I'm a bit of a noob to serious LEGO building, mostly because I've never really had enough bricks to play around with.
Now, I've tried my hand at creating one of my favorite (former) skyscrapers, L.A.'s old Richfield Building, partly because I could not find any LEGO models of it with a cursory search of the web. I spent the better part of my Easter break making it in LDD. Though I am quite proud of it, I'm not really sure how well I built it - It may in fact implode upon itself if constructed in real life.
Also, It has 6,500 bricks, which I doubt I can afford to buy.
And to top that, LDD freezes up whenever I try to make the building guide, so I don't know what specific amounts of bricks I need.
But I imagine my pictures are what you guys would be more interested in (sorry the bricks aren't in HQ renders, my computer is really quite slow) :
Also, I built it in MineCraft a few years back:
All pictures are.. courtesy of me, I suppose. Sorry if they're too big.