US doesn't need much skyscrapers now. It needs now- Sustainable development,new road infrastructure, Awesome Airports,need to Reduce their National Debt.,give homes to homeless people,Control gun violence, Help the World in Controlling Climate Change,Building a whole NEW Bullet train line from Boston-NYC-Richmond route for better Transportation,doing less Wars and doing meaningful Scientific research.
DemistTheLies from your perspective as an observer was it enjoyable to watch as an architectural lover or was it annoying for daily life dealing with the construction?
@@Jam2tech I haven't lived in mainland China but watched its progress from Hong Kong. China suffered through a period of very poor pollution control and still has a ways to catch up with the developed world. Back in the 90s, every major city was pretty much dusty year-round due to the rapid rate of construction and the relatively lax safety and pollution controls. These days things are much more expensive but much cleaner in China's leading cities.
USA doesn't really need more skyscrapers right now so its really a moot point. China has a billion people so they actually NEED skyscrapers for people to work/live, also more people means more engineers.
@B Babbich yes but the argument is that skyscrapers are now almost a chinese thing. Regardless of why theyre doing it, they are building an extraordinary amount. Even the US was the home of the skyscraper because of the sheer amount they have constructed, but now china is exceeding that so how is it wrong that it is the new home of the skycraper?
@B Babbich No one is proud of it, if anything the US started it by being proud of the number of skyscrapers they built to put themselves on the top of the world! Back then did you think about how Europe just didn't like how they looked and thats why they weren't building them? No! The US matched economic power with skyscrapers, and now China is beating you. FURTHERMORE, are you expecting every building to be an empire state building or something? The majority are just plain residential buildings, with statement pieces mixed in
@B Babbich Also a lot of the world said the same thing about the US and their skyscrapers in the 1900s. Compared to the architecture of Europe, the US were the home of soulless mass produced ugly boxes back then, so you cant cry that the same thing is happening to you...
@B Babbich You're right there isn't, but can you say the same about many buildings in the US? Maybe only the Empire State Building, but even the Pearl in Shanghai is like an icon of the city and will likely stay for a while.
@B Babbich I don't know I live in toronto, and there's an interesting mix between the modern glass towers with the older victorian style buildings or classic stone architecture! Wow my reply was super quick haha
Same here! Great video anyway. I think the reason America lost is that China is booming at the moment and the US economy is not growing. Also, it is much more expensive to build high in the Western world because of salaries so we can't build as much and as high. 9/11 also halted skysraper construction in the US for some years. Worth to mention is that Canada and Australia also started to build tall already in the 1970s and 80s. And there are many other Asian countries that are building a lot at the moment, like South Korea, Thailand and Malaysia, not to talk about Dubai and other cities in the Middle East. With the said, America still has some of the best looking skyscrapers in the world.
Americans want more pay,more leave, more food for less work Chinese don't even get a quarter of these and are able to do the same if not more work China shits on human rights America will be filled with protests if even one worker is offended, or has died Modern day americans take everything for granted Chinese are yet hungry for more
Vivek Krishnaa.B civil2016 would you like to be paid $3 an hour and have your rights shat on by a one party government? But yeah, they be Gr8 cuz they’d havs moar tallst buldin.
I will explain: by "China" you have to understand a group of people, whom you may also know by the name "communists". by "America" you have to understand a group of people, whom you may also know by the name "revolutionaries". both the "communists" and the "revolutionaries" are subsidiaries of the Red Rose. Dat Rosa Mel Apibus. by "apibus" you have to understand "beez", whom you may also know by the name "zebub". by "rosa" you have to understand "Apollo", whom you may also know by the name "baal", or "napollyon". the red rose commits fornication with the kings of the earth. she is set aside for the Lord. there, you asked how it happened. are u happy now? whach you gon do with that knowlech?
China needs that because of its population density and it's economic structure. The US would build more skyscrapers if we needed them but even people who work in cities here often live in suburban houses unlike in China where most live in apartments
The real reason is that the US government is unwilling to fund things that are useless for elections, US workers are slack and the federal government is inefficient. There are many lobbying groups on Wall Street, but there won't be one who cares about the lives of the poor.
@@sunnydaysddt2068 European here. Some of the most expensive cities in the world to live on are in the US.. Last time I checked New York was more safe than London and London is far more safe than most Asian cities per capita, especially Beijing.
The US legitimately does need a lot more skyscrapers in cities like Los Angeles, Seattle and San Francisco but regulations and public backlash stunt their development.
Here in LA we dont like skyscrapers because we like being stuck in traffic everyday as we commute hours to our single homes we can afford barely with roommates to enrich our landlords. LA has more jobs than housing. IE has more housing than jobs. So we compromise with traffic.
I live in Long Beach not two miles from the beach and we are seeing a lot of high-rise buildings going up and down town. Downtown LA is now unrecognizable from 20 years ago. The age of vertical has come to Southern California.
"China has created more skyscrapers in the past decade than the US has created in the 118 years" - Part of this can be attributed to the fact that progress and innovation can be like moving through a dense jungle. The first to do it has to create a viable working path and cut through all the dense bush, which can take an incredibly long time. Those that come after the path maker have a significantly easier and quicker time making their way. For skyscrapers its reasonable to view the US as the path maker and China and everyone else as following the established trail. Also, once a skyscraper reaches a certain height, the likelihood of it not becoming economically viable increase, which is why the the Burj Khalifa needed help with government funding. The same is true of the second tallest skyscraper; the Shanghai tower, which also required funding from the local Shanghai government. Its now been 5 years since completion and it still has 55 vacant floors, It's mired in debt, hamstrung by bureaucracy and as the months drag on its threatening to become a high-rise version of China's infamous ghost cities and yet another example of wasteful spending by state-owned companies. In contrast, as a general rule, US skyscrapers don't tend to receive mass injections of funds from the state, which makes competition in this area almost impossible, at least for now, until/if mega skyscrapers become economically profitable again on the whole, without government involvement.
Would be nice if they mentioned these points in their videos. Perhaps RUclips advertisers are afraid of seemingly anti-China content, and the B1M plays along.
China has stolen nearly every technical innovation of the past 40 years - thats what their economic growth is based on. Research and development is by far the most expensive part of any investment because of the high uncertainties. China "bypassed" these uncertainties with their intellectual theft... A german socialist called that strategy "überholen ohne einzuholen" which translates in "overtake without catchin' up" 😐
Except India and Brazil and Indonesia for example aren't even coming close. China is a Tiger economy with a population the size of Europe and north America and south America combined. Let that sink in.
@@jimmyrakete6521 Us stole everything from the british and germans in the 1900's. Even their scientists. The majority of top talent in the Us in R&D are ethnic Chinese. China is entitled to all Us technology because it is not owned by the US.
@@VarietyGamerChannel "top talent in the Us in R&D are ethnic Chinese" I'd like to see that *statistic* ... And my comment wasn't about the current situation. Of course China became an econmic power, I wouldn't deny that. But the way they achieved that is based on stolen intellectual property from the west combined with an ruthless authoritarian system which can accumulate ressources much faster than western democracies... Chinas economy might grow but I wouldnt call it real progress due to the undeniable lack of political and cultural freedom the chinese system comes with.
Excellent video. I love skyscrapers! They are my favorite part of a city's skyline and usual are the first identifier that distinguishes the city from it's peers. Thanks for sharing.🏙🙌
Our skyscraper boom was in the 20th century so it makes sense why not many new skyscrapers in America are not being built. Plus many of our skyscrapers are not being used at full capacity.
Most of them will be cities in developing countries where people are leaving the rural areas. These cities are just gigantic ghettos, no reason for any tourists to visit them at all.
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There is still a lot of land to develop in the US. With the cost of building tall, above 63 floors, they aren't economic. There are taller for a statement, not for economics. And with private companies building in the west, economics always win.
@@rudeboyjohn Exactly. Go out to Columbus Ohio, go out to Nashville or Charlet NC. Ford is taking ppl from CA to Detroit because of the cost difference.
@@cmdr1911 also, keep in mind that nyc has numerous restrictions on what can be built and to what height. When a project does get approved the developer has to make improvements to surrounding infrastructure which can be in the $100's of millions.
Exactly what I was about to post. Need to examine that figure more closely though to see exactly what it means because, if it is true as a blanket statement, then building the ultrathin residential skyscrapers along Central Park should not be a financially viable project, right? But they are viable so how is it possible for both ideas, which seem to be mutually exclusive, to co-exist?
@@briansmith9439 There are outliers. Central Park is a great example. The real estate and the clients break the 63 floor rule since we are talking multiple billionaires and extremely prized ground. Companies and average people aren't as interested and would rather have larger profits and affordable homes.
@@supermotherfuckingvillain Yes but at the same time China has loads of ghost cities that barely anyone lives in. Most famous of which have got to be the ones trying to copycat international places, like Thames town near Shanghai.
@@drdewott9154 I believe they built these ghost cities so quickly was because labour costs is relatively low at the moment. In a few rears/decades, labour cost would be too high and there will not be as much construction workers. So the government thought that the logical thing to do is invest and build as much as possible for the future, as china shifts from an industrial to developed nation.
The author of this video keeps reminding us of how it took the US and the western world over a century to achieve what China has seemingly, (on the surface at least), accomplished in a mere 35 years. However, this 'wow' factor isn't nearly as impressive when you analyze it just a little bit more closely: To me, it's much more impressive that it took the United States a scant 110 years to go from its independence in 1776 to building its first 'skyscraper' because it started out entirely from scratch. We had to actually discover and implement electricity, indoor plumbing, telecommunications, and the oil industry- just to name a few of the countless, thousands of other discoveries and inventions it took to make the skyscraper possible. We had to invent (from absolutely no previous examples or templates), internal combustion engines, derricks and booms, and wire rope/steel cables. We had to (again, from scratch, mind you), discover, engineer, and implement new and bold techniques of steel production and construction to withstand lateral wind forces- often relying on the confidence of the architects and engineers themselves in a day before it could all be tested inside of a computer simulation program. And of course, Elisha Otis had to invent the elevator before any of these newly discovered technologies could be funneled into constructing an actual skyscraper. But besides all of that, the real kicker is that the United States achieved these goals when its population was less than 93 million people-- a minuscule fraction of China's current 1 billion-plus people; AND we did it largely within the confines of our own self-reliant economy-- NOT with the tremendous boost of a global one. In the end, I say good for China. But it only took them 3 decades to become the skyscraper leader because it took somebody else 2 centuries to deliver them the skyscraper.
This could only happen after Paya Labar Airbase is closed down sometime in the 2030s. Due to the airbase, there's a height restriction of 280m in the city centre.
I just immigrated to America and now live in New York City, the funny thing about living here is that I don't notice the skyscrapers that much, because it's either I'm too busy in the subway or too busy walking the streets of Manhattan and not looking up. I only got to appreciate the Manhattan skyline at night when my NJ Transit bus got stuck in traffic in Weehawken that's about to descend to enter the Lincoln Tunnel, at at least the view was spectacular being in gridlock. New York City's skyline only looks good on TV being shot from a helicopter or at a vantage point across the Hudson or Brooklyn. When actually being in Manhattan, trying to look up hurts the neck. To enjoy the skyline, might as well pay the entrance fee to One World Trade Center Observation Deck.
@@kushal4956 There are plans for a 1km tower and I believe the mega-pyramid over Tokyo would be 2 km. There's no real need for such structures. They're just flexing at this point.
I can hear my boss saying one if not both sayings: "Quality over Quantity" and/or "You get what you inspect not what you expect." Love the video, I need to binge watch the latest videos
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@@notsure6187 Plus, we won the super bowl!.............ᵃ ᶠᵉʷ ʸᵉᵃʳˢ ᵃᵍᵒ .....: )... Loving this city since I was born here over a half century ago! PSFS my first bank account in 1966...:)...Oh the changes we've seen...
Thank you I always look forward to your videos as a huge skyscraper fan myself I can't get enough of your channel. You really are the definitive Channel for buildings on RUclips there's nothing else like it, keep it up!
Reasons why China builds more: - Cheap labor that no American or European workers would accept, no right to protest or unionize for better conditions (it’s a dictatorship after all) - Govt pouring funds to build more than is needed, creating a housing bubble in the process (the US govt never funds unprofitable or useless buildings, it’s all private) - When public money is used to build pointless buildings, the people can’t complain or sue the state, because the Communist Party “is always right” - China never spent one cent in developing its own technology, and took zero risks. It simply replicated all US designs - The American middle class got used to living comfortably in spacious suburbia and big houses, while Chinese are usually historically poor and prefer to stick to small apartments in cities
Jin H Advanced technologies? China is infamous worldwide because it steals technology from the Western world and manufactures cheap terrible quality knock offs. Get back to reality
The last B1M about Dubai retaining the tallest skyscraper for the foreseeable future is very correct. The US need an economically valid reason to build one, because private investors need an ROI. Even in our post-GFC 'free money' environment, we also aren't nearly as loose as China with capital. They have financed this growth through massive state-owned debt. I see no appetite in the US to spend huge amounts of money on 'prestige' projects. TBH, if I were a Chinese taxpayer, I wouldn't be either given the amount of poverty that still exists.
@@5674inCincy But the population of a city in china like shanghai even more than some countries, china need more houses than anyother country. “ghost cities” seem to be illogical. some place looks like a “ghost cities” just because its Spring Festival or these building are under construction.
T tba they would be a lot better but I don’t think they anticipated the huge surge of Immigration that occurred during the days planning a city was still feasible
KaijusaurusG2K Shanghai was the largest and the most financially advanced city in East Asia during the 1920s-30s. The better question is how Shenzhen went from being a small town to becoming a mega city.
Shane Willbur Yes, but there’s a reason Theodore Roosevelt set laws that require employees to be paid a certain amount of money (minimum wage) or higher and other laws like a certain age to work and a good working environment.
Yes, you don't SHOOT the footage but I'll be damned if you don't MAKE it into the amazing visual that it is with your insightful commentary. Those drone flights over and through the steel and glass walled canyons...wow!
It's just unaffordable to build that high in america, unless in Manhattan and Chicago, obviously if we would like to build a taller building of course we could, actually most of the firms dedicated to design and build this kind of buildings are americans.
@@gamingwithmatt3598 not true china only allows chinese companies to build in china and since they build most sky scrapers, most sky scraper architects are chinese
@@frankwilliamk3769 ok, i dont want to argue with you but usually in almost every country when a design or building company wants to do a job it has to associate with a domestic firm, for instance SOM has build a lot of buildings in china and all around the world, and obviously chinese architects and builders that works with them have acquired a huge expertice because of this. But if someone wants to build an even taller building in america of course that they can build it, but nobody cares anymore.
America no longer has a need for skyscrapers because of high maintenance and high rent costs. Nobody was to pay that when theirs cheaper options (paying a lot for the view). Not to mention a lot of those skyscrapers in China are empty and even their tallest building is more than half empty. They forgot to mention the Chinese government has banned building skyscrapers over a certain height because they’re money pits.
I agree with some other comments, the US doesn’t need big skyscrapers or to be the most stylish or tall building. I love the skyscrapers we have in New York and some other states China needs more tall buildings just to house their people.
I can’t help but feel like when you see things like 9-11 it only discourages you from building them. When you saw that devastation unfold you can’t help but realize how the building itself could hurt so many innocent people. It’s just scary, I apologize if I’m being irrational but my god, what a horrible and tragic way to die. That’s all I’m saying
We didn't lose the skyscraper race it's just that America doesn't need many skyscrapers right now. We right now have many skyscrapers that are not being used at full capacity and I think we should worry about having those previous buildings in occupancy rather then building for empty offices and rooms. Our skyscraper boom was the 1900's and still in use for companies and people for the 21st century. Skyscrapers should be built when it's necessary not unnecessary.
I think part of it is Americans don't care about skyscrapers as much plus increasing regulations make building skyscrapers more unfeasible. There's been numerous studies that have shown the shadows skyscrapers cast make people less happy because there's less sunlight. A lot of cities prevent skyscrapers from clustering for this reason. Labor costs is another huge factor. People are much more expensive in the US than China. It's not a coincidence that most new really tall buildings come out of areas where businesses and governments can get away with paying people practically nothing. Many of the skyscrapers in China are also heavily subsidized by the government while that's not the case in the US. Alot of those buildings wouldn't exist if they only had private funding. They tend to be huge money losers (see "Why Shanghai Tower Failed" video). The Chinese government built them as trophies, not because there was real demand. Culturally, I think in the US there's been a huge shift to make cities more European. They see skyscrapers as eyesores. My $.02
I'm and completely baffled how anyone would want to live in a skyscraper. It feels liek you dont own your room. You dont have a yard. Your neighbors are right next to you. Sounds truly horrific.
Though 150 meters is now a standard height, apart from this NYC has the most number of any tall buildings over 100 meters, a staggering 860 buildings taller than 100 meters..... Cities in China only build buildings over 150 meters but unlike nyc they lacks lower height, given an example shenzhen has 220 over 150 meters but 260 over 100 meters
@mrbrainchild76 dude no one cares, any country can build skyscrapers. London has virtually no skyscrapers and yet London is richer by far than any Chinese city including Shanghai despite having 1/4 the population. Asian skyscraper cities are just property investment bubbles.
@mrbrainchild76 All that and yet the us remains the world's preeminent military and economic power. Not only are we much more powerful and influential than china, we have allies the world over and china doesn't. It's going to be a long time before anyone takes america's place.
I much prefer the history of the Art Deco style and their long standing oddities. I admire the push for the skies, but am humbly happy with the skyline NYC can present.
@@georgesealy4706 what? The population decline? It naturally happens when a culture hits a good economic standard of living. Japan has a vary high standard of living, but there population is currently plummeting right now.
Thank you B1M for all the great content you've been delivering. Always looking forward to your new videos! It would be nice to have a video about how colonialism has affected architecture in different parts of the world. Maybe an idea for 2020??
it's so fascinating how quickly cities can develop... like for example, Dubai was only really a country in the 1970s but since then it's developed so much!. And also London, it's not really a skyscraper city it just has a small business district with skyscrapers that were built not too long ago like the gherkin (it's one of my favs), cheesegrater, scalpel and walkie talkie they all have very modern architecture and I love it :) in general the city is awesome and especially in the summer, if you get good weather though ;)
Fun fact: St. Louis actually had the first skyscraper known as the Wainwright Building. Not as tall but it was the first to use the structure as we know it.
Hong kong has the most skyscrapers but a majority of them are simple apartment buildings. The title of most skyscrapers in the world is really just evidence for how messed up the housing situation is there
@@nicholas1894 The cost of housing in Hong Kong is so ridiculous that it's economical to build a 150 meter skyscraper to house normal families. I agree it's sustainable but the entire population lives in tiny apartments in highrises that cost many times their income
You got a point. But it is not a choice made by people or government. This is a result of a simple rule, demand and supply. More people wants to live in hong kong, land value goes up, tall buildings reduce the cost of land for each apartment so people can afford.
The term skyscrapers is over 150 meters, but NYC has the most buildings over 100 meters, it has a staggering 860 buildings taller than 100 meters far higher than HongKong's total
It should be pointed out though that material and labor costs greatly restrict construction, including the height of a building. One WTC in NYC amounted to approx $4 billion while Burj Khalifa (the world's tallest building) in Dubai only topped out at $1.5 billion.
@@beeniemen Why would we change our state of mind? We love our old buildings and that will never change. Besides, we have skyscrapers, just not in the cities and definitely not in the city center (except of London, but UK it's not actually part of Europe).
What you failed to mention is the fact that China has 1 billion more people than America. With this logic, it is clear why they have more tall buildings.
I don't care so much about America losing the skyscraper race. But can we please continue updating our trains/bus and public transportation in general? Our CTA/MTA look so tragic compared to developed countries. Matter of fact, our roads and bridges also need some TLC.
The 16th - 17th centuries belonged to Europe, the 18th - 19th centuries belongs to America the 20th - 21st centuries will definitely belong to Asia, China, India and the ASEAN in particular.
Skyscrapers began in the 20th century in America. China and Dubai and SE Asia have become 21st century players. But it's just the beginning of the century so I'm sure every country will have to build upwards more due to population in cities.
@@davisurdaneta1426 david, looks like youve mixed up the centuries bud, we are CURRENTLY in the 20th century. The 19th century was the 1800s, the 18th century was the 1700s. The USA wasnt even a country for 3/4 of the 18th century and was a completely irrelevant power until late into the 1800s.
US doesn't need much skyscrapers now.It needs now- Sustainable development,new road infrastructure, Awesome Airports,need to Reduce their National Debt.,give homes to homeless people,Control gun violence, Help the World in Controlling Climate Change,Building a whole NEW Bullet train line from Boston-NYC-Richmond route for better Transportation,doing less Wars and doing meaningful Scientific research.
America, and for most part the Empire State Building, has lead the race when it mattered. When building skyscrapers was still about pushing boundaries and amazing the world instead of just shoving out one boring tower after the other (with a few exceptions). When China started their race, the US had already finished... (BTW, no bias here, I'm from Europe from a town where the church is still the highest building...)
@@shanewillbur1325 Would building lots of skyscrapers with very expensive housing solve that problem? Even in China, with its much higher population density and therefore more people living in highrise buildings, most skyscrapers aren't residential.
Tbh, I like that in America that we have less skyscrapers because I love living in the suburbs, not a in a tall multiple story building. I don't think many America's would like more and more skyscrapers, they kinda suck.
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sounds like you are trying to convince yourself about that.
The American government has been ignoring infrastructure for over 80 years now. Hope they re-work their plans and start using the tax payers money into something useful.
In the last decade, China built what the US built in 100 years and in 2018 China built half of New York? LOL. B1M remains the best construction channel in the world!
Tallest building in the world is designed by an American, that hotel with the floating island in Asia was an American design. If not American its typically from the EU where the most famous modern structures are designed. If it's Chinese then it's a clone of an existing building, yes they even clone architecture that's already been built.
Because, even though we have more than enough now, skyscrapers are an Americanisation and ruin the architectural history of our country. Comparing London to Paris makes me weep because of how incomparably beautiful Paris is. The French realised that their city would be better off with a consistent and low European building style, while in London we have a grotesque Frankenstein city with established, rooted styles competing with massive glass and steel boxes on every street.
I love how people say there's a race when there's never been a race. The US only builds skyscrapers upon demand. It has always been this way. China has a much, much larger population than the US as well. And while the US maybe the world's third most populous country, it's also one of the least densely populated. Let's also not forget that most of these Chinese skyscrapers are actually designed by US firms. Land is very plentiful in the US. So demand except in the heart of the immediate down town area's of major cities, has always been low. And the US still trounces most every other country on Earth in skyscraper construction outside of China. China builds skyscrapers just to keep their economy from collapsing. If they don't keep pouring assets into infrastructure, their economy enters the world of hurt. Many of these Chinese skyscrapers stand quite empty. Buildings in the US must be full as possible to generate enough revenue to pay for the structure so the developers can recoup their costs. They are not subsidized like they would be in China. Also people in the US I don't think are memorized by giant skyscrapers like they were in the 20th century. The US has held on to the title of the world's tallest building for over a hundred years. It's just not that interesting to most people to have that title anymore when it became a normal every day thing.
@mrbrainchild76 The US could win if they wanted to. It's the biggest economic power on Earth. Keep in mind those Chinese skyscrapers are US designed. It's that the US dosen't need nor want to build a massive real estate bubble like China has. The US builds tall when it needs to due to demand from clients. China builds tall because their economy is reliant on it.
@mrbrainchild76 Um...No. It's a fact not up for debate. For example one of the tallest buildings in China is the Shanghai World Financial Center. It was designed by a New York firm. Also the Shanghai Tower which is the tallest skyscraper in China, was also designed by a US company. If any country knows how to build tall, it's definitely the United States which invented tall skyscrapers. My city alone here in the US, has 7 skyscrapers that are taller then the Eiffel Tower.
@mrbrainchild76 I think many of the most iconic buildings are designed jointly or completely by foreign architects. Beijing National Stadium was jointly designed by Li Xinggang and French architects, Daxing Airport was designed by Zaha Hadid of Iraq, and Shanghai Tower was designed by Jun Xia, who worked for the American firm Gensler. But he's completely wrong if he thinks the Chinese can't or won't design their own buildings. It's just that most people on English-language sites have no idea on the amount of talent and ingenuity coming out of China.
@@jyashin I'm not saying the Chinese don't design or build their own buildings. It's just the ones that they do are literally crumbling into pieces after about three years of construction. (Literally!) China has a massive problem right now with buildings falling apart. And I do mean on an epic scale.
ja New York doesn't need more skyscrapers, even other cities have taller buildings. New York is still the most powerful city. it is a city worth visiting.
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This isn’t a race, we had already won it years ago. Bashing the U.S. won’t gain you many fans. Bye
US doesn't need much skyscrapers now. It needs now-
Sustainable development,new road infrastructure, Awesome Airports,need to Reduce their National Debt.,give homes to homeless people,Control gun violence, Help the World in Controlling Climate Change,Building a whole NEW Bullet train line from Boston-NYC-Richmond route for better Transportation,doing less Wars and doing meaningful Scientific research.
@@tomlloyd9364 OUCH, you sour boy...??
That change between 2:50 - 2:54 is CRAZY. Imagine living in the other shore, and viewing everything change so quick!
It's like somebody made a Lego city
@@manavgajera4985 or even a SIM city
1987 is the year of my birth, meaning that I'm older than the majority of buildings in Pudong (the far side of the river).
DemistTheLies from your perspective as an observer was it enjoyable to watch as an architectural lover or was it annoying for daily life dealing with the construction?
@@Jam2tech I haven't lived in mainland China but watched its progress from Hong Kong. China suffered through a period of very poor pollution control and still has a ways to catch up with the developed world. Back in the 90s, every major city was pretty much dusty year-round due to the rapid rate of construction and the relatively lax safety and pollution controls. These days things are much more expensive but much cleaner in China's leading cities.
USA doesn't really need more skyscrapers right now so its really a moot point. China has a billion people so they actually NEED skyscrapers for people to work/live, also more people means more engineers.
@B Babbich yes but the argument is that skyscrapers are now almost a chinese thing. Regardless of why theyre doing it, they are building an extraordinary amount. Even the US was the home of the skyscraper because of the sheer amount they have constructed, but now china is exceeding that so how is it wrong that it is the new home of the skycraper?
@B Babbich No one is proud of it, if anything the US started it by being proud of the number of skyscrapers they built to put themselves on the top of the world! Back then did you think about how Europe just didn't like how they looked and thats why they weren't building them? No! The US matched economic power with skyscrapers, and now China is beating you. FURTHERMORE, are you expecting every building to be an empire state building or something? The majority are just plain residential buildings, with statement pieces mixed in
@B Babbich Also a lot of the world said the same thing about the US and their skyscrapers in the 1900s. Compared to the architecture of Europe, the US were the home of soulless mass produced ugly boxes back then, so you cant cry that the same thing is happening to you...
@B Babbich You're right there isn't, but can you say the same about many buildings in the US? Maybe only the Empire State Building, but even the Pearl in Shanghai is like an icon of the city and will likely stay for a while.
@B Babbich I don't know I live in toronto, and there's an interesting mix between the modern glass towers with the older victorian style buildings or classic stone architecture! Wow my reply was super quick haha
That thumbnail image was amazingly subtle!
Omg right
Thanks! Far too much work went into that 😂
I didnt even notice it until this comment
@@TheB1M The attention to detail. 👌
Thanks to your comment I noticed it.
I watched the whole video waiting for the explanation "how" America lost the race. It only explained that it did.
Same here! Great video anyway. I think the reason America lost is that China is booming at the moment and the US economy is not growing. Also, it is much more expensive to build high in the Western world because of salaries so we can't build as much and as high. 9/11 also halted skysraper construction in the US for some years. Worth to mention is that Canada and Australia also started to build tall already in the 1970s and 80s.
And there are many other Asian countries that are building a lot at the moment, like South Korea, Thailand and Malaysia, not to talk about Dubai and other cities in the Middle East. With the said, America still has some of the best looking skyscrapers in the world.
Americans want more pay,more leave, more food for less work
Chinese don't even get a quarter of these and are able to do the same if not more work
China shits on human rights
America will be filled with protests if even one worker is offended, or has died
Modern day americans take everything for granted
Chinese are yet hungry for more
No labor unions
Vivek Krishnaa.B civil2016 would you like to be paid $3 an hour and have your rights shat on by a one party government? But yeah, they be Gr8 cuz they’d havs moar tallst buldin.
I will explain:
by "China" you have to understand a group of people, whom you may also know by the name "communists".
by "America" you have to understand a group of people, whom you may also know by the name "revolutionaries".
both the "communists" and the "revolutionaries" are subsidiaries of the Red Rose. Dat Rosa Mel Apibus.
by "apibus" you have to understand "beez", whom you may also know by the name "zebub".
by "rosa" you have to understand "Apollo", whom you may also know by the name "baal", or "napollyon".
the red rose commits fornication with the kings of the earth. she is set aside for the Lord.
there, you asked how it happened. are u happy now? whach you gon do with that knowlech?
China needs that because of its population density and it's economic structure. The US would build more skyscrapers if we needed them but even people who work in cities here often live in suburban houses unlike in China where most live in apartments
@@sunnydaysddt2068 spoken like a true American
It also took US a decade to build a kilometer of roads or bridges. Didn't Americans need roads or bridges either?
The real reason is that the US government is unwilling to fund things that are useless for elections, US workers are slack and the federal government is inefficient. There are many lobbying groups on Wall Street, but there won't be one who cares about the lives of the poor.
@@sunnydaysddt2068 European here.
Some of the most expensive cities in the world to live on are in the US.. Last time I checked New York was more safe than London and London is far more safe than most Asian cities per capita, especially Beijing.
The US legitimately does need a lot more skyscrapers in cities like Los Angeles, Seattle and San Francisco but regulations and public backlash stunt their development.
The 21st century is of age, in just over a week it will be 20.
And we'll finally have a decade with a name... The Twenties!
What were the last two decades called?
@@livinginvancouverbc2247 shit
The thousands and the tens
@@livinginvancouverbc2247 The Noughties (or the just the 2000's) and the 2010's (or just the tens)
@@MichaelVII_ I can't recall every hearing those words being used.
Here in LA we dont like skyscrapers because we like being stuck in traffic everyday as we commute hours to our single homes we can afford barely with roommates to enrich our landlords. LA has more jobs than housing. IE has more housing than jobs. So we compromise with traffic.
Build skyscrapers in skid row
Isn't that due to earthquakes?
I live in Long Beach not two miles from the beach and we are seeing a lot of high-rise buildings going up and down town. Downtown LA is now unrecognizable from 20 years ago. The age of vertical has come to Southern California.
Horrible. But here in Europe, people despise skyscrapers and live in houses yet there's no compromise with traffic jams too. Win.. Win.
It's because LA suffers from earthquakes
"China has created more skyscrapers in the past decade than the US has created in the 118 years"
- Part of this can be attributed to the fact that progress and innovation can be like moving through a dense jungle. The first to do it has to create a viable working path and cut through all the dense bush, which can take an incredibly long time. Those that come after the path maker have a significantly easier and quicker time making their way. For skyscrapers its reasonable to view the US as the path maker and China and everyone else as following the established trail.
Also, once a skyscraper reaches a certain height, the likelihood of it not becoming economically viable increase, which is why the the Burj Khalifa needed help with government funding. The same is true of the second tallest skyscraper; the Shanghai tower, which also required funding from the local Shanghai government. Its now been 5 years since completion and it still has 55 vacant floors, It's mired in debt, hamstrung by bureaucracy and as the months drag on its threatening to become a high-rise version of China's infamous ghost cities and yet another example of wasteful spending by state-owned companies.
In contrast, as a general rule, US skyscrapers don't tend to receive mass injections of funds from the state, which makes competition in this area almost impossible, at least for now, until/if mega skyscrapers become economically profitable again on the whole, without government involvement.
Would be nice if they mentioned these points in their videos. Perhaps RUclips advertisers are afraid of seemingly anti-China content, and the B1M plays along.
China has stolen nearly every technical innovation of the past 40 years - thats what their economic growth is based on. Research and development is by far the most expensive part of any investment because of the high uncertainties. China "bypassed" these uncertainties with their intellectual theft... A german socialist called that strategy "überholen ohne einzuholen" which translates in "overtake without catchin' up" 😐
Except India and Brazil and Indonesia for example aren't even coming close. China is a Tiger economy with a population the size of Europe and north America and south America combined. Let that sink in.
@@jimmyrakete6521 Us stole everything from the british and germans in the 1900's. Even their scientists. The majority of top talent in the Us in R&D are ethnic Chinese. China is entitled to all Us technology because it is not owned by the US.
@@VarietyGamerChannel "top talent in the Us in R&D are ethnic Chinese" I'd like to see that *statistic* ... And my comment wasn't about the current situation. Of course China became an econmic power, I wouldn't deny that. But the way they achieved that is based on stolen intellectual property from the west combined with an ruthless authoritarian system which can accumulate ressources much faster than western democracies... Chinas economy might grow but I wouldnt call it real progress due to the undeniable lack of political and cultural freedom the chinese system comes with.
haven't quite worked out why i love this channel so much but this video reminded me! fast info with great stock footage & calming british accent
Simp
SIMP!
Just to let you know "Willis Tower" is pronounced Sears Tower.
A.K.A Whatcha talkin' 'bout Willis?
Ok boomer @montusama
Its definitely called the Willis Tower
It will always be the Sears Tower
@@ryanlin2974 you're definitely wrong my friend
Excellent video. I love skyscrapers! They are my favorite part of a city's skyline and usual are the first identifier that distinguishes the city from it's peers. Thanks for sharing.🏙🙌
Thanks for the great feedback! 👍
China: we have more skyscrapers than you 😝
United States: we paid for them 😄😆
It’s easy to explain. USA build his skyline too early and narrow, so it’s crazy expensive to build new tower on the old place. So it is.
Yes,like Manhattan
No it built the skyline first period.
I mean well yeah someone's build for purpose and american only build it for purpose as China needs more and more building for it's population
Our skyscraper boom was in the 20th century so it makes sense why not many new skyscrapers in America are not being built. Plus many of our skyscrapers are not being used at full capacity.
From Dubai to Hongkong has built thanks to Americans immersive companies and capitals and franchises and Canadian and British investment
World's fastest growing cities,
Make a video on that topic...
We're on it 👍 (we have this video in the meantime - ruclips.net/video/N-_a0TCWb6E/видео.html)
Most of them will be cities in developing countries where people are leaving the rural areas. These cities are just gigantic ghettos, no reason for any tourists to visit them at all.
Warsaw. Threre is a 13 skyscrapers under construction and the will be more and morze new skyscrapers
Noel Molina So what, still interesting
Miami definitely is one of them. I dont think people realize how young of a city Miami is compared to the other major US cities.
A channel discovered by chance has turned out to be the most invaluable of them all.The Insights were eye opening and the information balanced and well researched-looking forward to another great year God willing.
Just go for the best
When talking about cities you should show a map with their location
For China they only speak about HK, Shenzhen and Shanghai. Most 12 year olds would know where these are located.
Big Daddy are you geographically challenged or something
@@stijnhs I would when I was 12.
@@stijnhs dude I guarantee you couldn't point them out unless you live in China but nice try looking cool
@@KanyeTheGayFish69 are you a little kid or just trying to fit in among them?
There is still a lot of land to develop in the US. With the cost of building tall, above 63 floors, they aren't economic. There are taller for a statement, not for economics. And with private companies building in the west, economics always win.
Especially in Mew York where its very difficult and expensive to build.
@@rudeboyjohn Exactly. Go out to Columbus Ohio, go out to Nashville or Charlet NC. Ford is taking ppl from CA to Detroit because of the cost difference.
@@cmdr1911 also, keep in mind that nyc has numerous restrictions on what can be built and to what height. When a project does get approved the developer has to make improvements to surrounding infrastructure which can be in the $100's of millions.
Exactly what I was about to post. Need to examine that figure more closely though to see exactly what it means because, if it is true as a blanket statement, then building the ultrathin residential skyscrapers along Central Park should not be a financially viable project, right? But they are viable so how is it possible for both ideas, which seem to be mutually exclusive, to co-exist?
@@briansmith9439 There are outliers. Central Park is a great example. The real estate and the clients break the 63 floor rule since we are talking multiple billionaires and extremely prized ground. Companies and average people aren't as interested and would rather have larger profits and affordable homes.
Well birth rate has definitely seen a drop in the recent decades and if no one's gonna live in it there's no reason to build it
but skyscrapers aren't only used for residence. Its also used for office space, which china most definitely needs
@@supermotherfuckingvillain Yes but at the same time China has loads of ghost cities that barely anyone lives in. Most famous of which have got to be the ones trying to copycat international places, like Thames town near Shanghai.
It's because of China's one birth law
@@drdewott9154 I believe they built these ghost cities so quickly was because labour costs is relatively low at the moment. In a few rears/decades, labour cost would be too high and there will not be as much construction workers. So the government thought that the logical thing to do is invest and build as much as possible for the future, as china shifts from an industrial to developed nation.
@@dominikjakaj1999 Well China has recently changed it to 2 births actually
The author of this video keeps reminding us of how it took the US and the western world over a century to achieve what China has seemingly, (on the surface at least), accomplished in a mere 35 years. However, this 'wow' factor isn't nearly as impressive when you analyze it just a little bit more closely: To me, it's much more impressive that it took the United States a scant 110 years to go from its independence in 1776 to building its first 'skyscraper' because it started out entirely from scratch. We had to actually discover and implement electricity, indoor plumbing, telecommunications, and the oil industry- just to name a few of the countless, thousands of other discoveries and inventions it took to make the skyscraper possible. We had to invent (from absolutely no previous examples or templates), internal combustion engines, derricks and booms, and wire rope/steel cables. We had to (again, from scratch, mind you), discover, engineer, and implement new and bold techniques of steel production and construction to withstand lateral wind forces- often relying on the confidence of the architects and engineers themselves in a day before it could all be tested inside of a computer simulation program. And of course, Elisha Otis had to invent the elevator before any of these newly discovered technologies could be funneled into constructing an actual skyscraper. But besides all of that, the real kicker is that the United States achieved these goals when its population was less than 93 million people-- a minuscule fraction of China's current 1 billion-plus people; AND we did it largely within the confines of our own self-reliant economy-- NOT with the tremendous boost of a global one. In the end, I say good for China. But it only took them 3 decades to become the skyscraper leader because it took somebody else 2 centuries to deliver them the skyscraper.
Long Live USA... Thankyou @Ian Patric Gentles
Very well said!!!!!!
I am a simple man,
I see B1M, I click
Thanks for your dedication!! ✊
@@TheB1M as a budding architect, am your biggest fan
Manan Sethi, I dare to challenge that.
@@maxshrum5631 to paraphrase dear greta, " how dare you "
Ok to be fair you are cause I’m still a high schooler but I believe I’m a smart one when comes to this field. I’ll give you the title.
From Spain, for me its B1M channel is the best construction channel, I love it. Thank you very much.
You couldn't build a model airplane
This is the content I love. Keep it up B1M!👍
Thanks so much for the great feedback, and thanks for watching!
Singapore needs more super skyscraper as land is pretty limited.
yeah they do...but they can't have super tall ones as these are restricted by the airport authority
This could only happen after Paya Labar Airbase is closed down sometime in the 2030s. Due to the airbase, there's a height restriction of 280m in the city centre.
@@darylteo9983 still cant build super tall considering the airspace above singapore is constantly used.
_SINGAPORE MOVE TO INDONÉSIA_
👌😂👍
It actually built too much, it's actually slowly sinking. SG are paying foreign scientists a lot just to figure out how to fix their problem
It's always like this:
USA: historic leader, seen as progressive, futuristic
China: BUT WAIT, THERE'S MORE
Dubai says Hold my Beer! 😜😜😜
@@sunnydaysddt2068 okay boomer. I guess 300 years isn't much to you
China jus copies everything. There has never been a country like USA. Haters gonna hate
Leader ? Nope bully
West created modern skyscrapers, China merely copies the technology.. Like everything else they do
I just immigrated to America and now live in New York City, the funny thing about living here is that I don't notice the skyscrapers that much, because it's either I'm too busy in the subway or too busy walking the streets of Manhattan and not looking up. I only got to appreciate the Manhattan skyline at night when my NJ Transit bus got stuck in traffic in Weehawken that's about to descend to enter the Lincoln Tunnel, at at least the view was spectacular being in gridlock. New York City's skyline only looks good on TV being shot from a helicopter or at a vantage point across the Hudson or Brooklyn. When actually being in Manhattan, trying to look up hurts the neck. To enjoy the skyline, might as well pay the entrance fee to One World Trade Center Observation Deck.
So I came to this video from the B1M vid 6 months later of how China just banned (500m+) skyscrapers...undercuts this video slightly
I love how New York's Freedom Tower is 1776 feet tall, and how it makes no sense at all in meters. It only makes sense in feet.
they can't rly build a 1.7 km tall building
@@kushal4956 Not yet, but they want to.
That will of course be a disaster.
"Who could have known it would collapse like that?"
@@protorhinocerator142 who wants to?
@@kushal4956 There are plans for a 1km tower and I believe the mega-pyramid over Tokyo would be 2 km.
There's no real need for such structures. They're just flexing at this point.
Can’t wait to go to New York in 2 days!
keep us updated
Make sure to visit Hudson Yards
Ah I’m jealous. Are you going for Christmas?
Yup I’m going for vacation, I’ll post some of it on my yt channel.
Anytime I go there I just fall more & more in love with the city!
I can hear my boss saying one if not both sayings: "Quality over Quantity" and/or "You get what you inspect not what you expect." Love the video, I need to binge watch the latest videos
I thought it was, "You get what you don't inspect." Either way, I totally get what you're saying. I binged a few China building fail videos. Scary.
And Europe shows the middlefinger. :D
Fascinating video! Glad you were able to work Philadelphia in there!
Bryce Pandolfo Philadelphia also built the world's first modern skyscraper, the PSFS Building.
Philly also has the tallest building in the US outside of New York and Chicago.
Bryce Pandolfo yeah
@@thescribbler495 Plus, we won the super bowl!.............ᵃ ᶠᵉʷ ʸᵉᵃʳˢ ᵃᵍᵒ .....: )... Loving this city since I was born here over a half century ago!
@@notsure6187 Plus, we won the super bowl!.............ᵃ ᶠᵉʷ ʸᵉᵃʳˢ ᵃᵍᵒ .....: )... Loving this city since I was born here over a half century ago! PSFS my first bank account in 1966...:)...Oh the changes we've seen...
Thank you I always look forward to your videos as a huge skyscraper fan myself I can't get enough of your channel.
You really are the definitive Channel for buildings on RUclips there's nothing else like it, keep it up!
I wish you included this in the list for best B1M video of 2019. The topic was interesting and I you answered the question I always wondered.
As we say in Europe.. i t´s not about quantity, it´s about quality
What's wrong in having Quality in Quantity?
Europe economy broke every year
Reasons why China builds more:
- Cheap labor that no American or European workers would accept, no right to protest or unionize for better conditions (it’s a dictatorship after all)
- Govt pouring funds to build more than is needed, creating a housing bubble in the process (the US govt never funds unprofitable or useless buildings, it’s all private)
- When public money is used to build pointless buildings, the people can’t complain or sue the state, because the Communist Party “is always right”
- China never spent one cent in developing its own technology, and took zero risks. It simply replicated all US designs
- The American middle class got used to living comfortably in spacious suburbia and big houses, while Chinese are usually historically poor and prefer to stick to small apartments in cities
luuchoo G not true. China has one of the most advanced technologies and by far the most advanced cities in the world. Not all is made my Americans
Jin H Advanced technologies? China is infamous worldwide because it steals technology from the Western world and manufactures cheap terrible quality knock offs. Get back to reality
I don’t even think most Americans care about having the biggest skyscrapers. As long as the ones we have are modern, safe and special to us.
The last B1M about Dubai retaining the tallest skyscraper for the foreseeable future is very correct. The US need an economically valid reason to build one, because private investors need an ROI. Even in our post-GFC 'free money' environment, we also aren't nearly as loose as China with capital. They have financed this growth through massive state-owned debt. I see no appetite in the US to spend huge amounts of money on 'prestige' projects. TBH, if I were a Chinese taxpayer, I wouldn't be either given the amount of poverty that still exists.
mrbrainchild76 Skyscrapers are not the most important thing, for any country. It’s interesting, but it’s not essential to the economy.
The Chicago Spire, Hudson Spire, the Ultima Tower, Illinois Mile High, and the Erwehon Center all should be built.
This channel needs to have a whole video dedicated to Toronto's insane growth
How many “ghost cities” do they have again, with loads of empty buildings? 🤔
ITs called planning ahead. Imagine how good American cities would be if they actually anticipated population growth.
Watch a few vids on the property bubble in China.
@@5674inCincy But the population of a city in china like shanghai even more than some countries, china need more houses than anyother country. “ghost cities” seem to be illogical. some place looks like a “ghost cities” just because its Spring Festival
or these building are under construction.
T tba China’s population growth is stagnant.
T tba they would be a lot better but I don’t think they anticipated the huge surge of Immigration that occurred during the days planning a city was still feasible
2:50-2:53 woah how did Shanghai go from a small town with nothing to a bustling futuristic city with skyscrapers that fast?
KaijusaurusG2K Shanghai was the largest and the most financially advanced city in East Asia during the 1920s-30s. The better question is how Shenzhen went from being a small town to becoming a mega city.
KaijusaurusG2K Slave labor.
Blake Bolin isn’t that how the usa started?
Shane Willbur Yes, but there’s a reason Theodore Roosevelt set laws that require employees to be paid a certain amount of money (minimum wage) or higher and other laws like a certain age to work and a good working environment.
Yes, you don't SHOOT the footage but I'll be damned if you don't MAKE it into the amazing visual that it is with your insightful commentary. Those drone flights over and through the steel and glass walled canyons...wow!
We didn't lose the race, we've left the race.
You still lost it tho. Not like building skyscrapers is something too important but still.
It's just unaffordable to build that high in america, unless in Manhattan and Chicago, obviously if we would like to build a taller building of course we could, actually most of the firms dedicated to design and build this kind of buildings are americans.
@@gamingwithmatt3598 not true china only allows chinese companies to build in china
and since they build most sky scrapers, most sky scraper architects are chinese
@@frankwilliamk3769 ok, i dont want to argue with you but usually in almost every country when a design or building company wants to do a job it has to associate with a domestic firm, for instance SOM has build a lot of buildings in china and all around the world, and obviously chinese architects and builders that works with them have acquired a huge expertice because of this. But if someone wants to build an even taller building in america of course that they can build it, but nobody cares anymore.
Ben Heinz sore loser and a quitter
America no longer has a need for skyscrapers because of high maintenance and high rent costs. Nobody was to pay that when theirs cheaper options (paying a lot for the view). Not to mention a lot of those skyscrapers in China are empty and even their tallest building is more than half empty. They forgot to mention the Chinese government has banned building skyscrapers over a certain height because they’re money pits.
Watever maybe but New york's skyscrapers are one of the finest and beautiful buildings I have ever seen
I dont think you have been to hong kong.
Steph Sinnopal I live in Hong Kong and I can assure you NY’s skyscrapers are much better
@@sinnopal1 skyscrapers of new york is better...
NateRiveer _ nah
@@jinh357 just because hong kings skyscrapers are tall and there are a lot of them does not mean there better. Quality over quantity.
I agree with some other comments, the US doesn’t need big skyscrapers or to be the most stylish or tall building. I love the skyscrapers we have in New York and some other states China needs more tall buildings just to house their people.
Great video yet again - Merry Christmas B1M :)
Skyscrapers are like .0001% of America's achievements....
Well there’s not many other ones
yes
@allàh jeśùš mullo aur chiŕstiano ke baap aapkeseho where you come from grown men marry kids
@allàh jeśùš mullo aur chiŕstiano ke baap aapkeseho people like you that make it dirty
@allàh jeśùš mullo aur chiŕstiano ke baap aapkeseho clearly you weren't born here
I can’t help but feel like when you see things like 9-11 it only discourages you from building them. When you saw that devastation unfold you can’t help but realize how the building itself could hurt so many innocent people. It’s just scary, I apologize if I’m being irrational but my god, what a horrible and tragic way to die. That’s all I’m saying
We didn't lose the skyscraper race it's just that America doesn't need many skyscrapers right now. We right now have many skyscrapers that are not being used at full capacity and I think we should worry about having those previous buildings in occupancy rather then building for empty offices and rooms. Our skyscraper boom was the 1900's and still in use for companies and people for the 21st century. Skyscrapers should be built when it's necessary not unnecessary.
No you lost.
Pretty sure there’s way more than 801 skyscrapers in the USA
Maybe they should have told someone it was a race.
Yes, then America would have done very well. America usually are very serious about race-related matters...
Lmao
@@scipioafricanus5871 LOL
I think part of it is Americans don't care about skyscrapers as much plus increasing regulations make building skyscrapers more unfeasible. There's been numerous studies that have shown the shadows skyscrapers cast make people less happy because there's less sunlight. A lot of cities prevent skyscrapers from clustering for this reason.
Labor costs is another huge factor. People are much more expensive in the US than China. It's not a coincidence that most new really tall buildings come out of areas where businesses and governments can get away with paying people practically nothing. Many of the skyscrapers in China are also heavily subsidized by the government while that's not the case in the US. Alot of those buildings wouldn't exist if they only had private funding. They tend to be huge money losers (see "Why Shanghai Tower Failed" video). The Chinese government built them as trophies, not because there was real demand.
Culturally, I think in the US there's been a huge shift to make cities more European. They see skyscrapers as eyesores.
My $.02
I'm and completely baffled how anyone would want to live in a skyscraper. It feels liek you dont own your room. You dont have a yard. Your neighbors are right next to you. Sounds truly horrific.
As always that was an informative, educational, and respectful video focusing on facts. Thank you, keep it up! And happy New Year!
Can you do a video about Panama city? I think it's a really interesting place few people talk about.
No
Panama city looks like little hong Kong!
Panama city has good skyscrapers like NYC but worst roads like Mumbai
I already proposed it and B1M said they were gonna research. I really hope it gets done.
Been there nice place
I still think of New York as the skyscraper capital of the world even though other countries have built taller stuff.
Though 150 meters is now a standard height, apart from this NYC has the most number of any tall buildings over 100 meters, a staggering 860 buildings taller than 100 meters..... Cities in China only build buildings over 150 meters but unlike nyc they lacks lower height, given an example shenzhen has 220 over 150 meters but 260 over 100 meters
@mrbrainchild76 dude no one cares, any country can build skyscrapers. London has virtually no skyscrapers and yet London is richer by far than any Chinese city including Shanghai despite having 1/4 the population. Asian skyscraper cities are just property investment bubbles.
@mrbrainchild76 All that and yet the us remains the world's preeminent military and economic power. Not only are we much more powerful and influential than china, we have allies the world over and china doesn't. It's going to be a long time before anyone takes america's place.
I much prefer the history of the Art Deco style and their long standing oddities. I admire the push for the skies, but am humbly happy with the skyline NYC can present.
How long can China keep building so many skyscrapers? They have to slow down at some point soon.
They are, there economy is just about cashed in and their population is at a plateau. There population is actually gonna start declining soon
@@tylerkriesel8590 good. Less people on this planet
@@benwong5982 Enters Africa
@@tylerkriesel8590 Why would that be?
@@georgesealy4706 what? The population decline? It naturally happens when a culture hits a good economic standard of living. Japan has a vary high standard of living, but there population is currently plummeting right now.
That San Francisco view at 6:25 is really cool.
America is not about the quantity of skyscrapers it has but rather the quality of such.
Chicago America’s second city? LA would like a word.
We don't know her. Trash
Thank you B1M for all the great content you've been delivering. Always looking forward to your new videos!
It would be nice to have a video about how colonialism has affected architecture in different parts of the world. Maybe an idea for 2020??
Dubai : am I a joke to you!?
@Indian Ball hong kong skyline is repetitive after the top 5. dubai has variety
Dubai ki maa ki chut
it's so fascinating how quickly cities can develop... like for example, Dubai was only really a country in the 1970s but since then it's developed so much!. And also London, it's not really a skyscraper city it just has a small business district with skyscrapers that were built not too long ago like the gherkin (it's one of my favs), cheesegrater, scalpel and walkie talkie they all have very modern architecture and I love it :) in general the city is awesome and especially in the summer, if you get good weather though ;)
Fun fact: St. Louis actually had the first skyscraper known as the Wainwright Building. Not as tall but it was the first to use the structure as we know it.
Please document Tokyo s newest stadium in line for 2020 olympics
This.
And how tokyo is dangerous too 😂
News Fake Japan is not as bad as most places in the US, that’s a fact
Zijian Du why does everything have to be compared to America
@@KanyeTheGayFish69 bc America likes to impose its standard to everybody else and it's annoying the hell out of everybody.
Say it with me *Hong Kong's skyscrapers do not count as China's skyscrapers*
Hong kong has the most skyscrapers but a majority of them are simple apartment buildings. The title of most skyscrapers in the world is really just evidence for how messed up the housing situation is there
How does that display how messed up it is? Apartments are the most sustainable way for large populations to live close to urban centers.
@@nicholas1894 The cost of housing in Hong Kong is so ridiculous that it's economical to build a 150 meter skyscraper to house normal families. I agree it's sustainable but the entire population lives in tiny apartments in highrises that cost many times their income
You got a point. But it is not a choice made by people or government. This is a result of a simple rule, demand and supply. More people wants to live in hong kong, land value goes up, tall buildings reduce the cost of land for each apartment so people can afford.
@B Babbich wake up.
The term skyscrapers is over 150 meters, but NYC has the most buildings over 100 meters, it has a staggering 860 buildings taller than 100 meters far higher than HongKong's total
It should be pointed out though that material and labor costs greatly restrict construction, including the height of a building. One WTC in NYC amounted to approx $4 billion while Burj Khalifa (the world's tallest building) in Dubai only topped out at $1.5 billion.
He might as well have said, "America lost the skyscraper race because . . . money. Now, to the records!"
Meanwhile in Germany... 😂
Ground skyscraper in crowded Europe insane when you think of it Europe needs to change the state of mind stuck in the past
@@beeniemen Why would we change our state of mind? We love our old buildings and that will never change. Besides, we have skyscrapers, just not in the cities and definitely not in the city center (except of London, but UK it's not actually part of Europe).
Paris has done it well with their La Défense skyscraper district well outside the city of Paris itself
Hmm, i think it’s better without skyscrapers, cuz old buildings are 10 times sexier than skyscrapers.
you stupid,they are making 140 genders😒
What you failed to mention is the fact that China has 1 billion more people than America. With this logic, it is clear why they have more tall buildings.
Does japan have more people than the usa?
@@shanewillbur1325 No. But it's pretty damn dense for the size of the country and how many people are in it.
@@shanewillbur1325 Japan is way small in size as a country so it's therefore much more dense
Because now you can just buy a sky scraper and outsource the engineering.
You mean the skyscraper should be built by the owner himself？
@@puzhao1639 more like you don't have to actually learn and develop it when someone else spent decades doing it for you
@@Andrerc0 thats some salty talk, this is just capitalism
I don't care so much about America losing the skyscraper race. But can we please continue updating our trains/bus and public transportation in general? Our CTA/MTA look so tragic compared to developed countries. Matter of fact, our roads and bridges also need some TLC.
Great as always ... happy holidays!
The 16th - 17th centuries belonged to Europe, the 18th - 19th centuries belongs to America the 20th - 21st centuries will definitely belong to Asia, China, India and the ASEAN in particular.
Skyscrapers began in the 20th century in America. China and Dubai and SE Asia have become 21st century players. But it's just the beginning of the century so I'm sure every country will have to build upwards more due to population in cities.
I am talking about economic development in general and not just about the skyscrapers.
Thats funny
@@davisurdaneta1426 david, looks like youve mixed up the centuries bud, we are CURRENTLY in the 20th century. The 19th century was the 1800s, the 18th century was the 1700s. The USA wasnt even a country for 3/4 of the 18th century and was a completely irrelevant power until late into the 1800s.
@@y0Milan No, we're in the 21st century. The 21st century is the 2000s bud
US doesn't need much skyscrapers now.It needs now-
Sustainable development,new road infrastructure, Awesome Airports,need to Reduce their National Debt.,give homes to homeless people,Control gun violence, Help the World in Controlling Climate Change,Building a whole NEW Bullet train line from Boston-NYC-Richmond route for better Transportation,doing less Wars and doing meaningful Scientific research.
All of that can apply to China as well lol
Tanweer Alam ...and stop advancement of Chinese hegemony
America, and for most part the Empire State Building, has lead the race when it mattered. When building skyscrapers was still about pushing boundaries and amazing the world instead of just shoving out one boring tower after the other (with a few exceptions). When China started their race, the US had already finished...
(BTW, no bias here, I'm from Europe from a town where the church is still the highest building...)
We thought it was finished. Called a win much much to early. We are having huge housing problems in our cities now from not adapting fast enough
@@shanewillbur1325 Would building lots of skyscrapers with very expensive housing solve that problem? Even in China, with its much higher population density and therefore more people living in highrise buildings, most skyscrapers aren't residential.
I surprise this video didn't mention Abu Dhabi, a city with many famous skycrapers
B1M is the best channel ever. From Thailand 🇹🇭
That Lake Point Tower is such a gem!
Agreed! 👍
Tbh, I like that in America that we have less skyscrapers because I love living in the suburbs, not a in a tall multiple story building. I don't think many America's would like more and more skyscrapers, they kinda suck.
sounds like you are trying to convince yourself about that.
New York needs more tall skyscrapers
Yeah ok
There's a stupid understanding that new buildings shouldn't be constructed to exceed Freedom tower in height because feelings.
The American government has been ignoring infrastructure for over 80 years now. Hope they re-work their plans and start using the tax payers money into something useful.
In the last decade, China built what the US built in 100 years and in 2018 China built half of New York? LOL. B1M remains the best construction channel in the world!
Glad to see Dallas skyline in the vid :)
America best developer companies which build skyscrapers in Asia.
Tallest building in the world is designed by an American, that hotel with the floating island in Asia was an American design. If not American its typically from the EU where the most famous modern structures are designed. If it's Chinese then it's a clone of an existing building, yes they even clone architecture that's already been built.
@@germanchancellorangelamerk4950 mad architects.
Search it up before making stupid comments.
China may have taller cities, but the US has more attractive cities.
New York, Chicago sure. but the rest of the big cities, ehh not so much, kind all look the same.
@@nightshade8958 Los Angeles, Miami, Houston, Seattle, Denver are all pretty unique. I dont know what the hell you're talking about.
Most famous old skyscraper has to be the Empire State
Quality is more important than quantity.
Glad some countries still care about making cities with cool buildings and skylines
Interesting and well presented, thanks from Orlando.
Thanks! 👍👍
Well too bad, China banned skyscrapers ._.
Would love a video on why the UK has very few skyscrapers despite of British builders/architects building hundreds in other parts of the world
Because, even though we have more than enough now, skyscrapers are an Americanisation and ruin the architectural history of our country.
Comparing London to Paris makes me weep because of how incomparably beautiful Paris is. The French realised that their city would be better off with a consistent and low European building style, while in London we have a grotesque Frankenstein city with established, rooted styles competing with massive glass and steel boxes on every street.
0:34 what city is this? those buildings look sick!
philly i think
I love how people say there's a race when there's never been a race. The US only builds skyscrapers upon demand. It has always been this way. China has a much, much larger population than the US as well. And while the US maybe the world's third most populous country, it's also one of the least densely populated.
Let's also not forget that most of these Chinese skyscrapers are actually designed by US firms.
Land is very plentiful in the US. So demand except in the heart of the immediate down town area's of major cities, has always been low.
And the US still trounces most every other country on Earth in skyscraper construction outside of China.
China builds skyscrapers just to keep their economy from collapsing. If they don't keep pouring assets into infrastructure, their economy enters the world of hurt.
Many of these Chinese skyscrapers stand quite empty.
Buildings in the US must be full as possible to generate enough revenue to pay for the structure so the developers can recoup their costs. They are not subsidized like they would be in China.
Also people in the US I don't think are memorized by giant skyscrapers like they were in the 20th century.
The US has held on to the title of the world's tallest building for over a hundred years. It's just not that interesting to most people to have that title anymore when it became a normal every day thing.
@mrbrainchild76 The US could win if they wanted to. It's the biggest economic power on Earth. Keep in mind those Chinese skyscrapers are US designed. It's that the US dosen't need nor want to build a massive real estate bubble like China has. The US builds tall when it needs to due to demand from clients. China builds tall because their economy is reliant on it.
@mrbrainchild76 sure it could, there is just no reason to.
@mrbrainchild76 Um...No. It's a fact not up for debate. For example one of the tallest buildings in China is the Shanghai World Financial Center. It was designed by a New York firm.
Also the Shanghai Tower which is the tallest skyscraper in China, was also designed by a US company.
If any country knows how to build tall, it's definitely the United States which invented tall skyscrapers.
My city alone here in the US, has 7 skyscrapers that are taller then the Eiffel Tower.
@mrbrainchild76 I think many of the most iconic buildings are designed jointly or completely by foreign architects. Beijing National Stadium was jointly designed by Li Xinggang and French architects, Daxing Airport was designed by Zaha Hadid of Iraq, and Shanghai Tower was designed by Jun Xia, who worked for the American firm Gensler.
But he's completely wrong if he thinks the Chinese can't or won't design their own buildings. It's just that most people on English-language sites have no idea on the amount of talent and ingenuity coming out of China.
@@jyashin I'm not saying the Chinese don't design or build their own buildings. It's just the ones that they do are literally crumbling into pieces after about three years of construction. (Literally!) China has a massive problem right now with buildings falling apart. And I do mean on an epic scale.
The title is wrong, what you meant is: "How US lost the skycraper race".
I was thinking the same
Chicago and New York like to trade.
ja New York doesn't need more skyscrapers, even other cities have taller buildings. New York is still the most powerful city. it is a city worth visiting.
Great video as usual!