peterycristi's Bats

[DebussyMan]

It is the Antigua Cámara de Diputados, a very beautiful building. The new one in San Lázaro hast to be one of the ugliest buildings I've ever seen.

Don't know if you have seen the original plan for the "new" Cámara de diputados. Too bad its construction was halted by the revolution:

[Heblem]

I see the main entrance looks similar like the old Camara de Diputados... 

But today its the "Monumento a la Revolución"

[tcx]

Excellent choice !! And great progress.

thanks for all the nice comments  .

@Heblem: well, you are right and not . It is the antigue Camara de Diputados which is almost not in use anymore.
saludos

Actually the building is in use, right now is: La Asamblea Legislativa del Distrito Federal.
Website: http://www.asambleadf.gob.mx/index2.php?pagina=1

[peterycristi]

thanks for all the comments!

thanks a lot debussyman for that pics of the palacio legislativo! I was looking very long for pictures of the planed building but never found some.

the new camara is really a very ugly building and even the place were they put it...

thanks tcx for the page of the actual use!

the monumento a la revolucion is one of the best examples how political interests are symbolised in the architecture...


saludos

[CabraBuitre]

My Spanish is rusty, and for that matter, vocab wasn't my strong suit...  What's the English equivalent of "camara?"

And what was/is this building's use?  It looks like it would be a governmental building... but I'm not really up on my Mexican history!

[Heblem]

Cámara is like a parliament, also that was the propose of the building as a function of a parliament. There was planned a major structure for it, but due the Mexican Revolution it was never finished (they started to built it but was incomplete, so now is the Monument to the revolution)

[peterycristi]

well, the translation of camara de diputados would be chamber of deputies. The building i'm batting at the moment had this function from 1911 to 1982 and before it was used as a theater. I don't remember exactelly why the chamber moved to this building, because before it was located in the palacio nacional. I think the theater burned down (I'm not sure about that ) and because the chamber in the palacio nacional was too little they moved into the reconstructed building. Anyway the plan was to stay there until the new chamber building (showed by debussy) would be finished. But as mentioned all that plans were stopped by the mexican revolution that lasted finally 10 years.
The architectural history of that time has many paralels with the one in the german empire. As before the revolution, or the first worldwar in germany, the arcitectural style was influenced by historism and art noveau after that political events, that ment the end of a regime (porfiriato in mexico, empire in germany), the prefered arcitecture changed to modernism and art deco.
A great example for this change is the palacio de las bellas artes (palace of fine arts), the opera of mexico city, which exterior is built in art noveau and then the work was stopped during the revolution and the interior was later finished in the art deco style.
Ok, enough history for today 


saludos

[peterycristi]

update:

I changed the roof texture, because the red doesn't fix in my city... anyway this rooftexture will not be the final one, because i think its too broken for a government building.

saludos

P.S.: @Heblem: i'm sorry to disappoint you, but the sculptures are just textures . If one day i can do something like that by using real sculptures please call me master!

[spa]

Impressive owrk. There are some really great details here. I agree with you about the roof texture, it doesn't really work.The stone might be a touch bright too (tough to judge without seeing it in game). The side wooden doors also look awfully tall, especially in comparison to the steps and the palatial front doors. It would take a giant to reach up and grab the handle to open them. This is a really great model and the fact that it sits on a corner makes it even more unique. It just needs a few tweaks to make it even better.

[peterycristi]

Hi folks,

the update for today. I remastered the window sides, because as mentioned by spa the door was a little too tall and I fond another picture of the building which shows, that the window rows are going on until the end of the building.

saludos

[un1]

Looking very nice!  I like the textures you use.

-un1

[peterycristi]

ok, here the final ingame version...

saludos

[rooker1]

  
That looks fantastic.

Robin 

[Orange_o_]

The roof is better 

[Fatsuhono]

Nicely done... The roof junk looks a bit too big though. Compare it to the cars. Yet, still a marvelous BAT.

[DebussyMan]

It turned out great. Love what you did with the roof above the main hall. It that how it is in real life?

[Heblem]

Excelente! 

I like that one, i'll download it when it comes out 

[Pat]

OMG stunning wow!!! Who cares about the roof junk honestly, personally I think it fits just fine with the scale of the building!!!

[peterycristi]

Thanks a lot for all that nice comments . I tried to follow the real building as much as possible. The roof thing I needed to guess by seeing google earth, but I think it's close to the original...

Just I need to check out the LOD and the night light thing and it will be ready for release^^. Maybe for christmas .


saludos

[Pat]

Like I said I think its just perfect in my honest thoughts!!!