5 mega-tall skyscrapers that were proposed but never finished! In this video, we explore the fate of the India Tower, the Sky City Tower, the Azerbaijan Tower, the Illinois, and the massive Dubai City Tower. For more skyscraper & megaproject content make sure to subscribe to Top Luxury!
0:00 5 Skyscrapers that Never Existed
0:41 India Tower
3:16 Sky City Tower
6:08 Azerbaijan Tower
9:09 The Illinois
11:09 Dubai City Tower
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Would you like to see these skyscryapers become a reality? 😄 Which one is your favorite?
I would like to see the Illinois, i still wonder how 1950s facade would looks like, on such a futuristic skyscraper.
All of them
The Illinois but it would have to have some modern renovations because I don’t trust 50s-60s tech to support that size of a building.
I want to see illinois so bad
I liked the last one, I would like to see it as a reality
That Illinois tower looks really modern for our days, even somewhat futuristic. Incredible to think that it was designed in the 50s by a man born in 1867. Truly far ahead of its time.
beyond ahead of it's time, i wonder if any country would challenge it!😂
I honestly wonder if this would have been feasible. A mile high building is almost double what we have now. The architecture and engineering of the Burj Khalifa is genius, but I’m not sure how much higher we can safely go. One mile is a lot in a building. That’s asking for trouble.
@@georgen5882I agree
I think out of all of them frank Lloyd's building would be a game changer as not only his concept is now being used in all modern skyscrapers but the concept of following nature is sound and can actually work to create a strong and sturdy building and it would be a monument and testament to Lloyd's genius and creativity as his building looks entirely unique while most skyscrapers are beginning to all look the same much like most suvs these days.
Little did Frank Lloyd Wright know, but he might have envisioned the first arcology. An arcology is a building or small compound with all the facilities of a typical town and produces at least most of its own food and power.
frank was the greatest architecural mind ever.
I hope someday, we will see Lloyd's: Illinois skyscrapers, build with modern technology. This would mean, that we would see new sky race between New York and Chicago.
New York is limited by the size of the island, you’d have to either demolish older buildings or drain the bay to make that possible.
Bro I want The Illinois Tower so bad. I'm an hour away from chicago and just driving towards that would be insane. Imagine looking out at everything from the top, you would truly be on top of the world.
beyond ahead of it's time, i wonder if any country would challenge it!😂
@@LexlutherVII Even today thats quite a challenge to build, imagine in the 50s
Frank Lloyd Wright truly was a man ahead of his time. His changes on house layouts and overall design alone are noteworthy enough to make him one of the finest architects in world history.
Unfortunately, most mega projects are never implemented
Yes. Huge cost, Mountainous resources required, And Maintenance, all combine could cost them nearly 2% of USA's GDP
That's because they're dumb projects.
Unfortunately most development is unfortunate.
What you forgot was the Chicago Spire. As copied from elsewhere .. "The Chicago Spire was a skyscraper project in Chicago that was partially built between 2007 and 2008 before being cancelled. Located at 400 N. Lake Shore Drive, it would have stood 2,000 feet (610 m) high with 150 floors and been the tallest building in the Western Hemisphere." Oh I remember this well. I remember the start of the construction (basically digging the foundation). And they got the hole dug and the pilings pushed into the ground and were about to start and then .. Great Recession. The money dried up, the Irish Bank that had been the primary funder collapsed and had to be nationalized / saved by Ireland, people started filing lawsuits over unpaid money and *poof* up in smoke. All that exists now is the Chicago Spire hole .. the foundation drilled into the ground that has filled with water over time. And the court fights are still going on to this day.
True! The Chicago Spire reminds me of the India Tower. They both were started around the same time (okay, maybe a year or 2 apart), and eventually two smaller towers were proposed. I saw the proposals for the towers in the Chicago Spire site. Granted, I really want the Chicago Spire, but the two towers look nice. Of course, the 2 towers could be cancelled and something new proposed.
yep
Damn 2008 panic
Even though these buildings never got to exist on computers, they look beautiful
Even after living in Mumbai, I didn't know about India Tower. Great video tbh. Ps - There was another halted skyscraper called Palais Royale in Mumbai which was supposed to be tallest building in India
But the India Tower would be taller!
I knew about it and was waiting for it eagerly then later got to know that it stopped.
i think the Dubai City Tower is insane. I really want to see it in my country, or anywhere in the world. I love it!
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i really do hope that in the future, the dubai city tower can be a reality when i see it
My favorite was the Azerbaijani Tower. My 2nd favorite is the Dubai City Tower. While structural engineering has advanced to the point of making a mile high tower feasible, I'm still looking forward to something like the x-seed 4000 in Japan being proposed and actually built.
I'm from Azerbaijani and I'm glad that the Azerbaijan tower was discussed
Awesome projects! Can't wait to see the final result.
I really would love to see those Skyscrapers build...my personal favorite is the Dubai City Tower...as I read it in the Internet the Dubai City Tower was just an Project for study how to build Skyscrapers this tall. And it was an Computer created Idea without having an Architect.
Instead of India tower, Mumbai gets Antilia as it’s symbol. 😂
Gateway of India?
Nah that symbol just represents how capitalism and inequality is just more of a thing in India
@@CreateCG1bro may you please respect them? They probably made a mistake and disrespecting a nation and a person isn’t a way to solve it thx! 😊
@@CreateCG1 no worries 😉 you did good by apologizing!
But bro there are many things here! What country u from?
Video turned out WAY better than I thought.
Top luxury video at 720p is just a feat to eyes and brain
Lovely video as always
Thank you !🤗
I read about the Illinois tower in "The Living City" by Frank LLoyd Wright. I always thought it was a perfect idea and Chicago was the perfect city to house it. I would still like to see that one built.
Some of them would be awesome to see
all of them are amazing but the most stunning would be the illinois tower so nice shape.
it looks scary, it gave me nightmares 😥
The Dubai City Tower looks crazy. How are those guys gonna build an 8000ft tower?
Honestly I don’t know. I guess if they engineer it similar to the Burj Khalifa, just in a larger scale, it “could” work. It honestly sounds like a disaster in the making. Like the top is going to get sheared off at one point due to wind and structural damage. Buildings are designed to withstand a certain amount of deflection, but at that height it might be too much. The Burj Khalifa is said to have about 3-6 feet of deflection at the top floors, and that building would be almost 1/3 the size of this one. The air here thinner the higher you go, so maybe it isn’t the main problem, but that’s some serious load to bear and distribute, wind sheer to account for. I don’t know man. This isn’t Star Wars.
great vid as always!
Thank you for your support! 💛
As Indian I didn't know Mumbai to had this big Building project but I don't know if it is going to continue or not
in the city of BALNEÁRIO CAMBORIÚ BRAZIL, Thriump Tower, the largest residential skyscraper on earth is under construction with 154 floors and 544 meters to the roof, which would be the second tallest skyscraper on earth to the roof, being the largest skyscraper in America and the western and southern hemispheres
Just proposed
All of them 🤩
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I WOULD LIKE TO SEE THE DUBAI CITY TOWER!
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Most of those proposed buildings should be made but much smaller.
Very nice content ❤
Yes
Great video! It would be fascinating to see any of these built, but the Frank Lloyd Wright concept is definitely the best!!! Nature knows how to make big things! 😎
beyond ahead of it's time, i wonder if any country would challenge it!😂
My favorite is Dubai city because it looks so cool
The Illinois in my hometown would have been spectacular!!
Thank you video interesting.
Useful for me
200 km/h is pretty fast for an elevator, especially when you're going down 😂
Free orgasm on the way😂
An elevator that gives you a space experience, that would be a fun lol
Thankfully they could simply accelerate before going 200 kmh, so you don't die of death
yes, for sure
I'm starting a new era of tall buildings, and there is no other possibility of technology like mine, and by the way, the video is nice, greetings
would luv to see them
I was pleased to see Frank Lloyd Wright's Illinois tower in your compilation. I would have been disappointed had it been excluded. Forget the rest - they are generic things, all of which could reasonably have been constructed in any major city because they lack cultural identification. Once upon a time Foster Associates designed a magnificent high rise building that suited a particular location at a particular time - it was the Hong Kong and Shanghai Bank. Now they design a nondescript needle with a vague claim to national identity that could be applied to any major city. That's the problem with the modern high rise building - their locations are as interchangeable as the architects that put them there
Okay I just cannot get over how the music in this video is a nearly note-for-note plagiarism of the Downton Abbey theme 😂 But really, amazing video! These projects never cease to fascinate me. There are so many projects in the works today that will likely be in a follow-up video years from now.
if Illinois was built then - we would have seen way differnt and taller towers by now. but alas, sometimes some people are way ahead of their time.
The Indian sky crapper was well designed, hope it will come and be built🎉❤
I've been to the highest point they allow you to go in the Burj Khalifa and it is a truly amazing building. Personally, every country trying to one-up each other, as far as tallest building goes, seems like a waste. There are plenty of other buildings in Dubai that are amazing and a fraction of the height of the Burj Khalifa. I am also someone who would never want to live in a skyscraper.
As a European I start getting nauseous on like the 6th floor, I've never lived above a 4th floor and it was always the last level of the building. I got altitude sickness at the Atomium in Brussels which isn't even that tall so I'll be enjoying these mega structures from the outside
you should be forced on living at the 200th floor😂
@@lubex3486what do you have against mariepanettieri2990 !?
Back in the 80's I stood atop one of the towers of the World Trade Center in NYC. It's so high up it doesn't even feel real. And it was the weirdest thing looking down on all the other skyscrapers around it.
Yes, I liked the last one
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First time hearing the Dubai city
Dubai City Tower needs to be built big time.
😭hope that buildings will build in the future
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my favourate skyscryaper out of all of them is the dubai city tower i would love the dubai city tower to become a reality😀
How did you switch your name from top luxury to mega builds
When I was in Dubai someone said to me. This is going to be bigger than NYC when its finished. My reply to him was this. No one will ever write songs about Dubai that the world will know. Dubai will not have culture that is comparable to NYC and finally. Nothing will ever be exported to the rest of the world from the UAE.
The one in Chicago deserves justice, I'd love to see that building come to life
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I want to see all of them ,😮
It’s really really sad that some of the skyscrapers make the good old popular ones tiny😢
I want to see the Illinois and the Dubai city tower❤
I wish the dubai city tower was made by now but let's hope in the future that I will be built❤😊
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My favorite building out of all is the Dubai city tower i want to see it and i want it to become a reality.😍😄
What about Antonio Gaudis NYC skyscraper. AMAZING
In my fictional world, all of this skyscrapers have finished and successful
my favourate one is the dubai city tower
Great video. I just wanted to give some constructive feedback as I really like your channel, but this probably isn't the best title for the video as it doesn't really make sense. What I mean by that is these towers all exist in a way -- if a concept car never made it into production, I wouldn't say it "never existed", it just never came to fruition. I don't mean to nitpick, just thought I'd offer my 2 cents. Keep up the great work!
The Illinois is very ambitious for that time. It even looks too futurestic for our time. It would have been the world's first megatall skyscraper if it was ever built.
I want these buildings to be a reality
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Believe me Dubai it can it's crazy enough to build a unbelievable megaprojects 🙂💔
the illinois looked so modern and sleek considering that it was designed in the 1950s. and all the buildings then were just rectangular prisms
I want to see the Illinois Tower❤
nice view
Yes i would love to.
Grollo Tower (Melbourne) should’ve been included in this. Although the tower was not built, the tower was instead built much higher which we now know as the Burj Khalifa
Imagine hoping in the elevator and waited 15 mins until you get to your floor
I would like the Dubai city tower 0:38
what about Tokyo Tower of Babel, X-Seed 4000, Tokyo mega pyramid and Ultima Tower?
The pearl would be a cool tower from the move skyscraper
These architects out here are really tryna build the Citadel from Half-Life 2
I’m really excited to see the Jeddah tower
It's abandonned, will never be completed
@@J.c410 nope, it's revived
Ngl that the India Tower looks very likable despite the damn height
About as achievable as 'The Line'. Crazy thinking.
Moz definitely the Kore building 😮
I’m pretty mad that the Illinois Tower wasn’t built, I go to Chicago every year and would be so cool to drive by.
beyond ahead of it's time, i wonder if any country would challenge it!😂
Only good thing about mega projects-gigantic skyscrapers as in this video, they give plenty of people employment. Other that that, they are very creepy and has no use for general public.
The last building is a quarter finished it’s being built under ground 😮
jeddah tower left the chat
Say goodbye buildings I am a plane :)
Hi. You should make some videos on indian ( anything ). Trust me. It will be your highest viewing video. Love you from Indian
7:11: And how long would it take to build a 3,500ft tower?
The Biggest Tower now is the: Burch Kalifa In the Future it will be: Tokyo Tower Of Babel If a Anther one Existed it will be: Launch Loop
were your channel called top luxury?
This is a silly title - I bet there are infinite number of skyscrapers that never existed.