Hotel Touraine
Please leave a vote or comment if you download this asset! This is a High residential corner lvl 5 building(3×3) and a High residential lvl 5 building(3×3)
About the model
Hello! It´s been a while.. This is the first building of my New England Series, a series of buildings based on Boston, Providence, but also the smaller but so charming New London. During my trip to the USA I visited a lot of east coast cities, Philadelphia, Washington DC, NYC and Boston. I shot over 3000 photos and a lot of them are of buildings. So a lot of texturematerial. 🙂 Though I certainly will do buildings from all cities, the mainfocus is New England right now.
I thought this building would be a good place to start, because it emphasizes the New England style quite well. It certainly was one of the eye catchers when I was in Boston. This consists of 2 buildings: the 3×3 corner part of the Hotel and a 3×3 row building, these share textures, so that’s why the filesize is larger. If you do have the loadingscreenmod it will only load the textures once.
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
This model has 5340/3840 tris and a 4096×512 texture, with a diffuse, normal, alpha, illumination and specularmap.This model has a custom LoD, which is about 136/66 tris with a 512×128 texture, with a diffuse, specular and illumination map.
RICO
If you want this building added to your RICO buildings, add it in the settings menu, under growables. I recommend using the realistic population mod, this will calculate the amount of occupants in the building.
About the building
Hotel Touraine (1897-1966) in Boston, Massachusetts, was a residential hotel on the corner of Tremont Street and Boylston Street, near the Boston Common. The architecture firm of Winslow and Wetherell designed the 11-story building in the Jacobethan style, constructed of "brick and limestone;" its "baronial" appearance was "patterned inside and out after a 16th-century chateau of the dukes of Touraine." It had dining rooms and a circulating library. Owners included Joseph Reed Whipple and George A. Turain.
Directly across the street were the clandestine district headquarters of the Boston Communist Party mentioned in Herbert Philbrick’s 1952 book "I Led 3 Lives".
Among the guests: boxer Max Baer, actor Stanley Bell, Diamond Jim Brady, George Gershwin, Ernest Wadsworth Longfellow, Pietro Mascagni, Mitch Miller, Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr., and Henry Bradford Endicott. Events included an exhibition in the 1960s of the Boston Negro Artists Association, and performances by the "Theater Company of Boston." The hotel closed in 1966 and became an apartment building.
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