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Post by tyler on Jun 19, 2007 0:21:38 GMT -5
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Ebola
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Post by Ebola on Jun 19, 2007 16:33:31 GMT -5
Wow, that's utterly amazing!! I've never seen anyone make anything something that good as their first building. If you wanted to, you could buy a program called Vue and produce renderings that make the building look real. You could also study skyscraper design and structural elements and do your best to integrate them into your design. Sketchup is so accurate that you can do almost anything.
I recently decided to make an exact model of Tower 3 (the building in my sig), but I realized that I don't know its dimensions so I'm having a hard time. I'll have to guess the size of the plot and column dimensions and whatnot.
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Post by Web on Jun 19, 2007 17:43:31 GMT -5
im trying to do it now, its really hard...
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Post by tyler on Jun 19, 2007 20:25:54 GMT -5
Wow, thanks Ebola!
If I weren't a music major, I'd be studying architecture. Who knows, maybe one day I'll get both degrees, lol. It's my personal goal to design my own home. I've only dabbled at tower design. That building I just did was very much in the new Miami style of buildings (Miami is undergoing a huge building boom). It would really look like Miami if the transparent green cladding was white stucco, lol.
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Post by Ebola on Jun 19, 2007 21:04:07 GMT -5
Tell me about it. That boom in Florida is huge. It includes 1,200' twin towers, lots of nice skyscrapers, and my fave: It's called One Bayfront Plaza, I think, and it's over 1,000' tall. It may be the tallest building in Florida. Also, this Miami building's hot: (Note the Freedom Tower in the background.)
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Post by tyler on Jun 20, 2007 0:06:58 GMT -5
^Yes, that second building is for Miami-Dade Community College. I don't think any community college could boast such a revolutionary building like that. I think it's Oppenheim who designed it. I really want One Bayfront Plaza to be built, but it'll take FOREVER!
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Post by Ebola on Jun 20, 2007 14:40:52 GMT -5
I love it so much; it’s totally the best of any building outside of NY (I think 3WTC/Chrysler Building, and ect are on a whole different level ). [rantlet]If the damn NIMBYs don’t kill it first and if the developer has enough money and influence, everything should be fine. Once a skyscraper rises above grade, then it rises really rapidly. Being an architect is being a politic, aka a bullshit artist; you have to know all of these stupid building and real-estate laws, air rights, transfer rights, all that utter bullshit; you have to know how to manipulate people. You can’t build past 147.458 feet here; you can’t build past 2,000 feet on US soil! I fucking hate it all! That’s the main reason why I don’t want to be an architect. No city in the world has as much of this BS as NYC, yet, somehow, NY has the most skyscrapers in the world. It’s always so ironic. In fact, there’s even a stupid law in NYC that sez the core of a skyscraper cannot rise above the steel during construction; what’s the fucking point?!!? Do you know what’s going to happen when 130 Liberty Street (the plot of Tower 5) is fully deconstructed (when they dig out the basement, creating a hole in the ground, perfect for a new skyscraper to be built)? They’re going to fill the hole with dirt again! Utterly fucking pointless!!![/rantlet]
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Post by {joy the hideous new girl} on Jun 20, 2007 20:42:35 GMT -5
dude, I've been to Miami, the architecture there is AMAZING.
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Post by tyler on Jun 20, 2007 21:14:48 GMT -5
^Cool, Joy! I don't know if I'd enjoy living there, but it's so much fun to stay there for short periods of time. The biggest problem with Miami is the FAA height limits. West Palm Beach doesn't have any height restrictions, but then again, West Palm Beach's market for dense construction is nowhere near as ripe as Miami's. Speaking of big architecture, I've been fortunate enough to visit Cesar Pelli's amazing (and over-budget) Carnival Center for the Performing Arts. It was stunning!
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Post by Swoosh on Jun 20, 2007 21:21:17 GMT -5
dude, I've been to Miami, the architecture there is AMAZING. </useless comment> Yeah, I absolutely love the architecture in any big city. Heck, even that weird clock/temperature thing in Greensboro is kinda pretty...
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Post by Ebola on Jun 20, 2007 21:24:08 GMT -5
Woah, I hope Cesar Pelli is picked to design the World Trade Center Performing Arts Center (6WTC). Libeskind=tOoN t0WN1!11!!! Looks like something from a nightmare. Pelli made the Bloomberg Tower too, named after NYC's mayor: *drools* 8/10 ... Random: Ever get the feeling that China is hogging all the good architecture. We should nuke 'em.
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Post by {joy the hideous new girl} on Jun 21, 2007 9:54:23 GMT -5
*drools also* yeah, I don't think I ever saw something as cool as those, though... I'm not an architecture geek by any means, but some of that stuff is absolutely amazing. Yeah, I absolutely love the architecture in any big city. Heck, even that weird clock/temperature thing in Greensboro is kinda pretty... Jefferson Tower? I think it's cool because you can see it from really far away... but the actual design is boring...
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Post by maria on Jun 21, 2007 10:26:43 GMT -5
Okay, whoever gave Joy an opportunity to use one of her weird pictures needs to think twice before they poopoo it next time... Well I think that Jefferson tower is kinda boring too. When I was little I used to LOVE it so much and I felt like I was in a big city when we passed by... but now it's just... pathetic
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Post by Ebola on Jun 21, 2007 13:41:52 GMT -5
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Post by Swoosh on Jun 21, 2007 20:32:16 GMT -5
There's not 1 building in Greensboro I'd consider to be tall. Agreed. It's not a "big city" by any means - their downtown is about 5 blocks by 10 blocks...
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