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Re: New MOC: Hotel Ambassador - (ISCC)
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Thu, 27 Dec 2001 01:56:22 GMT
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The hotel follows the practice of the late 19th-early 20th century architects
to design buildings as 'columns' with a base (the white ground floor), the
shaft (the red middle floors), and a capital (the cornice and roof).  This
style will be even more evident in future office buildings that will join the
Ambassador at this intersection

Normally I don't deck out buildings quite like this.  But I thought it would be
rather cool to have at least one highly detailed building.  Usually most of my
buildings either have no interiors or rather sparse open floors.  It makes a
nice display by itself, but yes when in a large layout most of the details will
not be seen.

The hotel floors are 5 bricks high, the ground floor is 7.  I normally make
floors between 6 or 7 bricks high, and ground floors 8 bricks high.  It depends
on the type of building.  Since I had so many interior walls to deal with in
this case I kept the ceilings low.

Thanks for the comments!

David Kohrman
Lugnet #1117

In lugnet.town, Jason Spears writes:
In lugnet.town, David Kohrman writes:
Its been a few years since I've built any large town buildings but I'm going
to build a new city layout and would like to announce my first building: the
Hotel Ambassador.

It is a five story fully furnished hotel with 24 guest rooms, a lobby, two
dining rooms, a kitchen, and a working elevator.  Right now it is not much of
a town but more buildings will follow.  Feedback will be apperciated.

webpage...
http://homepages.wmich.edu/~d9kohrma/legoambassador.html

Looks great.  I like how the bottom floor is white, and the main body of the
building is red.  This is something I have noticed in many real buildings, but
haven't gotten around to trying it out and seeing how it looks.  The roof
looks good too, a very nice building.

I would commend you for taking the time to deck out all the interior so well.
I rarely have the patience.  But there is the difference between something for
a home display and something for a train show. At the show, very few people
would ever see the interior.

Your bank is neat, I like the use of the 1x1 cones for detail.  One thing I
noticed is that all your buildings seem to have short floors.  Is this a wrong
impression?  How many bricks in height are your floors?

I emailed this to the ISCC so hopefully it gets entered.

Good luck. :)

Thanks for looking!

David Kohrman
Lugnet #1117

-Jason

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(...) Hmm, I think I need read some books about architecture. I can see what your talking about, but that hadn't occured to me before. (...) I look forward to seeing what you create next. (Possibly even in person, say at a MichLUG meeting?) (...) (...) (23 years ago, 27-Dec-01, to lugnet.town)

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(...) building is red. This is something I have noticed in many real buildings, but haven't gotten around to trying it out and seeing how it looks. The roof looks good too, a very nice building. I would commend you for taking the time to deck out (...) (23 years ago, 27-Dec-01, to lugnet.town)

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