Предел высоты: почему мы не строим выше

Humanity knows how to build towers reaching to the sky. But something always goes wrong. -------- Sponsor's Corner 🔥 All neural networks in one place without a VPN 👉 https://go.syntx.ai/gershman Promo code for your first subscription -15% 👉 GERSHMAN -------- Arkady Gershman's lectures in the fall: https://t.me/gre4ark/26174 -------- Engineers know how to build skyscrapers one and a half kilometers high, and the Soviet designer of the Ostankino Tower, Nikolai Nikitin, designed a 4,000-meter-tall tower-city back in the 1960s. But the world's tallest building still doesn't even reach a kilometer: the Jeddah Tower in Saudi Arabia was shelved for seven years, Norman Foster's Moscow City project was cancelled after the crisis, and the Palace of Soviets, with its hundred-meter statue of Lenin, remained a pit, later used as the "Moscow" swimming pool. In this video, Arkady Gershman examines what truly limits high-rise construction: wind and resonance, elevators and sky lobbies, the economics of skyscrapers, and the "vainglorious height" with which Stalin's Hotel Ukraina surpassed even the Burj Khalifa. We'll also revisit the entire history of Russian high-rise architecture: Stalinist skyscrapers and the leaning building at Krasnye Vorota, Lissitzky's horizontal skyscrapers and Krutikov's flying city, the Ostankino TV Tower, the Lakhta Center, and the protests against the Okhta Center in St. Petersburg. And finally, let's look at China, where the skyscraper race ended in ghost towns, developer bankruptcies, and a government ban on buildings taller than 500 meters. This video is about why the future of cities isn't determined by the height of towers, but by a comfortable urban environment and quality of life at ground level. -------- Related videos Why we build ugly. And expensive. Почему мы строим уродливо. И дорого Why are there so few skyscrapers in Moscow? Почему в Москве так мало небоскрёбов? City of the Future by Soviet Architects: Город будущего от советских архитекторов. ... -------- Advertising on the channel and collaboration: [email protected] Invite to give a lecture: [email protected] -------- Support the project team: ✅ Boost (for Russian cards): https://boosty.to/gershman ✅ Via Telegram (any card): https://t.me/gre4ark/21130 ✅ YouTube sponsorship (for international cards): youtube.com/arkadiygershman/join ✅ Patreon (for international cards): Patreon: gershman -------- Telegram: https://t.me/gre4ark TikTok: TikTok: gershman_arkadiy Twitter: Twitter: arkadiygershman FB: Facebook: gre4ark Instagram: Instagram: gre4ark Blog with text posts: http://urbanblog.ru -------- My name is Arkady Gershman, and for the last ten years I've been promoting a healthy attitude toward the city (Google "City for People"). Simply put, I'm an urbanist with an unhealthy love of transportation. I'm not an architect, so I won't talk about the choice of materials or different architectural styles, but I will talk about proper urban planning policy, how to lay out a tram, what a street should look like, and how to create a park without drug addicts and alcoholics. -------- Timecodes: 00:00 The Height Limit 01:00 The Main Enemy of High-Rises 04:00 The Elevator Trap 05:32 Gaudi's Skyscraper 07:37 Poor Engineers 09:13 Soviet Megaproject 10:36 Lecture Announcements 11:14 Vanity Heights 13:39 Palace of Soviets 15:17 Eight Moscow High-Rises 17:17 A Justified Record 18:12 Cancellation of "Rossiya" 21:00 Revolt of the Architects 23:31 The Limit of Skyscrapers