Scholastic building

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Author: Darf

Last revision: 3 Dec, 2018 at 22:07 UTC

File size: 3.27 MB

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Please leave a vote or comment if you download this asset! This is a lvl 3 High commerical 2×4 growable based on the Scholastic building in New York in Soho.

About the model
A new model from my Soho, Noho and Nolita series. This model has about 4487 tris and a 2048×512 texture. Normal mapped, alpha, illuminationmap and specularmapped.
LoD is around 62 tris , 512×128.

You can always follow my assetcreations on the Simtropolis forums: http://community.simtropolis.com/forums/topic/68841-darfs-buildings-the-dorilton-new-victory-theater/ or on sketchfab: https://sketchfab.com/sannie01

RICO
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About the building
The Scholastic Building is the 10-story headquarters of the Scholastic Corporation, located on Broadway between Prince and Spring Streets in the SoHo neighborhood of Manhattan, New York City. Built in 2001, it was the first new building to be constructed in the SoHo-Cast Iron Historic District, replacing a one-story garage built in 1954. It is the only building in New York ever to be designed by Italian architect, Aldo Rossi. Originally conceived of in his New York office, it was completed and refined by disciple of his, Morris Adjmi. It is respectful of the neighboring buildings and pays homage to the district’s cast iron architectural identity. The cast iron architecture that defines this neighborhood straddles between the classical and industrial periods of New York’s past. According to historian William Higgins, "the building’s columnar Broadway façade, in steel, terra-cotta, and stone, echoes the scale and the formal, Classical character of its commercial neighbors. The rear façade, on Mercer Street, extracts a gritty essence from its more utilitarian surroundings of plain cast iron and weathered masonry."

The Scholastic Building was designed and assembled using a "kit of parts" methodology, which is similar to a time when the facades of SoHo’s cast-iron buildings were built by ordering the building elements and ornaments in parts from a catalog, having them cast off-site in foundries, and assembled on site.

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