Idk about that, Creek tower wouldn’t count as a building as he said, so you can’t advertise it as the tallest building, if Jeddah tower ever finishes

@@Ingenius_ it’s still can be the tallest tower in the world and that’s perfectly fine for them. Something similar has happened in the past in the case of CN tower wherein the world struggled to even beat its height until Burj Khalifa came along with its stupendously large vanity height.

yep, exactly. Even if it won't be the tallest building, it will still be tallest something. And tallest something is what draws tourists.

@@__isagani4208 it is valid. But tallest tower won't be as popular as tallest building. For example, a lot of ppl don't even know the existence of Tokyo SkyTree, which is currently the tallest tower n the 3rd tallest structure, behind burj khalifa n pnb118

The end is near :/

And if you’re building a skyscraper, it’s like you’re pitching one of the world’s biggest schlongs! And it lasts way longer than an hour.

Sounds like a dream

Tbh most modern buildings generally look shit. Architects aren’t artists and it really, Really shows🤷‍♂️

It's is designed by structural design engineer, not architect.

This is my first video of your channel watching and I am loving it. Can you share please the music in the background while you were talking about the Jeddah Tower

What you are talking about is called "vanity height". B1M did a video on it called "The World's Tallest Buildings Are Shorter Than You Think". If it was up to me, buildings would be ranked by the height of their highest usable floor.

@LTNetjak Burj Khalifa's top occupiable floor is at 585.4 m (70.55% of its "architectural height"), the original 1 World Trade Center's was at 413 m (99.04%). New One World Trade Center, an utterly uninspiring replacement, is 386.5 m (71.4%).

The shanghai tower would be the tallest by top floor and among the tallest buildings the Guangzhou CTF finance center would hold the most usable floor space (when you count the abraj al bait tower only and not the entire complex).

@@timokho20 According to the Council on Tall Buildings and Urban Habitat (CTBUH), the Burj Khalifa's highest occupied floor is 585.4 m and the Shanghai Tower's is 583.4 m.

@@JonMartinYXD yeah I’ve been seeing conflicting statistics too

Yes true

An obelisk skyscraper just sounds like a really cool concept. Even when scaled down it'll still be the tallest obelisk in the world

Why only in Africa, when you can be the World because the architect aren't Mediocre.

@@3nityC Because Egypt will go bankrupt and their people will overthrow the government to install a government that doesn't waste their money on such things.

I forgot to mention they both still claimed the title as the Pan Peninsula tower had the highest apartment even though the building was a few cm shorter.

"One of the signs of Doomsday is the rivalry of bare-footed and poor shepherds (Nomad Arabs) in constructing high buildings and boasting about it." ~ 𝗣𝗿𝗼𝗽𝗵𝗲𝘁 𝗠𝘂𝗵𝗮𝗺𝗺𝗮𝗱 (𝗽𝗯𝘂𝗵)

Ye, a giant obelisk tower would've been pretty cool.

🇸🇾🇸🇾🔥🔥

But it is just stupid propaganda and a hoax. Each floor would have dozens of rooms without a single window because of the insane space per floor. Nobody would want to live in such a building or buy an apartment.

@@vomm cry harder hater

@@The-ZebraFinch-Channel that's The Syrian Flag, not The Egyptian.

very true

form vs function

an architect`s dream is an engineer`s nightmare 🙃🙃😉

So true it's the job of a Structural engineer not an architect to make the idea come to life nevertheless they are never given the true credit they deserve..

@@hananirtaza3861 The Structural Engineer has a full say of the project than the architect.

I live in jeddah, the tower resumed work earlier this year

@@ryan-xe9ez wait really?

@@koen-_-8241 yes, i also live in jeddah aswell. They resumed construction but its moving slowly. Currently, more work is being put into the surrounding district instead of the building itself

@@koen-_-8241 yes, they're practically building a mini city around it

Well, for a neolithic structure such as the Jericho tower we do not know the EXACT year, or often even exact century. However, it's more like c. 8000 BCE - c. 2650 BCE, so the record stood around 5350 years (give or take) (if we assume it was succeeded in 2650 BCE by the Pyramid of Pharaoh Djoser)

@@lexprontera8325 according to "Tallest historical structures" in the "List of tallest buildings and structures" article on wikipedia. the tower of jericho was succeeded by the Anu Ziggurat in Uruk in 4000 BCE and preceded by Göbekli Tepe in Anatolia before 8000 BCE.

Ah, yes, the Sumerians!

It's almost like it didn't matter back then and still doesn't matter now lmao

I find it has a more pleasant look than the American ones, they all look like giant red birthday cakes.

@@sk-pp8uj true

@@sk-pp8uj NYC be like

... its* overall construction (it's = it is)

@@einundsiebenziger5488 settle down grammar police this is the internet

Ah yes flying horse fantasy

@@_emminowithoutl4995 The audacity of a hindu pagan to mock someone for their beliefs smh

​@@_emminowithoutl4995 Much much better than believing in "a blue man god" "a demon who had *10 👹head and 20 💪arms* " "a flying chariot" and most funny part 🤣 "a flying talking size changing monkey🐵 god" And there are many such endless wierd stories.... Our god is not such fictional superhuman, he's one and there's nothing like him, if you able to compare his attributes with someone he's not a god. He can make anything possible(not a big deal for him to bring your fantasies to existence). And there are many explanations behind it(like burak means light, so on) which I don't care about, Allah knows best

​​​@@_emminowithoutl4995 Don't know why I'm wasting my time and efforts on dumb ppl like you..... But let's see who's fantasies/beliefs come true when we wake up to see the reality ✌️

@@_emminowithoutl4995 do you know how to read?

“And if there’s a hair sticking out the tip, count it too, but only if it’s a structural hair”

yep.

There is a 1.43km tall oil rig in the Gulf of Mexico called the Magnolia Platform. However, it hardly counts as a structure or a building by anyone.

@@idosounds The weight of the top of the oil rig is not carried by the bottom, so it's not really tall. It's just deep. Just as we don't say the Kola Borehole was 12km tall, even when there was a structural element going from the surface to 12km depth.

@@nikolatasev4948 Yea, you’re right. I never really considered it a structure but thought it challenged the Burj Khalifa. I mustn’t have done research lol.

To be fair and flippant, it's not like Saudi Arabia or the UAE were verdant, lush oases with a vibrant and healthy community to begin with.

@@EbonySaints 😭🤣

The concept of walkability in urban design tends to only work in areas that don’t become scorching wastelands for at least 3/5ths of the year,hence why most of these projects are in the Middle East

@@EbonySaints I've live in Downtown Dubai for 5 years, and the Burj Khalifa turned it into that.

No, the twin towers were economicly astounding and made great office space. It was well designed too. Although some things are impractical, most of these are very useful buildings

The point is publicity. Everywhere people talked about Dubai when they built theirs, so the next city knows it will be instantly famous around the globe (and ofc also hope that that fame will bring tourism).

The Burj Khalifa had so many problems with plumbing they need an endless convoy of tankers moving sewage. Definitely there is a practical limit on building height.

It’s cool

They wany the world to make oral sex to the buildings.

Tourism/attention= MONEY

The 3rd tallest structure in the world is in Tokyo. I guess they've figured it out. (I'm also not an engineer)

I remember watching a video about megastructure I think 6 years ago and it showed some kind of machine or pendulum swing that counters the earthquake

So turn your home to church 🤣🤣😁

It depends on where you live, but when it comes to megatall buildings, it is just not possible to build 1km high Tower in that style.

You've to consider the culture and tradition of the place if you're gonna build them in classical etc style

Well you need to examine culture first, people don't favor Baroque or classical or victorian style of life anymore, they just love postmodernistic liberalism.

Same. That would be one cool stop on a dream tour of The New Egypt! I have faith in Egypt building this because let's face it with an dictator with ambition and a huge army to construct it like a brand new capital east of Cairo makes it pretty easy to dream up, design and build in due time. Even if I'm not a fan of dictators by any means. Just saying that you tend to get what you want a lot faster for better or for worse... I'm glad Egypt is about modernization of trains and cities, infrastructure and not war like some others...

@@stickynorth yeah i dont care about a political leader like that, they are almost always crooks, but this would be amazing to see standing 1km tall, would be so epic

to show how high the corruption in the country

Malaysia's obsession with tall building has been started long before Dubai's obsession with tall building. So i might say, it's already inside the dna😅. If malaysia has tonnes of money, they will overshadowing Dubai at no time.

But China have more skyscrapers than Malaysia

Probably because it is a recent emerging economy, new asian tiger, that had few urbanism before very recently (The urban population only surpassed rural population after the 1990s), a lot of economical growth, small land area (in the peninsula), so demand and money to build high in Kuala Lumpur is available. To @Cat, of course China has more skyscrappers, it has several times the population, economy, cities, etc, but Malaysia is a rather small country that punches way above its weight in tall buildings.

@@baraodascolinas979 appreciate ya answer! That’s an awesome insight

You sound Malaysian

With all that black gold coming in before... And now tourism dollars... You'd think so... especially since sewage is actually a huge resource that could be turned into cheap biofuels and electricity with little effort besides an aerobic digester the way some cattle farms here in Alberta use 'em to create enough power to run a city, I shit you not! Or YES in this case... My crappy home town could in theory be run entirely be waste from its High Density Feedlot aka its local "Bovine University Campus." But you know...

The city is a boom town. It won’t last too long. No need for a long term investment like a sewer system

Sewage systems have been fixed a while ago

Without maintenance, reinforced pre-stressed concrete core skyscrapers will last centuries more than steel load bearing structures like the WTC twin towers or Sears Tower. With maintenance and repairs, basically any skyscraper on a stable foundation can last indefinitely and materials dont really matter

i too think of this regularly, like surely there will be a disaster at the scale of 9/11 but instead structural collapses from shoddy construction, im 22 now, Was alive but not cognative during 2001, and means i got another 50 years maybe, and I just think, whats happened in the world since the 1970s, and 30 years before that there was a damn "world war" what will happen by 2070?

Who knows what will happen over a time scale of centuries. I'd assume the tallest buildings would have to be demolished like they we're built, bit by bit from the top down, until it's small enough to be blown up. But what if Dubai is bankrupt by then? There's currently a hirgh-rise building in San Francisco that has sunk and is leaning slightly. It's still safe to live in but it seems they haven't even managed to stabilize it yet, even though it was noticed over 5 years ago! However considering how many of these buildings are around the world I think our understanding on soil movements and foundations is a lot better than when the tower of Pisa was built.

Probably carbon fiber buildings

All it takes is 1 war to ruin these vanity projects

have you ever woken up above the clouds/fog and only see some other peaks sticking out.... it is quite breathtaking.

It’s ok, some people are afraid of heights. Many mainland China still live in villages

That's sooooo 2000 and late... ;-) I like both and they both have a roll to play if you ask me. Good design is good design no matter what form. As is bad design. Too many cut-rate towers ruined the reputation of the format the way that rock and roll was ruined by... oh let's say... Nickelback!

@@jovimathews To each their own. Tall buildings for some, mini pinwheels and walk up flats for others!

@@jovimathews Me? I'm a rowhouse fan... I love not having people above and below me, just next to me hopefully with proper sound and insulation!

I don’t think Egypt wants to only portrait one point of time, they also want to portrait there current Islamic culture….

They should clean the disgusting nile river before anything

@@Footballeditforfun I don’t care what they want to do. I want it to look like Stargate, dammit!

@@azzamkhalil26 Fair enough.

@@azzamkhalil26 Their whole country. Its fucking disgusting. But yeah I'm saying that from the Netherlands.

Wasnt this old news? And fixed now

@@as1m_ nope, they still haven't fixed that yet. To connect such a tall building to sewage would require significant changes to the sewage system. Trucking might actually be a much cheaper option.

@@evilapple3427 THE SEWARGE SYTEM IS UNDER CONSTRUCTION ESTIMATED TO FINSH AT THE END OF 2023

As my dad is an expatriate, he told me that the sewage system in Dubai for the Burj Khalifa isn’t even an issue. I think people need to wake up from making stupid comments; if you want to see for yourself, fly out and you may be suprised.

@@tyronejones5657 I did some research and it looks that this is an issue for the whole of Dubai, since at least 2010. Most of its skyscrapers are not connected to the sewerage, because it would overload the system. Instead, the waste is being transported via tankers. Basically, the sewerage system remembers 19th century and is long too small and too little for the fast developing metropolis. They are currently building a new sewerage that is planned to be completed in 2025. Nonetheless, it tells you enough about the people who rule Dubai: starting with a shiny show-off objects had priority over developing underbelly infrastructure first.

Na, flexing never gets old

Most middle eastern countries don't get natural disasters like earthquakes so it's not a big problem

@@kazisamir3411 Aleppo disagrees

@@kazisamir3411 - The human rights investigations into worker living conditions are still a problem and they know it. Workers coming from outside of the UAE are not respected in the same manner as workers native to the country.

@@lamchunting856 - Until the building flexes and bends over to kiss it's own feet. You just know that there's someone who wants something, no matter what, and their money says they're allowed to have it... Until the dead bodies are pulled out of the bent steel.

...and on islands with around 1500 earthquake a year.

from a demography point of view, how are they going to occupy it with their declining population

@@MarkWTK not. They are building it to keep their real estate market up. Which will help keep the current population wealthier.

Also godzilla

1600 meters

China likely has more empty skyscrapers than rest of the world combined

That's the spirit! And besides the office vacancy rate don't matter when you pull in $200M in tourism revenue from slack-jawed bumpkins from Nebraska and Liverpool paying $99 a pop! Hence why every super tall tends to add them. Are they tacky? Yes! But they are very profitable!

"Controversy". 99% of all people on the planet immediately see that the Sears Tower is taller. The rest would be Malaysians and a few coked-up academics.

​@@vomm yes right.

They’re designed to hold their place in these situations but yeah it would be quite scary

"One of the signs of Doomsday is the rivalry of bare-footed and poor shepherds (Nomad Arabs) in constructing high buildings and boasting about it." ~ 𝗣𝗿𝗼𝗽𝗵𝗲𝘁 𝗠𝘂𝗵𝗮𝗺𝗺𝗮𝗱 (𝗽𝗯𝘂𝗵)

@@jihadi-against-oppression People are not trying competing anymore.

@@BrmeelI wouldn’t care tbh

Good! Less Anime!!

Japan as a whole is, but big cities and Tokyo specially are still growing, from internal migration from rural and small and even medium cities, and international migration too in Tokyo. Since anime and cultural stuff is more consumed by urban people with more money and acces to it, i'm sure there will be more anime in the future, not less. Maybe less anime for children, and more anime towards japanese adults and internacional exportation.

I literally just commented the same verse, it's crazy how Arabs themselves don't realize they are doing what prophet And saw predicted they'll do

What hadidth, give us source?

Cope

This is a myth

At least it’s better than London, when they flushed all the poop and shit into their river when the sewage system couldn’t handle it

You people will jump on whatever wagon that passes by to justify getting mad at something... this was an old problem that got fixed years and years ago. Hence why all the videos of the "poop trucks" are in crappy quality. That's how old this is.

Well they don’t, most of that it passes on to structural and civil engineers who validate the design

They don’t care that’s what I’ve heard studying civil engineering

Architects do some of it but they mainly focus on the design, a structural engineer will figure out how to actually build it

Those people are 'edge lords' and not architects/engineers. The same type of people who'll pass the project to construction companies who use physical labourers from other nations as they matter less to the nation in question that is getting its 'super, I'm the best, high tower' built.

I propose a solid stone pyramid that is 100 kilometers high. Unlike those towers, my design is even structurally sound. Please include me in these videos for the largest currently proposed structure.

You still confused about architectural height?

@@catzzzz1450 obviously you are if you count spires over floor count😂imagine that

China also recently installed a height limit of 500 meters for new buildings because of economical soundness. A move that many countries could also do, with lowers heights too.

In the case of the Burj the architect was absolutely involved in the structural aspects of the building. The architect Adrian Smith has a bigger portfolio of super tall projects than anyone. At those heights the structure plays too large of a role in the form of the building for the architect not be involved with structural aspects as well.

@@Rampant16 I'm sure played a role in helping shape it for sure. But my point was that calculating forces and stresses and the resultant required structure is not at all the responsibility of the architect. There's inevitably some coordination that needs to occur between form (architect) and function (engineer). The level of which is dependent on the scale and complexity of the structure. Regardless, the structural engineer is the primary person responsible for the structure. They are the ones signing off on the structure with their name, liability and all.

I sure hope so! I'm hopeful for any skyscraper proposal, TBH!

"One of the signs of Doomsday is the rivalry of bare-footed and poor shepherds (Nomad Arabs) in constructing high buildings and boasting about it." ~ 𝗣𝗿𝗼𝗽𝗵𝗲𝘁 𝗠𝘂𝗵𝗮𝗺𝗺𝗮𝗱 (𝗽𝗯𝘂𝗵)

Even back in the original WTC design, getting a proper elevator setup without taking up too much floorspace was a huge challengs. And those buildings were FAT compared to these newer towers

Looks like you got the height wrong, pretty sure it’s actually 8400 FEET tall. Your other measurements seem right though