My school in Camden has an amazing view of the London skyline and I’ve seen it progress majorly since 2014 when I started going there. It’s really cool to see our city’s skyline turning into that of a proper modern city. Of course London is one of the most modern cities in the world culturally and economically speaking, but I’m excited for a grand skyline to be the cherry on top.
I don't want to de-anonymise you on the internet, but I'm how furiously thinking about which Camden schools you might be referring to. One of the ones around Hampstead Heath maybe?
@@merrymachiavelli2041 Thats alright I’m out of school these days. It’s the UCL academy in Swiss Cottage next to Primrose hill. It’s only like 10 years old as an institution so u may not know of it
Simon seems much happier and upbeat in this video, than I’ve seen of late!!! It’s nice and comforting to hear a bit more chipperness in his voice!!! Recently I have been feeling that his narration has been that of a bored , petulant teenager! But I always love his videos! 😘
@@harrypadarri6349 besides the fact that most of the more interesting shemes in Frankfurt are residential, what's the difference between "bank, bank, bank..." and "commercial space, office space, bank" as in London? Sure, I'd love to see a skyscraper that does away with common usage ideas...but how? A carnival skyscraper or one with nothing but an observation deck like the Tulip? There's only so many things you can do with the space inside but I always found the outside design the more important aspect as I myself will likely never enter 90% of skyscrapers even in my area...
You left out Vauxhall and Nine Elms! A town i worked in and for with Lambeth Council, which will become another Manhattan in itself. Already has many tall buildings, with the infamous St George Wharf Tower, and the future One Nine Elms.
and thank god he did. Vauxhall development is the biggest piece of s**t architecture in London currently. So no, it will not be another Manhattan, just a bunch of buildings that don't really relate to anything, for foreign investors to park money in...
@@EdekLay well obviously i was referring to it as another mini Manhattan only in the sense that it will have a cluster of tall buildings. So i do see very well.
@@pbsa1979 Some of the architecture has fine modern artdecho look and are pleasing to the eye, but yea i agree in that its all investement for rich foreigners, and nothing else really.
As much as I like the new skyscrapers of London, I worry that with the rise of working from home, will companies need as much space as before? I expect there will be a downturn in such building projects in the future.
@lisaanimi The City of London aka the "Square Mile", is not surprisingly about a square mile in area on the Thames more or less corresponding to the original Roman city of Londinium. It extends from Ludgate Hill, Farringdon Street intersection in the west to Aldgate (roughly), in the East, the river in the south and Old Street (?) in the North. Tbh, I'm not sure about the precise northern border. The "City" is administered by the Corporation of London. It is in effect a city within a city. It has its OWN police force, the City Police, which is separate from the Metropolitan Police. It has its own ceremonial mayor, the Lord Mayor, whose official residence is the Mansion House. The city corporation is a power in its own right. There is no democracy. Private citizens have no say in anything. Even the British government has little power East of Farringdon Street. I don't know whether it is all run by Freemasons, but it wouldn't surprise me. The Corporation of London for secrecy and unaccountability, not to mention pure evil, make the Cosa Nostra look like the Girl Guides. Fun facts : the Corporation of London owns Burnham Beeches, a forest west of London near Slough. I've seen their rangers' Land Rovers with big Corporation of London logos on the doors. One of the victims of Jack the Ripper was found just within the City boundary. A contributing factor to the messed up investigation was a turf war or boundary dispute between the Met and the City Police. The skyscrapers planned within the City WILL be built, because the Corporation is answerable only to itself. No one else. After the funny handshakes have taken place, and the ceremonial brown envelopes have been exchanged, the project, no matter how pointless will be given the go ahead. For further information on how planning applications happen and gain approval, see the classic Monty Python architect sketch. Python's satirical comedy was, unfortunately, based on fact. That's how it's done.
Delighted that Simon is a fan of tall buildings too! I'd recommend a look at the (very exciting) supertall timber Oakwood Tower proposal, with its innovative stiffness based exterior mega-truss structural strategy (used to resist lateral loads that prevent timber buildings being built above 40 or so storeys using existing practical techniques i.e. with connections considered), which could launch a sustainable revolution of tall timber sideprojects around the globe!
@@trevorjosephoneill345 To make it clear I do not wish to see rainforest cut down, any destruction of biodiversity is a tragedy and must end entirely right now. The great issue facing the industry today is down to the current heavy and unsustainable reliance on non-renewable metals and minerals used to make steel and concrete products. Concrete accounts for at least 30% of global C02 release each year. Cement production alone accounts for 8% of global C02 and 10% of the Earth's water consumption. A relevant trend in relation to economic and environmental sustainability in densely urbanized areas is the demolition of buildings long before the end of their design lives. This suggests that renewable, perhaps cyclic, materials such as timber are particularly well suited to use in the modern built environment for a more sustainable future. It is entirely possible to manage forests sustainably. As a matter of fact natural softwoods grown for engineered timber products can be sourced from well-managed forests in places like Europe and North America. It is incumbent on the construction industry to understand the life cycle process of a material from farming, harvesting, manufacturing, fabrication, transport, construction, and ultimately reuse at the end of its usable life as a building material. It's an important discussion point because it is imperative to design habitats for growing renewable timber in order to work with land-management authorities to understand the capacity of land over time. Furthermore, the increased value of timber that is expected to result from its use as an engineered construction product is likely to confer increased value on long-term well-managed forestry.
honestly, they will probably lower it to either 300 or 350 m, but I don't see how a building of 500 m would be allowed in London because the civil aviation authority would be complaining non stop
@@FrenchFry-hi4rn yea the main building being 500 metres seems ridiculous. I mean where could they build it without the aviation authority slapping them around the face? I think it would be great if it was built. However I highly doubt it. And there's no way that massive complex could be built in 3 years. Everything in London moves slower than most places
A 500 metre tower would look ridiculous in London. It would dwarf all the other towers. Look at Dubai's skyline. The Burj Khalifa building dominates all the other buildings, rather than complimenting them, as it should. It's nice to have a mix of different heights, but not 500 meters in London. Dubai would look better if the BK building was half the size it is, in my opinion. I agree with FrenchFry90210 with a suggestion of 300 to 350 metres.
The ETC could really make use of some sky bridges between those 7 buildings, ensuring that if one business needs to visit another within one of the other buildings, then they won't have to shuffle about the streets. Skyscrapers above 400 meters already do have some major hurdles handling the transport of people up and down their length. Having an access to the building that is already 200+ meters up is a rather massive help in easing off that issue. (Another solution is to eat up floor space with extra elevator shafts, but that isn't always practical.)
Nah I think it looks stupid and doesn’t deserve to be 305m tall because of how hideous it looks. I’m up for the 1 Undershaft Building because it will be 290m which will make it the 2nd tallest skyscraper in the UK plus it will make good use of office spaces etc.
The Tulip looks cool. I think its design could be modified to meet the benefit equation without impacting its exterior appearance too much. Make the supporting pillar a massive hotel/residential block with the inner core of the tulip bulb being dedicated to retail space surrounded by the observation walks.
Even before the problems in 2020 I have noticed the ever increasing amounts of empty office space in London in and around Monument, Bank, Aldgate and Tower Hill.
I'm not sure if you live in london but it ranks the 2nd on the global financial index, it was first in 2019 but its catching up again cause its score went up. I've never seen these empty offices you are talking about.
@@electri2024 what's the global financial index? If it's a list of prices then yes that's why so many criminals launder crime through London real estate.
@@jacobs2099 The global financial index asks investors from all around the world how they would rank different financial hubs, it takes into account accessibility, infrastructure, expertise, services quality etc. There is only really one index, you can just search it up on google. Also i'm sure a lot of dirty money flows through london, but that is the same in almost every rich city.
Video suggestion to do a video on the Pennsylvania Railroad and the GG1. The PRR was created some of the top railroad technology of the day and they have an interesting story. Especially with their iconic electric engine the GG1.
Forecast Toronto's Skyline!! We're about to get a whole bunch of supertall skyscrapers (300m+), the construction of an entirely new island in the Keating channel, and the transformation of the city's skyline over the past 10 years has been (and continues to be) the biggest and fastest in North America.
Theres plenty of mistakes in Simons videos, I'm sure he'd admit to that too. The amount of content his team pumps out across the multiple channels is simply astounding, there's bound to be a few things that get rushed. :)
Great video but some VERY out of date imagery and footage 🤔 No current shots of what canary wharf/wood wharf actually looks like these days and not really many of how the current square mile/city looks. Nothing on the large Vauxhall/nine elms cluster going up too. Also every time you mentioned ‘the city’ you only had pictures of Big Ben in Westminster 🤔
Seeing how the skyline has changed over the last 5 years since 2019 is insane, city of London has already changed massively since I last went there same for Canary Wharf
I don't believe that Sadiq Khan honestly thinks that building these skyscrapers is going to produce "affordable" housing...in London (if you live in London you know what a joke property prices have become) unless by some miracle rent caps are introduced and if that happens i'll drink a pint of Thames water.
50% of central londons residents are professional service workers... all working from home, [2020 lightbulb]: all businesses have realised that they only need a fraction of that office space moving forward and need to cut costs now. London no longer has a high demand for office space, now theres abundance which needs to pivot to residential. Result: london has a glut of space, prices in both commercial and residential collapse
The vast majority of these tall buildings won't be built. Brexit and COVID-19 will decimate the business space market, and business generally. Companies will downsize their space to reduce costs as more staff work from home the majority of the time. Cities will need more smaller spaces or lower cost ones not expensive ones. Cucumbers are botanically a fruit. CAA is the Civil Aviation Authority.
The Tulip looks... decidedly NOT like a tulip at first glance. If it ever gets built, I promise a lot of Londoners are going to be calling it the G-spot.
Not sure how these buildings will be filled. 90% of City of London workers are working from home and will do so for some time to come. The City is a ghost town at the moment compared to what it used to be and many offices and skyscrapers are sitting empty!! Why would businesses be shelling out millions to buy/lease these commercial spaces when their employees can work from home.
Good to see we aren't learning a thing about sustainable/sensible skyscraper construction and continue to plan giant all-glass monstrosities which require massive air conditioning and ventilation systems
TRUE! Went to Eindhoven the other day...there's an "actual skyscraper" in there...city center, not even commercial district! To a german like me that's insane and I love it! I think the one I mean is Vesteda Tower but there's several now and that's not mentioning Rotterdam or Amsterdam
The Tulip is just HIDEOUS. It would be a permanent blot on the skyline with its weird, phallic shape and I really hope they don't build it. I'm all for tall buildings but lessons really need to be learnt from the last blot - the bulbous Walkie Talkie building.
urban population density in Europe is higher than in most other places (especially higher than in North America), therefore there is less benefit to adding skyscrapers. The economic benefit of "supertall" skyscrapers so far seems to be non-existent.
Yes, London has the potential to be the best in tbe world. They need to shut the City airport to allow construction of much more imposing skyscrapers. One thing London has New York can't and never will match is the much superior historic architecture of London, but London can match NY for skyscraper volume and height.
I hope the Trellis is at least 300 metres. They can’t reduce to 10 metres and say it’s safe when clearly Shard on the other side of the river is 309 metres. It would be nice if they add like a 50 metres spire on the Trellis to make it look like the WTC Tower 1. That would look beautiful in the London skyline
@ Yasin l. I think I know what you're talking about, the 1 undershaft at 300meters and add 100ft thin majestic on top of 1 undershaft just like the Empire state building. London should definitely do that, with the glass built around them on the rooftop.?
@@markfoster7949 I believe London should add a nice 30 metres spire just like they did on the Heron Tower. It would look majestic on the 1 Undershaft (Trellis Tower). That should make it the tallest skyscraper in UK and not cause trouble with Airports.
@@markfoster7949 I was thinking that with the Trellis building, they should add an antenna like the North Tower. That would look beautiful in the London skyline
@Yasin l. As for the Antenna I think that would probably cause trouble with airport raders but it would be great, but I would prefer if they could build 330 metres and that would look great and its not the world tallest, look at new York if they could do it so can London?
in my hometown there were supposed to build an apartment for those who need afordable housing but in irder to get in you have to pay 400 thousand and trust me it's not worth the price the kitchen is very small and the place just looks like any normal apartment there so it looks like only the rich will afford these that and it been 2 years and they haven't even finished it yet
If u are living in London u can’t expect affordable houses ,u should leave outside London for affordable houses ,London is too expensive in my opinion ,I would only recommend to people to live there only if u have the capital to live there
The Eiffel Tower was built in 1887 and the highest occupied space is 300M above ground. The Montparnasse Tower built in 1973 is only 200M tall, but is a skyscraper despite the arbitrary 250M threshold you declare. And it remains to be seen what effect Brexit will have on building more office space in central London.
I just want skyscrapers in London (All of Britain really) to look recognisable and different from their american/asian/european counterparts. While many of those newly suggested projects look really nice and certainly will add something of value to the London skyline I also see a lot of generic glass cubes. Funny shapes make the buildings more lively and human which has always been one of Londons (All of Britain really) greatest perks compared to other cities.
The UK has a massive problem with a lack of affordable housing. The Conservatives promised to build 200000 "starter homes" back in 2017 and have built ZERO. The average house price in the UK is 16x that of the average annual wage, and 30x the annual minimum wage. In other words, if you're on the minimum wage, you'd have to go 30 years without spending anything at all just to be able to afford the average home. It's a disgrace.
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My school in Camden has an amazing view of the London skyline and I’ve seen it progress majorly since 2014 when I started going there. It’s really cool to see our city’s skyline turning into that of a proper modern city. Of course London is one of the most modern cities in the world culturally and economically speaking, but I’m excited for a grand skyline to be the cherry on top.
Is Prince Charles still fretting about all this development, preferring London to maintain an 18th century look?
Havestock doesn’t have a good view stop lying
@@horatiohuskisson5471 who said I went to Havestock?
I don't want to de-anonymise you on the internet, but I'm how furiously thinking about which Camden schools you might be referring to. One of the ones around Hampstead Heath maybe?
@@merrymachiavelli2041 Thats alright I’m out of school these days. It’s the UCL academy in Swiss Cottage next to Primrose hill. It’s only like 10 years old as an institution so u may not know of it
Simon seems much happier and upbeat in this video, than I’ve seen of late!!! It’s nice and comforting to hear a bit more chipperness in his voice!!!
Recently I have been feeling that his narration has been that of a bored , petulant teenager! But I always love his videos! 😘
does any one else hear "Isle of Dogs" and think of the animated movie rather then a location in England?
It's a real place???
@artimus You obviously haven't seen Nancy Pelosi or Maxine Waters unless they're your thing.
@@spritemon98 It’s really a peninsula.
No
It’s mostly called Canary Wharf :)
Would be glad if you did a video about Frankfurt Main Germany, about their upcoming skyscrapers - cheers!
In short: bank, bank, concrete desert, bank
@@harrypadarri6349 besides the fact that most of the more interesting shemes in Frankfurt are residential, what's the difference between "bank, bank, bank..."
and "commercial space, office space, bank" as in London?
Sure, I'd love to see a skyscraper that does away with common usage ideas...but how? A carnival skyscraper or one with nothing but an observation deck like the Tulip?
There's only so many things you can do with the space inside but I always found the outside design the more important aspect as I myself will likely never enter 90% of skyscrapers even in my area...
+1
7:55 I do hope they call it "the tip"
knowing Londoners, they probably will.
@@Metallica4Life92 Good.
😂😂😂😂
@@Metallica4Life92 that's going to lead to some awkward situations regarding giving tourists directions
I wonder how many takes it took Simon to record, "the Shaft," without laughing...
That grin suggests "a lot".
As far as I know, it is called the trellis.
Took a girl up the shard once
So glad I found this channel. Such great content 👍🏼
Yup. All 12 have great content
Please can you do a video on Manchester’s rapidly changing skyline. Many skyscrapers and tall buildings are being built
Manchester .. who cares a crap about that place
The B1M channel has a good one that does exactly that. I go to that channel for content on architecture and engineering.
You left out Vauxhall and Nine Elms! A town i worked in and for with Lambeth Council, which will become another Manhattan in itself.
Already has many tall buildings, with the infamous St George Wharf Tower, and the future One Nine Elms.
and thank god he did. Vauxhall development is the biggest piece of s**t architecture in London currently. So no, it will not be another Manhattan, just a bunch of buildings that don't really relate to anything, for foreign investors to park money in...
What they've produced in vauxhall is truly soulless, and if you think that's another manhattan then you're blind
@@EdekLay well obviously i was referring to it as another mini Manhattan only in the sense that it will have a cluster of tall buildings. So i do see very well.
@@pbsa1979 Some of the architecture has fine modern artdecho look and are pleasing to the eye, but yea i agree in that its all investement for rich foreigners, and nothing else really.
As much as I like the new skyscrapers of London, I worry that with the rise of working from home, will companies need as much space as before? I expect there will be a downturn in such building projects in the future.
Not if they're used for housing instead of office buildings.
2:23 - Says “The City of London” but illustrates it with a photo of the City of Westminster. (And makes the same mistake again at 4:30).
Non-british can't distinguish the whole concept of City of London
@@lisaanimi the city is where the main business district/skyscrapers are and Westminster is where “Big Ben” and parliament are 👍
@@lisaanimi All the more reason to get it right in a video presented by a Brit
@lisaanimi
The City of London aka the "Square Mile", is not surprisingly about a square mile in area on the Thames more or less corresponding to the original Roman city of Londinium. It extends from Ludgate Hill, Farringdon Street intersection in the west to Aldgate (roughly), in the East, the river in the south and Old Street (?) in the North. Tbh, I'm not sure about the precise northern border. The "City" is administered by the Corporation of London. It is in effect a city within a city. It has its OWN police force, the City Police, which is separate from the Metropolitan Police. It has its own ceremonial mayor, the Lord Mayor, whose official residence is the Mansion House. The city corporation is a power in its own right. There is no democracy. Private citizens have no say in anything. Even the British government has little power East of Farringdon Street. I don't know whether it is all run by Freemasons, but it wouldn't surprise me. The Corporation of London for secrecy and unaccountability, not to mention pure evil, make the Cosa Nostra look like the Girl Guides.
Fun facts : the Corporation of London owns Burnham Beeches, a forest west of London near Slough. I've seen their rangers' Land Rovers with big Corporation of London logos on the doors. One of the victims of Jack the Ripper was found just within the City boundary. A contributing factor to the messed up investigation was a turf war or boundary dispute between the Met and the City Police.
The skyscrapers planned within the City WILL be built, because the Corporation is answerable only to itself. No one else. After the funny handshakes have taken place, and the ceremonial brown envelopes have been exchanged, the project, no matter how pointless will be given the go ahead. For further information on how planning applications happen and gain approval, see the classic Monty Python architect sketch. Python's satirical comedy was, unfortunately, based on fact. That's how it's done.
It's incredible how skyscraper designs can range from "Huh cool innovation" to "What the fuck is that fugly hellspawn"
Delighted that Simon is a fan of tall buildings too! I'd recommend a look at the (very exciting) supertall timber Oakwood Tower proposal, with its innovative stiffness based exterior mega-truss structural strategy (used to resist lateral loads that prevent timber buildings being built above 40 or so storeys using existing practical techniques i.e. with connections considered), which could launch a sustainable revolution of tall timber sideprojects around the globe!
so you want more of the rainforest cut, interesting
@@trevorjosephoneill345 To make it clear I do not wish to see rainforest cut down, any destruction of biodiversity is a tragedy and must end entirely right now. The great issue facing the industry today is down to the current heavy and unsustainable reliance on non-renewable metals and minerals used to make steel and concrete products. Concrete accounts for at least 30% of global C02 release each year. Cement production alone accounts for 8% of global C02 and 10% of the Earth's water consumption. A relevant trend in relation to economic and environmental sustainability in densely urbanized areas is the demolition of buildings long before the end of their design lives. This suggests that renewable, perhaps cyclic, materials such as timber are particularly well suited to use in the modern built environment for a more sustainable future. It is entirely possible to manage forests sustainably. As a matter of fact natural softwoods grown for engineered timber products can be sourced from well-managed forests in places like Europe and North America. It is incumbent on the construction industry to understand the life cycle process of a material from farming, harvesting, manufacturing, fabrication, transport, construction, and ultimately reuse at the end of its usable life as a building material. It's an important discussion point because it is imperative to design habitats for growing renewable timber in order to work with land-management authorities to understand the capacity of land over time. Furthermore, the increased value of timber that is expected to result from its use as an engineered construction product is likely to confer increased value on long-term well-managed forestry.
@@StephenShard, you seem to understand your subject or and have researched the subject. Fair enough, I apologise .
Ton of inaccuracies in this one, quite unusual for one of Simon's channels!!
Care to share some?
I swear the European trade centre isn’t even fair I mean 500 meters every other building will be like a blade of grass to it
honestly, they will probably lower it to either 300 or 350 m, but I don't see how a building of 500 m would be allowed in London because the civil aviation authority would be complaining non stop
@@FrenchFry-hi4rn yea the main building being 500 metres seems ridiculous. I mean where could they build it without the aviation authority slapping them around the face? I think it would be great if it was built. However I highly doubt it. And there's no way that massive complex could be built in 3 years. Everything in London moves slower than most places
A 500 metre tower would look ridiculous in London. It would dwarf all the other towers. Look at Dubai's skyline. The Burj Khalifa building dominates all the other buildings, rather than complimenting them, as it should. It's nice to have a mix of different heights, but not 500 meters in London. Dubai would look better if the BK building was half the size it is, in my opinion. I agree with FrenchFry90210 with a suggestion of 300 to 350 metres.
The ETC could really make use of some sky bridges between those 7 buildings, ensuring that if one business needs to visit another within one of the other buildings, then they won't have to shuffle about the streets. Skyscrapers above 400 meters already do have some major hurdles handling the transport of people up and down their length. Having an access to the building that is already 200+ meters up is a rather massive help in easing off that issue. (Another solution is to eat up floor space with extra elevator shafts, but that isn't always practical.)
“The Cucumber” looks more like a sea cucumber to me.
It's spitting out seed.
100+ floors is what London needs. I hope the ETC skyscraper is built.
Bro the tulip looks awesome.....damn ,,.... Id fly from Canada just to check it out
Nah I think it looks stupid and doesn’t deserve to be 305m tall because of how hideous it looks. I’m up for the 1 Undershaft Building because it will be 290m which will make it the 2nd tallest skyscraper in the UK plus it will make good use of office spaces etc.
@@Yasin_2312 I’m still all in with the shart tho
The Tulip looks cool. I think its design could be modified to meet the benefit equation without impacting its exterior appearance too much. Make the supporting pillar a massive hotel/residential block with the inner core of the tulip bulb being dedicated to retail space surrounded by the observation walks.
Even before the problems in 2020 I have noticed the ever increasing amounts of empty office space in London in and around Monument, Bank, Aldgate and Tower Hill.
It seems like alot of London skyscrapers are mostly a way to launder money honestly. That's what's happening in big mexican cities rn
I'm not sure if you live in london but it ranks the 2nd on the global financial index, it was first in 2019 but its catching up again cause its score went up. I've never seen these empty offices you are talking about.
Also if they truly were empty then they wouldn't be constantly building so many, the cost would outweigh the profit.
@@electri2024 what's the global financial index? If it's a list of prices then yes that's why so many criminals launder crime through London real estate.
@@jacobs2099 The global financial index asks investors from all around the world how they would rank different financial hubs, it takes into account accessibility, infrastructure, expertise, services quality etc. There is only really one index, you can just search it up on google. Also i'm sure a lot of dirty money flows through london, but that is the same in almost every rich city.
well structured video, very informative, cheers mate
The Cucumber? The Shaft? A building that looks distinctly like a sex toy? What's happening over there, Brits? Are you okay?
globalism
More like 'The Buttplug'.
My thought exactly! What's with all the phallic shaped buildings?!
London is becoming a mix of Shanghai architecture and Middle East culture.
Sadly
And property owned by Russian oligarchs.
Saw ETC Tower and thought "Et Cetera Tower. How the hell do you come up with that nickname?"
That’s literally what I thought😂
Video suggestion to do a video on the Pennsylvania Railroad and the GG1. The PRR was created some of the top railroad technology of the day and they have an interesting story. Especially with their iconic electric engine the GG1.
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Please god don’t let that god awful monstrosity the Tulip get re-approved
I quite like the Tulip
It looks like a buttplug
The swab
It’s cool that it has a viewing thing inside but it isn’t good enough imo
In another city it might look good, but not in London.
Good video 👍
1:00 - Chapter 1 - Why skyscrapers ?
2:40 - Chapter 2 - 2020, a very tall year
4:00 - Chapter 3 - Future projects
5:15 - Chapter 4 - The cucumber
6:40 - Chapter 5 - 1 Undershaft
8:10 - Chapter 6 - Aspen tower
9:05 - Chapter 7 - ETC Tower
10:30 - Chapter 8 - The tulip
You are a good man thank you
Brilliant video!
Forecast Toronto's Skyline!! We're about to get a whole bunch of supertall skyscrapers (300m+), the construction of an entirely new island in the Keating channel, and the transformation of the city's skyline over the past 10 years has been (and continues to be) the biggest and fastest in North America.
The B-roll footage in this video makes no sense. And sometimes just the totally wrong image is shown
Theres plenty of mistakes in Simons videos, I'm sure he'd admit to that too. The amount of content his team pumps out across the multiple channels is simply astounding, there's bound to be a few things that get rushed. :)
Go away
I hope they would build the ETC tower in London please I'm begging you 🙏
Honestly that last " tulip" tower looks like a weird glorified super sized didlo 😂😂😂
European Trade Center 😍 hope they can build it 🤞🏻
No!!!!!!
@@kedevy why lol
Taller the better,let's build some over a 1000 ft.Not just in London but other cities in the UK.
I hope Birmingham will follow as well
With a bit of luck Sadiq Khan will jump off one of those buildings and do us all a favour.
04:29 Big Ben and the houses of parliament are in the city of westminster....not the city of london.
You saved my typing that, so I typed this instead.
London: *Has a law dictating that someone has a right to sunlight*
The Barbican: I'm gonna pretend I didn't hear that...
finished by 2021, is a month and a week away... 2021, starts 1 Jan 2021...
England is very nice and I am your new subscriber from Afghanistan.
Really enjoyed this video, as a skyscraper fan myself I’m looking forward to more similar videos hopefully about other European cities ?
Great video but some VERY out of date imagery and footage 🤔
No current shots of what canary wharf/wood wharf actually looks like these days and not really many of how the current square mile/city looks.
Nothing on the large Vauxhall/nine elms cluster going up too. Also every time you mentioned ‘the city’ you only had pictures of Big Ben in Westminster 🤔
you forget to mention Chicago where the skyscraper was born.
Great content
Would be great to see your take on Hudson yards in nyc or the Big Dig in Boston
Thanks
Progress on Newfounlad and Landmark pinnacle is great and smooth, thanks for asking :)
Seeing how the skyline has changed over the last 5 years since 2019 is insane, city of London has already changed massively since I last went there same for Canary Wharf
I love the Tulip design 😊
I don't believe that Sadiq Khan honestly thinks that building these skyscrapers is going to produce "affordable" housing...in London (if you live in London you know what a joke property prices have become) unless by some miracle rent caps are introduced and if that happens i'll drink a pint of Thames water.
why is Simon's room so dark in this vid?
Thank you
50% of central londons residents are professional service workers... all working from home, [2020 lightbulb]: all businesses have realised that they only need a fraction of that office space moving forward and need to cut costs now. London no longer has a high demand for office space, now theres abundance which needs to pivot to residential. Result: london has a glut of space, prices in both commercial and residential collapse
You should see Tokyo's coming superbuildings.
The vast majority of these tall buildings won't be built. Brexit and COVID-19 will decimate the business space market, and business generally. Companies will downsize their space to reduce costs as more staff work from home the majority of the time. Cities will need more smaller spaces or lower cost ones not expensive ones.
Cucumbers are botanically a fruit. CAA is the Civil Aviation Authority.
*Thanks, Great vid. Why the odd shapes???*
Biographics idea: 1972 munich Olympics. There's only one decent video it on RUclips
if watching british comedy is a good way to judge the british public id bet money that the tulip would be called the bellend if it was build
😂
Tulip looks like a Q tip
Do the Tulip. Observation towers are about stunning views.
Yeah but a lot of views would be covered up by other projects
Can we get an A-10 thunderbolt video, it would be amazing
Already done
@@spacewater7 he’s done the A-12 not the A-10
The Tulip looks... decidedly NOT like a tulip at first glance.
If it ever gets built, I promise a lot of Londoners are going to be calling it the G-spot.
This video is so dark that Simon is almost in caricature.
can we have more London skyline videos :)
Not sure how these buildings will be filled. 90% of City of London workers are working from home and will do so for some time to come. The City is a ghost town at the moment compared to what it used to be and many offices and skyscrapers are sitting empty!! Why would businesses be shelling out millions to buy/lease these commercial spaces when their employees can work from home.
You do realise that every time you mention "City of London' your video editor shows the" City of Westminster"? 🙄
A common confusion.
I think his editor must not have been told the difference.
Don't worry, Americans will be totally confused, as they would think the entire of London is "The City of London".
Isnt the City of London different from London by having Lord Honorable Mayor
Yes he did it two times... big mistake.
I love Sideprojects and usually your video content is high quality. I hate to nag, but what happened with the crushed blacks on Simon's standup?
they should build the etc tower. it would be a landmark for the UK
Yes definitely
Very interesting and informative video but why the dark, murkey images of most of the proposed buildings?
If the tulip is just for observation decks I think it would soon become a waisted space.
Wasted.
Good to see we aren't learning a thing about sustainable/sensible skyscraper construction and continue to plan giant all-glass monstrosities which require massive air conditioning and ventilation systems
the tulip is hideous
Wow I live in the Province of Newfoundland and Labrador. I had no idea there was a Newfoundland skyscraper going up on Canary Wharf
@creator wow. Cool. 😎
I lole Londons skyscrapers. They all look unique and not just a giant rectangle. Well some of them do.
I too am a skyscraper fan!
Well they need to build something. For a world class city, London sure has an extremely underwhelming skyline.
it would be entertaining to see a video like this on Dutch "skyscrapers".
TRUE! Went to Eindhoven the other day...there's an "actual skyscraper" in there...city center, not even commercial district! To a german like me that's insane and I love it!
I think the one I mean is Vesteda Tower but there's several now and that's not mentioning Rotterdam or Amsterdam
The tulip looks kinda weird.
How about the tallest building on each continent?
Maybe the costa nera center in Santiago Chile..
The Tulip is just HIDEOUS. It would be a permanent blot on the skyline with its weird, phallic shape and I really hope they don't build it. I'm all for tall buildings but lessons really need to be learnt from the last blot - the bulbous Walkie Talkie building.
I believe The Tulip is never going to be built. And yes the Walkie Talkie building is soo ugly, could’ve built a taller and better looking skyscraper
Hobarts funnies would be a great side project
ETC looks amazing
Simon, do a video on sri lanka port city please
You guys should look at the redevelopment of the Battersea Power Station.
I can't find any update on the project
What is up with the colour saturation?
Please do Manchester episode too !
the tulip building reminded me of a few things besides flowers. cotton swab, douche/enema hose tip...
urban population density in Europe is higher than in most other places (especially higher than in North America), therefore there is less benefit to adding skyscrapers. The economic benefit of "supertall" skyscrapers so far seems to be non-existent.
The Doubleheader sounds good
Bloody hell whistler youve got a right beard now, well done son
at 5:02 I thought my monitor had broken with those lines on the screen, thanks for that scare 😕
Croydon has so many now...
Yes, London has the potential to be the best in tbe world. They need to shut the City airport to allow construction of much more imposing skyscrapers. One thing London has New York can't and never will match is the much superior historic architecture of London, but London can match NY for skyscraper volume and height.
I hope the Trellis is at least 300 metres. They can’t reduce to 10 metres and say it’s safe when clearly Shard on the other side of the river is 309 metres. It would be nice if they add like a 50 metres spire on the Trellis to make it look like the WTC Tower 1. That would look beautiful in the London skyline
@ Yasin l. I think I know what you're talking about, the 1 undershaft at 300meters and add 100ft thin majestic on top of 1 undershaft just like the Empire state building. London should definitely do that, with the glass built around them on the rooftop.?
@@markfoster7949 I believe London should add a nice 30 metres spire just like they did on the Heron Tower. It would look majestic on the 1 Undershaft (Trellis Tower). That should make it the tallest skyscraper in UK and not cause trouble with Airports.
@ yasin l. I prefer the Empire state building thin majestic rather than the spire and not to cause trouble at the Airports?
@@markfoster7949 I was thinking that with the Trellis building, they should add an antenna like the North Tower. That would look beautiful in the London skyline
@Yasin l. As for the Antenna I think that would probably cause trouble with airport raders but it would be great, but I would prefer if they could build 330 metres and that would look great and its not the world tallest, look at new York if they could do it so can London?
Could you please do one on Frankfurt? Thanks!
in my hometown there were supposed to build an apartment for those who need afordable housing but in irder to get in you have to pay 400 thousand and trust me it's not worth the price the kitchen is very small and the place just looks like any normal apartment there so it looks like only the rich will afford these that and it been 2 years and they haven't even finished it yet
400,000 down is affordable??
If u are living in London u can’t expect affordable houses ,u should leave outside London for affordable houses ,London is too expensive in my opinion ,I would only recommend to people to live there only if u have the capital to live there
The Eiffel Tower was built in 1887 and the highest occupied space is 300M above ground. The Montparnasse Tower built in 1973 is only 200M tall, but is a skyscraper despite the arbitrary 250M threshold you declare.
And it remains to be seen what effect Brexit will have on building more office space in central London.
I just want skyscrapers in London (All of Britain really) to look recognisable and different from their american/asian/european counterparts. While many of those newly suggested projects look really nice and certainly will add something of value to the London skyline I also see a lot of generic glass cubes. Funny shapes make the buildings more lively and human which has always been one of Londons (All of Britain really) greatest perks compared to other cities.
I'm assuming by Simon's smirk that "shaft" has the same connotation in England as in USA. Also, the Etc Tower? Was that acronym intentional?
The UK has a massive problem with a lack of affordable housing. The Conservatives promised to build 200000 "starter homes" back in 2017 and have built ZERO. The average house price in the UK is 16x that of the average annual wage, and 30x the annual minimum wage. In other words, if you're on the minimum wage, you'd have to go 30 years without spending anything at all just to be able to afford the average home. It's a disgrace.