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[TowerDude 2,187]

Welcome

My finished BAT's

https://www.simtropolis.com/stex/details.cfm?id=24943

And I have other BAT's Coming

One Of the projects I have been working on is the Ocean Shores in HK. Hopfelly in a few weeks I will get 3dmax from school . In the mantime here are some pics of the Oceanshores in HK

I know the basement needs some work 

Ocean Shores

Phase 1

The buildings are spaced, but I can esely puthem together like in the pic

So tell me what ya think of it

[reaps 105]

looks very great

[hotChocolate 95]

Wow! I really thought one of those pics was a rea-life photo. Astonishing work! You'll use your own creations for your HK CJ, I suppose?

[TowerDude 2,187]

the first one is

[hotChocolate 95]

Oops - I meant one of the renderings .

[bixel 1,224]

well its pretty good start - but there is waay more going on with the tower than is currently presented. I know the urge to array your floors and make a like 10 tower

monster is great. The HK Residential are enormous and kind of exhilarating, but you need to stop slow down and fine tune your details.

here is a closer pic >

http://www.oceanshores.com.hk/phase3/e_con/con_5.html

http://www.oceanshores.com.hk/phase3/e_con/con_4.html

For instance your towers are a little too flat, I would start simple gather tuns of research photos - examine each window model that then move to the next. I gave you some website reference - explore tat webpage - it has a wealth of info. This project is huge - 10+ towers a real beast. Some of the towers are different as well.

Here is an example of the upcoming Long Beach, I carefully created a window, then it neighbor then kept going - fortunately the Long Beach has 2 different towers, and 3 of them have slightly different wings, so I am only effectively making 3 towers, also the window pattern repeats a lot and you can use the correct window size in other instances, careful examination of the photos and floor plans reveal duplicates often. But the detail pays off - you will have a very believable building.

[bixel 1,224]

if you copied this to your computer you can then zoom in a little - begin to see what the window frames look like. Also use my Long Beach pic reference - notice some of the frame and bay window design - this is typical HK style. You can see that as well in the Ocean Shores photo, some of the windows are actually bay windows with some sort of "cubby" below or to the side usually holding an AC Unit. The wiki reference photos are good a crisp - very zoomable and you can see the general design of the building, the floor plans dont show window design very well - so always cross check with the photos.

[tankmank 853]

It's a great start

[TowerDude 2,187]

Ah!!! thank you very much I am redoing it, i'll post some pictures soon, And yes I will use your awesome windows! I hope it will look good

[Amthaak 1,501]

WAOW! That's a fantastic challenge and a very ambitious project! Follow Bixel's advises and with your skills, we will get a fantastic Bat! Can't wait for the next steps!

[TowerDude 2,187]

This morning I saw this! what a big project! It is a huge tower! look at it beside the ICF

The text and pictures are from Dezeen.com


 

British designer Michael Young has designed a tower for Hong Kong with faceted surfaces that will change according to weather and lighting conditions.

Called PSi Tower, the project is the first in a series of strategies Young is developing for the Wan Chai area.

The building will house offices and apartments, with a public art space and restaurants at ground level, and outdoor theater area further up.

The plans are to be unveiled at 100% Design Shanghai in November, where Young is creative director (see our earlier story).

More stories about Michael Young »

The information that follows is from Young:

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HONG KONG PSi TOWER by MICHAEL YOUNG
The PSi Tower Building, Hong Kong

British Hong Kong based designer Michael Young has been commissioned to develop building project strategies for Wanchai Cultural District. The first concept PSi Tower has been developed as an office complex with luxury apartments for business users and executives overlooking Kowloon district. Conceptually the project, based visually on the essence of ancient Chinese building techniques, has been carried forward into the 21st Century with its multi facetted surfaces that change according to weather and light conditions.

The 5-hectare site will include a ground level internal atrium for public art and pedestrian use, containing outdoor restaurants with outdoor seating. The upper central interior section also boasts a native plantation that encloses an outdoor theatre area.

Having lived in Hong Kong for several years, Young wanted to design a building that could be both understood by local residents and also be compelling on an international platform. Young, who has humorously stated he wanted to pickle Fosters Gherkin at the unveiling in Wanchai cultural centre today, admitted it was a great pleasure to work on such a large scale after watching great architects challenge the furniture industry over the years, and that finally the industry was becoming symbiotic a natural evolution of technology and engineering.

Detailed information on the project will be unveiled at presentation and public exhibition during 100% Design Shanghai in early November at Nanjing West Road.

Project: PSi Tower Hong Kong
Client: PSi Partners & PC Building Corp China
Design: Michael Young Projects Ltd
Place: Hong Kong, China 2010
Planning and consultant: Porbic Partners
Local Architect: Arnold Woo & Partners

[Cockatoo 2,257]

I really hope that isn't actually built... a scaled down version set further back into the island, perhaps, but the way it is now, it'd totally dominate the skyline and clash with all the surrounding buildings... not to mention block out good portion of the exsisting skyline.

Anyway, I'm looking forward to seeing some of that other stuff released. Hope you can get your hands on Max! If you can't get an email from your school, there are sites available where students can acquire an .edu email address for free - see the thread in BAT - Open Discussion.

[bixel 1,224]

I think a very squat version would look cool - maybe one that is only 20 floors, but then again - it seems lately that EVERY artistic render I've have seen never looks like the finished product, I dunno whats up with these render guys but they fail everytime.

[mcarch 15]

The builidng is pretty, but its too large. I hate to see it cover IFC2

[paulvmontfort 617]

that's not all.. It blocks the path between the HSBC and the harbour causing bad feng sui which inevitably results in the bankrupty of the HSBC. Or they'll have to move the building as a whole.

[mightygoose 92]

hsbc would go mental at that....

[gutterclub 2,729]

The building looks horrific, like a oversized vase covering half of the skyline.

[Roger51 381]

That is the most horrible thing I have seen, since those "green" buildings they proposed. If it was smaller and somewhere else, I would not mind!

[Jasoncw 11,934]

I think it's out of scale with that area of Hong Kong, and you knows it's bad when you're having scale issues in HONG KONG!!

And I agree with Bixel, the renderings aren't very good.  Usually for projects, especially this size, architecture firms hire really good arch visualization companies but I guess not this one.

[shinkansen1 84]

Half of Hong Kong vomits at the sight of that rendering.

[TowerDude 2,187]

hey guys and sorry for not responding earlier, school has been and is going to be hard for the next month or two

But nevertheless i have managed to do some work on the Ocean Shore, after all the help and support you gave I decided to restart and here is a 1st pic. It is basically the building core on one side, I still have some detail to add but I am thrilled with the first results!!

Bixel! I inspired myself from that pic you gave me

I think I should rework on the green textures next.

Goodness me that Micheal young tower didn't go down well! So am giving you another horrible building!

PSY-ARCHITECTURE

And you thougt you couldn't associate the word psy with architectrure

Please listen to this track while looking at the pics

I present local HK student in architecture

This project is the postgraduate thesis designed by Liu Chien Sheng. It is a cathedral proposal for Vienna as a new idea for societal multi-function, and the development of sanctity and form. The site is located in St. Stephen’s Cathedral which is the center of economy, culture, and traffic for the city.

New cathedrals integrates the surrounding societal functions, such as religious, art, commercial activities, tourism and traffic system. The church of this project is placed on the ground floor, theaters and department store on the upper floor of the basement. All the layers are divided by glass floor, and thus, the activities in different level generate visual overlap by the transparence of glass floor. People can experience the new cathedral through variety of spaces. This design is more appropriate style for the cathedral which is required to have multiple functions in modern human life.

[gigacoaster 4]

oh wow that's disgusting. it looks like a giant squid wormed its wait into the building.

and keep up the good work on ocean shores!

[fabricio83tst 27]

Psychodelic architecture was already created! Less on the graphic arts by Escher! I'm thinking maybe make a BAT for one of his arts, but it will be a war for a head!!

DON'T YOU THINK IS IT A PSYCHODELIC???

[TowerDude 2,187]

I will also be doing the "HKABT PLOP FEVER". It consist in making all the Big Estates ploppable. I am still making the list, if you have any requests on which bats made ploppable, i will release the list soon enough

[Kendiecasttsoi 209]

Wow good luck on the Ocean Shores project. With Bixel's guidance, I am sure you will do fine. And please, don't rush this thing like other teams do (Thai bat team's latest Millennium R$$$ condos is a warning signal). Take your time for as long as it is worth.

Btw, that Psi Tower thing, is never going to make it in Hong Kong. This is not Shanghai Pudong, if you know what I mean.

[TowerDude 2,187]

The Novartisturm in a Basel is available to download, it isn't an HKBAT but it was a test

[gutterclub 2,729]

For me the roof is a bit bland and a little too white for the game, also the windows just seem like brown blocks? Other tyhan that, the modelling is pretty decent.

[TowerDude 2,187]

Hey thanks for the Feedback on the Basel tower, here is something I made this morning

Tell me what you think of it

It is a totally fictionnal building. I have already converted to .obj and it opened textured in GMAX , Now i need to put the nightlights on, but I have a little prblem with, Ill have to search

And here is a pic with the detail on the Ocean Shores project!

[Timmystwin 201]

This looks imense, cant wait. I may need to sort out my internet though... the number of HKBATs i have tracked is immense, and the speed is 700bytes per sec

[TowerDude 2,187]

Here is a render of one of the towers needless to say, I failed a bit

don't worry I will relot, re render, and hope parts of the building don't disappear (bars on the top)