World's Most Useless Megaprojects

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  • Опубликовано: 23 ноя 2024

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  • @MegaBuildsYT
    @MegaBuildsYT  2 года назад +116

    Do you know about similar failed projects in your country? Let us know! 😄👇

    • @finleylinsen7509
      @finleylinsen7509 2 года назад +2

      Ok sup

    • @Bill_Morakis
      @Bill_Morakis 2 года назад +5

      You can talk about the Hellinikon Project. It isn't an abandoned project in Greece but it is a worth a try mentioning it!

    • @pubert2024
      @pubert2024 2 года назад +1

      @@finleylinsen7509 🤓

    • @tuwdtuid5319
      @tuwdtuid5319 2 года назад +5

      *LAVASA* was conceived by Gulabchand as India's first private hill city in 2000, following similar private developments in the U.S. like Seaside, Florida, or the Disney development of Celebration

    • @ICE-bv1hz
      @ICE-bv1hz 2 года назад +3

      johor forest city in malaysia

  • @Haganu
    @Haganu 2 года назад +532

    I suddenly don't feel so bad now about the cities I create in Cities Skylines

    • @JazeebAbdul97
      @JazeebAbdul97 2 года назад +14

      Buhahhah 😂😂😂 creativity be bold

    • @chocomojo9552
      @chocomojo9552 2 года назад +11

      I have a neglected colony on Mars.....I m sorry for the colons I put there.

    • @idkimlikereallybored9533
      @idkimlikereallybored9533 Год назад

      ​@@chocomojo9552 they must be shitting themselves

    • @jkbaseer
      @jkbaseer Год назад +1

      😂😂😂😂

    • @GENKI_INU
      @GENKI_INU Год назад +2

      Cities Skylines, but when you place down plots, nobody moves in...

  • @nexxogen
    @nexxogen 2 года назад +481

    I can't imagine how anyone with a lot of money would want to live in a villa which is crammed together in a small space with a whole bunch of identical looking villas.

    • @johnnycoolness
      @johnnycoolness Год назад +27

      exactly, not even a garage??

    • @nexxogen
      @nexxogen Год назад +8

      @@SunriseLAW That's VERY different.

    • @completelyboringstuff204
      @completelyboringstuff204 Год назад +37

      Exactly what I thought. The (medium-) rich might want to show off as being superior, and how can you do that in identical villas?

    • @MyRegardsToTheDodo
      @MyRegardsToTheDodo Год назад +55

      I've seen a video where the local residents were interviewed, and they hated the project, because it destroyed the landscape. It also didn't have anything to do with the original style of the country and was basically just a faceless, tasteless Disneyland version.

    • @shosc16
      @shosc16 Год назад +23

      It looks so so shit. Like they gave an intern the design pencil. Could’ve been a lot better

  • @imtiaz3554
    @imtiaz3554 2 года назад +1017

    Lesson to learn: don't make developments for the wealthy. Money dries up and they will go where they want to. Make a development for the average citizen and you'll have a community for centuries through thick and thin.

    • @darkangelkate3950
      @darkangelkate3950 Год назад +15

      Are you listening Hamilton Ontario?

    • @NawDawgTheRazor
      @NawDawgTheRazor Год назад +7

      1000%

    • @duMaurier15
      @duMaurier15 Год назад +83

      or build these housing in phases.. like that Turkey project.. Why are they building all 700+ at once instead of building only the ones that were purchased. It is just greed and stupidity. I just hope the labourers got paid.

    • @journeyman6752
      @journeyman6752 Год назад +5

      You sound like you've constructed many many of these projects. Thank you Babu.

    • @duMaurier15
      @duMaurier15 Год назад +2

      @@darkangelkate3950 what happen in Hamilton, Ontario?

  • @Borgforce
    @Borgforce 2 года назад +164

    Not even kidding - that neighbourhood with all the Turkish villas is genuinely creepy, it would be my idea of hell to drive around that place.

    • @dorogundam
      @dorogundam Год назад +12

      Do it at night in the middle with no GPS /phone reception >:3

    • @matfax
      @matfax Год назад +15

      It really is. Who wants to live in a city where every house looks the same?

    • @dimi9215
      @dimi9215 Год назад +1

      Maybe adding a few strip malls like california city will lighten the mood

    • @chewchewonglass
      @chewchewonglass Год назад +8

      @@matfax We already got this with suburban neighborhoods here. No uniqueness, no identity, just identical houses and blank lawns with barely any plantlife other than cut grass.

    • @MyRegardsToTheDodo
      @MyRegardsToTheDodo Год назад +10

      Just imagine trying to find your house after a night out with friends, when you're a bit drunk. "Why the f*** doesn't my key fit in the lock, am I at the wrong house again? For the fifth time?"

  • @Dmhlcmb
    @Dmhlcmb 2 года назад +149

    Why make the villas identical? That just looks insane.

    • @icykev_0168
      @icykev_0168 Год назад +15

      Thats what im saying. Architecture should never be identical

    • @axxxonn
      @axxxonn Год назад +8

      Wait until you visit Irvine CA or any new development in California really...

    • @GSimpsonOAM
      @GSimpsonOAM Год назад +4

      While not to my taste some people crave the conformity

    • @MyRegardsToTheDodo
      @MyRegardsToTheDodo Год назад +12

      It's not only that the villas are all identical, they're also literally in the middle of nowhere. There is nothing there you can actually do.

    • @Spillerrec
      @Spillerrec Год назад +8

      It is to make construction cheaper, it is easier and faster to build 700+ of the same thing than to make 700+ similar but different things. With how close those buildings are placed to each other it looks like the goal was to make as much money out of this project as possible, not to create something nice for whoever that was going to live there.

  • @bonusatbrissy
    @bonusatbrissy Год назад +18

    Burj Al babas look like a setting for a zombie apocalypse movie

  • @bonzillafilmsgamingsreviews
    @bonzillafilmsgamingsreviews 2 года назад +203

    I had an Abandoned project in my city, Niagara Falls, Canada. There's supposed to be a 30 story hotel, It's called "The Crowne Plaza Hotel", construction began in the 1990's, during 9/11, the project has to be delayed, after few weeks, they continue to construct, at 2005, they left the project abandoned for only a decade, leaving the abandoned parking lot behind. But in November 12th 2019, there's a proposal of a 72 story hotel and it's been approved a day later. Till this day, we'll never know when the construction will actually begin.

    • @Gamefruitpulp
      @Gamefruitpulp 2 года назад +3

      Zappi's across the street has good Italian food though 😂

    • @bonzillafilmsgamingsreviews
      @bonzillafilmsgamingsreviews 2 года назад +1

      @@Gamefruitpulp Zappi's not gonna last long because few years ago, there's a proposal of 3 towers, which there all 30 story hotels where Zappi is, and It's been approved, but we don't know if there still doing wind study till this day.

    • @Gamefruitpulp
      @Gamefruitpulp 2 года назад +2

      @@bonzillafilmsgamingsreviews noooo!

    • @thehealingryms...9405
      @thehealingryms...9405 2 года назад

      me too

    • @cityskylines11
      @cityskylines11 2 года назад +1

      What is the street that this project is supposed to be built on? I have a video with Niagara Falls, NY in it. It was the top 10 small cities with unusually large skylines. I found out about how much bigger and nicer the Canadian side is when researching for the vid. I would like to go there some day but it's a little ways from me.
      ruclips.net/p/PLE6cVwezqMRGix4FOcV7iiNGiErOA5t_W
      This is the one that it's in.

  • @kroepkroep
    @kroepkroep Год назад +16

    I love how they show in California City how they prioritize utilities. Park, airport, prison

  • @JimboShogun0686
    @JimboShogun0686 Год назад +121

    As a citizen of Kern County, I always wondered why an inhospitable place like California City existed. Thank you, Top Luxury

    • @johnslugger
      @johnslugger Год назад +3

      How is life in Bakersfield? The weather seems sub tropical.

    • @irongoatrocky2343
      @irongoatrocky2343 Год назад +3

      To me California City looks like a giant Rattle Snake Ranch!

    • @willman85
      @willman85 10 месяцев назад

      I never even heard of it until this video.

  • @wc4109
    @wc4109 2 года назад +107

    First time I hear about California City... Guess Mendelson wanted to create a similar New York City, but failed miserably.... Hard to attract residents when the main attraction/ employer is a Prison institution....

    • @michaelg4931
      @michaelg4931 2 года назад +11

      Actually, Edwards Air Force Base, which is 18 miles to the SE, is the largest employer of city residents. Mojave Air and Space Port is another employer as is Hyundai/Kia Proving Grounds which is located in the city.

    • @citisoccer
      @citisoccer 2 года назад +3

      The prison came after the city had already failed and he'd long since left the effort. It was never part of the "plan".

    • @johnr797
      @johnr797 2 года назад +8

      Yeah building a giant city in the desert is not exactly sustainable

    • @JohnRay1969
      @JohnRay1969 2 года назад +5

      The prison is extremely new and wasn't part of Mendelssohn's plan. That is a recent attempt to bring jobs.

    • @doingstuff76
      @doingstuff76 2 года назад +4

      @@johnr797 Las Vegas?

  • @r0cketplumber
    @r0cketplumber 2 года назад +268

    I worked in Mojave for almost 20 years- it was the fashionable place for rocket companies- and Cal City was always this kinda creepy mess just over the horizon. We did set a world record when Dick Rutan flew the XCOR Ez-Rocket from Mojave to Cal City, and he boasted that he holds the longest and shortest distance records.

    • @Borgforce
      @Borgforce 2 года назад +7

      I drove through Cal City a year ago… all I can remember was that I was glad when I drove out and it was in my review… Lancaster isn’t much better!

    • @journeyman6752
      @journeyman6752 Год назад +1

      His rocket was not able to fit in Maccas drive thru and hence the downward spiral..

    • @linusspacehead
      @linusspacehead Год назад

      I'm just guessing the design was not esthetically pleasing as 1 big negative that worked against it. The illustrations looked unappealing to me. Very flat. Lacking a landscaped appeal that would attract homeowners. I think it could have been designed utilizing more of the desert southwest natural elements. I'm not sure that was considered desirable at the time.

  • @angryzombie8088
    @angryzombie8088 Год назад +9

    Burj Al Babas is creepy, the big building is so close together it looks like a cemetery from above.
    The housing is arranged like a slum & the villa looks like a tombstone.

    • @Mumbo_Jumbo_Kiwi.1
      @Mumbo_Jumbo_Kiwi.1 Год назад

      I can't impart your opinion to modern urban environments elsewhere.

  • @gman1003
    @gman1003 Год назад +121

    Having a city of the same weird Disney looking houses was just a strange idea.

    • @MyRegardsToTheDodo
      @MyRegardsToTheDodo Год назад +11

      I've seen a video about this project where some locals were interviewed, and they seemingly hate the entire project, because it destroys the landscape and doesn't give them any benefits like jobs or something like that.

    • @rickhughesprints
      @rickhughesprints Год назад +4

      @@MyRegardsToTheDodo It also just looks ugly.

    • @susiedupuy9532
      @susiedupuy9532 Год назад +2

      @@rickhughesprints at first glance it looks like a cemetery.

    • @Cuestrupaster
      @Cuestrupaster Год назад

      @@MyRegardsToTheDodo I've seen Storror playing hidden and seek on it hahaha

  • @W0lfenstrike
    @W0lfenstrike Год назад +45

    The Turkey one looks like somebody enabled a cheat code in Age of Empires 2 to build rows upon rows of identical castles.

    • @petrmaly9087
      @petrmaly9087 Год назад +6

      Castles in AoE 2 are not that ugly. This gives more of AoE 3 vibes.

    • @fernandocordinador
      @fernandocordinador Год назад +1

      AEGIS

    • @GodlikeIridium
      @GodlikeIridium 5 месяцев назад

      True! 😂 Damn Age of Empires II was an amazing game! I played it for thousands of hours... So simple but yet well made.

    • @GodlikeIridium
      @GodlikeIridium 5 месяцев назад

      ​@@petrmaly9087true 😂

  • @stillnotspicy
    @stillnotspicy Год назад +57

    imagine wanting to construct a whole city from scratch just so it could be a suburb filled with single family homes and everything useful being far away from walking distance.

    • @bengagnon2894
      @bengagnon2894 Год назад

      The American Dream. Being able to access everything by walking... What, are you a communist?
      ......

    • @michaelplunkett8059
      @michaelplunkett8059 Год назад

      Because that is what Los Angeles was and it was booming.

  • @sudkhetlehmann857
    @sudkhetlehmann857 Год назад +30

    Thanks for the video. In my opinion, these mega projects were not about the buildings itself but a way for the corrupt wealthy people to wash their money, because even though it was not finished, a lot of cash was flowing somewhere so someone was profiting from it. The big question is who. Like I always say, follow the money.

    • @Fkpatriarchy
      @Fkpatriarchy 11 месяцев назад

      Yeah, these are meant to fail. It's just a way to launder money.

  • @DjVortex-w
    @DjVortex-w Год назад +29

    If that skyscraper were ever condemned to be demolished, I can only imagine how laborious and expensive it would be to dismantle it (after all, they can't just have it come down crumbling, it's too big for that).

    • @kennixox262
      @kennixox262 Год назад +1

      They would like like they did in Manhattan with the old Union Carbide building. Dismantle floor by floor.

    • @martinpalousek4370
      @martinpalousek4370 Год назад

      I had exactly the same thought at first moment .

  • @megamihestia4049
    @megamihestia4049 Год назад +12

    In fact, goldin tower was such a failure that soon after its abandoning, government essentially banned all construction of super tall skyscrapers. Anything taller than 200 meters requires special approval from government to proceed.

  • @seanwilliams480
    @seanwilliams480 Год назад +26

    A decent percentage of residents of Cal City were military and retired military from Edwards AFB. Went there once with the First Sargent of our unit and was amazed to see the miles and miles of streets carved into the desert with one house here, another house a half mile away over there. Before we went, he said, "You want to see the second largest city in California? Come on, I'll show you where I live! Cal City!"

    • @feeberizer
      @feeberizer Год назад +2

      You confirmed my guess that Edwards employed many of the residents of Cal City.

  • @realitytak7258
    @realitytak7258 2 года назад +118

    These series should never stop 😊

    • @MegaBuildsYT
      @MegaBuildsYT  2 года назад +9

      Thank you!

    • @somebodyirrelevant141
      @somebodyirrelevant141 2 года назад +2

      I know right? This is awesome to watch.

    • @luism7248
      @luism7248 2 года назад

      really well done

    • @megacities
      @megacities 2 года назад

      If you liked this one, we just uploaded another 5 most useless megaprojects video 🤓

    • @everythingsalright1121
      @everythingsalright1121 2 года назад

      With the way businessmen invest and build shit, we'll never run out of useless crap for episode topics x.x

  • @princessmarlena1359
    @princessmarlena1359 2 года назад +26

    My town has the Monorail, the giant magnifying glass, the skyscraper made of popsicles, and that escalator to nowhere. D’oh!

  • @adrianjones4812
    @adrianjones4812 Год назад +17

    That skyscraper will become a safety issue with bits falling off. The demolition costs will be immense.

    • @samuela-aegisdottir
      @samuela-aegisdottir Год назад

      I was thinking about possible demolition during the video. How to do that and not put in danger those living under it?

    • @darthutah6649
      @darthutah6649 Год назад +2

      It would probably be cheaper to just finish it than to demolish it.

    • @robertagren9360
      @robertagren9360 Год назад

      It's north korea over again.

  • @cricketandgraham8644
    @cricketandgraham8644 2 года назад +48

    Underrated channel. Thank you for your great editing, quality, and general research. 10/10.

  • @shanac5536
    @shanac5536 11 месяцев назад +4

    I would definitely just move into an abandoned mini castle!

  • @PhilipMurphy8Extra
    @PhilipMurphy8Extra 2 года назад +8

    This series is always one of the highlights of RUclips when it gets uploaded for sure.

  • @oldsesalt8496
    @oldsesalt8496 Год назад +14

    I would imagine that every Olympic Village and FIFA stadium would qualify.

  • @andyt8216
    @andyt8216 Год назад +8

    All the billions wasted on these projects. Imagine how many people that could have helped, or even how much necessary infrastructure built, or architectural beauties renovated, restored or even rebuilt.

    • @mr.boomguy
      @mr.boomguy Год назад

      My thoughts excacly!

    • @CaptOrbit
      @CaptOrbit 2 месяца назад

      It's not a complete waste. The billions spent on these projects did end up somewhere. Some of it landed in the pockets of local construction workers who were able to use their earnings to buy things for themselves and their families. Some of it went to taxes to fund infrastructure and public services. It went to building materials and supplies distributors who used some of their earnings to pay their own employees and to pay their suppliers. Who further used it to buy more supplies and pay more employees.
      Is that the most efficient way to distribute money? Probably not, but it is a bit of a silver lining that shows at least 100% of the money wasn't wasted.

  • @CokeCheese
    @CokeCheese 2 года назад +55

    The project in Turkey is insane. So much waste. At least California City was more or less just land and some infrastructure. Even with a massive underground aquifer, I wonder if a full blown LA-like city in the Mojave would be able to exist with all the water/drought issues in California? I'm guessing the tower in China will be completed in time. It may take a definite economic upswing for the Chinese and Turkey projects to ever be completed and occupied. With the war, that feels like it could be years away. It's too bad the homes in Turkey cannot be cannibalized, moved and reconstructed more modestly elsewhere.

    • @johnvannewhouse
      @johnvannewhouse 2 года назад +7

      I don't think that Chinese one will ever be completed. The problem with leaving something uncompleted and exposed to the elements for a long period of time is that you can't just start building again. The interiors and infrastructure (like in the Turkish project) start to corrode and rot and that can't just be ignored....

    • @davidburnett5049
      @davidburnett5049 2 года назад

      @@johnvannewhouse agreed. Combine with their economic downturn, real estate bubble burst, and shrinking population, its a no go

    • @othgmark1
      @othgmark1 Год назад +1

      The aquifer in California city was overstated they are now on water from the Los Angeles aquaduct and have been for decades. The jobs in the area come from Edwards Air Force Base, Mojave airport, US Borax and some from the prison. Additionally Honda and Hyundai both have test facilities in the area. Long term houses have turned out to be a good investment there. It will probably never grow to the original plans as there is not nearly enough water for a city that size. As to the lack of palm trees the winter climate can be very harsh at night with most nights below freezing, not conducive to most palm varieties. At one time the main thoroughfare was 3 miles of rose bushes but the water demands saw them removed. It is pretty affordable for California while still in an area that can provide a middle class income. You either like the desert or you don't but it does not lack for recreation options.

    • @MyRegardsToTheDodo
      @MyRegardsToTheDodo Год назад +3

      @@johnvannewhouse The Turkish villa project will never be completed either. There is no real interest in those villas, because they're essentially in the middle of nowhere and nobody who could afford living there would actually want to live there (why should they?) and by now you'd probably have to tear them down and start rebuilding entirely (I don't know if the earthquake in Turkey a few days ago affected the structures and I am pretty sure nobody is actually interested enough in them to check now). There were some investors, but no real customers and the investors pulled out.

    • @johnvannewhouse
      @johnvannewhouse Год назад

      @@MyRegardsToTheDodo All good points. Thanks!

  • @realitytak7258
    @realitytak7258 2 года назад +23

    Now please useful biggest projects 🤗

  • @BostonMark
    @BostonMark 2 года назад +12

    Thanks for sharing that California City never herd of this before and I studied architecture in California

  • @aserfuller377
    @aserfuller377 2 года назад +15

    "remains a useless mega project in the Middle of the desert " I have the slight feeling that we're gona hear that from the line

    • @dfo990
      @dfo990 2 года назад +3

      it is even ironic that this video comes in the side of youtube in every video about the saudi arabia the line, lol

    • @kieronparr3403
      @kieronparr3403 Год назад

      We won't because it won't get beyond those renderings

  • @andrewwoodgate3769
    @andrewwoodgate3769 Год назад +7

    The environmental damage caused by these oligarchs' greed is unbelievable!

  • @KozKalanndok
    @KozKalanndok Год назад +20

    In Germany there are two such projects but I'm not sure if they really qualify as Megaprojects. One is the Transrapid (a train powered by magnetic levitation). It failed because there was no one was interested in building the required infrastructure. However it was technically working. The other was the Cargolifter (a large blimp supposed to carry cargo). It failed due to investors bailing but the hangar still remains (as a large Spa called Tropical Island). The hangar itself was the largest freestanding steel-dome construction at it's time (and maybe even now). It's large enough to fit the Eiffel Tower on its side.

    • @MyRegardsToTheDodo
      @MyRegardsToTheDodo Год назад +1

      I wouldn't consider the Transrapid a failed megaproject, they never really started building it and it actually never entered planing stage (until China bought it and built it).

    • @KozKalanndok
      @KozKalanndok Год назад +1

      @@MyRegardsToTheDodo Transrapid has a 27km test track which was even commuting on a regular basis between 2 towns (mainly touristic travels though). There are multiple generations of working trains as well.

    • @MyRegardsToTheDodo
      @MyRegardsToTheDodo Год назад

      @@KozKalanndok That's like calling the Wuppertal Schwebebahn a failed superproject, because no other city addapted it (which was actually the engineer's plan). It was a pitch that never found a buyer.

    • @Ferdrew-fj6xv
      @Ferdrew-fj6xv Год назад

      😲😲😲😁

  • @pennyjpie
    @pennyjpie Год назад +7

    Cities are built by people. Not on person. A community of people who all live somewhere (usually by water because we need water to live) and THEY build the community. Ultra rich megalomaniacs never seem to understand this. Everyone keeps saying they want to be the next LA or London or Tokyo, but all these places weren’t built all in one go with everything in place. They were built over hundreds of YEARS by people building communities.
    How do you build a city? Have it be near water, preferably on an ocean coastline for easy trade access with other countries and wait hundreds of years as the community builds itself. There.

    • @cancercentral9997
      @cancercentral9997 5 месяцев назад

      Either that or have it be your nation's capital (see Canberra, Washington DC and Brasilia)

  • @perryholley6005
    @perryholley6005 Год назад +12

    I would love to get a copy of the proposed map of what they thought California City would actually look like if everything had been built as it had been envisioned.

  • @alm5992
    @alm5992 2 года назад +4

    Burj al Babas would be an epic airsoft/ paintball field if those were even popular there.

  • @NewPaulActs17
    @NewPaulActs17 2 года назад +6

    hundreds of identical fairy tale style manors is just plain creepy. they look like american mcmansions, but even those monstrosities sometimes have yards...

  • @oliviaortiz5157
    @oliviaortiz5157 2 года назад +3

    SADLY 😭 to see so many humans on the street without a home and this hundreds of homes almost finished and rotting away! 😲🥺🤔

  • @HepCatJack
    @HepCatJack Год назад +6

    These empty castle-like structures in Turkey could potentially find some use as temp. housing given how many buildings collapsed in the recent Earthquake in Turkey.

    • @robertagren9360
      @robertagren9360 Год назад

      They weren't homes and resort to rich people. You need to solve survival.

  • @Swizzlerz
    @Swizzlerz Год назад +2

    Some of these buildings are going to make great movie sets

  • @sergeishabunin9469
    @sergeishabunin9469 2 года назад +16

    Really cool video...by the way: you could make a serie of the never build towers in Dubai...but I think it would be an immense job. As nearly every second building in Dubai is cancelled.

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    @stevenhudson6354 Год назад +201

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      @imogenthompson1338 Год назад

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      @imogenthompson1338 Год назад

      My first experience with her gave me the assurance that has made me to invest without fear of loosing.

  • @megacities
    @megacities 2 года назад +14

    Love your work!

  • @luism7248
    @luism7248 2 года назад +10

    Love this series, always new and interesting projects😍

  • @JoseELeon
    @JoseELeon 2 года назад +11

    Building a bunch of suburban roads in the middle of the desert is such an american mood

  • @bbd121
    @bbd121 2 года назад +42

    The Golden Finance 117 in China took me by surprise. I thought I was all caught up, but how did I not know about the Guinness world record winner for tallest unoccupied tower?
    I'm slightly ashamed of myself now.
    *(Sad)*

    • @megacities
      @megacities 2 года назад

      test your knowledge of the most useless megaprojects with our latest video 🤓

    • @seanmcdirmid
      @seanmcdirmid Год назад +1

      There is a lot of propaganda that Chinese ghost districts, cities, buildings are a myth. But it turns out, not so much myth. The first derelict sky scraper I saw was in Tianjin in 1999, not this one of course, but that city is probably cursed.

  • @MykolaDolgalov
    @MykolaDolgalov Год назад +2

    Very interesting to learn about California City

  • @chaosbringer82
    @chaosbringer82 2 года назад +53

    whenever I see these abandoned luxury properties I get so frustrated imagining how much affordable housing could be built in their place

    • @ericdew2021
      @ericdew2021 2 года назад +3

      They should convert the Burj Al Baba into an affordable housing commune.

    • @trossk
      @trossk 2 года назад

      Define "affordable " how much of an " affordable house/project" is actually fees and permits and more fees added on by the government that cries "CRISIS!!"

  • @CorvoFG
    @CorvoFG 2 года назад +8

    Those Turkish houses remind me of the McMansions you see in the USA. Utterly hideous.

  • @d-emprahexpects
    @d-emprahexpects Год назад +1

    Speaking of megaprojects left abandoned. I forgot to flush the number 2! Thanks for the reminder, running upstairs now

  • @ruckenwind8701
    @ruckenwind8701 Месяц назад +1

    The castle village would be a brilliant location for a Wes Anderson Movie

  • @thecrazybossman857
    @thecrazybossman857 Год назад +1

    imagine living in a tower with 128 floors and u need to get down to get ur uber eats

  • @darthutah6649
    @darthutah6649 Год назад +6

    Where I was growing up, there was supposed to be a 10 story hotel which got put on hold due to the 2008 financial crisis. It remained unfinished for several years before getting demolished. A new hotel of similar size was built in its place though.

  • @thevikingbear2343
    @thevikingbear2343 Год назад +29

    Why would millionaire want to live on a carbon copy of 700 other identical houses in the same block?

  • @ghostmanlemagnifique9110
    @ghostmanlemagnifique9110 Год назад +2

    Burj Al Babas could be a nice place for Syrian refugees, in two years that megaproject would turn into an awesome win win situation for everyone.
    Better than living in tents and faster to rebuild since most houses are half way or almost completed.
    At this point, EU could not deny Turkey as a member any longer.

    • @pahom2
      @pahom2 Год назад

      Not all refugees can pay 500k for the house but we can easily pack those houses with 6-8 families

  • @ahmetekrem7704
    @ahmetekrem7704 2 года назад +4

    I am living in Turkey and I didn't hear that project before. Thank you for useful informations :)

  • @rafianurramadhani7512
    @rafianurramadhani7512 2 года назад +7

    Burj Al Babas is great, but not all wealthy people want the identical house as they owned and so close to each others :)

  • @CANagarjunaReddy
    @CANagarjunaReddy 9 месяцев назад +1

    Amaravathi in Andhra Pradesh - india is also like this

  • @J4ap0on3es
    @J4ap0on3es Год назад +2

    13:33 "if you want to know more about other fail megaprojects.." just... wait for Neom, The cube and other Saudi Araby megaprojects and ideas hahaha

  • @meberg500
    @meberg500 Год назад +3

    $500k for a trophy property is a joke! Burj Al Babas might have taken off if they'd charged $10M.

  • @SheepWaveMeByeBye
    @SheepWaveMeByeBye Год назад +5

    Imagine building a city based on a non-renewable water source.

    • @rwh777
      @rwh777 Год назад +1

      That's exactly what I thought...and not only that....a large city! I guess the idea was to rake in the cash at the beginning and then bail before the s**t hit the fan...something like what happened at the Salton Sea.

    • @colbystearns5238
      @colbystearns5238 Год назад +1

      They could've maybe recycled the water like where I live in Orange County, which also has a massive aquifer under my feet.

  • @sydhsydh1084
    @sydhsydh1084 2 года назад +2

    Burj al babas is so ridiculous. Their target is rich oil executives, but there is not even a backyard and frontyard for each villa. Which rich people would want to live in a cramped looking houses like that

  • @dwdei8815
    @dwdei8815 Год назад +4

    Wow, imagine having the spare cash to be able to choose what house you'd like - and buying something as sh*t as one pretend castle (out of 500 identical ones) in Burj Al Babas.

    • @pahom2
      @pahom2 Год назад

      A great way to hide from paparazzi

  • @ryananderson8511
    @ryananderson8511 2 года назад +4

    I’m pleasantly surprised figured it would be another story of an abandoned town in California

  • @infacted2932
    @infacted2932 2 года назад +3

    Was waiting for this part 3

  • @maxis2k
    @maxis2k 2 года назад +3

    Why would someone want to live in a mini castle, even if you call it a "villa"? Kind of defeats the purpose of having a castle. Then, there's 500 other ones that look identical. And they block each others view! Who designed this?

  • @91pp898
    @91pp898 2 года назад +3

    Heartly Appreciate your research and hardwork with top notch video making. Keep uploading keep growing. I would be waiting for your next upcoming videos. ☺️👍

  • @rajabel334
    @rajabel334 Год назад +3

    U should include port city , Colombo Sri Lanka

  • @dmfraser1444
    @dmfraser1444 Год назад +2

    When you spend that sort of money for a house, even a supposed mini-villa, you do not want to be in a place with hundreds of them exactly the same. What were they thinking?

  • @SWSimpson
    @SWSimpson Год назад +3

    It wasn't a good idea to make them looks so similar. But, I like the fairytale appearance of the houses. I have seen video of people exploring these houses and it's pretty haunting at times.
    I would mind owning one if the place was at least 1/2 occupied. Tear down the rest or make them into duplexes and provide them to poor families... perhaps.

  • @rickeyferguson6904
    @rickeyferguson6904 Год назад +4

    I live a few miles from California City. I watched them build roads with no houses. It's a place for criminals to go unnoticed. A few years ago they built a new freeway that bypassed the town of Mojave. It's to far from anything. It's got a desert Tortoise sanctuary.

  • @rolandwheeler4842
    @rolandwheeler4842 9 месяцев назад

    I grew up in Los Angeles in the 60s and I remember the hype around California City. I've driven by the offramp off of I14 where signs still point to California City, but I never got off. Guess I will next time I'm in the area. Great video by the way.

  • @Turgineer
    @Turgineer 2 месяца назад

    It is interesting that such a tall structure was abandoned.

  • @KaffeineGaming
    @KaffeineGaming Год назад +5

    I grew up in Cal City, so seeing this (and other people covering it) is always weird to me 😅

  • @stonefox2546
    @stonefox2546 Год назад +2

    Anybody who'd want to live in a castle wouldn't want to live in knockout castle with thousand identical castles all around.

  • @midnightkitty8172
    @midnightkitty8172 2 года назад +6

    So much for 'If you build it, they will come.'

  • @hgman3920
    @hgman3920 2 года назад +3

    I've heard that Fontainbleu is looking at Goldin Finance 117, after their success in Vegas

  • @BADBRYZ
    @BADBRYZ Год назад +3

    9:57 turn it into a paintball arena. Or a test site for MOABs.

  • @MsRotorwings
    @MsRotorwings Год назад +2

    Hundreds of identical looking villas? That was never going to work. I’m no developer but wouldn’t it have made more sense if he built and sold a handful at a time?

  • @drchowder4605
    @drchowder4605 2 года назад +11

    Please stop making high-quality, entertaining videos on weekends so I can just go back to sleep.
    P.S.: don’t

  • @cricketandgraham8644
    @cricketandgraham8644 2 года назад +4

    It'd be so cool if California City was successful. I would wanna go there

    • @nicoleglenn8101
      @nicoleglenn8101 2 года назад

      It’s quite popular for off road vehicle riding and camping. Kinda a neat little spot to see what could have been.

  • @geografisica
    @geografisica 2 года назад +8

    Please add “Torre de David” the tallest slum in Latin America that happens to be an abandoned skyscraper. Located in Caracas, Venezuela.

    • @hebneh
      @hebneh Год назад

      I thought everyone was forced to leave this building.

  • @juneyshu6197
    @juneyshu6197 9 месяцев назад +1

    Ca City Area. Its 110 in Summer and freezes in the Winter and the wind blows. No water or plants on the surface, and weirdos all around.

  • @stormryder4305
    @stormryder4305 Год назад +2

    A good wake up called for greedy developers who think the world is mainly populated by wealthy residents.

  • @skippern666
    @skippern666 Год назад +1

    Out of the megaprojects presented, I think California City is the one that have the best potential to actually move ahead. Both of the other projects will require an extremely expensive reconstruction phase making them not likely to ever be done anything with, except maybe being buldozed to make room for something else.

    • @johnstuartsmith
      @johnstuartsmith Год назад +2

      Because California City never got to the point where there was much to tear down.

  • @theknifedude1881
    @theknifedude1881 Год назад +8

    I inherited a 5 acre corner plot in the desert. I never set foot on it and from what I heard from realtors it wasn’t worth much. I don’t know where it was in relation to California City but I think it was supposed to be near an airport which was to handle the freight so LAX could concentrate on passengers.

  • @Thunderhawk51
    @Thunderhawk51 Год назад +2

    If they will never complete the tower, are they going to demolish it as the nature crumbles it? And if they'd ever decide so, how that would actually happened? I mean, they can't just detonate it. Maybe piece by piece slowly from the top? How they go about destroying these mega projects in general? 🤔

  • @rogerfroud300
    @rogerfroud300 Год назад +2

    People with money aren't going to want exactly the same house as their neighbours. These developers don't think it through.

  • @HOPEfullBoi01
    @HOPEfullBoi01 Год назад +2

    To add context to the Turkish castle town project; "Burj al Babas" is not a Turkish name. It's Arabic; and not even Arabic romanized into Turkish style of spelling, but Arabic standard romanized into English. So it's safe to assume it was meant to be sold to oil rich Arabs only. In that case I'm glad it failed.

  • @LordGertz
    @LordGertz Год назад +1

    If Superman hadn't prevented Lex Luther's earthquake, California City would be thriving.

  • @adamantman3200
    @adamantman3200 2 года назад +2

    You describe the Turkish villas as 'crumbling' after only three years sitting vacant. It sounds like it won't take much effort for nature to totally reclaim the land.

  • @RelatableNetwork
    @RelatableNetwork 20 дней назад

    Funny, This video encapsulates a specific portion of my life. I am a union ironworker so I built large construction projects, a few years ago I was on the largest Solar project in the world in Mojave CA back in 2021. I rented a room for during the week from a guy in that barren wasteland "utopia" California City and that place suuuuuuuuuuckkks. I moved away ASAP and just started driving the 2 hours everyday each way from home instead of subject myself to that hellhole. Hopefully I will be on a solar project out there working soon though! there are tons coming up soon. Lots of green energy projects going in that area now and more in the future.

  • @avrinrose5457
    @avrinrose5457 Год назад +1

    In my fictional world, All projects in this video already finished and successful

  • @k-dramagoodmorningseoul
    @k-dramagoodmorningseoul 2 года назад

    Hi! How are you?
    It's the start of a new week again. I wish you good health and good things this week as well.
    Thank you very much.

  • @aroma1620
    @aroma1620 2 года назад +3

    Burj Al Babas is giving liminal space vibes.

  • @thesciguy4823
    @thesciguy4823 Год назад +1

    "Luxury Housing" is the bane of existence. We don't need more LuXuRy housing, we need more affordable, sustainable, sensible housing.

  • @raoullaskin9083
    @raoullaskin9083 Год назад +2

    "Turning Saudi Arabia into a touristic hub." Whoever came up with this idea clearly has no clue what the rest of the world associate SA with. I'd choose to do tourism in an abandoned slaughterhouse before I decide to go there.

  • @shadyss96
    @shadyss96 Год назад +2

    Are any of those Vila's still standing... plenty of people who could use some shelter like that given recent events.

  • @SDRIFTERAbdlmounaim
    @SDRIFTERAbdlmounaim 2 года назад +1

    Oily middle easterners : yah Habibi... hold my tallest pen looking office skyscraper 👀