praiodan's joinery

[praiodan 78]

After a long hiatus from SimCity and modelling, I recently picked up BATing again and started finishing a couple of models I began working on many, many years ago. Among them:

The Staatsbibliothek Unter den Linden in Berlin (pre-war)

The Geschossbau by Ludwig Mies van der Rohe in Stuttgart

A couple of modern residential W2W, more or less inspired by some developement in Berlin

 

And last but not least Sophienholm, a lovely country house in Lyngby near Copenhagen, but this one is still in the works.

[Fantozzi 4,069]

But those are .... G R O S S A R T I G!

The dome of the Staatsbibliothek may need another texture, maybe the dark shale again? 

The van der Rohe complex looks like a very versatile building to me, an excellent addition to SC4. The work on the terraces is excellent, all those small props make the building very vivid/real.

Sophienholm is so lovely and I like the roof texture very much. Overall the colours are great.

What a big surprise.

 

[SimCoug 5,977]

Sophienholm is cute - I love the double stairs leading to the main entrance... great modeling!  Wonderful to see you BATing again too! 

[T Wrecks 10,210]

Who would've thought that this day would have me drooling over some fine @praiodan BATs once again after so much time has passed? Feels good, man. Feels really good. Welcome back!

[praiodan 78]

On 1.5.2017 at 3:16 PM, Fantozzi said:

But those are .... G R O S S A R T I G!

The dome of the Staatsbibliothek may need another texture, maybe the dark shale again? 

The van der Rohe complex looks like a very versatile building to me, an excellent addition to SC4. The work on the terraces is excellent, all those small props make the building very vivid/real.

Sophienholm is so lovely and I like the roof texture very much. Overall the colours are great.

What a big surprise.

 

Thank you! Unfortunately I have to confess, I will never touch the model of the Staatsbibliothek again. It was a giant PITA to get this baby rendered at all and so we will have to live with a couple of shortcomings the model still has. But after many years and countless hours of work I just didn't have any more patience
 to further work on it but instead get it into the game as is. This is a very short version of a very long story full of frustration, struggles and many many errors I ran into.

On 1.5.2017 at 7:06 PM, SimCoug said:

Sophienholm is cute - I love the double stairs leading to the main entrance... great modeling!  Wonderful to see you BATing again too! 

Thank you! This building actually is very clean and has only few interesting details along its very clear, scandinavian classical facade, which is also why I like the stairs of it very much. Glad to hear I to having them nailed.

8 hours ago, T Wrecks said:

Who would've thought that this day would have me drooling over some fine @praiodan BATs once again after so much time has passed? Feels good, man. Feels really good. Welcome back!

Was lange währt...  (und so). Thank you as well! It indeed feels very good! Although, lacking a proper plugins folder and the time to build one, I'm not playing the game actually, but I rediscovered BATing as the fantastic way to procrastinate (instead of working on my thesis...) it is. And in fact I do feel a little remorse having been absent for so long and having left so much stuff unfinished, so this is also a huge relief for myself.

Did some fine tuning on the windows of Sophienholm (set them back a little more and elongated the sills).

 

[Jasoncw 12,060]

ahhh, some good looking stuff. Welcome back.  

My thoughts on the Mies building would be to do an alternate lot with backyards behind the units enclosed in hedges, and maybe have the building setback with some grass in front. Basically to be more like the real life version. 

[madhatter106 3,933]

What is the German translation for "omg these BATs are full of amazing-sauce?"
(I wasted five years in French class.)

[praiodan 78]

Thank you very much, guys!

@Jasoncw In fact I still have yet another Lot in the works which, as you suggest, will have a similar layout as the original building with backyards enclosed in hedges and more grass in front of it. Still might take me some more time, since I am very busy working on my thesis these days.

@madhatter106 I really don't know if an appropriate translation for it could even exist, so we should leave it at that. I too went to French classes for six years, but there's not so much left of it, so nevermind.

I have good news for you: The Staatsbibliothek is now available for download. Have fun with it!

[Tyberius06 12,278]

@praiodan

Uh, it's very nice, thank you for sharing this beauty!  

[praiodan 78]

Sharing is caring: The Geschossbau has just been released. Have fun with it!

[Tyberius06 12,278]

Good stuff  I'm very happy to see this building (with the mandatory "download" button )

Thank you for sharing this!

- Tyberius

Additinal info: In Hungary, Budapest (my home city) I used to live in a very similiar flat building on the 3rd floor. Actually that was a residental "complex" several 4 stories high flats like this one and between the buildings there were park, kindergarden and parking lots, and close to the main road/corner was placed some groceries, nursery, pharmacy and a 10 stories residental "tower".

 

 

[Fantozzi 4,069]

On 4.5.2017 at 8:31 AM, madhatter106 said:

What is the German translation for "omg these BATs are full of amazing-sauce?"
(I wasted five years in French class.)

I would translate the sentence in question:

'Bordell! Diese BATs c'est Ketchup I smell!"

(I'm pretty good in translating)

 

On 14.5.2017 at 9:12 PM, praiodan said:

I too went to French classes for six years, but there's not so much left of it, so nevermind.

Now, you two, just imagine - I was married to a french woman for 11 years - what she did left of me!

 

[praiodan 78]

On 17.5.2017 at 10:37 PM, Fantozzi said:

Now, you two, just imagine - I was married to a french woman for 11 years - what she did left of me!

 

Well, you certainly did ... "win" ... on that one.

A sneak preview of the start for my next recreation:

[matias93 7,535]

The Bellevue Palace! Now I really have to find a way to put this beauty on my city centre; Which will be the possible footprint of the lot?

[praiodan 78]

7 hours ago, matias93 said:

The Bellevue Palace! Now I really have to find a way to put this beauty on my city centre; Which will be the possible footprint of the lot?

Well, the building itself will at least need 7x6 tiles. While it shouldn't get much wider (since I'd refrain from modelling the gate to the Bundespraesidialamt, still the width would be rather tight, so add another tile to that dimension), a possible Lot could feature a little square and garden in front and/or behind the building, so maybe save ~8x10.

[JP Schriefer 5,591]

Wow looks very good. It's huge project, looking forward to this one!

 

[SimCoug 5,977]

Sweet!  It's really beautiful building, and could function as a number of things in game (museum, college, mayors house, etc)

[praiodan 78]

@JP Schriefer

Thanks! Well, after having rendered the Staatsbibliothek, nothing can shock me anymore regarding building size.

@SimCoug

Thanks! Yes, in fact I wanted to recreate this beauty a very long time ago (when I still used gmax for modelling, in fact - THAT long ago). It certainly would be a lot nicer than the vanilla mayor's mansion.

Quick update on the main facade, where the modelling is mostly done:

 

[SimCoug 5,977]

You work fast!