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About This File
Portland's first column-free workspaces and first underground garage innovate this otherwise classic, boxy Skidmore, Owings, and Merrill design. An infusion of landscaping and art make this building a surefire classic.
Completed in 1963, Standard Insurance outgrew Standard Plaza by the 1980's. At this time, Georgia Pacific vacated its Portland HQ building, which Standard Insurance bought and renamed as the "Standard Insurance Center" (Click here for JtPortland's BAT of that building), resulting in some confusion. Currently, both buildings share HQ duties for The Standard.
The entire building is supported by the external frame and elevator core. Atop the building, a beacon indicates the status of the weather. Green lights mean a stable pattern, red lights show a warming trend, and flashing green lights mean that it is raining. Enough can be said about Oregon weather in the fact that the flashing green lights are often seen atop Standard Plaza.
Public art is abundant in the area around the building. Visitors and art students often use the escalators on the Fifth Avenue entry to catch a better view of the Portland Building's Portlandia statue.
Extra BATer's commentary: Sparky's first attempt at below-ground, open-aired areas.
Installation Instructions:
Unzip and run the installer program. Files will unzip to C:/...my documents/SimCity 4/Plugins/Sparkythepenguin/Standard Plaza/
(you may change the destination if you wish). You may then go through and remove undesired versions.
Stats:
Lot: 4x4 (full sunken plaza lots), 3x3 (tower-only lots)
The growable lots should grow only as stage 7 Houston tiles.
CO lot jobs: 900 CO$$
Contents:
* Read-me & associated photos
* Standard Plaza Installer files:
full sunken plaza lots:
* CO$$ Growable
* CO$$ Plopable
* Static Landmark
Tower-only lots:
* CO$$ Growable
* CO$$ Plopable
* Static Landmark
dependencies:
None!
Bugs/glitches/annoyances:
Some lighting and shadow issues on the full sunken plaza versions.
Part of Around the Roses: The Portland and Oregon BAT Project.
Latest page at time of uploading | Front Page/BAT list
Proudly bringing you the best of the City of Roses and The Beaver State since 2002! Please report any problems with this file to our thread or
PM sparkythepenguin here at Simtropolis.
Enjoy!
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