They Built a New City in Guatemala And It's STUNNING

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👉 In this video, we discover the newly built city of Cayalá, in Guatemala. This project by Léon Krier and Estudio Urbano redefines how we can build cities, by showing how putting the community central in the urban design works to connect people from all walks of life, and how building beauty is still possible in this day and age. Not only that, it shows how this model can be both profitable for developers and still add value to society. They Built a New City in Guatemala And It's STUNNING | The Aesthetic City | Architecture

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🙏 Special thanks to:

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Léon Krier

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[CC.RY]

Projects like this give me a lot of hope for the future of cities. Really hope this catches on in the rest of the world and more people realize the infinite benefits of building with people and culture in mind instead of just cars and money.

[TimSlee]

Our miserable world needs more architects like this couple.

[stefanbajic]

I`m from Serbia and this project is so amazing and wonderful. In our country, we build a lot of new churches, which looks like they are from different period of medieval architecture, especially the byzantine style. Some of them are very gorgeous and if you saw it for the first time, you would not even notice they were built 2 or 3 years ago. Most famous church architect is Predrag Ristic and his works are really magical. Greetings!!!

[FilonPotocki]

It's awesome seeing a small country like Guatemala being a pioneer in making our cities pleasant 🇵🇱♥️🇬🇹

[miguela.]

Guatemalan here, not only the success of Cayalá has been evident in itself, but other big developers are now starting to build other similar urban projects in different parts of the city. While at the beginning it was perceived purely as an "open mall", now people do, as the video says, use it as a city centre of sorts. While a portion of the population here still criticize it as a symbol of privilege and inequality because of the luxury real state and expensive businesses, you don't have to live there or have an office there, you can just go and hang around for a while, go watch a movie or just walk. The crime and bad state of the city took the opportunity for many people of actually using the city to go for a walk for example. Cayalá gives the people that opportunity again.

Also, since I'm an architecture student, I have heard all kinds of critiques about the architectural style, saying it's a pastiche and it doesn't hold any architectural value. Personally, while I agree that it's a simplistic blending of many architectural styles that don't necessarily represent Guatemala, I do believe new classicism has the advantage of never going out of style, while more modern approaches will look outdated in 20-30 years. In the end, the only people that care are us architects 😂 regular people just look at it and think it's nice, and want to come back there.

[meowbhai]

Being rich doesn't automatically translate into beautiful. You have to have class and elegance.

[geodavras]

As a Mexican I am extremely proud of the wonderful countries we have as neighbors. Viva Guatemala

[luismiguelpinedacarias]

I am guatemalan, and everyone loves Cayala. All importants events such as concerts are now taking place at Explanada Cardales de Cayala, and no longer in the stadiums in the City, everyone loves Cayala, and we wish we have more places such Cayala in the rest of the City but our authorities struggle and this was done thanks to those guys that reach that architect, he's a genius.

[ayrton]

So happy for those architects. Designing buildings like these are the reason why people want to become an architect. Sadly ver few get to do this.

[ponysoldier]

Im not guatemalan but im hispanic and I love this idea soo much! I wish this happened more often & in other coutries. I love this channel👍

[jackwalters]

I always find it funny when people criticize communities like this as bad because they are too expensive. The reason they are too expensive is because everyone wants to live there and so those who can pay more will. The solution to this problem isn't to not build beautiful cities, it's to build more more beautiful cities so that prices will go down.

Personally, I think it's worse to force lower income(and in many cases middle income) people to live in ugly, run down, disgusting places

[AlexanderAnco]

Es una maravilla, paredes blancas, techos de tejas, balcones de madera, estilo español que tanto me gusta y que se puede encontrar en todas partes de nuestro continente, desde Argentina hasta gringolandia. Geniales los detalles mayas y griegos, esto es arquitectura de calidad. Muchos saludos y felicitaciones y parabienes desde el Perú.

[italodoesstuff]

As a Brazilian I am happy those sorts of amazing projects are starting to make their way to latin America, I never expected this to leave Europe.

[rolfathan]

Honestly, I hope the world can learn from this. It's stunning. It's a place I actually WANT TO BE.

[CarlosCaps]

As an architect in the states, what bothers me is this will never happen here so long as our highly restrictive building code dictates everything. I fully understand the need for a strict building code but they don’t have no where near the same restrictions we have here in the states. Beautiful area and I hope to visit some day!

[charliervr]

Cayalá is definitely a step in the right direction for Guatemala. I'm from El Salvador and people travel there every week almost exclusively to Cayalá; people travel there because it's a safe, beautiful space. Great video, you should also dig in the history of Zona 4, which was an area close to downtown Guatemala that has been "rescued" with a lot of smaller, more affordable but still beautiful living spaces.

[ayrton]

Architecture is slowely going trough a new renaissance. Everywhere there are projects that try to respect the classical style in at least a minimal way. This is the best I have seen so far.

[dereckdr]

I'm from Guatemala, and I live 5-10 minutes from Cayala, and I never really thought much about the place. The point in your video where you said that the place feels like its always been there, is very true, I never really payed much attention to the environment and the detail of the buildings; to those of us living around the area, its just a place, a place of commerce to hangout, it doesn't feel like anything special, because its something we've become acustomed to. This video has made me appreciate it more, I never really knew the backstory of how the place came to be, and I'm very impressed that it ever got to the stage its currently in. However, I feel like in this video you could have talked more about the impact the city has had around the area surrounding it. When my parents bought our house, the area was kinda desolate, a bunch of trees and houses. When a supermarket was built nearby, it was seen like the pinicle of human achievement, but move forward a couple of years, and BOOM, malls are being built left and right, new highways are always under construction and land prices are skyrocketing to ridiculous levels. The price of a house has gone up 5 times since the city was built. Its really impressive, altough I will say one final thing, driving around that area, is a pain in the ass, theres always something going on, from obstructions from construction to just random traffic jams, that area is always full of cars and people.

[benjaminfrank]

People are starting to understand everywhere that beauty and order is better than chaos.

[monethismoemoo]

This kind of urban planning is what's needed today. It's for a slow paced, allowing people to look around and enjoy the scenery. Like what in video stated, cars are not really allowed inside the city and thus making people walk. It's open enough where people can meet and talk and slow down. People centered urban planning like this is just awesome. I hope more follow.