How The Architect Of The Twin Towers Built A Terror-Proof Building | Megastructures | Spark

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Completed in 2014, the Shanghai Tower is an impressive monument to China’s recent rise to power. This 632 metre behemoth is built to withstand powerful typhoons as well as terrorist attacks. The chief architect behind the building is also responsible for the design of the Twin Towers and this is the story of how he designed this huge structure with this tragedy in mind.
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  • @Dogsnark
    @Dogsnark2 ай бұрын

    I call click bait!! Minoru Yamasaki was the architect of the Twin Towers. He died in 1986. You haven’t explained how he could’ve possibly designed the World Financial tower, completed in 2008!! The later building was designed by the firm Kohn Pedersen Fox. Further, the building in the picture isn’t that building. It’s the Shanghai Tower. Get your facts straight.

  • @skipmagil

    @skipmagil

    2 ай бұрын

    You can’t call click bait if you weren’t baited

  • @jepoywendam8826

    @jepoywendam8826

    2 ай бұрын

    I don't believe china's works...

  • @danielrawsthorne108

    @danielrawsthorne108

    2 ай бұрын

    Someone who has Brain's

  • @EmmanuelIwhiwhu

    @EmmanuelIwhiwhu

    2 ай бұрын

    I was going to comment click bait also...for the fact that they used Shanghai Tower in their Image.

  • @desertstar223

    @desertstar223

    2 ай бұрын

    It isnt clickbait It's just sheer stupidity

  • @khunmikeon858
    @khunmikeon8582 ай бұрын

    When I look at the top of this building I automatically think of a bottle opener 😂

  • @alapaticornell4391

    @alapaticornell4391

    2 ай бұрын

    Looks like tofu project.

  • @1mezion

    @1mezion

    2 ай бұрын

    Godzilla and king Kong would feel the same

  • @davidbailey453

    @davidbailey453

    Ай бұрын

    Me too. Now we need an 85 story bottle of Old Peculier

  • @LadyDewBuild
    @LadyDewBuild3 ай бұрын

    Terror Proof? Sounds like Unsinkable. Fools claim this

  • @aaabbb-py5xd

    @aaabbb-py5xd

    3 ай бұрын

    Challenge accepted.

  • @LadyDewBuild

    @LadyDewBuild

    3 ай бұрын

    @@aaabbb-py5xd Fools claim

  • @amandab3946

    @amandab3946

    3 ай бұрын

    @@aaabbb-py5xdaccepting that challenge might put you on the FBI’s most wanted list 😵‍💫

  • @aaabbb-py5xd

    @aaabbb-py5xd

    3 ай бұрын

    @@amandab3946 Lol, then challenge accepted to get on a more robust number of lists

  • @Chris-ut6eq

    @Chris-ut6eq

    2 ай бұрын

    ...looks unsinkable for at least a while.

  • @TroyQwert
    @TroyQwert2 ай бұрын

    This building is nicknamed as a Can opener.

  • @keithadams1538
    @keithadams15383 ай бұрын

    Architects design it and structural engineers sweat making the design work

  • @Chris-ut6eq

    @Chris-ut6eq

    2 ай бұрын

    ....and workers risk their lives to build it.

  • @keithadams1538

    @keithadams1538

    2 ай бұрын

    @@Chris-ut6eq Well they do if they don't latch their harnesses on

  • @bradleywalsh4103

    @bradleywalsh4103

    2 ай бұрын

    And as a structural ironworker, I see these sweating engineers like I see 2 headed unicorns flying around the job sites.

  • @keithadams1538

    @keithadams1538

    2 ай бұрын

    @@bradleywalsh4103 I was a project manager in the UK They attended every site meeting

  • @bradleywalsh4103

    @bradleywalsh4103

    2 ай бұрын

    @keithadams1538 and so they should my friend. As a crew foreman I'm regularly in contact with Site Supers and Project Managers and very seldomnly see engineers whether its for GCs or a trade employer's in-house engineers, and thats generally hierarchy setup but that being said, in my experience, most engineers unless called to site, "sweat" the job from the office. I'm not saying their workload is minimal in any way, I'm sure they spend a ton of hours and work hard on a project. There's a classic construction meme out there regarding engineers "I don't know anything about building but my book says you're doing it wrong". I would argue engineers sweat far less than you as a Project Manager or Site Superintendent ensuring compliance, or than any of the construction trades actually realizing their portion of the vision. If I am wrong, you have my apologies, this is just my opinion. Construction is generally a tough job accross the board.

  • @user-eh9jo9ep5r
    @user-eh9jo9ep5r2 ай бұрын

    Beautiful design in streets combining in cities and villages around planet like concept and base could make miracle in humans quality life. For example it could be implemented not only in smart cities and smart villages but and in just cities and villages. Maybe basic concept for each city to have beautiful design in future

  • @rafaelpalma8833
    @rafaelpalma88333 ай бұрын

    what good is terror proof if most foreign company's left and most chinese are jobless and starving. China holds the most nos. of vacant buildings around the world.

  • @ianhomerpura8937

    @ianhomerpura8937

    3 ай бұрын

    Same case in North America and Europe. It's a global phenomenon after COVID.

  • @iamfrickincool

    @iamfrickincool

    2 ай бұрын

    One hand washing another

  • @preshisify1

    @preshisify1

    2 ай бұрын

    😷☕🇺🇲

  • @ctgottapee9020
    @ctgottapee90202 ай бұрын

    The high tec crane with duct tape across the front windscreen :)

  • @PinM3
    @PinM32 ай бұрын

    A gaint bottle opener and corkscrew. Those architects are alcoholics

  • @EmmanuelIwhiwhu
    @EmmanuelIwhiwhu2 ай бұрын

    Why did the channel use an image of the Shanghai Tower?

  • @davepowell7168
    @davepowell71683 ай бұрын

    WTC towers lead structural engineer John Skilliing

  • @roldanduarteholguin7102
    @roldanduarteholguin71022 ай бұрын

    Export the Azure, Chat GPT, Revit, Plant 3D, Civil 3D, Inventor, ENGI file of the Building or Refinery to Excel, prepare Budget 1 and export it to COBRA. Prepare Budget 2 and export it to Microsoft Project. Solve the problems of Overallocated Resources, Planning Problems, prepare the Budget 3 with which the construction of the Building or the Refinery is going to be quoted.

  • @_Breakdown
    @_Breakdown3 ай бұрын

    🤔👷🏼‍♂️🏗️ *WHEN WAS THIS FILM MADE?* 😎🤠🏙️

  • @user-ys3xw6tj5t

    @user-ys3xw6tj5t

    3 ай бұрын

    10 years ago today

  • @_Breakdown

    @_Breakdown

    3 ай бұрын

    @@user-ys3xw6tj5t thanks! 🙂

  • @andyberry-zx2lt

    @andyberry-zx2lt

    3 ай бұрын

    2007. at time 50:21, i paused it, and it shows the copyright year MMVII

  • @EmmanuelBrito

    @EmmanuelBrito

    3 ай бұрын

    Not sure ,but I like how they used it to make the buildings reflect light 🤓

  • @_Breakdown

    @_Breakdown

    3 ай бұрын

    @@andyberry-zx2lt THANKS!👍 Good eye!

  • @TroyQwert
    @TroyQwert2 ай бұрын

    Correction: Shanghai is not the Chinese biggest city. The biggest is Chongqing with more than 32 million inhabitants distributed over 82,400 square kilometers.

  • @waynemerlo7448
    @waynemerlo74482 ай бұрын

    Both those towers are overshadowed now.

  • @usamaizm
    @usamaizm2 ай бұрын

    Dank memes can’t melt steel beams.

  • @FloydMaxwell
    @FloydMaxwell3 ай бұрын

    Tofu Dreg

  • @ianhomerpura8937

    @ianhomerpura8937

    3 ай бұрын

    Just like public housing in the US and UK?

  • @MakerInMotion

    @MakerInMotion

    2 ай бұрын

    @@ianhomerpura8937 No, in the US and UK, you can't get away with using fake concrete and fake rebar.

  • @ianhomerpura8937

    @ianhomerpura8937

    2 ай бұрын

    @@MakerInMotion have you seen how bad construction is in the US nowadays? Five-over-ones using tons of LVL and flammable foam insulations? That's even more dangerous.

  • @macreno

    @macreno

    2 ай бұрын

    😂😂😂 ok...

  • @benedictusonyinye8621
    @benedictusonyinye86212 ай бұрын

    Interested in Skyscraper

  • @huwzebediahthomas9193
    @huwzebediahthomas91933 ай бұрын

    9/11 - victims - asbestos dust in the years after took the most victims, many times more, civil engineers. Man is mad, on many levels.

  • @JackSmith-kp2vs

    @JackSmith-kp2vs

    3 ай бұрын

    @huwzebediahthomas9193 What’s that got to do with anything here?

  • @user-ys3xw6tj5t
    @user-ys3xw6tj5t3 ай бұрын

    😮🎉 amazing ❤😮 W0W

  • @tanthiennguyen9308
    @tanthiennguyen9308Ай бұрын

    Hotels an der höchsten Hügeln........! Wow, unbeschreibliche

  • @capichow
    @capichow3 ай бұрын

    ♾️❤🏆Minoru Yamasaki🏆❤♾️

  • @seansurfn2
    @seansurfn23 ай бұрын

    unless concentrated thermite is used

  • @iteerrex8166

    @iteerrex8166

    3 ай бұрын

    Yup, it’s not gona be safe from controlled demolition.

  • @JackSmith-kp2vs

    @JackSmith-kp2vs

    3 ай бұрын

    @seansurfn2 Here come the whacky truffers from their parents basements

  • @amrcombs

    @amrcombs

    2 ай бұрын

    ​@@JackSmith-kp2vs you probably also believe Lee Harvey and not the Government killed JFK Russia Colluded with Trump to win 2016. Epstein killed himself Gender is fluid Seriously, you conspiracy theorists refuse to believe factual science even when it's proven to be true.

  • @dl-417.sohka.madika
    @dl-417.sohka.madika2 ай бұрын

    This is old. Looks like the worlds biggest bottle opener

  • @kevwills858
    @kevwills858Ай бұрын

    Its a bich when you get to the top and realise that you forgot a special Spanner 😄 It takes Half an Hr to Ground to top and back again ... All Stops 'not an option'

  • @tanthiennguyen9308
    @tanthiennguyen9308Ай бұрын

    Die Schildkröten macht Gewinner......!

  • @phineascromwell
    @phineascromwellАй бұрын

    40:37 No structure is safe when exotic energy technology is projected against it, such as what occurred during the 9/11 event. The designer of the Twin Towers constructed them to withstand multiple impacts from the mainstream airliner at the time, which was a four-engined aircraft. The weaponized aircraft used on 9/11 were two-engined. But proper research has shown that aircraft did not cause the destruction of the WTC. Evidence suggests it was something in the context of The Hutchison Effect, projected field-interference that deteriorated the material structure of the buildings on a 'particulate' level.

  • @raymoreton3184
    @raymoreton31843 ай бұрын

    I am not sure anything is perfectly designed to be 100% safe there is always going to be risks and problems it's like when they said titanic was not sinkable there is always the unforeseen.

  • @majortom4543
    @majortom45433 ай бұрын

    22:50 the ISS is NOT that high as pictured. Not even close.

  • @tanthiennguyen9308
    @tanthiennguyen9308Ай бұрын

    A guten Appetit

  • @TroyQwert
    @TroyQwert2 ай бұрын

    Chinese construction and engineering is mega impressive. ❤

  • @sharonwhiteley6510

    @sharonwhiteley6510

    2 ай бұрын

    Yes but many buildings are sitting empty

  • @tanthiennguyen9308
    @tanthiennguyen9308Ай бұрын

    Die Familie & Namen in der Museum der Medizin Erfindung aufbewahrt haben.........................! Bitteschön

  • @CatalinArseniu
    @CatalinArseniu2 ай бұрын

    1999?

  • @honestsouthindian1748
    @honestsouthindian17483 ай бұрын

    🎉🎉🎉

  • @esecallum
    @esecallum2 ай бұрын

    terrorism? least cause of death anywhere

  • @Dev1nci
    @Dev1nci2 ай бұрын

    I mean, it is spelled with an 'o' but it's pronounced 'tun' 😂😂

  • @tanthiennguyen9308
    @tanthiennguyen9308Ай бұрын

    Wünsche ich es Euch allen Leckerbissen Menschlichkeit Gesundheitlich Haltungen Bemühungen gegeben...... Schule + Ausbildungsplatz + Inengniering + Techniker & Programmieren Sprache zum Befehl geben...............!

  • @tomdave42
    @tomdave422 ай бұрын

    Calling it a wind hole is very unprofessional, I'm pretty sure you were told to blow that design out your wind hole

  • @tomdave42

    @tomdave42

    2 ай бұрын

    Wind hole that is very unprofessional sounding

  • @nineteen-sixty-nine9373
    @nineteen-sixty-nine93732 ай бұрын

    Is it thermite proof?

  • @dougholliday467

    @dougholliday467

    2 ай бұрын

    Grow up. Nothing can with stand a nuclear attack.

  • @tonnitoedwards
    @tonnitoedwards2 ай бұрын

    I reckon this film was made before Burji Khalifa..

  • @TroyQwert
    @TroyQwert2 ай бұрын

    The thumbnail for this video is misleading. 😢

  • @user-eh9jo9ep5r
    @user-eh9jo9ep5rАй бұрын

    Thought crossed my mind, what if climate change happened because impossible to find who is owner for plants which are produce carbon print on planet. And what if to make this property environment clear for each country, ciry, village,buildfing, owner around planet. Think after audit and recommendations to this plants will be easier reduce carbon print and climate change by itself, just by finding and talking with owners how to modern all industry buildings.

  • @user-eh9jo9ep5r

    @user-eh9jo9ep5r

    Ай бұрын

    And what if create intelligent system for regulate temperature first of all for health, sanitation, food production, pleasure, business and other important things through intelligent regulation through buildings around planet. Counted for best conditions in real time though sensors, detectors, messages and calculations. And to make it highly stable and safe regulation.

  • @user-eh9jo9ep5r

    @user-eh9jo9ep5r

    Ай бұрын

    Detailed for each city and village in real time. And I have seen that quantity of fish is changes with time, control underwater world with detectors and sensors could also help to keep attention on population different alive creations(include coral riffs) and regulate them :)

  • @randyrobertson4686
    @randyrobertson46863 ай бұрын

    2000 Chinese underpaid workers using materials that were allocated for the construction of the tower to be strong and secure by “foreign engineers, typically United States or Britain and possibly French or Italian”. However in most cases the corruption stems from CCP members who divert the funds to their prospective purposes, aka concrete, steel, quality control institutions that check the integrity of the reinforced concrete that is supposed to be used and all sorts of other aspects involved in the construction of a high rise building. Only problem is that the corrupt CCCP member buys lesser quality materials and lesser quality rebar “if any at all” and then the (under the table) laborers get paid less and less and all that skimmed $$ goes into the pockets of those corrupt CCP bureaucrats. I would not feel safe even a half mile away from any city in China with skyscrapers. They literally just fall to pieces. They are absolute garbage, just like almost everything else made in China.

  • @ianhomerpura8937

    @ianhomerpura8937

    3 ай бұрын

    Underpaid by US standards. At least they can finish projects on time. Meanwhile in the US basically every single public works project is delayed.

  • @YSaechao916

    @YSaechao916

    2 ай бұрын

    Did a Chinese man take your wife? Or did a Chinese woman you liked reject you? Your insecurities against the Chinese is evident. China has some of the world’s largest bridges and towers and dams. None of them are “literally falling into pieces,” like how you are saying.

  • @jaysoncorbet4873

    @jaysoncorbet4873

    2 ай бұрын

    I like the way you think & I love it when an American is still stuck on that idea until now. You think the way your government wants you to think.

  • @CLOUD316

    @CLOUD316

    2 ай бұрын

    Sadly our infrastructure in the US is way behind and look at all the crumbling buildings in NYC and Miami and bridges across the states we are no better. And our construction labor unions are just as corrupt you have guys listed on the job sites that aren’t even ever at work collecting paychecks

  • @imacmill
    @imacmill3 ай бұрын

    Has the Twin Tower architect ever explained how BOTH towers sequentially, systematically, and SYMMETRICALLY deconstructed themselves from top to bottom, even though the top of one tower tipped off to the side at the start of collapse? The top section was tipped off to the side, and the tower beneath it still deconstructed itself SYMMETRICALLY.

  • @jaixzz

    @jaixzz

    3 ай бұрын

    controlled demo lition

  • @escovision1986

    @escovision1986

    2 ай бұрын

    He probably wasn't even invloved/aware of the Inside Job.. Lol ..

  • @FEMADEATHCAMPCONTROL

    @FEMADEATHCAMPCONTROL

    2 ай бұрын

    Gravity is a downwards force. Did you expect some cartoon instead?

  • @imacmill

    @imacmill

    2 ай бұрын

    @@FEMADEATHCAMPCONTROL You completely failed to understand my comment. I'm not going to waste time on you.

  • @jabig1

    @jabig1

    2 ай бұрын

    It's true. The plane also could never bring down that building on it's own. The most damage it could do is maybe 3-5 floors.

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    @user-ek7uo5lr6p2 ай бұрын

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  • @user-pk3gb7yx3x
    @user-pk3gb7yx3x2 ай бұрын

    Looks like Duke energy building charlotte North Carolina USA.

  • @Checkerouter
    @Checkerouter10 күн бұрын

    This is nothing for Israeli an American demolition experts

  • @jondurr
    @jondurr2 ай бұрын

    copyright 2007

  • @charleshall6357
    @charleshall63573 ай бұрын

    How much china buy you for

  • @caroliepennix4400
    @caroliepennix4400Ай бұрын

    "Promo SM" 😪

  • @psikeyhackr6914
    @psikeyhackr69143 ай бұрын

    Can History defy Physics? How do you make a structure 300 or more meters tall support its own weight? The Eiffel Tower is 10,000 tons of wrought iron. The distribution of that iron is obvious since it is only a structure not a building that has to keep out the elements. The distribution is exponential. Has Physics been History since 9/11/01? The 5th level of the North Tower had to support the weight of 105 levels. No ifs, ands or buts. Level 105 only had to support the weight of 5 more levels. So did level 5 and level 105 contain the same amount of steel? Where is the data on the distribution of steel down the Twin Towers, including the 6 basement levels? When and where have any "experts" discussed and demanded that data in Two Decades? If it happened it should be history. If it never happened it would still be history, just a very different kind. Physics does not give a damn about history however. The Laws of Physics cannot be broken.

  • @freakinchrist

    @freakinchrist

    3 ай бұрын

    Derp.

  • @davepowell7168

    @davepowell7168

    3 ай бұрын

    Dont forget 1984 math 2+2=5

  • @psikeyhackr6914

    @psikeyhackr6914

    3 ай бұрын

    ​@@davepowell7168 It is the Conservation of Momentum m1v1 + m2v2 = (m1 + m2)v3

  • @davepowell7168

    @davepowell7168

    2 ай бұрын

    @@psikeyhackr6914 yes l agree this isn't rocket surgery Can you provide me with a link to data of WTC core column dimensions, their bracing, manufacture and installation ? I'm not adversarial just curious if redundancy standards were effected in construction

  • @psikeyhackr6914

    @psikeyhackr6914

    2 ай бұрын

    @@davepowell7168 ROLF This is one of the ridiculous issues. The core was 85 by 135 ft with 47 columns. There were horizontal beams in the core bracing the columns. I have NEVER seen a layout of those beams. I do not know if they varied in thickness down the buildings. Years ago I communicated with Lon Waters PhD in applied mathematics. He told me that he could not find any data on the horizontal beams. In May of 2008 Richard Gage of AE911Truth gave one of his dog and pony shows at Chicago Circle Campus. I drove into town to talk to him. I got in line after the show and asked him about the distribution of steel down the towers. He looked at me like I had grown a 2nd head. He finally said that the NIST was not giving out accurate blueprints. There are 100+ skyscrapers around the world over 300 meters. Gravity works the same way everywhere. At least that is what I have heard. There are people who know how to figure this stuff out. This silence varies from hilarious to scary. I downloaded the entire NCSTAR1 report by the NIST in 2007. They do not even specify the total amount of concrete in the towers. How weird is that?

  • @iamfrickincool
    @iamfrickincool2 ай бұрын

    They mined more than 700,000 tons of iron for steel to stand it straight up humans are so weird

  • @lexmedved
    @lexmedved2 ай бұрын

    until it starts leaking all over due to tofu dreg construction practices.

  • @neilwoodmansey9109
    @neilwoodmansey91092 ай бұрын

    why would they build such a big building when they are actively knocking down other high rise buildings that went unoccupied after being built?, different region I suppose but still?

  • @JackTorrance-qd9up
    @JackTorrance-qd9up2 ай бұрын

    China recognizes every pagan godless powerless spirt there is But not the KING OF KINGS and LORD OF LORDS.

  • @mattyk82
    @mattyk822 ай бұрын

    Only in China would they duct tape fix a crane windscreen thats half a km in the air. Also the thumbnail pic is not the building this is about.

  • @dougholliday467

    @dougholliday467

    2 ай бұрын

    Did anyone say it was?? Please look at the title again and then give it some thought.

  • @mattyk82

    @mattyk82

    2 ай бұрын

    @@dougholliday467I can’t think of a good reason to use a completely different building in the thumbnail and I’ve read the title again, don’t see your point.

  • @AJ-fi2hk
    @AJ-fi2hk2 ай бұрын

    Made in china

  • @GaryHBoulding
    @GaryHBoulding2 ай бұрын

    The Chinese Economy has tanked; President XI has damaged the Chinese Economy.

  • @juandelacruz1520
    @juandelacruz15202 ай бұрын

    There's no such thing as terror proof,, fuckin reporting...

  • @agaragar21
    @agaragar213 ай бұрын

    NOT THE BUILDING IN THE THUMBNAIL ....this video is a LIE !

  • @timthompson7205
    @timthompson72052 ай бұрын

    The sound of a British voice makes everything boring

  • @Azizulhakimsm007
    @Azizulhakimsm0072 ай бұрын

    How collapse? Where is gravity 😂 twin tower😂

  • @MichaelStein-tw9zi
    @MichaelStein-tw9zi2 ай бұрын

    Typical PROPAGANDA. Harness? Nobody wearing any fall gear.

  • @dougholliday467

    @dougholliday467

    2 ай бұрын

    I saw it quite often.

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    @user-ek7uo5lr6p2 ай бұрын

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    @user-ek7uo5lr6p2 ай бұрын

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