Project: Chicago

[TheeLord 42]

I am putting a team together to model buildings in Chicago and recreate the city as closely as possible. As well as vote on issues like zoning, road / rail / water placement, building and block dimensions, game restriction concessions. Ect.. Here are some pictures of what I have started so far. I am starting in the lower loop area. Some call this area the financial district of downtown Chicago.

Here is a map with some building locations that have Franklin Avenue Addresses which is the buildings we will be starting with.


This is an in-game picture of the area we are starting with. The building in the picture is the Old Colony Building which I had previously modelled.


This is the current building I am working on, the Monadnock Building which will sit on a 6x2 lot and you can see the position of in game and on the map.


Please reply to this if you are joining this project and post which of the following buildings you will be working on first.

AVAILABLE BUILDINGS AS OF 12-19-04
The Chicago Board of Trade Building
The Crown Jewel of this first available building set. I need this built on a 3x3 lot sized area, all buildings needs to be near exact measurements. This building should be a full 48m deep but only around 40m wide. It is obviously art-deco new york style.
http://www.emporis.com/en/wm/bu/?id=117465

Chicago Board of Trade Addition
This also needs to be on a 3x3 lot. This very modern building should take up the entire 48x48m area so there is no room to place anything on the lot but the building.. this will be a very common occurence for this project.
http://www.emporis.com/en/wm/bu/?id=117151

Transunion Building
This is another modern building that should be quite easy to BAT, (not expecting A+ artwork on all these buildings). This building will sit on a 4x2 lot and should be around 58x32 Meters.
http://www.emporis.com/en/wm/bu/?id=116821


Here is a satellite photo of the Chicago Board of Trade Complex and Transunion Building to the Right (East) of the two Board of Trade Buildings

[ALTX 40]

Good luck finding a Sears Tower that blends in with the Game AND the John Hancock Center.

 

(So far there aren't any that do the above)

 

(-ALTX)

[TheeLord 42]

Im doin this not so much to model chicago in game, more just to come up with a bunch of great chicago BATs. Itd be really nice to get some good BATers to give a hand.

[BarbulaM1 38]

There is a pretty good Sears Tower on the STEX. Just head over there and pick it up, Im sure it is still there cause I have used it many times. Good luck with the Chicago recreation too.

[wgb24 20]

would you be able to let me know where i can find the complete set of buildings that you have done so i can recreate the city of chicago because i use to live their before i moved to wellington nz,

[TheeLord 42]

I have only done about 3 chicago buildings so far.. There are more done on the exchange, but look under my name in the STEX and you will see a few from me.

[poiuy1208 46]

This is a project I will most definitely keep an eye on.
looks great so far.

[ALTX 40]

Date:12/19/2004 8:39:18 PM
Author:BarbulaM1

There is a pretty good Sears Tower on the STEX. Just head over there and pick it up, Im sure it is still there cause I have used it many times. Good luck with the Chicago recreation too.

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None of the Sears Towers in the STEX blend in with the John Hancock Center (Mainly due to the textures) and that should be consdiered a serious flaw.

[TheeLord 42]

wow.. I havent gotten one Batter who would like to do a Chicago building or two?? I thought this would be easy to get a few people to help out.

[baldy 0]

Ardecila has joined PDA and is doing a great job on creating Chicago stuff.  Visit the thread in the BAT open discussion forums for examples and updates.

 

Good luck with your quest!

[jtportland 184]

a new city project! yay! good luck, Ardecila is making great chichago builds aswell, like baldy said

for great aerial pictures of chiacago, you should try out terraserver:
Chicago (click here)

good luck! i'll be keepin an eye on this thread

[TheeLord 42]

Thanks for the link portland! I was using Terraserver.com instead and paid $10 for a freakin subscription to be able zoom in far enough... wrong terraserver lol

[ardecila 125]

I was always planning to do the BoT . .lol . . You should get Marrast to do it. It has the same sort of weathering that the Battersea does, and Marrast already has a texture library.

Theelord:

Currently, I have dibs on:
Lake Point Tower
Both Prudentials
Smurfit-Stone Building

And my already-existing releases.

[jtportland 184]

omg that sucks TheeLord! microsofts version of terraserver is much better, and it's free!

[SpartanBadger 4]

I'm impressed TheeLord, that Monadnock Building looks really good! I hope to see some more of these Chicago buildings soon, good luck with this project!

[ardecila 125]

That Monadnock looks great. I was thinking, someone should really model that.

If I have time, I might do BoT for you.

jt - I just have to do night-lighting.

One more thing, TheeLord - the newest version of the Network Addon Mod lets you put Elevated Rail over Road, like it should be. And I think LaSalle and State should be avenues. Other than that, your layout looks good. I also use a standard size of 6x6 with variations.

[ChicAgo333 2]

this is an awesome project, i cant wait until it is finished!

[wgb24 20]

i could help by doing your highway system for you seen i use to live there

[TheeLord 42]

you can have rail over roads now?!?!?!

NO FREAKIN WAY!! that is TOO cool. ANNND, I just came up with an excellent way to make builidings on 45 degree turns.. check out the new thread in the workshop, I was truely amazed at how good this method looks.

WGB.. I would love for help with the highways, but honestly dont think we will be doing too much of the highways.. I really want to stay focused on downtown and making as many buildings as possible.

I worked more on the Monadnock, almost finished, I should be able to upload that tomorrow night, but a lightbulb went off in my head on how to make buildings on 45 degree streets, so I HAD to model a building like this first for the community.

[TheeLord 42]

So im hoping you can handle the BoT Ardecila? I need to figure out which building im doing next after I finish Monadnock tomorrow.

[TheeLord 42]

Got the Monadnock building finished this morning, I was very happy with the results. Download it off the exchange if you havent done so already.




I will be updating my city with this and a couple other buildings that belong in the area.. need to think of what to build next, hmmmmmm. Maybe the Rookery..

[TheeLord 42]

Got the Metcalfe building modeled. Its a fairly simple international styled building.. There will be a few like this that might get a little boring. but when you have houston tileset turned on, you will actually get buildings that reflect that era, 90% of which are halfway boring like the metcalfe haha. I need to get the city updated and take a few pictures of it.. Ill have a few buildings in this area now.

[TheeLord 42]

I am working on the Fisher building next. Check it out.. very intricate work that needs to be done.
http://www.emporis.com/en/wm/bu/?id=117431

[Alkaola 18]

very good man looking forward for more of this stuff , i already downloaded all ot it

[wgb24 20]

have you tried doing the museum of science and indistry in b.a.t.

[Superchan 23]

Museum of Science and Industry Sounds like a good idea, and when are the next pictures of the city.

[Chris M 406]

I think a challenge for you would be 900 North Michigan if your doing skyscrapers.

[jglei701 8]

A couple of distincly Chicago landmarks that have not been created are the Indian Warriors off of Michigan Ave. I dunno how to add pictures right into my post, so I put it as an attatchment.

Another are the Ghost and Darkness Lions in front of the Art Institute.

[lancerjw 0]

TheeLord,

Can you let me know which map you are using to recreate Chicago? I have been trying to on mine, but don't know if the map I got was that accurate (just didn't seem that the loop area was big enough).

Thanks!
James

[ardecila 125]

I don't know about TL (he might just be terraforming), but I used the one on the STEX blown up to 132% of original size. I had to resize and re-create the region several times to get the size right, but 132% should work.