If you don't notice(haven't watched the video yet), the height of One World Trade Center(what we colloquially call Freedom Tower), is 1776 feet tall, the year of our independence, and it is a message: we are America, you may knock our buildings down but we will build them back better and we will never bend the knee to anyone.
@@jamesmcbridenyc730 I was thinking the same thing. But instead of making it bigger. Build it back EXACTLY the same as it was. As if it was never knocked down, that way it wouldn't be a symbol to terrorists or anti Americans that they did anything.
@@FEARNoMore whoever made the decision, definitely dropped the ball on that. We have the tallest residential buildings in Manhattan now, one of them is just a plain square looking building but I think its taller than the old towers were.
The Sears Tower is actually taller than One World Trade Center by roof and highest floor. The 103rd floor is still the highest observatory in North America found in any building. 🙂
The spires do actually serve a purpose other than architect vanity: they act as lightning rods and broadcast towers. Both are exceptionally important in a country that has extreme weather conditions and huge spaces.
Interesting legend about the Georgia Bank of America Plaza building, it was allegedly originally designed by an Architecture graduate student's semester project for a course from a nearby technical university (my alma mater). Legend on campus has it the prof flunked him on that particular project. He allegedly went on to work for the firm who submitted the design.
"Capital" is the same in the UK, a capital city. "Capitol" is the spelled with an "o" when it refers to the building in the capital that houses the government, usually the legislature. That huge domed building in Washington that houses our Congress is the Capitol. But both words are pronounced the same way.
I've been to "Willis" tower (everybody still calls it Sears tower) in Chicago and there are these nauseating glass boxes you can stand in at the top and look down on the ground below you. I'm glad I tried it but it was frightening
So, I assume if you come to Arizona, you won't be walking out on the all-glass Skywalk over the Grand Canyon on the Hualapai Reservation? It's a mere 800 feet from the canyon floor.
You may find it interesting to learn that the very prominent snow-covered mountains in the background at Portland, OR and Seattle, WA are active volcanoes, Mt. Hood and Mr. Rainier, respectively.
Learned something new. Thanks personally I like catching these vids of your, never know what you are going to put out there for us. Please keep them coming! Oh and thank you.
That building in Boston was, in my opinion, the best one. It looked like a thin giant glass book balancing in the middle of a city. But the only building you guys didn't comment on? 🤣
People debate which is taller, the One World Trade Center in New York or Willis Tower (Sears Tower) in Chicago. The issue is do you count an antenna as part of the overall height.
@@jimmy_wang_ Yes you're right. In Los Angeles the tallest building in terms of floors. is technically the U.S. Bank building but the Wilshire Grand officially beats it with the spire.
One World Trade Center (Freedom Tower) is taller. It stands at 1,776 feet. Even the Center Park Tower (Nordstrom Tower) on Billionaire's row is taller than the Willis Tower. The Nordstrom Tower stands at 1,550 feet.
Thank you teaching me even more about my country!! ❤️🇺🇸💝 I am a 76 year-old American woman...and my father always said...”You’re never too old to learn something new...” Miss you Doug, Mom and Dad...❤️❤️❤️
I think my favorite one on the list is the one in Tennessee at 8:41. It’s sometimes called the “Batman Building” because it looks like Batman which is cool
“What’s the best place in Colorado” I didn’t get to spend much time in CO, but I’d definitely recommend Grand Lake CO. Very beautiful, especially at sunset.
The Tennessee building is the AT&T building also known as the batman building by us locals. Definitely check out Nashville's night skyline. You can see why we call it the batman building.
The Salesforce tower is San Fransisco is taller than the one in LA if you count out the spire. The spire on the building only adds 30 feet of extra hight over the Salesforce Tower.
I visit family in Durango Colorado each year and it's an awesome state to visit. Durango is a smaller city but packed with great shops and places to eat. I have seen some movie stars there several times eating at some of the restaurants. Such a beautiful place.
In downtown Los Angeles at the US Bank building there was a ride called the Skyslide, where you could slide down from the 70th floor 45 ft down to the 69th floor in a clear glass slide. It was scary af for us afraid of heights. Too bad the pandemic shut it down. 🙁
Here’s a video of Oklahoma City’s Devon Tower at night. It doesn’t fully capture the colorful LED lighting effects that it does (as in what it looks like from the ground either downtown or from elsewhere in the city), but you can actually see the lights themselves doing it when the drone gets closer to the building. At 3:01 it pans out from the tower. Directly behind it is the Myriad Gardens. The blue long orb thing is a glass and metallic bridge building over the pond there. Inside it is a rainforest that you can go in and walk around...complete with waterfall. Outside in the gardens there’s play areas and a theater areas with seating, a stage, and lighting, and there’s lots of other really neat places to explore with beautiful plants and neat water fountains and water effects. A lot of people like to go there to take photos and there’s also lots of weddings. The round stadium building is the Paycom Arena. That’s where the NBA’s OKC Thunder play their home games. It’s also where there’s big music concerts and lots of other events. The big square building across the street is the former Myriad Convention Center that’s now owned by a film studio and contains numerous sound studios and set areas. If you look further in the distance past the Myriad Gardens you’ll see Scissortail Park and Scissortail bridge. The Scissortail Flycatcher is the state bird. The bridge is designed as a modern expressionist version of the bird in flight. The LED lights on it rotate in colors to match Devon Tower usually (though it is lit up at various times in specific themed colors like rainbow during Pride Month, red and green during Christmas, red/white/blue for 4th of July, etc....to be fair Devon Tower usually matches, too). The Scissortail Bridge is a walking/cycling bridge over the Interstate 40 highway that crosses through Scissortail Park. At 3:48 the camera is centered on the Bricktown Entertainment District neighborhood. It’s home to restaurants, bars, nightclubs, movie theater, a canal that connects to the Oklahoma River, parks, and of course the Bricktown Ballpark where the OKC Dodgers play and famous MLB baseball player from Oklahoma Mickey Mantle Place out front (complete with statue). The dark line you see separating it from the other side of downtown is the Amtrak rail line that connects to the Santa Fe station downtown. The Heartland Flyer is an Amtrak train that daily goes from Oklahoma City, Oklahoma south to Fort Worth, Texas and then back (and then there’s a train from Fort Worth into Dallas and then Dallas has a light rail train as well as streetcars). Oklahoma City has a streetcar system also using similar cars as Dallas does. It is part of OKC’s EMBARK mass transit system and connects neighborhoods in downtown and midtown with future expansion beyond that planned. The highway you see in the distance is Interstate 235 which is what one would take if wanting to get to the Oklahoma Capitol building. Which you’d normally see at 4:12 except that it’s not easy to make out by the camera lens for some reason (easier to see in real life if you were eating at the restaurant on the top floor of Devon Tower though). But at 4:12 it’s in the glowing yellow building in the left corner just next to the tall tv/radio masts. At 4:31 you’ll notice a tall building in the center of your screen surrounded by low rise buildings. Across the street from that is the Oklahoma City National Outdoor Memorial and Museum (which is a National Park/Monument). That’s the memorial on the site of the 1995 Alfred P. Murrah Federal Building bombing. The outdoor memorial is free to the public and open 24-hours 365 days a year. The reflecting pool at the outdoor site is where the street once was where the vehicle with the bomb was parked. One side is the actual area the building stood and the other side is the former parking lot. The museum costs money to visit and has specific hours it is open. The museum exists inside what was a local office building. It includes spaces left as they were after it was hit by the explosion. It’s actually worth the money to visit as it takes you through chronologically of the events that happened that day, weeks, months, and years after. If you sign the guest book you’ll see people from all over the world come to visit. The outside site still contains a small section of chainlink fence that had become a makeshift memorial after the bombing and before the official memorial was designed and constructed. People still leave mementos, messages, etc there and they’re collected daily and stored for survivors and victims’ families to look at. Likewise the outside children’s area where children can draw with chalk and leave messages also has a way where those images and messages are preserved by the memorial and museum so that survivors and victims’ families can see them. At 4:43 the building in the foreground is the Oklahoma City city hall building and the building across the plaza behind it is the Oklahoma City Civic Center. It’s a place where theater productions, including traveling Broadway shows, perform as well as where mid-sized concerts perform. Video: ruclips.net/video/weHhdCrC3MQ/видео.html This video shows what the inside of Devon Tower looks like: ruclips.net/video/mt9fsf3Mjcg/видео.html In the US the word capitol refers specifically to the state government building itself where the state’s legislature and sometimes the executive officers and judiciary meet (in Oklahoma the two houses of the stare legislature as well as the governor’s office, lieutenant governor’s office, and some other executive branch officers’ offices are located still in the capitol while the state’s two highest courts: Oklahoma Supreme Court and Oklahoma Court of Criminal Appeals meet across the street now at the Oklahoma Judiciary Center. The Capitol complex consists of the Capitol building itself as well as other state government buildings, the history museum and archives, and a large grassy plaza. In front of the Capitol building there’s 14 flag poles. Originally they flew the 14 different flags of “nations” that claimed some part of land that makes up the state (France, Spain, US, CSA, Texas, etc). This was changed later in 1988 so that now it flies just the state flag on all 14 poles instead. On the other side of the Capitol there’s a plaza called The Meeting place where the flags of all the Native American tribal nations in Oklahoma fly. Anyways, otherwise we use the spelling capital for meaning like a capital city or like a capital letter. Capitol is just for the building and in some American English dialects you can actually hear the words pronounced differently at the end -ol sounding different than -al, but most American English accents/dialects you can’t usually hear the difference. I think there’s definitely some beautiful skylines in the US. I live 4 hours drive from Dallas and just love seeing that skyline at night. And I have a cousin that lives in Denver, Colorado and works downtown so he gets amazing views of the skyline on his drive into work! A friend of mine sent me photos today from his drone. He lives across the bay from Seattle and OMG such a beautiful sight! One side he sees the Seattle skyline and the opposite direction beautiful mountains! One of my niece’s friends lives in Canada in a city right across from Detroit and from their front yard (which the neighborhood itself is on a hill) you can see the Detroit skyline and lakes, etc. So pretty! I mean I can see my small city’s downtown skyline from my house (south). It consists of four buildings all built in the 1920s. And if I look east I can see the really large grain elevators and the flour mill. Otherwise not much of a view where I live! LOL Great video!
@@joshsecor9337 I mean the holiday is literally called 4th of July. And the US government didn’t even recognize it as an official holiday until late in the 19th century, otherwise it was state governments that often gave their employees the day off, etc. Gay Pride isn’t an official holiday day or month. Sure there are government officials and bodies at various levels that present official proclamations each year, bur that doesn’t make it official in the same way the 4th of July is. There have literally been years when Congress, the President, city councils, mayors, etc, etc, etc have not made an official declaration of Pride month...either because they forgot or it wasn’t considered a big deal at the time whether it was done or they opposed making such an official declaration. No one has to officially give a proclamation and declaration that on July 4th every year that it’s Independence Day in the US. Congress has established that is the day in which it will be celebrated as a holiday with all the privileges and requirements that such official statutory status gives the 4th of July. And the whole Gay Pride Month isn’t even from the LGBTQ+ community. That was mostly done via corporations who sponsored the events starting in the late 1980s early 1990s. It eventually caught on and in many ways is treated like LGBTQ+ History Month even though in the US that’s usually done in October by LGBTQ+ organizations (and it is done in different months in other nations for varying reasons). As a gay person I’m rather neutral about the whole Pride month thing. Sure it’s great to have a month to have where people can learn about this segment of our population’s contributions to our society and celebrate them. Much like all the various “[insert name of group of people] Month” is done. Yet, on the other hand it falsely implies that Pride events only occur in June and that is not the case. Pride events occur throughout the US and beyond in months beyond June. Even the Stonewall Riots occurred over several days from June 28 until July 4, so it’s not like they only happened in the month of June back in 1969. Some cities choose to hold Pride events around dates that are relevant to that city’s LGBTQ+ community. Other cities choose different dates due to the weather and environment in June and instead opt to hold events when the environment and weather is better. So Pride events aren’t just occurring in June, but by calling June Pride Month it certainly implies to people unfamiliar that that is the case. And amongst LGBTQ+ folks, especially those involved with community organizations, they usually wish each other a Happy Pride on the day of their event. It’s only non-LGBTQ+ folks and LGBTQ+ folks who aren’t involved in community organizations that usually wish folks Happy Pride at the beginning of June when suddenly corporations start posting “Happy Pride Month” and changing their logos, etc. I don’t mind. I mean, I’ve worked in retail and in restaurants and they usually don’t have specials on just July 4th for Independence Day (although oddly Veterans Day is always just a one day event in November, though). And I certainly know plenty of folks who celebrate July 4th on days many days/weeks before and after the specific July 4th holiday. This is sometimes done for convenience or sometimes done as longer celebrations. So no one is stopping people from celebrating the US’s independence longer than a day. I mean, people in my neighborhood usually start around mid-June with BBQs, fireworks, and other gatherings and it usually ends in mid-July when people change focus on Back-To-School activities, sales, and events. But yeah, the whole Gay Pride Month is a creation of corporations not the LGBTQ+ community. And while I appreciate the corporate support towards any and all human rights and equality, it is weird that they decided it needed to be a month long. Maybe sales go up and that’s why. I mean my birthday is in September and when I was a kid I remember stores would have a mixture of Back-To-School stuff on sale while also putting out Halloween stuff to buy. Now I walk into many stores like Walmart and other national chains and they have Christmas stuff out, too! When I have asked my employers of such a national chain location why the management says it’s to boost holiday sales. So I’m guessing the reason they adopted Pride Month is similar financial reasons. I can’t prove that, just a theory. But yeah, don’t think that it being an entire month hasn’t been contentious amongst LGBTQ+ people and their organizations. While not as contentious as it once was, there are still small segments within the community who don’t like that corporations, governments, etc have decided that the month of June is the one time of the year to acknowledge LGBTQ+ people, their history, etc. Within the LGBTQ+ community itself there’s lots of other days throughout the year that have related events. None of those have reached the mainstream recognition that Pride has which may be why so many mainstream LGBTQ+ organizations just have accepted the idea of June as Pride Month. It’s just easier to go along with what’s in the mainstream and use that as the vehicle for doing what so many of those other “holidays” were meant to do. Plus it being near Independence Day and corporations switching from rainbow logos to red-white-blue logos is just easy to go along with. Especially since many LGBTQ+ people are patriotic Americans, too, and it’s easy for them to make the switch, too. But until Congress puts LGBTQ+ Pride in the statutes as a federal holiday, I think it’s fair to say that the 4th of July being a statutory holiday for one day is still better than what Pride has. Please note that I am NOT advocating for Congress or any government to make LGBTQ+ Pride a statutory holiday for a day, week, or even a month. It’s quite fine if governments want to each year do the ceremonial proclamation thing. Honestly, the fact that the federal government basically did this for several decades for Independence Day until someone in Congress decided it should be added as a statutory holiday alongside Washington’s birthday, etc, is shocking. But no one I know is advocating for that for Pride or any other events LGBTQ+ community has to remember, celebrate, acknowledge, etc aspects of the diverse community and its history. So no worries.
Denver, Colorado - the Hyatt Regency on 15th and California has a bar, Peaks Lounge, on the 27th floor. Next door at Le Meridien they have a rooftop bar. You don't need to stay at either hotel to go to the bar. Also, they serve afternoon tea at The Brown Palace Hotel and Spa (really fancy place)
I'm sure some of you Tennessee fans already mention, but the building you giggle about in Nashville we generally refer to as "The Bat Building" it looks really cool like a Batman head on the horizon while it's lot up and you are driving through the city at night. P.S. Nashville is awesome.
Took the family to Estes Park, Colorado for Christmas. Skied, rode a mountain coaster and just enjoyed the holiday decorations and festivities in that town. Also saw moose and elk ... in town! Plan to go back in summer to visit Rocky Mountain National Park.
For Colorado, I'd suggest the "Snow Mountain YMCA Ranch" near Granby. It sits at nearly 2x the altitude of Denver, has plenty of activities you can do there including a wonderful tubing hill, horseback riding, hiking (lotsa red foxes running around if you like to see them), plus Granby is nearby with a lot of Colorado's famous outdoors activities. A high school friend was just in that area posting a lot of updates about all the fishing he was doing out on Lake Granby, and he was enjoying himself immensely. Edit to add: For the Willis Tower in Chicago, the 2 radio masts are *not* counted toward its height, as they are removable. The height is measured to the top of the base stations that the masts are mounted in, but not the masts themselves.
My sister used to work in the IDS Center in Minneapolis (her law firm built a new building). She was on a higher floor & they have the express elevators that take you up 20+ floors in seconds. She took us to see her office once & the elevator was a bit freaky. I am in Northeastern Minnesota & Duluth is an hour away from my house & their tallest buildings aren't quite as high as the IDS Center is!
I lived in Colorado for 15 years. Colorado Springs would be my recommendation as a "home base" while visiting the state. Especially if you can spend 2wks or more. Located in the shadow of Pikes Peak (one of Colorado's 14,000ft mountains), Colorado Springs has plenty of great things to see and do; the Olympic Training Center, Garden of the Gods, the US Air Force Academy, just to name a few. AND it's situated on Interstate Highway 25, it is less than an hour drive north to Denver, or an hour south to Royal Gorge Canyon. The mountains are much more accessible from Colorado Springs than from Denver (IMO), but you'll need a vehicle in either city as public transit doesn't really cater to tourism. ❤️🙂
Living in Colorado Springs right now I totally agree with this. I also love to visit Cripple Creek for that old time town feel with legal gambling. :-)
Sales Force was BNC/ Bank One/ Chase Tower, and b4 that we had Indiana National Bank Tower that was the tallest! We set off our fireworks for Independence Day from INB Tower synchronized to music. It is a beautiful sight to see on 7/4 every year!
Fun Fact, the tower in Louisville has been nicknamed it "Epcot on a stick." The top is hollow and lights up depending on the occasion. I recommend Googling the tower at night.
It would be great to see you guys do the 25 Best Skylines. In response to your question James. I could be wrong, but i believe the rule of thumb for measuring buildings with spires is that if it is a part of the building and could not be removed the height is the top of the spire. as is the case with the Freedom Tower which is 1776" tall. If the spire is an antenna the spire is not included in the height. case in point the Empire State Building here in NYC is listed as 1,250' or 380 m ′, but to the top of the tv aerial it is1,454′ or 443m
Fun Fact: The Willis Tower (Sears Tower) is actually taller than the One World Trade Center. The One World Trade Center however counts its broadcast antenna. The antenna cheated on a loophole technicality that was in the description of the "Council of tall buildings and urban habitat". The architects wrapped the antenna in a decorative wrapping and called it a spire. Even though it's a broadcast antenna. So due to this loophole, the council had a huge deliberation. And very reluctantly said it was a spire since it was a loophole and only because of the importance of the tower after 9/11. Aka..The council bent the rules to meet their "technicality". So they admitted there was a huge asterisk on the tallest building in the US in later interviews. The Willis Tower actually has higher floors, a higher roof top, and a higher observatory than the One World Trade Center. In fact, the Willis Tower still can get people up higher than any other building for viewing in North America. Hence why most people still agree that the Wilis at the time losing its title to New York for tallest in the US, was a complete scam. LOL! 😅
If you go to Colorado, almost anywhere you go you will love it. Rocky Mountain National Park, The Great Sand Dunes National Park, Black Canyon of the Gunnison , and my favorite Mesa Verde National Park. There are so many cute mountain towns. I lived there for 30+ years near Denver. The downhill anc cross country skiing is great. So much hiking everywhere.
There's a rule on when to count spires. Probably skews the list because while One World Trade is the tallest with the spire, Central Park tower, 432 Park Ave, and Sears Tower surpass it in roof height and occupied floor height according to Wikipedia. There are also two others that will do the same.
my city is #13 the Ids interesting fact if you walk around it i cant remember which side the building overhangs the sidewalk lol and he was right its not bad from being built in the 70's and has been hit by 100 MPH straight line winds from storms
I am in Colorado - Its pretty expensive here - but the best places would depend on what you want to see. Most people stay in the Denver Metro Area (Which is where I am) which is about 30-40 mins from the mountains. There are great mountain towns but they take longer to get to. Colorado Springs is an hour south, Fort Collins is an hour North and Grand Junction is all the way across the mountains, about 4 hours or more west. Denver is basically right in the middle of the state. If you come out and need a tour guide let me know I have lived here for about 37 years.
The Ren Cen in Detroit has a glass elevator on the outside of the building you can take to the top floor. When I was a kid the restaurant that was at the top sat on a rotating floor that way you could get a full view of Detroit & Windsor Canada. I’m not sure the restaurant is currently open, the pandemic saw the old restaurant close. If you are ever in Detroit it’s worth going up in the evening and watching the sunset
My personal 'Woah!!' moment was watching an Army-Navy football game when a stadium section full of midshipmen we're going crazy and the railing gave way and everybody fell over...😮😮😮😮😮
You should visit the Ledge at Willis Tower/ Sears Tower in Chicago. You are literally standing on a glass box that extend out 4.3 feet from the Skydeck at 1,353 ft.
Spires are generally very tall for distancing the radio antenna from surrounding buildings so radio waves are not blocked. Some buildings do build them taller than needed though if competing for tallest building in a city, state, country, or even the world at some points. They do count towards the building’s total height.
The Marriott hotel at the G.M. Renaissance center in Detroit was once in the Gennuis book of world records as the worlds tallest hotel when it opened in 1976 at 73 stories and 748 feet tall on its highest side/the river front. It still is the second and the tallest in the western hemisphere. In 1929 Detoit was to have two of the tallest in the world at the time which was the 800 plus foot Fisher complex and the sister tower of the Book tower at just over 1,000 feet. The depression hit before shovels broke ground. BTW the Sears tower in Chicago is actually taller than the Freedom tower in NYC if the added on spire of the Freedom tower is not counted.
if you go to 7:17 - 7:18 and you look on the very right with the triangular shaped building that is the Baltimore National Aquarium where I worked once :)
I see all these people steering you wrong in the comments. If you visit Colorado… Breckinridge, Aspen, Boulder, Telluride/Ouray, and Denver, are all places I would look up! Could always check out the national parks as well!
Cool facts: The tallest roller coaster in the U.S. is Kingda Ka at Six Flags Great Adventure in New Jersey at 456 ft/139 m tall, which is taller than the tallest building in 17 states. The tallest ferris wheel in the U.S. is the High Roller in Las Vegas at 550 ft/168 m tall, taller than the tallest buildings in 25 states.
Just for scale... just a short way outside of Las Vegas is the Hoover Dam - standing 726 feet / 221.3 meters high. It's quite a view form the top... looking down.
I'm from Colorado and live in Colorado Springs (or "The Springs" for short. I'd love to see you guys here! It's hard to recommend a hotel/town without knowing what you're looking for (i.e. night life, ritzy Aspen/Vail; cozy, picturesque nature, etc.)
If you think that is high up, then the Grand Canyon will blow your mind as it is over a mile deep in places (and if you are lucky there is a guide rail on the edge, but in most places nothing.)
Washington DC will get screwed in the skyline video, too. You should do a reaction to The National Mall (or even a DC travel video from the likes of Expedia).
The architectural heights in this video includes spires but not antennas. I believe 1 world trade center is slightly shorter than the Willis tower based on overall height (including antennas) and in the roof height, but taller in architectural height.
Biloxi Mississippi's Beau Rivage is a casino and hotel. And the Nashville Tennessee building is nicknamed "The Batman Building". I'm in Mobile, Alabama and our Battle House was RE-built. We've had the Battle house since before I was born in 1952. It was the place to hold special events. I miss the old architecture of it.
Yeah, the Sears Tower on this video is the tallest building. It has the highest roof on this list. It also does have the highest observatory in America. One World only has a slightly higher antenna. But the building is actually shorter and even has less sq, ft. than the Sears Tower. The Sears Tower has the most sq, ft. of any single tall tower in the US.
@@GalaxyFur I don't disagree. I'm old enough to have always called it the Sears Tower, and I'm not even from Chicago. But it was referred to as Willis Tower in the video and foreigners, such as the ones reacting to this video, may have never heard of the Sears Tower and only know it as Willis Tower.
Did you notice how many of the tallest buildings were banks?? Does that tell you something?? The mountain in the background was Mt. Hood, a volcano in the Cascade range.
I am from Wichita Falls, Texas. While we cannot make a claim to any of the tallest skyscrapers in the USA, we hold the Guinness Book of world records for the smallest skyscraper. It happened due to a scam back during the oil boom of North Texas. This happened in 1919 and is only 40 feet tall.
So true. This building has been covered a few times by RUclipsrs and such. I think "Tom Scott" did a video on it if I'm not mistaken I seem to remember. 🤔
Worse than windows breaking (which rarely happens) is that these buildings are built to sway to keep things like the windows from cracking/breaking. That is bad at 51 stories for me. The last two are well over twice that.
My 2nd wife worked in the Columbia Tower in Seattle (number7). Her company had 5 floors of offices in it from floor 52 to floor 56. I believe the building had 77 floors.
We use both Capitol & capital. Different meanings. And yes the spire is included in the height. In New York in 1930 when the 40 Wall building & the Chrysler building were racing to build the tallest. At the very last moment the Chrysler building wins by putting up a spire at the very last moment.
@@edwingonzalez3184 That's the difference, antennas aren't considered spires, so they only get measured to the roof height. If the spire is part of the design (like it is in One World Trade Center) then it's counted.
@@edwingonzalez3184 "It includes “spires,” but not “antennas, signage, flag poles or other functional-technical equipment.” Source: The Council on Tall Buildings and Urban Habitat, the international organization of skyscraper engineers, designers and builders that certifies a building’s height
My dad worked at the IDS Center back in the day. 1970's. I went to his new office and wow those elevators are fast! The elevators were/are specific to the floors...like 1-20, 21- whatever. The top of the building floor had exhibitions. One of which back then was about UFOs. It was so cool. Under ground was a movie theater. I don't think it's there anymore though. Mary Tyler Moore show filmed her flinging her hat into the air in front of the IDS Center.
Although many of these are named for banks, most are not banks at all. Many don't have a bank in the building. Often "Naming Rights" are sold by the owner of the building to the highest bidder. The same thing is done with sports arenas. Sometimes you will have a building or arena named for a company that no longer exists. PSI Net stadium existed in Baltimore for 2 years after the company folded.
In the metro Detroit area, we have three major car company headquarters(Ford, GMC, Chrysler) and GMC owns the Renaissance Center. If you want to see a nice skyline, you should check out Detroit. The rivers really beautiful with Canada on the other side.
I was wondering why Millie was wearing a pointy hat in the thumbnail and then realized that it was the top of a building. Yeah it's time for sleep lol 😂
Capitol refers to the actual building where the government is housed. Capital is used for all other uses of the word, from capitalized letters, capitals on top of pillars in architecture terms, and Capital meaning the city where the Capitol is located. :)
I hate when a building height includes a tower spiral on the top. The One World Trade's top floor is actually lower in height than the Willis Tower's top floor in Chicago, but they count that 400-foot-high tower spiral on top of the One World Trade to get to 1776 total feet.
I'm from Arkansas, and to further blow your mind with the amount of them being banks, Simmons tower is also a partly a bank. The bank built the tower but doesn't use the whole thing so it rents out like half of it to other companies
Denver is very cheap to fly to from London and Paris. can get round trips for $700 on right days. Few days in city for fun, can Uber around but you need to rent a car to get to mountains. Go to Estes Park and Rocky Mountain National Park, An hour and half from Denver. Get an Air BNB there, I would say camp but too much ya need to get if coming from abroad. If a long trip can go down south to The Great Sand Dunes. So many places, it's wonderful. I would go between May and September, unless you really want to ski. Denver is fine most of the year, it's only 5,000 feet, some snow but no ice. But getting into the parks and mountains is more difficult in winter.
I knew that the IDS Center in Minneapolis was our tallest building in Minnesota, So I knew it would be up there in the ratings. I think Minneapolis has a very pretty Skyline
James in particular, you should really check out this place "The NYC Skyscraper Without Windows." It was originally built by AT&T to house NYC's primary telephone base and there was no need for windows since it was filled with just machinery and windows would make it less resistant to war with the Soviets. It's still there, it's really tall and it doesn't have windows.
Come see us in Colorado! There are tons of Hotels. The Brown Palace is downtown and not too expensive. It's an old (18th century) hotel built like a triangle. James would enjoy it.
A Colorado native here. One of my favorite places to visit is the San Juan Mountains. The Swiss Alps of America. You can do the drive over the Million Dollar Highway witch was on the best drives in the US you did a reaction to. You should stay at the Hotel Colorado in Glenwood Springs and head south, hit Carbondale and Aspen. Even check out the Maroon Bells while you're down there. Absolutely beautiful
Colorado has a lot to see but if you want some of the nature and scenery that will simply make you gasp for its beauty try the drive from a little town called Ouray to Durango that drive will amaze you form start to finish.
If you want a unique experience in Colorado, ride the vintage/antique 1860s steam train....through the Rocky Mountains...round trip from Durango to Silverton.....they are old silver mining towns, and the line runs above a river gorge and you get AMAZING views! it's an incredible experience and I HIGHLY recommend it! The previous tallest building on the West Coast was another skyscraper in Downtown LA, the US Bank Building.....the only reason that Wilsher building is taller is because of the Spire! it was finished only a few years ago.
i actually work in the tallest building in NC and it's very big (my ears pop every time I go to my floor lol.) but charlotte is actually a pretty big city with a large downtown (we actually call it uptown in Charlotte) -- would definitely recommend that you guys look more into NC because it has a lot more than people expect
My wife and i honeymooned in colorado! You have to go to boulder, Colorado! Its absolutely stunning, as you would say! Right against the rockies. Driving around there will make your hearts just melt with the beauty that surrounds you. I highly recommend it!
2:26 Capital refers to the city in which the state government is located. Capitol refers to the building in which the state government is based.
I can NEVER remember the difference.
@@PaulsWanderings I've been knowing the difference since January 6 lmao
You already said it
Capital also refers to money...
This girl is really dim lol I feel bad for James honestly
If you don't notice(haven't watched the video yet), the height of One World Trade Center(what we colloquially call Freedom Tower), is 1776 feet tall, the year of our independence, and it is a message: we are America, you may knock our buildings down but we will build them back better and we will never bend the knee to anyone.
That’s dope! Never realized that
I still think we should've put the same twin towers back up and bigger than before.
@@jamesmcbridenyc730 I was thinking the same thing. But instead of making it bigger. Build it back EXACTLY the same as it was. As if it was never knocked down, that way it wouldn't be a symbol to terrorists or anti Americans that they did anything.
Murica Murica Murica Murica
@@FEARNoMore whoever made the decision, definitely dropped the ball on that. We have the tallest residential buildings in Manhattan now, one of them is just a plain square looking building but I think its taller than the old towers were.
The Willis Tower (originally the Sears Tower) in Chicago has a glass floored enclosed balcony near the top.
Yes and I hate it lol
@@kimson305 LOL... Yeah, it's on my personal "Must Miss" list.
The Sears Tower is actually taller than One World Trade Center by roof and highest floor. The 103rd floor is still the highest observatory in North America found in any building. 🙂
The spires do actually serve a purpose other than architect vanity: they act as lightning rods and broadcast towers. Both are exceptionally important in a country that has extreme weather conditions and huge spaces.
Interesting legend about the Georgia Bank of America Plaza building, it was allegedly originally designed by an Architecture graduate student's semester project for a course from a nearby technical university (my alma mater). Legend on campus has it the prof flunked him on that particular project. He allegedly went on to work for the firm who submitted the design.
"Capital" is the same in the UK, a capital city. "Capitol" is the spelled with an "o" when it refers to the building in the capital that houses the government, usually the legislature. That huge domed building in Washington that houses our Congress is the Capitol. But both words are pronounced the same way.
Nashville (8:39) has the AT&T building a.k.a. the Bat(man) building. The architect hates that name but we the locals don't care. It is what it is.
I've been to "Willis" tower (everybody still calls it Sears tower) in Chicago and there are these nauseating glass boxes you can stand in at the top and look down on the ground below you. I'm glad I tried it but it was frightening
And when it sways in the wind......
So, I assume if you come to Arizona, you won't be walking out on the all-glass Skywalk over the Grand Canyon on the Hualapai Reservation? It's a mere 800 feet from the canyon floor.
Bro that thing starting make cracking sounds and you can jump on it and shit
One of my favorite places about my hometown
The mountain in the background in Portland is Mt. Hood: 11,249 ft (3,426 meters).
Best in Colorado is some at the ski resorts. Very expensive though. You want one with character. Trip Advisor has a category of unique hotels.
You may find it interesting to learn that the very prominent snow-covered mountains in the background at Portland, OR and Seattle, WA are active volcanoes, Mt. Hood and Mr. Rainier, respectively.
Learned something new. Thanks personally I like catching these vids of your, never know what you are going to put out there for us. Please keep them coming! Oh and thank you.
That building in Boston was, in my opinion, the best one. It looked like a thin giant glass book balancing in the middle of a city. But the only building you guys didn't comment on? 🤣
People debate which is taller, the One World Trade Center in New York or Willis Tower (Sears Tower) in Chicago. The issue is do you count an antenna as part of the overall height.
Antennas don't count for height but architectural spires do count because they are considered part of the design of the building
@@jimmy_wang_ Yes you're right. In Los Angeles the tallest building in terms of floors. is technically the U.S. Bank building but the Wilshire Grand officially beats it with the spire.
One World Trade Center (Freedom Tower) is taller. It stands at 1,776 feet. Even the Center Park Tower (Nordstrom Tower) on Billionaire's row is taller than the Willis Tower. The Nordstrom Tower stands at 1,550 feet.
@@dougadkins7006 I forgot about that one. I stand corrected!
Thank you teaching me even more about my country!! ❤️🇺🇸💝
I am a 76 year-old American woman...and my father always said...”You’re never too old to learn something new...”
Miss you Doug, Mom and Dad...❤️❤️❤️
I think my favorite one on the list is the one in Tennessee at 8:41. It’s sometimes called the “Batman Building” because it looks like Batman which is cool
Estes park, colorado is a great place to go. A little touristy, but great for hiking through the mountains and amazing views
“What’s the best place in Colorado”
I didn’t get to spend much time in CO, but I’d definitely recommend Grand Lake CO. Very beautiful, especially at sunset.
Indeed! Very quiet area compared to many of the tourist spots in Colorado.
The Tennessee building is the AT&T building also known as the batman building by us locals. Definitely check out Nashville's night skyline. You can see why we call it the batman building.
Tennessean here. The AT&T Building (#24 on the list) is nicknamed the Batman Building because it looks very similar to Batman’s mask =)
The Salesforce tower is San Fransisco is taller than the one in LA if you count out the spire. The spire on the building only adds 30 feet of extra hight over the Salesforce Tower.
I visit family in Durango Colorado each year and it's an awesome state to visit. Durango is a smaller city but packed with great shops and places to eat. I have seen some movie stars there several times eating at some of the restaurants. Such a beautiful place.
And there's also that pleasant drive up to Ouray.
In downtown Los Angeles at the US Bank building there was a ride called the Skyslide, where you could slide down from the 70th floor 45 ft down to the 69th floor in a clear glass slide. It was scary af for us afraid of heights. Too bad the pandemic shut it down. 🙁
Here’s a video of Oklahoma City’s Devon Tower at night. It doesn’t fully capture the colorful LED lighting effects that it does (as in what it looks like from the ground either downtown or from elsewhere in the city), but you can actually see the lights themselves doing it when the drone gets closer to the building. At 3:01 it pans out from the tower. Directly behind it is the Myriad Gardens. The blue long orb thing is a glass and metallic bridge building over the pond there. Inside it is a rainforest that you can go in and walk around...complete with waterfall. Outside in the gardens there’s play areas and a theater areas with seating, a stage, and lighting, and there’s lots of other really neat places to explore with beautiful plants and neat water fountains and water effects. A lot of people like to go there to take photos and there’s also lots of weddings. The round stadium building is the Paycom Arena. That’s where the NBA’s OKC Thunder play their home games. It’s also where there’s big music concerts and lots of other events. The big square building across the street is the former Myriad Convention Center that’s now owned by a film studio and contains numerous sound studios and set areas. If you look further in the distance past the Myriad Gardens you’ll see Scissortail Park and Scissortail bridge. The Scissortail Flycatcher is the state bird. The bridge is designed as a modern expressionist version of the bird in flight. The LED lights on it rotate in colors to match Devon Tower usually (though it is lit up at various times in specific themed colors like rainbow during Pride Month, red and green during Christmas, red/white/blue for 4th of July, etc....to be fair Devon Tower usually matches, too). The Scissortail Bridge is a walking/cycling bridge over the Interstate 40 highway that crosses through Scissortail Park. At 3:48 the camera is centered on the Bricktown Entertainment District neighborhood. It’s home to restaurants, bars, nightclubs, movie theater, a canal that connects to the Oklahoma River, parks, and of course the Bricktown Ballpark where the OKC Dodgers play and famous MLB baseball player from Oklahoma Mickey Mantle Place out front (complete with statue). The dark line you see separating it from the other side of downtown is the Amtrak rail line that connects to the Santa Fe station downtown. The Heartland Flyer is an Amtrak train that daily goes from Oklahoma City, Oklahoma south to Fort Worth, Texas and then back (and then there’s a train from Fort Worth into Dallas and then Dallas has a light rail train as well as streetcars). Oklahoma City has a streetcar system also using similar cars as Dallas does. It is part of OKC’s EMBARK mass transit system and connects neighborhoods in downtown and midtown with future expansion beyond that planned. The highway you see in the distance is Interstate 235 which is what one would take if wanting to get to the Oklahoma Capitol building. Which you’d normally see at 4:12 except that it’s not easy to make out by the camera lens for some reason (easier to see in real life if you were eating at the restaurant on the top floor of Devon Tower though). But at 4:12 it’s in the glowing yellow building in the left corner just next to the tall tv/radio masts. At 4:31 you’ll notice a tall building in the center of your screen surrounded by low rise buildings. Across the street from that is the Oklahoma City National Outdoor Memorial and Museum (which is a National Park/Monument). That’s the memorial on the site of the 1995 Alfred P. Murrah Federal Building bombing. The outdoor memorial is free to the public and open 24-hours 365 days a year. The reflecting pool at the outdoor site is where the street once was where the vehicle with the bomb was parked. One side is the actual area the building stood and the other side is the former parking lot. The museum costs money to visit and has specific hours it is open. The museum exists inside what was a local office building. It includes spaces left as they were after it was hit by the explosion. It’s actually worth the money to visit as it takes you through chronologically of the events that happened that day, weeks, months, and years after. If you sign the guest book you’ll see people from all over the world come to visit. The outside site still contains a small section of chainlink fence that had become a makeshift memorial after the bombing and before the official memorial was designed and constructed. People still leave mementos, messages, etc there and they’re collected daily and stored for survivors and victims’ families to look at. Likewise the outside children’s area where children can draw with chalk and leave messages also has a way where those images and messages are preserved by the memorial and museum so that survivors and victims’ families can see them. At 4:43 the building in the foreground is the Oklahoma City city hall building and the building across the plaza behind it is the Oklahoma City Civic Center. It’s a place where theater productions, including traveling Broadway shows, perform as well as where mid-sized concerts perform.
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This video shows what the inside of Devon Tower looks like: ruclips.net/video/mt9fsf3Mjcg/видео.html
In the US the word capitol refers specifically to the state government building itself where the state’s legislature and sometimes the executive officers and judiciary meet (in Oklahoma the two houses of the stare legislature as well as the governor’s office, lieutenant governor’s office, and some other executive branch officers’ offices are located still in the capitol while the state’s two highest courts: Oklahoma Supreme Court and Oklahoma Court of Criminal Appeals meet across the street now at the Oklahoma Judiciary Center. The Capitol complex consists of the Capitol building itself as well as other state government buildings, the history museum and archives, and a large grassy plaza. In front of the Capitol building there’s 14 flag poles. Originally they flew the 14 different flags of “nations” that claimed some part of land that makes up the state (France, Spain, US, CSA, Texas, etc). This was changed later in 1988 so that now it flies just the state flag on all 14 poles instead. On the other side of the Capitol there’s a plaza called The Meeting place where the flags of all the Native American tribal nations in Oklahoma fly. Anyways, otherwise we use the spelling capital for meaning like a capital city or like a capital letter. Capitol is just for the building and in some American English dialects you can actually hear the words pronounced differently at the end -ol sounding different than -al, but most American English accents/dialects you can’t usually hear the difference.
I think there’s definitely some beautiful skylines in the US. I live 4 hours drive from Dallas and just love seeing that skyline at night. And I have a cousin that lives in Denver, Colorado and works downtown so he gets amazing views of the skyline on his drive into work! A friend of mine sent me photos today from his drone. He lives across the bay from Seattle and OMG such a beautiful sight! One side he sees the Seattle skyline and the opposite direction beautiful mountains! One of my niece’s friends lives in Canada in a city right across from Detroit and from their front yard (which the neighborhood itself is on a hill) you can see the Detroit skyline and lakes, etc. So pretty! I mean I can see my small city’s downtown skyline from my house (south). It consists of four buildings all built in the 1920s. And if I look east I can see the really large grain elevators and the flour mill. Otherwise not much of a view where I live! LOL
Great video!
It's unreal that gay pride gets an entire month. But for the 4th of july only 1 day. what a shame
@@joshsecor9337 I mean the holiday is literally called 4th of July. And the US government didn’t even recognize it as an official holiday until late in the 19th century, otherwise it was state governments that often gave their employees the day off, etc. Gay Pride isn’t an official holiday day or month. Sure there are government officials and bodies at various levels that present official proclamations each year, bur that doesn’t make it official in the same way the 4th of July is. There have literally been years when Congress, the President, city councils, mayors, etc, etc, etc have not made an official declaration of Pride month...either because they forgot or it wasn’t considered a big deal at the time whether it was done or they opposed making such an official declaration. No one has to officially give a proclamation and declaration that on July 4th every year that it’s Independence Day in the US. Congress has established that is the day in which it will be celebrated as a holiday with all the privileges and requirements that such official statutory status gives the 4th of July. And the whole Gay Pride Month isn’t even from the LGBTQ+ community. That was mostly done via corporations who sponsored the events starting in the late 1980s early 1990s. It eventually caught on and in many ways is treated like LGBTQ+ History Month even though in the US that’s usually done in October by LGBTQ+ organizations (and it is done in different months in other nations for varying reasons). As a gay person I’m rather neutral about the whole Pride month thing. Sure it’s great to have a month to have where people can learn about this segment of our population’s contributions to our society and celebrate them. Much like all the various “[insert name of group of people] Month” is done. Yet, on the other hand it falsely implies that Pride events only occur in June and that is not the case. Pride events occur throughout the US and beyond in months beyond June. Even the Stonewall Riots occurred over several days from June 28 until July 4, so it’s not like they only happened in the month of June back in 1969. Some cities choose to hold Pride events around dates that are relevant to that city’s LGBTQ+ community. Other cities choose different dates due to the weather and environment in June and instead opt to hold events when the environment and weather is better. So Pride events aren’t just occurring in June, but by calling June Pride Month it certainly implies to people unfamiliar that that is the case. And amongst LGBTQ+ folks, especially those involved with community organizations, they usually wish each other a Happy Pride on the day of their event. It’s only non-LGBTQ+ folks and LGBTQ+ folks who aren’t involved in community organizations that usually wish folks Happy Pride at the beginning of June when suddenly corporations start posting “Happy Pride Month” and changing their logos, etc. I don’t mind. I mean, I’ve worked in retail and in restaurants and they usually don’t have specials on just July 4th for Independence Day (although oddly Veterans Day is always just a one day event in November, though). And I certainly know plenty of folks who celebrate July 4th on days many days/weeks before and after the specific July 4th holiday. This is sometimes done for convenience or sometimes done as longer celebrations. So no one is stopping people from celebrating the US’s independence longer than a day. I mean, people in my neighborhood usually start around mid-June with BBQs, fireworks, and other gatherings and it usually ends in mid-July when people change focus on Back-To-School activities, sales, and events. But yeah, the whole Gay Pride Month is a creation of corporations not the LGBTQ+ community. And while I appreciate the corporate support towards any and all human rights and equality, it is weird that they decided it needed to be a month long. Maybe sales go up and that’s why. I mean my birthday is in September and when I was a kid I remember stores would have a mixture of Back-To-School stuff on sale while also putting out Halloween stuff to buy. Now I walk into many stores like Walmart and other national chains and they have Christmas stuff out, too! When I have asked my employers of such a national chain location why the management says it’s to boost holiday sales. So I’m guessing the reason they adopted Pride Month is similar financial reasons. I can’t prove that, just a theory. But yeah, don’t think that it being an entire month hasn’t been contentious amongst LGBTQ+ people and their organizations. While not as contentious as it once was, there are still small segments within the community who don’t like that corporations, governments, etc have decided that the month of June is the one time of the year to acknowledge LGBTQ+ people, their history, etc. Within the LGBTQ+ community itself there’s lots of other days throughout the year that have related events. None of those have reached the mainstream recognition that Pride has which may be why so many mainstream LGBTQ+ organizations just have accepted the idea of June as Pride Month. It’s just easier to go along with what’s in the mainstream and use that as the vehicle for doing what so many of those other “holidays” were meant to do. Plus it being near Independence Day and corporations switching from rainbow logos to red-white-blue logos is just easy to go along with. Especially since many LGBTQ+ people are patriotic Americans, too, and it’s easy for them to make the switch, too. But until Congress puts LGBTQ+ Pride in the statutes as a federal holiday, I think it’s fair to say that the 4th of July being a statutory holiday for one day is still better than what Pride has. Please note that I am NOT advocating for Congress or any government to make LGBTQ+ Pride a statutory holiday for a day, week, or even a month. It’s quite fine if governments want to each year do the ceremonial proclamation thing. Honestly, the fact that the federal government basically did this for several decades for Independence Day until someone in Congress decided it should be added as a statutory holiday alongside Washington’s birthday, etc, is shocking. But no one I know is advocating for that for Pride or any other events LGBTQ+ community has to remember, celebrate, acknowledge, etc aspects of the diverse community and its history. So no worries.
Denver, Colorado - the Hyatt Regency on 15th and California has a bar, Peaks Lounge, on the 27th floor. Next door at Le Meridien they have a rooftop bar. You don't need to stay at either hotel to go to the bar.
Also, they serve afternoon tea at The Brown Palace Hotel and Spa (really fancy place)
The mountain in the background in Portland is an active volcano named Mount Hood.
And is where the national ski team practices in the summer on the Mt Hood Palmer ski run, which is snow-covered through the year.
I'm sure some of you Tennessee fans already mention, but the building you giggle about in Nashville we generally refer to as "The Bat Building" it looks really cool like a Batman head on the horizon while it's lot up and you are driving through the city at night. P.S. Nashville is awesome.
If you can't have fun in Nashville, you can't enjoy anything.
The Fort Restaurant in Morrison, Colorado is amazing! It’s also close to Red Rocks!
Took the family to Estes Park, Colorado for Christmas. Skied, rode a mountain coaster and just enjoyed the holiday decorations and festivities in that town. Also saw moose and elk ... in town! Plan to go back in summer to visit Rocky Mountain National Park.
For Colorado, I'd suggest the "Snow Mountain YMCA Ranch" near Granby. It sits at nearly 2x the altitude of Denver, has plenty of activities you can do there including a wonderful tubing hill, horseback riding, hiking (lotsa red foxes running around if you like to see them), plus Granby is nearby with a lot of Colorado's famous outdoors activities. A high school friend was just in that area posting a lot of updates about all the fishing he was doing out on Lake Granby, and he was enjoying himself immensely.
Edit to add: For the Willis Tower in Chicago, the 2 radio masts are *not* counted toward its height, as they are removable. The height is measured to the top of the base stations that the masts are mounted in, but not the masts themselves.
As for Colorado, depends on where you want to stay. Out east closer to the airport, or downtown, or out west closer to the mountains
My sister used to work in the IDS Center in Minneapolis (her law firm built a new building). She was on a higher floor & they have the express elevators that take you up 20+ floors in seconds. She took us to see her office once & the elevator was a bit freaky. I am in Northeastern Minnesota & Duluth is an hour away from my house & their tallest buildings aren't quite as high as the IDS Center is!
Here in Nashville the AT&T building is affectionately called the Batman building for obvious reasons. ✌🏻
I had my senior prom on the top floor of Columbia tower in Washington. It was really cool, we could even see a Mariner's game going on.
I lived in Colorado for 15 years. Colorado Springs would be my recommendation as a "home base" while visiting the state. Especially if you can spend 2wks or more. Located in the shadow of Pikes Peak (one of Colorado's 14,000ft mountains), Colorado Springs has plenty of great things to see and do; the Olympic Training Center, Garden of the Gods, the US Air Force Academy, just to name a few. AND it's situated on Interstate Highway 25, it is less than an hour drive north to Denver, or an hour south to Royal Gorge Canyon. The mountains are much more accessible from Colorado Springs than from Denver (IMO), but you'll need a vehicle in either city as public transit doesn't really cater to tourism. ❤️🙂
Can't miss the Garden of the Gods!
Living in Colorado Springs right now I totally agree with this. I also love to visit Cripple Creek for that old time town feel with legal gambling. :-)
Sales Force was BNC/ Bank One/ Chase Tower, and b4 that we had Indiana National Bank Tower that was the tallest! We set off our fireworks for Independence Day from INB Tower synchronized to music. It is a beautiful sight to see on 7/4 every year!
Should do the video that popped up in the suggestion box showing the top highest buildings in order not just the biggest in each state
Fun Fact, the tower in Louisville has been nicknamed it "Epcot on a stick." The top is hollow and lights up depending on the occasion. I recommend Googling the tower at night.
It would be great to see you guys do the 25 Best Skylines. In response to your question James. I could be wrong, but i believe the rule of thumb for measuring buildings with spires is that if it is a part of the building and could not be removed the height is the top of the spire. as is the case with the Freedom Tower which is 1776" tall. If the spire is an antenna the spire is not included in the height. case in point the Empire State Building here in NYC is listed as 1,250' or 380 m ′, but to the top of the tv aerial it is1,454′ or 443m
Fun Fact: The Willis Tower (Sears Tower) is actually taller than the One World Trade Center. The One World Trade Center however counts its broadcast antenna. The antenna cheated on a loophole technicality that was in the description of the "Council of tall buildings and urban habitat". The architects wrapped the antenna in a decorative wrapping and called it a spire. Even though it's a broadcast antenna. So due to this loophole, the council had a huge deliberation. And very reluctantly said it was a spire since it was a loophole and only because of the importance of the tower after 9/11. Aka..The council bent the rules to meet their "technicality". So they admitted there was a huge asterisk on the tallest building in the US in later interviews.
The Willis Tower actually has higher floors, a higher roof top, and a higher observatory than the One World Trade Center. In fact, the Willis Tower still can get people up higher than any other building for viewing in North America. Hence why most people still agree that the Wilis at the time losing its title to New York for tallest in the US, was a complete scam. LOL! 😅
@@waycoolscootaloo I hate to say it but the Willis looks better too!
If you go to Colorado, almost anywhere you go you will love it. Rocky Mountain National Park, The Great Sand Dunes National Park, Black Canyon of the Gunnison , and my favorite Mesa Verde National Park. There are so many cute mountain towns. I lived there for 30+ years near Denver. The downhill anc cross country skiing is great. So much hiking everywhere.
There's a rule on when to count spires. Probably skews the list because while One World Trade is the tallest with the spire, Central Park tower, 432 Park Ave, and Sears Tower surpass it in roof height and occupied floor height according to Wikipedia. There are also two others that will do the same.
my city is #13 the Ids interesting fact if you walk around it i cant remember which side the building overhangs the sidewalk lol and he was right its not bad from being built in the 70's and has been hit by 100 MPH straight line winds from storms
I am in Colorado - Its pretty expensive here - but the best places would depend on what you want to see. Most people stay in the Denver Metro Area (Which is where I am) which is about 30-40 mins from the mountains. There are great mountain towns but they take longer to get to. Colorado Springs is an hour south, Fort Collins is an hour North and Grand Junction is all the way across the mountains, about 4 hours or more west. Denver is basically right in the middle of the state. If you come out and need a tour guide let me know I have lived here for about 37 years.
The Ren Cen in Detroit has a glass elevator on the outside of the building you can take to the top floor. When I was a kid the restaurant that was at the top sat on a rotating floor that way you could get a full view of Detroit & Windsor Canada. I’m not sure the restaurant is currently open, the pandemic saw the old restaurant close. If you are ever in Detroit it’s worth going up in the evening and watching the sunset
My personal 'Woah!!' moment was watching an Army-Navy football game when a stadium section full of midshipmen we're going crazy and the railing gave way and everybody fell over...😮😮😮😮😮
We spell Capitol for the buildings and Capital for the cities.
The Beau Rivage is a Casino and Hotel resort in Biloxi Mississippi. I worked there for 9 years.
You should visit the Ledge at Willis Tower/ Sears Tower in Chicago. You are literally standing on a glass box that extend out 4.3 feet from the Skydeck at 1,353 ft.
Spires are generally very tall for distancing the radio antenna from surrounding buildings so radio waves are not blocked. Some buildings do build them taller than needed though if competing for tallest building in a city, state, country, or even the world at some points. They do count towards the building’s total height.
The Simmons Tower in Arkansas at 08:10 is actually the headquarters for Simmons First bank.
The Marriott hotel at the G.M. Renaissance center in Detroit was once in the Gennuis book of world records as the worlds tallest hotel when it opened in 1976 at 73 stories and 748 feet tall on its highest side/the river front. It still is the second and the tallest in the western hemisphere. In 1929 Detoit was to have two of the tallest in the world at the time which was the 800 plus foot Fisher complex and the sister tower of the Book tower at just over 1,000 feet. The depression hit before shovels broke ground. BTW the Sears tower in Chicago is actually taller than the Freedom tower in NYC if the added on spire of the Freedom tower is not counted.
You guys are surprisingly good at critiquing architecture lol
if you go to 7:17 - 7:18 and you look on the very right with the triangular shaped building that is the Baltimore National Aquarium where I worked once :)
look up the sand dunes in Colorado. Its wild to see sand dunes with snowcapped mountains behind them
I see all these people steering you wrong in the comments. If you visit Colorado… Breckinridge, Aspen, Boulder, Telluride/Ouray, and Denver, are all places I would look up! Could always check out the national parks as well!
Cool facts: The tallest roller coaster in the U.S. is Kingda Ka at Six Flags Great Adventure in New Jersey at 456 ft/139 m tall, which is taller than the tallest building in 17 states. The tallest ferris wheel in the U.S. is the High Roller in Las Vegas at 550 ft/168 m tall, taller than the tallest buildings in 25 states.
Just for scale... just a short way outside of Las Vegas is the Hoover Dam - standing 726 feet / 221.3 meters high.
It's quite a view form the top... looking down.
The Epic Center one is in my hometown of Wichita, KS, there's another one that's close in height near by.
In Colorado, visit the Broadmoor Resort in Colorado Springs
I'm from Colorado and live in Colorado Springs (or "The Springs" for short.
I'd love to see you guys here! It's hard to recommend a hotel/town without knowing what you're looking for (i.e. night life, ritzy Aspen/Vail; cozy, picturesque nature, etc.)
If you think that is high up, then the Grand Canyon will blow your mind as it is over a mile deep in places (and if you are lucky there is a guide rail on the edge, but in most places nothing.)
Washington DC will get screwed in the skyline video, too. You should do a reaction to The National Mall (or even a DC travel video from the likes of Expedia).
The architectural heights in this video includes spires but not antennas. I believe 1 world trade center is slightly shorter than the Willis tower based on overall height (including antennas) and in the roof height, but taller in architectural height.
Biloxi Mississippi's Beau Rivage is a casino and hotel. And the Nashville Tennessee building is nicknamed "The Batman Building". I'm in Mobile, Alabama and our Battle House was RE-built. We've had the Battle house since before I was born in 1952. It was the place to hold special events. I miss the old architecture of it.
I went to the top of the Willis Tower in Chicago you can see across Lake Michigan its so high up
I live in Philadelphia and the building in this video is now the 2nd tallest building. Comcast Technology Center is 342m high.
At 10:30 when they're showing the Detroit night skyline. That's Canada on the other side of the river.
Yeah, the Sears Tower on this video is the tallest building. It has the highest roof on this list. It also does have the highest observatory in America. One World only has a slightly higher antenna. But the building is actually shorter and even has less sq, ft. than the Sears Tower. The Sears Tower has the most sq, ft. of any single tall tower in the US.
Very interesting. Sorry to correct, but it's Willis Tower now. Just so some people don't get confused.
@@G.0. It's actually Sears Tower. No Chicagoan calls it Willis Tower. If you say Willis to anyone, they won't know what your talking about. 😂
Fun fact: This comment is the real reason Chicago is known as the "windy city." It has nothing to do with the weather 😉
@@williamparker7005 You must feel right at home living in Chicago then. 😉
@@GalaxyFur I don't disagree. I'm old enough to have always called it the Sears Tower, and I'm not even from Chicago. But it was referred to as Willis Tower in the video and foreigners, such as the ones reacting to this video, may have never heard of the Sears Tower and only know it as Willis Tower.
Did you notice how many of the tallest buildings were banks?? Does that tell you something?? The mountain in the background was Mt. Hood, a volcano in the Cascade range.
I am from Wichita Falls, Texas. While we cannot make a claim to any of the tallest skyscrapers in the USA, we hold the Guinness Book of world records for the smallest skyscraper. It happened due to a scam back during the oil boom of North Texas. This happened in 1919 and is only 40 feet tall.
So true. This building has been covered a few times by RUclipsrs and such. I think "Tom Scott" did a video on it if I'm not mistaken I seem to remember. 🤔
Worse than windows breaking (which rarely happens) is that these buildings are built to sway to keep things like the windows from cracking/breaking. That is bad at 51 stories for me. The last two are well over twice that.
My 2nd wife worked in the Columbia Tower in Seattle (number7). Her company had 5 floors of offices in it from floor 52 to floor 56. I believe the building had 77 floors.
We use both Capitol & capital. Different meanings. And yes the spire is included in the height. In New York in 1930 when the 40 Wall building & the Chrysler building were racing to build the tallest. At the very last moment the Chrysler building wins by putting up a spire at the very last moment.
Not in Boston the prudential would be the tallest if you added the antenna at 907 instead of being second at 749
@@edwingonzalez3184 That's the difference, antennas aren't considered spires, so they only get measured to the roof height. If the spire is part of the design (like it is in One World Trade Center) then it's counted.
@@edwingonzalez3184 "It includes “spires,” but not “antennas, signage, flag poles or other functional-technical equipment.” Source: The Council on Tall Buildings and Urban Habitat, the international organization of skyscraper engineers, designers and builders that certifies a building’s height
My dad worked at the IDS Center back in the day. 1970's. I went to his new office and wow those elevators are fast! The elevators were/are specific to the floors...like 1-20, 21- whatever. The top of the building floor had exhibitions. One of which back then was about UFOs. It was so cool. Under ground was a movie theater. I don't think it's there anymore though. Mary Tyler Moore show filmed her flinging her hat into the air in front of the IDS Center.
Although many of these are named for banks, most are not banks at all. Many don't have a bank in the building. Often "Naming Rights" are sold by the owner of the building to the highest bidder. The same thing is done with sports arenas. Sometimes you will have a building or arena named for a company that no longer exists. PSI Net stadium existed in Baltimore for 2 years after the company folded.
Keep in mind the first examples are in states so flat that when the sup comes up it's UP
If you get the chance to go to Colorado, check out the Stanley Hotel in Estes Park, Co.
The tallest (accessible) building in Missouri is actually the Gateway Arch in St Louis at 630' or 193m (≈6ft/2m taller than 1 Kansas City Place)
In the metro Detroit area, we have three major car company headquarters(Ford, GMC, Chrysler) and GMC owns the Renaissance Center. If you want to see a nice skyline, you should check out Detroit. The rivers really beautiful with Canada on the other side.
I was wondering why Millie was wearing a pointy hat in the thumbnail and then realized that it was the top of a building. Yeah it's time for sleep lol 😂
Ahaha that is quality
Capitol refers to the actual building where the government is housed. Capital is used for all other uses of the word, from capitalized letters, capitals on top of pillars in architecture terms, and Capital meaning the city where the Capitol is located. :)
I hate when a building height includes a tower spiral on the top. The One World Trade's top floor is actually lower in height than the Willis Tower's top floor in Chicago, but they count that 400-foot-high tower spiral on top of the One World Trade to get to 1776 total feet.
You guys need to react to the top 10 most Beautiful state’s
The mountain in the background of the Portland, Oregon image is Mt. Hood. Not far from Mt. Hood is Mt. St. Helens, which erupted in 1980.
I'm from Arkansas, and to further blow your mind with the amount of them being banks, Simmons tower is also a partly a bank. The bank built the tower but doesn't use the whole thing so it rents out like half of it to other companies
Boulder Colorado is soo cool. And all the towns that are in the mountains like Aspen Vail and Idaho Springs
That mountain in 28 is Mt Hood :) view from Portland OR.
Denver is very cheap to fly to from London and Paris. can get round trips for $700 on right days. Few days in city for fun, can Uber around but you need to rent a car to get to mountains. Go to Estes Park and Rocky Mountain National Park, An hour and half from Denver. Get an Air BNB there, I would say camp but too much ya need to get if coming from abroad. If a long trip can go down south to The Great Sand Dunes. So many places, it's wonderful. I would go between May and September, unless you really want to ski. Denver is fine most of the year, it's only 5,000 feet, some snow but no ice. But getting into the parks and mountains is more difficult in winter.
I knew that the IDS Center in Minneapolis was our tallest building in Minnesota, So I knew it would be up there in the ratings.
I think Minneapolis has a very pretty Skyline
For the longest time, the Sears tower in Chicago was the tallest in the world until the late 1990s. Now only 8th.
7:47 That's 11, 249 foot (3426 meters) Mt. Hood in Northern Oregon.
James in particular, you should really check out this place "The NYC Skyscraper Without Windows." It was originally built by AT&T to house NYC's primary telephone base and there was no need for windows since it was filled with just machinery and windows would make it less resistant to war with the Soviets. It's still there, it's really tall and it doesn't have windows.
Holy cow! I knew yall were young, but i didnt think 1999! You guys are doing awesome work for young adults! Cheers! Love your videos
Come see us in Colorado! There are tons of Hotels. The Brown Palace is downtown and not too expensive. It's an old (18th century) hotel built like a triangle. James would enjoy it.
A Colorado native here. One of my favorite places to visit is the San Juan Mountains. The Swiss Alps of America. You can do the drive over the Million Dollar Highway witch was on the best drives in the US you did a reaction to. You should stay at the Hotel Colorado in Glenwood Springs and head south, hit Carbondale and Aspen. Even check out the Maroon Bells while you're down there. Absolutely beautiful
Having lived a chunk of my life in Colorado the best areas are, in my opinion, Colorado Springs and Manitou Springs.
Colorado has a lot to see but if you want some of the nature and scenery that will simply make you gasp for its beauty try the drive from a little town called Ouray to Durango that drive will amaze you form start to finish.
If you want a unique experience in Colorado, ride the vintage/antique 1860s steam train....through the Rocky Mountains...round trip from Durango to Silverton.....they are old silver mining towns, and the line runs above a river gorge and you get AMAZING views! it's an incredible experience and I HIGHLY recommend it!
The previous tallest building on the West Coast was another skyscraper in Downtown LA, the US Bank Building.....the only reason that Wilsher building is taller is because of the Spire! it was finished only a few years ago.
i actually work in the tallest building in NC and it's very big (my ears pop every time I go to my floor lol.) but charlotte is actually a pretty big city with a large downtown (we actually call it uptown in Charlotte) -- would definitely recommend that you guys look more into NC because it has a lot more than people expect
as a North Carolinian, i concur
My wife and i honeymooned in colorado! You have to go to boulder, Colorado! Its absolutely stunning, as you would say! Right against the rockies. Driving around there will make your hearts just melt with the beauty that surrounds you. I highly recommend it!