Podcasts about Chrysler Building

Episode: 1605 The brief race to build very tall buildings: 1885 to 1931.  Today, the brief day of the first skyscrapers.

Zeppelin-Masten, das alte Waldorf-Astoria und das Wunder im Aufzugschacht!In dieser Folge von Big Apple – Der New York City Podcast schließe ich meine große Aussichtsplattform-Reihe mit dem absoluten Klassiker ab: Dem Empire State Building.Ich blicke mit euch zurück in die Bauzeit und erzähle, warum der Turm ausgerechnet auf dem Grundstück des alten Waldorf-Astoria Hotels gebaut wurde. Es geht um den ehrgeizigen Wettlauf gegen das Chrysler Building, eine absurde Idee für anlegende Zeppeline und den tragischen Tag im Jahr 1945, als ein Bomber der US Air Force mitten in das Gebäude krachte.Natürlich schauen wir uns auch an, wie ein Besuch heute abläuft: Ich nehme euch mit durch das neue, interaktive Museum im zweiten Stock und fahre hinauf zu den Plattformen. Ich kläre die wichtigste Frage für eure Reiseplanung: Was ist der genaue Unterschied zwischen der berühmten Open-Air-Plattform im 86. Stockwerk und dem verglasten Top Deck im 102. Stock? Und lohnt sich der saftige Aufpreis für ganz nach oben wirklich?Dazu gibt es meine besten Insider-Tipps für die perfekte Uhrzeit eures Besuchs, wie ihr ohne Stativ tolle Fotos macht und was es mit den wechselnden Farben der Turmspitze auf sich hat.Und als Highlight im heutigen Werbeblock: Mein Reise-Hack für mobiles Internet in den USA. Ich zeige euch, wie ihr mit einer eSIM von Holafly direkt bei der Landung ohne teure Roaming-Gebühren online seid – inklusive Rabattcode für die Community!In dieser Folge:Die Geschichte des Grundstücks: Das alte Waldorf-Astoria und der Wettlauf gegen Walter Chrysler.Historische Fakten: Zeppelin-Luftschiffe und das Wunder vom 75-Stockwerke-Sturz.Der Weg nach oben: Die renovierte Lobby und der King-Kong-Raum im Museum.86. vs. 102. Stock: Lohnt sich das Upgrade in die verglaste Spitze?Die besten Tipps: Warum ihr extrem spät abends hochfahren solltet und die Stativ-Regel.Internet im USA-Urlaub: Warum eine eSIM von Holafly eine echte Hilfe ist.Links & Empfehlungen zur Folge: 

Spiegelwelten & Realtalk: Der große Summit One Vanderbilt Deep-DiveIn dieser ausführlichen Folge von Big Apple widmet sich Pascal dem derzeit meiste diskutierten Gebäude in der Skyline von Manhattan: Dem 3,1 Milliarden Dollar teuren One Vanderbilt direkt neben dem historischen Grand Central Terminal.Wir tauchen in das Leben des Eisenbahn-Magnaten Cornelius Vanderbilt ein und fahren danach hinauf auf 335 Meter zur Aussichtsplattform Summit. Ihr erfahrt im Detail, warum Summit keine klassische Aussichtsterrasse ist, sondern eine immersive Kunstinstallation, die extrem genaue Dresscode-Regeln erfordert (Stichwort: Spiegelböden und Sonnenbrillen!).Pascal gibt ehrlichen Realtalk: Warum ihm bei Summit manchmal die frische Luft fehlt und das Erlebnis etwas zu TikTok-lastig ist, er dort aber trotzdem die mit Abstand besten Fotos des Empire State Buildings und des Chrysler Buildings geschossen hat. Außerdem besprechen wir ausführlich, ob sich der 10-Dollar-Aufschlag für den Sonnenuntergang lohnt und warum sich die Plattform bei Nacht in eine absolute Club-Atmosphäre verwandelt.In dieser Folge:Historie: Wer war Vanderbilt und wie entstand dieser Milliarden-Turm?Die Spiegelwelt 'Air': Schneeblindheit, Reflexionen und die extrem strengen Dresscode-Regeln.Meine ehrliche Meinung: Fehlende frische Luft vs. die beste Aussicht auf das Chrysler Building.Tag vs. Nacht: Der Sunset-Aufschlag (10$) und die LED-Lichtshow bei Dunkelheit.Ticket-Empfehlung: Preise 2026 und warum der verglaste Aufzug 'Ascent' überschätzt wird.Links & Empfehlungen zur Folge: 

IS THIS ACTUALLY THE BEST ONE IN THE TRILOGY?! Men in Black 3 (2012) Full Movie Reaction & Review with Greg Alba and Jackie Bonsignore! Men in Black 3 Full Movie Uncut Watch Along:   / thereelrejects   -Check out the DC Studios Showcase Podcast here https://app.magellan.ai/listen_links/... Support The Channel By Getting Some REEL REJECTS Apparel! https://www.rejectnationshop.com/ In this comprehensive movie review and reaction, Greg and Jackie conquer a wild rewatch filled with high-stakes timeline shifts and surprisingly deep character growth. We unpack the incredible comedic and dramatic performances of the legendary stellar cast, featuring Will Smith (Bad Boys, The Pursuit of Happyness) returning with his classic charisma as Agent J, Tommy Lee Jones (The Fugitive, No Country for Old Men) as the stoic, world-weary Agent K, and Josh Brolin (Avengers: Endgame, Sicario) delivering an absolutely flawless, mind-blowing impression as the younger 1969 variant of Agent K. We also break down the phenomenal presence of the main villains and supporting players, including Jemaine Clement (Flight of the Concords, What We Do in the Shadows) as the hyper-lethal, moon-escaping Boris the Animal, Emma Thompson (Sense and Sensibility, Love Actually) as Agent O, Bill Hader (Barry, Superbad) in a brilliant undercover cameo as Andy Warhol / Agent W, Michael Stuhlbarg (A Serious Man, Call Me by Your Name) as the sweet, fifth-dimensional being Griffin, and Mike Colter (Luke Cage, Evil) in a devastatingly emotional role. Our hosts react to every iconic visual gag, massive effects sequence, and tragic narrative beat this film has to offer. We break down the disgusting opening lunar prison breakout involving an alien-drenched cake, the dark comedy of K's shockingly brief funeral eulogy for Zed, and the intense Chinese restaurant shootout featuring a giant, aggressive alien fish brawl. We unpack the sheer terrifying thrill of the Chrysler Building time jump that triggers temporal fracture headaches cured by chocolate milk, the investigative logic of eating pie to unlock the secrets of the universe, and the massive Apollo 11 launchpad climax where the past and future completely collide. Greg and Jackie were both completely blown away by how much extra heart, emotional stakes, and cohesive storytelling this sequel brings compared to Men in Black 2, concluding with a beautifully tragic ending twist that fundamentally redefines the entire bond between J and K. Follow Greg Alba:  Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/thegregalba/ Twitter:  https://x.com/thegregalba Follow Jackie Bonsignore: https://www.instagram.com/jackiebonsignore/ Intense Suspense by Audionautix is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 license. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/... Support The Channel By Getting Some REEL REJECTS Apparel! https://www.rejectnationshop.com/ Follow Us On Socials:  Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/reelrejects/  Tik-Tok: https://www.tiktok.com/@reelrejects?lang=en Twitter: https://x.com/reelrejects Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/TheReelRejects/ Music Used In Ad:  Hat the Jazz by Twin Musicom is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 license. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ Happy Alley by Kevin MacLeod is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 license. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/... POWERED BY @GFUEL Visit https://gfuel.ly/3wD5Ygo and use code REJECTNATION for 20% off select tubs!! Head Editor: https://www.instagram.com/praperhq/?hl=en Co-Editor: Greg Alba Co-Editor: John Humphrey Music In Video: Airport Lounge - Disco Ultralounge by Kevin MacLeod is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 license. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ Ask Us A QUESTION On CAMEO: https://www.cameo.com/thereelrejects Follow TheReelRejects On FACEBOOK, TWITTER, & INSTAGRAM:  FB:  https://www.facebook.com/TheReelRejects/ INSTAGRAM:  https://www.instagram.com/reelrejects/ TWITTER:  https://twitter.com/thereelrejects Follow GREG ON INSTAGRAM & TWITTER: INSTAGRAM:  https://www.instagram.com/thegregalba/ TWITTER:  https://twitter.com/thegregalba Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

This was a clever mid-week crossword by Dario Salvucci. The theme was fun, there was just the right number of "huh, who knew?" clues for a Wednesday, and Dario deserves bonus points for throwing in one of our favorite words —Rapscallion — into the mix. Bravo!Show note imagery: The Chrysler Building, which for 11 months reigned as the tallest building in the world.We love feedback! Send us a text...Contact Info:We love listener mail! Drop us a line, crosswordpodcast@icloud.com.Also, we're on FaceBook, so feel free to drop by there and strike up a conversation!

Mitten in der Weltwirtschaftskrise blickt New York nach oben: Am 1.5.1931 öffnet das Empire State Building - und bleibt fast vier Jahrzehnte das höchste Gebäude der Welt. Von Erik Hlacer.

Jeudi 24 avril 1913 - Inauguration du Woolworth BuildingLe Woolworth Building est situé Downtown Manhattan au N° 233 sur Broadway.Avec ses 55 étages pour une hauteur de 241 mètres, il est en avril 1913 le gratte-ciel le plus haut du monde, et il l'est resté jusqu'en 1930, année de la construction du 40 Wall Street (255 m) et du Chrysler Building (319 m).Le Woolworth Building est l'un des plus anciens gratte-ciels de Manhattan.Il reste un vrai symbole de l'essor urbain et architectural de New York.N'hésitez pas à aller visiter notre site racontemoinewyork.com Retrouvez tous les liens des réseaux sociaux et des plateformes du podcast ici : https://linktr.ee/racontemoinewyorkHébergé par Ausha. Visitez ausha.co/politique-de-confidentialite pour plus d'informations.

In early February, the EPA repealed the 2009 Greenhouse Gas Endangerment Finding, a landmark regulatory move reversing the determination that greenhouse gases threaten public health. Pat Parenteau, emeritus professor at Vermont Law and Graduate School and former EPA regional counsel under President Ronald Reagan, explains what happens next, including the many challenges the Trump administration is facing from environmental groups, and how the repeal could impact both health and climate change.Photo: [Smog obscures view of Chrysler Building from Empire State Building, New York City] / World-Telegram photo by Walter Albertin.

A ilustradora portuguesa Catarina Sobral foi recentemente premiada com o "Purple Island", um dos quatro prémios do Nami Concours 2026, o concurso internacional de livro ilustrado da ilha de Nami, na Coreia do Sul. A distinção reconheceu o seu trabalho no livro "As Pessoas São Esquisitas", escrito por Victor D. O. Santos. Com um percurso marcado por diversas vitórias, incluindo o Prémio Internacional de Ilustração da Feira do Livro Infantil de Bolonha, Catarina Sobral é considerado uma das mais premiadas autoras de livros ilustrados em Portugal. Em entrevista, a ilustradora partilha o processo criativo das suas obras e reflecte sobre o universo das crianças e a importância de uma linguagem acessível sem perder a profundidade. Como é que foi a experiência de receber o prémio "Purple Island" no Nami Concours 2026? Foi muita boa. Gosto particularmente deste concurso, porque é muito internacional, eclético nas linguagem gráficas que premeia. E convidam sempre os vencedores para passar uma semana na ilha, onde fazem uma exposição incrível, com objectos tridimensionais, a partir das ilustrações dos livros, ao mesmo tempo que têm uma programação para o público infantil com oficinas, espectáculos de teatro, etc. Este festival internacional é dedicado à ilustração e aos livros para crianças. "As Pessoas São Esquisitas", editado em Portugal pela Orfeu Negro, foi o livro distinguido. Como é que foi o processo de ilustração deste livro? E do que é que fala? O livro é uma espécie de sátira às incoerências dos adultos. O narrador, que é uma criança, comenta esquisitices que vai observando em miúdos e graúdos, mas a maioria das que ele identifica são, de facto, as dos adultos. Muitas vezes parecem-lhe esquisitices porque não tem o filtro que a nossa socialização nos impõe e que nos faz olhar com naturalidade para algumas coisas que, se virmos bem, não são muito lógicas. Mas o livro é também uma ode a ser-se esquisito, no sentido de ser-se diferente e não procurar seguir padrões. O texto foi escrito pelo Víctor [D. O. Santos], ele contactou-me por e-mail e propôs-me a colaboração. Nós trabalhámos juntos no projecto do princípio ao fim, com o designer Daniel Cabral, que também escreve e ilustra. Portanto, éramos três profissionais do álbum ilustrado. Depois, propusemos o projecto a várias editoras. Em Portugal, quem publicou foi a Orfeu Negro, mas o livro também já foi publicado no Brasil, no Canadá, no México, na Bélgica... Está vendido para várias línguas: persa, grego, coreano, catalão… E como se desenrola o processo criativo? Primeiro, tento procurar a linguagem que melhor espelha aquilo que o texto me inspira. Este é um texto cómico, por isso queria que as personagens tivessem um pouco de humor. Mas não queria que fosse exagerado ou caricatural. Não queria que fosse demasiado "querido" também. A personagem principal tem um melhor amigo, que é um cão. E, no final, ficamos sem perceber se quem está a narrar a história é a criança ou o cão. Então, começo por fazer umas primeiras ilustrações. Muitas vezes, já esboço a cores para procurar a linguagem, o vocabulário, como são as personagens, os ambientes, a paleta de cores, as perspectivas, o tipo de pincéis que vou usar, a profundidade… Se vou pintar em camadas ou não, quantos planos vou ter… E vou explorando isso até chegar a um resultado satisfatório. Chego normalmente a duas ou três ilustrações iniciais e, depois, quando a linguagem está definida, quando acho que já responde ao que o texto inspira, começo a fazer as outras. Uma coisa que acrescentei neste livro foram os "easter eggs". Como o tema é a esquisitice, o livro também tem detalhes curiosos que os leitores podem descobrir em cada página, como uma banana a sair de uma chaminé, um guarda-chuva couve, um King Kong no Chrysler Building, um camelo num bairro residencial... Há muitos pormenores cómicos, coisas que estão fora do sítio, e que os leitores podem procurar. Não têm nenhuma relação com o texto, são só esquisitices visuais.   Isso exige ao leitor uma certa atenção... Exactamente. E depois, temos a última ilustração, que não tem texto mas que nos surpreende e propõe um significado diferente daquele que estávamos à espera. Essa última imagem, resultou também de um processo de reflexão entre nós os três. Tivémos de "partir pedra” em conjunto para resolver o final, sem usar texto. Não sei se é um spoiler, mas é importante dizer que a nossa personagem principal também é esquisita, e também poderia ser alvo de análise por alguém que olhasse para ele como ele olha para os outros. Quando se trabalha para crianças, o processo criativo tende a ser mais exigente? Eu diria que sim, é mais exigente. Devemos pensar em todas as audiências. Não se trata de simplificar a linguagem, isso infantiliza o público, mas de permitir que o livro também chegue às crianças, sem perder a profundidade. Um bom livro ilustrado tem de parecer bom também para os adultos. Não deve ser estereotipado nem restritivo. Deve ter em conta a experiência das crianças mas também pode ter camadas de leitura e assim atrair os adultos. Um livro que se redescobre de cada vez que se pega nele é um bom livro. Acho que esse é o desafio. Mas, claro, escrever um romance será certamente muito exigente, não acho que se deva comparar. Sei que há uma exigência específica quando se trabalha para a infância porque temos de ter em conta que as crianças observam, sentem e descobrem o mundo de forma totalmente diferente de nós, quem se lhes dirige. Quem escreve para adultos já parte de uma experiência parecida à do leitor. São outras preocupações, claro. A Catarina é uma das autoras portuguesas mais premiadas no campo do livro ilustrado. Em 2014, venceu o Prémio Internacional de Ilustração da Feira do Livro Infantil de Bolonha com o livro "O Meu Avô". Em 2024, venceu o Prémio Nacional de Ilustração pelo livro "Fantasmas, Bananas e Avestruzes" e, como já foi mencionado, já havia recebido prémios em 2007 na Coreia do Sul. Quando se é uma das autoras mais premiadas, sente o peso disso no momento de criar? Já senti mais. Quando passei a ser jurada de alguns concursos e a assistir mais frequentemente aos debates sobre os critérios de escolha dos júris de prémios, percebi que há critérios objectivos, mas há também uma grande parte de subjectividade. Quando a qualidade de uma ilustração já é muito boa, e há imensa gente talentosa na ilustração hoje em dia, as escolhas acabam por ser um pouco subjectivas. Há uma diferença clara entre o que é mau e o que é bom, entre o mediano e o bom, mas dentro do "muito bom" acaba por ser sempre uma escolha mais pessoal. Onde vai buscar a inspiração para o seu trabalho? Normalmente, procuro inspiração em outras obras de arte, não necessariamente nas artes visuais, mas na arte, de uma forma geral. O dia-a-dia também pode inspirar, os desenhos das crianças sem dúvida… Ainda assim, a arte e a ilustração, são o que mais me inspira. Neste momento, está a desenvolver algum projecto novo? Sim. Acabei de apresentar um espectáculo de teatro em Lisboa, que inclui ilustrações manipuladas ao vivo, e que foi escrito por mim. E agora, tenho alguns livros novos previstos para este ano, que ainda não comecei a fazer, mas já estão encomendados. A Catarina também teve um programa de rádio. O universo das crianças é algo que a fascina? Sim, para mim, escrever ou desenhar para crianças, fazer rádio ou espectáculos de teatro para a infância, tem as mesmas premissas. O que muda é o meio, mas há processos e linhas de orientação que são muito semelhantes. Para mim, a ideia de síntese é muito importante. E também a de escrever ou desenhar a partir das emoções. Porque ao ser sintética e ao partir das emoções vou comunicar com as crianças através de algo que é essencial, que está na raiz, eliminando o que é acessório. E esta perspectiva universaliza o objecto artístico, não infantiliza, abre-o a diferentes interpretações permitindo que seja desfrutado por várias audiências. Ao ser suficientemente aberto e livre, o objecto artístico pode ser interpretado de forma mais pessoal. Cada leitor, espectador ou ouvinte pode identificar-se com aquela experiência ou história à luz das suas próprias vivências.

If you're a fan of Larry Cohen, the maverick filmmaker behind such mind-bending genre pictures as It's Alive, God Told Me To, Q: The Winged Serpent and The Stuff, you owe it to yourself to check out his newly published memoir: I Killed Bette Davis and Other Confessions of Heinous Crimes Committed in the Name of Moviemaking. The legendary director recounts all the great anecdotes you've already heard - driving a cab on actual NYC sidewalks, firing machine guns from the top of the Chrysler Building with no permit - and about a thousand you haven't. He recounts his fascinating origins as a Borscht Belt comedian and in-demand television writer, includes tribute chapters to Bernard Herrmann and Samuel Fuller, details his ambitious cinematic efforts and the struggle to bring screen legend Bette Davis to the public one last time. We're joined on the episode by James Kenney, who not only edited Cohen's memoir but also discovered and published an unproduced screenplay of Cohen's called Headhunter, the insane tale of a superhero who dresses like a doctor and "cures" criminals of their evil vices. We've also got Andrew Overbye, host of the Authorized Novelization Podcast and recent Cohen enthusiast, to share his feelings on the memoir and the nutty Headhunter. We love Larry Cohen and could have discussed him all day! Find I Killed Bette Davis here: stickingplacebooks.com/i-killed-bette-davis/ Find Headhunter here: stickingplacebooks.com/headhunter/ James Kenney's website: tremblesighwonder.com/ James Kenney on Twitter: x.com/jfkenney The Authorized Novelization Podcast on Bluesky: bsky.app/profile/authorizedpod.bsky.social The Authorized Novelization Podcast on Spotify: open.spotify.com/show/68YhhFLKW5m6ibJJDZ147M

Wo René Benko war, war Glamour. Der österreichische Immobilieninvestor verdiente Milliarden mit Immobilien, veranstaltete rauschende Feste, er lebte ein Luxusleben. Heute sitzt Benko in Untersuchungshaft und blickt auf die Trümmer seines Firmenimperiums, während Mitarbeiter von Benkos Warenhauskonzern Galeria um ihre Zukunft bangen. Georg Wellmann hat sich für ein ARD-Radiofeature genau angeschaut, wie René Benko Geschäfte machte. In dieser 11KM-Folge erzählt er uns, wie der schillernde Benko immer wieder an frisches Geld kam – auch vom Staat. Und wie er jetzt versucht, seinen Reichtum zu schützen. Wer zahlt am Ende die Zeche? Diese Folge ist ein 11KM Classic vom 23. Juni 2025 aus unserem Archiv zum Feiertag, am Montag sind wir mit einer neuen Folge zurück. Hier geht's zum ARD-Radiofeature “Die Ruinen des René Benko” von Georg Wellmann: https://www.swr.de/swrkultur/doku-und-feature/die-ruinen-des-rene-benko-doku-ueber-die-signa-pleite%E2%80%A6 Hier geht's zu “Obsessed: Döner Papers”, unserem Podcast-Tipp: https://1.ard.de/11km-doener_papers Diese und viele weitere Folgen von 11KM findet ihr überall da, wo es Podcasts gibt, auch hier in der ARD Audiothek: https://www.ardaudiothek.de/sendung/11km-der-tagesschau-podcast/12200383/ An dieser Folge waren beteiligt: Folgenautor: Moritz Fehrle Mitarbeit: Lukas Waschbüsch, Marc Hoffmann Host: Victoria Koopmann Produktion: Jacqueline Brzeczek, Jonas Teichmann, Timo Lindemann, Christine Dreyer und Marie-Noelle Svihla Planung: Nicole Dienemann, Christian Schepsmeier und Hardy Funk Distribution: Kerstin Ammermann Redaktionsleitung: Fumiko Lipp und Nicole Dienemann 11KM: der tagesschau-Podcast wird produziert von BR24 und NDR Info. Die redaktionelle Verantwortung für diese Episode liegt beim BR.

In questo episodio vi porto alla scoperta del Chrysler Building, il grattacielo che più di ogni altro ha trasformato lo skyline di New York in un'opera d'arte.Racconteremo la sua storia, dalla competizione spietata con il 40 Wall Street fino al colpo di scena della guglia issata in segreto che lo rese l'edificio più alto del mondo.Vi parlerò delle sue decorazioni ispirate al mondo automobilistico, della splendida cupola argentata che ancora oggi incanta newyorkesi e visitatori, e vi guiderò tra i luoghi migliori da cui ammirarlo.Vai su viagginewyork.it per saperne di più.

Episode: 1442 Walter Chrysler and the texture of fame.  Today, an odd glimpse of the texture of fame.

UNDERRATED THRILL RIDE!! Unstoppable Full Movie Reaction Watch Along:   / thereelrejects   Man on Fire Movie Reaction:    • MAN ON FIRE (2004) MOVIE REACTION!! FIRST ...   Go to https://www.HelloFresh.com/REJECTS10FM now to Get 10 Free Meals + a Free Item per box for Life with active subscription! With Denzel & Spike Lee's HIGHEST TO LOWEST Debuting, Greg Alba & Aaron Alexander are back with a full movie reaction to Tony Scott's adrenaline-fueled thriller Unstoppable (2010) starring the legendary Denzel Washington (Training Day, Remember the Titans, Man on Fire) and Chris Pine (Star Trek, Wonder Woman, Hell or High Water). Inspired by true events, Unstoppable follows veteran engineer Frank Barnes (Washington) and rookie conductor Will Colson (Pine) as they race against time to stop a runaway freight train carrying toxic chemicals before it causes catastrophic damage. The film also features Rosario Dawson (Rent, Sin City, The Mandalorian), Kevin Dunn (Transformers, Veep), and Lew Temple (The Devil's Rejects, The Walking Dead). Some of the most popular Unstoppable moments that fans still revisit on YouTube include: the runaway train first sighting, the helicopter pursuit scene, the near derailment on the curve, the thrilling horse trailer rescue attempt, and of course, the final brake showdown that had audiences everywhere on the edge of their seats. Classic lines like “We're not just talking about a train, we're talking about a missile the size of the Chrysler Building” highlight just how high the stakes are in this non-stop thriller. As one of Tony Scott's final films, Unstoppable stands as a masterclass in tension, practical stunts, and high-octane filmmaking—cementing itself as one of the best modern train movies alongside classics like The Taking of Pelham 123 and Runaway Train. AARON ALEXANDER Follow Aaron On Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/therealaaronalexander/?hl=en Intense Suspense by Audionautix is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 license. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/... Support The Channel By Getting Some REEL REJECTS Apparel! https://www.rejectnationshop.com/ Follow Us On Socials:  Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/reelrejects/  Tik-Tok: https://www.tiktok.com/@reelrejects?lang=en Twitter: https://x.com/reelrejects Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/TheReelRejects/ Music Used In Ad:  Hat the Jazz by Twin Musicom is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 license. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ Happy Alley by Kevin MacLeod is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 license. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/... POWERED BY @GFUEL Visit https://gfuel.ly/3wD5Ygo and use code REJECTNATION for 20% off select tubs!! Head Editor: https://www.instagram.com/praperhq/?hl=en Co-Editor: Greg Alba Co-Editor: John Humphrey Music In Video: Airport Lounge - Disco Ultralounge by Kevin MacLeod is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 license. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ Ask Us A QUESTION On CAMEO: https://www.cameo.com/thereelrejects Follow TheReelRejects On FACEBOOK, TWITTER, & INSTAGRAM:  FB:  https://www.facebook.com/TheReelRejects/ INSTAGRAM:  https://www.instagram.com/reelrejects/ TWITTER:  https://twitter.com/thereelrejects Follow GREG ON INSTAGRAM & TWITTER: INSTAGRAM:  https://www.instagram.com/thegregalba/ TWITTER:  https://twitter.com/thegregalba Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Well listeners, it's taken 5 seasons, but finally Nick & Taylor can obsess over one of the greatest terrible movies ever conceived in the mind of Roland Emmerich. Follow your hosts as they hide in the subway systems, blow the crown off the Chrysler Building, and proudly proclaim: “that's a lot of fish!”. Join in as we celebrate our 100th episode! It's… Godzilla (1998)... starring… Matthew Broderick? __________Taylor Zaccario…Host, Director, Producer, WriterNick Zaccario…Host, Director, Producer, Editor

Captain William Smith, a decorated World War II pilot, was flying a B-25 Mitchell bomber on a routine mission on 28th July, 1945. In heavy fog over New York, he got disoriented and tragically turned the wrong way, narrowly missing the Chrysler Building - before crashing into the Empire State Building. Elevator operator Betty Lou Oliver, was thrown from her lift, but miraculously survived. First responders, unaware of the damaged cables in the shaft, placed her in another elevator to transport her for medical care - and the cables snapped, sending her plummeting 1,000 feet. Yet, astonishingly, she survived: setting a world record for the longest-survived elevator fall. In this episode Arion, Rebecca and Olly consider how the incident led to landmark legislation allowing American citizens to sue the federal government; explain why the dramatic crash didn't make a splash you might expect on the New York Times; and reveal the best position to adopt if you find yourself in a plunging elevator cart… Further Reading: • ‘Why a Plane Crashed into the Empire State Building 70 Years Ago' (TIME, 2015): https://time.com/3967660/army-pilot-crash-empire-state-building/ • ‘This Woman Cheated Death Twice on the Same Day After a 1945 Disaster' (History Collection, 2017): https://historycollection.com/cheat-death-twice-betty-lou-oliver-survived-75-storey-elevator-crash-plane-crashed-building/ • ‘TBT: She survived the longest elevator free fall' (CNN, 2017): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yHM-0c_Otes This episode first aired in 2024 Image By Bettman archive, Corbis, Fair use, https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?curid=18623093 Love the show? Support us!  Join 

Wo René Benko war, war Glamour. Der österreichische Immobilieninvestor verdiente Milliarden mit Immobilien, veranstaltete rauschende Feste, er lebte ein Luxusleben. Heute sitzt Benko in Untersuchungshaft und blickt auf die Trümmer seines Firmenimperiums, während Mitarbeiter von Benkos Warenhauskonzern Galeria um ihre Zukunft bangen. Georg Wellmann hat sich für ein ARD-Radiofeature genau angeschaut, wie René Benko Geschäfte machte. In dieser 11KM-Folge erzählt er uns, wie der schillernde Benko immer wieder an frisches Geld kam – auch vom Staat. Und wie er jetzt versucht, seinen Reichtum zu schützen. Wer zahlt am Ende die Zeche? Hier geht's zum ARD-Radiofeature “Die Ruinen des René Benko” von Georg Wellmann: https://www.swr.de/swrkultur/doku-und-feature/die-ruinen-des-rene-benko-doku-ueber-die-signa-pleite-feature-2025-04-04-100.html Hier geht's zu “Obsessed: Döner Papers”, unserem Podcast-Tipp: https://1.ard.de/11km-doener_papers Diese und viele weitere Folgen von 11KM findet ihr überall da, wo es Podcasts gibt, auch hier in der ARD Audiothek: https://www.ardaudiothek.de/sendung/11km-der-tagesschau-podcast/12200383/ An dieser Folge waren beteiligt: Folgenautor: Moritz Fehrle Mitarbeit: Lukas Waschbüsch, Marc Hoffmann Host: Victoria Koopmann Produktion: Jacqueline Brzeczek, Jonas Teichmann, Timo Lindemann, Christine Dreyer und Marie-Noelle Svihla Planung: Nicole Dienemann, Christian Schepsmeier und Hardy Funk Distribution: Kerstin Ammermann Redaktionsleitung: Fumiko Lipp und Lena Gürtler 11KM: der tagesschau-Podcast wird produziert von BR24 und NDR Info. Die redaktionelle Verantwortung für diese Episode liegt beim BR.

Jutting out of a cold, dank city fog, a massive triangular monolith erupts from the skyline. The city of boxy, concrete apartment blocks below can't match up to the sheer size of this bizarrely shaped building, which reaches 1,083 feet into the sky. Despite its foreboding appearance, it's actually a hotel that's a little taller than France's Eiffel Tower or New York's Chrysler Building. With 3.9 million square feet of usable floor space and 3000 rooms, it's big enough to rival some of the largest hotels in the world! It was even designed to include casinos and nightclubs, so you'd think it'd be bustling with life! But despite its shiny façade, this hotel has never welcomed a single guest, and has actually laid empty for almost 30 years! With all that information, can you guess where this incredibly creepy hotel is? Well, brace yourself, because I promise you're not going to believe what I'm about to tell you. Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brandsPrivacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy

“If this is to be a skyscraper… why not make it scrape the sky.”  This is the story of the race for the tallest building in New York City—in the world.  Erstwhile partners-turned-bitter rivals, architects William Van Alen and Craig Severance are both looking to build the tallest skyscraper in New York City. William is working with automobile titan Walter Chrysler to build his Chrysler Building; Craig is working with George Ohrstrom, a.k.a., the “Boy Wonder” of Wall Street”, to build the Manhattan Company Building at 40 Wall Street. It's a battle of engineering, wits, zoning, and egos, as each alters their plans with money being no object in the fight to construct the taller (and tallest) skyscraper in the world. But as these two rival teams duke it out, the city's beloved Waldorf-Astoria Hotel on 5th Avenue is going under. Something new is rising there—something that just might prove a late entry and dark horse winner in this race with… a mooring mast for airships at the top? Yes—the proposed Empire State Building is threatening to blow this race out of the water and change New York City's skyline forever. ____ Connect with us on HTDSpodcast.com and go deep into episode bibliographies and book recommendations join discussions in our Facebook community get news and discounts from The HTDS Gazette  come see a live show get HTDS merch or become an HTDS premium member for bonus episodes and other perks. HTDS is part of Audacy media network. Interested in advertising on the History That Doesn't Suck? Contact Audacyinc.com To learn more about listener data and our privacy practices visit: https://www.audacyinc.com/privacy-policy Learn more about your ad choices. Visit https://podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Welcome to ohmTown. The Non Sequitur News Show is held live via Twitch and Youtube every day. We, Mayor Watt and the AI that runs ohmTown, cover a selection of aggregated news articles and discuss them briefly with a perspective merging Science, Technology, and Society. You can visit https://www.youtube.com/ohmtown for the complete history since 2022.Articles Discussed:Taylor Swiftly buys back her own music catalog.https://www.ohmtown.com/groups/stockmarketeers/f/d/taylor-swift-has-bought-back-her-own-music-making-her-catalog-among-the-most-valuable-of-all-time/An Electronic Poker Tablehttps://www.ohmtown.com/groups/roundersgear/f/d/electronic-poker-table-on-display-at-wsop-raises-stakes-in-automation-of-las-vegas/The Chrysler Building is for Salehttps://www.ohmtown.com/groups/mobble/f/d/the-chrysler-building-has-towered-above-new-york-city-for-nearly-a-century-now-the-art-deco-skyscraper-is-for-sale/Disney Plus Perkshttps://www.ohmtown.com/groups/nonsequiturnews/f/d/disney-plus-new-perks-pile-on-discounts-and-other-bonuses/Middle Managers getting the Middle Fingerhttps://www.ohmtown.com/groups/nonsequiturnews/f/d/middle-managers-beware-the-great-flattening-layoff-trend-has-moved-beyond-big-tech-and-into-retailers-like-walmart/Final Frenchtasy Subgenrehttps://www.ohmtown.com/groups/warcrafters/f/d/clair-obscur-expedition-33-didnt-invent-final-frenchtasy-or-the-jrpg-the-newly-dubbed-subgenre-has-a-long-and-complicated-history/A Fake Facebook Eventhttps://www.ohmtown.com/groups/technologytoday/f/d/a-fake-facebook-event-disguised-as-a-math-problem-has-been-one-of-its-top-posts-for-6-months/The Market for a New Router is Troubledhttps://www.ohmtown.com/groups/smacktalk/f/d/in-the-market-for-a-new-router-here-are-13-models-to-avoid-according-to-the-fbi/Not the BEES!

Telescope domes are designed to keep the telescopes inside safe and on-target. But just because they’re practical doesn’t mean they can’t be beautiful. That’s especially true of some built in the 1930s. They were influenced by the design style that was all the rage – known today as art deco. The event that popularized art deco began 100 years ago this week – the International Exhibition of Decorative Arts and Modern Industries, in Paris. It was a showcase for French design in architecture, art, furniture, clothing, and other fields. Most countries participated. The only restriction: Everything had to be modern. The exhibition inspired a design wave across the United States. Popular examples include the Empire State Building and Chrysler Building in New York, along with trains, airplanes, cars, consumer goods, and more. Astronomy got into the act as well. The best-known example is Griffith Observatory, in Hollywood. Its domes and grounds have been featured in dozens of movies and TV shows. The domes of Palomar Observatory feature art-deco design as well, including the one that houses the 200-inch telescope – the largest in the world for decades. And no list is complete without our own McDonald Observatory. Its original dome was dedicated in 1939. It housed not only the observatory’s 82-inch telescope, but also labs, offices, and living space for the astronomers – all executed in beautiful art deco style. Script by Damond Benningfield

One hundred years ago today, an international exhibition opened in Paris called, "“L'Exposition internationale des arts décoratifs.” 16 million people attended the months long show, and the exhibition is credited with launching the famous Art Deco architectural movement that now defines the New York City skyline. Francis Morrone, architectural historian and NYU adjunct instructor, dives deeper into the history of New York Art Deco and listeners share their favorite local Art Deco building.

We have an adventure where Superman's decision making ability is anything but 'super' and we also dive deep into the new Daredevil show! Join us as we discuss...Our spoiler-filled reaction to the new Daredevil show and wondering if Kingpin will ever move into the Chrysler Building!Forever confusing the Phantom Zone and the Negative Zone!Superman has no mercy for confused alien bugs he accidentally releases into our dimension!If a woman has an arch, mid-Atlantic accent and that kind of makeup, she's almost automatically evil...wake up Superman!The X-Men TAS Podcast just opened a SECRET reddit group, join by clicking here! We are also on Twitch sometimes… click here to go to our page and follow and subscribe so you can join in on all the mysterious fun to be had! Also, make sure to subscribe to our podcast via Buzzsprout or iTunes and tell all your friends about it! Follow Willie Simpson on Bluesky and please join our Facebook Group! Last but not least, if you want to support the show, you can Buy Us a Coffee as well!

fWotD Episode 2798: 1 Wall Street Welcome to Featured Wiki of the Day, your daily dose of knowledge from Wikipedia’s finest articles.The featured article for Wednesday, 1 January 2025 is 1 Wall Street.1 Wall Street (also known as the Irving Trust Company Building, the Bank of New York Building, and the BNY Mellon Building) is a skyscraper in the Financial District of Lower Manhattan in New York City, United States. Designed in the Art Deco style, the building is 654 feet (199 m) tall and consists of two sections. The original 50-story building was designed by Ralph Thomas Walker of the firm Voorhees, Gmelin and Walker and constructed between 1929 and 1931 for Irving Trust, an early-20th-century American bank. A 28-story annex to the south (later expanded to 36 stories) was designed by successor firm Voorhees, Walker, Smith, Smith & Haines and built between 1963 and 1965.The building occupies a full city block between Broadway, Wall Street, New Street, and Exchange Place. The limestone facade consists of slight inwardly-curved bays with fluting to resemble curtains. On the lower stories are narrow windows and elaborate entrances. The massing of 1 Wall Street incorporates numerous small setbacks, and there are chamfers at the corners of the original building. The top of the original building consists of a freestanding tower with fluted windowless bays. The facade of the annex is crafted in a style reminiscent of the original structure. The original building has an ornate lobby, known as the Red Room, with colored mosaics. Originally, the 10th through 45th floors were rented to outside tenants, while the other floors contained offices, lounges, and other spaces for Irving Trust. After 1 Wall Street was converted to a residential building, the upper stories were divided into 566 condominium apartments.At the time of its construction, 1 Wall Street occupied what was one of the most valuable plots in the city. The building replaced three previous structures, including the Manhattan Life Insurance Building, which was once the world's tallest building. After Irving Trust was acquired by the Bank of New York (BNY) in 1988, 1 Wall Street served as the global headquarters of BNY and its successor BNY Mellon through 2015. After the developer Harry Macklowe purchased the building, he renovated it from 2018 to 2023, converting the interior to residential units with some commercial space.The building is one of New York City's Art Deco landmarks, although architectural critics initially ignored it in favor of such buildings as the Empire State Building and the Chrysler Building. The exterior of the building's original section was designated as a city landmark in 2001, and the Red Room's interior was similarly designated in 2024. In addition, the structure is a contributing property to the Wall Street Historic District, a National Register of Historic Places district created in 2007.This recording reflects the Wikipedia text as of 01:10 UTC on Wednesday, 1 January 2025.For the full current version of the article, see 1 Wall Street on Wikipedia.This podcast uses content from Wikipedia under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike License.Visit our archives at wikioftheday.com and subscribe to stay updated on new episodes.Follow us on Mastodon at @wikioftheday@masto.ai.Also check out Curmudgeon's Corner, a current events podcast.Until next time, I'm neural Arthur.

In the eyes of the architecture critic Paul Goldberger, a building is a living, breathing thing, a structure that can have a spirit and even, at its best, a soul. It's this optimistic perspective that has given Goldberger's writing a certain ineffable, captivating quality across his prolific career—first at The New York Times, where he served as the paper's longtime architecture critic, winning a Pulitzer Prize in 1984; then as the architecture critic at The New Yorker from 1997 to 2011; and now, as a contributing editor at Vanity Fair. Goldberger is the author of several books, including Building Art: The Life and Work of Frank Gehry (2015), Why Architecture Matters (2009), and Building Up and Tearing Down: Reflections on the Age of Architecture (2009). He is also the chair of the advisory board of the Glass House in New Canaan, Connecticut, where we recorded this episode, our third “site-specific” interview on Time Sensitive.On the episode, Goldberger discusses the Glass House's staying power as it turns 75, the evolution of architecture over the past century, what he's learned from writing architects' obituaries, and the Oreo cookie from a design perspective.Special thanks to our Season 10 presenting sponsor, L'École, School of Jewelry Arts.Show notes:Paul Goldberger[05:17] Glass House[05:17] Philip Johnson[07:06] Ludwig Mies van der Rohe[07:06] Farnsworth House[08:42] Brick House[12:37] Gordon Bunshaft[12:37] Lever House[12:37] Frank Lloyd Wright[12:37] Guggenheim Museum[13:18] TWA Flight Center[13:18] Kevin Roche[13:18] Ford Foundation building[13:18] CBS Building[15:17] Noyes House[16:17] U.N. Headquarters[17:50] Centre Pompidou[17:50] I.M. Pei[17:50] Louvre Pyramid[17:50] Frank Gehry[17:50] Guggenheim Bilbao[20:00] Walt Disney Concert Hall[23:20] Stuyvesant Town[24:24] “Oreo, at 75, the World's Favorite Cookie; Machine Imagery, Homey Decoration”[25:46] “Quick! Before It Crumbles!: An architecture critic looks at cookie architecture”[25:46] Nora Ephron[26:18] “Design Notebook; Commonplace Things Can Be Great Designs”[27:16] Bauhaus[29:10] Fallingwater[29:10] Richard Neutra[29:10] Lovell House[29:10] Gehry House[29:10] Louis Kahn[32:38] “Philip Johnson, Architecture's Restless Intellect, Dies at 98”[32:38] “Louis I. Kahn Dies; Architect Was 73”[35:30] Paul Rudolph[36:50] Zaha Hadid[37:22] “New Police Building”[38:19] Henry Geldzahler[41:31] Why Architecture Matters[43:21] Chrysler Building[47:28] Vincent Scully[48:18] Lewis Mumford[1:00:47] The City Observed: A Guide to the Architecture of Manhattan[1:00:47] World Trade Center[1:02:49] “Here Is New York” by E.B. White[1:05:33] Design: The Leading Hotels of the World[1:07:25] Ritz Paris[1:07:25] The Dylan Amsterdam[1:09:01] “Why Buildings Grow On Us”

Send us a textIn this episode we explore the life of Kathleen Clair, executive assistant to Pan Am founder and chairman Juan T. Trippe for over 32 years from 1948 to 1980. We will also hear a personal and private memories of Mr. Trippe and Kathleen. We are joined by two special guests that knew Kathleen well: Wendy Trippe Barr, the granddaughter of Juan and Betty Trippe and John Luetich, a board member of the Pan Am Museum Foundation, Museum Curator, and the son of Mary Luetich who worked with Kathleen for many years in the Pan Am Building.Both guests remember Kathleen at an early age and will share their intimate perspectives on this incredible woman. After the airline ceased operations in 1991, Kathleen worked tirelessly to preserve Pan Am history and was a founding member of the Pan Am Historical Foundation and worked with Juan Trippe's sons, Charlie and Ed, to preserve Pan Am's historic contributions to the history of flight.Several audio clips from an oral history interview of Kathleen recorded in 2003 are used in this episode. A special thank you to the Pan Am Historical Foundation for allowing us to use these recordings for this program. Another special thank you to our high school intern Michael Genter for his help in organizing the audio clips.Kathleen Clair was born on December 12, 1918 to her parents Ted and Kit Clair and would later become the devoted older sister of Phyllis and Donald. She graduated from high school in Englewood, NJ, in 1936 and then went on to the prestigious Katherine Gibbs School for women in 1937.After graduation, she stayed in Manhattan and spent the next 11 years as a secretary at various jobs. One of the many gifts of Kathleen that become invaluable in her career was her photographic memory. She remembered everything to the finest detail with instant recall.In late 1948, she applied for a job at the corporate offices of Pan Am, then in the iconic Chrysler Building. She was hired and worked for Mr. Trippe for 32 years until her retirement in 1980.In December of 2018, Kathleen celebrated her 100th birthday with family, friends and many Pan Am colleagues. A little over a month later, Kathleen M. Clair died peacefully on January 26, 2019, after 100 years of engaging life on her own terms.She is missed by her large extended family, the Trippe family, colleagues from Pan Am and the larger aviation community, and friends from her long and well-lived life.Support the show Visit Us for more Pan Am History! Support the Podcast! Donate to the Museum! Visit The Hangar online store for Pan Am gear! Become a Member! Follow us on Facebook, Instagram, and Twitter!A very special thanks to Mr. Adam Aron, Chairman and CEO of AMC and president of the Pan Am Historical Foundation and Pan Am Brands for their continued and unwavering support!

Bobby and Alex chat about the Chrysler Building, discuss the All-Star Game and an underwhelming home run derby, and parse a few (typically horrible) Rob Manfred quotes. Then, they're joined by friend of the show Kyle Bandujo to talk about his new book, "Movies with Balls: The Greatest Sports Films of All Time Analyzed and Illustrated." Finally, they finish with an infrastructure-centered rankin segment. Buy tickets to the Tipping Pitches Brooklyn Cyclones Meetup!!! ⁠⁠https://fevo-enterprise.com/event/bc24Tippingpitches⁠⁠ Tipping Pitches Chicago Cubs Meetup Form!!! ⁠https://forms.gle/j7iayhGgRY6WcEBg7⁠ Links: Buy Kyle's Book ⁠⁠⁠⁠Join the Tipping Pitches Patreon⁠⁠⁠⁠  ⁠⁠⁠⁠Tipping Pitches merchandise⁠⁠⁠⁠  Songs featured in this episode: Booker T & the M.G.'s — “Green Onions”

Join us as we venture back to 1982's New York City with David Carradine, Michael Moriarty, and most importantly Larry Cohen. A winged serpent has made it's nest in the belfry of the Chrysler Building and it's up to a cynical cop and jazz singer/piano player to save the city. 

In this episode, we discuss skyscrapers in the late 1920s, and the race to the sky. In this episode, we discuss 40 Wall Street, the Chrysler Building, and the Empire State Building. We hope you enjoy!

Dylan sits down with creator and host John Wilson about his travels, his favorite places and his HBO series that is part documentary, part memoir, part essay — and unlike any other show on TV. MORE: In their conversation, a few places come up that we've made episodes about. So if you want to hear about the Chrysler Building eagles, the House on the Rock or Organ Stop Pizza, click here, here and here.

The Chrysler Building remains one of America's most beautiful skyscrapers and a grand evocation of Jazz Age New York. But this architectural tribute to the automobile is also the greatest reminder of a furious construction surge that transformed the city in the 1920s.After World War I, New York became newly prosperous, one of the undisputed business capitals of the world. The tallest building was the Woolworth Building, but the city's rise in prominence demanded new, taller towers, taking advantage of improvements in steel-frame construction and a clever 'wedding cake' zoning law that allowed for ever-higher buildings.Into this world came William Van Alen and H. Craig Severance, two former architectural partners who had unamicably separated and were now designing rival skyscrapers. Each man wanted to make the tallest building in the world.But Van Alan had the upper hand, backed by one of America's most famous businessmen -- Walter Chrysler. His automobiles were the coolest, sleekest vehicles in the marketplace. His brand required a skyscraper of radical design and surprising height.In 1930, the Chrysler became the tallest building in the world, a title it held until the Empire State Building.Just ten years ago, the Chrysler Building was the fourth tallest in New York City. Today, however, it's the thirteenth tallest building in the city. And that's because of a new skyscraper surge shaping the city's skyline, with supertalls making the skyscrapers of old feel very small in comparison.It can be bewildering to see the skyline change so rapidly. But that's exactly how New Yorkers felt exactly one century ago.Visit our website for pictures and other episodes

Synopsis“Pssst. Hey, buddy – wanna buy a bridge? No? Well, how about a clarinet concerto, then?”As most of us know, the Brooklyn Bridge is not for sale, but this New York icon has reputedly been sold to many unsuspecting visitors. After its opening in 1883, Harper's Monthly wrote, “The wise man will not cross the bridge in five minutes, nor in 20, [but] will linger to get the good of the splendid view about him.” American composer Michael Daugherty did just that and came up with a concerto for clarinet and wind ensemble that premiered in Ann Arbor, Michigan, and then, on today's date, in 2005 was performed at New York's Carnegie Hall.“Like the four cables of webs of wire and steel that hold the Brooklyn Bridge together,” Daugherty says, “my ode to this cultural icon [in] four movements: East (Brooklyn and Brooklyn Heights); South (Statue of Liberty); West (Wall Street and the lower Manhattan skyline); and North (Empire State Building, Chrysler Building and Rockefeller Center). In the final movement, I imagine Artie Shaw, the great jazz swing clarinetist of the 1940s, performing in the once glorious Rainbow Room on the 65th floor of the Rockefeller Center.”Music Played in Today's ProgramMichael Daugherty (b. 1954): Brooklyn Bridge; Maureen Hurd, clarinet; Rutgers Wind Ensemble; William Berz, cond. Naxos 8.57252999

Meg looks into the mysterious murder of Mike Malkan, proto-Jack Dorrian and doomed bon vivant. Jessica is slain by Frank Rich, the Butcher of Broadway, and celebrates the birth of a cult classic.Please check out our website, follow us on Instagram, on Facebook, and...WRITE US A REVIEW HEREWe'd LOVE to hear from you! Let us know if you have any ideas for stories HEREThank you for listening!Love,Meg and Jessica

Er gilt als Mastermind der Architektur-Szene. Einer, der die Art, wie wir morgen wohnen und leben, ganz neu denkt: Der Hamburger Projektentwickler und Hochschul-Professor Dr. Georg Klaus mit einem spannenden Blick auf die Immobilien-Krise, die Benko-Pleite und Folgen für unsere Städte und uns alle. Es ist die größte Baupleite des Jahrzehnts! Die Insolvenz von Österreichs Immobilienkönig René Benko. Über 5 Milliarden Euro Schulden. Karstadt, Galeria Kaufhof, das weltberühmte KaDeWe in Berlin bis zum Chrysler Building in Manhattan: Alles wackelt. Sein geplanter Wolkenkratzer, der Elbtower in Hamburg, 245 Meter hoch soll er werden, über 950 Millionen Euro teuer: Es ist nur noch eine Geister-Baustelle. Niemand kann mehr zahlen! Und das alles in einer Zeit, in der Immobilienpreise ohnehin schon einbrechen, die Nachfrage nach Eigentumswohnungen gegen Null geht und weltweit Hunderte Millionen Quadratmeter an Büroflächen leer stehen, weil viele nur noch Homeoffice machen. Laut einer Studie des Kreditversicherers Allianz Trade ist die Zahl der Groß-Insolvenzen auf Rekordniveau. Die Rückgänge in der Bau-Branche: dramatisch. Was bedeutet das für uns alle? Für Mieter, für Eigentümer, für Investoren und für das Leben und Überleben in den Innenstädten? Darüber habe ich mit Star-Architekt Dr. Georg Klaus gesprochen. Er ist Co-Founder des international renommierten Planungsbüros Klaus und Schulz in Hamburg. Professor an der Hochschule in Hildesheim und Göttingen und am British Columbia Institute of Technology in Vancouver / Kanada. Seine Analyse: Warum Städte und öffentliche Räume ganz neu gedacht werden müssen. Die vielen Fehl-Planungen und was die auch über uns als Gesellschaft aussagen. Und wieso der Bürokratie-Irrsinn Innovationen verhindert? Dazu: Was passiert denn nun mit all den verwaisten Geschäften und Büros? Und warum es allein aus Nachhaltigkeitsaspekten keinen Sinn mehr macht, Einfamilienhäuser am Stadtrand zu bauen – das alles jetzt hier in TOMorrow. Also gehen wir in die Planung: Viel Spaß in der Wohnwelt von morgen, viel Spaß mit Zukunftsarchitekt Professor Dr. Georg Klaus.

Kat and Phoebe discuss a provocative underwear ad, a post-wall woman, and the stolen valor of a new book about fatphobia. Links:Mr. Underpants https://twitter.com/CalvinKlein/status/1742901431185584252Soooo… what is that building back there? Does anyone know?Phoebe on Mr. Underpants Senior: Kat's review of Kate Manne's Unshrinking (and why is Manne using “we” to describe the people who don't fit in airplane seats?) : https://unherd.com/2024/01/fat-positivity-is-a-fantasy/ This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit femchaospod.substack.com/subscribe

Ob das KaDeWe in Berlin, das Kaufhaus Oberpollinger in München oder das Chrysler Building in New York – Immobilien- und Handelsunternehmer René Benko stand mit seiner Signa Holding weltweit für die prestigeträchtigsten Gebäude und zählte zu den reichsten Menschen Österreichs. Doch wie hat der aus einfachen Verhältnissen stammende Tiroler es in den Club der Mächtigen und Reichen geschafft? Und wie konnte es nun dazu kommen, dass sein Imperium kollabiert und er Milliarden verliert? Über diese Fragen und noch viele mehr spricht Lilly Burger mit BUNTE-Politik-und-Wirtschaftsressortleiterin Katrin Sachse in der neuen Folge von BUNTE Menschen. Außerdem: Lilly Burger berichtet von ihrem Treffen mit Topmodel Adriana Lima und freut sich mit Palina Rojinksi über ihr frisches Liebesglück. Im Horoskop fragen wir die Sterne, wie sie zu einem Deal zwischen Immobilienmakler Marcel Remus und US-Rapper Kanye West stehen.

Urban planner, Moses Gates, shares his unlikely experience with the residents of the 61st floor of one of New York City's most iconic buildings..

Episode 82 is LIVE, and this week Adam and Kevin finally watched the monster cult classic, Q: The Winged Serpent! This picture has so much good stuff in it, from the Harryhausenish creature that no one knows is living in the Chrysler Building, to the severed feet falling from the sky, to the hardboiled, fried, and scrambled detective team of Shaft and Kung Fu! Not to mention Mo from The Stuff! JOIN US. Everywhere you pod. It's Miller time! DBP Hosts: Adam Crohn: Instagram: @actoydesign / @ihavespokenpod / @mom_gave_them_away Kevin Krull: Instagram: @theotherkevinkrull Support the show directly on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/deathbypodcast Death by Podcast Linktree: https://linktr.ee/deathbypodcast Follow us: Instagram: @deathbypodcast Twitter: @DeathByPodcast YouTube: @DeathByPodcast

Sequoia Simone from Fanatical Fics and But Make it Scary FINALLY makes her debut on The Newest Olympian to finish up Ch. 2 and get through a good chunk of Ch. 3 of Percy Jackson and the Last Olympian! Topics include: NYC hanging, The Bad Film, John Wick Chapter 4, surprises, Victor Wembanyama, SpongeBob, Thomas Hobbes, Tyson's social skills, dolphins, Po-sigh-don, Kevin Durant, crawfish dynamics, Twitch plays Pokémon, Lobsterus, Craig the Arm Guy, Jeff Bridges Hair Stylist #3, Teddy Roosevelt, None Pizza with Left Beef, custom shirts, The Chiron Collection, Beckendorf's legacy, Michael Boo, Swiss Miss, the Chrysler Building, Leroy, and more!   Thanks to our sponsor, Tab For a Cause! Raise money for charity in the easiest way possible at www.tabforacause.org/tno    Per-See Ya Later! Merch: www.thenewestolympian.com/patreon  TNO LIVE (SEQUOIA WILL BE THE CHICAGO GUEST): www.thenewestolympian.com/live    — Find The Newest Olympian Online — • Website: www.thenewestolympian.com • Patreon: www.thenewestolympian.com/patreon • Twitter: www.twitter.com/newestolympian • Instagram: www.instagram.com/newestolympian • Facebook: www.facebook.com/newestolympian • Reddit: www.reddit.com/r/thenewestolympian • Merch: www.thenewestolympian.com/merch   — Production — • Creator, Host, Producer, Social Media, Web Design: Mike Schubert • Editor: Sherry Guo • Music: Bettina Campomanes and Brandon Grugle • Art: Jessica E. Boyd   — About The Show — Is Percy Jackson the book series we should've been reading all along? Join Mike Schubert as he reads through the books for the first time with the help of longtime PJO fans to cover the plot, take stabs at what happens next, and nerd out over Greek mythology. Whether you're looking for an excuse to finally read these books, or want to re-read an old favorite with a digital book club, grab your blue chocolate chip cookies and listen along. New episodes release on Mondays wherever you get your podcasts!

Ever wondered if that used car you're eyeing is worth the investment? Join us as we chat with Patrick Olson of CARFAX to discover the secrets behind their vehicle history reports, used car listings, and the value of each car to help you make an informed decision. Plus, learn how their Car Care app can keep you up-to-date on your car's maintenance needs and recalls.  As we dive into the world of CARFAX, we explore their partnership with dealers and subscription models, as well as their mission to provide accurate data and consumer insights. We also discuss the current popularity of pickup trucks, large SUVs, and the emerging trend of smaller SUVs. Don't miss our conversation on the marketing of SUVs and CUVs, and how Carfax can guide first-time used car buyers in finding the right vehicle.  Finally, we discuss the various ways to search for cars with Carfax, such as by brand, price, location, and age, and how users can filter out cars with accidents or rental/commercial history. Patrick also sheds light on the Car Care app's EV maintenance features and shares a fun fact about the Chrysler Building's completion in 1930. Tune in for this informative and engaging conversation that will leave you empowered in your used car search.---- ----- Want more In Wheel Time Car Talk any time? In Wheel Time Car Talk is now available on iHeart Radio! Just go to iheart.com/InWheelTimeCarTalk where ever you are.----- -----Be sure to subscribe on your favorite podcast provider for the next episode of In Wheel Time Car Talk and check out our live broadcast every Saturday, 8a-11aCT simulcasting on iHeart Radio, YouTube, Facebook, Twitter, Twitch and InWheelTime.com.In Wheel Time Car Talk can be heard on you mobile device from providers such as:Apple Podcasts, Pandora Podcast, Amazon Music Podcast, Spotify, Google Podcasts, Stitcher, iHeart Radio podcast, TuneIn + Alexa, Podcast Addict, Castro, Castbox and more on your mobile device.Follow InWheelTime.com for the latest updates!Twitter: https://twitter.com/InWheelTimeInstagram: https://www.instagram.com/inwheeltime/https://www.iheart.com/live/in-wheel-time-car-talk-9327/https://www.youtube.com/inwheeltimehttps://www.Facebook.com/InWheelTimeFor more information about In Wheel Time Car Talk, email us at info@inwheeltime.comTags: In Wheel Time, automotive car talk show, car talk, Live car talk show, In Wheel Time Car Talk

In Episode 47, Michael and Julian talk about1.     Van Life. Have you thought about living in a van and traveling across America? Millions have this lifestyle2.     Skyscrapers. Competition between New York and Chicago started a worldwide trend for very tall buildings. We discuss building regulations, elevators, and our favorite buildingsOther Show NotesLearn more about how America's culture developed in Julian Bishop's High, Wide, and Handsome.Available here to buy as a paperback, ebook, or audiobook

Imagine this: It's 1936 and you're taking a luxurious three day flight from Germany to the United States in the Hindenburg. But instead of landing in New Jersey as expected, you dock to the top of the tallest building in the world: the Empire State Building. This didn't actual happen — turns out that's a logistical and safety impossibility — but that didn't stop the builders of the Empire State Building from using the potential of a mooring mast to advertise the building. After all, they had to really stick it to the Chrysler Building. Matt and Emily are joined by the Museum's lighter-than-air flight curator to talk about airships, Zeppelins, mooring masts, and, a first for us, architecture! Sign up here for the monthly AirSpace newsletter AirSpace is made possible by the generous support of Olay.

Diamond Feit returns to talk about Q: The Winged Serpent. One of my all-time favorite movies and, without question, the greatest movie ever made about a giant dragon that lives on top of the Chrysler Building and eats people. Larry Cohen was a mad genius.

William Strange is a Professor of Economic Analysis and Policy at the Rotman School. William is former Editor of the Journal of Urban Economics (with Stuart Rosenthal), and he served in 2011 as President of the American Real Estate and Urban Economics Association. He works in the areas of urban economics and real estate. His research is focused on agglomeration, industry clusters, labor market pooling, skills, private government, real estate development and real estate investment. In this episode we talked about: William's Background and how he got into Real Estate Rotman School Real Estate Program Paper Analysis of Skyscrapers Macroeconomic Outlook Urban Economics Resources Useful links: Book “Triumph of the City: How Our Greatest Invention Makes Us Richer, Smarter, Greener, Healthier, and Happier” by Edward Glaeser Book “The New Geography Of Jobs” by Enrico Moretti https://www.rotman.utoronto.ca/FacultyAndResearch/Faculty/FacultyBios/Strange.aspx Transcription: Jesse (0s): Welcome to the Working Capital Real Estate Podcast. My name's Jessica Galley, and on this show we discuss all things real estate with investors and experts in a variety of industries that impact real estate. Whether you're looking at your first investment or raising your first fund, join me and let's build that portfolio one square foot at a time. Ladies and gentlemen, my name's Jesse for Galley, and you're listening to Working Capital, the Real Estate Podcast. My guest today is William Strange. Will is a professor of economic analysis and policy at the Rotman School that's at the University of Toronto.   He's the former editor of the Journal of Urban Economics, and he served in 2011 as president of the American Real Estate and Urban Economics Association. He works in the area of urban economics and real estate. His research has focused on industry clusters, labor market, pooling skills, private government, real estate development, and real estate investment. Will, thanks for being here. How's it going?   William (58s): Thanks a lot for having me, Jesse. It's going great.   Jesse (1m 1s): Well, I appreciate you coming on. Like we said before the show, I thought there's a couple different areas of research that I thought we could jump into and, and I think the listeners would get a lot out of. But before we do that, why don't we kind of circle back to you in, in your current role at the University of Toronto and kind of what you're working on today, how did that all come to fruition? How did you get into, into this business of real estate?   William (1m 25s): Well, I got into real estate as an urban economist, so when I went to graduate school, my favorite undergraduate econ class was urban. I liked it because there are so many things going on in cities. Cities are just interesting organisms. And so I, I pursued a PhD at Princeton with Ed Mills, who is the father of the feet, modern field of urban economics. That ended up with me at U B C amongst the real estate folks. And I gradually came to understand just how interesting real estate is too, and just how much an urban economist will have to say about real estate, you know, both on the residential and commercial side.   I feel incredibly fortunate that I've lucked into a, a career as satisfying as this one has been.   Jesse (2m 8s): That's great. And the current role that you have at Rotman, so for people that aren't, aren't familiar, that's the, the business school at the University of Toronto. The, the teaching that you do there, is it predominantly undergrad is,   William (2m 21s): It's almost entirely MBA and PhD. I teach some vanilla economics, which I think is important too. Yeah. But, but we also teach a bunch of econ cla a bunch of real estate econ and real estate finance classes. One thing that I would say to your audience is I'm also the director of the Center of Real Estate at Rotman, and we periodically put on public events, we put on one on downtown recovery back in December that was addressing the different pace at which downtowns were repopulating as Covid fingers crossed, recedes.   And, and we were scheduled to do a housing market one with City Post in March, and we'll keep doing them as interesting policy issues emerge. We are, we, we welcome people from outside Rotman. Please come everybody.   Jesse (3m 12s): Yeah, that's great. The, and we want to jump into one of the papers that you did, you did regarding covid. Before we do that though, I'm curious, you know, people in our industry, when we think of schools that have a real estate program at the MBA or or higher level, you know, whether it's economics or finance or real estate, I think of, you know, Rotman, I think of Osgood. A lot of people have gone to Columbia and New York for their Ms. Red program. Has that, how long has that program been the real estate specific aspect of it? How long has that been something that has been at Rotman?   Because I, I feel like you guys were one of the first to actually have the, that specialization.   William (3m 48s): It's nice of you to say, but it was, it started building up when I came in 2001 and we've specifically p positioned ourselves to not duplicate other programs. Like I, I, I like the SCHOOK program very much, but there's no reason that we need to do something that's as specialized as their program is, given that they already have such a program that's, that's a good program. So what we have done is to set up a smaller real estate program. We have three electives of the 10 classes and MBA would take with the idea being that people in real estate benefit from taking things outside of real estate, you know, that a good real estate person needs to know about finance, a good real estate person needs to know about strategy and my various colleagues in Rotman can help in those ways very much.   Jesse (4m 33s): Yeah, no, that makes sense. So before we, we jumped on here, we, we talked about a paper that kind of pid my interest and it was just being in the commercial real estate world and it was a basically a, a paper analysis of skyscrapers. I thought before we jump into this Covid paper, we could talk a little bit about this, this paper that you did regarding skyscrapers.   William (4m 53s): The skyscraper paper is still pretty relevant. I mean, what it's motivated by is that we're living in a new era of skyscrapers that if you look at something online like the skyscraper page, you can see the big buildings that people are planning to build. The Empire State Building was the biggest building in the world for on the order of 40 years before the World Trade Center. It has since been sub topped by Burge Dubai. And there are other buildings that are, are also really large that are either recent or, or that are being planned.   The big question is, are these big buildings being built big because it's economical to do so? Or are they being built big for some other reason? You know, possibly ego reasons, possibly other stuff. And so we have analyzed skys, this is in my paper with Bob Helsley from UBC. In this paper we look at skyscrapers as a contest for who is the biggest, this, this is assuming that people want to be bigger than the other person. Let me give you a couple of historical examples of that.   I mean, people did look at whether h skyscrapers were economical in the 1930s after the big skyscraper wave of the twenties and thirties. That was mo allowed by things like structural steel and elevators. And we see there a lot of stuff that looks game theoretical. So one story is the story of the lower man of the Manhattan Company building, which is now Trump's lower Manhattan building. And, and, and the incredibly beautiful art deco Chrysler building.   And they were each built to be the biggest building in the world at the time. Manhattan Company building finishes first, so it has a ceiling on it, and they are very happy because the ceiling on the sky on the Chrysler Building is, is gonna be lower. So for some reason, the Chrysler building did not build an extra a hundred feet that would've made them bigger than the Manhattan Company building. And, and this has an added issue of personal interest, that the lead people on both of those projects hated each other. They used to be partners. There was a breakup of their partnership and, and not the owners of the buildings, but the architects despised each other.   Unbeknownst to the people who built the Manhattan Company Building with the Chrysler Tower, the most famous thing about it, if, if the readers Google it right now, you'll see it is the spire at the top. It was hidden inside the structure, so people didn't know what happened. And so they waited until the Manhattan Company building had reached its ceiling and then they raised like a giant middle finger, the spire of, of the Chrysler building, which made it an extra 50 feet taller than the Manhattan Company building. It's really hard to argue that there is some economic tenants paying rent sort of argument that would make you do something like that.   That's one example. Another example is the Empire State Building, which I mean we've all seen King Kong bu movies, so we know how the Empire State Building looks, but, but the, you may not know that the spire on top of the Empire State Building, which made it by a couple hundred feet bigger than the Chrysler Building when it was built, that was originally pretended to be a Zeppelin loading dock. So people would be taking international flights by blimp and, and on top of Manhattan where winds are pretty big, they, they would tie the Zeppelin on and then people would get off on on it.   No one ever did that. That was just totally a fiction to allow the building to be as big as it could possibly be. So in, in, in this paper, we look at that as what is called in game theory and all pay auction. That's an auction where you have to pay, even if you don't win in, in this case, you pay to build the building even if you don't win the race of having the very biggest building subsequent to our paper, which was theoretical. Others have looked in various ways for empirical evidence in the data, and there seems to be a lot of it around the moral of the story being some of these big buildings look like they should be built based on economics, or at least you can make a justification of building such a big building on economic grounds.   But there's a lot of evidence that people wanna build a little bit bigger than the other guy, even if it's not economical because of the prestige that seems to go with being the biggest building in a market or in the world or of a particular type. If you look online, you'll see all kinds of lists of, you know, biggest office building, biggest residential building, biggest building in Canada, biggest building in Toronto. It seems to be something that people do care about and not simply just the economics of, of building real estate space for tenants to use.   Jesse (9m 29s): Yeah, that's a fascinating story. I'm almost embarrassed to say I I had never heard of that. So they continued to build with regard to the Manhattan Chrysler, they continued to build hiding the spire within, within the   William (9m 41s): Envelope, within the structure because the seal structure, you know, you can have it own. And then they literally leveled it up. There's a, I forget who wrote it, but there was a book, there's a book on this whole episode, which I think is a fascinating story. Yeah.   Jesse (9m 51s): Oh, that's great. Yeah, that it's, it's interesting too, I'm reading a book right now that New Kings of New York by The Real Deal, and it talks about a lot about kind of the Trump era of New York when it was the, the basically push to build more and more price per square foot condos, high-end condos. And it was really almost a race of who could build the best, the the tallest. And it became a lot of, seemed to be a lot about ego rather than economics.   William (10m 16s): Yeah, I mean, I think ego matters in real estate. Look, I mean, I I'm just a professor, I just write papers. Somebody who actually builds tall buildings can, you know, look at this thing that they've built and I understand why people's personalities are invested in it and why, you know, they wanna build buildings that are deemed to be significant. I mean, for a long time the, the CN Tower was the biggest structure in the world, and people make a distinction between occupied buildings and unoccupied structures. And so, you know, clearly we in Toronto are, are not immune to building buildings for ego-based reasons.   Jesse (10m 51s): And it was there a distinction in your research between commercial skyscrapers as opposed to residential towers? Or, or was it,   William (10m 59s): I mean, the early ones were, were all commercial and, and well, I mean the Eiffel Tower shows people how structural steel lets you build stuff that's big and then the Woolworth building becomes the biggest building in the world. And then as supplanted, as I said a little while ago, briefly by the Manhattan Company building the, whatever the Trump building is in lower Manhattan and, and Chrysler, they were commercial. But now, now we see people building big residential buildings. I mean, it, it can be problematic. The, the, the former Sears Tower, and I'm having a brain cramp now about its current name, Willis Tower.   I believe it, it was renamed a while ago. It had a problem after its initial construction because it was big enough that the building swayed in the wind and, and this made people feel very uncomfortable. And so there was a period of time and it, it could continue. I'm not sure whether it is or the tallest, the, the, the highest suites in that building were used for storage because people didn't wanna be up there because it wiggled around too much. Yeah. And, and, and just made them uncomfortable for residential.   I mean, I don't know what your experience is, but I have a friend who was on the 40th floor of a Toronto building and which, you know, he thought was beautiful, gave him a view of the lake and so on and so forth. But during covid when you don't wanna be in the elevator with a lot of people or worse still, if the elevator is slower is not running, you know, 40 stories is a long ways to walk.   Jesse (12m 24s): Yeah, absolutely. Well the one with the Willis Towers kind of, that'd be Chicago too, so I I'm sure it, it, it'd get pretty windy up there. I think for us, if, if I'm not mistaken today, our first Canadian place, at least in the Toronto area.   William (12m 38s): Yeah. Ever since it's been built, that's been the biggest building in Canada and it's, it's of course commercial. Yeah. There are some things that I believe people are considering that might be bigger but haven't been built yet.   Jesse (12m 48s): So you, you mentioned something that you ask your class at Rotman question that I, right before we got on this call, I would, I would've failed and can pose the question to, to listeners that you normally ask your class at Rotman.   William (13m 2s): Well the, I mean, I I've said that this is an era of skyscraper construction and I've talked about the earlier one. And the question is what is it that it took for us to have skyscrapers? And it turns out there are two things that it took. It took structural steel and it took elevators. And before I ask the question, I can give you the elevator story because that is also one that's worth hearing. Sure. Elevators are old. They're like, they're like, Archimedes figured out how you could use pulleys to lift things. The problem with a, a classical elevator is if the cable was cut, the elevator would fall and whatever was on it, including humans would be destroyed.   And, and, and thus elevators were not used, you know, for large distances for human beings because it was just considered to be too dangerous. The name that most people will associate with elevators is Otis. And, and Otis went to the New York World's Fair in, I believe 1856, give or take two years. And he demonstrated his safety elevator. And the way he did it was he was pulled up in the elevator with a very sharp sword in his hand to about 40 feet with an audience watching him. And then he cut the cable above the, the rope that was on the elevator above himself and the audience went, Ooh, because the, they, they were sure that he was now going to fall to his death.   But the Otis elevator's innovation was, it didn't fall, it was a safety elevator and it had automatic brakes that would arrest it. Before that you wouldn't see apartment buildings that were any bigger than six stories. Cuz you know, six stories is a lot to walk up. You wouldn't wanna walk up 10. But now once you have elevators, vertical distance is not a barrier anymore. And that really changes the ability, the demand for big buildings on the supply side. This is my question, what was the biggest building in the world in 1850 around when the elevator was developed and before skyscrapers were, were started to be built?   So I'll leave leave you a minute to think about it. Look it up on Wikipedia or, or whatever the answer is that the biggest building in the world was the great pyramid from something like 1400 bc. Why is that worth mentioning? Because it's a masonry building and, and the key feature of masonry buildings is that the supporting walls on the lower floors have to get bigger and bigger as the building gets taller in or in order to bear the weight to say, to say nothing of earthquakes and other problems with masonry buildings, structural steel changes that structural steel lets you go up.   I mean it's, it's incredibly robust. We don't always use structural steel. Now the World Trade Center did not to, to its peril. It used much lighter framing. And that was one of the things that meant that the intense heat that the airplanes produced when they hit the building were able to bring it down. That's a worthwhile story to to point out because the Empire State Building was also hit by an airplane during World War ii, which people might not know about because the Empire State Building is still there. Yeah. It was foggy and a, a World War II bomber crashed into it, but because it was structural steel, it basically bounced off.   I mean, it was, was not good for the airplane and not good for the pilots, but it, it survived. But we've learned cheaper ways to build buildings subsequent to that without structural steel. And that seems to be one of the factors that's responsible for the skyscraper wave that we have seen in, in recent years with Birds Dubai. Now the tallest building in the world for a while, Taipei 1 0 1 was, was the biggest building in the world. You have very tall buildings being built in, in many Chinese cities, especially Shanghai.   People are building big buildings, you know, and, and part of it is the strategic thing that we talked about a minute ago in the case of Taiwan. I mean, if you read about that building, it's clear that this was a matter of great national pride. And so the Chinese were building it to make Taipei obvious as an important business city and to make, to make Taiwan an an important place. The same sort of thing in places like Birds Dubai, I mean, what will be the financial center in the Middle East, it's, it's not obvious what it would be having big buildings, you know, they're hoping that if they build it, people will come.   Jesse (17m 10s): Hmm. Yeah. That's fascinating. Well it was good to, good to jump on that cuz that paper I saw that the title and I was like, well it's got economics, it's got skyscrapers. So just being from the commercial real estate side of things, I thought it'd be something listeners get some value out of. Well, I   William (17m 24s): Mean, so for, for your readers who are in the industry, I mean, it's a valid question for folks to ask. Do the economics justify such big buildings? I mean, in, in a lot of cases they do. People were convinced that the, say the Empire State Building did, of course the Great Depression happened begin after the Empire State Building was started and before it was finished. And so the Empire State Building was financially rather a disaster. It was called the Empty State building for about the first 10 years because they had so much trouble tenanting it up.   And so this is something that market participants should ask themselves. Does the market support a big building or is there something else that's going on with the building's size?   Jesse (18m 2s): Yeah, well we're certainly going through a, you know, a different version of that in terms of some of the construction or or over construction in some of our major cities. And just trying to see if the, if the lease ups will, will actually, if the absorption will be able to fill those buildings.   William (18m 18s): Right. I mean, we had buildings that were designed pre covid and that came on the market in 2022 and are partly responsible for the slow absorption that we've seen in recent years. I mean that's a, a very valid point. I mean, a lot of my other research has dealt with the fundamentals of why people want to concentrate spatially. Hmm. So, I mean, in Canada, a huge amount of our population is in the three cities of Vancouver, Montreal and, and Toronto. Yeah. In, in the case of the US when people use satellite data to look at how much of the country is actually occupied.   So you're looking at data that reflects down on the land and the satellite can tell you, is this dirt or is this concrete? The US is a big country, 2% of it is developed. I suspect the number would be even smaller in Canada. But I haven't seen somebody use satellites to do that. So we have this situation when Toronto and Vancouver at least are incredibly expensive when households say that affordability is the biggest issue that they face economically, not just real estate, it's the biggest issue that they face.   And yet everybody keeps piling into Toronto no matter how expensive it is. And thus prices continue to go up and up. I mean, I think one of the silver linings we may see from Covid is, is that through Covid we have learned that remote work is possible, can't do everything remotely that you can do in person, but you can do a lot. And that to the extent that Covid allows people to do things remotely, you know, either at different places in the same city or even in different in in, in different cities completely.   That may make it less essential for everybody to be down at bay in Adelaide, you know, paying the high rents that people pay down there and thus paying the high housing prices that you have to pay to be close to bay in Adelaide for your job as an investment banker, you know, this is a possibility to un unlock value for folks by freeing them from the Toronto housing price death spiral that people have been dealing with for so many years.   Jesse (20m 19s): Yeah. And we're, and we're dealing with, so we have 84 offices predominantly in, in North America, but we are a global company. And it's one thing where you are taking a b class or a suburban office and converting it to industrial or residential. It's, it's another thing to have these massive towers in cities and just trying to figure out how we repurpose the space, whether, you know, and   William (20m 39s): People are sure talking about that and there's, there's certainly fortunes to be made in people who feel how to figure out how to do it. Right. But I mean, what I'm hearing, and I'm, I'm nobody's architect, but what, what I'm hearing is the challenge of the seven and a half foot ceilings that you might see in an office in a residential setting are really problematic. And you can make a lot of internal changes in the building, but dealing with the floors is, is hard.   Jesse (21m 1s): Yeah, absolutely. And I think some of what you just mentioned here touched on, I noticed another paper on, on your, on your link on U F T or on Rotman's website was entrepreneurship in cities. And, and I imagine that kind of ties into what you're, what you're talking about here, it's that question of why do we congregate in these   William (21m 18s): Metropolis that, that there's something in downtown Toronto that people are willing to pay for. The market tells us that this is valuable. Both the housing market and the commercial real estate market say that Toronto's expensive people aren't throwing away the money for no reason they're paying it because it's a good, good value. As expensive as it might be. I mean, I like my job in Toronto, thus I'm willing to pay a whole bunch of money for a house here cuz I have to live here in or in order to be able to teach in, in, in the Rotmans school. So that, and a whole bunch of other things.   But, but ever since the dawn of the internet, some people have been arguing that distance is dead. And and I think that's wrong. Distance isn't dead. Maybe it smells funny, but it isn't dead yet. And in, in thinking about Covid, there was a New York Times op-ed that Jerry Seinfeld wrote titled New York City Is Not Dead. He wrote this in response to a friend of his, a fellow who owned a comedy club arguing that New York City was dead. And in this case, I'm happy to say that I agree with Jerry that that places like New York and Toronto are for sure challenged by, by things that happen associated with C O V D.   You know, two years ago what we were worried about is making each other sick. We are less worried about that as the disease has become less virulent as we and as we become vaccinated. But you know, hopefully, you know, COVID is killing 500 Americans a day. I don't know how many Canadians it's killed killing a day. Are we are much healthier than America is in that particular regard. But in, in addition to that being a challenge for folks, the working from home phenomenon is almost certainly here to stay.   It's just incredibly valuable for people to stay home and write reports for a day instead of fighting traffic to drive 45 that's from North York downtown, and then do the same thing again in the afternoon. So anyway, Jerry's friend wrote an article saying New York was dead. You know, that that that the value of being close to other people was, was really being challenged. Seinfeld said, no, it wasn't. We did some work using contemporaneous data. So the only time in my life I've used absolutely fresh data off the process and I I now have more patience with other professionals who use that, who use that kind of data.   It's just a lot harder to do stuff with that. And we looked at something called the commercial rent gradient. So the commercial rent gradient is telling you how much rents are declining as you, you're moving away from, from the city center. And so, so in Toronto, rents are highest in the city center. They go down as they move away, they rise in suburban sub-centers. We were not able to get good Toronto data to do these calculations here, but we did do it in cities that are like Toronto in the us like New York and Toronto and in and in cities like that, the gradient might be 6%.   So my, my co-authors were American, so they made me do this with miles, but the result was rents are declining by roughly 6% a mile as you move away from the center of activity in the city. If, if the big cities are dead, you know, given the long term nature of commercial leases, we should see people demanding large discounts when they're signing up in the downtown or, or close to the downtown, not paying the premiums they previously paid with the onset of covid and work from home and stuff like that.   What we found was a little of that, but not a lot of it. What we found was that the gradient went down by about a sixth. It went down from about 6% to about 5%, but it's still a gradient. People are still signing leases in 2021 to pay a big premium to be downtown, which is suggesting that, you know, as mu as much fun as Zoom can be and as productive as Zoom can be, it's not the same thing as sitting next to the other person and, and hearing them talk with their clients and realizing there's some synergy with what you're after and what they're after, which is the kind of thing that people are paying big dollars to locate downtown and getting.   So our answer is so far the downtown is less attractive, but is still attractive in, in core dominated cities like Toronto. Now can I tell you that it's gonna be that way five years from now? Of course I can't And and we do promise I'm saying this to someone who will broadcast it. So I guess this promise has some credibility. We promise that once, I mean our intention was once Covid is behind us, do this again. We are realizing that Covid will not be behind us and we'll have to pick another time to do it again and see what the evolution of this is.   But thus far we're still seeing people attracted to large cities. One scenario would be that this is a continuation of a phenomenon that Toronto saw in the late eighties and the nineties when back office stuff got moved out of Toronto to Mississauga and then later to places that are farther away than Mississauga. You know, people thought, oh no, the downtown's going away. No. What we were doing was we were keeping only the people downtown who really need to be there, the people who really need to be there to interact with other folks, you know, that that's what really matters and not the fact that the physical files are located in the building there.   Yeah. So this may be the same kind of thing where downtown Toronto just becomes more and more rarefied. Yeah. You know, that the investment bankers stay there, but maybe not the middle managers now that, that that is a social issue that we have to engage with, you know, if Toronto just becomes a city of investment bankers and Uber drivers. Yeah. You know, which is sort of the story that I'm telling you. Yeah. But at least that evidence and that theory points us in the direction of that being someplace we could end up.   Jesse (27m 4s): Yeah, no, for sure. And I think for the, you know, kind of the anecdotal side of things, what we see on the street is we see leases being signed. We see that there is a bit of a spread between the bid ask, but it, but it's not at the discount, which we, you know, I have clients they call me and Yeah, especially in the middle, at the beginning and in the middle of Covid, they're expecting these 20%, 30% discounts, you know, on pricing and for leasing and they just weren't happening. Landlords were providing inducements, whether it was free rent allowances. But even today, we, we still see these leases being signed and if anything, the trend that I've seen with most of the clients in the downtown areas, whether it's New York, Boston, Toronto, is that there's a, you know, the term flight to quality gets thrown around a lot.   We're seeing a lot more of that. And we're seeing, I agree completely, we're seeing even four years ago where a startup might want to be in a trendy area in, in the periphery of Toronto or of New York, and we're starting to see more of them have transit as a component. Not that it wasn't important before, but it's, we're seeing that almost pretty much at the top of the list for these, for these tenants.   William (28m 5s): Yep. Transit matters and, and the businesses are deciding they wanna be where the accountants and the business lawyers and the, the bankers are, you know, because they need to interact with them all the time. So I mean, the flight quality, I've heard noises in that direction also that what we would see would be, look, people have been talking about the retail apocalypse for years about online shopping, cannibalizing brick and mortar retailing. Now, did that kill the Eaton Center? It didn't because the Eaton center's in a market position where people are still willing to go there, but it's gonna kill someone.   I've got,   Jesse (28m 37s): I've gotta go there today. There's   William (28m 39s): Good for you. I'm glad one of my predictions ends up being true. Yeah. But, but credit old, old, old fashioned malls, they're getting torn down and, and getting replaced with something different. And I think we could imagine that being something that would happen too. I mean, just something that the audience should think about more generally is that the way the downtown has been for the last 10 years is different than it was 30 years ago, you know, when you had back offices there and it's way different than it was a hundred years ago when there was still a lot of manufacturing activity in the downtown, taking advantage of the proximity to the lake and to shipping and stuff like that.   And so the notion that the downtown should be frozen in Amber as of 2000 or something like that is crazy. It's never been that way. It's gonna change as business changes. And that's a good thing. I mean, that's, that's a way that the ability of Toronto to deliver good, good jobs and high value business outcomes is crucial for all of Canada. And, you know, anything that we can do to make Toronto a better competitor to New York, Boston, and San Francisco very much, much serves Canada's interests.   Jesse (29m 42s): Absolutely. So I wanna be mindful of the time here, will, but I do wanna get to your, your paper, your, I I'm not sure if it's your most recent paper, the one on Covid, but maybe you could give us the   William (29m 54s): Covid one was the one I just talked about a second   Jesse (29m 56s): Ago. Okay. So, so in, in, so what, what was the ultimate thesis of that? Was it this, this divide that we're seeing as, I would say even kind of an inequality of a potential outcome of having downtown cores be predominantly bankers? Or was that, was that the, the other paper,   William (30m 13s): The focus was on whether downtown would still be as important as it used to be. And we looked at, I, I left out some of the results. The, in addition to looking at core dominated cities like Toronto, we also looked at much more spread out car oriented cities like LA and Dallas and stuff like that. And the pattern in, in those places was different. In those cases, the gradient was already smaller. It was, you know, two or 2% rather than the 6%. And it didn't change a lot after Covid, you know, because la the downtown is, is different than the rest of the city.   But LA is not a downtown dominated city the way that Toronto is at all. And Covid didn't affect those. We looked at some parallel results that weren't as parametric, if you'll forgive my geekiness, the gradient puts an exponential functional form to get a percentage decline from the downtown. But look, I mean, how, how are we to think about sub-centers in North York and Mississauga and Markham and places like that in, in, in relative to having one downtown at Bay and Adelaide.   So we also looked at the premium that tenants pay to be in a high density environment. So that's a, a more flexible, functional form. We basically got the same results, which is the value of density does get smaller just like the gradient gets smaller. But it by no means goes all the way to zero. Cities aren't dead yet. Now the changes are just starting and things may change a lot. We may finally, eventually end up in a circumstance where distance really is dead the way people have been saying it would be since the early nineties.   But we're certainly not seeing it yet. And, you know, looking at real estate markets is one way to understand that, you know, because people put it, put their, you know, people can talk about distance being dead, but that's just talk, I mean a tenant paying, putting down a guarantee on, on real estate lease that's putting their money where their mouths are and how much money they're willing to pay for the downtown versus someplace extra or for a dense non downtown location like Mississauga Center of Mississauga relative to somewhere more peripheral.   You know, what we're seeing is people are still willing to pay premiums for those things. This could change, but it did not change in the early years of covid. And you're telling me that your sources say that it's not changing right now yet either. So I think that's where we are as of this minute. Will it change, you know, who knows?   Jesse (32m 39s): Yeah, it's a very, it's kind of a fascinating time in the sense that it's, it's hard to get data points when we're, you know, fingers crossed coming out of Covid, but potentially entering a recessionary environment. So it's, you know, we're, we're positive in one, but then we're drawn back in another. And I'd be re remiss if I didn't ask, if I was speaking to economists and didn't ask a little bit about the kind of macroeconomic environment.   William (33m 2s): I'm not a macro economist, so I'll probably avoid, but by all means you can ask.   Jesse (33m 6s): But, but yeah, I mean, how do you see this? Or if you do at all as a, as a comparison to oh eight or oh one or the early nineties and, and, you know, we, we come out of something that was extraordinary, the pandemic, but now we're entering inflation numbers that we haven't seen in, in years.   William (33m 26s): I, I think it, it, it is absolutely to be worried about because inflation, as, as economists who know more about the stuff than I do have always said it, it reduces the information, content and prices reduces the incentives that price systems have. So it just makes capitalism work less well than it would have previously. So it's certainly a risk. I will say that the government's decision to stimulate the economy during covid kept us from having a recession. I, I mean, I don't know if you recall, but in May of 2020, the C M H C who know a lot about housing more, more than I know about housing, they, their projection said that they predicted housing prices would fall.   I think the number was 18% in, in the preferred model that they offered. Now, I didn't have a model, but that was my inclination also, and also my inclination of the colleagues that, you know, housing is a normal good. People buy more of it when they're rich and, and there, there it seemed closing people out of their workplaces is surely recessionary. So I I I told my neighbor who I like and respect, you know, I I think you should, if you're thinking about selling your house the next few years are, are problematic. I, I was wrong.   I mean, the PR prices went up by more than 30% in Toronto. Quality adjusted during that, you know, in, in part because the government tried to keep people from being killed. But now they've spent huge amounts of money and they can't spend like that forever. And economies don't stay in boom, forever, ever either. So there, you know, there there is uncertainty and, and there is risk.   Jesse (34m 60s): Yeah. Well, I guess, we'll nobody has a crystal ball here for this next year.   William (35m 4s): Especially not Microeconomists and, and people who spent a lot of their careers doing theorists doing   Jesse (35m 9s): Theater. No, I, I, I wouldn't I once sell yourself short. I feel like a lot of the insights come from, from the micro and, and get extrapolated. Well,   William (35m 16s): I, I, unlike micro, I just believe in, I mean, economist, I believe in the division of labor and there are other people who know more about macro than I do.   Jesse (35m 23s): Yeah. So Will, we're, we're gonna wrap up here. What I'd like to do is, first of all, for those that want to kind of learn more on, you know, urban, urban economics, urban planning seems to be a, a passion of yours. But just generally speaking, are there books or resources that you've used in the past that you think would be good recommendations for listeners if this is something they're interested   William (35m 43s): In? Yeah, there, there are a couple of them. And, and I'm, I'm giving you civilian friendly books Okay. That you could read to pass the time on an airplane and not, not a boring textbook. The two examples that come to mind immediately are a book called Triumph of the City by a guy at Harvard called Ed Glazer and another book called New Economic Geography by a guy at Berkeley called Enrico Moretti. They are both lucid explanations of the kinds of forces that we've been talking about. Now both of them are a little less real estate than our discussion has been, but they are about forces that feed into real estate markets.   I mean, someone who's a market participant has to be asking themselves why are people paying the premiums for the downtown? Will they continue to pay the premiums from the downtown? And, and if not, how can I trade on that perce perception? I mean, because there are clearly gonna be places where people who get priced out by Toronto go and those real estate markets are gon are, are, are going to be booms. I mean, I don't think people are gonna go to Vancouver to be cheap, although maybe they will go to Vancouver for warmer winter weather.   A question that I think is, is unsettled as of this moment is, do people who get priced out of Toronto go to someplace close to Toronto like Hamilton? You know, so you can drive in for a Wednesday meeting, but it's cheaper than Toronto is, or do you go somewhere or do you go to someplace like Montreal that is farther but is cheap for a big city? Or do you think about somewhere that's even farther still and, and, and cheaper still like Halifax. I mean the Maritimes are wonderful place a whole lot cheaper than Toronto.   And if a huge amount of your work is Zoom meetings, you know, for some people that location is, is gonna be the more economical place to   Jesse (37m 25s): Be. Yeah, that's, that's interesting. So I've, I've read Ed Glazer's book, I've, I have not read the New Economic Geography. So that definitely put on the reading list for those. Just interested in, in kind of your research will or the Rotman program in general, what, what's the best place to send? And we'll put a link in the show notes.   William (37m 46s): I mean, look, people can email me and I will either respond or not, depending on how many thousands of emails that I get. I mean, for admission to the programs, you know, we are recruiting students every year. I think our, our MBA program is fantastic. We have programs that work at the full-time level and get done faster, but we also have part-time programs that get done that, that work better for professionals. And I actually think there's a, the case for the part-time programs have become stronger in recent years because there's gonna be a lot more times when somebody can meet a professor in office hours on Zoom rather than having to schlep up to the Rotman school af after work.   But, but also we, we have these public events and googling Rotman events. I, I don't know what the le the link would be, but Googling Rotman events is gonna put you in touch with real estate things. But a lot of other things would be useful and we, we try to be good citizens. We're physically close to the center of business in Canada. It's what five subway stops or so to get up here. You know, we want people in the building and now that the building is open, I think people would find it a good use of their time to show up for some of the things that happen here.   I would also give a shout out to the New School of Cities that was formed separately of us at the University of Toronto. This attempts to include the stuff from my world on econ and real estate, but also architects and planning and things like that that also relate to cities. It is the first of its kind in the world, has a fantastic director and I think we'll do very cool things in time.   Jesse (39m 21s): My guest today has been Will Strange, will, thanks for being part of Working Capital.   William (39m 25s): Thank you very much.   Jesse (39m 36s): You so much for listening to Working Capital, the Real Estate podcast. 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