The Fight to Build London’s Vegas Sphere

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0:00 Getting The Ball Rolling
1:03 The Las Vegas Sphere
3:09 Coming to London
3:40 Surfshark
4:30 The London Sphere
9:23 Outro

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[heeeeeeeey]

They should build two identical spheres next to the Shard and call it the London balls

[blubfishuwaaa]

Update: The Mayor of London rejected the proposal to built this sphere only a few hours after this video was published

[Light-Rock]

The Vegas sphere is cool because it's a gaudy structure in a town that's made out of gaudy structures in the middle of the desert. I'd be pissed as a Londoner if there was a sphere there as shown in this thumbnail. If that things starts popping up in more cities it'll be like holographic advertising in the sky, really disruptive and disturbing.

[darkwoodmovies]

IMHO, the Sphere is perfect for Vegas. It's over-the-top, eye-catching, modern, and excessive beyond reason. It doesn't really work in a traditional city, at least the outside part. For a city like London, I would prefer something more "classy" and elegant, not so gimmicky and flashy.

[louisspilsbury]

I would think it's every person's right to not have to shut light out of their window for 17 hours of the day to avoid seeing advertisements, this is abhorrent.

[mikerichards]

It’s being reported today (20/11) that the Mayor of London has rejected the proposal on the grounds it would have an adverse effect on nearby residents.

[MrTVintro]

Crazy idea, you don't HAVE to make the outside a giant billboard.

[MABfan]

Dubai is probably the only place that is fit for another sphere. and given it's Dubai, they'll likely make it twice as big as the one in Las Vegas

[Alex-cwrz]

I feel like if anywhere in the UK should have a sphere like that it should be Blackpool.

[dmntwentyfive]

The initial planning permission came about because it’s in the Olympic development zone. Not a single local councillor voted to approve the ball. They were outnumbered by unelected members.

[CommaV]

It can ONLY work in Vegas. I really don't know how anyone can imagine it otherwise. If they go through with it in London, it'll probably be vandalized

[loCol]

Ehhh as a Vegas local and someone who actually visited London for my first time this past summer. I’d say it would be a bad move. I think Vegas might be the only town that could pull it off. Stuff like that is our legit culture here in Vegas. We love it. We’re Gaudy, over the top, and we put on the best performances in the world.
While London is one of the oldest metropolitans in the world with just a boatload of so much history, and wonderful stories and old architecture. I feel like it should lean into that. At least that’s the parts, as a tourist, I enjoyed the most.

[mark]

Spend half the money and just do the inside.
Arguably that's the more impressive part.

[sos]

Update: The Mayor of London said he will not give permission to build this thing.

[ohheyitskevinc]

Probably the worst idea ever envisioned for London. Not sure the CAA would give it the go ahead either given its proximity to LCY.

[dmntwentyfive]

This is such a monstrous idea. It’s almost literally inhumane to build a bright animate giant advertising board, bigger than St Paul’s, in front of someone’s home. They got greedy.

[DavidGreen]

I live in Stratford a 5 minute walk from (and within eyeline of) the proposed site. I'm as YIMBY as they come and this is literally my back yard but I really don't think it's suitable for the area. Apart from the livability reasons in the video, the station is the 5th busiest in the whole country with very little room to expand for more capacity and there's very little space around the site to have a construction site without disrupting the very busy railways which includes basically every train to and from Essex. The station is already unusable when the London stadium (used for the Olympics) is in use, and there's no extra capacity for parking either.

[fdapro]

As a Las Vegas resident, I can tell you it is visually amazing and often overwhelming. That being said, they lost over a billion on the construction and it will take years to break even. The fact that only one band has played it tells you all you need to know. Good for you London.

[vwings]

I live in the Olympic park which is adjacent to this place. None of the people in the neighbourhood wants this. Also, as the video rightly points out, this is planned to be constructed extremely close to private residential properties and I'm pretty sure that the light pollution that this dome will bring in will cause issues with the people living here.

This will also be an eyesore for people who wants to enjoy the Queen Elizabeth park as the proposed plans shows that this structure will be visible from the park.

Not to mention that (if it does get constructed) the additional foot traffic that this venue will generate will cause havoc if an event coincides with a game at London Stadium.

[hydralance]

We have also have sphere in Stockholm, Sweden. The Globe/Avichii arean as its called now is just much older and doesnt have LED lights all around it. It was the biggest sphere chaped building from 1989 to 2023 when The Sphere was finished.