Which of these projects would you like to see in reality?👇

the nyc airport looked like some kid just unlocked an airport in cities:skylines and tried to put it as close to city center as posibble

One of the reasons why the Great Hall in Berlin was never built was simple: terrain. They actually have built a bunch of massive concrete pillars to test the load bearing capacity of the soil but found out that the kind of terrain in that part of Berlin would never have been able to support a building that size.

Gaudi's hotel and the sphere planetarium sound like great projects which should be reconsidered with today's technology. The other ones are too far fetched to be realistic, with the exception of the Chicago spire, which also looks like a nice design.

Love how Gaudí dedicated his life to the Sagrada Familia....and nearly a century after he died, it's STILL under construction. People love to complain about our Ryugyong Hotel and how it's still unfinished, yet no one bats an eye when it comes to the Sagrada.

Okay dream airport would've been a full on nightmare for anyone living in manhattan. The noise alone would've made living in New York City even less appealing than it already is

Illinois Tower was never more than a basic concept, there's no evidence Wright actually seriously considered trying to build it. The Cenotaph was also never considered as a project to be built. Most of Boulleé's most famous works are incredible concepts like the Cenotaph which were understood from the beginning as only acts of imagination.

Love when architects come to engineers and say "hey, check out my new design"...engineer shakes his head...

I remember hearing about someone who wanted cities to be build in layers, with an airport on top, imaginehouses build in "floors" with a "sheet" between them for the next layer to have a "blank sheet". the only thing I could think about when hearing was things like Mega City One (Judge Dredd), Coruscant (Star Wars) and hive cities (Warhammer 40k), none of them places I would want to live or even visit, it would end up as places where the higher up you lived, the higher in the social hierarchy you would see yourself, and sh*t would flow downwards. Not to speak of the danger of colapse, if there's not good enough support below, everything above would come crashing down.

Even though I was only a small child during the planning phases of the chicago spire. It still upsets me that the recession cost chicago the title of home to the country’s tallest skyscraper. One of my dreams once I become an architect is to help design and construct the nation’s largest skyscraper and place it back in chicago… where it belongs. No shade to the One World Trade Center and all those it honors 🙏🏾, but i dont like the cheat of the antenna being used to make it the tallest

Fun fact: The Great hall would've been so big that the Moisture inside would create an own weather inside the hall itself

This might not* be the biggest project or most expensive, but Jakarta (Indonesia) has abandoned beams that were supposed to be part of the new monorail system. It was halted and the then-new governor called it “The Monuments of Stupidity” due to the previous government’s negligence 😂 Would be great if you could cover it too!

Let's be honest, the only pyramid that matters is the Bass Pro Shops pyramid in Memphis. I mean you can stay at a lodge, inside a Bass Pro Shop, inside a pyramid...you can't do that anywhere else. And as a New Yorker, I'm so glad that airport wasn't built. Sure all the traffic heading to NYC and within the city sucks but if the airport was built, it would've been ten times worse. So be appreciative of the airports we currently have. Because having three main airports are definitely better than having just one when compared to other cities.

The Great Hall is simply my most desired project to have been built, just because of the sheer volume and atmosphere you‘d experience inside. Putting aside the nazi context and imagining it to be f.e the ultimate concert/ festival hall is just amazing, think about the acoustics resonating through the building and engulfing you 😮 And on the other hand I’m german and I’d like to see some more structural engineering marvels and gigantic buildings in my country too :) Yeah, I’m a little gigantomaniac😬

The Illinois skyscraper looks like the Jeddah tower that Saudi Arabia is trying to build

1:18 was crazy due to skyscrapers &airports in one, ideal, if had bulk airliners mastered VToL. 7:10 could've been ideal for a orbit rail launch elevation station, part render sky view tourism.

Reaching out with big ideas always spurs others, these may not of been built but it certainly helped move other projects and ideas along

The Illinois does look cool maybe one day we'll get something ridiculously tall like that

10:56 If I'm not mistaken, this is the 'GroBeKö', the Großbelastungskörper (german for "heavy load-bearing body"). A test if the ground in Berlin would withstand the heavy loads of such gigantic buildings. It wouldn't.

The Amazon Prime show The Man In The High Castle has a pretty good imagining of what the great hall was supposed to look like

Not sure if it is good or bad to see two in Chicago on this, but we sure are building plenty of others now. Interesting vid, thanks!

I just checked an inflation calculator. The $3 billion estimate for the Manhattan airport would be about $45 billion in today's money!

that illinois tower would be great. Can hold all government offices. Cant see that going wrong in anyway.

Poor Chicago spire. The first one ruined by recession, second one gets started just in time for another one.

I would love if the Chicago spire could be finished

There were engineers who dreamed projects much ahead of their time.. very impressive

I love the early 1900s American history. Seemed our nation then had such charisma, and wanted to build the biggest, push the envelope in all areas.

If we go back a bit in history, then The Black Taj Mahal visioned by Shah Jahan but was never built apart from the foundation could have been included in your list.

I was so excited for the Chicago Spire. I would go to the build site to take pics. Of course, the building was never built, so I just have pictures of the giant hole.

68 planes a minute, we were so close to glory

One day we may hear a story or 2 about architects showing plans to build vaults like Fallout or The Hive from Resident Evil. Another video will arise as more abandoned Mega-Projects.

Well.... There has been built more than just some _»shell structures«_ : the east-west-axis has been nearly completed and the Siegessäule column has been moved from the Maifeld in front of the Reichstag building to that axis at todays Straße des 17. Juni boulevard. Besides that, the shown _»shell structures«_ were in fact technical test structure to examine if Berlin's sandy ground will actually carry such massive structures. Spoiler: it would probably not. ;-) Grüße aus Berlin!

I think the United States can try an airport above sea level like Hong Kong for them to build a bridge and widen the runway just like Japan where the land is very limited so they decided to build in a certain ocean

I love the crazy ideas. People knocking them never had a idea any kind and certainly never had the balls to pursue them

The dream came to be for the Berlin dome in the alternate world in The Man in the High Castle. A structure that enormous wouldn't be possible in a city built on a swamp as it will sink under the soft soil. An indoor crowd that size will create a localized precipitation climate from the body moisture created without the modern air circulation system.

Actually an elevated airport is a great idea. Very efficient use of all that real estate.

The chicago spire would have been great!

As for that planned midtown airport, I think that the people living near would have to adapt justike the people of Queean, The Bronx, and Brooklyn deal with LaGaurdia’s overhead plane traffic. Ultimately it would’ve forced more business development in the outer boroughs which I feel would’ve been a good thing.

Also surprised you didn't talk about the canal america could have built for a long time to go from Pacific to the Atlantic make the north west passage passable

The NYC airport sounds eerily similar to London City Airport (which was a huge mistake)

Thank you for including both imperial and metric, really thanks. Great vid, liked and subbed

That airport might have been a good idea. Saving a lot of space by having a sea port under it + lots of additional buildings inside it. It was just a stupid location for it. Maybe if they had built it something like a few miles out at sea and then had some kind of a road/railroad bridge connecting to it? Like maybe relocate it into that wider spot in the river, that seems to be only a couple of miles away from the proposed spot? Then there could have been bridges to the river banks on all sides and plenty of space for ships to pass on both sides. All of Petersburg (in Russia) was built on what was once a swamp.

Imagine waking up because an airplan lands like 3 meters above your window

I def think that spiral would make any skyline unique. Most are so kind of boring look same to me. I mainly want that sphere made to honor him, and then a megadome built for concerts.

Não sou nenhum engenheiro mas não entendo por as construções não são mais largas. Pirâmides ou grandes cubos. Parece na minha visão uma cidade inteira caberia em poucos quarteirões

That airport would also have been designed for piston aircraft, not jet craft. The first commercial jet turbine aircraft didn't enter service until the 50s. The commercial planes of the day were also significantly smaller than the jets that would succeed them some 12 years later. And while its scale is crazy, the idea isn't all that wild. We've done similar things with artificial island airports; Japan has _five_ of them.

You can see the Great Hall in the show "The man in the High Castle" in one of the second season episodes.

The airport would have been a crazy endeavor..

You should check the “le plan voisin” a Le Corbusier projet for Paris in the 1920’s. 24 skyscrapers in the city center was planned to hold up to half a million inhabitants. Hopefully was never approved 🥵

In some alternative realities these buildings exist.

I’m still hoping the Chicago Spire gets built eventually, perhaps build it twice as high. That way Chicago can be home to the tallest building in the world again.

I literally had that idea for the airport that was detachable and could be used as an aircraft carrier

Perhaps these structures will one day be able to be experienced in VR

I guess im not allowed to say as a German which of these buildings would be nice to have :D

Wonder how the builders did a ground load test for the pyramids of Giza?

I really do like the idea of a city skyscraper, it minimises the human footprint unimaginably and they can look gorgeous, one in NYC would leave almost the rest of the islands to be low density housing and wilderness.

Today New Yorks Iconic Maga International Airport is an amazing feat of structural engineering but imagine what New York would be like without it.

0:32 The first thingsl I thought was: "Immagine an airplane failing the landing and go straight for the building." The second thing I thought was: "Oh shit."

undoubtedly I would like to see the great hall.

2:18 the houses have an amazing view

There was a German suggestion to dam the Straits of Gibraltar and turn the Mediterranean into land area. Top that for insane megaprojects!

For the first project why don’t they just put it over the river and make it tall love for ships to go under it would be a pretty cool idea

The black taj mahal was also insane but never got built 😢

Germania is even dumber when you take into account the swampy environment of Berlin and how big a capitol building actually needs to be. Roman state buildings were only as big as they needed to be, regardless of the size of the senate. The Curia Julia, commissioned by Augustus, is noticeably smaller than more ancient structures, built more like palaces, and unlike its predecessor on Capitoline Hill, it stopped the following of a central location for the (imperial) seat of power and was placed in a more natural forum for the senate to convene. Places of worship, specifically synagogues, tended to have a similar design philosophy, if due to lack of resources and population. The US Capitol was also built on a swamp because the south is all swamp and southern governors wanted it in Virginia yet Northern governors wanted it in Pennsylvania so Congress put it right in the middle which happened to place it in a swamp no one else wanted; but it wasn’t originally meant to be a major population center; just a federal district. Yet DC’s planners never quite learned from a thousand and a half years of architecture. The only other possible cause of these mistakes is a cultural echo of esotericism mimicking the impractically grand scale of but a small period of the ancient world going back to the construction of the domed Capitol building. The White House has a smaller scale to it and its central location can’t be blamed on its original designers or any architect, really. It just generates more and more gravity despite its size staying roughly the same. The Pentagon sort of breaks the cycle. Arlington is rather out of the way and despite being the lone headquarters of our entire massive military (and already quite large for DC) the building is only as large as it needs to be to fulfill its purpose while holding personnel, including security, bureaucrats and general staff and has a mall with only the essentials to accommodate them. It’d be a hard building to downscale and modernize mainly due to all that’s packed into it being constantly active and needing constant sustenance (thus the mall). The underground sections highlight this. They prove the effectiveness of a balance of building upwards, outwards and downwards. Modern architecture should learn from it.

3:51 That's not the Singer Building it's the Metropolitan Life Insurance Company Tower. The Singer Building is the one before it.

I like how quickly we brushed past atomic powered elevators.

If your life partner doesn't dedicate a massive, slightly taller than the Giza Pyramid, dome building un your name when you die...do they really love you? Lol

In São Paulo we have one airport inside the city, it is only for domestic flights

The number five New York City hotel that was never built was in the tv show fringe as a building in the alternate Manhattan along with the undestroyed World Trade Centers and a gold statue of liberty.

The one in Chicago would have been faaaantastic

I'm sure Sully would have appreciated that airport on the Hudson.

Oddly enough, Boris Johnson wanted to build something vaguely similar to the Manhattan airport when he was Mayor of London as an alternative to a third runway at Heathrow.

I can only imagine had Germania been built it would have been some pretty awesome ruins where central Berlin is now... Thank goodness that never happened... And personally I think the East Berlin masterplan was cool enough... The Central TV tower... Palace of the Republic (RIP)... Classic modernist architecture!

Ignoring Hitler's political views, i kinda like massive city redesign. I would have liked to see his whole plan for the city and whether it was efficient or just an entertainment center. kinda wanna build these buildings in cities skylines lol just to see how it'd look.

1940s americans: let's build an airport in the middle of NYC Americans today: * instant 9.11 flashbacks*

That building would’ve looked so good in Chicago

The The Mile-High Illinois Skyscraper looks kinda like the Jeddah Tower

just a simple question: how do you make these type of video's

Love this channel!

INSANE!

Well, NYC didn’t build the “Dream Airport”, so they settled for the nightmare that by most accounts still exists today. And it ain’t like it’s much quieter in Manhattan either.

That giant airport was the subject of many Commissioner Francis Reagan family dinners. Imagine trying to patrol that airport. Pass the gravy, Pops.

The airport would be insane in New york..

I’ll give Wright some credit, it definitely was well thought out and researched. But it definitely wouldn’t happen then or now…

Wouldnt the nyc airport bring too much sound because of the planes in general? Cool concept but awful possibilities

The NYC airport sounds like a layman's daydream.

That airport would have the worst noise pollution. Plus most citizens that work downtown wouldn't go to the airport directly from work, so traffic could be awful between citizens commuting to work, and citizens leaving the city.

I like all except the airport, thats just too blocky, and the noise would be awful. cool one would be germania, imagine, all nations in the future, all in one big place, a human progress towards the unified future

Nice video. What about the glass dome over Manhattan?

3:51 you have the Metlife tower listed as the Singer Building

love it😀

The airport in New York is not actually possible, especially with the amount of flights they said. Look up why planes HAVE to leave time between one landing and the next, it's pretty scary stuff.

5:42 A corncob skyscraper? Good thing he didn’t design the World Trade Center 😮

Instead of building an airport in the city of New York they could have just financed a direkt rail line from the city to their airport already built. A direkt route underground with a few stops would of been more practical.

If the airport was built the "Miracle on the Hudson" would have never happened

Imagine being a kid again and trying to build a cool fort and then realizing you can’t finish it so you give up. Then imagine your an adult and there’s a real building and you wasted billions of dollars

All things aside.. I prolly would have liked to see the Great Hall

These domes remind me A LOT of the Dubai Expo 2020’s Al Wasl Plaza

I have one that never happened and it was a genius one shame it didnt happen… Calgary Next Arena it was suppose to have Hockey+Football Combined into one arena

“Atomic powered elevators” 😂