funfact: the cathedral in my small german town is actuall 2,5 times older than the entire US (build around 1250-1300)

The thing with the ground is something a lot of cities located near rivers have to keep in mind. And when they forget… well then the building with either sink completely or you get another Pisa-like building. Foundation here in Hamburg is sometimes a bit iffy. A famous example is the City Hall. There are 4000 oak piles carrying the foundation, that had been rammed into the ground because otherwise the ground wouldn't have been stable enough. There are some skyscrapers, but not that many. And funnily, where there are good foundations, the Hamburger decided to tunnel. Sometimes I look at maps of the different Underground systems and feel the city stands on to of a large swiss cheese. Seriously, take a look at the tunnels of DESY. Thise are interesting but I wouldn't plonk any highrise building on top of those.

notice how even in the video it was constantly mentioned, how most skyscrapers in europe are in financial districs.
But somehow they make the assumptions they are build for more renting/living spaces.
That's not what skyscrapers are for.

Nothing depresses me more than NYC, and seeing a beautiful church, but with those massive glass postmodern monstrosities towering over it on all sides. Where I live (a town just outside Antwerpen, Belgium), the church is virtually always the tallest building, and the rest of the town is built around it. I understand the utility of the skyscraper, but I'd rather preserve what little is left of our cultural identity.

Not a skyscraper ( 90meter) but interessting

https://youtu.be/d6DBKoWbtjE

My school in Hungary is older than the whole USA.

Europeans just don't like living in the shadow of concrete phallus symbols. It may be true that skyscrapers can lead to greater urban densification and that rental prices could fall as a result. However, skyscrapers also have negative effects on their neighborhood and we regard restrictions in terms of air and light as an unacceptable impairment of housing and thus quality of life.
Maybe we Europeans also have less to compensate for.😄

I don't know when the statistic of rent prices in Europe was made but at least 2021-2022 Finland, Helsinki where i live is fourth.

1. Paris 2. London 3. Amsterdam 4. Helsinki 5. Berlin

As a German, skyscrapers feels like a cop out for poor planning and are just fucking hideous.

No wonder spider-man like the tall building

As european im glad we dont have skycrapers here. BUT the lack of skycrapers makes me want to travel to see places that have them to give me that "Wow" feeling. Since I've grown up without them.

they built to last hundreds of years where in America they only last around 50 years or so!.

We have. And there're currently growing up more skyscrapers in Frankfurt/Germany: https://youtu.be/SNhRGIrkU8Y or https://youtu.be/HDmeK9hLzUQ

I belive there is a rule where I live that you cant have a building taller than the church

Check for skyline of Paris, Frankfurt, London, Warsaw

we don't build them so plans don't hit them all.

13:47 … yeah, that may be part of the issue but it´s also a lot of bs: preserving historical buildings has saved Europe from the actual extremely strict and rigid zone regulation of US and Canada, where mixed use is only recently making a comeback. Meanwhile in Europe it has always been the case that you have mixed use, so much so that in small towns often people who own a store live in the same building just one floor above. And I love the fact that I am able to walk or use public transport comfortably for everyday life. This year I needed to drive my car barely 2-3 times.
Also, another reason why we don´t have much skyscrapers is very much the type of ground and for example in Italy, besides the amount of historical houses(I too lived with my parents in a farm that was 200 years old: that´s considered standard) and the small size of most towns and cities, there is also another problem: the sheer amount of archaeological stuff you dig up every.single.time. whenever you want to build anything. Basically, skyscrapers are not worth it in most Italian towns and cities because of the costs and issues that may come with building them.

Modern big cities require skyscrapers. If they are not present it is a sign of real poverty.

Londoner " why is my rent £5,000/month…"
London Planners "we need to see the church from waaaaaaaaay over there."

Some things are more valuable than money.

Rotterdam (the Netherlands) has been going higher each year with new buildings.They pretty much have too, not enough ground to build so the only way is up. Currently there are plans for multiple new scryscrapers in the the city centre. Rotterdam has a nickname "Manhattan aan de Maas" because of it's city skyline.

U are right about london. More people live in london than whole of scotland.

Someone calculated that base of the Burj Khalifa could fit more houses as 3-4 floor buildings than Burj itself.

want an easy explination? They're backwards that's it My family is from Spain and jesus some spanish buildings and houses look horrible

2:50 Bahaha, Moscow having the most skyscrapers in Europe, just shows you how deep the inferiority complex they have developed toward the US

Imagine having to get into a lift every single time you want to go in or out of your house, what sort of peasant lifestyle is that

I'm going to be honest with you I literally had a mind blank moment I had to think to myself I've never actually seen a skyscraper hi from England 🤣 btw what is sole thing when I go to USA one day to go and see NCY it'd going to be a alot different for me seeing them big buildings

I am Parisian and i confirm, Montparnasse tower need to die 😅

I feel big cities are not for living, they're for working, shopping and all that but if you have good and cheap public transport you should be able to live in smaller villages and cities around the bigger cities so I don't really see rent prices as a good argument for building sky scrapers in european cities

When i was young i asked my father, why is it that in Budapest the roofs of the houses are not in the same level, and he told me that in ww2 when the allied forces were bombing budapest they destroyed a lots of the residential houses upper levels. And when the soviets came they didn t build back the original houses they just slapped on new roofs. and i think this gives the effect of a lot of different kind of houses

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Europeans dont have skyscrapers because they dont want planes crashing into them

If you want to see a little about architecture in Stockholm Sweden https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p-wEesIUzqs

In Athens no building is allowed to overshadow or be as high as the Acropolis.