Why The Marble Panels Of The Grand Arch in Paris Started To Fall Out?

Why The Marble Panels Of The Grand Arch in Paris Started To Fall Out? | Massive Engineering Mistakes

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4 жыл бұрын

A modern version of the Arch the Triumph, La Grande Arche de la Défense was built to celebrate the 200 years of the French Revolution. However, the building proved to be no match for the Parisian climate.
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@howdyblack7742 4 жыл бұрын

First thing comes through my mind. Paint it yellow and it looks like the national geographic logo.

@mohammadgm8463 4 жыл бұрын

You should google Dubai frame 🖼 it’s like huge natgeo 3d logo!

@cerisem7727 4 жыл бұрын

National Geographic Theme intensifies...

@laneythelame 4 жыл бұрын

I love that

@Dan-gd6zz 4 жыл бұрын

I can't unsee it now

@abdlhmdx 4 жыл бұрын

Isn’t that in Dubai already?

@pogi09282805724 4 жыл бұрын

The elevator looked like a scaffolding!!

@wtfstudioinc.1827 4 жыл бұрын

pogi09282805724 an eyesore actually.

@adamndirtyape 4 жыл бұрын

I was going to comment on that too. Classify that feature under 'what were they thinking?"

@wtfstudioinc.1827 4 жыл бұрын

adamndirtyape why not they install the elevator inside one of the sides of the arch to make it hidden.

@roridev 4 жыл бұрын

@@wtfstudioinc.1827 Those are maintenance elevator.

@wtfstudioinc.1827 4 жыл бұрын

LoliDEV but still, eyesore!

@Danielevans2 4 жыл бұрын

This video could have been 10 seconds long. Basically, the tiles absorbed water, bent, then fell off 💁🏻‍♂️.

@pheakay 4 жыл бұрын

I hate TV shows like this, they stretch out storys in order to make it a 1 hour long show

@taufanadikurniawan7170 4 жыл бұрын

You should put spoiler warning there, I've read your comment and now I don't know what to do with this video, do I have skip it or continue watching it? 😐

@Danielevans2 4 жыл бұрын

@@taufanadikurniawan7170 by all means your welcome to waist an additional 7 minutes of your life but I can promise it'd be spent best watching something else

@taufanadikurniawan7170 4 жыл бұрын

@@Danielevans2 yeah you right, I thought they will explain in-depth details in marble crackling but no, not at all, not a thing just water, kinda disappointed though 😐

@MrAntiGema 4 жыл бұрын

Thankful for people like you who safe people like me precious time

@tojesake4564 4 жыл бұрын

The tiles wouldn't have fallen if they had just used flex glue

@douglasascencio9140 4 жыл бұрын

THAT'S A LOT OF MARBLE!!

@3rKoPlaysMinecraft 4 жыл бұрын

Why are they replacing the tiles? You are correct, they should have looked at ways how to adjust the mechanism holding them in place. Good thing this brilliant video explained how they are held in place ffs

@jotomato 4 жыл бұрын

But it’s the tiles that has FLEX issue tho

@Jontae4288 4 жыл бұрын

Lol coat it all in flex seal then it’s now a boat lol

@addanametocontinue 4 жыл бұрын

@@3rKoPlaysMinecraft The video simulation shows a simple diagram of how they were held in place and the guy states that they tend to crack under temperature changes. For a short video of the issue, I believe that is sufficient. If you want to give your $0.02 to what architects have already researched, then go look it up yourself dude. This isn't a documentary.

@BBJ737 4 жыл бұрын

The elevator shaft really ruins this thing

@Ritaaw1 4 жыл бұрын

I think it looks like a waterfall

@gregorymalchuk272 4 жыл бұрын

@briank05 Ecaxtly. This thing is hideous and needs to be demolished.

@psychos1s. 4 жыл бұрын

The tents too

@ronidude 4 жыл бұрын

Looks like it's under construction lol

@AlexS-oj8qf 4 жыл бұрын

I thought it was a brace because the structure is weak lmao

@ThomasHaberkorn 4 жыл бұрын

The elevator shafts in the middle are breaking the clean design language

@ThomasHaberkorn 4 жыл бұрын

@@EliasSchmid00 thanks for the advice

@ronidude 4 жыл бұрын

Lol I thought that was construction scaffolding

@fren111 4 жыл бұрын

@@EliasSchmid00 the whole thing is blad and inhuman, like all contemporary architecture

@eliharman 4 жыл бұрын

True but "clean design language" is just a nice way of saying "ugly, boring, and stupid." Now it's ugly, busy, and stupid...

@ryy1704 4 жыл бұрын

It looks cooler, gives it an industrial look.

@darthslackus499 4 жыл бұрын

An architectural marvel of the modern world: Behold! I give you the box!

@ligametis 4 жыл бұрын

Are you even surprised?

@jaimeduncan6167 4 жыл бұрын

Genghis Kong pretty modern, planed obsolescence included

@-__._._.__- 4 жыл бұрын

Right, and I thought an arch had a curve

@urhomiesapien 4 жыл бұрын

Ee er

@Micsmit_45 4 жыл бұрын

@@-__._._.__- and, you know, was open on the Bottom...

@marvnuts 4 жыл бұрын

Why didn't they just put elevators inside the legs?

@MrTheWaterbear 4 жыл бұрын

ML They wanted to. The legs are owned by business in the french government. They’re not allowed to let the public in there.

@rajgill7576 4 жыл бұрын

@@MrTheWaterbear they literally could have had the door open from the outside directly to the elevator, like a bathroom. Nobody goes in government buildings, done

@MrTheWaterbear 4 жыл бұрын

Raj Gill Okay, there is a strange point I have to mention here. Inside both of the sides, there is a massive piece of art on acrylic tile that spans from the bottom to the top of the building. This was a gift from a French artist friend of the architect, to celebrate his win in the competition. The elevator in the middle was meant to allow the public to enjoy the views of Paris and also see the artwork whilst ascending/descending. Sadly, the government went behind the back of the foundation of the Arch and tinted the windows so you almost can’t see the art anymore. Visiting the arch was supposed to be a great experience for the public. So enjoying a good view all the way up and down was important. I don’t rightly know if it was the architect or the board who demanded the elevator be placed in the middle... the architect has been dead for 30 years now, and I value the privacy of his family, so I refuse to ask. There is a reason for every feature of a building, and not all of them are equally the responsibility of the architect.

@rajgill7576 4 жыл бұрын

@@MrTheWaterbear damn, I really side with you here. Politics man

@robertlembo 4 жыл бұрын

The new 1 WTC building has a public observatory at the top, but the rest of the building is offices. Know how they keep the two separate? They have two entrances, one for the businesses, and one which is literally just a door to the elevators to go up to the top floors, crazy I know, I like the ugly elevators outside the building idea more too.

@Goodish_night 4 жыл бұрын

Nether Portal is supposed to made out of Obsidian not Marble...

@TheWeekndGaming 4 жыл бұрын

Alex Whittington It’s made of diorite

@imtherealvict1m 4 жыл бұрын

DeepFried Pickles ok buddy who gives a shit

@fordalels 4 жыл бұрын

@ferzfy Normally, I'd use ignore this, but clearly you didn't ignore Deepfried Pickles, so why should I ignore this? Now please, tell me why you spend your time like this. Tell me why you have nothing better to do than give responses about nobody caring when you weren't in the conversation. Maybe if you shut your mouth and listened, you'd actually have something substantial to say.

@kaiche-jb2bf 4 жыл бұрын

@@imtherealvict1m it is a Minecraft reference.

@alltimesad9288 4 жыл бұрын

cameraman: yeah can you just hold up some baguettes that would be lovely confused girl: sure? i don't, uhm.. <a href="#" class="seekto" data-time="17">0:17</a>

@net4khaled 4 жыл бұрын

🤣 god you are genius

@justnobody6703 4 жыл бұрын

I read it with the video and that uhm was a great cutoff 😂

@wahidtrynaheghugh260 4 жыл бұрын

Yeah that looks about right haha

@OAS15 4 жыл бұрын

Lmao

@umbertobehounek3370 4 жыл бұрын

Lol! Yes, and the accordian music in the background, as always .

@delicflower13x3 4 жыл бұрын

Well, for starters, THAT isn’t even an arch.

@-__._._.__- 4 жыл бұрын

Glad someone pointed that out

@douadouard1009 4 жыл бұрын

wallah tu veux te battre

@MeriemM94 4 жыл бұрын

Douadouard100 Tu m’as tuée...

@artcurious807 4 жыл бұрын

but but but it’s a wonderful interpretation... It’s rumored Roger Scruton died of disgust upon viewing this over priced marble box.

@TheHaruharokuhana 4 жыл бұрын

A post and lintel.

@ChuckRage 4 жыл бұрын

Really thought there'd be more comments about the pronunciation of Louvre

@diarmaid0heineachain314 4 жыл бұрын

TheNicknack43 Or Parizian!

@paddyl.886 4 жыл бұрын

Ditto!

@PhilJonesIII 4 жыл бұрын

They got most pronunciation wrong.

@ramiroramirez6367 4 жыл бұрын

Loove!

@syntheretique385 4 жыл бұрын

We have so many visitors, we're used to it. No biggie.

@akashshaji6497 4 жыл бұрын

"Chosen for its strength and simplicity".... Its a goddamn white square, I wonder how long it took the guy to come up with it.. 😂

@zharpain 4 жыл бұрын

ye as kids we probably built things like this with legos or whatever we had... where's our recognition for our engineering prowess.

@yun1407 4 жыл бұрын

Why am i watching this i have finals

@BLODSWIPER 4 жыл бұрын

I have final exam in two days. Let's hope we pass lmao.

@jonchalk3855 4 жыл бұрын

Your brain seeking a break. Good luck on your finals.

@TheFlyingChair24 4 жыл бұрын

same

@townofcats2077 4 жыл бұрын

me too

@Litto1 4 жыл бұрын

Everyone always has finals even when schools not in session.

@c0baltblue 4 жыл бұрын

Why is it looks like its constantly under construction?

@khaelsayfair1163 4 жыл бұрын

When the older one is more durable than this nat geo logo then clearly there's a problem here!🙄

@vermeilanimation3706 4 жыл бұрын

@MrZapparin No they did not, that's why there so little building left, and those that are left are usually monuments that were cared for during their lifetimes, or things bulky enough that there's no way they would break (pyramids for example). L'arche de la Défense will probably stand for centuries or milleniums, it's concrete and steel. The decorations may fall off in the meantime.

@BewitchedMelvy 4 жыл бұрын

VermeilAnimation eccept the fact that european cities are literally built on top of aincient cties, so that’s why you don’t see aincient buildings: they are the foundations of towns. In italy we still use roman acqueducts to move water, our streets follow the roman streets, and entire city layouts still follow aincient roman MILITARY camps. Aincients knew their shit so much that we still build on top of it.

@agasharizky874 4 жыл бұрын

VermeilAnimation w.

@guyski666 4 жыл бұрын

<a href="#" class="seekto" data-time="431">7:11</a> The body language of these workers says "I don't know - I think it will be OK?"

@trollenz 4 жыл бұрын

😂😂😂😂😂😂 the mind says : we have no papers, can hardly afford any food, they've been exploiting us like slaves for a year in this hell, fuck it, I'm leaving it as it is, if it falls down they'll blame the architect showing off on the roof

@user-xg6zz8qs3q 4 жыл бұрын

Hahahaha! I work in construction in France in that describes it. It's amateur hour everyday and there's a constant fog of confusion.

@douglasascencio9140 4 жыл бұрын

I love how we humans can just pun out stuff from thin air. "This arc just wasn't as triumphant", I mean come on we're all just a ball of goofiness.

@nobilesnovushomo58 4 жыл бұрын

Their ancestors were great though. This monument just proves modern France is a meme.

@MyIphoneGaming 4 жыл бұрын

<a href="#" class="seekto" data-time="288">4:48</a> is where they start talking about the panels falling out

@VulpinetideCuteTimes0w0 4 жыл бұрын

Honestly, this thing would look better if they added artificial water falls and more green plants growing at the bottom or top of the building.. like really, if it's gonna look this painfully bland, at least spruce it up with some mother nature in there.

@slappy8941 4 жыл бұрын

It would look better if it were demolished and the architect taken out and shot.

@syntheretique385 4 жыл бұрын

A couple blocks away from the arch, to the east, there are a few fountains and trees. There's no hiding it's one ugly, stressful, business district. I wouldn't advice tourists to visit that place.

@ChibiNyaNya 4 жыл бұрын

Slappy hmmm 🤔 they said in the video he died before it was even finished?

@n0rmal953 4 жыл бұрын

It’s a business disctrict at the border of Paris, surrounded by skyscrapers... frankly I appreciate the Arche more than some glass towers. It’s simple and age imo better than the weird gray/brown modern/nature inspired buildings Some cities only contains bland skyscrapers.

@syntheretique385 4 жыл бұрын

@@n0rmal953 it might have been botched somewhat it remains an ambitious architectural project, I agree.

@bryanmartinez6600 4 жыл бұрын

Aight so when do we activate the portal to the Nether

@nopjs9865 4 жыл бұрын

Looks like something from Minecraft...

@aryaanraghoe4935 4 жыл бұрын

Portal from MC😂😩

@GianniEndo 4 жыл бұрын

What's Minecraft?

@caesar7734 4 жыл бұрын

There are no 45 degree slopes in Minecraft

@imperialsecuritybureau6037 4 жыл бұрын

Caesar actually there are, in a few mods. And there is one called ArchitectureCraft which would be good for making this... I think I’ll try it lol thanks for the idea

@MildMisanthropeMaybeMassive 4 жыл бұрын

That a noob would build.

@theDaye 3 жыл бұрын

I visited this building a few years ago. It's quite a sight to see in person. I didn't know the marble had been replaced.

@oJoJo 4 жыл бұрын

Went to france with my dad just for this building when it was finished

@artgamechanger3841 4 жыл бұрын

Awesome.

@AlexS-oj8qf 4 жыл бұрын

Imagine going to France just to visit La Defense

@justafish9618 4 жыл бұрын

@@AlexS-oj8qf how sad

@MrTheWaterbear 4 жыл бұрын

Hope you enjoyed it. I really love the top floor and elevator :)

@navajovik 4 жыл бұрын

Ok, the marble absorbs water, heat drys it, will crack with time. Perfect let use it!

@adamsrealm 4 жыл бұрын

Arch: Has complicated french name. Me: Is square baguette.

@GSRL03 4 жыл бұрын

adamsrealm it aint a complicated name😂 arche de La Défense just means defence arch

@zharpain 4 жыл бұрын

@@GSRL03 pity it couldn't defend against water.

@Vlad-sj5yw 4 жыл бұрын

<a href="#" class="seekto" data-time="381">6:21</a> - Who is this random guy asking me if I can imagine being hit by a falling marble slab and then telling me i can't?

@watkinscopicat 4 жыл бұрын

such a great building

@HRHKamal 3 жыл бұрын

Similar thing happened to a couple of buildings in New Delhi where a "renowned" architect used sandstone tiles stuck with cement outside to harmonise with the sandstone used in iconic legacy buildings when New Delhi was built. Sandstone being highly porous, the tiles absorbed water, the cement bond weakened & tiles started falling off. The fix was tortorous - bolting each tile with stainless steel bolts. The legacy buildings which were built with sandstone blocks suffered no such problem & look grand even after many decades.

@user-un8tv1pp8m 11 ай бұрын

Yeah, we had a similar development on the other side of the world in alpine germany. Some stone-producers began marketing the - pretty but not very homogenous or durable - yellow local limestone as a "local pride" building material. Countless (mostly conservative) politicians got talked into lining public buildings with "our pretty lime". Now....alpine regions? Do get wet and freeze. And soft limestone with irregular density and chemistry? Does erode under weather. As anybody who opened his eyes to the eroding mountainscape around them in the region would have been able to see. We have 150 year old churches here built from that stone...crumbling. Now just the same thing as in paris happens here. 20 years later dozens of city halls, institution headquarters, city malls ect. have dangerously flaking surfaces and need to be re-skinned. The damage is in the billions - and even worse, its so many smaller project that obviously thousands of professionals looked at it and decided not to see the problem.

@juliocamacho8354 4 жыл бұрын

So they didn't wait until one slab killed a person? madness!

@St3phaan 4 жыл бұрын

Please just leave out the comments by the.. experts, "Can YOU imagine being hit by a marble slab???" They're very exaggerated and the story is interesting enough by itself, it really doesn't need fluff and sensation.

@smoker_joe 4 жыл бұрын

Discovery

@Irene-iu9sj 4 жыл бұрын

Marble flag stones can fall down and kill people. Not a jock. They fall during and after earthquakes here in Greece. Now the law is to bolt them on the infrastructure.

@nigangte6984 4 жыл бұрын

Am i the only one who find the design so bland and ugly??

@thuhuong8838 4 жыл бұрын

khup Gt I studied architecture and I cannot agree more. This shit is just pure dumb

@sussanhashemi8353 4 жыл бұрын

Modern nothingness. I’d say it does represent the modern times or rather post modern times actually

@sussanhashemi8353 4 жыл бұрын

Modern nothingness. I’d say it does represent the modern times or rather post modern times actually

@sussanhashemi8353 4 жыл бұрын

Modern nothingness. I’d say it does represent the modern times or rather post modern times actually

@j_mundane 4 жыл бұрын

I mean alone it’s not really beautiful but in the context of La defense, it fits pretty well and I couldn’t imagine la Defense without the Arche

@eversomellow2538 4 жыл бұрын

Its a massive tesseract

@natewatl9423 4 жыл бұрын

A monument to 20th-century hubris and the lack of good taste by the French selection committee. <a href="#" class="seekto" data-time="416">06:56</a> ... this is no renovation, but a repair to the flawed realisation of a flawed concept.

@MrTheWaterbear 4 жыл бұрын

Natewatl Are you an architect, perhaps? If not, kindly fuck off.

@VulpinetideCuteTimes0w0 4 жыл бұрын

@@MrTheWaterbear You don't have to be an architect to know something is shit when you see it.

@n0rmal953 4 жыл бұрын

STAN KIM YO-JONG meh I don’t hate the Arche specifically but it’s true that questionable design concerning durability and efficiency of the materials were made. Definitely hubris involved

@MrKeueR 4 жыл бұрын

I work here to Paris La Défense. Happy to see this great video, thanks you 👍🏼

@fullselfcontrol 4 жыл бұрын

Will come back in twenty years for part two.

@swapnadeepkapuri1589 4 жыл бұрын

It looks like this is from natgeo.

@aditsood9369 4 жыл бұрын

Good one lol

@debbienandalall6400 4 жыл бұрын

Wtf, why is this so long. This can easily truncated this in seconds. The tiles absorbed a lot of water, bent and they fell off.

@Owen1904 4 жыл бұрын

Debbie Nandalall if it was to long for you liking then why did you watch it?

@debbienandalall6400 4 жыл бұрын

@@Owen1904I skipped.

@u1zha 3 жыл бұрын

Actually they didn't even fall off, they started replacing before any one fell off, or that's what he said at 6:30... Clickbaity, thumbs not up

@ChristianJiang 4 жыл бұрын

<a href="#" class="seekto" data-time="382">6:22</a> Lol that’s such a valuable insight, thanks expert

@Thepc425 3 жыл бұрын

A rectangle. Wow. Mind blowing. Ground breaking.

@eversomellow2538 4 жыл бұрын

God its almost cringy to watch... ITS NOT AN ARCH! ITS A TESSERACT🤦‍♂️

@annekrank7176 4 жыл бұрын

It's an arch because you can pass trough (at the middle)

@the.orthodox.photographer2272 4 жыл бұрын

And it's UGLY as absolute shit.

@the.orthodox.photographer2272 4 жыл бұрын

@@_blank-_ It doesn't even need to exist! It's France, they could have built something absolutely gorgeous! Like a Classical triumphal arch, or a massive Neo-Gothic spire, or something DIGNIFIED!

@miguelpereira934 4 жыл бұрын

Do you even know what a tesseract is? This is certainly not it

@zf4hp24 4 жыл бұрын

@@miguelpereira934 Okay, so ignoring all the math and 4th dimension lingo, it's a "cube within a cube". What's unique was its construction. Prestressed concrete rather than a steel frame. Pouring the roof and those beveled fascia was an engineering feat. And keeping in mind that it's primarily an office building and not a monument, per se, I think it's pretty cool.

@tylerkochman1007 4 жыл бұрын

Could they not have seen this coming? The thin Carrara marble on Chicago's Aon Center (then the Standard Oil Building) had already been presenting similar problems by the time they built this.

@TDJDriftersBoss 4 жыл бұрын

Tyler Kochman it’s the French highly intelligent and idiotic at the same time

@n0rmal953 4 жыл бұрын

I doubt they heard about Issues in Chicago. It seems a little of idiocy was involved in the decisions. Marble = fancy in their eyes but Paris is not Marseille in terms of weather

@matthewgauthier7251 2 жыл бұрын

Same thing happened on Chicago's Standard Oil building built circa 1972. By 1990 the Carrera marble facade was deemed too dangerous to retain and the entire marble exterior was replaced with a slightly thicker granite quarried in one of the Carolinas (state of) A technique of mapping out stresses, in situ, was developed at this time. Allowing for a determination to be made as to which direction to cut the massive blocks into panels so as to negate such stresses, which find relief when removed from ground. The story was that those who insisted on Carrera marble, did so against the judgement of architectural firm. The cost to replace exceeded the original cost of the building itself. Pretty sure Chicago's extreme temperature variables and humidity is a bit worse than Paris weather. Was a year of my life hanging off the side of that building as an apprentice stone setter. Could see 4 states from the 900ft top of building. And found a marked tendency in crews to leave beer cans behind the stone as they erected the original exterior.

@JustbentFishing 4 жыл бұрын

Greatest video ever bro

@davidv6408 4 жыл бұрын

Ever heard of flex paste? It’s new

@zit11owner 4 жыл бұрын

This thing looks aweful. Hilarious that they couldn't even get their shit together to make the elevators look good. Modern french architecture must be complete shit compared to the old!

@lhagiduty 4 жыл бұрын

PureRageRS it looks like an abandoned project. Ugly bland and cold

@carthkaras6449 3 жыл бұрын

If you had watched the video carefully, you would have noticed that it is not by a French architect ... French architects are busy constructing buildings in Saudi Arabia and Qatar

@spota4589 4 жыл бұрын

Informative

@JacksawWorld 4 жыл бұрын

I didnt know this was made today

@samx23 4 жыл бұрын

So I walked under that thing not knowing I could get squashed ... nice

@shyguy54321 4 жыл бұрын

this is one of the ugliest buildings i've ever seen

@PhilippeLarcher 4 жыл бұрын

you havent seen much

4 жыл бұрын

haha, look the "edificio asamblea legislativa de costa rica" it literally looks like a dystopian jail.

@shyguy54321 4 жыл бұрын

@@PhilippeLarcher i'd take grover house over this minimalist trash

@ckm-mkc 4 жыл бұрын

In San Francisco, they dropped a marble panel while building the W hotel. It crushed a fire station, luckily everyone was out, but the fire station was destroyed...

@TsavosAlliance 4 жыл бұрын

What a Twist!

@Slippery_MOOSE 4 жыл бұрын

Lol, the loovra

@craigpatchett3508 4 жыл бұрын

Leo Kinney seriously, how can you not know how to pronounce this properly (or at least closer than “loovra”)?

@GeorgiNM 4 жыл бұрын

That's not a "disaster on a monumental scale", and this amazing building is getting way too much hate.. ("it's a cube".... yes?? and the Shard is a pyramid and the WTC towers were parallelepipeds and columns are cylinders..)

@PhilippeLarcher 4 жыл бұрын

You have to reclad a whole monument after just 30 years and that's a luxury (monumental) clading so it's somewhat disastrous at least for finances and the scale is by definition monumental.

@PhilippeLarcher 4 жыл бұрын

but I love the building

@n0rmal953 4 жыл бұрын

Yep, while the execution on the tiles obviously encountered issues. People are getting too salty over a building they would never see in person. I don’t hate it, i like it’s simplicity. Most towers and buildings are simple rectangles...

@PhilippeLarcher 4 жыл бұрын

@@n0rmal953 it's very high grade for sure (nice cladding albeit not suited for the climate^^) and looks quite good from most angles (contrary to a LOT of french modern buildings)

@n0rmal953 4 жыл бұрын

Philippe Larcher I really dislike the new somewhat “éco-quartier” do in term of their facades. Always gray/white walls with some wood look a like/beige for the bulky balconies. But hey it’s a matter of taste

@diannhall7564 4 жыл бұрын

Fascinating.

@Max0800 4 жыл бұрын

Been there allot and it’s really big

@Americansikkunt 4 жыл бұрын

Why is modern architecture no comparison to old-world architecture?

@Americansikkunt 4 жыл бұрын

J Cooke I disagree. There a few fundamental aspects that don’t compete. For one, modern architecture doesn’t “stand the test of time”. It crumbles away. And secondly, the level of craftsmanship and intricacy is much higher with old-world architecture. Modern architecture made of concrete is labeled “genius” (Brutalism), and office buildings lack character/soul (even more so than the former). Also, old-world architecture was functional and served purpose.

@Vvvvvvv3 4 жыл бұрын

O that the elevator, i thought it was scaffolding

@NOLASkaGuitarist 4 жыл бұрын

Grand Arch in Paris: Let me show you how to make a massive engineering mistake Hard Rock Hotel New Orleans: Hold my beer

@P_RO_ 3 жыл бұрын

There's plenty of design failures during building construction, but nobody gives a hoot about the dead workers when there's a schedule to maintain. It's a different story when some artsy-fartsy architect or designer makes a mistake- then it somehow becomes very important to everyone and it's not their fault.... This is the reality of life in the construction business where the advice of knowledgeable and experienced craftsmen are generally ignored until a catastrophe happens. Then the lesson is quickly forgotten and it happens again....

@dodovomitory3496 4 жыл бұрын

wow paris and europe is so beautiful it warms my heart

@justinrogers4465 4 жыл бұрын

How did they actually fasten the tiles to the building?

@79ped 4 жыл бұрын

I love how they celebrate all the things the local hates; Louvre, arch the triumph and everything that doesn't work well with the old architecture ..

@n0rmal953 4 жыл бұрын

How is the Louvre and Arc de Triomphe not blending with the Haussmann style buildings ?? What ?

@givememore4free 4 жыл бұрын

How did I live through the eighties and never heard of this thing?

@orange70383 4 жыл бұрын

Most people have no clue that this building is full of ancient symbology through the use of mathematics, size, ratio's and alignments. There was a huge amount of thought and study that went into this design as well as it's placement. Remember, things like this are not done with some random design, they are done with direct intent.

@ronakshah1990 4 жыл бұрын

<a href="#" class="seekto" data-time="13">0:13</a> Umm, that's not where Paris is 🙄

@n0rmal953 4 жыл бұрын

Yep It made me laugh to see just an arrow pointing at La Défense that is clearly out of Paris as just ---> PARIS

@__prometheus__ 4 жыл бұрын

The title isn’t really a question. Idk why there’s a question mark.

@takix2007 3 жыл бұрын

Funny thing, the design of the arch initially made kind of a big whistle when wind was rushing through. That's the reason for the kind of designer tarp that "hangs" in the middle (to dampen /avoid the whistle noise).

@asparadog 4 жыл бұрын

Discovery Channel: A cube within a cube Normal people: Big building with a hole in it.

@spostclips8996 4 жыл бұрын

When I thing of Paris I think of street painters🎨

@Sylvere21 4 жыл бұрын

You only get street painters in Montmartre which is a small portion of Paris

@georgielinscott 3 жыл бұрын

"...but just as iconic" bro its a big square

@D23178 4 жыл бұрын

43 seconds in and I scroll down to Daniel Evans saving the day. Thanks mate going to the hub now.

@ziqueez 3 жыл бұрын

"Can you imagine being hit by a falling marble slab? It's unthinkable!" What in insightful comment, glad they included it.

@NoobNoobNews 4 жыл бұрын

Because it isn't an arch. It is a post and beam construct. Of course marble panels fall off.

@boxofcakes2541 4 жыл бұрын

Why is there an elevator in the middle

@jedcletis9313 3 жыл бұрын

France: "Lets build a gigantic marble Tesseract. What could possibly go wrong ? (Loki smiles in the background ) :)

@prasadsharma8585 4 жыл бұрын

Everyone :😘🤩😋🙄😮😶 Gordon Ramsey : that's a monumental fuck up

@jaredfontaine2002 4 жыл бұрын

Replace the Italian marble with FREEDOM GRANITE!!!

@polomare2027 4 жыл бұрын

I wonder what they did with all the marble tiles after they removed them?

@user-rl3xk1sy1w 4 жыл бұрын

Isn't it also a hazard for people passing by?

@aminghabri9301 4 жыл бұрын

Once i was there with my Family, there were glas planes down in the arch and my Brother straight ran into one

@zarodgaming1844 4 жыл бұрын

litterally standing near centuries old building still stabding xD

@glennchartrand5411 4 жыл бұрын

"He didn't want an arch dedicated to French military victories" That's the hardest I've laughed in a long time

@purplehaze779 4 жыл бұрын

The french are the first country with more victories

@dinogaming4419 4 жыл бұрын

Purple Haze First off nice grammar. Second, the only reason the French have the most military victories is because them and the British just boosted each other for centuries.

@Paperflower. 4 жыл бұрын

@@dinogaming4419 maybe english is not his/her first language. There's a nicer way to correct people.

@sebbyh9764 4 жыл бұрын

@@dinogaming4419 Doesn't make him wrong

@AlexS-oj8qf 4 жыл бұрын

They need to win first in order to build a Military Monument, I can't remember when the last time the French Win anything.

@themongol2160 4 жыл бұрын

That building clearly lacks an important component: the Guilloten

@Ursaminor31 4 жыл бұрын

This happened in Toronto they replaced the Carrera marble from the 70’s on the bmo tower with laminated glass a few years back, after a few panels fell

@ninagalvani1007 4 жыл бұрын

I’m enjoying the symbolism of the modern arch (or shall I say post modern) being more about aesthetics than functionality in terms of building something with materials that they know won’t last but no one wants to tell the emperor that he isn’t wearing any clothes.

@GeorgiNM 4 жыл бұрын

There are (tens of) thousands of marble-clad buildings around the world, are you saying all of them that are at near Parisian latitude will suffer this? Is it not more a problem of the fixing technology used? Also, CARRARA, not CARReRA.

@maebh98 4 жыл бұрын

Marble-clad building fail all the time, for example the Aon center in Chicago and Finlandia Hall in Helsinki.

@PhilippeLarcher 4 жыл бұрын

some engineers carrEra will end soon though XD

@GeorgiNM 4 жыл бұрын

@@PhilippeLarcher Hahahahahah

@xxDrain 4 жыл бұрын

"Started to fall out" Did they? Did they fall out?

@Locutus 4 жыл бұрын

Yes.

@nobilesnovushomo58 3 жыл бұрын

Locutus Did any of the panels fall before they were manually taken out, that’s what he’s trying to say. People have an imprecise control of the English language.

@keithpedersen3653 4 жыл бұрын

The exact same thing (Carrera marble) happened in Chicago, to a building now called the Aon Center. The entire building was reclad with white granite after 20 years of freeze-thaw, costing up to 50% of the building's original construction cost. Unfortunately for the Grande Arche, the Chicago reclad (i.e. the embarrasing public awareness) happened 4 years after the arch was completed.

@SIMONP1965 3 жыл бұрын

Dear France, you built an archless square.

@hotaru8309 4 жыл бұрын

I have a question and s request. Is any of this footage of the monument with the marble? Could we please see some footage comparing the original marble to the current granite?

@PhilippeLarcher 4 жыл бұрын

yes old the "complete" footages (the older one) I think granite is not finished yet

@J.F.K974 4 жыл бұрын

It's not about engineering They used chinese glue (akkma) And they didnt scratch the stone before they did They should have used mechanical fixing and Italian glue .

@d_daeani7998 4 жыл бұрын

Arch de triumph: You don't look so good.

@cosmicwanderer2912 4 жыл бұрын

Does anybody know the music from <a href="#" class="seekto" data-time="407">6:47</a>? I really loooove the synthwave

@kitkit6874 4 жыл бұрын

“Can you imagine get hitting by a marble slab?” Yeah it’s called goin splat

@Ashfielder 4 жыл бұрын

This series manages to be absolutely awful every time, without fail. Always too long, and yet completely vague and without detail.

@geoffreylee5199 4 жыл бұрын

An office building in Toronto was clad in marble. After forty years, the marble was replaced with glass. The marble remains on the interior.

@kutter_ttl6786 4 жыл бұрын

First Canadian Place. One of the panels fell off in 2007 after a storm and fell 51 stories, prompting the replacement in 2009-2012. I recall the reason was also due to not fully taking into account the environment, the panels weren't made thick enough so when they froze and thawed they would warp and eventually they worked themselves loose.

@DrErnst 4 жыл бұрын

Teseract - the geometric 3D figure? :) just like from the movie Interstellar! :)

@MichelleVisageOnlyFans 4 жыл бұрын

It's ugly, like most things from the 80's! LOL!

@Dxco31 4 жыл бұрын

Corupt government wasting money on stupid marble building People: is this time we use a guilotine again?

@gonun69 4 жыл бұрын

Just watch <a href="#" class="seekto" data-time="361">6:01</a> to <a href="#" class="seekto" data-time="381">6:21</a>, those 20 seconds contain all the information you need, the rest is just stretched out blabla.