Marcszar's BATs

[ky72x]

It doesn't work , but thanks anyway, Barby.  I found it pretty quickly, even without the link.  Living proof of how handy the category search is on the LEX.

[tag_one]

Looks great
My only concern is the hight of the fences around the basketball court. Especially the once behind the 'goal' (or whatever its called). I've someones misses it the basketball will be thrown off the building. That would be quite an annoying interruption of the game and also no fun for the people on the street
 

[Zaphod]

^^^
I wonder how often that kind of thing happened on purpose?

Anyways, nice job. I can imagine you've been busy, no rush

[dmscopio]

 
very nice details on the roof and the windows! love those textures! keep it up!

[Alfred.Jones]

Thats looking very nice

Love the details in the windows

[tag_one]

Great work Marc 
Especially the windows are very nice 

[jacqulina]

great progress 

[sebes]

Excellent housing projects Marc - cannot wait to have them in my Nieuw Nederland cities 

[Ehanson]

Excellent work as always.

I was waiting for you to show a picture of the X shaped towers. The Maxis ones never really did their real life counterparts any justice, as they were half the tower.

Now I can make Co-op City in the Bronx.

[WillG_75]

Wow- great work Marc, I feel like I'm in Stuyvesant

[rushman5]

Oh wow, those are really superior to the maxis ones!  I especially like the variable base at the bottom of the tower as well as the central elevator roof design

[nova vesfalo]

It's amazing and funy, i just live next to Bedford-Stuyvesant blocks !

[SimFox]

This looks smashing!
It really does! I love the stile and what it represented at the time - believe in new bright future that would be delivered by science and progress any moment now (well any moment then...) There hasn't been such a clear expression of optimism in architecture ever either before or since... I guess this "silliness" is one of the reason the stile had become so despized later when "milk turned sour".

One question though... Looking at the building I'm a bit confused about windows... Are the suppose to be a bit recessed? Or are they lye at the same plane as the "brick" bits between them?

[Ehanson]

Well done Marc.

Absolutely fantastic job with all these BAT's. As for the color of highrise public housing in New York, there's towers with dark red brick, medium brown and even light brown towers like Co-op City.

I'm looking forward to those Bronx rowhouses. I like the authentic color variations. BTW, at first I thought that picture from YouCity was another project of yours.

Keep up the great work.

[toxicpiano]

The Metropolitan Borough of Paddington no longer exists as it was merged with others to create the city (borough) of Westminster in 1965. Looking at the photos (the roof details and sticky out bits) I think it's probably this estate here:
http://i21.photobucket.com/albums/b294/toxicpiano/Picture1-8.jpg
http://i21.photobucket.com/albums/b294/toxicpiano/Picture2-3.jpg
I'm afraid I couldn't tell you the name.


If you're interested in brutalist buildings in London here's a lovely collection of photos:
http://fiveprime.org/hivemind/Tags/1960s,brutalist

[bat]

Fantastic work there on these buildings! 
The larger house blocks looking beautiful, too.

[dmscopio]

fantastic works! those residential buildings looks very east European. thanks for sharing!

[art128]

excellent work marcszar 

[Gwail]

There are / were many NY-familiar BATers and they've made many fabulous NY landmarks. But the Marc's sets significally make the city looks like real Big Apple .

Marc, you will release diagonal versions of X-block, for custom lotting, won't you ?

[b22rian]

hello

Ive down loaded and installed NYC housing projects set 1 from the lex..
Ive tried several of the different zone sizes in 3 different cities of mine of various populations..
the largest city being 1 and a quarter million, but have been unable so far to get a single one of the
zones to grow anything yet.. Pretty much Ive tried all the different zone sizes 5 X 5
10 X 5, 15 X 5 .. ect in different locations.. Im using the cam also...
Im not trying to brag but ive played the game a long time and ive usually been successful at getting something
to grow that ive wanted to see in my cities..

Any help or hints would be most appreciated.. these look very nice ..

Thanks , Brian