00:00If you search for exceptional housing at Paris, why not envisage an apartment located directly in the tour Eiffel?
00:07When he conceived his emblem chef-d'oeuvre, Gustave Eiffel took care of having a private apartment at his summit.
00:14With a square of 100 square meters, this space is particularly vast, especially for a city like Paris,
00:20where the apartments are often 10 times less space.
00:23This apartment had an atelier, a living room, a dining room, a kitchen, a bathroom, and even a piano.
00:31But he didn't have a room to bed, which makes no sense that no one ever had ever been in
00:36the night.
00:37Today, no one has been here, besides the characters representing Eiffel and Thomas Edison.
00:43At the time, members of the scientific community, as well as other prestigious guests,
00:48have the privilege of visiting this place. Edison has made part of its rare elected.
00:53From the other side of the Atlantic, the Public Bibliotheque of New York also has a secret apartment
00:58destined once again to its own personal.
01:00Its apartments were common in the buildings of the Bibliotheque,
01:04divided across the city, but today, there are only 13 on the 30 original.
01:09During many years, a director lived in the Bibliotheque of the 42nd Rue,
01:13where his daughter is even born.
01:14The size of the apartments variaient, some including up to 8 pieces.
01:19In 2006, the last resident resident took his retirement.
01:24And these spaces are now used to be used to other forms administrative or logistics.
01:29Even though it is known as the highest building of the world, culminant at 828 m,
01:33the Burj Khalifa is in reality an ensemble of structures interconnected.
01:37His plan, in form of Hick, viewed above, is the silhouette of a lice-araigny.
01:42Grâce to a concept of great flexibility, the building can be slightly plied
01:47to the effect of powerful wind winds, or even during storms,
01:50thus, guaranteeing its security and stability.
01:52The Burj Khalifa includes more than 24 000 windows,
01:55whose storage needs a team of 36 people working for around 3 months.
02:00Under the building of the Capitol, Washington, D.C.,
02:04is a crypt that travels daily visitors.
02:07The first architect of this monumental monument
02:09had initially imagined this space as a large vestibule,
02:13a vast hall of entrance.
02:15A few years later, the plans have evolved,
02:17and the building was destined to become the place
02:20of George Washington and his wife, Martha.
02:23She had given its agreement,
02:25which led the architects to modify the plans
02:28to integrate a tombow under the famous Rotonde.
02:30They had also proposed to be a statue of Washington at the summit,
02:34with a three meters in the ceiling
02:36to allow visitors to admire his tombow from the Rotonde.
02:40However, the Congress did not succeed
02:42on the details of this memorial,
02:45leaving the tombow in occupied.
02:46A few years later,
02:48the workers have sealed the opening to the floor,
02:50initially designed to clear the tombow,
02:52because they left the air cold in the Rotonde.
02:55At a time,
02:56the crypt has even used to parking for bicycle.
02:59In our days,
03:00it is a statue representing the illustrious figures
03:02of the 13 colonies of origin,
03:04but George Washington and his wife
03:06are not here.
03:07They are in reality at Moonvernon.
03:09On the place Saint-Pierre,
03:11the Vatican,
03:11a solar panel and a discrete calendar
03:13have been integrated.
03:15The 25 meters
03:17works like a huge gnomon,
03:19project its number to indicate the time
03:22and mark the events specific events
03:24such as the solstice.
03:26When the sun reaches the zenith,
03:28known as the midi solar,
03:30the light of the obelisk
03:31falls precisely on a stone line
03:33in the ground.
03:35When the solstice of the summer,
03:36the 21st of December,
03:38the light reaches its point the most far away,
03:40while the solstice of the summer,
03:42the 21st of June,
03:43it is significantly shorter.
03:44Five other special features
03:46mark the moments
03:47where the sun enters
03:48in different signs of the zodiac.
03:50A fine line of granite
03:52extends from the obelisk
03:53to the Pope's window
03:54indicating precisely the time of the midi.
03:57The city of Brighton
03:58is located on a vast network of
04:00western tunnels,
04:01including the victorians
04:02and a dissimulatory route.
04:04A legend says that these tunnels
04:05were built under the Royal Pavilion
04:07to allow the king George IV
04:09to take secret rendezvous.
04:11However, the historians
04:13refuten this theory,
04:14affirming that the king
04:15used them
04:16to be able to move
04:18between the pavilion
04:19and the curies
04:20without being seen.
04:21With more than 150 years
04:23of existence,
04:24the 50 km of the tunnel
04:25of Brighton
04:26are partially accessible
04:27during visits guidées.
04:29However,
04:30some sections remain operational.
04:32One serves
04:32as a discharge
04:33for the heavy rain
04:34while the other
04:36takes a stand of shooting.
04:37The stairs
04:38are located
04:39inside the tower bridge
04:40figured out
04:41one of the most fascinating spaces
04:43of London.
04:44These vastes salles
04:45measured 27 mètres
04:47of high
04:47have been built
04:48as a functional zone
04:49to allow
04:50to move
04:52to open the bridge
04:53to open the bridge.
04:54They represent
04:55the final phase
04:56of the construction
04:56of the tower bridge.
04:58With a little chance,
04:59you can visit these rooms
05:00during an exclusive tour
05:02of the bridges
05:02of the bridge.
05:03You should descend
05:04115 marches
05:05below the water
05:06to reach this cold
05:07and humid space
05:08where the ground
05:09of the mechanisms
05:10resonate above you.
05:12Sometimes,
05:13the concerts
05:13are organized
05:14and the acoustics
05:15are absolutely remarkable.
05:17At the beginning
05:18of the 1930s,
05:19New York
05:19had met a real competition
05:21to build the highest
05:22level.
05:23Once the 40 Wall Street
05:24achieved,
05:25it won the highest
05:26title of the highest building.
05:28However,
05:29the architect
05:29of the Chrysler Building
05:30had installed
05:31a flag at its summit
05:32taking the first place.
05:34This flag
05:35had been deliberately
05:36prepared
05:36and already waiting
05:37at the top of the building.
05:39The workers
05:39had to take care
05:40every section
05:41of the bridge
05:42to assemble
05:43at the summit.
05:44Four millions
05:45of bricks
05:45put in hand
05:46were needed
05:47to finish the building.
05:49The architecture
05:49includes also elements
05:51from the Chrysler's automobile empire
05:53such as
05:53the enjoliveurs,
05:54the ailes
05:55and the radiators
05:56at the summit
05:57was a private apartment
05:58and a office
06:00for the founder
06:00of the Chrysler Corporation
06:02who wanted to be
06:03ashamed of
06:03to have the most high toilets
06:05in Manhattan.
06:06A real source of pride
06:07for him.
06:08The Capitol Records Building
06:09in Los Angeles
06:10emit messages secrets
06:12since its inauguration.
06:13To understand
06:14you,
06:14you have to control
06:15the code Morse.
06:16The message in question
06:17is Hollywood.
06:18This luminous signal
06:19is spread
06:20since 1956
06:21even if it was slightly
06:23modified
06:24several times.
06:25In 1992
06:27to mark the 50th anniversary
06:28of Capitol Records
06:30the message luminous
06:31was displayed
06:32Capitol 50.
06:33Then,
06:34before the release
06:35of Katy Perry's album
06:36in 2013
06:37it was modified
06:38to indicate
06:39but few people
06:40noticed this change.
06:42Another interesting detail
06:43this building
06:44is the very first
06:45building in the world
06:46in the world.
06:47The producer
06:48Samuel Lionel Roxy
06:49Rotafel
06:50a imagined a secret
06:52apartment
06:52inside the Radio City
06:53Music Hall
06:54in New York.
06:55Now known
06:56by the name of Roxy
06:57this space
06:58decorated in the style
06:59Art Deco
07:00dispose de plafond
07:01de 6 mètres
07:02ornés de feuilles
07:03d'or et de murs
07:04agrémentés de riches
07:05tentures allant du sol
07:06au plafond.
07:07Parmi les invités célèbres
07:08de cet appartement
07:09figurent Judy Garland,
07:11Walt Disney
07:12et Samuel Goldwyn.
07:14Aujourd'hui,
07:15la suite n'est ouverte
07:16que lors d'occasion
07:17spéciale
07:17et a conservé son
07:19apparence originale
07:20de 1936.
07:22Il est possible
07:23de la louer
07:23pour un événement privé
07:24mais les tarifs
07:25sont réputés exorbitants.
07:27La gare de Grand Central
07:28à New York propose
07:29une activité cachée
07:30surprenante
07:31pour les voyageurs.
07:32Un espace secret
07:33appelé l'annexe,
07:34autrefois un studio
07:35d'enregistrement,
07:37abrite désormais
07:37des cours de tennis
07:38connus sous le nom
07:39de Vanderbilt Tennis Club.
07:41Les visiteurs
07:42peuvent y accéder
07:42et y jouer au tennis.
07:44Le bâtiment
07:45de la Cour suprême
07:46des Etats-Unis
07:46à Washington D.C.
07:48dispose d'une salle
07:49de sport secrète.
07:51Greffiers,
07:52policiers hors service
07:53et autres employés
07:54peuvent y jouer
07:55au basketball.
07:55Cette cour,
07:57pardon ce cour de basket,
07:58située au cinquième étage
08:00est surnommée
08:01The Highest Court
08:02in the Land,
08:03la cour la plus haute
08:04du pays.
08:05Un panneau humoristique
08:06indique à proximité
08:07le basketball
08:08et l'haltérophilie
08:09sont interdits
08:10pendant les audiences
08:11du tribunal.
08:12Bien sûr,
08:13personne ne voudrait
08:14voir les juges
08:14abandonner leurs travaux
08:15pour une partie de horse.
08:17Mais ce serait
08:18sans doute divertissant.
08:19C'est parti.
08:19C'est parti.
08:19C'est parti.
08:19C'est parti.
08:19C'est parti.
08:19C'est parti.
08:19C'est parti.
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