Show us your Downtown!

[SharkSark 397]

A new CBD of mine

THIS IS ONE OF THE BEST CBD i have ever seen !!!!!!!!

 

 

Do you plop those or just let it grow?

[weixc812 509]

 

A new CBD of mine

THIS IS ONE OF THE BEST CBD i have ever seen !!!!!!!!

 

 

Do you plop those or just let it grow?

 

 

Thanks for the comment, my friend. All the buildings in the picture are plopped

 

[Lost Realist 762]

 

 

A new CBD of mine

THIS IS ONE OF THE BEST CBD i have ever seen !!!!!!!!

 

 

Thanks for the comment, my friend. All the buildings in the picture are plopped

 

 

 

Just took a look at your thread on SimCityChina, it's amazing. You are extremely talented and I love your little details and the perfect scenes, it's all very inspiring.

[47ply 1,100]

I agree with lost your stuff looks great.. and Lost great to see ya back

[Infrastructurist 434]

Mastodon Downtown as of now. Will most likely grow alot when i create cities in the surrounding tiles. 

No plopping, but some work with the demolish tool. Wont delete too much before it has grown some more :- ) Suburbs in the suburb thread.

 

BTW i switched to RHW, tricky to use compared to maxis   

 

 

Uptown;

[9gruntsand1hammer 3,198]

Echo Bay's tallest office building and showing huge parking lots for Echo Bay Central Station.

 

Downtown Echo Bay.

 

[ElMoro1 9]

@weixc812 Where did you get those diagonal seawall/waterfront?

[henrys1996 127]

This is Downtown Redmund, a city I've been working on about 50-60 miles from my main development, Kensington, and is currently my largest city with a population now nearing 290,000 people. This is a picture of the Grand Avenue corridor which is in the eastern part of the city. This is just a teaser (I'll give a full picture of my downtown when I'm satisfied with it).

 

 

On a (semi) related note, here's another picture of Riverside, a downtown "suburb" in Redmund, which of course, is very exclusive, and like the CBD, is also still a WIP. Hope you all enjoy!

 

[weixc812 509]

@weixc812 Where did you get those diagonal seawall/waterfront?

It's JRJ's seawalls:

https://www.sc4devotion.com/csxlex/lex_filedesc.php?lotGET=114

[clhigh7 583]

Here is some close ups of an older section of a CBD I've been working on. I was trying to make an area of downtown that was kind of touristy and not completely corporate.

 

 

 

 

 

[henrys1996 127]

More pics of my terrible skyscraper jungle, Downtown Redmund, a city with a population soon to reach 450,000 in the next few game years. In the council are plans to have a waterfront park, planned to be built within the next year. Also, here are some more pictures of Riverside.

 

Downtown (daytime shots):

Downtown (night shot):

 

More Riverside pics:

[clhigh7 583]

Nice use of OWR-4

 

Here's the more modern section of Downtown Charlet.

 

[KonstantinII 1,106]

You know what? I think I like it.

[__A 792]

Here are a few shots of the Vineil City Centre from my latest update:

 

 

 

 

[NielsC007 499]

Here are a few shots of the Vineil City Centre from my latest update:

 

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Always nice to see some GLR, nice work.

[Mpir 4]

Hi, i'm looking at what people do here on simtropolis since a long time but i've never posted anything of my own. So here's a night shot of a small part of an older part of one of my downtown:

 

 

Since i dont use the D&N mod, i have modified  the luminosity and contrast of the screen to make it look darker and more natural.

Hope you like it!

 

 

Nice use of OWR-4

 

Here's the more modern section of Downtown Charlet.

 

 

Very nice! What's the building over the avenue in the middle?

[MushyMushy 3,618]

Hi, i'm looking at what people do here on simtropolis since a long time but i've never posted anything of my own. So here's a night shot of a small part of an older part of one of my downtown:

 

-snip-

 

Since i dont use the D&N mod, i have modified  the luminosity and contrast of the screen to make it look darker and more natural.

Hope you like it!

 

The photo-editing you did there was pretty great. And nice use of Red's train station.

[dogma555 187]

 

 

about 90% grown naturally /10% plopped (mostly the largest of downtown skyscrapers)

[AnthonyRM1 10]

 
This is my huge region of Brindola that I've been working on for as many years as I can remember. It's still only using about 30% of available tiles, its a work in progress. I've pieced together two bits of downtown from separate tiles to demonstrate the overall downtown structure, and you can see how it fits into the entire region- a large downtown, several satellite cities (and another separate city called Scottsdale in the bottom left of the region), plus its large multi-runway airport. 
 
It'll take many more years I expect to fill with suburbs, farms, satellite commuter towns and beach cities etc, but you get the idea for now...
 
PS population of the region at present is 7million

[Paulobergonci 673]

This is Ciudad de Atacama's downtown, it's a main low res and com, just a few skyscrapers, due to earthquakes.

Plaza Independencia in the middle.

 

[raynev1 1,886]

You all are SC4 artist . great work everybody .

[henrys1996 127]

Nice use of OWR-4

 

Here's the more modern section of Downtown Charlet.

 

Thanks! I feel that NWM is a requirement to build a realistic big-city CBD (in terms of transportation, of course). I thought about using OWR-5, but you can only end it at an AVE-6, TLA-7, or RD-6 for it to make sense. On another note, I think we can all agree that your CBD looks fantastic! Lots of nice, open space with nice looking skyscrapers, 15/10! P.S. I love that you use NRD-4, it looks so realistic in a CBD, IMO (also, if you're having traffic problems on the RD-6, upgrade it to AVE-6; they look pretty nice if you add the high-wealth median mod)

[AnthonyRM1 10]

More of Downtown Brindola. It's a W2W paradise, densely packed but still with obvious commercial districts featuring gleaming skyscrapers

 

The downtown area also has the obligatory Chinatown

 

Hope you like it, let me know what you think

(Also, many thanks to Aaron Graham, without him this city wouldn't have taken the shape it has, amongst other lot creators!)

[KonstantinII 1,106]

Looks kinda like Brooklyn. Neat

[Thin White Duke 4,072]

Really? I think it looks like a Japanese city trying to get an old fashioned recladding some high rises in a neo art deco fashion.

 

Beautiful work, nonetheless.

[jmsepe 2,039]

The last image though looks like oriental. Anyway, it is good to see real tall building in your downtown. I always have problem with using them since I am OC when it comes to scaling and some tall buildings really takes a lot of lot space and doesn't mix well with 2x2 w2w buildings just like in your last image. 

[WeBuiltThisCityOnSimCity 40]

As I want to save the better-looking ones for my future city journal (if I ever get started on one), I'll show you the CBD of one of my smaller resort cities.

 

[tonyr 926]

Great pics folks! Thanks for sharing them.

[Tommy_H 3]

Some pretty insane stuff posted here, very cool!

[Mista_Fuzz 13]

Seeing everyone else's downtowns has really inspired me to do better in mine. For now, here it is:

Sorry for the brown boxes , my disk is all scratched up and I'm too lazy to copy the files from my old computer.

 

This next one is just a close up on the big plaza by the waterfront.  This is (in my opinion, the most beautiful area of my downtown

 

Hope those weren't too bad!  Feel free to criticize.