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The Most Insane Engineering Projects That Almost Happened

Brofessor Stein

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These Insane Megalomaniac Projects Were Almost Built.

0:00 Atlantropa
1:27 Palace of the Soviets
2:42 Germania
4:03 Triumphal Elephant
5:04 The Pyramid of Death
6:10 Tatlin's Tower
7:20 Trans-Saharan Railway
8:08 Bering Strait Dam
9:23 The Illinois
10:22 Manhattan Dome
11:30 Shimizu Mega Pyramid
12:40 X-Seed 4000
13:32 Freedom Ship
14:35 The Earthscraper
15:56 Newton's Cenotaph
16:57 Coney Island Globe Tower

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20 Comments

@JayEmAy 3 weeks ago (edited)

"Almost" is doing one hell of a lot of work here.

@nicholasmendoza5844 3 weeks ago

"An architect's dream is an engineer's nightmare."

@elanjacobs1 3 weeks ago

Architects always seem to forget about physics when designing stuff

@ahmedhamdy4587 3 weeks ago

You didn't mention saudi arabia's THE LINE 😅😅

@theformerkaiser9391 3 weeks ago

With Atlantropa, I think there was a plan for a third dam specifically to preserve Venice, as it was seen as culturally too important to drain their canals

@GrandDukeOfNoMansLand 3 weeks ago

That Sörgel guy had a room temperature IQ. Atlantropa would have turned almost all of Europe into a desert.

@Mau4ever2 3 weeks ago

Tatlin's Tower & The Palace of Soviets where the "same" plans 10 years apart

@ASH_CARTER77 3 weeks ago

The triumphal elephant is actually a really , really cool concept , and I want to see it built today

@gldofficial 3 weeks ago

Confusing Minecraft build ambitions in survival mode be like:

@nomar-nagim 3 weeks ago

bro just casually moved Algeria to Libya and Egypt, no big deal

@lacintag 3 weeks ago

These projects range from "understandable but ultimately impractical" to "absolute lunacy"

@taffingtonboathouse5754 3 weeks ago

9:23 the sketch of the illinois looks like something out of warhammer

@jocosesonata 3 weeks ago

For what it's worth, these would be fun inspirations for sci-fi cities.

@yokiothesquid 3 weeks ago

X-Seed 4000 was actually an visionary concept and it was never meant to be built. And the Palace of the Soviets had several concepts made by several architects, including Le Corbusier

@juanelorriaga2840 3 weeks ago

I like the Pyramid of death I mean you get to have a spot in a pyramid forever.

@giulianodenardi 3 weeks ago

8:14 Arkady Markin’s ominous desire is lowkey hilarious 💀

@ZackMendoza-h5z 3 weeks ago

Brofessor stein back at it again with the consistent quality uploads 💪

@hortusdeescapismo 3 days ago

0:30 would it? the land saltiness is insane

@TheHadrian54 3 weeks ago (edited)

Another infamous one that could fit here: Le Corbusier really really wanted to destroy historic parts of Paris to replace them with giant brutalist skyscrapers and highways, hoping to bring back the people of Paris inside of the city after they'd been slowly priced out and forced into the much poorer outskirts.

@_gungrave_6802 3 weeks ago (edited)

Ignoring the asinine height of the Illinois design it using nuclear elevators is just an insanely bonkers idea. I mean back then nuclear power was an exotic idea but its just insane.