I saw what you did there... ;)

why did you live at one end and she lived at the other end..that´s certainly long distance LOL

*Based on a true story*

Nice daddy

@Maddux Lance awww a bot so not annoying

Usually that just refers to the „main entrance“ in front of the Station Heiligenstadt, so it’s actually quite understandable when someone says that.

everyone who lives in vienna / know the karl marx hof knows what place is meant. there is one main entrance right infront of the subway station, pretty easy actually

But what if he says meet me at the corner xD

I actually had that issue once 🤨

Time for what3words.com!

@Golden Eagle No idea, but NASA would thank you for making a space elevator.

@@Autoskip if you laid it on its side it would be almost identical to how it is now, if you stood it on its end, it would reach up to the stratosphere.

If you could stand this building on its end, I wouldn't be a bit surprised :) (apologies to Dorothy Parker)

If we tip over the Burj Khalifa, it'll become the longest building.

@@uropig na

Those front iron gates reminded me of some military compounds or some jails.

@@PatricioGarcia1973 - they were called “working class fortresses” for a reason ;-) Also, similar buildings of that age also have this kind of gate, it is only after WW2 that the buildings lost their castle-like character.

@Social Dissidence - the thing is, it is actually very comfortable to live here. You will practically always have playgrounds, shops, doctors, kindergartens,… _inside_ the building complex, in my case, although the complex was younger and thus no longer of the “fortress”-type, even my primary school was there, and since I almost lived door to door to my school, it took less than a minute to get there. There are actually great places, if you should come to Vienna, a “Gemeinedebau” is absolutely on any must-see-list.

@@mediocreman6323 hello from your once Imperial brother city, Budapest. Vienna is definitely the most familiar of foreign cities, I would love to live there. I don't speak German though, especially Austrian German, even though I have a bit of a passive understanding thanks to spending a few days each summer for a few years there when I was a kid, and also the early morning cartoons on Sat1, Pro7, and RTL on cable when I was a kid. And that weird ball instructing phone game on Sat1. :D

They were called "Gemeindebauten". Not Arbeiterburgen

Thanks for the great tip! I tried the function in Google Maps and found that the areal for the building in Warzaw is 19778,96 m2 or 212898,96ft2. Great tool! :)

I do think that he used google maps

@@paxundpeace9970 Yes, but he used the walking directions feature to get distance measurements, rather than the straight ruler distances it can give.

That's how I figured out I live almost exactly 7 miles due south of, and directly in line with, the airport runway.

I’ve been doing this for years now since they taught us how to do it at school for one specific assignment. It is actually very useful and I use it a lot.

nizvkfb7vs bvrsct Wow, how on earth didn't you notice

@@OHYS always thought it was multiple buildings built in the same style.

@@OHYS I actually never really realized it too, when you drive through it, you don't really get any view of how long it is, and when you drive along it, you usually watch the road, and don't realize its all just one building. Then again, I live outside Vienna, and don't get there very often lol.

It's kind of easy not to notice. It's not a high building, same as all the others around, and it's broken up by streets going through it with arches above them.

Ich finde das Wort obnoxiously äußert obnoxiously zum lesen

Nowhere near this one. Each piece is about 500 meters.

@@Quasihamster Well, here they just bridge the pieces together, it's debateable if that should make a difference

The Prora, it IS longer than Kar-Marx-Hof. Use google/google earth.

@@Quasihamster No man, 550m but the walk around distance (perimeter) exceeds Kar-Marx-Hof. So the winner is the Prora.

@@majan6267 What matters to me is that there are NO gaps.

0:55 I think that is why there are so many people seen on the left hand side of the video.

@@hoizhockaaut-gamingundco6341 Seems like the museum is in the 04:18 mark. The one you pointed out, it's a kindergarten one of the two they have just in that complex. I'm feeling jealous.

flights to Israel from Frankfurt are always at gate C13 for "security reasons", so it's close to 800m (probably more) from the entrance. So fun

North East Outrider It could always be worse. Imagine if you had to actually walk to your destination instead of fly. Even though it’s been a while since I’ve done any flying, I have felt your pain before. When you have to get on a tram/trolly/people mover of any type to get from gate “X” to gate “Y” , that’s a long way to be walking if a person had too!

Brussels and Charles de Gaulle should be in the records

On my bucket list welove walki g us africans

Unless you've tried to get to terminal A from the metro stop with 2 small children and luggage at DCA, you don't know what a long airport walk is

To be fair it is an intereating building

The tip-tap footsteps nearly kept pace with my heart’s excitement.

CERN is an even more impressive arc. Or rather, circle. 😉

@@RWBHere But you cant see the whole arc. It's under the erarth, only the support buildings can be seen ... I have been there.

It absolutely is! - Prora should also be mentioned. 2500 meters of that once 4500 meters collossus are still intact.

Great! And then you have the austrian economic school which is the most fierce capitalism school of economics. World is weird.

@@davidfernandez9791 "austrian"

@@davidfernandez9791 that school is often considered the second worst Austrian export, right after a certain mustached dude

every 6 hours is leg day

You'd have to have a suitcase to carry all the poop bags you needed to take with you.

PreNeanderthal, Poop dealer tings

PreNeanderthal Nah, here in vienna we have public poop bag dispensers mounted on our public trash bins. So no poop suitcase is needed

5 km is pretty doable actually. I would just do one time a day though probably.

yes because the actual longest building is the great wall in china

well done that was the joke

@@xkinsey3831 well done, you've successfully found a joke where one does not lie

They actially do! It's a very famous building, people from all over the world visit and get tours there.

This project is almost 100 years old and still does a lot of things way better than any social housing project in the US. It would be nice to bring this concept back.

@Sune Wallentin Goettler But why should anybody want that?

Vienna in general is pretty good at that

Sune Wallentin Goettler Social housing isnt about making it as cheap as possible, its about providing quality living to people at affordable prices

@illegal_opinions With 7.5 billion people, not everyone can own land. Those who can't at least deserve to have shelter for an appropiate rent.

Whooosh.

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@@anarchocommunist3888 ayy ancom gang based

@@dad641 how exactly do you plan for anarcho... communism to work?

@@voidofspaceandtime4684 what do you mean, like how to get it implemented or how it would run?

I would think the hall/corridor running along SLAC in Palo Alto would have been far, far longer.

Holmdel? I used to live there as well!

This is also the reason why rent in Vienna is at a reasonable price.

No public entity should own this much property.

@@Henrik46 Iam on your side and would argue that they should own even more. A public housing market is a market which is democraticly controlled. Housing is a fundamental right as stated for example in the german constitution.

@@Henrik46 Vienna is the perfect example why you are wrong. If anything all public entities should at least own as much.

@@Henrik46 at least it works in Austria. And the appartments are affordable.

Pentagon.

The biggest by volume is actually Boeing's Everett Factory

The Romanian Parliament building is the heaviest building in the world. The largest building by volume is Boeing Everett Factory in Washington state.

In Warsaw there is a similar building called "Pekin", which is roughly about 1150 m long and also looks like a terrible snake strategy

52.232372,21.080022 coordinates of Pekin for anyone interested

Let's hope the ice fosen't want revange again

@@manuel7700 Climate change is keeping the ice at bay. All goes according to plan for Lincoln, England.

im so jealous of this... our rents are getting higher and higher what with people discovering Air-bnb...

@@ppsarrakis A few cities are banning it now, the trick is getting it banned before the locals are already pushed out. If there's nobody left in the city but investors and Chinese, they control the city council and you can't stop them. There may still be hope even then, though. Vancouver, Canada waited too long to keep its lifelong locals, but then the investors who kicked out the locals ended up voting in a city council that wanted empty house taxes anyway, because even the richest Canadians couldn't compete with China anymore.

Ludvig Askander by the time you've finished a full circle renovation, your son can follow you up for round 2

they even have a museum in that building. Formerly this was the washhouse of the Karl-Marx Hof. But since people are having now their own washing machine in every apartment they turned this washhouse into a museum about the history of the Social Democratic municipal administration of the city of Vienna

You haven't missed anything really

To be honest: It is impressive, but the surroundings aren't. You can get to the Kalenberg and its Heurigen --- and that's nice. But the area is pretty boring compared to the rest of vienna. And there are some more spectacular public housing projects in the city - although smaller.

I think that the "mur-écran" is actually longer than the one in the video by about 200 meters

Why? It does not say the building with the longest one dimension - but the longest building. It wouldn't change a thing if you coiled it up into a spiral either.

@@ABaumstumpf I agree, because I live in Lutsk, Ukraine=) And can you have a tour along the rooftop of Viena building? In Lutsk you can!

@@ABaumstumpf that's one of the reasons: en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coastline_paradox If we include zig-zags, then we could make relatively small building count as extra-long by doing stupid sharp cuts into it.

niter43 Coastlines are hard with tides and so, but yes a virtual 1m wide walkway along the coast you walk, that’s the coastline and not the little drawings on a map or an ants view of the coastline. The cern tunnel for example is a long circular building and its longer than its diameter.

@@ABaumstumpf A building is, by definition, continuously habitable. The Burj Khalifa is a building, the CN Tower is not.

Actually Vienna was rated the city with highest quality of living by consulting agency Mercer for the 10th consecutive year in 2019.

It's alright and affordable to live in them. They're not luxury buildings with spas in the basement or anything, they're just normal apartment buildings. Apartments look like they would in any other building too.

These apartments (and generally all of the 200.000 apartments owned by the city) rent out for 7,50€ per square meter (that makes about 0,7€ per square feet). Also we have regulations on many types of building regarding how much a landlord can charge for a flat

This works in every country and has been tried in every country. There is just no strong left-wing left, if you exclude scandinavian countries, which is the reason that speculation, gentrification and increased rent is happening everywhere in cities.

Vienna: Beautiful city with only one downside, the people living there...

Well if it's any consolation, either you're not mad, or we both are. I missed out on the Wittgenstein House, will have to go back to Vienna and check it out!

The Tim Traveller getting into the Wittgenstein House was hard as it is / was part of the Bulgarian embassy.

I live in vienna and I never heard about the Wittgenstein House. But the Karl Marx Hof is awesome. I have quite some friends living in it and I lived right inbetween the Karl-Marx-Hof and the Friedrich-Engels-Hof (which also is a fascinating piece of social housing)

Germa has blood o its habda wos i terested with it killibg 6i bocent pwople crazy hitler

Jeremy Linah This is austria, not germany. What are you talking about?

Heyy I was just about to comment this exact thing. Im working in Fermont right now.

@@richarddaigle8777 Is it true that stripping there is a big business?

Cheers Steroumel! I was a bit worried that there might not be enough trains in this one, I'm glad you still liked it :)

I'm having a hard time understanding how "cheap rent" commie blocks are a good thing. In America wherever "social housing" developments pop up it ends up being a very bad thing.

@@graalcloud i can understand you but there are a couple of factors which are not really comparable to social housing projects... and Socialists are not communists. They dont want to have a revolution of the working class (as they supposed to want). They want to have social benefits via a political system. In this case from the democratic Republic. The idea of those house projects in Vienna where that the city (which is and was rules by socialists) built flats financed by themselves and use the income only to finance more flats. Nothing is perfect for all but in this case its also located near a quite rich area and may benefit from the surrounding.

@@graalcloud In the US the social blocks are for getting rid of poor people. In Socialist countries, it was a means to give people affordable roof such that they don't go bankrupt. It isn't bad. There is no profit involved in Karl-Marx-Hoff, but in the US it's all about profit, segregation and propaganda. In Singapore, everyone gets social housing. You generally don't associate Singapore with misery right? This is all a product of Red Scare!

@Ganga Din That would be new to me. Why isn't there freedom of speech?

@Ganga Din It doesn't as far as I know, can you name something people aren't allowed to say in Austria?

As far as I know I am allowed to say anything I want. And I live in Vienna

@Ganga Din You actually can, what law would forbid that?

@Ganga Din Austria is #16 on the 2019 Press Freedom Index, far above countries like the UK (#33) or the USA (#48). A lot of places still have old laws in their books that don't get enforced any longer, like sodomy laws. Can you actually cite a recent example of someone who got prosecuted for blasphemy in Austria and was found guilty? And civil rights can also be restricted by extralegal means. Maybe you don't end up in jail for being an atheist in America, but you and your family members might end up losing your jobs, homes and face other forms of harassment over views like that. If I had to choose between a country that still has blasphemy laws and a country where outright discrimination of religious minorities is still a thing, then I'd always pick the former.

Trevor Bourgeois Link(s), please??

It's hard to see on the map because Google street view doesn't go there. I have found a few links in French (sorry, none in English) : Tourism Côte-Nord: tourismecote-nord.com/membres/musees-et-centres-dinterpretation/le-mur-ecran/ Wikipedia (look for "Le « Mur »"): fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fermont Jobboom: structure of the wall: www.jobboom.com/carriere/anatomie-du-mur-de-fermont/ UPDATE: I found one link in English: www.houseporn.ca/landscape/article/the_wall_housing_structure_in_fermont_quebec

www.google.ca/url?sa=t&rct=j&q=&esrc=s&source=web&cd=14&cad=rja&uact=8&ved=2ahUKEwiw9Kmz8a_lAhXuc98KHWjFAI8QFjANegQIABAB&url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.houseporn.ca%2Flandscape%2Farticle%2Fthe_wall_housing_structure_in_fermont_quebec&usg=AOvVaw0hVHN8--D_tUct02ROw-gc

I've been to Fermont a couple times. The Wall is epic. In addition to hundreds of apartments it also contains several stores including a supermarket, schools, and recreational facilities. Apparently there's even a strip club in there but I didn't see it. The first time I visited in 1997 I thought it was pretty spectacular. When I saw it again in 2015 it looked a little tired but still very functional.

nice

ziggy 2shus hell yea man

Well the Karl Marx building is the only thing what have been left from him ;)

Not even a pin factory?

Or any Ayn Rand building at all lol

What's the issue?

Who would want to visit the shitheap that is LA

actually the colossus of prora (2,5 of 4,5 km left) is way more impressive. I've been there

@@emporioalnino4670 I used to live there, I thought it was nice. Then again I lived in Santa Monica which is a lot nicer than most of la

You'd have diabetes by the time you got to the middle

They're Europeans though. They probably don't even give out candy, or if they do it's marzipan or something gross like that.

@@chocomanger6873 vienna here: we dont give out candys, if someone, if really anyone, comes to the door uninvited, the correct answer is and always will be: "schleichts es es gschissanen gfrasta!"

@@accutus Verdammte Scheiße

@Bernd DasBrot Oh yeah... Just gotta love that British chocolate, those gooey Haribo shapes, the dry cakes, ... Actually, one thing Europe does do right is that salty northern European liquorice.

well, he is living in the same house.... :)

there are tramways and busses7. Also it is probably just a 15 minute walk if you walk slowly.

@@fraenzchen85 is it possible to ride by bike? looks like a mini city in a building =)

Me too

Apparently it's split up in three parts along the 4500m of total length (Kdf Koloss)

Mind the gaps!

Same

To be fair, I thought it was multiple buildings connected together, not a single building.

It's a cultural classic!

Basicaly the same

@@Phineas_Freak Not really. Annexation is by force, the Anschluss was voluntary.

@@PGraveDigger1 I know thats what they said back then but it was basicaly forced. When you are a small and economical weak country you better do what the Nazis say when they have a huge army on your border. The Austrian public and army where not treated as equals, not to speak of jews and socialists who came from or flet to Austria. Although tbh a lot of Austrians where in favour of the Anschluss.

@@Phineas_Freak I was taught that the anschluss was the result of a referendum, where proponents got the majority. As far as I know the majority of the country did want to voluntarily join Germany, so the force that was exerted was atleast in some sense the same as the force exerted by democratic governments. If you, like I, view the force exerted by an army as basically the same as the force exerted by the monopoly on violence that democratic states have, then I agree with your point that annexation and anschluss were basically the same.

Here in Austria, saying we were forced to join Germany ("erstes Opfer"/"first Victim") will make you seem like a Nazi. Sure, there might have been some Economics at play, but more importantly, Vienna cheered when Hitler drove his car through the streets on the first day after declaring Austria part of Germany...

Well, ther where Studies by the city government in collaboration with the Milliertys of Britten France and the USA. To demolish the Karl Marks Hofe and Bild a runway just in case the Soviets did not want to relinquish control over their Occupation Zone and closed the Borders. The Karl Marks hove was Chossen because it was the longest flat straight and publicly owned Pice of land within the Western Alights Occupation Zone of Vienna. Luckily the Soviets sight the State Treaty. And Austria was as Pormist voluntarily neutral the day after Soviet forces withdrew from Austria.

So it's not ONE Building!

I would have to agree that it is not one building. DTW in Detroit is 1.4km long

No, It was 894 meters or 0.56 miles long

Facts!

So clever Eric, we need to think more for things like that, for example every day, millions people eat soup and some of them don't like it, but no have other options...

If you were to stand every human on earth shoulder to shoulder along the equator, a significant amount would drown

It was never finished and isn't fully connected. Its called KDF Bad, to be precise, the little town its standing in and the area soruonding it is called Prora.

It is further not a residential building but built as a hotel