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  • Опубликовано: 17 сен 2019
  • Skyscrapers illuminate the amazing designs and monumental human efforts that have forever altered our urban landscapes. Peel back the outer layer of the world’s tallest buildings and delve into the newest achievements of structural composition.
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  • @13minutestomidnight
    @13minutestomidnight 3 года назад +20

    Despite being over 20 years old, this is a very intelligent documentary. The questions raised here are even more relevant now than they were then.

  • @theoutlier35134
    @theoutlier35134 2 года назад +8

    This documentary is a classic. Very well made

  • @Mari-eb9iy
    @Mari-eb9iy 4 года назад +34

    Info for all our American friends - look at 51:40, guys. MCMXCVII, means 1997. This is the year of production of this movie. Greetings from Europe :)

    • @ChiRedWhiteBlue
      @ChiRedWhiteBlue 4 года назад +2

      It always amazes me how obsessed the rest of the world is with us Americans. We appreciate the attention 😁

    • @joetke
      @joetke 4 года назад +2

      the video format 4:3 is PRETTY SUFFICIENT to guess the date it was shot!

    • @EvlEgle
      @EvlEgle 4 года назад

      +Mari considering Us Americans are the ones that popularized the dating of video productions in roman numerals. specifically hollywood studios, thanks for the explanation, we are well aware.

    • @morsecodereviews1553
      @morsecodereviews1553 4 года назад

      Oh, I didn't know. Thanks!

    • @karmicobsession1636
      @karmicobsession1636 4 года назад

      @@EvlEgle yea sure

  • @morsecodereviews1553
    @morsecodereviews1553 4 года назад +9

    Well that was a fun little trip down memory lane.

  • @harrickvharrick3957
    @harrickvharrick3957 2 года назад +5

    Broadcast in the year 2000 which was when they built Japan Railways' Central towers! Great informative program, I had never spent a single thought on such things as water pressure in that type of buildings!

  • @teimourvaliev6192
    @teimourvaliev6192 3 года назад +13

    Fantastic documentary. Well made and genuinely educational, no modern cringy overdramatic narration.

  • @ChiRedWhiteBlue
    @ChiRedWhiteBlue 4 года назад +62

    Narrator in late 90s: "In New York, to avoid future collisions, airplanes were simply rerouted"
    Me in post 9/11 world: 😳

    • @Lunch_box
      @Lunch_box 4 года назад +10

      The narrator is fucking luke Skywalker

    • @garybevis8691
      @garybevis8691 4 года назад

      @@Lunch_box Mark Hamill, aka Luke...lol

    • @13minutestomidnight
      @13minutestomidnight 3 года назад +1

      When an architect said "the world trade centre towers are designed to withstand a mid-air plane crash from the biggest plane of its day" ...You just don't TELL people that. Humans are so stupid and crazy that you should just never give them ideas (as a species).. .

    • @how2drawdinosaurs715
      @how2drawdinosaurs715 3 года назад

      F you Luke

  • @Rangerman69420
    @Rangerman69420 3 года назад +10

    That plain crashing into the empire state building was some crazy foreshadowing 😳

    • @gilzor9376
      @gilzor9376 Год назад +1

      lol . . . . just plane crazy! ;)

  • @Accu53Mation
    @Accu53Mation 4 года назад +35

    Uhmmm? Ya viewers gotta keep-in-mind that the "Date," of the video simply means the Upload date. The date it has been put on RUclips. Which is really annoying. The video itself could be a few years old a couple decades old. The date, does not mean the video itself was just created.
    FYI.

    • @GrooveFederation
      @GrooveFederation 4 года назад +2

      the twin towers are still intact in the video so there's the clue right there, not from this century (in internet years), lol

    • @davidorazine8239
      @davidorazine8239 4 года назад +1

      @@GrooveFederation It's so old skyscrapers don't collapse when a plane hits them (7:53)

    • @matthewsharp7170
      @matthewsharp7170 3 года назад

      @@GrooveFederation oiiiik0

    • @troyleenewgent9013
      @troyleenewgent9013 3 года назад +1

      @WHITE POWER the 90s was the greatest decade of all time i dont even see how its a debate. Some will say the 80s but i think the 90s really kicked ass

    • @jaymcaaa
      @jaymcaaa 3 года назад

      @@troyleenewgent9013 for me 79 to 96 funny as was born 79 but holding your own buisness then was easyer as most family members had own buisness and music and all was better my opinon to 1996 well i thought anyway biggest blockbuster movies my opinion 85 to about 93 but then could dpend age as people in there 50s like the 1970s

  • @whofandb
    @whofandb 3 года назад +3

    The vast majority of deaths in the Kobe quake was because traditional style tiled roofed homes collapsed and gas fires started. More modern structures faired somewhat better but it was still a bad quake.

  • @jeffreysendall3971
    @jeffreysendall3971 Год назад

    Was not expecting the legendary Mark Hamill to narrate this random documentary

  • @patrickbrookings
    @patrickbrookings 4 года назад +17

    It's kinda ironic and sad to watch an old documentary like this. So much has changed. The NY twin towers are no longer there, the Burj Khalifa has now been the tallest building in the world for some 10 years. But no doubt taller ones will come.

    • @taimalik1110
      @taimalik1110 2 года назад +1

      That's not ironic bro! Irony doesn't mean that the passage of time brings about change around the world and more development in other regions. Irony means something that is totally unexpected that happens in a given situation. An example of irony would be building skyscrapers out of timber, which is a material that is completely unexpected to be used for superstructures (name of the documentary here) and in the age of climate change, wood is more of a sustainable material for a structure that seems rather unsustainable, given the carbon emissions involved with producing cement and steel to build tall skyscrapers.

  • @cedricmayfield7058
    @cedricmayfield7058 3 года назад +2

    R.I.P to the great architect César Pelli !

  • @Joe254KE
    @Joe254KE 4 года назад +12

    It seems the designers of Burj Khalifa
    just copied Frank Lloyd Wright's 1956 mile-high design proposal. Dude must have been a genius!

    • @nguyen3545
      @nguyen3545 3 года назад

      No, these two building are very different in shape and size.

  • @giridharanvsrinivasan8994
    @giridharanvsrinivasan8994 2 года назад

    Loved the narration

  • @jejc1001
    @jejc1001 9 месяцев назад

    Awesome Luke Skywalker is doing the narration.

  • @Mannesravani806
    @Mannesravani806 3 года назад +2

    So nice 😍🥰💖

  • @andrenewcomb3708
    @andrenewcomb3708 4 года назад +1

    Regulating what can go into a building by occupants could add to safety. Put a marble bathtub or swimming pool up high could mean that the upper levels will react more slowly to what's happening down below. SNAP!

  • @hristoivanov2562
    @hristoivanov2562 23 дня назад

    I think that modern building is way more fragile and complicated than old one ( from the time of the pyramids for example) or even sooner

  • @NoNopeAndNo
    @NoNopeAndNo 2 года назад +1

    Great Doco, please include production year of video in title please

  • @konman5550
    @konman5550 Год назад

    Wow this documentary is so old that it’s almost nostalgic. Plus, narrated by Luke Skywalker himself

  • @psikeyhackr6914
    @psikeyhackr6914 2 года назад

    Try finding data on the distributions of steel and concrete in any skyscraper. How many tons of steel and tons of concrete on each level?

  • @williamhaynes7089
    @williamhaynes7089 4 года назад +7

    empire state building built-in 13 months, it would take 10 years to build now.

    • @flourishomotola5306
      @flourishomotola5306 3 года назад +2

      Why

    • @khagemann7462
      @khagemann7462 2 года назад +1

      @@flourishomotola5306 mainly because of costs but more because of safety and materials.

    • @NoNopeAndNo
      @NoNopeAndNo 2 года назад +1

      Also extreme feminists protesting topless below for no apparent reason blocking access 🤷‍♂️

    • @smf2072
      @smf2072 2 года назад

      10 years ?! Ok.... LOL !

  • @salehelsileni3665
    @salehelsileni3665 3 года назад +1

    😍😍👌👍

  • @armandwilliams6495
    @armandwilliams6495 9 месяцев назад

    Got a lot from this. So are there any plans for Los Angeles? Are these buildings going to be safe if there is a strong earthquake?

  • @Anglo-EgyptianMan
    @Anglo-EgyptianMan Год назад

    36:09 "You must understand that the towers were designed for the impacting of the largest airplane of its time the intercontinental 707 aircraft right into the building"

  • @mikekincaid7412
    @mikekincaid7412 Год назад

    What I’m hearing here is that all of these engineers are just keeping there fingers crossed that nothing really bad happens

  • @AnaruBickford
    @AnaruBickford 4 года назад +4

    Narrator = Mark Hamill

  • @annazfker2028
    @annazfker2028 Год назад

    7:53 NO WAY ! NFW ! BUT . . . THE TWIN TOWERS FELL DOWN FAST WHIT JUST ONE PLANE.

  • @andrenewcomb3708
    @andrenewcomb3708 4 года назад +2

    Burj Khalifa has a lot of rebar. Vertical rebar.

    • @andrenewcomb3708
      @andrenewcomb3708 4 года назад +1

      Iron work is effective WHEN joints are secure and angles are right angles.

  • @paulsuprono7225
    @paulsuprono7225 4 года назад +1

    I'm watching old news. MAJOR UPDATES, are/should be, in order !

  • @unclekaz7556
    @unclekaz7556 3 года назад

    Yooo gotta tell the guys about this one

  • @montrealcanada3915
    @montrealcanada3915 4 года назад +1

    Oho I tired from the hard construction

  • @ithirtmean
    @ithirtmean 2 года назад

    lol at 7:25 that's not the Empire State Building
    its the Chanin Building by the Chrysler💀

  • @Lunch_box
    @Lunch_box 4 года назад +4

    Mark Hamill THE NARRATOR IS LUKE SKYWALKER

  • @damagician2704
    @damagician2704 4 года назад

    Mark Hamill!

  • @joshdaly2343
    @joshdaly2343 4 года назад +2

    What does he say at 28:36?

    • @woody41165
      @woody41165 4 года назад +3

      He was talking about how much vibration can people in offices tolerate and be comfortable with, but at that time you mention he says `At what point do we need someone at the elevator vestibule at the top handing out dramamine`. Dramamine is motion sickness medication used to treat nausea, vomiting and dizziness caused by motion sickness.

  • @mahablues.dir.6059
    @mahablues.dir.6059 3 года назад +1

    Spak good news

  • @williamgehrig4368
    @williamgehrig4368 4 года назад

    This NEW video is over 20 years old. ????????

  • @chefhudsonbernard
    @chefhudsonbernard 4 года назад

    36:08 can they be any stupider!! I can't even watch this without getting anxiety. This documentary is from 1997.

    • @RichieD_21
      @RichieD_21 3 года назад +4

      The towers would made to withstand an impact from the largest planes OF ITS TIME. Keyword "of its time". And it was.

  • @lilspam1
    @lilspam1 2 года назад

    No one commented on the fact that the narrator is luke skywalker or voice of Batman

  • @_Breakdown
    @_Breakdown 2 года назад

    36:06 - - (Les Robertson) Engineers inadvertently designed the twin towers to behave like chimneys - - sucking smoke up from the basement to try to expel it from the top.
    37:36 - - the ‘93 explosion knocked the emergency fire + sprinkler system in the building offline
    37:54 - - MGM Grand hotel fire of 1977 (the HVAC system circulated smoke into rooms throughout the building)

    • @gilzor9376
      @gilzor9376 Год назад

      Breakdown, go ahead and give it to me ,
      . . . . . . . . There is no sense in pretending
      . . . . 'They' said all there is to say . . . .
      why repeat it?

  • @oneilmatthewmartin7383
    @oneilmatthewmartin7383 4 года назад +2

    A underground scarper them a biuld

  • @tonchi74
    @tonchi74 3 года назад

    36:08 "THE GIANT CHIMNEYS".......

  • @nic..7193
    @nic..7193 3 года назад

    at 17:40, am i the only one who thinks that guy sounds like Alan Rickman?

  • @andrenewcomb3708
    @andrenewcomb3708 4 года назад +1

    Translators would've been cheaper. But what the heck, let's get this right.

  • @Dakidd-pb9zc
    @Dakidd-pb9zc 6 месяцев назад

    How skinny and tall does a superstructure have to be before it becomes unsafe!! Looks like strong enough gust of wind would tilt and then tumble that building with very little effort!!

  • @how2drawdinosaurs715
    @how2drawdinosaurs715 3 года назад +1

    3000 ft tall

  • @hossywoof
    @hossywoof 2 года назад

    Good doc.....frightening the eng said the WTC was built to withstand the biggest plane flying into it. And we all know what happened on that fateful day

  • @jeffcollins1097
    @jeffcollins1097 3 года назад

    100th Comment. whoop whoop

  • @DakkogiRauru23
    @DakkogiRauru23 3 года назад

    Mark Hamill?

  • @FatGuyInaTruck
    @FatGuyInaTruck 4 года назад +10

    Video says the Petronas Towers are "being built" yet they were completed in 1996....
    Oh, and 90's era Windows graphics.
    Also, the JR Central Towers were completed in 2000, and is currently the EIGHTH tallest building in Japan...
    Yet this video was uploaded TODAY, September 9th, 2019

    • @mikelawrencesoler3257
      @mikelawrencesoler3257 4 года назад +2

      They just found the lost tape after 3 decades... 😂

    • @alb4150
      @alb4150 4 года назад

      It's a re upload of an old documentary

  • @NoNopeAndNo
    @NoNopeAndNo 2 года назад

    Dismantling my bunk-bed ASAP 🙄

  • @alpteknbaser7773
    @alpteknbaser7773 2 года назад

    🇺🇸🇬🇧

  • @mikes7639
    @mikes7639 3 года назад +1

    Almost unwatchable with all the ads

    • @NoNopeAndNo
      @NoNopeAndNo 2 года назад

      Ads = the failed foundation of RUclips

  • @supertrucky6695
    @supertrucky6695 3 года назад

    Ladies and Gentlemen, here is your host... Luke Skywalker!

    • @kksebii
      @kksebii 3 года назад

      bro you are so funny hah

    • @supertrucky6695
      @supertrucky6695 3 года назад

      @@kksebii I thought when I was watching this... That sound like Mark Hamil and sure enough there was his name as the announcer.

  • @oneilmatthewmartin7383
    @oneilmatthewmartin7383 4 года назад

    Me see them a biuld something a halfway tree

  • @paulsuprono7225
    @paulsuprono7225 4 года назад +2

    This needs to be updated, 'Terrorist Era' . . . all the greatest in technology can be compromised by an independant terrorist event . . . Twin Towers, NYC being the classic example.

    • @Lunch_box
      @Lunch_box 4 года назад

      The only example you mean??, Did you actually understand what you were posting or did you just want to be part of an ignorant racist conversation?? Yea shut your communist mouth and get back in your welfare line yah hippie

    • @Rangerman69420
      @Rangerman69420 3 года назад

      @@Lunch_box What does Racism, communism and culture have to do with his comment? Did you actually understand what you were posting? I agree with him I'd love to see an updated documentary that explores how significantly Skyscraper technology has changed and yes many changes are because of 9/11 like it or not.

  • @anderbeau
    @anderbeau 2 года назад

    Omg how Old is this video?! 😂

  • @Youngg_Ronnie
    @Youngg_Ronnie 3 года назад

    I will build an r shaped building

  • @knockhello2604
    @knockhello2604 3 года назад

    Expensive. Cannot make a return.

  • @Zekesaxman
    @Zekesaxman 2 года назад

    ISH JUSH AMSHING HOW HIGH MY BLSUHPLESSEHER ISH WE ARE ON THE CUTTING ESH OF TEKNOROGY

  • @charkaan9923
    @charkaan9923 2 года назад

    As an engineer the problem I see in every video is lac of using concrete vibrators to illuminate air bubbles

    • @thedevilwuster
      @thedevilwuster Год назад

      That is not why vibration is used. Vibration is used to consolidate concrete around structural reinforcing.

  • @charkaan9923
    @charkaan9923 2 года назад

    Vibrators in concrete would avoid failure engineer are paper people but they need to have field knowledge, if no one enforced concrete vibrators during construction it’s an avious cover up

    • @thedevilwuster
      @thedevilwuster Год назад

      You just don't give up the stupid do you?

  • @alangarland8571
    @alangarland8571 4 года назад

    .

  • @charkaan9923
    @charkaan9923 2 года назад

    If no supervisor during construction enforce vibrators in concrete then it’s a failure

    • @thedevilwuster
      @thedevilwuster Год назад

      What credentials do you hold that compels you to keep making erroneous statements regarding vibratory consolidation, may I ask?

  • @alwayslive7460
    @alwayslive7460 3 года назад

    why is no one speaking of hempcrete? 40% lighter & just as, if not stronger than standard cocrete

    • @thedevilwuster
      @thedevilwuster Год назад

      No it's not. The maximum compressive strength ever achieved by hempcrete was 507.6 psi. That's around a 16th of the strength of a basic six sack concrete mix. I sure hope you haven't built anything structural with hempcrete. That would be absolutely irresponsible and morally repugnant if you represented hempcrete as being "just as strong or stronger than standard cocrete" while selling it to someone. If anything it would be under the table because no engineer in his right mind would stamp that.

  • @nguyen3545
    @nguyen3545 3 года назад

    Too much 9/11 foreshadowing in this video

  • @whitejack4901
    @whitejack4901 3 года назад

    The piquant meat maternally book because veterinarian basally dance around a strong tent. medical, known search

  • @kosycat1
    @kosycat1 2 года назад

    Step one: Don't

  • @charkaan9923
    @charkaan9923 2 года назад

    Then they wonder why it fails

  • @TheDavidlloydjones
    @TheDavidlloydjones 2 года назад +1

    The stupidity and random error which infest this shoddy documentary reach their most amusing, perhaps, with the discussion of the bridge of the Petronas Towers at the half-hour mark: its supports are tubular, not spherical.

  • @Hzec
    @Hzec 4 года назад

    This "documentary" just constantly repeats the same shit said for 50 minutes

  • @khanky08
    @khanky08 2 года назад +1

    Plane crashing into the WTC 1 & 2 - gone too soon.
    Empire State Building: 🥱 say what now?