The World's Deepest Buildings (That We Know About) | The B1M

the world's tallest building is a hotly contested title from the Empire State to the Sears Tower Taipei 101 and now the Burj Kalifa these highly visible structures are known across the world less well known for obvious reasons are the buildings that extend downwards into the earth here we take a dive into this hidden realm to reveal five of the world's deepest buildings that we know about ever since early man first took shelter in caves humans have been using underground spaces although they lack of light makes underground buildings unsuitable for many human activities building downwards can create secure safe and of course unobserved spaces in our opinion to be classified as an underground building these structures must be man-made for permanent human use rather than deep level mines we've also chosen to feature only one building in each typology to demonstrate variety the sales of the Sydney Opera House one of the world's most recognizable buildings saw 200 feet above Sydney Harbour less well-known is the fact that building extends almost the same distance underground beneath this landmark structure is the deepest car park in the world a popular solution all around the world where space is limited the cost of construction usually in this underground car parks to around four or five storeys deep however Sydney Opera House's car park extends 12 stories into the earth at 120 feet or 37 meters this is considered the deepest basement in the world excavation of the cavern and associated tunnels which involve removing some 130 thousand cubic meters of sandstone started in late 1990 and was completed in April 1992 the huge doughnut shaped cabin contains a double helix internal concrete ramp structure that has a capacity for 1,100 cars [Music] even deeper than Sydney Opera House's carpark is a Jovic Olympic cabin built for the 1994 Winter Olympics where hosted 16 ice hockey matches over capacity of five and half thousand the world's largest underground auditorium is buried 180 feet or 55 metres beneath a mountain excavation for the arena so 4.9 million cubic feet or 140 thousand cubic meters of rock removed in over 29,000 truckloads in total a hundred and seventy tons of dynamite were used during the blasting it was decided to place the arena underground so they would not take a valuable downtown land or interfere with the town cityscape while still being centrally located building underground had the additional benefit of creating a stable year-round natural temperature reducing the building's heating and cooling costs heading deeper underground we find Arsenal a station in Kiev sitting 350 feet around 105 meters under the city this is the deepest underground station in the world our sanella is as deep as a statue of liberty is tall the journey from the surface to platform takes more than five minutes to put this in context London's deeper station is Hampstead 192 feet or 58 meters deep bore New York's is one hundred and ninety-first Street which is approximately 180 feet or 55 meters below street level [Music] the station's death is due to the geography of Kiev we're past the city stand on a hill while others almost sea level on the banks of the river Dnieper [Music] traveling even deeper we find perhaps the world's most impressive underground structure constructed 575 feet or 175 metres below the border of France and Switzerland is the Large Hadron Collider built by the European Organization for Nuclear Research better known as CERN completed in 2008 the 27 kilometers long structure is the world's largest single machine and its most powerful particle accelerator built underground to shield it from background radiation the collider was designed to explore what happened immediately after the Big Bang the deepest buildings in the world are in fact all research laboratories just like the Large Hadron Collider these structures are built deep into the Earth's crust to enable experiments to take place in conditions with extremely low levels of background radiation the deepest of these impressive buildings is the gym pink underground Laporte which is located an incredible 7900 feet or 2.4 kilometers under mountain in western china this is the equivalent of seven Empire State building's stacked on top of one another completed in 2010 the laboratory is an ideal site to do low background neutrino physics research and investigate dark matter although this is the deepest known building in the world humans have gone deeper in South Africa the world's deepest mine extends more than four kilometers into the earth while at 12 point 2 kilometers the Kola super-deep borehole in Russia is the deepest artificial point on earth if you enjoy this video and would like to take deeper into the definitive video channel for construction subscribe to the be 1m [Music]

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Length: 5min 58sec (358 seconds)

Published: Wed Aug 16 2017

Reddit Comments

[u/vasiapatov]

What a captivating video! It's got a lot of depth.

[u/mathmat]

Yes there’s no displays in metric, but they do say every metric measurement.

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[u/jasonisnuts]

WTF is wrong with that guy's mouth?! It's like a poorly programmed android trying to mimic human mouth movements while talking.

[u/Gnapstar]

I feel like the Jinping Underground Laboratory is a bit of cheating

[u/ChickenDinner___]

Very deep.

[u/X1stence]

deep into them dm's

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