagery from 1980's or 2010's imagery.
