The (Quiet) Collapse of the World's Biggest Apartment Building
Long-form11:54Education16.6× channel median
Published Oct 7, 2026, 2:30 PM · 1w ago
MegaBuilds
120K subscribers · median 66.4K views
Stock footage · confirmed$Likely
Views
1,105,963
+431 views/hour
Likes
7.3K
0.7% of views
Comments
509
0.05% of views
Checked every 12 h while the video is this age · last check 23h ago · next in 0 min. YouTube itself updates public counts with a short delay.
Views / hour now
431
measured 23h ago
Peak views / hour
523
1d ago
Avg views / day
114K
since upload
First 24 hours
—
not tracked from upload
vs channel median
16.6×
Rank in channel
#1
of 21 tracked
Engagement
0.7%
likes + comments / views
Est. ad revenue
$11,060–$26,543
lifetime, $10–24 RPM
Views over time
2 readings · line: total views · bars: views gained per hour
Description
Nearly 20,000 people once lived inside a single building in China. Today, more than half are gone — and it wasn't fire, flood, or anything that touched the concrete. This is how the largest apartment building on Earth quietly started to empty.
Tags
regent internationalregent international hangzhoulargest apartment buildingcity in one buildingvertical city chinahangzhouqianjiang century citychina megabuildingregent international center丽晶国际largest residential buildingdystopian apartment chinamegabuildsinfrastructure documentaryengineering documentaryhow it workschina vs americawhy america can't build thisone building citychina megaprojectvertical citychina dystopia
Details
- Published
- Oct 7, 2026, 2:30 PM
- Length
- 11:54 (714 s)
- Format
- Long-form
- Category
- Education
- Audio language
- EN
- Quality
- HD
- Captions
- No
- Made for kids
- No
- Licensed content
- Yes
- Video ID
- -OIh6jXtvKY
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