Welcome to Bellevue

[OldTurtle 53]

 

Welcome to my creation - Bellevue City.

After watching my city grow, I thought it'd be nice to have a place I can post screenshots to share with the community and for myself to come back and see how the city progressed. 

Unfortunately I don't get too much time to play the game and am a very slow builder, so updates will be slow. But like many SC4 journals, I expect to continue working on this city long into the future.

For the first post, I will copy screenshots that I posted elsewhere. But will have an update out soon. Enjoy!

 

Overview: I made the gap between the two land masses in the harbour larger so I could fit in Shroomblaze's fantastic Brooklyn Bridge in there. It is perhaps a bit unrealistic considering cars can get across the two land masses by passing through the downtown area and thus an expensive bridge would probably never be approved, but it looks too good not to place it there!

 

Port area. Mostly complete, just have to fill the gaps with more RICO warehouses, industrial zoning and prop details. 

 

Cargo rail line entering the port. I love the way this turned out. It tunnels nicely below the highway interchange and supplies both the container yards and the bulk terminals. 

 

Another close look at the port. Just gotta add in the little details. 

 

Downtown. The sunken highway feeds the whole area. I plan to make the area in front of the skyscrapers a large park/botanical gardens that looks out towards the ocean. The capitol building will be the centerpiece of this garden. You can see it towards the left of this image - it forms a nice ending to the sunken highway and the main avenue. 

 

Sunken highway - my favourite part of the city yet. Complete album here: https://imgur.com/a/xUAdY

 

University and hospital campus. I'm bit concerned it's too close to the tall dense skyscrapers, producing a large height difference. But I love the way the trees add such life to the area so I'm keeping it!

 

Next step for now would be to expand the other side of the brooklyn bridge (as you can see in the first image, the beach side of the bridge is empty!). I will make that area into a nice touristy resort area with a casino district.

[Mr_Maison 2,426]

Looks awesome so far!! I like the way you lay out the major networks first....I play the same way. Looking forward to more of this development.

[OldTurtle 53]

Updated shots:

Overview: The left side of the brooklyn bridge has started development. That whole side of the water is dedicated to leisure with hotels, beach resorts and casinos. Also worked on parliament house and surrounding park. More detail as follows:

 

First I just added more skyscrapers to fill out this financial district. I like the way this turned out as it blends nicely with the tall hotels on the other side of the river. Just need to fill out the green grass with more detail to complete this area.

 

The leisure area. Lots of casinos, hotels, high end malls and pools. 

 

The casino strip.

 

Beach resort. Love the way this looks!

 

Developing part of the leisure area. I attempted to create a marina with pedestrian pathways, but didn't turn out very well. Will wait for the boardwalk in the network extensions update before redoing this area along with better boat assets.

 

Parliament house. On the left I plopped a zoo with a hedge maze with odd parks here and there to fill in the area. On the right I plopped the Melbourne Cricked Ground. It's a tight squeeze for sure - such a large stadium wouldn't be built in such a small area. But I couldn't think of anything else I wanted to place in that area so I will be keeping the stadium there.

 

The greenery contrasts quite nicely with the line of skyscrapers.

 

So that's all for now. The next development would probably be the airport. I doubt it will serve much purpose other than looking good considering how broken the tourism is in the game. I really wish CO would fix tourism, so we get planes with full capacity landing in our cities, having to deal with the influx of tourists, including transport, accommodation, and providing sightseeing spots and events.

[OldTurtle 53]

Update: Airport pretty much complete.

Combined passenger and cargo airport. To get the building placement somewhat realistic, I referred to Vancouver International Airport on Google Maps.

 

Plenty of parking ofcourse. Also I do love my symmetry. The airport skytrain platform has pedestrian pathways linking it and the terminal for easy access.

 

Another angle.

 

Cargo bays.

 

Lots of parking for the cargo workers.

 

Some nice hotels and office spaces for passengers and airport administration.

 

Overview.

 

Terminal at night.

 

Overview at night.

 

That's all for the airport. Looking forward to the 1.5 patch for the soccer DLC and (hopefully) fixed tourism. Then I will probably start expanding my city, with a focus on expanding commercial tourism and hopefully see the airport getting used properly (none of that 2/100 capacity planes please).

[eufl 133]

Cool pictures! Especially I like the rail layout at the harbor area.

[Breeze1965 0]

The city is amazing, I would love to see a list of the mods you used and know and understand how you did a couple areas that you built, This was done with unlimited funds and not playing the game correct?

 

[skytopjf 2]

I would also like to know what breeze asked, amazing work,  it look so realistic I could think it was a real place!

[poshbakerloo 186]

Which colour filter are you using!? It looks great