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[SimGoober 2,365]

Very nice!  These should fit in very well.

[____----____ 37]

those look great!! modest and clean

[Odd from Sweden 129]

This looks really promising, both building and textures are Maxis quality! Just keep up the good work!!

[justanothersim86 83]

These office buildings are excellent! We need more low-rise, mid-rise office buildings in SimCity. The textures are of superb quality, same goes for the details.

[ILL Tonkso 1,239]

I have officially shifted styles. Georgian here we come!

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I want to recreate the UKs elegant Georgian architecture!

[norbutt2001 8]

If its Georgian your after you could do no wrong with the wonderful arcutechture of Newcastle upon Tyne, specifically the great works of Grainger, Dobson and Clayton.

We shall start off with the old assembley rooms, which replaed an earlier one opposite, now serves as a conference centre and is a popular choice for weddings (I almost decided on this for my wedding venue)

This is the Central Exchange Building which was intended by Grainger to be a new corn market, but the council left this at the Bigg Market, its construction was based on was based on the Temple of Vesta at Tivoli. It occupies a trianngular site and has a small shopping arcade witin.

Here you can see the Grainger street end with the Barclays Bank branch.



Here is the Monument/Grey Street end, the Lunn Poly closed a few years ago and was then a shoe shop but now is the North East first Pret A Manger (ugh).

Inside the Central Exchange lie the central arcade, the original was destroyed by fire in 1906 and was rebuilt into its original form. This arcade house serval shops ranging from a musical instruments shop to the local TIC, unwins and a Lush!.

The Emmerson building at Monument is now home to a branch of Waterstones (there is another on directly opposite as well!!)

This pub was once the Town Hall and County Council Chambers for the Twon & County of Gosforth just to the north of Newcastle city centre, its name is a reminder to the disgruntled citizens of Godforth that they really are a little town of thier own, oh its the posh part of town populated by a buch of rich snobs and Northern Rock!

Here is the TSB building which is now a Sports Cafe, it had a rather nasty accident a few years back, a builder (the pilock shall remain unnamed but rest assured I do know him), knocked down the wrong wall which happended to be a supporting wall, the interior of the building collapsed, damageing the metro tunnels, and cause one lane of the street to be closed for 18 months as builders tried to repair it! The exterior thank God was saved.

This fountain originally stood outside the anglican catherdral church but was moved to the Bigg market to be outside the old city hall, which has since been demolished and replaced with the Civic Centre towards to the University end of the city centre.

Newcastle's pride and joy and the pinincle of all of Grainger's work the Theatre Royal seen here behind some fencing when the street was being relaid a few years back. this Theatre is on Britains nicest street Grey Street.

So there you go a smaple of Newcastl's fine Georgian buildings, its also intresting to note that Newcastle has the highest number of listed Georgian buidlings outside of London and Bath.

Norbutt

[ILL Tonkso 1,239]

Cool Pics Norbutt!

Heres my progress anyway.

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[storms991 0]

yey you guys just made my day!

[Aran 10]

Date: 2/18/2006 12:46:51 PM
Author: ILL Tonkso

Heres my progress anyway...

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Wow. Nice detail! Looks like a historic government building or perhaps a library/museum. Any idea what it'll turn out to be?

[ILL Tonkso 1,239]

My idea was for the Brennt Shores National Library, if you look closely you can see the brennt shores flame on the marble texture.

[Kwakelaar 92]

This will be a beauty when finished.

[ILL Tonkso 1,239]

One Canada Recreation Project Version 2

I have started working on another version of One Canada Square, my original version moddelled on GMAX was very basic and not true to the real thing, so i am now trying it out on my new copy of 3dsmax7.

Heres what i have done so far:


Here we have the top, the basic modelling is done here, also note we are still on the basic texture for the large windows.


The main windows, this takes up the bulk of the structure, also regarding the gap between the windows, this will look like simple grooves in the rendered version (intentional).


Another view on the windows.

[mightygoose 92]

that looks fantastic i always thought the other one looked abit to dark

[bourneid 13]

Ill...you rock!   I know that school has ya pretty busy but I am glad to see you still at it. Look forward to seeing some more of your creations im my journal and in my cities

"Offical" #1 member of the Ill-tonkso booster Club

[vester_DK 477]

Nice to see you are back in the saddle.

Looks gooooood.

[ILL Tonkso 1,239]

Thanks all, anyway a little update, i have still got to finish that lobby, as well as detail the roof area and add a glass entrance overhang like thingy (see my original to see what i mean).

[Simen 1]

I really love this, yer a great modeller man. cant wait to see this finished

Btw, love your signature!!!

[Mikeaut1 261]

I cant wait for this new version. The One Canada Square is actually one of my favorite bats on ST, so I can't wait for this new version to come out. By the looks of the modelling, it looks absolutely awesome. Great work Tonks!!!!!

[beebs 129]

WOW, tonks! That's really great... can't wait for all the texturing and details to be put on there.

[ILL Tonkso 1,239]

I will get it done soon, its a liitle slow though (the poly count is imense on this, after modelling the windows the way i did)

[JayStimson 212]

Pretty impressive Tonkso. Of course, I thought your original version was pretty awesome too. lol

[tag_one 133]

wow this is amazing, it looks really lovely

[ILL Tonkso 1,239]

I have been playing with the lobby overhang, on my original model you may notice that the overhang isnt curved, i couldnt see the curve in the pictures i had but a visit to canary wharf on tuesday has taught me otherwise.

[SystemUK 0]

Are you just doing the base or are you going to create the shopping centre that is joined to it?

If you don't want it as part of the lot you could always have it as an over-hanging prop on another lot.

PS: What does your sig mean ie "You can't have your pudding..."?

[ILL Tonkso 1,239]

Im not going to do the shopping centre, it includes the DLR station so the whole model would have to be made a station rendering the tower useless, allthoug making an overhang could be a good idea.

On and my signiture is from Pink Floyd, The Wall.

[norbutt2001 8]

well if your up to it tonks, mayby you could perhaps one day make the DLR station its actually quite cool

[sparkythepenguin 90]

There's a way to make a dual RCI/transit station lot. Rubick3 somehow made each twin tower of his first WTC a mega subway station/CO$$$ lot.  Raphaelninja may have made a dual-use functional blank lot set for that. It'd be in the Modding files, and if you follow his instructions on how to use them it may just work!  I don't believe that there is any way to have both CS and CO jobs on 1 lot, so the mall would have to be seperate.

In the meantime, what ya got right now blows away your already excellent  1CS! I like it w/o the mall because it's easier to place this beauty in my cities.

[ILL Tonkso 1,239]

Thanks for all the comments everyone, anyway moving on this is what we have now (the roof still needs doing)

[mightygoose 92]

nice looking better every render

[ILL Tonkso 1,239]

Heres the render (took 20 minutes lol), i might render it again witha  darker texture or i might just get on with it but here.