I love when the worlds most hated AI voice talks about the worlds most hated sky scraper.

@RandMV

Ай бұрын

Nah the Spanish TikTok one is worse

@TheSterlingArcher16

Ай бұрын

I know, this AI voice sounds like a massive asshole.

@tuudurreikop5045

29 күн бұрын

Why is that AI voice most hated?

@user-lb2bk1el1u

28 күн бұрын

​@@tuudurreikop5045 Overused

@guitarsandcars2586

28 күн бұрын

I can't stand the one that has a raspier voice, that or the annoying AI chick.

I don’t think the tower itself is ugly, it’s just out of place in its neighborhood. It would look much better in a place with more similarly sized towers than where it is now

@tayntp

Ай бұрын

Indeed, like in the La Defense district which is filled with many skyscrapers.

@dastanjan320

Ай бұрын

Well, at least it can offer photographers a unique angle to shoot photos of Paris. La defense gives you good angle still, but no two angles can offer the same view

@foryousten

Ай бұрын

it's a beautiful place to live, what a view

@Kabodanki

Ай бұрын

Imagine for a second that it was forbidden to build that high in paris… but they changed the law just long enough to validate the construction of a new building called the pyramid…. The montparnasse tower will have another friend….

@seraphimvalkyrin4543

Ай бұрын

To be fair, every (first) skyscraper looks out of place on it's own till more are built. But the people are so stuck in their traditionalist ways that the city banned skyscrapers so now it will always look out of place.

Fun Fact: The Eiffel Tower was once also seen as the most hated building in Paris, and even 50 years after its construction was still by many disliked.

@jamesbarbour8400

Ай бұрын

Well at least the Eiffel Tower is more interesting to look at, from a construction point of view, whereas that other building is just a bland, featureless monstrosity - a carbuncle on the cityscape.

@Squid_y

Ай бұрын

​​@@jamesbarbour8400 Nah, looks cool

@dylanpretto3571

Ай бұрын

oh yeah, of course that pile of shit with a total lack of identity and interest will be remarkable in the future. visionary.

@edryctan672

Ай бұрын

​@@jamesbarbour8400Wait until 200 years later when the building ages just like Eiffel

@13has

Ай бұрын

@@edryctan672 age does not a marvel make.

This is the first thing you notice flying into Paris. Just a black monolith jetting into the sky surrounded by the white stone of Paris.

@Undercapsule

26 күн бұрын

And thats unique!

@manuelemanucci4518

18 күн бұрын

È tipico dall' International style del periodo: la presunzione di poter progettare dell'accendino al grattacielo e di fregarsene del luogo, del clima e del paesaggio circostante...presunzioni presto crollate con la crisi petrolifera dei primi anni 70. Se bin laden non avesse distrutto le Twin Towers i grattacieli sarebbero stati presto abbandonati dagli architetti perché non più sostenibili. Oggi purtroppo sono tornati ad essere "l'invidia penis" di ogni capitalista impotente e dittatoriale come Trump e pagliacci simili...😅

@daveeol1987

Күн бұрын

I thought the same you notice it before the eiffel tower

It’s out of scale for the rest of the city.

@dardenbunn1415

2 ай бұрын

It's sort of like putting the Sacre Coeur in the middle of downtown Atlanta or Houston.

@Rattlerbrand

2 ай бұрын

the rest is gutter level ,its disgusting

@vlada

2 ай бұрын

You mean like a big giant iron tower?

@jesse_-

2 ай бұрын

Who cares? Paris is a lawless dump now anyways.

@curtisalex456

2 ай бұрын

​@@vlada The Eiffel tower was meant to be temporary.

It looks like the place an evil megacorp would rule from.

@YagoKatzen

Ай бұрын

The main villain's lair

@picpuslenoir8557

Ай бұрын

Gru’s lair

@VeejayRampay

Ай бұрын

Shinra Tower

@mayconunes

Ай бұрын

It is

@mikaelwojciechowski7281

Ай бұрын

So... the French wing of OCP?

"The villain's lair could be anywhere" The villians lair:

@deathkitten7635

9 күн бұрын

The most conspicuous villains lair ever.

@jujublue4426

7 күн бұрын

Doofenshmirtz Evil Incorporated!!!

@Tridentofmemes

7 күн бұрын

Fr

Hating things is like breathing for the French.

@markmh835

18 күн бұрын

Oh so true, so true. Complaining is the French national sport. They really should have it as a Demonstration Sport in this summer's Olympics. "Complaining Competition": the French would certainly win the Gold Medal. 😁👍

@peterfitton4529

10 күн бұрын

​@@markmh835I'm a Francophile but I must admit this is true. The way Parisians constantly complain about their own city is infuriating to someone like me who would give his right arm (or pretty much anything else) to be able to live there. Especially as most of their complaints are either entirely unfounded or massively exaggerated.

@KwirkriwK

8 күн бұрын

@@markmh835 For complaining i totally agree, but french people don't HATE. That's USA! They complain because when you see from what Paris like this previous century even until 2000 and now...France is totally collapsing

@Strawberry_champagne203

7 күн бұрын

You're french ?

@robhersey1796

7 күн бұрын

@@Strawberry_champagne203 he's a french enthusiast. lol

I hate AI narration

@colegilbert673

Ай бұрын

relatable. its so overused

@UmbrielakaPasystem

Ай бұрын

It’s not their problem if they do not want to show their voice to the internet because of privacy.

@colegilbert673

Ай бұрын

@@UmbrielakaPasystem They could just not use a voiceover at all and just put text. im sure everyone is tired of hearing that stupid robot voice for years by now

@UmbrielakaPasystem

Ай бұрын

@@colegilbert673 well some are, but people do not want to show voice on the internet due to privacy and for safety reasons. Hope you understand.

@colegilbert673

Ай бұрын

@@UmbrielakaPasystem That doesnt change my point- I just hate the AI voice

Parisians also hated the Eiffel Tower until everyone else loved it.

@Hiro_Trevelyan

Ай бұрын

Not true. It was mostly architects and artists that petitioned against it. Also, the Eiffel tower quickly became a landmark while the Montparnasse tower is still hated by literally everyone to this day. Not comparable.

@sheldonliberman1139

Ай бұрын

@@Hiro_Trevelyan I stand by my comment. Parisians hated the Eiffel Tower. Google it.

@theeclectic2919

Ай бұрын

@@Hiro_Trevelyan The Eiffel has character. The Montparnasse is boring.

@AvrilAlvarez

Ай бұрын

The Eiffel Tower was creative, unconventional and experimental. When you're unconventional, people either really love it or really hate it, no in between. Whereas if you stick to the norm like this skyscraper, there is a likely chance people will hate it or just not care about it

@corporateturtle6005

Ай бұрын

@@theeclectic2919 "Character"? Just say you're "gay" and enjoy the phallic shape of it bro.

Even King Kong refused to climb that thing.

@Nekofemme

17 күн бұрын

😅😅😅

@adityabehera1361

10 күн бұрын

😂

I must admit working in the tower made me have a soft spot for it. The view from the tower itself is really great. The worse thing about the tower is not the look but the lack of maintenance… The sorry state of the interior, some windows are broken and not even replaced, the tower is always halfway empty. The hall is clean and the lifts are nice but some floors are just creepy. The big problem is the “mall” that was constructed at the base of the tower at the same time. Ugly, weird layout, lack of maintenance and now lays vacant. I don’t know what they plan to do in its place.

@moon_wei

5 күн бұрын

What even is the purpose of the building?

@n0rmal953

5 күн бұрын

@@moon_wei like most skyscrapers/towers here: offices upon offices. There’s a big insurance company there. It’s near one of the major train stations. Advertised as a new “hub” in the 70s. There’s not much else today besides offices and a restaurant at the top with a view. Now, towers of this height are banned in the city of Paris… but with enough money or “purpose” they can get approved, lol.

@FigaroHey

2 күн бұрын

Lies vacant. Not "lays." "Lay" is a transitive verb.

The story about the best view being on that building is literally over 130+ years old and was said about the deeply hated monstrosity at the time, the Eiffel Tower. French writer Guy de Maupassant supposedly ate lunch in the Eiffel Tower's restaurant every day for years because it was the only place he didn't have to look at it.

@flo__60

2 ай бұрын

yet now the eiffel tower is part of the landscape it's an historical monument that was saved from dismantlement peoples are attached to, i doubt the Montparnasse tower ever get that status.

@brumplum

2 ай бұрын

I agree with Guy de Maupassant. I lived in Paris for 10 years (a long time ago) and had a view of the peak of the Eiffel Tower from my bedroom window. Whenever friends came to visit for a weekend and expected a sightseeing tour, I took them on a route I'd spent a long time designing to avoid seeing the tower as much as possible. (Thankfully I couldn't see the Montparnasse tower from my place but it was always a great landmark if I ever got lost in the city (not generally an easy thing to do) to establish the way home (I lived about 3 blocks from it)

@201hastings

2 ай бұрын

The tower is a cool structure unlike random office building #54

@CPWHUNTERGUY

Ай бұрын

LMFAO 🫡

@robert111k

Ай бұрын

Did you know tha the project was initially thought for Barcelona but the city hall rejected it?

Oklahoma city architects: Hold my beer

@user-uj5kg8di7y

2 ай бұрын

That's the problem Oklahoma City drunks!

@-OAK-

2 ай бұрын

It’s a Californian building the legends tower, not a Oklahoman, the reason he chose OKC over cali tho is because the unbelievable potential OKC has to be a big city I also doubt okies will hate it once it’s built, because 1, it adds so much more to the city, two, it will bring far more tourism which will lead to investors and companies building more towers next to the legends tower for easy recognition, and 3, it will expand the already fast growth rate of OKC. And could potentially lead to OKC getting a population of 980k just 10 years after its construction. The difference between this tower and the legends tower is that this actually ruins the skyline, the legends tower will improve it, and make it kinda look like Dubai, the second tallest building in OKC is half its height so it’s not as drastic of a height difference as this compared to france

@shawntimothyli

2 ай бұрын

@@-OAK-it’s not gonna get built. This is how it’s gonna play out, they ask for money from investors and banks, get money, then said that they need to reduce the size and scale of the building to 50 stories. But then they start building and said that they run out of money before they put foundations in. It’s just a ploy to scam money.

@user-uj5kg8di7y

2 ай бұрын

@-OAK- My oldest brother lived in Oklahoma City and he and his girlfriend got into an argument and she went outside and called the police. A single Officer responded to the call and that more on shot and killed my unarmed brother through a screen door! That Officer lied and said my brother was armed but seven witnesses said he wasn't! I will never set foot in Oklahoma because of that!

@-OAK-

2 ай бұрын

@@user-uj5kg8di7y I never said you have to, and that will happen in a lot of cities not just Oklahoma, but I can understand why, but this will without a doubt attract tons of people to go see it mainly for the reason it stands out, a genius marking part in the building is that it being in OKC and standing out as much as it does pushes people to go see it more than it would in a city like nyc or Chicago, but man I’m sorry bout that

"We need to find the villain's secret base!" The villain's base:

As an Englishman, I went to Paris last December and I actually really liked the placement and look of the tower. I think it genuinely adds to the Parisian skyline and compliments the whole city very well. The view from the top is genuinely astounding and by far the best I’ve ever seen. The Eiffel Tower, Arc de Triomphe, the Louvre, La Defense, Sacre-Cœur, Montparnasse Cemetery etc. all looked brilliant from the top. The only downside to the views from the top are the smoke stacks pouring out of what I’m pretty sure is the east side of Paris, around Creteil. Overall, Paris was a much nicer experience than I initially thought it was going to be, and I had no bad experiences with locals.

LMAO. When it was built, the French hated the Eiffel Tower even more.

@hypsyzygy506

2 ай бұрын

They said the best view of Paris was from the top of the Eiffel Tower. Ironic, isn't it?

@JimAllen-Persona

2 ай бұрын

That, I don’t doubt.

@JamesBond-oe5px

2 ай бұрын

You are absolutely correct they don't even know what they want

@adrianjamesdelfin7414

2 ай бұрын

@@JamesBond-oe5px They're like women.

@finncarlbomholtsrensen1188

2 ай бұрын

I think the Tower only had a limited lease time in the beginning?

The beauty of this skyscraper is that it prevented any additional skyscrapers to be built in that section of Paris. Two twin tower skyscraper condo buildings in San Francisco, caused a three-story height limit to be legislated along the entire waterfront.

@user-mq3fn4tc2n

2 ай бұрын

Looks totally out of place

@billharnet

2 ай бұрын

Excellent point.

@froggamer4884

2 ай бұрын

Then people will complain about how expensive housing is. Wake up! These buildings codes are made to keep property owners rich!

@jasonbushman8000

Ай бұрын

It's ugly as hell

@davidgomes4408

Ай бұрын

​@@froggamer4884 Plenty of development projects in the suburbs. Generates tax money from: - Housing market. - Transportation costs (most of which is still state owned) - Tourism due to the classical look of the city being preserved. Plus, if not above all, it keeps the ugly petty poor people away from Intra Muros itself, thus preserving quality of day to day life (they come, they work for minimum wage, they go home). It's sheer civic genius really.

paris has bigger problems than this architectural eyesore.

Spectacular view from the top, much easier access than the Eiffel Tower. When you're in the Parisian streets you hardly see it.

Yeah it looks out of place

@TheAnnoyingBoss

2 ай бұрын

Its beacause there isnt others around blending it in

@aurelspecker6740

2 ай бұрын

@@TheAnnoyingBoss Which is, because they banned building other skyscrapers.

@byunbaekhyun2283

2 ай бұрын

​@@aurelspecker6740 it's good actually, because paris is already dense without skyscrapers, their mid-density but mixed-use buildings (which is the reason why paris is already dense even without skyscrapers) are 1000 times better than those boxy american-style skyscrapers.

@aurelspecker6740

2 ай бұрын

@@byunbaekhyun2283 Well, you can have midrise, high density and a skyscraper here and there. The problem with the US style is, that you have downtown with a ton of highrises, and 200m further, you have a monoculture of low rise, single family homes. This is super stupid. The choice is not "paris style - no high rises" vs "american style"! There are a lot of other options.

@joeg5414

Ай бұрын

I mean....so does the Eiffel tower

Yep, horrific building in every way but makes it very easy to find your way around Paris

@ROBLOXGamingDavid

Ай бұрын

Least it would be used as point of reference.

@aurorauplinks

Ай бұрын

thats a really positive outlook. you have that thing and the eifile tower to navigate by. clever.

@natehill8069

Ай бұрын

@@aurorauplinks A little trig should locate you instantly as long as you can see both and have a protractor.

@amomynous

Ай бұрын

"You are not completely useless, you are a bad example" 😅

@Undercapsule

26 күн бұрын

It’s not a bad building you ppl just have problems when seeing new tall structures 💀

I’m pretty sure Miraculous Ladybug destroyed it twice.

If europe started building skyscrapers at the same time as chicago and new york they probably wouldn't look so out of place in their cities

Guy de Maupassant, the French writer said it originally about the Eiffel Tower. “inside the restaurant was one of the few places where I could sit and not actually see the Tower!”

@nArgari

2 ай бұрын

C'est exact, et c'est pourquoi... /Block this account

@sherylcrowe3255

2 ай бұрын

Exactly!

@norman5340

2 ай бұрын

Who cares? By going to the restaurant, he supported the building 😮. That's why the French get shafted bt geehardis

@ricksamericana749

2 ай бұрын

@@norman5340 What a well thought out comment, articulately expressed.

@jonaslundholm

2 ай бұрын

Thank you!

In Athens, no building can be taller than the Acropolis.

@JimAllen-Persona

2 ай бұрын

I think that should be the case across the board in historic cities. In Washington, DC no building can be taller than the Washington Monument. The Eiffel Tower has become the symbol of Paris and its most identifying landmark.

@zephyr8072

2 ай бұрын

Yes lets hold all our cities back by making things beholden to ancient landmarks that were hated in their day by obnoxious luddites too.

@664124

2 ай бұрын

Unfortunately,they are building some at Ellinikon

@annastamatelou3895

2 ай бұрын

@@664124 This applies to the city of Athens proper, not the whole of Attica. Ellinikon is a district of Attica not Athens.

@stelios5314

Ай бұрын

​@@664124 the Hellinikon though is far enough from the Acropolis. I may dislike skyscrapers in general, but at least these specific ones will not spoil the Acropolis view due to their significant distance from it.

It’s the wrong architectural style. If it was Neoclassical or Gothic it would be much better. Something like the Woolworth building

Of course, the Eiffel Tower itself wasn't always entirely favored with a restaurant critic eating his meals in the rooftop restaurant there despite disliking the food,prices,etc. due to the restaurant ALSO having no view of the Eiffel Tower!

Tell the locals you hate it and they will consider it an insult to France. Tell them you like it and they will tell you have no taste. 😂

@Gunter_Custom

2 ай бұрын

French ...😂😂 Who cares .. 😂

@damienfayant5390

2 ай бұрын

Pure invention, like that clip. Never heard anything like that

@alexislemoal4928

2 ай бұрын

​@@Gunter_Customwhat does that mean? You do not care about french people? You do not care about people?

@UltimEVB

2 ай бұрын

@@damienfayant5390This is true. I’m French and nobody likes it

@UltimEVB

2 ай бұрын

@@damienfayant5390Et avant que tu me dises « gneugneugneu t’est pas Français sale quoicoubeh » je vais mal parler en Français, donk fairme ta geule peutit quon

Looks out of place. I'm surprised there wasn't a height limit in place long before this eyesore was built.

@SERGIO-cr6uy

2 ай бұрын

Things have to happen before governments take action. It's logical.

@byunbaekhyun2283

2 ай бұрын

the 60s and 70s were the americanization decade of europe. they destroyed many of their historical city centers just to accommodate boxy skyscrapers and car infrastructures. thank god europe is moving on from that fatal mistake, paris is better now.

@fredericlepeltier3435

2 ай бұрын

There is a height limit in place since Hausmann in the 1800s. But the city can waive that rule for some projects. Tour Montparnasse is the worst of these because is in the "center" where as the others tall buildings are at the periphery.

@srgmiller340

Ай бұрын

There was it was six stories high the tower was not built is Paris but absorbed into Paris

@joeg5414

Ай бұрын

as if the Eiffel Tower isn't an out of place eye sore. We've just come to accept it.

I see why it is hated, but a lone skyscraper standing alone in a sea of relatively flat buildings just looks so cool.

It's not exactly bad but it's out of place if it was put with all the other skyscrapers in Paris or more skyscrapers were built in the area it would have been less out of place

Same with the building blocking Rizal's park.

@well9179

2 ай бұрын

Where is that? Manila?

@concentrator3906

2 ай бұрын

@@well9179 pyongyang

@thecoconutman2646

2 ай бұрын

@@well9179 Nah, it's in Pyongyang

@UnderTakerSN1

2 ай бұрын

But hey, they painted it on white to blend on the sky😂

@chaeyeonieearts

2 ай бұрын

got confused for a second because there's indeed the torre de manila, a complete eyesore to rizal park in the city

It is really ugly, and does not fit with Paris landscape.

@christianfreedom-seeker934

2 ай бұрын

Your ancestors said that with the effiel tower.

@buzzard720

2 ай бұрын

Folk just want a job and someone to bang on the weekend..

@zephyr8072

2 ай бұрын

ANothing like that view of flat, ugly and generic white buildings.

@tibolcb6446

Ай бұрын

neither did the eiffel tower when it was built and now it's the most iconic building in the world, the origin of the joke is actually a guy de maupassant joke about the eiffel tower

Lady Bug and the Cat Noir had fought with some enemies on the top of this building. And even in some episofes this building got destroyed. )))

I think if they had done it with a different appearance, it would have matched with the others buildings, following the architecture style.

“Hard to hate something you didn’t even know was existed!” - The World

@AV88-dz3jk

Ай бұрын

A lot of Europe is based on over hyped by locals I've noticed. I mean we are talking about a Europe where you never see newspapers or media there mention the massive scale of urban decay , unemployment , graffiti , crime and homelessness as they always show the same city block of LA and other extremely poor 1 percent portion of American cities with a trailer , and never 99 percent the rest. My views of Europe changed on how much propaganda is fed there with the self denial of realism .

@GenXerReacts

Ай бұрын

@@AV88-dz3jk your story reminds me of a Sudanese friend I had online. Way back when Obama ordered "the surge" in Iraq he asked me why the USA was again sending troops where we didn't belong. And I told him "Because they keep asking us to send more troops" and he replied, "what do you mean?" And I linked him 5 or 6 articles of Iraqi dignitaries, their Vice PM (I guess there PM was not well liked by Obama, so the Iraqi's kept him home), their civilian head of defense, and many of their top generals all asking for Obama to send more troops month after month until he finally caved. My Sudanese friend said to me "David, we aren't told any of this all we are told is that the USA is meddling in another countries affairs again!".

@user-Old_Ben

Ай бұрын

@@GenXerReacts -- sometimes the USA needs to meddle... other times NATO crosses too many lines! The Military Industrial Complex is not in charge - yet it is _loyal_ to the *_High Table._*

@christopherharvie8716

Ай бұрын

Just because you didn’t know about it and assumed everyone was the same is a fair indication of your ignorance. When I saw this video I just played to confirm my suspicions. It’s not like I live there either. I’m in Australia…

@KY-dx4rf

Ай бұрын

@@christopherharvie8716 Just because you lack a simple sense of humor and assume what others assume, without knowing what they actually assumed, is a fair indication of your, you know, ignorance. Just like the author of this video, who assumed, without any presented evidence, that it’s the world’s most hated skyscraper. However, he then referred to it as the most hated by locals, which would be a more accurate and logical assumption. If I were to go outside and ask anyone on the street about the world’s most hated skyscraper, I bet my bottom dollar I wouldn’t get a single answer hinting at that building. Heck, if I went on a national TV station and started a survey asking this very question, I’d bet my life savings, my wife and kids, and even my dog, that I wouldn’t find more than a handful of people mentioning that beast in Paris. And most of those handful would probably have watched this exact video on KZread. But hey, what do I know? I’m an ignoramus New Yorker Manhattanus, living surrounded by skyscrapers. Some are loved, some ignored, some hated. I make no claim of knowing what the world thinks of them though, mate!

The view from the Montparnasse tower is majestic. Didn't see any locals telling me how awful it is.

@stelios5314

Ай бұрын

The view from it is majectic, nobody disagrees with that. But the view OF it is the opposite of majestic.

@rickariki547

Ай бұрын

You would have to actually talk and listen to locals (on the subject) and not just see them.

@Weird600

Ай бұрын

@@rickariki547 We actually had several locals recommend us to visit it and see the views from the top. Never heard of it until then.

@mavensbaseball

Ай бұрын

I didn't know you could go to the top, they don't advertise this.

@yamatoseb

Ай бұрын

I lived in one of the buildings just in front of it. It's not awful, it's just there. Glass panels everywhere, yeah, but the tower itself ain't that big and the district looks nice. And the top is a very good place for a fancy evening with your gf :D

A 210 metre tall black sky scraper. Looks okay to me, better than many. I guess it doesn't fit in with the city's architecture. Which makes me like it more. Differences are interesting. What I really hate is when neighbourhoods have rules that houses cannot be at all different. All houses need to look like cookie cutter houses, mass produced, no individuality. Like in the UK.

Parisians love to hate petty things, yet they don't hate the absurd amount of paperwork and taxes they are imposed.

Been up there in the early eighties for the obvious reason: enjoy a spectacular view with the Eiffel tower just vis-a-vis. the building itself is indeed completely out of scale compared to the beautiful rest of the centre city.

@maureendavidson4635

Ай бұрын

It's the wrong colour too. It's not even trying to look nice.

The second you said most hated and I noticed a lonely skyscraper I knew immediately what it was. If you visit Paris, you'll never forget that the best view of Paris is from the top of that tower... because it's the one place you can't see it. 😂😂😂

@rikmoran3963

Ай бұрын

That's exactly what he said in the video!!!

Somebody got PAID to propose, design and build it.

They’re French, who cares what they think?

@Vingul

Ай бұрын

They’re the only ones who should decide how things are in France, at least.

@Miggcroix

Ай бұрын

​@@Vingulno, those are the magrebí, shame on you !!!1!😡😡

@Vingul

Ай бұрын

@@Miggcroix LOL, good one.

@yayie2235

26 күн бұрын

😂

@robertruffo2134

22 күн бұрын

yes matt, let's ask Americans what they think because their cities, from Jackson to Gary, are so beautiful and filled with charm.

They said the same thing about the Eiffel tower when it was built.

@NewEra-

2 ай бұрын

For different reasons

@carlitoxb110

2 ай бұрын

and they hated the obelisk in argentina, idk some people is too conservative about architecture

Blame the City officials on BUILDING permit issued on 1973

@stelios5314

Ай бұрын

The same happened in Athens at about this date. Height limit disappeared. It's interesting how similar the architectural trends (good or bad in this case) were...

@christopherharvie8716

Ай бұрын

Hardly a secret that building authorities in the 70’s would let any old schlock get built in the name of progress that we in the future are lumped with. It’s just not a matter of knocking them down either because half the time they’re riddled with asbestos.

They don’t hate it for being a skyscraper - they hate it because modernist architects in the 60s and 70s basically forgot what beauty was…

"Our AI photoshopping software is so powerful, you can even erase the Montparnasse building from the skyline!" January 7, 2078 - "that one didn't age so well!"

It seems to me maybe the people of Paris France are just grumpy

@backintimealwyn5736

Ай бұрын

you never saw the tower where it stands, it's ugly as F and brown. A big fat brown semi cylinder. Glad they decided to ban the sky scraper in Paris it's not the place. Instead we have modern neighbourhoods in the outskirts, much smarter.

@HarryBalszak

Ай бұрын

and smelly

@RoberioRoberioRoberio

Ай бұрын

​@@backintimealwyn5736 when i see a skyscraper i personally dont think about beaulty, i think about economical prosperity

@Courant_Alternatif

Ай бұрын

As a French you are right

@cutebear1817

Ай бұрын

People everywhere seem grumpy now...is grumpy times

The Parisians are right, it's ugly.

@megayei

2 ай бұрын

No it isn't their city is just old and something a bit newer looks out of place

@stickynorth

2 ай бұрын

@@megayei Bingo! Moved to La Defense and it wouldn't even be mentioned... Just an odd location...

@byunbaekhyun2283

2 ай бұрын

​@@megayei old cities look better tbh, they pay attention to buildings decorations and ornaments. modern buildings are too boring, boxy, and have no sense of art at all.

@tomasr.

Ай бұрын

@@megayei It's newer but still ugly.

@megayei

Ай бұрын

@@tomasr. nah

They thought the Eiffel tower was an abomination also.

That "best view of the city is from the top of the building" comment is literally the same thing Parisian told about eiffel tower in 19th century

French always complain about everything.

@abarette_

Ай бұрын

that is but our national pride

@gerryvickers7098

Ай бұрын

Have you ever seen the comments on UK Facebook pages?

@camilonajera7143

Ай бұрын

Thats part of why you are free and the right to vote

@vaudou74

Ай бұрын

u confuse complaints with disatisfaction and disatisfaction can lead to improvements..complaints.not.

@RightURKen7

Ай бұрын

Not like Americans at all, Oh wait...

A similar joke was made by Guy de Maupassant about the Eiffel Tower. He took his lunch there so he did not have to look at it. Montpparnasse is not a particularly ugly but at the time of construction it was a bit of a sore thumb. Now that there are other sky scrapers it doesn't seem so out of place. Paris is so beautiful, it is not in good taste to built monuments to capitolism in the monumental city of rebellion. If they tore it down tomorrow it would have few mourners.

It actually looks nice. It would look less out of place if there were more skyscrapers near it too

It still gave us the best Die Hard parody in french cinema.

Im French, and i really like it. Unlike what the Parisians says, it does fit in the Paris skyline. As long, as there's not more buildings like it.

@UltimEVB

2 ай бұрын

T’est bizzare

@yevgeniyaleshchenko849

2 ай бұрын

Noone cares what a commie thinks...🖕

@yevgeniyaleshchenko849

2 ай бұрын

You don't fit with France though. France is a democratic country, go move to russia if ussr is your fetish, they still pretty much live there.

@NewEra-

2 ай бұрын

I am not a Parisian, nor French and I don't like it either.

@sppih

Ай бұрын

I didnt know about this tower until I saw it on google earth once after turning around from the eiffel tower. I immediately did not like it, sticks out so badly.

I think they'd hate it a lot less if they didn't ban every building that tall, ensuring that it'd stick out like a sore thumb for the rest of its lifespan.

@youtube-handle-are-a-joke

Ай бұрын

You're right, lets get rid of all those ugly 200+ year old buildings to build these glass and concrete beauties.

@nuabioof83

Ай бұрын

​@@youtube-handle-are-a-joke there are plenty of shitty buildings in Paris and former brownsites that could have benefitted from going higher. Paris has the worse housing shortage in France and is experiencing one of the world's worst homelessness crisis

@davidwestwater2219

Ай бұрын

That would ruin Paris

@green_eggy

Ай бұрын

@@youtube-handle-are-a-joke I can see hundreds of modern buildings in this very video

@kaputtesrollo2756

Ай бұрын

That problem is in nearly every european city. It is often prohibited to build tall buildings like skyscrapers because they simply ruin the view on the old parts of the city, especially churches.

Parisians used to say the same "joke" about the Eiffel Tower when it was built.

Whoever built that there must be blind

I think the people of Paris waste too much energy on their emotions.

@wf6190

Ай бұрын

Word

@user-Old_Ben

Ай бұрын

yet the wine and the cheese are worth it! The rest is wasted.

@donotthecat6075

Ай бұрын

Half on complaining, and the other is surrendering

@chariethe

Ай бұрын

that's what i thought lol. Doesn't this city hate everything anyway?

@gatsbylight4766

Ай бұрын

YEAH! They need to be more like Americans, and focus on important things like *money, expensive cars, mansions, and being famous!* It's worked out GREAT for America... well, aside from: * U.S. citizens hate their own government; even had an insurrection against its own government. * and U.S. citizens literally being on the verge of civil war with each other. * and the U.S. being the *mass shooting death capital of the world* * and the former president being indicted *FOUR TIMES* and facing *EIGHTY-EIGHT CRIMINAL FELONY CHARGES* * and having a corrupt Supreme Court * and having a Congress which is trying to impeach the current president.... But other than that.....

I have to agree, it sticks out like a sore thumb. Urban planning is important. Don't build modern building in old neighbourhoods

The height limit probably just made it even more out of character. Had taller buildings been allowed to be built around it it would have had company

I personally like 1 huge skyscraper surrounded by hundreds of 2-3 story buildings

Good way to wreck the neighborhood. Buildings used to be decorative and beautiful hundreds of years ago. Now true artists are not encouraged.

@davidgomes4408

Ай бұрын

Because true artists are a major pain in the ass whose management costs far out weight their *potential* value?

People have perhaps forgotten that the World Trade Center towers were also hated when they were first put up. We got used to them. And now it is not a problem anymore.

@remymorgan9630

2 ай бұрын

That is a....sobering statement. 😮😮😮😮😮😮

@stickynorth

2 ай бұрын

@@remymorgan9630 And a true one...

@chiarosuburekeni9325

2 ай бұрын

The wtc didnt look out out place in nyc though, nyc is the skyscraper mecca. They were never hated on the level this is. You literally made that up lol. NYC had crazy tall buildings since the 1930s

@kl9518

2 ай бұрын

So, it was the locals who took it down.

@byunbaekhyun2283

2 ай бұрын

no they weren't. manhattan was already full of skyscrapers at the time WTC was completed. no reason for locals to hate it. this building on the other hand looks really out of place, the surroundings are old mid-density mixed-use buildings, so a boxy skyscraper standing in the middle of them just look so weird.

The Eiffel Tower was considered ugly at the beginning too. But this thing is actually out of place

Imagine having nothing better to do than sit there and just hate on a skyscraper for no reason

Personally I quite like it. When I lived in Paris it was useful to navigate when walking (before smartphones) along with the Eiffel tower. There is a plan to renovate it, change the cladding to clearer glass and put a greenhouse on top.

@psyraxx39

2 ай бұрын

Good idea

@Koli5298

2 ай бұрын

Reference points will always be useful, with or without smartphones.

Give it more time. French people have hated every other major building built in their city, only for it to become a national landmark later.

@byunbaekhyun2283

2 ай бұрын

this boxy skyscraper doesn't even look aesthetic like the eiffel tower though..how could it be a national landmark if it's so bland like that 💀

@UltimEVB

2 ай бұрын

We will not like it, the Eiffel Tower was accepted in 3-5 years, it’s 50 years old and even the government want to remove it

@NewEra-

2 ай бұрын

Simply enough, they have taste

@gonzalosmith3340

2 ай бұрын

@@NewEra- they do?

@oooshafiqooo

2 ай бұрын

​@@byunbaekhyun2283thats what they said with the Eifel Tower

Paris is an ancient capital, buildings like this deny the French culture

Unfortunately London's politicians don't have the same taste.

Just imagine: if you had a problematic building in the middle of a top tier world city that was practically and financially impossible to demolish, how could you get rid of it to free the site up for redevelopment?

@Gottenhimfella

2 ай бұрын

Ummm - pick a fight with a nuclear power?

It's ugly, but to be fair they also hated the Eiffel tower in the beginning.

Hate is a strong word, but I wouldn't put it past Parisians to feel this way about something so insignificant.

Average Frenchies. First they hated Eifel tower, then liked it and now they hate some big ass building.

@UltimEVB

2 ай бұрын

Bro they hated it cuz it was a German project when there was a German-French war! And yea thats normal ! If youre stuck with the person you hate for 1 year on a island you will not hate him anymore ! Use common senses you dorito !

@NewEra-

2 ай бұрын

They have good taste. I appreciate French people.

@yuchoob

2 ай бұрын

@@UltimEVB That depends on who that island person is, you turnip.

Imagine the guy who would wake up to the eiffel tower everyday and then they build this

@vlada

2 ай бұрын

Read up on the Eiffel. It was despised as an iron monstrosity.

@MrVolcom239

2 ай бұрын

@@vlada one persons trash is another persons treasure

I feel the Parisians hate anything that has nothing to do with the traditions of Paris.

All the local who can’t afford a place in this skyscraper would hate this building. Typical middle Class mentality

The only good thing I can think of is it makes a decent landmark to orient yourself for direction when navigating. Emerging from the Metro, you can tell which direction to go. Yes, it's a blight on a beautiful city

Maybe that should have been considered BEFORE its construction?

Paris's best view is from the top of Montparnasse Tower🇺🇸🇵🇭

I hate the Freedom tower. NYC has a Sudi Arabian designed skyline. Fvck that, put the twin towers back up. We get to determine our own skyline.

Just by watching this Short,i already hate it.

@architalesYT

2 ай бұрын

Why bro? 🤔

@damondrakvinge9792

2 ай бұрын

​@@architalesYT Everyone hates French stuff

They hated the Eiffel Tower too and demanded he take it down as soon as the world's fair was over. But then decided it was the best and now its just wonderful.

@PROVOCATEURSK

2 ай бұрын

The French are lucky they even have a country. Their tretchery before WW2 could have costed them everything.

@jazzcat5950

2 ай бұрын

idk that I would consider these comparable. What is strange to me is how this got approved. Money talks as usual. :(

@johnmiller6688

2 ай бұрын

We wouldn't have a country if not for the French, we had zero Ships of the Line Battle, no canons or gun powder, if not for French weapons, and their blockades of ports, the British would have walked over the colonies.

@thomaslesain4920

Ай бұрын

It was scheduled to be torn down and sold for scraps 20 years after the 1900 World's Fair but Gustave Eiffel had the brilliant idea to install a radio antenna and a wireless telegraph transmitter at its top so the military found it really useful and pressured city officials into keeping it. At the time, it was the highest man-made structure in the world.

@stefthorman8548

Ай бұрын

@@johnmiller6688 lmao, you're thanking the wrong people, it was lous the 16 who saved us, you know, the guy they executed?

You can’t rate the architecture out of context. If it is located where it doesn’t belong - it means it sucks and that’s it.

I read “world’s most hated skyscraper” while scrolling and immediately thought "you know it’s in Paris”

I went to the top and the view is great, but yes, the building itself seems out of place.

Rubbish, there’s no real skyscrapers in Paris because of the catacombs under the city which prevents deep excavations for foundations, not because of a public outcry over this.

@avg1005

2 ай бұрын

There are real skyscrapers in Paris. It has a pretty sizeable skyline

@haynesy1476

2 ай бұрын

@@avg1005 not at all, La Defence has on the city outskirts & the odd one dotted about but nowhere near the amount most capitals have, very very few.

@TheTimbo911

2 ай бұрын

​@@avg1005You are incorrect. The skyscrapers you see are NOT actually in Paris. I've lived there for 10 years. The buildings you see that are skyscrapers are just outside the city limits.

Imagine if someone hates this building so much they deliberately demolish it with the tenants still inside

is there something the french don’t moan about😂

Imagine being so miserable that you hate a building....

@Tusk-ruk

Ай бұрын

Local people have an opinion about what fits the aesthetic of their city, there's not much to deduce about it. Stereotypes are just that.

@sniperloic2904

Ай бұрын

Imagine being so miserable to mock peoples opinions about a view of a historic city.

@sagatuppercut2960

Ай бұрын

And they get 5 weeks paid vacation.

@Hiro_Trevelyan

Ай бұрын

Imagine caring about your city

@Willie-wf7vj

Ай бұрын

@@sniperloic2904 LOL your entire personality revolves around what you hate. Get a life.

A monument to hubris in a setting that it defiles.

"The villains could be anywhere" The villain's secret hideout:

This is why architects need to consider not only the design of a building in isolation, but how it fits with its surroundings.

The same people complaining about this...would have complained about the Eiffel tower back in 1890

I think Paris has more serious matters to dislike right now.

@sniperloic2904

Ай бұрын

Dude peoples been complaining about it since its construction in the 70's... it's definitely not new

Fun fact: even the Tour Eiffel was hated after it was built.

French hate this tower but French don’t hate their own government looting resources from African countries. 😂

That frase was sad about the Eiffel Tower’s when it was build

@psyraxx39

2 ай бұрын

That PHRASE was SAID did we pass basic grammar son?

@byunbaekhyun2283

2 ай бұрын

​@@psyraxx39 *spelling, not grammar. but yeah, people play with language too much now.