China's Skyscraper Boom is Officially Over

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Published 2022-01-12
China’s ban on skyscrapers just got even stricter.
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All Comments (21)
  • @blaatgvd
    The way you connect architecture, geopolitics and economics is really (very) compelling. It's awesome!
  • @davetv4705
    This may be a move in the right direction because developers, engineers, and architects will focus more on quality and usability the more. I always like B1M videos even before watching them because I know I won't be disappointed.
  • @dcrikki7367
    Traditional Chinese architecture is so beautiful. It’d be cool to see more of it all over China. Affordable housing, traditional Chinese architecture, low-rise buildings & reforestation sound like the way to go for China the beautiful & mighty.
  • @temper44
    I think the natural next step will be to implement rules about green spaces. The US had a similar problem 100 years ago where skyscrapers would make the cities dark and without sunlight and they put laws in place to try and avoid it.
  • @garymcaleer6112
    Excellent, B1M! You cover more ground in under 8 minutes than conventional news covers in a month; and some, even years! I'd say, Happy New Year, but too many bunglers hold the reigns these days.
  • As a skyscraper fan its a little upsetting but seems to be for the best. Similar to what's happening Dubai, it's good that they are thinking more about quality, its people, and the environment over quantity and vanity. Curious how these changes levels the playing field with the US in the future.
  • @robezy0
    Xi'an is the best example for an amazing city that isn't packed with skyscrapers. Sure there are some in the Industrial Development Zone but the city center really succeeded in conserving its historical architecture. As a european, I always highly appreciated that since I still get dizzy and intimidated when I'm surrounded by tall buildings
  • @ry8246
    Megatall buildings are nice to look at, however the novelty of them often wear off within few weeks.
    It's a good thing to tell other people, "hey my country has several megatall buildings", but deep down inside we know they are just underutilized and overpriced office spaces.
  • @konradtank7970
    I have just recently starting watching The B1M channel and have to say the content is pretty darn good. Keep it up.
  • I don't think people realize how tall 150m still is, even if it isn't gonna get you in the record books - 150m is about 45 stories. That is not a short building. This isn't as dramatic of a ban in absolute terms as it sounds like at first, it's only dramatic relative to China's previous building habits. A truly radical shift would be to adopt the height limit of Washington DC, where nothing can be over 130 ft, or about 11 stories.
  • @ThitutUhthalye
    Skyscraper in China might be no more but B1M quality is going though the roof.
  • @nakibsayyed4999
    Skyscrapers in a city are mostly concentrated in one area, the downtown aka business district, China probably wants the flow not to stagnate in one location of the city and probably spread out. Anyways, as always nice episode mate.
  • @e5b7-wr811ouhih
    Finally a video about China that’s not overwhelmingly political. I like this focus on quality rather than quantity initiated by the government.
  • @ThePeej
    Consistently well produced & interesting,content from the B1M. Kudos!!
  • @stitchlee311
    I wish the same policy can be implemented in our country Malaysia as well... In our capital city Kuala Lumpur, there are 4 skyscrapers over 400m, the KL118 is also expected 2nd tallest in the world when completed. it is absurd to have so many skyscrapers over 400m in a city of just 1.5 million people, and our country population is just 32mil.
    Our government and politicians just want to build these tall buildings for the glamour and money undertable.

    however our city infrastructure is pretty terrible, a lot of old buildings with bad maintenance, terrible city planning, and just recently we had one of the worst flood in the region, and many houses were flooded.
  • @harbl99
    Could this have anything to do with the famously low occupancy rate of skyscrapers in China? (less than 50% on average is a figure I've heard, probably from the B1M). Basically the gov is saying "No! No more skyscrapers until you fill the ones you've already got."

    It's either that ,or they've decided to clamp down on Big Elevator.
  • @aahighknees
    5:02 I love how that moped just casually heads toward opposite traffic
  • @MikMoen
    Have you ever looked into how Spain is doing lately? Years ago I heard they were in the middle of a massive recession, a bunch of developments left half done, even an entire Airport unused. It was shown during a Top Gear special. Are they, or even Greece recovering?