Your Designs

chrisallard5454 · #1 Posted: **Jan 31, 2012, 7:03 AM**

I spent the last couple of days designing a building, for the fun of it. Call me a nerd. Here it is.

Flamesrule · #2 Posted: **Jan 31, 2012, 11:11 AM**

Wow!

Looks great, I really like the facade!

JBoston · #3 Posted: **Jan 31, 2012, 7:32 PM**

I really like the interstitial space between the tall cylinder and the low-rise portion of the building. Have you considered any pedestrian bridges between the tower and the low-rise?

chrisallard5454 · #4 Posted: **Feb 2, 2012, 12:07 AM**

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Originally Posted by JBoston

I really like the interstitial space between the tall cylinder and the low-rise portion of the building. Have you considered any pedestrian bridges between the tower and the low-rise?

I did actually. I thought that would be pretty cool. Thank you for the positive replies. I just downloaded Sketch-up for the first time a couple of days ago, and felt like doing something creative! And this is what I came up with!

texcolo · #5 Posted: **Feb 2, 2012, 1:13 AM**

For only using sketch up for two days and making this...

verticalextropy · #6 Posted: **Feb 2, 2012, 5:58 PM**

Break the contours with a diagonal or two, once it's not so perfectly symmetric it can be a good design! Try it!

verticalextropy · #7 Posted: **Feb 2, 2012, 5:58 PM**

Quote:

Originally Posted by JBoston

I really like the interstitial space between the tall cylinder and the low-rise portion of the building. Have you considered any pedestrian bridges between the tower and the low-rise?

That's part of what I mean, break the symmetry on that space

guyFROMtheBURGH · #8 Posted: **Feb 2, 2012, 11:15 PM**

Dude, it looks great! And no, you're not a nerd. Well maybe but we all are then

But keep in mind that some people do this stuff for a living so it can't be too bad to be good at it.

Was your model based off an existing building? If not, I especially like the 'massing' of it. Fantastic modeling as well. Keep it up!

Chang · #9 Posted: **Feb 4, 2012, 4:50 PM**

Im in second year engineering and i was wondering what program you used for this, i am trying to make a choice between Eng and Architecture. I definitly have a few rough designs on scrap paper that i would love to turn into virtual scale models like this beautiful creation

Flamesrule · #10 Posted: **Feb 4, 2012, 5:58 PM**

It looks like he uses Sketchup.

You can get it for a Mac or a PC. It is free.

Vellu · #11 Posted: **Feb 12, 2012, 9:03 AM**

Elegant design and, what I especially like, a structurally realistic model. It would look even more awesome, if you added a bit more detail to the model (replaces the lines with planes) and rendered it.

chrisallard5454 · #12 Posted: **Feb 25, 2012, 4:15 PM**

Thank you everyone. Sorry for not getting back for so long, I have been on vacation. Unfortunately my hard rive crashed and I didn't back it up so this project is lost. However I did get some renders of changes that I have made before this happened, so pieces have been saved. Here is the link for e new renders. I had spent the last couple of weeks putting detail into the facade and the interior of the base. Here is what is left of this lost piece.

chrisallard5454 · #13 Posted: **Feb 25, 2012, 6:42 PM**

http://forum.skyscraperpage.com/showthread.php?t=197704

chrisallard5454 · #14 Posted: **Feb 28, 2012, 1:39 PM**

The historic building to the right of my building is a real building sitting on Portage avenue, in Winnipeg. Currently beside it sits a 1 story Dollarama, and a 3 story Mountain Equipment Co-op. It is really an unfortunate break in what could be a pretty decent Canyon on Portage, especially with a new 20 story hotel coming in two blocks down. There has been a recent spur of Downtown activity in Winnipeg (for a city of its size and stature) and that is what inspired me to create what could have been a good filler for the lot. There are many parking lots that I could have used, but I wanted to try and do a mix up with modern and a historical Gem so this site was perfect.