I used to jog around that area at night back when the tower had just completed. One time while I was running past it, I decided to stop and look up, it was so big I immediately lost balance and fell over.

@icebaby6714

6 ай бұрын

I work in a spiral shaped tower in Japan. The floor layouts are very strange, especially since a large majority of the floors are classrooms for various colleges.

@mygetawayart

6 ай бұрын

The Mode Gakuen Spiral in Nagoya i presume. Ye that's pretty weird from the inside.

Its actually called, "self consolidating concrete" or SCC. It's also a slightly more tricky mix to make consistently. It is usually used for larger mass pour, or monolithic, foundations.

@alargefarva4274

6 ай бұрын

I was in the CN tower this past weekend. Longest monolithic pour of its time

@Blinkerd00d

6 ай бұрын

@@alargefarva4274 how many yards? I'm an engineer and work on a couple of massive projects atm. One is a massive new LNG terminal and the other is a new unit for Chevron-Phillips. Largest mono pour we've done on either of those sites was a 3,600 yard compressor tabletop. They had 3 pump trucks and trucks running from 11am until about 4am.

@Ubique2927

6 ай бұрын

Self compacting concrete where I'm from.

@kalu19991

6 ай бұрын

So no vibrators are used when pouring? Or they use them anyway?

@Blinkerd00d

6 ай бұрын

@@kalu19991 good question... im PRETTY sure they still vibrate it in the forms, and I'm positive that the engineers who test it don't have to vibrate it. The testers just do a spread, pendulum, and column test on it and make a set of 4x8 cylinders. They also have to put temperature sensors inside and check the temperature as it cures for several weeks. Depending on the dimensions, the temperatures must climb steady for so many days and not get beyond a certain temp, and then it must cool at a specific rate.

Building these super tall skyscrapers are just a worldwide dingus measuring contest

@murrayscott9546

6 ай бұрын

​@michaelmurdock4607 wish I could've bought another Coupland inches !

@StefanMedici

6 ай бұрын

Prefer countries measure dicks with buildings rather than bombs.

@baalzeebub4230

6 ай бұрын

Well if my dingus was hundreds of meters tall I’d brag, too. Even if an Arab did have a taller dingus.

@murrayscott9546

6 ай бұрын

Fn spell-check. Don't blame the liquor !

@murrayscott9546

6 ай бұрын

@@baalzeebub4230 You could brag but only a black hole would take you on. Boy, would she ?

copyright@joseph1150 The Empire State Building was completed during the early 1930s, and was mostly empty for several years. At opening there was pretty much only 1 tenant above 7th floor, and for almost the entire decade there wasn't even elevator service past floor 40 other than for the observation deck. The building wasn't profitable until the 1950s. I could see a similar situation for this building.

Such a fan you are! Occupancy rate - commercial 98%, total 80% as of Dec. 2022 - not too shabby!

My favorite building is the Shanghai World Financial Center. These buildings are beautiful and could even rival any super tall building in Dubai. I wish we had more buildings here in the US like some of these but the reality it probably would not make much sense anymore with so much vacant office space now available.

I went to the top floor back in 2015 while it was still unfinished, together with one of the lead architects and his official photographer. We could not see the view because of the clouds LOL. The elevator was super fast.

@fixpacifica

6 ай бұрын

Clouds or air pollution? I was in Shanghai in 2014, and if you could see 5 miles, that was a clear day.

@ijn4438

6 ай бұрын

@@fixpacifica I've lived there my whole life, I think it started getting better in the mid 2010's, though the 2000s were pretty bad. I remember laughing with friends when the news from Paris said they were panicking over a pollution rating of like 30-40 ppm.

@TohaBgood2

6 ай бұрын

Yeah dude, those weren't clouds. I don't think that I've ever seen a smog-free day in Shanghai.

@jchung5265

6 ай бұрын

@@TohaBgood2smog was bad like LA when I visited back in the 70’s ?

@rfimor

5 ай бұрын

@@fixpacifica Air pollution, most likely. Shanghai's PM 2.5 is routinely > 150. Last December I stayed in the Jinmao hotel right next to the Shanghai Tower. Every morning I could see the whole city in "morning fog" from my hotel room. A breathtaking view indeed. Only later I realized that was actually smog 😅

No mention of the 1000 ton damper on top.. its amazing!!

Hey Simon megaprojects idea, have you done one on Forest City Malaysia, massive empty new skyscraper luxury city

I’d love to see more videos on architecture tbh. Maybe another channel idea even.

@Nathan-vt1jz

6 ай бұрын

You must be new to megaprojects, he does lots of architectural projects on this channel. Also, welcome! This is my favorite of his channels.

@nerfherder4284

6 ай бұрын

Any more channels and I'm out 😂

@RoelfvanderMerwe

6 ай бұрын

Search for "The B1M". You will love it

@alexandercarder2281

6 ай бұрын

Haha Simon Whistler is a KZread veteran of many channels 😂 and this is also my favourite Simon channel. The first channel of his I ever watched and how got to know his content was through biographics and TopTenz 😊

@K1ddkanuck

5 ай бұрын

The CN Tower video is pretty cool. There's a bunch of others on this channel as well.

The floorplate problem is insurmountable. The Shanghai Tower is unquestionably the nicest looking of the super and mega tall buildings, but the cost per usable square metre of floor space is too high for tenants.

@PerfectSense77

6 ай бұрын

That’s plenty questionable. Taipei 101 is head and shoulders above the competition in terms of aesthetics, in my book.

I was one of the first people to go up into the observation deck here. It was early May of 2016 and we didn't know it wasn't open yet. We just thought it looked cool and wanted to go check it out. The ticket office wasn't open/staffed so they allowed us to go up with an escort and take a few pictures. There was only us and a news crew up there. It was cool. Probably the only free thing we did in China. And those elevators are super fast!!

@eddiehimself

6 ай бұрын

r/thathappened

@mattywanders

6 ай бұрын

are you suggesting it didnt?@@eddiehimself

@Abby_Liu

6 ай бұрын

​@@eddiehimselfah, random shit don't happen at all.

@gomahklawm4446

6 ай бұрын

Scary fast, but over the years you get used to it. It's definitely not empty. The company I work for has 12 floors. Pretty dumb propaganda video. Typical of Simon. Parroting American propaganda for clicks....

@murrayscott9546

6 ай бұрын

Gonzo !

Watching at 4:21 AM in California. Anyone else? Also known as the Twisted Qock. Thanks, Simon. Informative.

My favorite looking skyscraper!

Thanks Simon. Merry Christmas. Take care & stay safe.

Thanks for sharing.

Ive been insise, and it certainly beautiful and impressive!

$2.4Bn to build a tower, couldn't hire plumbers who use teflon tape on pipes 😂

@danhtran6401

6 ай бұрын

2 billion dollars and one toilet tissue can clog up the sewage system...

@breveth

6 ай бұрын

Gotta love the shodiness of Chinese overall infrastructure. There is a reason why flushing toilet paper, in the few toilets that exist in China, will clog the toilet every time.

Your picture at 6:32 is actually the interior of the adjacent Jin Mao Tower (looking down to the foyer from inside the Grand Hyatt Hotel). Accuracy is important...

@beta__6109

6 ай бұрын

The entire video is just him lying. Literally cannot find even one report that backs up what he is saying.

Ah yes my favorite content, Asiar

I think think this building is most known for the video of the two guys climbing it while it was still being built

There's a hotel in it near the top! Hoping to stay there next time

I’ve stayed in the other two neighbouring towers, both Hyatts. It was quite something to stay atop the Jan Ming Grand Hyatt looking down on the other skyscrapers from my room. It was even more spectacular moving next door to the WTC and the Park Hyatt and looking down at the Jan Ming and often even clouds!

@Stunningandbrave

6 ай бұрын

Cool. How was the communism?

@shifusensei6442

6 ай бұрын

​@@Stunningandbraveah you must be that guy that brings up politics at Thanksgiving.

@Stunningandbrave

6 ай бұрын

@@shifusensei6442 Politics are only discussed in jest, as they should be with a wealthy family. You must be happily underemployed, at best.

@Erevos85

6 ай бұрын

@@Stunningandbrave What communism? It's funny that people still think that China is a communist country.

@Stunningandbrave

6 ай бұрын

@@Erevos85 What political party is Xi Jinping a part of? Refresh my memory.

It's got to be worth it.....Megaprojects is covering it.

Been there 12/19... Geez i had it good back when i traveled a lot

Looking down from the top of the hotel in the jin mao tower looks just like the one pic in this video

The image you show looking down through the building at the hotel lobby is the Jin Mao building. It is the Grand Hyatt.

So, the level of attention to detail in this channel is usually great. It's part of why I watch it. But "tallest skyscraper in Asia"? But seriously, is Dubai not in Asia?

@robbie6905

6 ай бұрын

Technically, but maybe not colloquially?

@user-lt4cx2zk3i

6 ай бұрын

Most western people don't consider the middle east and Asia to be the same place when referencing an area. It's way less confusing to separate them

@Fizz-Pop

6 ай бұрын

It's called the Middle-East for a reason. I like to call the East-East the Orient, but I am alone..

@philphildebeers2075

6 ай бұрын

@@user-lt4cx2zk3i Speak for yourself. The rest of the world considers Turkey as Asia's western edge.

@philphildebeers2075

6 ай бұрын

Of course Dubai is in Asia. Anyone who says otherwise is ignorant. Whistler's videos are seldom 100% factual.

impressive

I hope it's not lost on anyone that China's most impressively sized Sky Scraper was built by an American company.

@richardmackenzie1878

6 ай бұрын

why don't Americans have anything nice then?

@polpotnoodle7441

6 ай бұрын

Because they steal everything while its being built and end up changing the plans

@JayYoung-ro3vu

6 ай бұрын

Architects design for the clients. Architects DO propose but CLIENTS dictate THEIR needs. Nationality of designers is irrelevant. "He, who has the gold, makes the rules. Quit your "America bashing".

@studiosraufncingr6965

6 ай бұрын

And I hope its not lost to anyone that the Usa most famous statue, statue of liberty was build by France

@zimti7390

6 ай бұрын

​@@JayYoung-ro3vuBig cope

Suggestion for an alternative title: "A Colossal Erection in Shanghai" . Re: the time it will take to fill the building with tenants. The usual lifespan quoted for concrete is 50 to 100 years, and that is for high quality concrete under moderate conditions. Rebar helps, but it can rust fairly rapidly in wet, warm climates. The cost of carefully deconstructing something with this much mass and stored gravitational energy, without taking down neighboring buildings, could be a significant fraction of the cost of building it. Current real estate/economic problems in China suggest that "ironic" might be a better word than "iconic" to describe this building.

They used to call it the Empty State Building ya know. It's the most iconic of the four including the Pearl Tower I think. The plan you showed is highly intriguing: plenty can be done with that. I think it's well laid out.

Despite its challenges, this is by far the most beautiful and elegant skyscraper in the world. I’m not sure how it translates to others in pictures but in person it is an embodiment of the Venus de Milo! I’m very proud of the USA’s contribution!

@MuchCow9000

6 ай бұрын

More beautiful than the Burj Khalifa??? No

@qwerty112311

6 ай бұрын

@@MuchCow9000a million times more. Shanghai tower isn’t the most beautiful, let alone by far. It’s fine, but just another tower of glass, albeit with some curves.

@brandonpiazza6210

6 ай бұрын

It’s obviously a stylistic difference in opinion. The Burj is impressive in it own right. But you do not get the same understated elegance and the effortless grace. Shanghai , when you stand at it’s base, has a sense the structure is physically rotating in the breeze. If you like a skyscraper that insists upon itself, I could see how you’d prefer the Burj. I think I can hear it calling now, “Hey, look at me!!! I’m the tallest in the world!!!” Thanks Burj. We know.

@MuchCow9000

6 ай бұрын

@@brandonpiazza6210 the design of the Shanghai building isn't even that pretty

@brandonpiazza6210

6 ай бұрын

Have you seen it in person ? That always makes a difference. I get that you disagree. No argument here! I just feel differently! In the end, both towers speak for themselves! And both are marvels of design and technology. So their beauty is again in the eye of the beholder. I just happen to be the right beholder!🥸

"What's holding up this skyscraper, Yun?" "Congkweet"

@icebaby6714

6 ай бұрын

Glue

0:21 Dubai/UAE is also in Asia

So are many of the other Skyscrapers around the world! Especially, in the US

@stickynorth

6 ай бұрын

Bingo! This is not a local issue. Calgary and Jakarta both have vacancy CBD rates over 30%... I'm in Edmonton where it's just below 20% to this day despite being the fastest growing major city in Canada...

@stickynorth

6 ай бұрын

Also in 2017 we built the tallest building in Canada outside of downtown Toronto and it's still only half occupied. Luxury condo's remain empty, full floors aren't used... 1.4 million sq ft, 66 floors, 251m/823' and $500M later... And again at night it's an empty obelisk to an economy that has changed faster than they could put up the already peeling off glazing...

At least the Shanghai government is rich and able to bail out the building of and operation of the tower and thus is still functional. Both Tianjin and Wuhan have an unfinished >500m skyscraper each just sitting there after their developers went broke. In 2020 the central government banned new buildings over 250 meters tall and new ones above 100 meters need to be “culturally significant or reflect Chinese culture.” Good riddance I would say.

@jilbertb

6 ай бұрын

So, high rise prisons?

0:45 - Chapter 1 - Pouring the blueprints 5:10 - Chapter 2 - Megatall architecture 8:10 - Chapter 3 - Economy in the clouds

I think you forgot Merdeka 118 tower in Kuala Lumpur that is taller than Shanghai Tower

@heimuk

6 ай бұрын

no it's not, Merdeka 118 is cheating, just like that one in Dubai...a stick can be erected on Shanghai Tower and make it "tallest" building in the world..

How can we keep track of you, Simon? What channels did you leave and what new ones did you start?

Time indeed will tell.

Had to realize which channel of yours i was watching..... Lol i kept waiting for something to go wrong😅

@enisra_bowman

6 ай бұрын

that's the follow up Video in 3-4 Years when Simon remembers he did a Video on that somewhere

@CTP909

6 ай бұрын

@@enisra_bowman lol true

The head of Pudding .... VACUOUS

The chinese government should begin charging for royalties with every wallpaper that prominently features the tower.

Percent of the first floor taken by elevators must be huge.

My I suggest the Intercity APT/HST/Pendalino saga it has everything immense innovation, government budget cutting, bahumbuging new technology and best of all Britain inventing something cool, selling the patents and buying it back from the people who bought the patents!

It is a unique kind of skyscraper, at least for it's truly unrivaled volume size. I assumed it would probably take many years to actually fill in the building with tenants, simply because it's such a huge volume. But out of the current World's Top 10 Tallest, it is actually my favorite design ever since the exterior was completed. (ツ) ☕☕(ツ)

I’m working on a building like this right now lol supposed to be the tallest in the western hemisphere

@FekalistaGrzybowory-lz8lh

6 ай бұрын

Which is... One WTC?

It’s very impressive but impractical. The worldwide obsession with taller and taller buildings may be regrettable in the long term

I worked with a crew of twenty two people for 6 months straight on that thing...We smoked the best weed non stop most of the time of our shift 😂

@TheodoreBrosevelt

6 ай бұрын

Who's I

@Stunningandbrave

6 ай бұрын

yo. good job

@jilbertb

6 ай бұрын

Still better than Chinesium! Isn't weed illegal there? Like, life in prison illegal?!

@fredliperson9171

6 ай бұрын

@@jilbertb funny what American media feeds you....Big American money in china buys anything

oh that British grape, low and sour!

Funny side note, Gensler couldn't afford the tower's expensive rent for their own Shanghai office.

BATTLEFIELD 4!!🔥🔥🔥

@user-pj6oc5gy2q

6 ай бұрын

goated map

@natejobe6434

6 ай бұрын

Back on 360 when the building collapses it would cause the whole server to lag

Will you do a mega project on the underground missile silos located in Texas Oklahoma and Kansas

I think since late 2022, the building's occupancy rate is over 80%, commercial spaces are 98% rented. The same thing cannot be said about other skyscrapers in Shanghai though, a lot of other buildings are around 50% empty.

@asdisskagen6487

6 ай бұрын

Where have you gotten your stats from? I haven't seen any occupancy/rental numbers for this building since the pandemic started.

@beta__6109

6 ай бұрын

​​@@asdisskagen6487so you were checking frequently for these occupancy rates ? 😂

Speaking of "economy in the clouds", I feel like you guys could easily write an episode on artifical intelligence and what influence it will have and call it something like "AI, an ecomony in the cloud(s)" or something like that

Yeah Australia has one of them to, and im shore a lot of other countries do to

It's not a failure if it attract tourists and the city owns it. Just considered its a sculptor for the public ;)

The total usable internal floor space being so tiny relative to the actual tower diameter is .... insulting!

@Stunningandbrave

6 ай бұрын

it does lack girth. many such cases in china

Tourist will HAVE MORE FUN Walking around PEARL Ring , beautiful scene

It's a gorgeous building (at least from the outside), but considering the global economic situation and -- perhaps more importantly -- the PRC's move toward a less foreigner-friendly environment, it's probably going to be quite a while before those empty spaces have tenants as intended.

I have seen it, it's on the Bund right? I went on a cruise..I wondered what it was.

@jeffdroog

6 ай бұрын

Who are you asking?...

😂 You cover the end credits with KZread overlays. 😂

You didn't say they dug down to bedrock. They should have dug down to bedrock.

@joshlewis575

6 ай бұрын

You'd have to be outta your mind to rent a space in that death trap at all, let alone above the clouds

25 million people in one city. almost more than all the people in Australia.

Wonder if it's connected to a functioning sewage system?

I prefer the Malaysian Kuala Lumpur skyline method comlare to how shanghai does it. 3 towers with different architecture design together looks too mixmatch. Especially the Jin Mao which looks outdated compare to the other 2. Not to metion the other large building that typically accompany the picture of there 3 tower that added to the contrast. Malaysian Kuala Lumpur skyline is better space out with the Petronas Twin Tower, Tun Razak Exchange Tower, the KL tower, and the tallest Merdeka PNB tower in different part of the city that creates a skyline that you can see different tower in different view of the city. That will be nicer.

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I sure hope it’s not tofudreg construction… that would be a catastrophic collapse.

Tofu dreg😂😂

The lifts go thesame speed as the central line?????

Fascination vs Horror. My brain is conflicted.

Please listen to the songs They don't understand by sawyer brown and the song The little girl by John Michael Montgomery

LOL "Jensler"

I live beside the Shanghai tower and regularly visit the place every week. Several of my Friends works there too. It is getting busier by the year. I still remember when it just opened, it is like a deserted building whenever i visit. Now its very busy. I don't know about its occupancy rate but the top half has been taken by a hotel and the office space has been occupied by several major company like JP Morgan has moved in. I don't agree that the tower is a failure, but it sure has a slow start and the pandemic really makes things worse.

@beta__6109

6 ай бұрын

The entire video is just him lying. 😂 Literally cannot confirm anything he says.

They shouldn't have build it directly near Sauron's Eye

@andymanaus1077

6 ай бұрын

That one was originally going to have a round opening until someone pointed out that it looked a lot like the Japanese flag.

@zapfanzapfan

6 ай бұрын

And now it looks like a giant bottle opener 🙂

@andymanaus1077

6 ай бұрын

@@zapfanzapfan LOL good point. In that case, the next one they build nearby should look like a coke bottle.

Couldn’t they just fill the floors with apartments ?

wow im early as hell

I would have used it as a server tower.

Not sure if someone answered it already, but how do they get the cranes back down? I honestly don't know and am too tired to look it up

@spencerson7516

6 ай бұрын

I've seen some disassembled and brought down. Also some simply left at the top. I'm sure there are hundreds of ways

It looks like a vape, and is right next to the WFC which looks like a USB flash drive. Shanghai looks like the random crap on my desk.

@BionicBurke

6 ай бұрын

The live action Reboot set is looking lit.

@stickynorth

6 ай бұрын

All the random crap from your desk is Made in China... So it's fitting!

Luju hongpo 😂😂 good attempt though

That incident in video 2:32 happened in a complet different district in MINGHANG. In fact 15.4 kilometers away from each other. How the hell it is a near by apartment?

China took a painful lesson from this one. After this, China seldom built super high skyscrapers anymore.

Since the facade is double-paned...how are the views from inside the offices?

@jeffdroog

6 ай бұрын

There aren't any lol ...

FYI, it's Gensler with a hard G, not like Jensler

Im invading Shanghai maybe ill live there!

An observation floor for what? Endless smog?

Why didn't they call it the hang poo tower, that would of called it what it is!

How about a video on hamburgs elbphilharmonie?

The building that fell down was an example of tofu dreg construction not any building built nearby

Symmon, in Washington DC, more than half of all office buildings are vacant! This is not a uniquely Chinese problem!

how many channels does this man have

@baalzeebub4230

6 ай бұрын

42! No really, 8-10 channels has been his count many of the past few years.

Looks like a giant smoke stack

Last time I checked, Dubai was in Asia...

The WHAT financial district on the What river? Lol

Did you know Dubai and Kuala Lumpur are in Asia? Did you know that the tallest and second tallest skyscrapers in the world are in Dubai and Kuala Lumpur? You know, in Asia? Did you know that the third tallest skyscraper in the world is shorter the tallest and the second tallest skyscrapers in the world?

@benjamindowell2312

6 ай бұрын

Glad I'm not the only one who noticed that.

@C.viscione

6 ай бұрын

Simon probably means the tower was meant to be the tallest in East Asia. The Kuala Lumpur tower has just started construction when the Shanghai tower was completed.

@TheRealLink

6 ай бұрын

Probably just a rushed edit but could have said second tallest when started or planned to be second tallest but then eclipsed by the KL 118 / Merdeka Tower.

@JonMartinYXD

6 ай бұрын

The Merdeka 118 is only 502.8 metres to the highest occupiable floor, compared to 585.4 m in the Burj Khalifa and 583.4 m in the Shanghai Tower. Congratulations Merdeka 118 builders, you managed to make the second "tallest" building in the world by sticking a giant spike on the roof. 26.1% of the Merdeka's official height is vanity height (the Burj Khalifa is 29.5% vanity). The proliferation in the use of vanity height makes highest occupiable floor the only sensible metric for comparing buildings.

@johnsmith1953x

6 ай бұрын

DId you know that Phil Leotardo spent 20 years in the can?

Not Jenseler!! ahaha, that’s a first. Anyway, yeah… American architecture and engineering firms are responsible for most of the world’s tallest buildings. We do skyscrapers very well in the US.. particularly NYC. My statics professors in my nyc architecture program worked for Thornton Tomasetti.

@Harveyinchina

6 ай бұрын

Was hard to watch this video, first time I've seen this channel and everything was mispronounced

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