Zero7 - BAT studio

[delija21]

Nice industrial, i really like the shape of it. The only thing is that all your buildings look new, very clean. Try adding some dirt to them

[FrankU]

Hi Zero 7,

If you like to make a real building as an exhibition centre next to the Seagram, I advise you to take a look at the Neue Nationalgalerie in Berlin. It's a design by Ludwig Mies van der Rohe, just like the Seagram and its familiarity in material, construction and colour needs no more comments.

http://www.smb.museum/smb/standorte/index.php?lang=de&p=2&objID=31&n=14
This is the site of the museum.

Another image of it:
http://www.freunde-der-nationalgalerie.de/de/nationalgalerie/neue-nationalgalerie.html

Maybe I'll dig up some pictures of the building itself.

[ObladiOblada]

Praiodan is actually working on the Neue Nationalgalerie, you can see his progress here: http://sc4devotion.com/forums/index.php?topic=92.60

Maybe the Crown Hall by Mies van der Rohe could be an inspiration for your current project, too.

[zero7]

delija21 - The curved roof is pretty clean on my source building, but the flat roof has water stains and I've adjusted the blend on my texture add some.

FrankU - I'm aware of the Neue Nationalgalerie and also the Dominion Center in Toronto (actually I'm aware of quite a lot of Mies van der Rohe buildings), but I'm deliberately keeping away from copying too many elements from specific buildings.  I'm aiming for something that makes you think of MvdR without being one of his buildings.

ObladiOblada - Nice to see someone is making Neue Nationalgalerie.  As I said to FrankU, I'm trying to make something that is MvdR style, but I don't want to get too close to any one building.

[SuperTimo]

Supertimo - Glad you like the w2w  tube station.  I hope I'll be seeing it in South Kent.

[zero7]

And that looks like an Ill Tonkso building to the left of mine.  Only a matter of time until Pozzessed becomes a Brit MD essential too.

[SuperTimo]

It looks like a Tonkso building but it's actually by Glenni http://www.simtropolis.com/stex/details.cfm?id=20772

[zero7]

Wow!  That is so much in Ill Tonkso's style ... I would never have guessed that was a Glenni model.

[zero7]

A couple of ingame previews - I'm still working on the lot and will need to slightly scale up the truck props.  In particular I've got to figure out what to put along the front edge of the lot where the grass is. 

Day:



Night:

[wallasey]

Great building! reminds me a little of the Cadbury's Factory in Moreton on the Wirral (Near to where I live)

Link to Geograph

[c1bmmonom]

Better day and day zero7, ansious to download your build!! you know me i'm fabricio83tst lost the pass!!!hehehe!!!

[zero7]

wallasey - I like the cadbury's factory.  The roof design is brilliant - I will definitely be stealing that!  I don't know what some of the Americans will make of it though given the reaction I got to a basic curved roof on my current factory. I think you've also solved my 'what to do with the grass area' problem - a low brick wall is definitely the way to go.

fabricio - The walls I mentioned in wallasey's reply will need to be modelled, but I think I'll release by the weekend.


Nothing to show on the factory today (though I have resized the trucks).  Instead here's a little progress on what I may be calling Zerohe Pavillion.

[callagrafx]

Texture's way too dark... but then you knew that anyway 

[zero7]

That's the least of my problems at the moment.  I'm not happy with the arrangement of glass and panels between the I-beams and although I like the pale green panels, if I add a strip all the way round at the height they are now the building will start looking more like a low-rise office building than an exhibition hall.

Still, that's the task I set myself.  Just copying a real building would have been simple   

[zero7]

Following my last post I ripped out all the panels between the I-beams and had a think about what the interior space might look like.  That helped a lot - form following function and all that ...

So here's the reworked version of Zerohe Pavillion:



The next challenge is the windows and doors in large gaps on each side of the building.  But I'm much happier with the design now.

[zero7]

Man does not live by modernism alone ...



Preview in HD of a 1x2 w2w building - 19th Century, Liverpool.  There's some overlapping geometry turning the tops of the bays on the front of the building black - something to fix!

[zero7]

A quick update on progress of Oriel Chambers ...



At zoom 5.   Still a lot of detailing work to do - those Victorians did love a bit of ornamentation!

[alj]

Lovely building.

[c1bmmonom]

beautifull building too(oh it's zero7 thing, have you forget??[saying to myself]) but i like more when you do modern buildings like caltech, vuiton boutique, ginza!!! When will you return to modern architecture???

[zero7]

alj - Glad you think it's a lovely building.  It's also a very significant building in the history of architecture.

fabricio - Things are moving slowly at the moment as I'm also experimenting with some other 3D software called Vue.  The Zerohe Pavillion is still being worked on, so I certainly haven't abandoned modern architecture and I've also just started a new office building which will probably get it's first preview later in the week - so no need to worry that I'm going to leave modernism and start BATting gothic cathedrals or something!