British Guy Reacts to Tallest Buildings in Each U.S. State

[@TheGoldenTankTGTgoldisawesome]

"The City that never sleeps"

[@chrisscott820]

This

[@Houqh]

@@henryfink5348 Nah the state is New York, the city is New York City and inside New York City is 5 boroughs (Manhattan, Brooklyn, Bronx, Queens, Staten Island.)

[@maxgamer3121]

@@henryfink5348 Yeah if you visit New York City you will be like you are in another world.

[@thelegacyshow4248]

Yep

[@KateSmiling]

“City of lights” is Las Vegas. Maybe that’s what he was thinking of.

[@WaveManMike]

Fun Fact: The building at number one is called "Freedom Tower" because it's 1776 ft tall and 1776 was the year that America got it's freedom.

[@BPierce3029]

Wow you seem to show up everywhere

[@elidaze5868]

Well, it's called One World Trade Center officially, Freedom Tower was the name that people were giving it prior to its completion and I know many people still call it that to this day and think its a better name (can't argue there, since it has more of an impact and matches its architectural height, the structure as a whole all the way to the tip is actually taller though) but that's not it's actual name. Also 1776 was the year we declared our freedom through the Declaration of Independence, the revolutionary war continued until 1783 when the Treaty of Paris officially ended the war and granted us our freedom from Great Britain (although the Siege of Yorktown in 1781 marked the final engagement of the war on American soil).That being said, it's true we basically were doing our own thing from 1776 onward (even before then technically) which is why that year is so significant to America and its fight for freedom from Great Britain. Just some extra information to elaborate on your comment and perhaps help clarify things for non-Americans (or even some Americans) who are curious about the historic background and significance of the building's unofficial name and architectural height of 1776 ft.

[@UTbrother]

@@elidaze5868 iirc, it's 1476 feet to the top floor, which matches the height of the twin towers. The spire/antenna is 300 feet, to bring the total to 1776, obviously to reference the year of our Declaration of Independence.

[@zack9777]

@@UTbrother obersvatiom deck up three is unreal

[@elidaze5868]

@@UTbrother I think you're right, I always get confused with the heights of these huge skyscrapers. I couldn't remember off the top of my head if the building itself was 1776 ft but was taller with the antenna or the other way around and I didn't have time to check it in the moment. Thank you for clarifying :)

[@cmillivol98]

“What other cities are in Vermont?” Literally nobody knows

[@BigAl2-u7e]

The real question is what other cities are in Rhode Island?

[@cmillivol98]

@@BigAl2-u7e there are cities in Rhode Island...?

[@bigussmokesus8866]

The real question is if there are any cities in New Hampshire

[@BigAl2-u7e]

@@cmillivol98 Oh my god... There are other cities in Rhode Island apart from Providence. I'm shocked.

[@xtremefps_]

Montpelier. I only know it because of that commercial that had some family naming capitals of states and they asked what the capital of Vermont was and a 2 or 3 year old said Montpelier and the were all surprised.

[@mikehunt368]

las vegas on screen: “is that a hotel or a gambling place?” yes......

[@GrimTuseday]

I was surprised to see the Palazzo because we have the Stratosphere tower right down the street from The Palazzo, and it’a almost twice as tall.

[@assassin_rk42]

@@GrimTuseday It says building, not an ugly tower.

[@mythmaker3250]

@@assassin_rk42 YOU TAKE THAT BAAAAACK

[@assassin_rk42]

@@mythmaker3250 I live here and the Stratosphere is the ugliest thing that happened besides Vegas becoming family friendly only to end Treasure Island.

[@mythmaker3250]

@@assassin_rk42 I lived in Vegas for 9 years and I disagree.

[@jacksaliba5849]

First skyscraper in the world was in Chicago.

[@jacklewis5452]

1885 Home Insurance Building. There were taller buildings so what made it a skyscraper? It was the first building that was built with the interior steel ibeam frame and that allowed tall buildings to be built, otherwise the base of a brick building would end up being like the great pyramid......thick.

[@harleyhill3802]

@@jacklewis5452 the first building to exist as a 'skyscraper' was in Chicago built in 1885 if i remember correctly. Just because there are taller buildings now does not mean that building wasnt the first. Also, to be a skyscraper, the building needs to be 40 stories high (or approx. 150m)

[@lionkingsmilk1211]

@@harleyhill3802 he said there was taller buildings before the Chicago one

[@halicarnassus834]

Yes Chicago is not only the Windy city, yet Skyscraper City.

[@48mavemiss2]

@@harleyhill3802 he never said that. I think you read his comment wrong

[@cadengarcia5480]

Luka: “The Palazzo, is that a hotel or a gambling place?” Nevada: “yes”

[@fathomhuntsmen8172]

Lol, nearly every hotel in Vegas as a gambling area (specifically Mandalay Bay, Circus Circus, and the Stratosphere Hotel)

[@cadengarcia5480]

@@fathomhuntsmen8172 yup. I’ve never been to LV, but I’ve had sports events in Reno, and (as a high schooler) we have to stay in a casino/hotel lol

[@Cat-ki3hy]

@@fathomhuntsmen8172 circus circus is lit

[@fathomhuntsmen8172]

@@Cat-ki3hy It is. Also, after hearing that my hometown was known for gambling I started noticing how many mini-gambling places we had. Albertsons, Sams, Dollar Tree, pretty much everywhere.

[@willrobinson4976]

Some U.S. cities have height restrictions, designed to keep buildings from being very tall. Washington, D.C. have building restrictions on how tall buildings can be. Some cities are against tall building and prefer low rise building, it depends on the city.

[@Hey_Jamie]

Los Angeles has them for obvious reasons. The earth shakes here lol

[@jardyen958]

every city has restrictions.

[@catgirl6803]

I've heard Baltimore's skyscrapers are limited due to our proximity to DC. Not sure how true that is.

[@Perfectly_Cromulent351]

@@Hey_Jamie LA had a height restriction of 150 feet until 1957, when it was repealed. LA then made it mandatory for tall buildings to have helipads on top so that’s why most of LA’s skyline lacks spires, but luckily that law was repealed 6 years ago.

[@rafetizer]

More cities need sign height restrictions as well. It really cleans up the view.

[@thesnakbar]

"I would've thought a place like Mississippi would have bigger buildings" Man if you could hear how hard I was laughing. You just made my day Luka

[@solace6700]

Im actually really enjoy the random pausing and looking shit up 😂

[@ryanescobar8980]

Fun fact here in Chicago we don't call the tallest building the "Willis tower" we call it the Sears tower

[@TheNextEvilPig]

I'm no Chicagoan but always been a fan of skyscrapers...and to me it also has always been the sears tower... always will be!

[@nwj03a]

Live in Chicago, will always be the Sears tower to me. Even if I didn’t live hear, still the Sears tower.

[@jrtspace7945]

Well I mean it's kinda both, or, well, it's either both, or was one and changed to another, either way I think both would be correct altho correct me if I'm wrong

[@drewpamon]

Remember that the USA is not as densely populated as Europe so when you can spread out why spend the money building tall?

[@TheRockkickass]

They do in nyc and Chicago

[@storiesthroughnumbers4111]

Power projection, that's why.

[@user-pm2zv9fs5r]

bc cities aren't super big, they gotta be tall. most of them are for offices

[@drewpamon]

@@TheRockkickass both of which have artificially created density due to lack of room to expand

[@TheRockkickass]

@@drewpamon right, I’m agreeing with you, Los angles has 14 million metro area but you’d never guess by its skyline

[@therpwind4166]

Fun fact just cause I’m from Nashville: The AT&T building is often called the Batman building because the two antennas look like Batman’s cowl

[@Me-fv7iv]

Same in atlanta, we have two buildings we call the pencil building and tweezer building

[@nochannel1q2321]

The formerly AT&T building in NYC is ominous to see. It's very tall, all concrete and has either only a few windows or absolutely no windows.

[@DragonStormGoddess]

Looks more like Sauron’s tower especially when passing by on a highway at night lol

[@nochannel1q2321]

@@DragonStormGoddess Definitely check out the AT&T building in NYC. It's like eighty stories and literally zero windows.

[@RobGamesOn]

@@Me-fv7iv are you referring to the twin buildings I like to call the king and queen chess pieces? I live in Georgia too.

[@miaschiapet]

The phrase about New York is “ the city that never sleeps”

[@C.Dynamo]

*Literally... and they don’t sleep, NYC is busy 24/7... **#Owls** 🦉🦉🦉 sleep in the day, out at night 😂*

[@Shmitty_A]

I kept saying it as he was trying to figure it out 😂

[@Kaylersick]

i thought that was Zanarkand, and new york was the big apple.

[@miaschiapet]

@@Kaylersick That’s also New York, New York has a lot of nicknames

[@rh1507]

@@miaschiapet I say that New York city is the Big Apple. Hey what do I know I was born in Southern Illinois where there are no sky scrapers at all.

[@jamesfarr7851]

“I would’ve guessed every state would’ve had a huge city or something” Haha, buddy, let me tell you a story about this state called “Wyoming”

[@jareddraney]

The reason they made the new world trade center 1,776 ft tall is because we signed the declaration of independence is 1776! Fun Fact!

[@Longey9000]

Oh dang thx for the fact

[@RacerX-bv9io]

Adam Weishaupt would beg to differ about why it is that height.

[@jordanpinheiro9172]

@@RacerX-bv9io Well you’re begging to be wrong then lol. It’s documented as being the reason why. And it makes sense because of what happened on 9/11. They constructed a building with the very height announcing you can’t take away our freedom

[@bloodarmyproductions]

@@jordanpinheiro9172 Hence why it was originally named the Freedom tower

[@jordanpinheiro9172]

@@bloodarmyproductions correct

[@CMDRScotty]

The one in Chicago should be called the Sears Tower changing the name of the building was stupid it's like renaming the Chrysler building.

[@whoishim2998]

Yeah but Sears was going outta business they kinda had to unfortunately

[@whoishim2998]

They could’ve picked a better name tho Willis tower sucks lol

[@4potslite169]

No one from here calls it Willis....it’s the Sears. We know right away if you’re a tourist.

[@R.M.MacFru]

@@4potslite169 ...tourist. I had no idea it got renamed. I was wondering why they had the wrong name with the building. 😆

[@route2070]

They renamed it since Willis Holding Group (English Insurance company) rented out the most amount of floorspace in the building. It was apart of the contract for an incentive for a couple of decades (sometime in the 80's) that no one took advantage of.

[@j.l.9029]

A fun fact about America for you, that Sudafed you said you're using was banned for over-the-counter sale in America because people wouldn't stop making meth with it.

[@ryanofthegilbertson1145]

Meth is goor

[@cameronparker3197]

Send Sudafed?😂

[@Ojisan642]

You can still buy it but you have to ask for it and they record your ID so you don’t buy too much of it. You don’t need a prescription though.

[@Koll-Manee]

@@Ojisan642 ahh so I can make meth it'll just take longer

[@VerbalVantage]

@@Koll-Manee Lmao ya

[@TheCsel]

The Sears/Willis tower in Chicago held the title of the tallest building in the world for 25 years

[@beyji1plays839]

It was ever bigger then the twin towers but the one World Trade Center is here now cause of the twin towers being bombed so if the bombing didn’t happen it would have kept the title longer

[@doctorballs2261]

@@beyji1plays839 its also bigger than the One world trade Center if you don't include the spire.

[@AndySaputo]

If the Sears Tower and the One World Trade Center buildings were side by side and you went to the top floor of each building, the people in the Sears Tower would be looking down at the people in the OWTC building. I don't think spires/antenna's should count, honestly. It should be the tallest useable floor.

[@stash4945]

@@AndySaputo Central Park tower NYC 1550' with no spire, 100' taller than Willis tower.

[@AndySaputo]

@@stash4945 I'm not sure where you found that? I searched around and found the following: "With the needle, 1 World Trade Center is a symbolically important 1,776 feet tall. Without it, the building would have been only 1,368 feet tall - well short of the 1,451-foot Willis (Sears) Tower."

[@lidsman2221]

NYC is called The City That Never Sleeps.

[@georgejamieson7329]

You beat me to it

[@domoslomo1]

Us Chicagoans know the “Willis Tower” by a different name...

[@AG-OldmanBrick]

I'm not from Chicago, but it's always going to be the Sears Tower to me.

[@admrob]

@@AG-OldmanBrick Same, and I'm from Los Angeles. hah.

[@sean0106]

Chicagoans are the only ones that know it was even renamed to something other than the Sears Tower!

[@samshipley2431]

From Chicago, never going to call it the "Willis Tower" lol

[@emilymiller8562]

from md, most people still call it sears tower or 'formerly sears tower' bc that's the iconic name

[@stephsdlnthms3957]

The U.S has enough land that there isn't really a need for super tall buildings in a lot of states. The extra cost and risk involved in building a taller building just doesn't make sense from a practical standpoint when you can just build a lower building with a bigger footprint.

[@jonathanprime1507]

It happens when a lot of people go to live in one City so they have no choice but to build up they can't just start building on another cities land because thats illegal

[@derekbriere]

@@jonathanprime1507 You do realize how much space there is between cities in the US, right?

[@derekbriere]

That's all the space That's uninhabited.

[@stephsdlnthms3957]

@@derekbriere I wouldn't necessarily consider that space "uninhabited". For example, in the city closest to where I live there was recently a 249,884-square-foot single story store that opened on 38.5 acres. That store is within city limits, and actually pretty conveniently located, even if it's not in the heart of downtown. It's just that the size of the city limits, relative to the population, allows for a lot of space between businesses in a lot of US cities. And I live near a pretty normal, mid-sized city in my state, about 11th in size overall.

[@derekbriere]

@@stephsdlnthms3957 I'm in Montana, so our city-to-uninhabited-land ratio is pretty high. We have a population that would fill ONE city in a tiny state compared to us. About one million people live in my state. Most states are like mine, so there really is a LOT of uninhabited land.

[@ftalmage8435]

yeah in the us theres just a lot of space, but most of it's rural with like no one living there. that's likely why the top heights are so short in the middle area

[@korie4198]

Not to mention tornado alley isn't a smart place to build tall buildings.

[@arthurpendragon8192]

@@korie4198 This^ espcially this

[@Titus-as-the-Roman]

Please keep your picture in a picture to the upper right, your lower left spot always blocks text that would be nice to know, such as this video where the first 8 minutes I had no idea where these buildings were located. Also your Football reviews. P.S.- The Willis tower in Chicago used to be the Sears Tower, a company so rich it built what was then the tallest building in the world, now a bankrupt company. P.S.S.- the One World Trade center in N.Y. is on the spot where the Twin Towers used to be.

[@madsluvsu]

I was coming here to say this. Just some constructive criticism to make the viewing more enjoyable!

[@madsluvsu]

He just moved it up in my video and apologized. On behalf of the comments, we accept the apology 😂

[@sophiefilo16]

I think the best thing would be to shrink the size of the video and shift it over. That way, there is minimal overlap. This will create a gap of "blank" space that would be perfect for a logo or a title or even just a subtle background...

[@Titus-as-the-Roman]

@@sophiefilo16, I hated to actually say anything cause I like his site and didn't want to look "Trollish", but it does block much text and info.

[@sophiefilo16]

@@Titus-as-the-Roman It also takes way from the video when he always has to adjust his camera while the video is playing. I've delayed giving criticism since he doesn't seem very experienced in this sort of thing, and I don't know what software he is using. He is working on getting a greenscreen right now, but I really don't think that's necessary. If he trims the extra space on his camera and makes the video he is reacting to smaller, it'll work fine. Conversely, he can fill the screen with his face and put the video in the corner. I think he should also do some light editing to trim out moments of him adjusting the camera, blowing his nose, etc. His thumbnails also have an issue in which whenever he uses red text, it is incredibly hard to read. Changing the text to white or simply adding a white background to the text would solve this. Overall, just a few easy fixes will greatly improve the quality of his videos. He doesn't need to buy any new technology. He just needs to learn the software better and practice a few things off-camera...

[@EpicMinerNK]

11:00 that AT&T building is where the explosion happened a few days ago, not sure if you've heard about it on the news.

[@eisamiller88]

It was right down the block from it actually at the original AT&T building built back in the early 1920s (the tallest red brick building you can see in the image). It was built in a way that was supposed to be bomb proof, but unfortunately, the bomb did quite a bit of damage not only to that building but also destroyed several 1800s era buildings across the street. After the modern AT&T building, what we locals call the Batman building, was built, the original building was repurposed to house servers and other equipment that controls the wi-fi/cell service for several states in this region as well as the continued hosting of the remaining landlines. I was deeply saddened by the bombing. Not only are the buildings that were destroyed one of my favorite areas of the city, but my grannie worked in the old AT&T building as a switchboard operator back during WWII. It was still called Bellsouth back then, but AT&T acquired all Bellsouth properties in the early 2000s. She used to tell us stories about working there. It was such a different time. Separate elevators for men and women and NAP rooms for the ladies who weren't feeling well due to their time of the month. There was also a flood that happened that trapped her in the building overnight once until the waters receded the next day so the nap room came in very handy for the unintended on the job sleepover.

[@Obnoxiouspatriot]

It’s not 100% the case but typically the more populated states have taller buildings. Definitely the more densely populated. That’s why places like Idaho don’t have super tall buildings even though they are big states.

[@akashwoods6745]

lol i laughed when he thought 623,000 people wasn’t that small, Vermont is like the second smallest state and almost 20 states have 10 times as many people

[@adamarguin9925]

Rhode island, Maryland, Delaware, Connecticut, Massachusetts, and New Hampshire are smaller in terms of land mass. But VT is the least populated state in the entire Union.

[@Tornnnado]

@@adamarguin9925 no lol Wyoming has less people

[@adamarguin9925]

@@Tornnnado you're right. I stand corrected.

[@justjennb11]

The AT&T building at 11:07 is also known as the "Batman Building". AT&T is a phone and internet company.

[@jacklewis5452]

The att building in nashville? Heck its perfectly in line with the titans football stadium so the building looks like a giant goalpost.

[@shane-ke8ge]

Didn't it just get bombed?

[@James-bw4np]

@@shane-ke8ge nah the smaller red building closer to the river in the picture did. I think they have either servers in the building or a lot of switchboards.

[@R.M.MacFru]

AT&T was the biggest part left of the old Bell Telephone Company after it was broken up. And yes, Bell as in Alexander Graham Bell, the telephone's inventor.

[@user-mo8mg4ks9h]

Also before they were split up they had a research division called Bell Labs where the transistor was invented, among many other things.

[@spoopysauce2456]

The AT&T building in Nashville really just looks like the eye of Sauron.

[@eisamiller88]

We call it the Batman building.

[@californiamade5608]

Nah that’s Salesforce Tower in San Francisco

[@ems7623]

Seems fitting for AT&T and their illegal domestic wiretapping escapades.

[@michiganjfrog366]

As everyone else said..NYC is the city that never sleeps..Las Vegas is the city of lights.. Neon lights

[@Steve9312028]

They don’t do much sleeping in Vegas! 😎

[@Bluefire064]

I always call Las Vegas, Sin City

[@4potslite169]

Actually it’s Paris that’s the City of Lights....

[@aidans5972]

Actual Neon lights are only red and orange, other colors use different gases

[@PaintedCavern]

Orlando FL is also City of Lights. Las Vegas-Lost Wages. Aka Sin City.

[@zay945]

I love hearing when you're mad at yourself for "sounding stupid" so many youtubers feel so perfect and untouchable from their edits but yours are so pure haha

[@kayd731]

The key building has a key at the Top Because it's a Name of a bank And that's their logo (a red key) at the top.

[@nochannel1q2321]

It's literally "Key Bank". I know it doesn't really matter, but I figured I'd add a snippet more to Kate's post. JPMorgan Chase is a giant bank. Both Bank of America buildings are literally BOA facilities. North Carolina's is their headquarters and they have others that aren't necessarily the biggest spread throughout the country. They may lease out some of the floors, but they go for big when building.

[@gemoftheocean]

Btw, the newer US Aircraft Carriers if they were on land standing straight up would top over 1000 feet.

[@willcool713]

Manhattan, because it's an island, had skyscrapers before elevators were around. The penthouses used to be the cheapest real estate, because of the extreme walk-up.

[@Hey_Jamie]

Damn save on rent AND gym membership!

[@Utoober729]

@@Hey_Jamie move upstate. Your money will go farther (OK I know you won't move)

[@clevelandbci9562]

15:35 That tall building on the left is the Terminal Tower. It's the skyscraper shown at the beginning of the classic "A Christmas Story" movie. Was built around the time the Empire State Building was made. Was the tallest outside NYC for years.

[@d4got10one]

AT&T was mainly a cellphone provider for many years. Now they've grown and are also providing TV, internet, and home phone service. Later on they bought dish network and now offer satellite TV service.

[@MTBOSS09]

You mean direct tv

[@MichaelScheele]

AT&T = American Telephone and Telegraph They were the monopoly landline phone provider and long distance service provider. They were broken up in the 1980s.

[@adriandavis3738]

@@MichaelScheele I was just about to say the same thing. It seems weird that so many people that I meet these days do not know about or remember C&P or the Bell Companies.

[@d4got10one]

@@MTBOSS09 yes direct tv......thanks for the correction

[@willp.8120]

@@MichaelScheele they were the landline provider for long distance during that time.

[@soobee5162]

You nailed the description of Providence, RI. One of the biggest "updates" in the last 20 years was making the river that runs thru the city pedestrian friendly, with pocket parks, an outdoor theater, etc. It was a good investment.

[@ems7623]

Totally agree. The new Providence is a gem compared to what it once was - as it should be given its rich history.

[@MrKevo123]

If you come to Chicago the Sear tower (old name of Willis tower) had a floor towards the top where the floor is glass. You get to stand and look straight down at the street and river.

[@kayd731]

It's kinda overrated and a little bit of a rip off in my opinion 360 Chicago is better.

[@deathstar286]

I’ve been to both and I can confirm 360 Chicago at the John Hancock Center is way better, the service and time to get to the top were ridiculously faster than the Sears (I don’t mean elevators, I mean the lines to the elevators) and the views were better in my opinion. On 2 sides of the Sears, you can’t even see downtown, you just see the suburbs and stuff. South view on 360 is all of downtown, East is Lake Michigan and Navy Pier, South is still Lake Michigan but some beaches and the coast, West isn’t as good as the others but you’ll still see some action.

[@ElleW]

Old name was Sears Tower. The current name is Willis Tower. I prefer Sears Tower but they didn't ask me.

[@jelletinny]

@@ElleW As a Chicagoan, I can confirm no one calls it Willis, everyone calls it the Sears Tower

[@ElleW]

@@jelletinny Oh I definitely get that! It will always be Sears Tower to me ... and I didn’t like that they changed the name at all. I am in the Chicagoland area but not Chicago proper. I just don’t get the point of renaming buildings that have such an important and long history.

[@GBofOH]

New York City's nickname is "The city that never sleeps".

[@theblackbear211]

Seattle's nickname is "the Emerald city"... but it takes a daytime shot to understand why.

[@theblackbear211]

@J M Yes Indeed.

[@cherylgregory2179]

Your ramblings are cute and enjoyable to listen to. It is very enjoyable to watch you as you learn about all of these things. I am learning some things from your videos that I never knew, and I am an American, born and bred.... my great grandparents migrated to Wisconsin from Norway, but I have lived here my entire life. I am 59 years old. Thank you for taking the time and energy in making these videos. I joined about a month ago and watch almost all of your videos.

[@bwheels5087]

The WV state capital building has real gold on the dome of it. They just recently finished redoing it, they had scaffolding around it forever lol

[@nickhynds9123]

Not as good as the Iowa capital building.

[@bwheels5087]

@@nickhynds9123 didn't know it was a competition but alright lol

[@willp.8120]

Georgia capitol building is also plated with gold from the Dahlonega area, home to the nation's first big gold rush.

[@lordjacobstroman6521]

He was looking at Seattle, he was thinking of the movie "Sleepless in Seattle" i think

[@mcneca1]

Give yourself a break... you're sick. Being sick will mess with anyone's head!

[@waycoolscootaloo]

If the London Shard were placed in Chicago, it would be the 6th tallest building in the city. Sometimes spires are counted and sometimes there not. The Sears Tower (Willis Tower) in Chicago is actually taller than the One World Trade Center when it comes to roof top height and highest floor. The Sears Tower also has the highest observatory of any building in the US. But One World Trade Center is considered taller because of it's antenna. The Sears Tower antennas are not counted. The One World Trade Center antena hasa cladding on the side of the antena that makes it somewhat of a spire which counts. The Sears Tower antennas don't have this decorative cladding. So they don't count because of this decorative material. But to the average person the Sears Tower is taller, because it's taller and bigger in most any other way the two buildings can be measured. The Sears Tower can get you up higher than the One World Trade can. And it's much bigger in terms of sq.ft, as well. Plus it has a higher roof top than One World Trade Center.

[@UncleAl3]

TRUE! To me it still ranks as the tallest building considering only the building.

[@ksmith9715]

New York City: The City that Never Sleeps Tall buildings: skyscrapers

[@alexeischaefer9050]

Honestly enjoying watching your content and I just watch along with you and feel like your just a friend that is in the same room as me

[@disoriented1]

AT & T is American Telephone and Telegraph..at one time the telephone monopoly in the U.S.

[@nochannel1q2321]

They're almost back to that, but bigger! We need another trust buster. Like why does Comcast own the Philadelphia Flyers hockey team?

[@willp.8120]

AT&T was for long distance. Bell was for local.

[@whoishim2998]

They still are or soon will

[@whoishim2998]

@@nochannel1q2321 Comcast is a monopoly as we speak idk how they haven’t done nothing about them

[@steelersfan4190]

At one of the top floors of the Willis/Sears tower, they have glass-encased balconies hanging over the edge that you can walk onto. Such a trippy experience looking down from them.

[@char388]

in the U.S. we have so much land that there's not a reason we should build tall, compact, buildings.

[@whoishim2998]

The only point for us is the looks and to flex

[@arthurpendragon8192]

though sadly it would be super beneficial as we would need cars less and we could more easily promote public transportation if nothing was too spread out. Would be better for the environment if we built taller than wider :/

[@caitiliningheanuilochlainn5987]

No one in Des Moines calls that 801 Grand. That's the Principal Building regardless of rebranding attempts.

[@nq6508]

Thanks for the heads up. LoL. I moved here a year ago and glad I didn't look dumb calling it the wrong name.

[@BoilerBloodline]

Everything is BANK related here in the states. There are seemingly bank branches on every corner as well. It gets old...fast.

[@BoilerBloodline]

@Mind traveling Sagittarius It used to at least “seem” that way. Now it’s just become a psychopaths world. There is truly no honor among thieves.

[@kbob1163]

The Willis Tower in Chicago was the tallest building in the world when it was finished in 1974, though it was called the Sears Tower in those days. The previous record holders were the twin towers of the World Trade Center, which had been finished in 1972.

[@chrino21]

I think the general rule, however unfair, is that if the building has a “decorative spire” as part of its “design” it counts in the height. If it has functional towers on top (broadcast antennae, etc.) they do not count in the height. This makes the Willis or Sears Tower in Chicago technically shorter than the Freedom Tower in NY, even though its roof is 100 feet higher. Same thing with LA’s Wilshire Grand Center and U.S. Bank Tower.

[@JBBrickman]

7:22 thanks for changing position, lol I kept switching windows to a list I found on google for the state names, a lot of pausing.

[@ronharris8669]

You forget about the weather and land and a lot of states have building codes that prevent going bigger

[@ardendelspain]

THANK YOU. lol That's why Vermont's is sooooo hilariously small. We have super strict property laws and regulations for building permits.

[@ordinarynocturne]

This. Some places can't go higher because the ground can't support it. Maybe it's too loosely packed or marshy or sandy. Buildings that are too large would collapse.

[@melschez7388]

I've been at the top of the Wilshire Grand Center in LA. You can feel the pressure and your ears popping as you ride the elevator! It's an amazing view of the city.

[@cygnusx-3217]

We have 15 buildings approximately that height or taller in Chicago. A second building nearly identical in height to the Sears Tower is being built. But you have Hollyweird.

[@melschez7388]

Cygnus X-321 Lol okay and?

[@cygnusx-3217]

@@melschez7388 But I liked Chick Hearn and Vin Scully.

[@LuckyOwI777]

My mom and two of my aunts used to work in the Renaissance Center. Even though I live literally 30 minutes from it, I don't think I've actually ever been inside it, lol

[@flaskerl]

NYC: The city that never sleeps.

[@SanFranFan30]

Luka: "This is a different video" Me: "Yes"

[@ryanescobar8980]

Chicago actually has the taller skyscraper, New York is just allowed to use it's antenna while Chicago can't. Simply put the Sears(Willis) Tower is the taller building with more floors.

[@bradhicks4057]

Spires, which are architectural elements are counted. Antennae are not.

[@jr13227]

Almost every skyscraper in New York and Chicago blows away 98% of this list

[@Tigerskunk]

14:17 that building in Boston had problems after being build. When it was windy, windows panes would pop out. They had to redo all windows to compensate for the building sway.

[@jakrispyman2937]

you should react to capitols of each state

[@JBBrickman]

I know LA has the tallest capitol but idk which state hast the shortest.

[@elizabethwhitsell3851]

I agree. Find a video of state capitol buildings, if there is such a thing.

[@tomasperea7965]

Him: “I thought Idaho would have bigger buildings” Me: All there is in Idaho is potatoes and 3 people

[@arthurpendragon8192]

idaho is growing actually. i don't know about since 2020 but before 2020 it certainly was on the rise for growth.

[@ems7623]

Your way of phrasing that made me laugh. But essentially, yes.

[@xBlurple]

I live 37 kilometers(23 miles) from the wills tower and i can see it on a clear day!!!

[@kidyaes9832]

it looks better when you see it from far away at night

[@stevenwiswell9598]

If you look at the size in feet of One World Trade Center in New York City, you'll notice that it is 1776 feet, which they did on purpose to symbolize the year the Declaration of Independence was signed.

[@cameronparker3197]

The New York thing you where asking is that it’s “the city that never sleeps”😂😂

[@hookxry]

5:03 i am from manchester and it is honestly a really nice city and everyone from new hampshire recognizes that building immediately it’s kinda like a monument for us

[@austinreed5805]

Happy New Year, everyone! Let’s hope that 2021 is better than 2020.

[@tbowers0045]

Yes because of the vaccine

[@robyn8306]

The first KZbin video I watched in 2021! Crazy 😂

[@cfromcass]

Your box that displays your image is located in a poor spot. Maybe lower right or upper right. Maybe you should do a review of video to determine placement of your image.

[@xheralt]

He caught it himself (or maybe his stream chat alerted him?) about a third of the way into the video; you gave up too soon.

[@Ken-ss1en]

Crazy to see how far you've come with your channel man!

[@HP-ef2um]

"I would of expected bigger buildings in such a big state like Idaho"... Bruh Idaho is one of the least relevant state in the US lol

[@PoseurGoth]

I laughed when he said that. The rest of the country really only knows them for the potatoes. I'm sure they have some interesting culture, but I've never heard of it about it the way I have for other small states like Vermont, Wyoming, or Rhode Island.

[@Daniel-kx7ip]

Maybe he was thinking of Ohio, but even then it's not that big

[@korie4198]

I'm from Idaho and I agree.

[@arthurpendragon8192]

yup idaho is known for 2 things, potatoes and the great outdoors

[@korie4198]

@@arthurpendragon8192 there are some cool things about Idaho, but they always get overlooked and I honestly can't say I've ever seen a potato field 🤭

[@Michael-hi7tq]

For your question at 18:05 about whether the antenna is counted as part of the height, there’s no clear answer. An antenna is like a spire, but an antenna has some form of purpose to serve, whereas a spire does not and it’s just for show. An antenna is counted as part of the height, and a spire is not.

[@freedamerican5243]

As soon as I saw the thumbnail message I said “Don’t joke Virginia” 😭

[@ElleW]

A little info about #8 - Key Tower is named for Key Bank. The white tower on the left of it (Terminal Tower) was supposed to be the tallest building and no other building were allowed to build taller. So the reddish building to the right of Key Tower is the BP building and it has a flat top because they ran into trouble with city hall because the plans for the building would make it taller so they just did a flat top (or at least that is the story that goes around). Then one day, Key Bank breaks ground and somehow, some way they must have made some lucrative deal with the city to allow them to build taller. The key at the top of the tower is their logo for Key Bank.

[@BigCountryKracker]

Bruh you said you expected Mississippi to have bigger buildings 😂😂 buddy there ain’t nothing but pine trees and dirt roads around here

[@artsysabs]

😂

[@amandachampion8190]

And kudzu. Don’t forget the kudzu.

[@BigCountryKracker]

@@amandachampion8190 kudzu?

[@amandachampion8190]

Oh, you must be from south Mississippi.

[@BigCountryKracker]

@@amandachampion8190 you mean most of Mississippi... there’s a big area around Jackson that’s all cities, once you leave that Jackson area you get real Mississippi

[@SirSlender]

if you want to know about the tallest building in Rochester New York it would be the Xerox tower, I mean it's not much but it's ours.(a fun fact about Rochester is we are also called the flour/flower city)

[@Utoober729]

Exterior buildings were filmed for a Spiderman movie. The movie folks said the buildings looked like ones in NYC.

[@vicentejuarez1269]

The New York saying is “the city that never sleeps!”

[@whatafreakinusername]

10:36 And one that has changed, since the brown building next to the tallest was replaced in 2017 by one that is 167 m (550 ft).

[@kingunited94]

Your USA reactions have surpassed your sport reactions for me now lol

[@kayd731]

Lol ikr

[@silversunny3348]

A little over a decade ago the Willis Tower was called the Sears Tower. Today, I still don't know anyone born and raised in Chicago that calls it the Willis Tower. Fun little Chicago thing I guess. I'll still be calling it the Sears Tower on my deathbed.

[@alexander9188]

The city that never sleeps

[@alexander9188]

@@beautifulbliss5883 💯

[@frankisfunny2007]

Whenever you do visit America, specifically in the eastern cities, don't be so surprised to see older-looking building from NYC, Philadelphia, Boston, Baltimore, Providence, (etc) as those building were built in the 1760s, maybe as late as 1810s.

[@d4got10one]

When you were trying to figure out the slogan for New York, that wasn't New York. That was Seattle Washington.

[@Hey_Jamie]

He knew that. He referenced that he thought New York was the ones hat lit up like that because he knew it as the city that never sleeps. But he couldn’t hi k of the slogan

[@d4got10one]

@@Hey_Jamie oh ok

[@johnhoskins1786]

We in Tennessee refer to the att building as the batman building. Att is phone tv internet media conglomerate. Fun fact on Christmas morning 2020 a bomber blew up a rv across the street.

[@aaroncabbage8572]

This video must be old. The Comcast center isn’t the tallest in PA anymore

[@kayd731]

I think its from '17 but i am not 100% sure.

[@h6llywoodd]

Aaron Cabbage 2018

[@FordEscape12345678]

Same for the Goldman Sachs building in Jersey City. No longer the largest.

[@robploski4026]

The one for Massachusetts (originally called the Hancock tower) had the giant panes of glass popping out when first built. Each pane weighed 500 pounds. A couple of people were injured but no one died (thankfully). They eventually figured out the problem and had to replace all 10,344 panes.

[@jo-nathan6154]

9:00 OH NO he pronounced Maryland like everyone else especially those's outside the US.

[@CollegeChick818]

Merry-land😂😂😂🙄

[@Bnio]

Yes, but how does one go about pronouncing "those's"?

[@MST3Killa]

Most of the names of these buildings are just promotional/advertising. Basically, companies will pay a bunch of money for the rights to name to the building during their occupancy of the building if they don't own it outright, and most don't, they lease office space. Same thing as sports arenas and such. Pepsi didn't build the stadium, they just paid to have their name on one, sorta thing. So, why are so many named after banks and tech companies? Well.. because they're the ones who have the pockets deep enough to pay the huge price to have their name on the tallest building in a state.

[@rdfox76]

Add in that back before about the 1980s, it was a point of pride to have a bigger, taller corporate headquarters (or local office) than anyone else in town, and you got a lot of tall building construction by financial companies back then. This is why Battle Creek, Michigan, a town that peaked at about 50,000 people, has two twenty-story office buildings in it, a couple of blocks apart... and one of them was *purely* pretense, being a bank that built a high-rise building to hold its offices... around the outer walls, with the interior being an eighteen-story-high vaulted ceiling over the lobby, with the offices running around the outside of it. There wasn't any real reason for building the building that tall, they just wanted the point of pride of having the tallest building in the city and hired an architect who would give them an art deco interior that used most of the enclosed volume to be impressive rather than for office space.

[@bigussmokesus8866]

You should react to the 15 emptiest parts of the United States by geography king

[@rafetizer]

Geography King is a genuinely epic trove of useful information.

[@aheinrich2535]

10:58, that building was actually just bombed on the 25th, it knocked out 911 call centers in 3 stated, absolutely tragic.

[@pumpkinface7217]

When you get that play button, you better show us

[@jakobsmith4046]

I love this guy he's hilarious and I love that he compares some of the buildings to ones he knows of

[@Bnio]

This comment section is 90% "The city that never sleeps." Yeesh, people, would a brief glimpse before you post kill ya?

[@Kilo-sz4ch]

Yes, it absolutely would kill me. How dare you not be considerate of my dire need to post without checking the mere 30 comments.

[@Kleheup.]

The book tower in Detroit was originally planned to be 1000 ft (304 m) but wasn't made to that height due to the great depression.

[@colinaudette291]

New York City the city that never sleeps

[@jeffburdick869]

15:45 Key Bank is a fairly large bank in the US. My aunt worked for them for 30 years.

[@yashar6595]

New York the city that never sleeps, the height was on purpose btw its 1776 feet tall because 1776 was when the American Revolution began

[@freedomefighterbrony9053]

1776 was the year America declared its independence not the start of the revolutionary war get it right

[@yashar6595]

@@freedomefighterbrony9053 I am right, before 1776 they were not fighting a Revolution, they were fighting the British BUT didn't actually know if they wanted independence, after they passed the Declaration thats when it becomes a Revolution to overthrow the British, thats called Historical Context lmao

[@hookxry]

yo bro ur blowing up i been here since 10k keep up the grind ‼️🙏🏼