Buhl Building
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About the model
It’s been a while since this summer. 1 big holiday later and a huge workload when I came back it took me a while to get into modelling again. This project took quite the amount of effort, but as the first real skyscraper in Detroit I had to do it. Thanks to NicoCO for sponsoring this one.
Due to the amount of detail I had to divide this in 5 parts. 4 of the parts of the model use the same 2k texture. Otherwise there’s the windows with a 512×512 texture. The LoD also has a 512×512 texture.
Tris, yes a lot of them 120k’ish. Yes it’s a lot, yes it’s a full detail art deco skyscraper. Yes, if your pc is not older than 7 years it should be able to handle that.
Importing this in C:S was a nightmare, as I had to divide it in 5 different parts, which ♥♥♥♥♥♥ up some normals and materials. (I planned on 2) So there’s bount to be mistakes which I haven’t seen. I’ll see if can do another reimport this week.
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RICO
This building is RICO ready.
About the building
The Buhl Building is a skyscraper and class-A office center in Downtown Detroit, Michigan. Architect Wirt C. Rowland designed the Buhl in a Neo-Gothic style with Romanesque accents. Constructed in 1925, it stands at 26 stories in the Detroit Financial District across Congress Street from the Penobscot Building and across Griswold Street from the Guardian Building, all of which were designed by Wirt C. Rowland. The Buhl Building stands on the corner of Congress St. West, and Griswold St. in Downtown Detroit. The building stands atop what used to be the Savoyard Creek near its confluence with the Detroit River. In 1836, the creek was covered and turned into a sewer. The Savoyard Club occupied the 27th floor of the Buhl Building from 1928 until its membership dwindled and the club closed in 1994.
The Buhl Building houses the headquarters of SMART and the Detroit Transportation Corporation. Hubbell, Roth & Clark, a civil engineering firm, is also based in the building.
The Citizens Bank Building in downtown Saginaw, Michigan was modeled after the Buhl Building.
The architectural sculpture on the building was designed by Corrado Parducci.
Changes
– Added props
– Added ornaments (alpha mapped)
– Fixed disconnected geometry
– Fixed missing geometry
– Fixed flipped alpha maps
– Fixed some normal groups
