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How This Nazi Megastructure Became Luxury Appartments

How This Nazi Megastructure Became Luxury Appartments

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Baedeker SMART Reiseführer Rügen
https://www.ndr.de/geschichte/schauplaetze/Der-Koloss-von-Ruegen-Groessenwahn-der-Nazis-in-Prora,prora113.html
Evening Standard – 28/04/1999, p.37
The Observer – 29/12/1996, p.3
The Guardian – 23/11/2002, p.20
Sunday Telegraph – 28/3/1999, p.36
https://www.architectmagazine.com/design/remaking-a-onetime-nazi-resort_o
Klaus Winands: Der Denkmalschutz Status des ehemaligen KdF-Bades Prora und seine Begründung

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00:00 – Intro
00:58 – Rügen
01:24 – Prora
02:43 – Construction
03:14 – Post WW2
04:30 – Legacies
05:19 – The GDR
06:03 – Initial Plans
06:57 – Redevelopment Starts
08:00 – Redesign
09:13 – Prora Today
09:47 – Controversy
10:40 – Mixed Opinions
11:13 – Reconciling the Past

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Overbudget: Britain’s $57BN Nuclear Nightmare

Overbudget: Britain's $57BN Nuclear Nightmare

What went wrong at Hinkley Point C — Europe’s largest construction site.
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https://www.gov.uk/government/news/nuclear-energy-what-you-need-to-know
https://www.reuters.com/business/energy/edfs-nuclear-project-britain-pushed-back-2029-may-cost-up-34-bln-2024-01-23/
https://www.neimagazine.com/news/more-delays-and-cost-increases-for-hinkley-point-c-11463560/
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00:47 History
02:07 Nuclear in the UK
03:04 The HPC Site
05:33 The Construction
08:03 The Problems
09:48 Environmental Impact
11:23 Learning Lessons

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Top 25 Construction Projects of 2025

Top 25 Construction Projects of 2025

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How Japan Earthquake Proofed the World’s Tallest Tower

How Japan Earthquake Proofed the World’s Tallest Tower

The inside story of Tokyo’s most incredible structure.
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https://repository.nabunken.go.jp/dspace/bitstream/11177/309/1/BA67898227_2001_032_033.pdf

00:00 Intro
01:44 The Wind
03:12 Flexibility
05:37 Skytree Foundations
06:27 Outer Structure
07:18 Concrete core
08:04 Earthquake Proofing
09:10 Critical Infrastructure
09:55 Tuned Mass Dampers
10:55 Tokyo

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The Skyscrapers That Made New York

The Skyscrapers That Made New York

From Brooklyn to Billionaires’ Row, this is how some of New York’s greatest skyscrapers came to be. For more by The B1M subscribe now – https://bit.ly/the-b1m

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0:00 Intro
0:27 New York’s Skyscrapers Keep Changing Shape
27:20 One World Trade Center
36:54 220 Central Park South
1:07:35 New York’s Abandoned Skyscraper
1:17:18 Brooklyn’s First Supertall
1:23:13 Hudson Yards
1:31:43 One Wall Street
1:41:01 5 World Trade Center
1:50:07 New York’s Missing Megatall
1:56:23 The Spiral
2:05:17 270 Park Avenue

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The $100BN Plan to Save Tokyo

The $100BN Plan to Save Tokyo

Fred Mills uncovers Japan’s epic plan to disaster-proof Tokyo.
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Research sources:
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/features/2023-11-13/ambitious-tokyo-flood-tunnels-tested-by-worsening-natural-disasters
https://www.statista.com/topics/9914/tokyo/#topicOverview
https://web-japan.org/kidsweb/hitech/16/skytree.html
https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2024/01/03/japan-earthquake-reason-2024-tsunami/
https://tokyo-resilience.metro.tokyo.lg.jp/en/
https://www.theguardian.com/cities/2019/jun/13/a-city-built-on-water-the-hidden-rivers-under-tokyos-concrete-and-neon
https://www.tokyoupdates.metro.tokyo.lg.jp/en/post-976/
https://www.nippon.com/en/japan-data/h01576/
https://www.water-technology.net/projects/g-cans-project-tokyo-japan/
https://www.seisakukikaku.metro.tokyo.lg.jp/documents/d/seisakukikaku/-en-tokyo_resilient_project-1
https://nihonmono.jp/en/article/28071/
https://www.jsce.or.jp/kokusai/civil_engineering/1998/urbanunder.pdf
https://www.japan-tunnel.org/en/sites
https://www.asianstudies.org/publications/eaa/archives/the-great-kanto-earthquake-of-1923-and-the-japanese-nation/
https://i0.wp.com/ttweathercenter.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/01/ger_hazards_eq_mag_freq_1140.png?fit=1140%2C676&ssl=1
https://typhoon.yahoo.co.jp/weather/jp/earthquake/list/
https://www.seisakukikaku.metro.tokyo.lg.jp/documents/d/seisakukikaku/-en-tokyo_resilient_project-1
https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2023/08/20/japan/society/tokyo-aiming-to-eliminate-areas-congested-with-wooden-houses/
https://www.tour-guide-japan.jp/single-post/original-eitai-bashi-bridge-in-tokyo-was-built-in-1698-100-meters-upstream-from-present-site
https://typhoon.yahoo.co.jp/weather/jp/earthquake/

00:00 – Intro
03:34 – Tokyo in Danger
05:48 – The Tokyo Resilience Project
06:54 – Volcanoes
07:29 – Pandemics
07:58 – Blackouts
10:02 – MOWLAS
11:56 – Flooding
14:07 – G-Cans
15:45 – Tunnel Construction
17:01 – TBM Machine
19:40 – Flooding Infrastructure
21:26 – Earthquakes
23:20 – Giant Rock Friction Apparatus
26:33 – E-Defense
27:08 – Earthquake Engineering
28:54 – Seismic Countermeasures
30:47 – Earthquake Strategy
33:06 – Eitai Bridge
34:00 – Earthquake Proofing
35:01 – Attention to Detail
36:18 – Preparedness

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How China Built its Own Vegas… But Bigger

How China Built its Own Vegas... But Bigger

The Macau we know of today would not exist without one man.
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The $60BN Plan to Save Germany’s Failing Railways

The $60BN Plan to Save Germany's Failing Railways

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https://db-engineering-consulting.com/en/news/germanys-rail-infrastructure-receives-extensive-general-overhaul/
https://www.railwaypro.com/wp/germany-commits-eur-40-billion-for-rail-infrastructure/
https://www.dw.com/en/major-construction-begins-on-german-rail/a-69566483
https://www.tunnel-online.info/en/artikel/public-transport-of-the-future-the-second-s-bahn-main-line-in-munich-3942495.html
https://www.merkur.de/lokales/muenchen/bahn-umziehen-fuer-die-stammstrecke-deutsche-bahn-muenchen-s-92706754.html

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01:03 The Problem
03:11 Munich’s 2nd Main Line
07:08 Underground construction
09:11 Stuttgart 21
10:22 Riedbahn

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America Has Finally Built a Beautiful Airport

America Has Finally Built a Beautiful Airport

Portland International has had a $2BN facelift.
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– https://www.designboom.com/architecture/zgf-pdx-portland-airport-main-terminal-mass-timber-oregon-08-14-2024/
– https://cdn.portofportland.com/pdfs/PDXNext-fact-sheet.pdf
– https://katu.com/news/local/city-of-portland-prepares-for-earthquake-response-pbot-water-bull-run-bridges-multnomah-county-oregon-cascadia-subduction-zone#
– https://www.pdxnext.com/Stories/Details/main-terminal-opening-may-2024
– https://www.worldairportawards.com/worlds-top-100-airports-2024/

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New York is Building a Skyscraper Jail

New York is Building a Skyscraper Jail

Is this New York’s Most Controversial Building?
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Research sources:
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00:00 Intro
01:27 Prisons v Jails
02:08 Chinatown
02:44 The Tombs
04:14 Jail Design
06:33 MCC Chicago
07:50 Protest
08:55 Closing Rikers
10:17 Borough Based Jails
12:41 Too Good to be True?
14:54 What Next?

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