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Downtown Phoenix Model
Hi Everyone, so I started this project about a year ago during the
summer and I sort of forgot about it until this summer and I’m continuing it. Some of you may have reminded I did a very simple model of all the under-construction, approved, and proposed towers downtown with just tall colored rectangles but now I’m going to include the designs of the towers based on the renderings and include more detail like street level stuff and ground floor things. A couple of things to say 1 - This project is made in Roblox Studio … and yes Roblox is a kids' game but there are a few reasons why I’m using Roblox. Firstly, I grew up making “games” if you could call them games and I’ve gotten used to using Studio. Another reason is that it will be playable for other people to play if I ever publish the map. And Roblox Studio is free. 2 - One very important thing to say is that this project is a one-to-one scale of Downtown Phoenix in Roblox. Roblox Studio uses studs as its measurements and one meter in Roblox is 3.2 studs. The old Chase tower in the real world is 147.218 meters, I round to the nearest whole or half number which would be 147 and then I time it by 3.2 and get 470.4. This makes Chase tower in Roblox 470.4 studs and here’s an example of the height of an avatar (5 studs) in the red box next to Chase (470.4 studs) https://i.imgur.com/q8A1vpF.jpg. One last thing because I round up the numbers, some towers will be slightly taller or shorter but it will be by less than one stud. 3 - And as stated before this model isn’t just going to be the towers of Downtown, I want to try and do the street-level things, and smaller buildings, and get into the nitty-gritty of doing the detail for the entire of Downtown Phoenix which I sort of started around Chase. https://i.imgur.com/NGfKuVm.jpg I didn’t include 509 W Monroe Tower because I don’t think there are any renderings of it yet. Anyways, enough out of me, here are some pictures of the projects starting from the south and going north. Enjoy :) Fairmont Phoenix (250 ft) (15 E Jackson St) https://i.imgur.com/ZyVBJVg.jpg https://i.imgur.com/oCvBEL7.jpg The Edith (211 ft) (116 W Adams St) https://i.imgur.com/lzqxnVV.jpg https://i.imgur.com/7j3lQVP.jpg X Phoenix ll (320 ft) (201 W Van Buren St) https://i.imgur.com/RHnlTnt.jpg https://i.imgur.com/yB2yVCf.jpg PalmTower (292 ft) (Van Buren and N 5th St) https://i.imgur.com/EKNyN4i.jpg https://i.imgur.com/L1BfPAO.jpg Central Station East (371 ft) & West (230 ft) (Van Buren and Central Ave) https://i.imgur.com/goto8R2.jpg https://i.imgur.com/z6Lsxmq.jpg Astra l (541 ft) & ll (425ft) (337 N 2nd Ave) https://i.imgur.com/u5eP3NK.jpg https://i.imgur.com/4aS3q0K.jpg 360 N 3rd Ave (365 ft) https://i.imgur.com/6CF0jR1.jpg https://i.imgur.com/C1dooix.jpg Realm Phoenix (332 ft) (601 N. Central Ave) https://i.imgur.com/h5Poy9j.jpg https://i.imgur.com/29qMafY.jpg X Roosevelt (234 ft) (641 N 2nd Ave) https://i.imgur.com/C4iI7Y3.jpg https://i.imgur.com/z4rle1X.jpg Vela Phoenix (291 ft) (701 N Central Ave) https://i.imgur.com/4L6FtRc.jpg https://i.imgur.com/nChiWbn.jpg 1st & Pierce St (381 ft) https://i.imgur.com/b8xkzIO.jpg https://i.imgur.com/agyOWpP.jpg Saiya (255 ft) (800 N 1st Ave) https://i.imgur.com/DRAOdX0.jpg https://i.imgur.com/dxwTFyy.jpg Moontower Phoenix (255 ft) (811 N 3rd St) https://i.imgur.com/sZszd32.jpg https://i.imgur.com/xRA8hG8.jpg Skye on 6th (285 ft) (817 N 6th St) https://i.imgur.com/yZZeqPc.jpg https://i.imgur.com/WCuyAz2.jpg 901 N Central Ave (340 ft) https://i.imgur.com/DJTOlfO.jpg https://i.imgur.com/Cl6JSOF.jpg 2nd and Portland (270 ft) https://i.imgur.com/kMv3BMc.jpg https://i.imgur.com/HfuXRR5.jpg I remember someone on the forums talked about how Astra would impact the skyline from the I-10 on the west side. So here’s a before and after from the west sides. Before https://i.imgur.com/ID6sEEA.jpg After https://i.imgur.com/uy9GU67.jpg here are just some photos from around Downtown. https://i.imgur.com/aXgKwXu.jpg https://i.imgur.com/qrGDQzy.jpg https://i.imgur.com/Iljxb5L.jpg https://i.imgur.com/BOD3VSe.jpg https://i.imgur.com/1UnBbGR.jpg https://i.imgur.com/e2BTEAR.jpg https://i.imgur.com/rr8HZWF.jpg https://i.imgur.com/J7R7Eks.jpg |
This looks awesome! Great work. The increased density downtown in the last few years has gone exponential!
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Sweet. The effort you put into this really shows. Would love to see more angles of the skyline too, zoomed in :)
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The changes between 3rd Ave to 3rd St, Fillmore to Roosevelt is pretty incredible. For the umpteenth time, it makes me want to be an investor in a medium sized grocery in that area.
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wow thats amazing!! great job!!!
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That is some IMPRESSIVE work! Nicely done!
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Excellent work. You can really see the difference in the skyline north of filmore driving west to downtown. Add in all these new proposals and it’s gonna look really dense. What’s the estimate on the total number of apartments on all these?
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Thank you so much for sharing! The work and effort you put into this is impressive to me.
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Holy cow, that area from Westward Ho north on Central is going to be incredible in the future. I love that.
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I thoroughly enjoyed this. Thank you for putting in the work and for sharing this on this forum.
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In the order of spud's listing.
- Fairmont Phoenix - 225 hotel rooms, 34 suites, and 151 condos - The Edith - 236 rooms, 23,000 sqft flex/meeting - X Phoenix Phase 1 - 330 units - X Phoenix Phase 2 - 352 units - Palm Tower - 352 units - Central Station East/West - 362 units, 655 student housing beds, 30,000 sqft retail, 70,000 sqft office - Astra 1, Astra 2 - 697 apartments, 229 hotel rooms, 185,000 square feet of office and 36,000 square feet of commercial space - 360 N 3rd Ave - 375 units - Realm Phoenix - 747 units - Vela - 401 units - 1st and Pierce - 346 units - Saiya - 389 apartments, 12,550 square feet of retail. - Moontower - 326 units - Skye on 6th - 309 units - 901 N Central - 344 units - 2nd and Portland - 318 units - Fusion on First (ASU dorm not listed) - 550 beds - 3rd Ave and Fillmore (not listed) - 254 units 6,053 units, 1,929 student/hotel There's some low rise stuff like that home2suites and a little thing on 1st st that's still under construction, plus that wave of midrise stuff downtown saw wrap up in the last couple years obviously. |
Update #1
Been awhile since my last post but I've continued working on the my model and done the detailing of some of the city blocks near the old chase.
Chase Tower https://i.imgur.com/12Gpceo.jpg https://i.imgur.com/YyssdAj.jpg https://i.imgur.com/jdFWIwl.jpg Security Building, San Carlos & 44 Monroe https://i.imgur.com/rSaYe5r.jpg https://i.imgur.com/xy8D9Ey.jpg https://i.imgur.com/BaHgeOD.jpg Central Station https://i.imgur.com/FAyKreX.jpg https://i.imgur.com/9BMIDKH.jpg https://i.imgur.com/RtimM91.jpg https://i.imgur.com/o2qYHmc.jpg Hampton Inn https://i.imgur.com/FLvbYJA.jpg 120 E Van Buren St https://i.imgur.com/10wmtbV.jpg https://i.imgur.com/CZUuGzH.jpg |
very cool obvious labor of love and impressed by the detail in the facade renders - great work!!
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Great work! Thank you for doing this...!
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Videos?
Hi everyone, this isn’t really an update as I haven’t had much time to work but should I start uploading videos of my model? I tried creating a short little example but … it just came out as total garbage with the quality. But I promise I’ll have a better-quality video and please give feedback on what I should do. :)
Example with Astra https://i.imgur.com/fhf3xK4.mp4 |
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