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Re: New MOC: Hotel Ambassador - (ISCC)
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Thu, 27 Dec 2001 04:38:23 GMT
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In lugnet.town, David Kohrman writes:
> 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).
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.
> This style will be even more evident in future office buildings that will join
> the Ambassador at this intersection.
I look forward to seeing what you create next. (Possibly even in person, say
at a MichLUG meeting?)
> 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.
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> 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.
How thick is the floor itself?
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> Thanks for the comments!
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> David Kohrman
> Lugnet #1117
-Jason
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| I have several architecture books I browse thru for ideas. Old buildings are my hobby (majoring in Historic Preservation) and I usually try to model my buildings after certain architectural styles or specific buildings. I can bring some books at a (...) (25 years ago, 29-Dec-01, to lugnet.town)
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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 (...) (25 years ago, 27-Dec-01, to lugnet.town)
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