Insane Megaprojects that were Never Built

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From the Tallest Failed Skyscraper in America to the most Insane Airport Megaproject ever proposed, and from the World's Largest Dome to the Mile-High Illinois Skyscraper, here are the Most Insane Megaprojects that were Never Built! For more Megaproject & Skyscraper content be sure to subscribe to Top Luxury. Thanks for watching our video about the most Insane Megaprojects that were Never Built
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0:00 Insane Megaprojects that were Never Built
0:32 Number 6: The Dream Airport above New York
3:27 Number 5: The Most Iconic Hotel in the World
5:49 Number 4: The Mile-High Illinois Skyscraper
7:10 Number 3: America’s Tallest Failed Skyscraper
9:23 Number 2: The World's Largest Dome
11:14 Number 1: The Sphere Pyramid
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  • @MegaBuildsYT
    @MegaBuildsYT2 жыл бұрын

    Which of these projects would you like to see in reality?👇

  • @SuhaibR7

    @SuhaibR7

    2 жыл бұрын

    New york airport one

  • @JustWinJets

    @JustWinJets

    2 жыл бұрын

    Chicago Spire or Mile High

  • @benpenguin5961

    @benpenguin5961

    2 жыл бұрын

    The Chicago spire

  • @user-kj8yl6sn2z

    @user-kj8yl6sn2z

    2 жыл бұрын

    King Salman Bridge, which will link Egypt and Saudi Arabia with a sea bridge and link the two continents of Asia with Africa This is important for the Egyptian and Saudi peoples because of their national, religious, social and ethnic connection

  • @createdshocked4700

    @createdshocked4700

    2 жыл бұрын

    Illinois Skyscraper.

  • @Saavik256
    @Saavik256 Жыл бұрын

    One of the reasons why the Great Hall in Berlin was never built was simple: terrain. They actually have built a bunch of massive concrete pillars to test the load bearing capacity of the soil but found out that the kind of terrain in that part of Berlin would never have been able to support a building that size.

  • @Lv-nq9qz

    @Lv-nq9qz

    Жыл бұрын

    It would have been too close to the river, the soil around the Spree mist be very soft and sandy. They would have had to dig down to bedrock for something that big

  • @MyRegardsToTheDodo

    @MyRegardsToTheDodo

    Жыл бұрын

    @@Lv-nq9qz Nazi buildings were never built to last. The stadium in Nuremberg where they had their party rallies was so badly constructed and built that it was crumbling apart in the 1990s already. The only real lasting building is probably the Westwall/Siegfried-line, and that nearly bancrupted the German Empire in the 1930s and drove up housing costs, because you couldn't get contractors anymore.

  • @Mowraq

    @Mowraq

    Жыл бұрын

    Another interesting fact: the test pillar survived the war and was so massive it couldn't be demolished safely. Instead it got used for scientific experiments for a few decades and is now a monument with some informations provided there about the site and history.

  • @Saavik256

    @Saavik256

    Жыл бұрын

    @@Mowraq Wow, that is amazing! Thank you so much for sharing! :)

  • @SmartassX1

    @SmartassX1

    Жыл бұрын

    I'm sure they could have just built a that much bigger and deeper foundation then. If a million tons of concrete is not enough, make it a billion tons! With all the resources of Europe at their disposal, it would have been easy enough, just way more costly.

  • @augury2699
    @augury2699 Жыл бұрын

    Okay dream airport would've been a full on nightmare for anyone living in manhattan. The noise alone would've made living in New York City even less appealing than it already is

  • @julieleatherwood7898

    @julieleatherwood7898

    Жыл бұрын

    9/11 would have been easy

  • @Zadesniper

    @Zadesniper

    Жыл бұрын

    Not even just Manhattan, right across the water you'd definitely still hear that in jersey city/Hoboken

  • @augury2699

    @augury2699

    Жыл бұрын

    @@Zadesniper As i am literally sitting across the river from where this was proposed to be built in LIC right now, I 100% agree. NYC would be almost totally unlivable if this succeeded.

  • @BlueTyphoon2017

    @BlueTyphoon2017

    Жыл бұрын

    @@augury2699 maybe they could build it somewhere else? Question is where on a waterfront to put it?

  • @freezerio1069

    @freezerio1069

    Жыл бұрын

    ​​@@julieleatherwood7898 No, the twin towers would never have ever been built if the airport was built where they were.

  • @SupremeLeaderKimJong-un
    @SupremeLeaderKimJong-un Жыл бұрын

    Love how Gaudí dedicated his life to the Sagrada Familia....and nearly a century after he died, it's STILL under construction. People love to complain about our Ryugyong Hotel and how it's still unfinished, yet no one bats an eye when it comes to the Sagrada.

  • @denish2219

    @denish2219

    Жыл бұрын

    Bruh

  • @Jonas.N

    @Jonas.N

    Жыл бұрын

    Yeah, because it isn’t such a long build time for a cathedral. Cologne cathedral took about 600 years to get build….

  • @Sphagetti__

    @Sphagetti__

    Жыл бұрын

    @@Jonas.N The Dom only took around 300 years, between like 1250 and 1550 or something. Still makes de la Sagrada Familia seem like child's play at 140 but 600 in an overstatement and a half

  • @MikMoen

    @MikMoen

    Жыл бұрын

    @@Jonas.N Terrorist: "Hey look, I made a pile of rubble. Only took me like, ten seconds. Eleven, tops."

  • @FaintAcrobat

    @FaintAcrobat

    Жыл бұрын

    @@Jonas.N sure, but how many of them had the benefit of modern machinery to help them build it. At this point Sagrada is nothing but a scam. If they actually wanted to finish it, it would have been a long time ago.

  • @Ls-uw3dn
    @Ls-uw3dn2 жыл бұрын

    The Illinois skyscraper looks like the Jeddah tower that Saudi Arabia is trying to build

  • @Ju-op9cl

    @Ju-op9cl

    2 жыл бұрын

    If I'm correct, I think the illinois skyscraper was the jeddah tower's inspiration

  • @stickynorth

    @stickynorth

    2 жыл бұрын

    @@Ju-op9cl Bingo!

  • @Bustycat

    @Bustycat

    Жыл бұрын

    @@catzzzz1450 An epic fail since 1/3 height has been built.

  • @ClementinesmWTF

    @ClementinesmWTF

    Жыл бұрын

    The Jeddah Tower is an almost direct copy of the Mile High with a few tweaks. It was also originally planned to be a mile high, but they reduced it to a kilometer when they realized how much the cost would be for a mile

  • @indyhamilton698

    @indyhamilton698

    Жыл бұрын

    @@ClementinesmWTF Is it just me, or does that twisted skyscraper in Chicago look an oversized drill bit?

  • @e1123581321345589144
    @e1123581321345589144 Жыл бұрын

    Gaudi's hotel and the sphere planetarium sound like great projects which should be reconsidered with today's technology. The other ones are too far fetched to be realistic, with the exception of the Chicago spire, which also looks like a nice design.

  • @rottensquid

    @rottensquid

    Жыл бұрын

    Gaudi may have spent 43 years on Sagrada Familia, but he got so hung up on details he didn't get very far. The art book I have of it from the mid 90s is just the front of the cathedral, with a few foundational elements behind it. Since the photos of that book were taken, construction on the cathedral was restarted, and now, the building is almost complete. And as the images in this video show, it's an easy contender for most astonishingly beautiful structure in the world. I'd never heard anything about this new construction, so when I went to Barcelona with friends and took my little tour of Gaudi buildings, I was floored by the building I'd expected to be a sad monument to what might have been, and ended up being potential fulfilled. Of course, when you actually look at the parts Gaudi worked on himself, you can see why he made so little progress. In comparison to the rest of the building, the original structure is just so detailed, so elaborate, with sculpture literally bursting out of the masonry as though trying to come alive, it's clear that, at the rate he was going, he wouldn't have completed the building even if he'd continued working on it to this day. It turns out that, sometimes, brilliance can be the enemy of accomplishment. He also abandoned construction on a smaller, more humble church over in the Guell colony, leaving only the lower chapel and an impressive model of what the final piece might have been. Of course, that lower chapel and the unfinished building around it are also stunningly beautiful, unparalleled works of art. In a magical world where Gaudi could realize all his impossible dreams, this hotel would surely have easily eclipsed all other buildings in Manhattan as the city's greatest attraction. Alas, we don't live in that world.

  • @moussamiller4812

    @moussamiller4812

    Жыл бұрын

    The big airport is possible but will probably be halfway built and then abandoned like most mega-projects

  • @Lv-nq9qz

    @Lv-nq9qz

    Жыл бұрын

    The Gaudi hotel looks like a typical background building from Futurama, so maybe in the distant future, someone will dust off the design and build it somewhere in Manhattan (downtown wouldn't be good for it, maybe south midtown, somewhere it could stand out)

  • @megacities
    @megacities Жыл бұрын

    Love when architects come to engineers and say "hey, check out my new design"...engineer shakes his head...

  • @thepinkestpigglet7529

    @thepinkestpigglet7529

    Жыл бұрын

    And then the engineer and the architect work together to design a very depressing box.

  • @lioninguccisuit

    @lioninguccisuit

    Жыл бұрын

    @@thepinkestpigglet7529 I mean you have to know how to build a tall building without making it fall down, so in most of case it looks like triangles or boxes, due the wind and such.

  • @RK-cj4oc

    @RK-cj4oc

    Жыл бұрын

    The world would look boring and no progress would be made if engineers would not be pushed by architects.

  • @adolfodavila6158

    @adolfodavila6158

    Жыл бұрын

    @@RK-cj4oc but there wouldn’t be any kind of infrastructure if it wasn’t by engineers

  • @RK-cj4oc

    @RK-cj4oc

    Жыл бұрын

    @@adolfodavila6158 very true. But it also would not progress and we would be stuck with wooden huts.

  • @Rampant16
    @Rampant16 Жыл бұрын

    Illinois Tower was never more than a basic concept, there's no evidence Wright actually seriously considered trying to build it. The Cenotaph was also never considered as a project to be built. Most of Boulleé's most famous works are incredible concepts like the Cenotaph which were understood from the beginning as only acts of imagination.

  • @GarrettBShaw

    @GarrettBShaw

    Жыл бұрын

    The Illinois was the skyscraper to rule them all... 😂

  • @venusiancreative1774
    @venusiancreative1774 Жыл бұрын

    I just checked an inflation calculator. The $3 billion estimate for the Manhattan airport would be about $45 billion in today's money!

  • @fasdaVT

    @fasdaVT

    Жыл бұрын

    And wouldn't cover the land value

  • @AverytheCubanAmerican
    @AverytheCubanAmerican Жыл бұрын

    Let's be honest, the only pyramid that matters is the Bass Pro Shops pyramid in Memphis. I mean you can stay at a lodge, inside a Bass Pro Shop, inside a pyramid...you can't do that anywhere else. And as a New Yorker, I'm so glad that airport wasn't built. Sure all the traffic heading to NYC and within the city sucks but if the airport was built, it would've been ten times worse. So be appreciative of the airports we currently have. Because having three main airports are definitely better than having just one when compared to other cities.

  • @joshuafraser3627
    @joshuafraser3627 Жыл бұрын

    that illinois tower would be great. Can hold all government offices. Cant see that going wrong in anyway.

  • @jozef667

    @jozef667

    Жыл бұрын

    The part where we hear somebody call out : "Due to a breach in radiation the elevators are no longer working." bugs me a little.

  • @ibaba9209

    @ibaba9209

    Жыл бұрын

    was looking for a comment about this lmao

  • @ibaba9209

    @ibaba9209

    Жыл бұрын

    @@PotatoeSnow hes talking about 911 and how if a plane hit the government building Illinois tower than all government facilities are done for

  • @Plamie
    @Plamie Жыл бұрын

    Fun fact: The Great hall would've been so big that the Moisture inside would create an own weather inside the hall itself

  • @YEAHKINDAGAMES

    @YEAHKINDAGAMES

    Жыл бұрын

    Imagine walking into a building and the first thing you see is the building's weather forcast

  • @Plamie

    @Plamie

    Жыл бұрын

    @@YEAHKINDAGAMES "Cloudy with bit rain inbetween Hitlers speech and Goebbels Propaganda"

  • @blub4108

    @blub4108

    Жыл бұрын

    @@YEAHKINDAGAMES imagine going into a building and it rains inside

  • @SuhaibR7
    @SuhaibR72 жыл бұрын

    Congrats for 500k hope you will hit 1 Million

  • @MegaBuildsYT

    @MegaBuildsYT

    2 жыл бұрын

    Thanks a lot!

  • @cursory9031

    @cursory9031

    2 жыл бұрын

    I remember watching him before 100k dang

  • @staskouzmine
    @staskouzmine Жыл бұрын

    Poor Chicago spire. The first one ruined by recession, second one gets started just in time for another one.

  • @cinhh
    @cinhh2 жыл бұрын

    10:56 If I'm not mistaken, this is the 'GroBeKö', the Großbelastungskörper (german for "heavy load-bearing body"). A test if the ground in Berlin would withstand the heavy loads of such gigantic buildings. It wouldn't.

  • @sergeishabunin9469

    @sergeishabunin9469

    2 жыл бұрын

    Yes that's correct (I'm German)

  • @MegaBuildsYT

    @MegaBuildsYT

    2 жыл бұрын

    Yes, i think they wanted to test how much the soil could carry (For their planned Arc de Triomphe).

  • @niranjanr8075
    @niranjanr8075 Жыл бұрын

    The rooftop airport was definitely dumb. Offices are already stressful and thus, an airport with sound and vibrations? Wow a perfect office

  • @marlonm.7939
    @marlonm.79392 жыл бұрын

    The airport would have been a crazy endeavor..

  • @A_name_is_a_name

    @A_name_is_a_name

    Жыл бұрын

    9/11 wouldn’t have happened.

  • @mmac2860
    @mmac2860 Жыл бұрын

    Reaching out with big ideas always spurs others, these may not of been built but it certainly helped move other projects and ideas along

  • @takumi2023
    @takumi2023 Жыл бұрын

    Ignoring Hitler's political views, i kinda like massive city redesign. I would have liked to see his whole plan for the city and whether it was efficient or just an entertainment center. kinda wanna build these buildings in cities skylines lol just to see how it'd look.

  • @Zadesniper

    @Zadesniper

    Жыл бұрын

    He had great ideas, just really really shitty ideals lol

  • @wullewagner1840

    @wullewagner1840

    Жыл бұрын

    Half of berlin would've been destroyed by building this.

  • @That_Guy2424

    @That_Guy2424

    Жыл бұрын

    @@Zadesniper they literally lost the war because he was incompetent

  • @anishsaha9368
    @anishsaha93682 жыл бұрын

    If we go back a bit in history, then The Black Taj Mahal visioned by Shah Jahan but was never built apart from the foundation could have been included in your list.

  • @ainsleyfrastructurekpopmashups

    @ainsleyfrastructurekpopmashups

    Жыл бұрын

    But Hoping it will be Revived Once Again in order to Boost India's Tourism, Because We Need The Black Taj Mahal in Order to Make India a Superpower, High Income, and Developed Country.

  • @jahodovykrtkoofficial7746

    @jahodovykrtkoofficial7746

    Жыл бұрын

    @@ainsleyfrastructurekpopmashups I dont think that tourism is going to help India right now. It can help a little bit

  • @briannelson3830

    @briannelson3830

    Жыл бұрын

    @@ainsleyfrastructurekpopmashups I just feel like I’m going to get hit by a car sometimes 😅

  • @butt_cheeks269

    @butt_cheeks269

    Жыл бұрын

    @@ainsleyfrastructurekpopmashups No, you don't need another Taj Mahal for that. These things will come, only with the reincarnation of Baba Sen

  • @isaiahc8390

    @isaiahc8390

    Жыл бұрын

    Pick up your cross and follow Jesus! The world is quickly headed for destruction, and sooner or later you will have to sit at the judgement seat and give an account for your actions. Belief in messiah alone is not enough to grant you salvation - Matthew 7:21-23, John 3:3, John 3:36 (ESV is the best translation for John 3:36). Call on the name of Jesus and pray for Him to intervene in your life! - Revelation 3:20. Contemplate how the Roman Empire fulfilled the role of the beast from the sea in Revelation 13. Revelation 17 confirms that it is in fact Rome. From this we can conclude that A) Jesus is the Son of God and can predict the future or make it happen, B) The world leaders/nations/governments etc have been conspiring together for the last 3000+ years going back to Babylon and before, C) History as we know it is fake. You don't really need to speculate once you start a relationship with God tho. Can't get a response from God? Fasting can help increase your perception and prayer can help initiate events. God will ignore you if your prayer does not align with His purpose (James 4:3) or if you are approaching Him when "unclean" (Isaiah 1:15, Isaiah 59:2, Micah 3:4). Stop eating food sacrificed to idols (McDonald's, Wendy's etc) stop glorifying yourself on social media or making other images of yourself (Second Commandment), stop gossiping about other people, stop watching obscene content etc and you should get a response. Have a blessed day!

  • @njnikusha
    @njnikusha2 жыл бұрын

    The one in Chicago would have been faaaantastic

  • @joshuadabrowski0033
    @joshuadabrowski0033 Жыл бұрын

    That building would’ve looked so good in Chicago

  • @tylermyers200
    @tylermyers200 Жыл бұрын

    I love the early 1900s American history. Seemed our nation then had such charisma, and wanted to build the biggest, push the envelope in all areas.

  • @nunyabusiness5275

    @nunyabusiness5275

    Жыл бұрын

    And then make America first and great again was deemed defensive

  • @ronibajralia7008

    @ronibajralia7008

    Жыл бұрын

    Yup

  • @kieranhardy581

    @kieranhardy581

    Жыл бұрын

    Apart from feeding and homing their people.

  • @josephelledge7938
    @josephelledge7938 Жыл бұрын

    I would love if the Chicago spire could be finished

  • @salvab13

    @salvab13

    Жыл бұрын

    Why? It's a fukin a dildo. Do something else

  • @MondoMiami

    @MondoMiami

    Жыл бұрын

    Chicago is a liberal hellhole. Its best days are long behind it.

  • @beinghumanwthlove
    @beinghumanwthlove Жыл бұрын

    There were engineers who dreamed projects much ahead of their time.. very impressive

  • @KrummyBrinkleJr.
    @KrummyBrinkleJr. Жыл бұрын

    Gaudi's designs are a visual nightmare to me, glad it never happened

  • @kirill6850
    @kirill6850 Жыл бұрын

    1940s americans: let's build an airport in the middle of NYC Americans today: * instant 9.11 flashbacks*

  • @scott_thomasx
    @scott_thomasx Жыл бұрын

    Perhaps these structures will one day be able to be experienced in VR

  • @backtopurrrfectagain6681

    @backtopurrrfectagain6681

    Жыл бұрын

    Or in metaverse...

  • @jeffers.n
    @jeffers.n Жыл бұрын

    The airport would’ve caused so much pollution from noise, light, and chemicals that Manhattan would’ve been a dead zone🦉😵‍💫

  • @A_name_is_a_name

    @A_name_is_a_name

    Жыл бұрын

    9/11 wouldn’t have happened.

  • @Lv-nq9qz

    @Lv-nq9qz

    Жыл бұрын

    They were trying to kill Manhattan all throughout the 20th century. The modernist architects and Robert Moses saw the city as a cesspool of tenement housing, narrow streets and pollution. They wanted to tear down the low rises and build 'tower in the park' style housing and office buildings. If Moses had had his way, Manhattan would have been an massive grid of supertalls and 6 lane highways.

  • @briannelson3830

    @briannelson3830

    Жыл бұрын

    @@A_name_is_a_name it was a false flag so it would have happened regardless

  • @brentduanefoster

    @brentduanefoster

    Жыл бұрын

    Or, perhaps, the construction of NYC going forward would’ve been completely different. Guess we’ll never really know.

  • @msbgone
    @msbgone2 жыл бұрын

    Not sure if it is good or bad to see two in Chicago on this, but we sure are building plenty of others now. Interesting vid, thanks!

  • @mostluxury5075

    @mostluxury5075

    2 жыл бұрын

    Checkout amazing Megaproject and construction videos on my channel

  • @iwouldliketoorderanumber1b79

    @iwouldliketoorderanumber1b79

    Жыл бұрын

    Yea still are and more to come.

  • @P4Tri0t420
    @P4Tri0t420 Жыл бұрын

    I guess im not allowed to say as a German which of these buildings would be nice to have :D

  • @trimlesscoasters

    @trimlesscoasters

    Жыл бұрын

    LMAOO Ja Same :(

  • @P4Tri0t420

    @P4Tri0t420

    Жыл бұрын

    @@trimlesscoasters Schade aber auch 😅 Aber wenn man weiß von dem das geplante Deutsche Bauwerk kam, so isses doch besser so :D

  • @trimlesscoasters

    @trimlesscoasters

    Жыл бұрын

    @@P4Tri0t420 ja 😂

  • @tylersoto7465

    @tylersoto7465

    Жыл бұрын

    Lol I'm 1/4 German and I agree

  • @trimlesscoasters

    @trimlesscoasters

    Жыл бұрын

    @@tylersoto7465 are you American?

  • @senorpardo
    @senorpardo Жыл бұрын

    I'm sure Sully would have appreciated that airport on the Hudson.

  • @Kevin-tz2lv
    @Kevin-tz2lv Жыл бұрын

    I love the crazy ideas. People knocking them never had a idea any kind and certainly never had the balls to pursue them

  • @fuckyoutube647
    @fuckyoutube647 Жыл бұрын

    when one video does especially well and instead of innovating and learning from your success you decide to leech from it as much as possible

  • @MrBreakmind
    @MrBreakmind Жыл бұрын

    0:32 The first thingsl I thought was: "Immagine an airplane failing the landing and go straight for the building." The second thing I thought was: "Oh shit."

  • @dereklee8309
    @dereklee8309 Жыл бұрын

    The Amazon Prime show The Man In The High Castle has a pretty good imagining of what the great hall was supposed to look like

  • @waters1801
    @waters18012 жыл бұрын

    Always enjoy watching your videos while drinking some water!

  • @limitlessbianca
    @limitlessbianca Жыл бұрын

    This might not* be the biggest project or most expensive, but Jakarta (Indonesia) has abandoned beams that were supposed to be part of the new monorail system. It was halted and the then-new governor called it “The Monuments of Stupidity” due to the previous government’s negligence 😂 Would be great if you could cover it too!

  • @isaiahc8390

    @isaiahc8390

    Жыл бұрын

    Pick up your cross and follow Jesus! The world is quickly headed for destruction, and sooner or later you will have to sit at the judgement seat and give an account for your actions. Belief in messiah alone is not enough to grant you salvation - Matthew 7:21-23, John 3:3, John 3:36 (ESV is the best translation for John 3:36). Call on the name of Jesus and pray for Him to intervene in your life! - Revelation 3:20. Contemplate how the Roman Empire fulfilled the role of the beast from the sea in Revelation 13. Revelation 17 confirms that it is in fact Rome. From this we can conclude that A) Jesus is the Son of God and can predict the future or make it happen, B) The world leaders/nations/governments etc have been conspiring together for the last 3000+ years going back to Babylon and before, C) History as we know it is fake. You don't really need to speculate once you start a relationship with God tho. Can't get a response from God? Fasting can help increase your perception and prayer can help initiate events. God will ignore you if your prayer does not align with His purpose (James 4:3) or if you are approaching Him when "unclean" (Isaiah 1:15, Isaiah 59:2, Micah 3:4). Stop eating food sacrificed to idols (McDonald's, Wendy's etc) stop glorifying yourself on social media or making other images of yourself (Second Commandment), stop gossiping about other people, stop watching obscene content etc and you should get a response. Have a blessed day!

  • @MrJstorm4

    @MrJstorm4

    Жыл бұрын

    @@isaiahc8390 was that supposed to be response to anything?

  • @ntatenarin
    @ntatenarin Жыл бұрын

    I was so excited for the Chicago Spire. I would go to the build site to take pics. Of course, the building was never built, so I just have pictures of the giant hole.

  • @indyhamilton698

    @indyhamilton698

    Жыл бұрын

    As for that great hole, it'd make a great diving well after it got cleaned up.

  • @AeonStar1
    @AeonStar1 Жыл бұрын

    There was a German suggestion to dam the Straits of Gibraltar and turn the Mediterranean into land area. Top that for insane megaprojects!

  • @mikkelnpetersen
    @mikkelnpetersen Жыл бұрын

    I remember hearing about someone who wanted cities to be build in layers, with an airport on top, imaginehouses build in "floors" with a "sheet" between them for the next layer to have a "blank sheet". the only thing I could think about when hearing was things like Mega City One (Judge Dredd), Coruscant (Star Wars) and hive cities (Warhammer 40k), none of them places I would want to live or even visit, it would end up as places where the higher up you lived, the higher in the social hierarchy you would see yourself, and sh*t would flow downwards. Not to speak of the danger of colapse, if there's not good enough support below, everything above would come crashing down.

  • @Lv-nq9qz

    @Lv-nq9qz

    Жыл бұрын

    I think your referring to LeCorbusiers city concept. He actually put the airport right in the middle of the city, on two major axial highways going north-south and east-west. Could you imagine living in a building with planes flying by it every 5 minutes? It'd be like living in hell.

  • @alparslankorkmaz2964
    @alparslankorkmaz2964 Жыл бұрын

    Nice video.

  • @phoenix5054
    @phoenix5054 Жыл бұрын

    “Atomic powered elevators”… yeah, no.

  • @glennash4606

    @glennash4606

    Жыл бұрын

    Bro, like 3% of the worlds power is nuclear. Riding an elevator 30 times or so is basically one trip on nuclear power

  • @TVArtGallery
    @TVArtGallery Жыл бұрын

    INSANE!

  • @user-mr6mm3ip6m
    @user-mr6mm3ip6m4 ай бұрын

    The man who proposed the New York airport definetly didn’t have a mind

  • @ushtonian
    @ushtonian2 жыл бұрын

    These domes remind me A LOT of the Dubai Expo 2020’s Al Wasl Plaza

  • @SmartassX1
    @SmartassX1 Жыл бұрын

    That airport might have been a good idea. Saving a lot of space by having a sea port under it + lots of additional buildings inside it. It was just a stupid location for it. Maybe if they had built it something like a few miles out at sea and then had some kind of a road/railroad bridge connecting to it? Like maybe relocate it into that wider spot in the river, that seems to be only a couple of miles away from the proposed spot? Then there could have been bridges to the river banks on all sides and plenty of space for ships to pass on both sides. All of Petersburg (in Russia) was built on what was once a swamp.

  • @greenghoul157
    @greenghoul157 Жыл бұрын

    The Illinois does look cool maybe one day we'll get something ridiculously tall like that

  • @MarkFuchs
    @MarkFuchs Жыл бұрын

    Very interesting stories.

  • @MegaBuildsYT

    @MegaBuildsYT

    Жыл бұрын

    Thank you :)

  • @Matix1715
    @Matix17152 жыл бұрын

    The Illinois has a spire that goes up to 1739 meters tall.

  • @juanmartinramallo6734
    @juanmartinramallo6734 Жыл бұрын

    Very good that all me gustan todos los vídeos muchas gracias che

  • @abhishekmeena2074
    @abhishekmeena20742 жыл бұрын

    Could you please make video about Indian Megaprojects future?

  • @kameronlyles7171
    @kameronlyles7171 Жыл бұрын

    Even though I was only a small child during the planning phases of the chicago spire. It still upsets me that the recession cost chicago the title of home to the country’s tallest skyscraper. One of my dreams once I become an architect is to help design and construct the nation’s largest skyscraper and place it back in chicago… where it belongs. No shade to the One World Trade Center and all those it honors 🙏🏾, but i dont like the cheat of the antenna being used to make it the tallest

  • @coolcat-nq4mj

    @coolcat-nq4mj

    Жыл бұрын

    NOW A FUCKING TERRORIST COUNTRY HOLDS THE TITLE WTF

  • @rottensquid

    @rottensquid

    Жыл бұрын

    Apparently, that's a grand old New York tradition. The builders of the empire state building did it too, so they could beat the Chrysler building's height.

  • @jalenthomas7210

    @jalenthomas7210

    Жыл бұрын

    They could have called it the sphereamid

  • @ajgerbi

    @ajgerbi

    Жыл бұрын

    So you think vanity height is cheating? By that logic Shanghai tower should be the tallest skyscraper in the world instead of the Burj Khalifa since the Burj only has 684 m of usable height and Shanghai has 689 m of usable height. But that just wouldn’t make sense since the spire on the Burj Khalifa is much heigh than the vanity height on Shanghai tower. See how silly that is. It shouldn’t matter how well the architects hide their spires with vanity height, it’s not cheating. Also I doubt NYC will allow Chicago to take that title but fun goal 🙌

  • @whyamiatree4177
    @whyamiatree4177 Жыл бұрын

    Today New Yorks Iconic Maga International Airport is an amazing feat of structural engineering but imagine what New York would be like without it.

  • @TheJCJexe
    @TheJCJexe Жыл бұрын

    Love this channel!

  • @Legendary-zh9hd
    @Legendary-zh9hd Жыл бұрын

    well that sphere building is being built in Las Vegas so thats kinda cool.

  • @stickynorth
    @stickynorth2 жыл бұрын

    I can only imagine had Germania been built it would have been some pretty awesome ruins where central Berlin is now... Thank goodness that never happened... And personally I think the East Berlin masterplan was cool enough... The Central TV tower... Palace of the Republic (RIP)... Classic modernist architecture!

  • @pohanabrokula2553

    @pohanabrokula2553

    Жыл бұрын

    Palace of republic has been rebuilt. You can see on internet. Pretty amazing

  • @trimlesscoasters

    @trimlesscoasters

    Жыл бұрын

    @@pohanabrokula2553 umm… you mean the Schloss?!

  • @trimlesscoasters

    @trimlesscoasters

    Жыл бұрын

    @@pohanabrokula2553 no it’s not been rebuilt

  • @Lv-nq9qz

    @Lv-nq9qz

    Жыл бұрын

    The people's palace was awful. Then again, I saw it in 2007, when it was just a hulking ruin. The Schloss project is nicer, it restores some of Berlin's lost architecture and gave it a new purpose. If the palace hadn't been destroyed, it would probably have been renovated into it's current form anyway.

  • @Aphrodave
    @Aphrodave Жыл бұрын

    I like how quickly we brushed past atomic powered elevators.

  • @hariomsutar
    @hariomsutar Жыл бұрын

    The black taj mahal was also insane but never got built 😢

  • @JoeBurgerCinematicUniverse
    @JoeBurgerCinematicUniverse Жыл бұрын

    68 planes a minute, we were so close to glory

  • @asmith8947
    @asmith8947 Жыл бұрын

    Actually an elevated airport is a great idea. Very efficient use of all that real estate.

  • @eyepixels5644
    @eyepixels5644 Жыл бұрын

    Amazing…. I love this channel

  • @MegaBuildsYT

    @MegaBuildsYT

    Жыл бұрын

    Thanks!

  • @AnixCo1990
    @AnixCo1990 Жыл бұрын

    I’m still hoping the Chicago Spire gets built eventually, perhaps build it twice as high. That way Chicago can be home to the tallest building in the world again.

  • @jonathanbowers8964
    @jonathanbowers8964 Жыл бұрын

    The NYC airport sounds eerily similar to London City Airport (which was a huge mistake)

  • @williamlouie569
    @williamlouie569 Жыл бұрын

    They had banned heliport in New York City because of several accidents. Imagine a plane crash with an airport in middle of Manhattan.

  • @AED10

    @AED10

    Жыл бұрын

    We don't have to imagine

  • @Hotdogenthusiast

    @Hotdogenthusiast

    Жыл бұрын

    Imagine 2

  • @rawcoal1323
    @rawcoal1323 Жыл бұрын

    The chicago spire would have been great!

  • @jans6252
    @jans6252 Жыл бұрын

    The Great Hall is simply my most desired project to have been built, just because of the sheer volume and atmosphere you‘d experience inside. Putting aside the nazi context and imagining it to be f.e the ultimate concert/ festival hall is just amazing, think about the acoustics resonating through the building and engulfing you 😮 And on the other hand I’m german and I’d like to see some more structural engineering marvels and gigantic buildings in my country too :) Yeah, I’m a little gigantomaniac😬

  • @thedreamscripter4002

    @thedreamscripter4002

    Жыл бұрын

    Check the Palace of Soviets project. It was no less grandiose and gigantic, but was fully constructable in reality, just very expensive one. Its construction even started, but was stopped because of WW2 and unfortunately never was continued.

  • @JustWinJets
    @JustWinJets2 жыл бұрын

    Chicago Spire 😭

  • @mostluxury5075

    @mostluxury5075

    2 жыл бұрын

    Checkout amazing Megaproject and construction videos on my channel

  • @Ms666slayer

    @Ms666slayer

    Жыл бұрын

    Good project with good utility that got killed by the recesion.

  • @BloodyKnives66
    @BloodyKnives66 Жыл бұрын

    You can see the Great Hall in the show "The man in the High Castle" in one of the second season episodes.

  • @crazyjack3357
    @crazyjack3357 Жыл бұрын

    Also surprised you didn't talk about the canal america could have built for a long time to go from Pacific to the Atlantic make the north west passage passable

  • @MrMrorzon
    @MrMrorzon Жыл бұрын

    Fun that you mention Swedens Turning Torso.

  • @g0blinboi415
    @g0blinboi415 Жыл бұрын

    Wouldnt the nyc airport bring too much sound because of the planes in general? Cool concept but awful possibilities

  • @Kay.Kbngo10
    @Kay.Kbngo102 жыл бұрын

    these vids be so entertaining

  • @MegaBuildsYT

    @MegaBuildsYT

    2 жыл бұрын

    Thanks!

  • @ThrowSomePlates
    @ThrowSomePlates Жыл бұрын

    3:51 That's not the Singer Building it's the Metropolitan Life Insurance Company Tower. The Singer Building is the one before it.

  • @bawbremy
    @bawbremy Жыл бұрын

    Wonder how the builders did a ground load test for the pyramids of Giza?

  • @DanielWSonntag
    @DanielWSonntag Жыл бұрын

    Cool. I never heard of these before

  • @Otterdisappointment
    @Otterdisappointment Жыл бұрын

    Germania is even dumber when you take into account the swampy environment of Berlin and how big a capitol building actually needs to be. Roman state buildings were only as big as they needed to be, regardless of the size of the senate. The Curia Julia, commissioned by Augustus, is noticeably smaller than more ancient structures, built more like palaces, and unlike its predecessor on Capitoline Hill, it stopped the following of a central location for the (imperial) seat of power and was placed in a more natural forum for the senate to convene. Places of worship, specifically synagogues, tended to have a similar design philosophy, if due to lack of resources and population. The US Capitol was also built on a swamp because the south is all swamp and southern governors wanted it in Virginia yet Northern governors wanted it in Pennsylvania so Congress put it right in the middle which happened to place it in a swamp no one else wanted; but it wasn’t originally meant to be a major population center; just a federal district. Yet DC’s planners never quite learned from a thousand and a half years of architecture. The only other possible cause of these mistakes is a cultural echo of esotericism mimicking the impractically grand scale of but a small period of the ancient world going back to the construction of the domed Capitol building. The White House has a smaller scale to it and its central location can’t be blamed on its original designers or any architect, really. It just generates more and more gravity despite its size staying roughly the same. The Pentagon sort of breaks the cycle. Arlington is rather out of the way and despite being the lone headquarters of our entire massive military (and already quite large for DC) the building is only as large as it needs to be to fulfill its purpose while holding personnel, including security, bureaucrats and general staff and has a mall with only the essentials to accommodate them. It’d be a hard building to downscale and modernize mainly due to all that’s packed into it being constantly active and needing constant sustenance (thus the mall). The underground sections highlight this. They prove the effectiveness of a balance of building upwards, outwards and downwards. Modern architecture should learn from it.

  • @israelpa123456789
    @israelpa1234567892 жыл бұрын

    Do you have any notice about balneario cMboriu super tall residencial building?

  • @vized-skyshock1510
    @vized-skyshock1510 Жыл бұрын

    i wish they built the dome earlier and then loose. so we could have this Building now in berlin

  • @rafsantos01
    @rafsantos018 ай бұрын

    Gaudí's building would look very similar to Sugarloaf Mountain, in Rio de Janeiro. Squeezed between buildings of similar height would not look good.

  • @GeliCarlosJ
    @GeliCarlosJ Жыл бұрын

    That New York airport idea has got to be the dumbest & ugliest idea i've ever seen 😂😂

  • @nakzum
    @nakzum Жыл бұрын

    2:18 the houses have an amazing view

  • @stunningsathvik9712

    @stunningsathvik9712

    Жыл бұрын

    Would enjoy the view for a few days but would eventually get irritation by the planes sound pollution

  • @sprock4327
    @sprock4327 Жыл бұрын

    undoubtedly I would like to see the great hall.

  • @alkinurdotran1053
    @alkinurdotran1053 Жыл бұрын

    I like all except the airport, thats just too blocky, and the noise would be awful. cool one would be germania, imagine, all nations in the future, all in one big place, a human progress towards the unified future

  • @jamesau4296
    @jamesau4296 Жыл бұрын

    The NYC airport sounds like a layman's daydream.

  • @ravenlozo6633
    @ravenlozo6633 Жыл бұрын

    2:01 somewhere in America right now, Kennedy Davenport is walking down the runway.

  • @campbellrocksagain
    @campbellrocksagain Жыл бұрын

    2 runways and electric planes would've been perfect

  • @t_StayHydrated
    @t_StayHydrated Жыл бұрын

    Imagine waking up because an airplan lands like 3 meters above your window

  • @jlpack62
    @jlpack62 Жыл бұрын

    The Newton Cenotaph for sure.

  • @blckarts7161
    @blckarts7161 Жыл бұрын

    I liked the Isaac newton idea tbh out of all of them

  • @OliverWolters
    @OliverWolters Жыл бұрын

    Well.... There has been built more than just some _»shell structures«_ : the east-west-axis has been nearly completed and the Siegessäule column has been moved from the Maifeld in front of the Reichstag building to that axis at todays Straße des 17. Juni boulevard. Besides that, the shown _»shell structures«_ were in fact technical test structure to examine if Berlin's sandy ground will actually carry such massive structures. Spoiler: it would probably not. ;-) Grüße aus Berlin!

  • @AlexVitoriano
    @AlexVitoriano Жыл бұрын

    In São Paulo we have one airport inside the city, it is only for domestic flights

  • @blackJJseventeen
    @blackJJseventeen2 жыл бұрын

    I had to pause the video, because the idea of nuclear powered elevators was just too funny. But back then, this was the was people imagined the future I guess.

  • @aqdrobert
    @aqdrobert Жыл бұрын

    That giant airport was the subject of many Commissioner Francis Reagan family dinners. Imagine trying to patrol that airport. Pass the gravy, Pops.

  • @matttaylor2812
    @matttaylor2812 Жыл бұрын

    Idk that New York airport idea looked seemed cool on paper

  • @VashtiPerry
    @VashtiPerry Жыл бұрын

    I don’t know what makes people think we want to be in these big ole buildings

  • @cobbler9113
    @cobbler9113 Жыл бұрын

    Oddly enough, Boris Johnson wanted to build something vaguely similar to the Manhattan airport when he was Mayor of London as an alternative to a third runway at Heathrow.

  • @JonathanGarcia-nr9yj
    @JonathanGarcia-nr9yj Жыл бұрын

    The cenotaph 👌

  • @Gary_C
    @Gary_C2 жыл бұрын

    Since 1950 NYC population increased by 1 million and MSA increased another 5 million..... 70+ years and we still haven't done anything to ease congestion or make it easier to get to the airports

  • @mostluxury5075

    @mostluxury5075

    2 жыл бұрын

    Checkout amazing Megaproject and construction videos on my channel

  • @Gnarlio
    @Gnarlio Жыл бұрын

    That NYC airport woudlve been sick, I hate those $100+ ubers into the city from the other airports.

  • @brentduanefoster

    @brentduanefoster

    Жыл бұрын

    What????!!! $100+????

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