What do you think? 🤔 Will we ever see a building taller than the Burj Khalifa? 🏗

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I think Burj Khalifa won’t stay the tallest building humanity ever build but it is going to stay the tallest building longer then expected

As a person who has worked with structural engineers in a consultancy, I can confirm that a crisis is looming that we don't have the manpower to deal with, massive structures requiring maintenance and us not having enough people to fix them while they are constantly about to collapse. Cities like New York, Shanghai, Macau, Hong Kong and the lots which have buildings that are immensely tall have a huge problem on their hands. The problem won't be that there will be a lack of buildings, we simply won't be able to stop the existing ones from collapsing. (edit) Since many people have questions about building practices and this comment has received many likes, I shall instead explain how a building actually becomes stressed over time. Think of a building like a standing carboard box. If it is an office space, it becomes filled with people and cars during the day and empty by night. This means that it is stressed under the weight of inhabitants during the day and de-stressed at night. The contraction and expansions day after day wears the materials out. Add to this, the temperature and pressure changes and the questionable practices of builders sourced from places like China (which is more common in a city like NY than you might think), and you have a recipe for disaster. Our dependency on concrete has also left us disabled. More humble materials like simple bricks and mortar have been disregarded and concrete is now used even for low-lying structures. Once RCC develops rust and damages, it's game over and the clock starts clicking down to zero. Take into consideration the sprawling cities we have now built, at the cost of building a massive skyline. Most people who live in apartments in skyscrapers report feelings of desolation, angst, depression and loneliness far more than people in smaller buildings. The city of NY was so successful in maintaining its infrastructure because of the unique weather conditions and the pre-existing infrastructure based on underground steam pipes. This is not the same around the world. It is bad model and has turned into a contest between firms and conglomerates for no real benefit.

They hit the build limit at 256 blocks 😔

As a civil engineer, I'm sad yet glad (melancholic?) that the era of supertall skyscrapers seems to be at an end. While certainly visually and technically stunning, and much more interesting to talk about than run-of-the-mill buildings, my urban planning career focus leads me to argue that 4-to-6 story buildings are the ideal. Not Manhattan, not Levittown, but something in between like Paris, Amsterdam, or Copenhagen. Dense enough to make a viable walkable urban neighborhood, but not so tall as to create an urban jungle of concrete and steel to get lost in.

What about the tallest radio tower? I'd imagine those would be significantly easier to build. Doesn't need to accommodate housing and space, just height.

You didn't explain why a part of Burj Khalifa is uninhabitable, which is a pretty important piece of information. It's because at that height there's simply not enough space for habitation, especially luxury habitation.

Used to live in Shanghai when they started construction on the Shanghai tower. Was so huge on tall buildings back then, it’s nice to see a part of childhood being represented

With new materials, new techniques, new construction machines and new energy sources like fusion, taller buildings will probably be built eventually. But it seems we reached our current economical and practical limit some years ago. With as many problems as the BK has, it seems it was built purely to be the tallest building around with no actual good reason (beyond the tuorist draw). I imagine that if humanity doesn't die out and we don't discover some vastly new and disruptive physics we will eventually see carbon nanotube space elevators, or space towers constructed with in-built active support, but that's not something a non-fusion economy can easily afford.

I used to fancy about the tall buildings as a kid but soon as I realised it’s impracticality with lifts in rush hours and blocking the views all the time, soon I dialled down to enjoy the nature and beach better.

I don’t think the race to build the tallest skyscraper will end completely but it might go on pause for awhile. For decades even.

6:58 This is by far the most astonishing building I have ever seen in my entire life. Just wooow!!

I mean the Empire State Building was the tallest building in the world for nearly 40 years and there weren't any other rivals due to the depression and World War II. It's pretty similar to what we're going through with the economic recession and Covid pandemic preventing any new mega tall skyscrapers from being built

Growing up in Al Ain from the mid 1990's onward was a wild and surreal experience. Seeing the Dubai skyline quickly change over the next couple decades was just so cool. It definitely put Dubai on the map in some ways and just made it such a futuristic look place from a sci-fi story sometimes, I had a blessed childhood around there. Sadly, the older and more informed I become, the less enamored I feel about the UAE; when you discover their typical labor practices over the years, the general attitude the Emiratis have, somewhat looking down their noses at anyone over there whos 'just' building their city for them, its all a bit heart breaking. Not to mention UAE, despite all its modern look, is pretty backwards and intolerant to personal freedoms and freedom of its press, etc. Wonderful place, so much potential, extra cool engineering. But wish UAE would also take leadership in other, more social ways, rather than JUST focus on its physical, cool image and catering to the world's billionaires

2:02 notice the tallest structure bending ever slightly left and right

01:25 you can hardly call a 12 storey structure a skyscraper

My dad helped build the C.N Tower in Toronto, my 2 sisters and my brother have their names on the top antenna, along with about 20 elementary schools and their students also. They were invited to put their names on it as a school outing, to watch the helicopter lift and position the last piece on the top which was the antenna, many people don't even know it was built to be an antenna, and is the tallest free standing structure in the world, it is not categorized as a building, only an antenna, and is majestic in its own right, and is unsurpassed in structural design and the first and last in its divine beauty of such.

Didn't even realize this was not The B1M until I finished the video haha. Fantastic work guys.

As someone who has lived in the tower palace, the second picture you present (where you draw the lines) is actually tower palace 1. Tower palace 3 is just across the street.

A problem with very high towers is interference with aviation and the associated risk of accidental aircraft collision, which can only be reduced by locating airports a long way away from the city which may be possible in the Middle East, but not in Europe, America and most of Asia. Safety from fire is another issue which is highlighted by the fires in the Grenfell Tower in London and the Lacrosse building fire in Melbourne, Australia. It is very difficult to pump water to the height of very tall buildings for both firefighting and for domestic use.

Sad to see the end of an era,. But what a beautiful piece of architecture to mark the climax.

Just think that when Tōdai-ji was made in the mid 700s the pagodas were 100m tall and even then were still shorter than the Great Pyramid although pretty impressive making something that tall out of wood.

I've recently started getting interested into construction. I've started working as a labour in Birmingham uk. I live in a small market town called "oswestry" and we never see buildings like they have. And it has me thinking the amount of work that goes into these buildings are amazing.

If we built more apartment blocks, I think we'd solve the house market issue.

Love or hate the Khalifa it's hard not to be absolutely amazed at the size... going to Dubai again next month and its my first stop just to stand in front and look up!

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I believe Toronto wants to build another super tall building, about twice the hight as the CN Tower

It looks like I have went to the whole world without going anywhere.

Some of these mega tall building concepts are fun to imagine but impractical, the Burj Khalifa is already impractically tall

Now that a few of these have been built people have seen what is involved. Of course, there will be more mega-tall buildings in the future but there is no rush. As for cities like New York, Chicago, and the US overall well, I think Americans are still a bit gunshy about building too tall after 911. At some point that will change but who knows when.

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Sears Tower has my vote as the GOAT. It is the pinnacle of supertall design. There's a reason why the video kept coming back to it. Entirely useful, no vanity. Something to truly be proud of.

Good job on the overall mini documentary here. Well organized presentation of facts with graphs and visual illustrations for scale n comparison. It fit in well in the discussion/ narration . aloha

The thumbnail illustration for Philadelphia city hall looks more like independence hall, a building more than a century older!

Frank Lloyd Wright not only DREAMT of a Mile High skyscraper, he developed a complete blueprint for it, in the 1950s. Super Talls will continue to be built in NYC but they'll be Super Thin too.

-Modern Engineers: let's have a wide base to support the narrow top -Ancient Egyptians: we approve

top luxury can you do a video on Africas projects. if countries in africa have so little projects. why not do the entire continent

I imagine the Canadian Shield would provide the best ground to build the foundation on to make a heavy tall structure.

In Casablanca ( Morocco) there is a law forbidding to build over 210 m . The issue is Skyscrapers might be the only solution for the city's expanding population and random housing.

As someone who is Canadian I am sad that the CN Tower doesn't exist in thos video.

Athens not only don't build mega skyscrapers, but encourage developers to expand the city in the width as the city has a ban on tall buildings. As far as I remember that is a 7 storey limit.

This is wayyyyyyyy more complex than you think...

It’ll probably remain the tallest for the next few decades at least. The 2020s are likely to be a period of global unrest and uncertainty, which is not the environment you want to build to be building vanity projects in (and the tallest buildings have always been vanity projects). We’ll see what the 2030s are like, but the West is currently more interested in non-high-rise urban development as modern skyscraper architecture rarely fits into existing urban cities, which had significant urban development in the 19th and early 20th century thus setting the building styles of most urban cities in the West. There’s also little demand to live in high-rises so I can’t see the West pushing the boundaries even if the average height of cities may rise somewhat to limit urban sprawl. China meanwhile is going to be struggling with an aging population on top of having their corruption’s debt come due. I don’t see them being active in the 2030s and much of East Asia is in similar boats with stagnating economies. The Middle East is meanwhile dealing with decades of war, religious-political unrest, and the declining importance of oil. I can’t see the oil states of the Arabian Peninsula wanting to waste their money on vanity projects when they risk losing the foundation their countries are built on, while I can’t see any of the other Middle Eastern nations having a stable enough situation by the 2030s to throw their hat into the race, and they are unlikely to have the wealth to do so if they do stabilize. For the 2040s we may see India throwing its hat into the ring if it continues to economically develop, and we may see a new spurt of develop lasting into the 2050s, the exact years depending on when they have an economic spurt of growth to start a construction boom, and ending when India hits their next recession. Given Africa’s rising population I could see them taking a shot sometime in the latter half of the century. How many will depend on how well they can transform their economic potential into economic reality. Nigeria if it is successful could become a hub of super-hi-rise buildings as it is on track to have a huge population in a relatively small area, and if successful will likely become a draw for immigrants from less successful countries thus increasing the demand for tall buildings. There is also the possibility that we may oneday see a Space Elevator, but that’s really dependent on whether we develop the right materials that can be used to build one. So for the next few decades I think the Burj Khalifa will be the tallest building in the world, though we may see a slow tick upward in countries around the world (similar to how the Empire State Building stayed the tallest building for decades while the skyline around slowly caught up before surpassing it), but in a few decades we may see new spurts of growth as various regions around the world develop and join the age old tradition of announcing you’re a modern country by thrusting your biggest stick into the sky.

Excellent video. I think though, the Woolworth Building should replace the 40 Wall Street building in your graphics. The Woolworth Building was the tallest in the world from 1813 to 1930.

I wouldn’t be surprised if one say Elon Musk is just going to start building the tallest skyscraper

I mean EVEN if they build a building that's taller than Burj Khalifa , I think even after 2 decades that new info won't make it world wild ...

Why is the vanity height not usable? Can't believe we didn't get an answer for that 😭

Proud to be from Bangladesh 🏴

Petronas Twin Towers became the first Supertall Skyscraper outside of North America,hold the Tallest building from 1998-2004,but remain as the Tallest Twin building up until now🇲🇾✨

Its just a season. Anything is possible as long as humanity exists.

You explained everything except WHY the top of Burj Khalifa is uninhabitable.

I want a pyramid the size of a city.

Whenever I think of a skyscraper or a vanity project building I think of the first Shrek movie where Shrek and Donkey are walking around Lord Farquaad's city Duloc. Looking around all the huge, lanky buildings Shrek wonders about this Lord Farquaad. "Do you think he's compensating for something?"

must be the wind imagine how it is to be swinging on those penthouses thinking that every second can be the last. 😂

In the brazilian city of Balneário Camboriú there's a 500+ residential tower being planned right now. When concluded it will be the tallest residential tower in the world. It's called *Triumph Tower* .

Concrete jungles just block out the sun too much and are always so cold… but then also mega hot in the summer… ghastly

Skyscrapers don’t counter urban sprawl, on the opposite they are really space inefficient once they pass 10 floors, they create demand for parking space downtown, and all the people working in the extra offices you created will need somewhere to live = urban sprawl

I don't think they will build one bigger then the Burj Khalifa but I hope in a place like japan because I've always wanted to go to Japan and if they do there's some very cool but then I don't because it's bad for the environment

How did you forget Egypt's Oblisco Capitale in the new capital of Egypt? Egypt just finished building the tallest tower in Africa (400m tall) and announced they'll start constructing a 1km tower in 2024.

How about the taipei 101, I thought that that one had a very special structure?

Fazlur Rahman Khan is a legend of Bangladesh We are soo proudful to have a legend like him Proud to be a Bangladeshi🇧🇩❤️

super tall buildings seem cool In theory but when you're in a city with one and it's just there dwarfing everything else with its weird shape, it's hard not to think of it as an eyesore

I don’t think this the end cuz developing countries with large populations in South Asia and Africa seem to be increasing building higher. At some point they might build the world tallest building.

What about the new dubai creek tower? For now on hold but will definetly be completed in the future

I'm happy with the CN Tower with its neat restaurant. Not a building but it's beefy.

The Oblisco Capitale in Egypt is planned to be 1 km tall.

I love how this channel just makes stuff up...welcome to YT

So if we aren’t building big shiny things upwards, what will we build now?

Those vacancy rates are crazy but don't they just go down with the prices for rent etc? The biggest problem with these projects is that the constructors want to make profit within the first years instead of seeing it as long term investment with solid revenue ;)

You can't open windows on high floors in burj khalifa :(

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People will probably build taller buildings in future when they will reach better tech

The Ulmer Münster used to be even taller at the time than the Cathedral in Straßburg. Almost 30 meters…

UNBELIEVABLE NEW FACTS THAT YOU HAVE STATED TODAY REGARDS MEGA TALL BUILDINGS ... WHICH WE NEVER HEARD BEFORE ... THE QUESTION IS 🤔 😕 ... IS IT WORTH IT TO BUILD ONE 🤔 ? ONLY ONE AS A LAND MARK ? WORLD 🌎 🗺 🌏 🌐 🌍 WIDE ?

What impressed me more is, Malaysia is a home of 4 skyscrapers with 2 in the running(planning)

Civilized countries will never build a monster like that never again

In this crazy world you never know. But I sincerely hope that we've seen the last super tall building. By the way, the best part of this video was the clip where the man's microphone cable caused the demolition of the model! (Was it the leaning tower of Pisa?).

my theory is that the burj khalifa will stay the tallest until 2025 when elon musk does something 'just because he wants to'

key here is to understand that Dubai doesn’t have harsh weather or earth quakes

I kinda think that Europe won’t have a tallest building in the world for like another 100 years because the size of Big Ben isn’t impressive to the height of the burj Khalifa

I'm a bit confused by the concept of vanity height or unoccupiable space. Does it mean the whole area is just empty without rooms? It doesn’t make a lot of sense. Or is it just purely metal structures like a tower?

Dubai is working on a new tower already, the tower in dubai creek harbour taller than jedah tower ;)

Fun fact: Brazil will make the largest residential sky scraper in the world, with 553 meters tall.

until we get a space elevator, burj khalifa should remain the tallest

Signature Tower in Jakarta was cancelled due to low demand of office spaces. The city already has many office skyscrapers, if the demand grows, the developer would build it. The land is already there and it's still empty.

Another problem is gravity you have to get water up them and water is heavy and it takes a lot of power to pump it up.There's a limit where it's practical and the tower in Dubai is well over that.

I’m afraid of heights so I usually have a bit of a shock when I first go on a skyscraper. But when you get used to it, it’s hard not to appreciate the view.

there is no reason why it should end, so iam curious and happy to see new ones soon

Nice narration..!! 828m .. a whooping height to climb indeed.. I don't think the desire to go higher will die out that soon..!!

Suggest making comparisons between cities and this will gain great popularity in your channel, such as: 1. The richest cities compared to Paris and London 2. Comparison between the tourism strength of the cities of Randstad and Madrid 3. Comparison of industrial production in Metropolregion Rhein and The Dutch city of Rotterdam 4. A comparison between the richest US states and their source of income 5. A comparison between the city of Al-Ula and the city of Luxor in the archaeological and heritage sites of the two cities 6. A comparison between the projects of Riyadh and the major projects of Cairo as the two most important Arab capitals 7. A comparison between Beirut and Abha's future and the projects of Al-Soudah Company 8.A comparison between Jeddah, the bride of the Red Sea, and Dubai, the jewel of the Arab Gulf in its economy, infrastructure, entertainment, tourism and business sector. 9. A comparison between the largest oil cities in the Russian region of Tyumen and the eastern region in Saudi Arabia

Unless we have the significant improvement in technology, especially in civil engineering, and with the stress of the population growth, it's unlikely to expect more new skyscrapers in next decade.

I wouldn't say that the first skyscraper would be the Home insurance building. Shibam, Yemen is much older

Great video. Memories from Brazil.

'The World changed forever...' Happens every day, baby

Basically what you're saying is that the Sears Tower is the only real skyscraper.

Do you think in the future they will use robots to build these tall buildings?

i also hope my country malaysia will stop building tall buildings. we already have our beloved iconic klcc, kl tower, trx and pnb118. now i hope more unique buildings will be built. also malaysia isnt a populated country. we already have so many empty office spaces and houses.

The end of mega tall buildings is a reflection of mankind. The peak of human population isn't too far away.

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